25 Jan 2026 22:25:03
Rumours that SG taking over interim until summer for XA.
Just a rumour, but very feasible.
25 Jan 2026 22:51:30
Hopefully not!
25 Jan 2026 23:14:08
Fingers crossed, I'd take Gerrard over this current dross any day.
25 Jan 2026 23:54:02
It's not feasible and why do we need to wait for summer for XA to take over?
Calling it.
25 Jan 2026 23:59:49
That would not be a step forward if it were to happen.
26 Jan 2026 00:23:38
Poor old iago aspas would say that.
26 Jan 2026 00:32:46
Slot is 10 times the coach and manager Stevie is. Rather just wait for Alonso.
26 Jan 2026 01:33:12
Not happening.
26 Jan 2026 02:25:26
I think SG would be an alright interim appointment. He would definitely get the fans back behind the team and use the power of Anfield during home games. The players may also perform better seeing that they are all disillusioned with Slot atm. But SG shouldn't be a long term appointment imo.
26 Jan 2026 05:24:38
Would have given it a thought if xabi wasnt available till summer!
Lol when he is available why do we need a interim.
26 Jan 2026 06:02:39
Lol Ron. Have you changed side or do you still back Slot with this 14 unbeaten nonsense?
26 Jan 2026 07:34:27
Ron keague, what's happened to you mate. You were all over keeping slot. Every time someone wanted him out you would stick you for him and now you've jumped ship. Wow.
26 Jan 2026 07:37:44
Slot is ten times the manager of Gerrard? Based on what evidence? Gerrard's form at Villa wasn't this bad. It can't get much worse for us currently.
26 Jan 2026 06:43:49
I know no-one that thinks Steven Gerrard is the right choice for permanent coach, but those saying he's not the right candidate to take over in the short-term are speculating by overlaying their opinions. No-one knows what he'd be like as a caretaker.
Personally i prefer to he hopeful and look at how Carrick has picked a sensible XI, imbued the team with passion, and picked up a couple of huge scalps. In any event, something has to change in short order, after all this is not Hodgson's squad, struggling with a group of individuals this talented, shows me that Slot has lost the team.
Sure there were plenty of United fans saying Carrick was a bad idea, and I'm sure back in the day there were a few LFC fans questioning Dalglish's appointment.
26 Jan 2026 07:49:54
Frode, Slot is one of only two LFC managers to win titles in the Premiership era. That alone should be enough to say in any comparison with S Gerard.
26 Jan 2026 07:54:08
As much as we all love Gerrard and he's my favourite player ever. Has anyone actually watched his games as a manager? He's absolutely not what we want right now.
26 Jan 2026 08:50:47
What does "speculating by overlaying their opinions" mean?
"Mo-one knows what he'd be like as a caretaker". Is that speculating by overlaying your opinions.
Either way do you really should be given a job if nobody has any idea if he can do it?
26 Jan 2026 09:00:47
We need to go back to having a manager, not an head coach. Slot has the wrong tools for the job. Edwards was willing to spend 35 million and good wages on the last day of August, when we had 4 fit centre backs available. Now we have 1 fit centre back and he does nothing. Edwards couldn't organise a p. up in a brewery.
26 Jan 2026 09:01:34
Wouldn't want mr personality managing the team even for a game never mind till the end of the season.
26 Jan 2026 09:03:58
Ron was a Brendan Rodgers apologist, too.
26 Jan 2026 09:08:21
People saying they'd rather have Slot, why? Albert Einstein once said "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. "
Gerrard hasn't had a great time in his last 2 managerial jobs, sure. Nobody is denying that. However that doesn't mean he will be awful for Liverpool. Take Michael Carrick for example. He was sacked last season for finishing 10th with Middlesborough in the Championship. He's now got Man United playing the best football they've played in about 4 years, beating Man City and Arsenal in back to back games. Roberto Di Matteo was a bang average manager, but Chelsea bought him in and the short term lift won them the Champions League. Man United put Ole in charge and the short term bounce was so good they (stupidly) gave him the job full time. He'd only ever managed in Norway before that but he saved their season that first year. The key for us would be not falling into that trap of giving Gerrard the job full time, and sticking to our decision to appoint Xabi in the summer.
Gerrard certainly hasn't done enough to be considered for the job permanently, but people make out he's so much worse than he is. He's the only manager in the last decade to wrestle the Scottish title back from Celtic. Up at Rangers he's a hero for that. He stopped Celtic from doing 10 league titles in a row. Why does that just get glossed over? Villa were a mess and he couldn't fix it, I get that. But what was he supposed to do in Saudi at a club not backed anywhere near as well as about 5 other teams? I'm pretty sure his super star was Wijnaldum, whilst other sides have the likes of Benzema, Mane, Ronaldo, Milenkovic-Savic etc.
All I'm saying is football is not black and white. Some managers fail in jobs they should do well in, then succeed in jobs that on paper appear to be harder. Sometimes there's more to things than meets the eye. Gerrard may not be better than Slot, but what we do know is that Slot is failing right now. So why on earth should we stick with him and accept slipping down the table and sleep walking towards no trophies, just because the alternative is a risk? We quite literally have nothing to lose right now. We have no trophies and no Champions League as things stand.
Make the change. If things get worse, at least we didn't just accept this dross.
26 Jan 2026 09:13:44
Maybe SG will step in as good old player-manager style, firing in a 30 yarder!
26 Jan 2026 09:17:41
No one knows WDW because it hasn't happened, unless you have a Time Machine.
26 Jan 2026 09:23:10
I've not jumped ship.
My consistent position has been we should not change managers until the end of the season UNLESS we're in a genuine crisis.
To me a genuine crisis is out of the CL and mathematically unable to qualify for next season CL.
All I've said above is this rumour is BS as there is no reason to wait for summer for XA.
26 Jan 2026 09:36:23
Fatwallet…. I totally agree.
26 Jan 2026 09:45:41
Do I want Stevie to take over till the summer. Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm no of course.
26 Jan 2026 10:04:25
As i previously said.
We met Steven Gerrard not too long ago.
The talks were positive.
Ta.
26 Jan 2026 10:20:58
Klopp proved beyond all doubt that tactical greatness alone is not enough. Houllier and Rafa were both equal to or better than Klopp tactically. What Klopp brought was leadership that understood the club, that connection between the crowd, the club and the team that made them all greater than the sum of their parts - evidenced over and over by how poorly his players preformed after they moved on.
Gerrard, on a temporary basis, could be the catalyst that rebuilds that link, that stops our players being booed at anfield (did we ever think we'd see that? ).
And I've said it over and over, VVD is part of that failure in leadership, we need a heartbeat on the pitch that reflects that link between fans and players.
This is the most talented squad we've ever had, but they've not acclimitised to the culture of the club yet - there's signs in Wirtz and Kerkez, but we need more.
We need a manager and a captain that takes those players to the Kop in good times and bad. We need to reconnect.
26 Jan 2026 10:21:59
If I was Xabi Alonso, I wouldn't want to follow Stevie G into the role, even if he was an interim for a few months.
I would think Xabi would rather come in now. His hesitancy will likely be about the squad deficiencies vs short term expectations. Quite rightly.
26 Jan 2026 10:31:38
Ron, do you not think that waiting until it's mathematically impossible for us to qualify for the CL to act is closing the door after the horse has bolted?
26 Jan 2026 10:32:24
Frode, SG won one league in 3 seasons with Rangers and nothing else - they spent heavily in the context of the league and in the season they won, Celtic were unusually poor with squad unrest and had 3 managers that season. At Villa, again they spent a lot and he finished 17th - Emery took the same squad and finished 7th the next season and qualified for Europe with clear tactical improvement.
Keep Slot until we can get a suitable long term replacement.
26 Jan 2026 10:56:21
Whoever takes over as interim just needs to bring some energy back into the place. Some passion. And get the players back up to an acceptable fitness level. Gerrard and a good fitness coach can do that and get the squad ready for Alonso.
26 Jan 2026 10:58:28
I really don't want Stevie G as an interim, is Xabi insistent on taking a break until the summer time?
I can't disagree that things look grim in the prem right now. Like several other posters on here I do think that Slot could very possibly win us/ is perfectly capable of winning the champions league, though.
26 Jan 2026 11:33:32
MK am with you Slot go the job on what he did in Holland what he did there was it a harder job than what Gerrard had in Scotland I would not say so. Even with Celtic and Rangers being at there best in Scotland teams will make it a battle that is not the case in Holland.
Last season I thought even in the first half of the season it was not like we where at Klopps Liverpool best but Salah was outstanding and won us so many games with magic moments not Slot and from February we where pretty awful but the league was so poor.
It's the the same this season and it looks like Arsenal are going to probably still win the league without being anything like a great team.
If you just look at the points we have chucked away this last 2 months against the worst's teams in the league we would only be 5 points behind and I would say with this group under Gerrard we would have picked up more points in that time.
26 Jan 2026 11:10:19
Good post kjh. Whether Stevie can be that person none of us know, what we do know is that something is missing at the club and it's not just about getting a few wins here and there, although that would help massively.
I listen on and off to phone ins and as I've said before if you listened to Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham fans over the last twelve months it's a mirror image of most of what's on here. Fans are baffled with tactics, baffled with fitness of players, the excuses after poor performances, bemoaning the disconnect between clubs and fans.
Maybe it's old fashioned but it'd be nice to have something more genuine and connected about the place. Arne is probably a good coach but there's little evidence he can solve our current problems.
Theres quite a lot of evidence like Maresca, Amorim or Frank he perhaps just doesn't get how doing the simple things well can make a difference to results, so maybe we don't need a world beater in the dugout right now even though we will in the medium term.
26 Jan 2026 11:13:43
@Ron, so you'd happily wait for us to be out of the champions league and not getting top 4? By then it will too late. Not qualifying for champions league will set us back years. We need to stop the rot now and the rot is slot.
26 Jan 2026 11:37:17
Could we beat another premier league club in the later stages Pat, with the number left in its quite possible we'd have to beat a few to win it. I don't know how country protection works these days tbh.
I equally couldn't see us beating the likes of PSG or Bayern even though we're better in Europe than domestically. Love your optimism though.
26 Jan 2026 11:56:42
I think we're perfectly capable of beating PSG or Bayern. PSG aren't even top of Ligue 1 right now and have lost to Marseille domestically and Sporting in Europe. Great team still but they don't have the air of invulnerability they had last year.
And grino, winning the league with Feyenoord was a very big deal. They have won two titles in the last 25 years. He was also on course to win it with AZ before COVID shut the Eredivisie down, and they are a team that have won two titles in the entirety of their history. Let's not downplay Slot's achievements in his career just because he is having a bad time with Liverpool right now.
26 Jan 2026 12:08:33
This is why I'm glad the club don't think like the fans. Gerrard has zero track record to suggest he'd be any better than Slot. He wouldn't even be in our thinking if he hadn't been such a great player and captain for us.
This is too important a decision to just jump in two footed with a manager who's proven nothing other than he's not a very good manager.
We all want a change but that could be out of the frying pan and into the fire I think you all need to take a step back and look at what you're actually saying here.
26 Jan 2026 12:28:12
@FSGenius ??? off we go into quantum football management. You can't say there isn't a funny side to the season.
26 Jan 2026 12:58:20
With this current coach Ron we're heading exactly for that crisis, why not gamble now and see if we can avoid it?
26 Jan 2026 13:36:31
@MKScouser, Einstein did not utter the quote in your post, and nothing S Gerrard has done in his managerial career indicates that he is a good manager.
Your post is zero for two.
26 Jan 2026 13:49:33
Presumably Red in Belfast, because the owners concern is that there is scope for matters to get a lot worse if they change managers.
Watching Sunday Supplement, the reporters drew the comparison between LFC and clubs like MU who changed managers frequently and each time they have to go back to the start. They also pointed out that Slot had requested a CB reinforcement when Quanseh was sold, but that the club did not get it done.
I know the football is dire, but an awful lot of dropped points this season were due to mistakes/ brain farts by our two starting CBs.
26 Jan 2026 13:54:53
Pb. you could then make the argument that PSG would easily beat Forest etc because forest beat us easily in our league.
26 Jan 2026 14:55:52
Red in Belfast : I don't believe genuine billionaire businesses "gamble".
They're smarter than that.
26 Jan 2026 15:34:59
Ron "billionaire businesses" can never be 100% sure the decisions they make are going to work, therefore they are gambling they get it right. It's a gamble hiring any manager/ coach.
26 Jan 2026 15:35:54
At least the players might play for gerrard.
26 Jan 2026 18:53:42
I'm aware Slot has won the league, I'm talking about the here and now. I'd take Gerrard in a heartbeat over this current Slot. As for winning the champions league ? the first physical team we play will dump us out.