06 Apr 2026 16:35:28
Afternoon Gents
Happy bank holiday Monday to you all.
I've been told there could be some movement regarding slot after the PSG game if things really go bad!
Not a definite as things will depend on the result.
But everone at the club is in agreement, that his time is over.
It's weather they wish to pull the plug to try and save something.
Cheers gents.
{Ed025's Note - cheers Robbo..
06 Apr 2026 16:53:32
What is really bad in the club's eyes? It doesn't seem like they realise how bad it currently is? ?
06 Apr 2026 16:55:45
Cheers, Robbo.
If only they'd stopped faffing about and done it months ago when most of us knew it wasn't working. Feels all a bit too little, too late now.
06 Apr 2026 16:55:51
Assume after the second leg, I do still hope we win!
06 Apr 2026 17:01:16
At this stage, I'm starting to think that the club's version of "really bad" is Slot turning into a werewolf in Paris on Wednesday.
06 Apr 2026 17:09:59
What's the point in getting rid of him then. If it was before, we'd have stood a chance. The club are obviously happy to throw in the towel with regards to tournament football. I'd only assume a change post a PSG defeat would mean their ridiculous stick or twist bet with Slot is falling flat on his face when thinking of CL football for next season.
06 Apr 2026 17:12:19
Plug should've been pulled months ago.
06 Apr 2026 17:19:41
No update from me, but in my opinion, if it's decided he shouldn't be in charge long term, then he should be removed from his post now. To some degree, it's a conflict of interest, and in my realm of work, I'd be advised to not attend the office and to hand over any company devices that contain data.
06 Apr 2026 17:28:39
Really bad must be when we get humiliated in a qtr final by our biggest rival for the past 10 years and the hard core away fans start singing for a new manager... Oh wait a minute...
06 Apr 2026 17:34:56
It's generally agreed Slot is going in the summer and that he's aware of that. The prob I have is for the fans/club the most important thing is getting top 5 and Champions League qualification. But, if Slot knows he is gone in the summer, his priority will be the Champions League, why would he care if we qualify for next year's CL? Also interested to hear people's thoughts. We know fitness levels have dropped under Slot, we are at a minimum getting outrun in games.
So, with the final league games in mind, based on we are not going to fix the fitness levels this season, what formation should we be adopting in the last league games? To give the current squad and conditioning the best chance, and would, and why would Slot adopt it, if he knows he's gone in the summer.
06 Apr 2026 17:43:42
Overall, it would be the wrong decision to sack Slot mid season without a guaranteed and planned replacement in place. We all think it’s Xabi, but nobody knows for sure. Perhaps negotiations are going badly, he wants too much money or concessions over transfers, etc. The itk posters are probably the friends of agents or coaches. I doubt anyone posting here is close to senior management decision making. It’s been a terrible season, but I don’t want us to make a rash decision on a new appointment we regret later.
Gerrard would be worse than Slot. Xabi isn’t a guarantee of success. I say trust the process. We do not want to be utd. It’s easy to fall and hard to climb back. Better to act calmly and purposefully. When Slot was still in place on New Year’s Day, I 100% expected him to see the season out, and I believe he will.
06 Apr 2026 17:04:43
If the players know this. they will down tools more than they have. we could see another 3 or 4 mauling.
PSG don't seem the type to take foot off gas like what city did on the weekend.
Thx Robbo.
Really strange situation we find ourselves in.I think it was Ed1 who said he could only see the board acting if the fans were visibly showing their discontent or more horror shows. maybe the walkout on Saturday did more than raise eyebrows.
06 Apr 2026 18:03:44
Eddie, you get 5 substitutes and contrary to what Slot may believe you can use them before the 85th minute, you just have to trust your bench. Just sit the back 2 centre backs in shape (Virgil, Ibou), run the front 8 players (Salah, Gakpo, Ekitike, Dom, Grav, Frimpong, Kerkez and Wirtz) into the ground for 60 minutes and then sub them all off in stages as and when it is needed. It's hard to play at that intensity for the full 90, but they should all be fit enough to do it for at least 60 minutes twice a week. Salah and Dom are definitely fit enough to do it for 90 minutes twice a week so they don't even need to be subbed off in reality. Then you just bring on any 5 of Nyoni, Rio, Chiesa, Jones, Mac Allister, Robertson, Gomez, Ramsay, Isak and Morrison for the last 30 minutes for whoever is the most tired, and tell them to run their balls off too for the remainder of the game. You could even rotate certain players taking it in turns to do 60/30 minutes.
Frimpong/Gomez, Robbo/Kerkez, Rio/Gakpo, Isak/Ekitike, Mac Allister/Wirtz, Nyoni/Gravenbrech, Salah/Chiesa etc.
Slot won't do this because it would mean giving the squad players more than the last 5-10 minutes and also bringing them on before the game was already dead/a lost cause. The reason why he won't play at any real intensity is because he wants to nurse the same 11-13 players through near enough every minute of every game for 60 games a season. He's got no bottle to take risks and no inclination to coach the squad players when the first team go away on International duty, as that's time he could be spending in Holland.
The only 4 constants in the team who you can tell them to just sit in shape are Mamardashvili, Virgil, Konate and Gravenberch. You should never be subbing keepers, centre backs or holding midfielders anyway. If they're playing with discipline, they won't have to run enough to get tired.
06 Apr 2026 18:13:37
Eddie, I think it's more a case of Slot knows he will go. I don't think the club have sat down and told him he is already fired. It's more a case of, he knows he has not maintained the standards and he knows the fans have turned, so I would guess he just knows or expects to go at end of season.
Possibly the club may have indicated that they will let him leave by mutual consent as he is a title winner after all. I think the Fulham and Palace games are huge. If we don't win them and there is a genuine risk of not top 5 then the club might have to break that promise, if that is what has happened.
06 Apr 2026 18:14:05
Haven't we heard this about 5 times already? We'll get battered, then it'll be "he has the 2nd leg to right the ship", lose that and the goalposts will move again.
06 Apr 2026 18:34:48
The results and performances are getting worse by the week, and Edwards is incapable of making a decision. Any other club in the top 6 would have sacked their head coach by now.
Is he waiting for us to drop further down the table, completely out of the Champions League qualifying spots, before he takes action? The job is too big for him, Hughes and Slot.
06 Apr 2026 18:43:17
My thought is that he will be in charge until the end of the season. We've gotten this news a few times.
I don't want that to be taken that I don't think Robbo has good information, I just feel like things keep changing and while it may have been true when Robbo got it, I'll believe it when I see it.
06 Apr 2026 18:45:22
I think the fans should sing sack the board, as the sentiment against Arne and his coaches isn't having the desired effect.
06 Apr 2026 18:54:39
With the World Cup this summer going to be a severe disruption to the preseason period, I think it would make total sense to get the new man in while he has a full squad to work with.
If the long term manager is identified, just get on with it, and at least give him April and May to press home his set up to the players.
06 Apr 2026 19:08:41
LFC has to present themselves as different to CFC and MUFC, which in this case means allowing more time and trust than is usual for the manager to turn it around.
There is also the face saving element in that Hughes and Edwards are supposed to be some dynamic dream team come to propel LFC into a glorious next decade with their super smart approach.
The reality is that it appears no one really looked into the psychology of Slot and the greatly diminishing second season rewards which The Athletic pointed out.
Then there is the small matter of the incredibly unbalanced squad and bottling a game of poker face with Palace over 5m.
I honestly believe that Isak will go down as LFC's biggest ever flop, not because he's not a great forward, but because of injuries, his lack of pressing and the way he and his management handled the move, which seems to have set up a shed load of bad karma that will all work against him at this club.
Isak was Edwards wet dream, but would Klopp have wanted him, and, more importantly, would Xabi have chosen him? He and Eki do not lead from the front, and that has been a hallmark of LFC's play for a while.
There is no way Xabi wants to come in and oversee a loss to PSG, the damage is done.
Let Slot suffer the losses and cut losses at the end of the season, at which point people will know his real level and shortcomings.
I'm almost certain had we bought Guehi and Semenyo instead of Isak that we would have more points on the table now, and a more balanced squad. Hughes' purchase of Fede and lack of proper due diligence on Slot, plus all of the stuff about his character, which started with Hettinga's manager, suggest he is better suited to Dubai than L4.
Giving absolute power to Edwards was always going to be a gamble. Klopp was the leader, the figurehead and the real football man.
Once Xabi is in charge, Edwards needs to prove that, with his choice of manager in situ, he can deliver on the hype and allow the manager to shape a squad in his vision, rather than talking about opportunities in the market. Fede, Isak, the Georgian keeper and Frimpong all look like a poor fit thus far and we expect a better hit rate from the transfer dream team.
There are no excuses next season. FSG cracked the piggy bank and this is what we got - No one predicted this dire football and incredibly meek management.
06 Apr 2026 19:20:40
Bad looks like another game where the players give up at the first sign of adversity.
06 Apr 2026 19:25:07
If the players keep giving up like they did on Saturday, any coach will get sacked. Nobody survives that, whether finding a replacement is complicated or not.
06 Apr 2026 19:36:37
Agree with Ned wrt conflict of interest. I've thought for months the only way Slot knows he's going at the end of the season is that he will be on additional bonuses, ie top 4/5 in the PL and a run in the CL. Otherwise, there is little incentive for him. Whatever the situation, the club have acted poorly.
06 Apr 2026 20:03:41
Regardless of what should have happened before now, it still makes total sense to change now and for the remainder of the games left this season. He's lost his way and so has the team. I am of the belief that if it's a hiding on Wed evening, then it's over for him, and be it SG, XA or JK or someone else, it would at least give us a better chance of winning a few games before seasons end.
Nobody associated with the position could be worse! Anyway, we'll see.
06 Apr 2026 20:33:31
Hoody your take is woeful. How do you know Gerrard would be worse? How is Xabi a risk, by that rationale anyone is a risk. Bottom line is Slot is an atrocity this season and needs bombing. At this rate I'd take any other coach out there.
06 Apr 2026 20:50:00
Thanks Robbo.
06 Apr 2026 22:41:16
In fairness, Frode, every managerial appointment is an actual gamble. They may or may not fit. Unless, of course, you're appointing Klopp or Pep. They breed success, it's in their DNA. Enrique looks, apparently, the very best available, but he's not for sale currently, so anyone other than him is exactly a gamble, and perhaps even him too!
06 Apr 2026 23:49:12
Probably just a bowel movement.
07 Apr 2026 00:28:12
@OP, what we do has nothing to do with what Chelsea or United do.