Liverpool banter 5

29 Apr 2026 07:54:43
Morning Edd 001

What are your thoughts on Hoenes coming in as new boss?

Do you think it's a risky appointment? My personal feeling is he sounds like a breath of fresh air, completely detached from the club, with what sounds like all the right tools. His players respect him and his football is lfc all over.

YNWA

{Ed001's Note - I like Hoeness, I would be happy with that.}

29 Apr 2026 09:01:45
Hope your well ed001 pal?
What's your opinion on Nagelsmann? To me he always seems full of himself he tries to be like Klopp but he hasn't got the charm or ability to be humble in any interview I've seen of him.
Another poster responded with he is the German equivalent of Bodgers. Would you agree with that?

{Ed001's Note - I would agree with that totally. He is not someone I would even consider at all. Not a top manager for me at all.}

29 Apr 2026 09:41:29
I'm trade marking Teutonic Bodgers.

29 Apr 2026 10:14:27
Teu-Bo. ™️

29 Apr 2026 10:54:45
What makes a good manager, Ed?
(This could be an article, tbf)

{Ed001's Note - there are lots of things, and it is not necessarily the manager who needs to provide it as they have such huge staffs now to help them. It probably would be better as an article I think.

For me, the key nowadays though is an ability to motivate players and keep them playing for him.}

29 Apr 2026 13:24:20
Ed, and that is Pep's biggest strength. Keeping guys motivated to play for him, season in and season out. Klopp the same.

@Coulred as for Naggelmann, i'm not his biggest fan either and always seemed to have a mouth on him. I'll pass, personally.

29 Apr 2026 16:44:35
Hoeness would be interesting, I'd get behind the project and back him through the eventual ups and downs.

I'm not sure he would get that kind of grace from many on here tho.

29 Apr 2026 17:01:40
Nagelsman got hyped up at a young age and walks around like he's done it all. A great manager like Ancelotti has more humility than him.

29 Apr 2026 07:43:01
Thanks Carra, info always appreciated as the same with the other ITKs.

My only gripe, if slot stays, is we have to listen to another 5 months of slot drooling over PSG.

29 Apr 2026 08:04:26
His salivatory sidequests would be the least of my worries.

29 Apr 2026 08:32:18
Yes thanks Carra always appreciate your posts such like Hughes and Edwards are clueless, just as Ed001 predicted, what a shame to see the undoing of Klopp's wonderful work

29 Apr 2026 09:49:34
He drools over PSG, but doesn't implement anything to be like them. Like extra training and hard work on and off the ball.

29 Apr 2026 10:18:48
Extra training? That made me laugh a bit. The guy gives the team days off whenever he can. ?

29 Apr 2026 13:25:02
Extra training? Where do they do that at?

29 Apr 2026 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool v Crystal Palace - A Quick Liverpool Perspective

29 Apr 2026 09:03:49
Spot on (again) Ed

If the board are even considering sticking with Slot and his staff then they need to be removed from their positions immediately by ownership.

The incompetence and arrogance being displayed by the people running the club is staggering.

Slot is a symptom, not the cause, but he has to go.

29 Apr 2026 11:49:41
Thanks for the write-up Ed. It is fortunate that we played Palace when we did since they obviously have one eye on the conference league semi-final

29 Apr 2026 07:14:23
Hello ed1. As regards ireola he doesn't seem to be strongly linked to any managerial job at minute.lot of speculation that his family homesick and wants to move back to Spain. Last I can see on previous posts u seemed to think he maybe man United bound but that good while ago.


Do u know of any update on his next job? He would be my pick of next lfc manager if Enrique not available

{Ed001's Note - I don't mate, his family is the issue, I would love him at Liverpool though.}

29 Apr 2026 10:00:43
Cheers. ?

29 Apr 2026 02:24:43
Ed 001, banter chat only.bar yamal on the right side, for me there's nobody bar olise, if we coughed up enough.
A. Would he be willing?
B. Is that the ambition at the club presently?
C. Who would be your choice?

{Ed001's Note - the ability is there with Olise, but his decision making is terrible, so many chances wasted after the ball gets to him. The worst is his work rate, he does nothing defensively, even if he gives the ball away. The big difference between PSG and Bayern last night was the work rate of the front four players. PSG's quartet chased and harried and won the ball back often, until they went 5-2 up and took their foot off the pedal. Bayern, on the other hand, are carrying Kane and Olise when they lose the ball. Kane just doesn't have the mobility to get around, and you really don't want him running himself into the ground chasing anyway. Olise just can't be bothered to track back, even when the ball is taken off his toe he just strolls. That is a worry to me as it causes other players to give up trying too. Not in a big game like last night, but in a normal league match that players are not hyped for. You can get away with that in the Bundesliga, but you can't in the Prem.

A. Not a clue. Don't know anyone connected closely with the lad to know sorry.

B. I would hope we would be looking at Diomande instead.

C. Diomande.}

29 Apr 2026 06:41:28
Does YD work hard off the ball?

{Ed001's Note - from what i have seen, yes, plus he is younger and so should be easier to mould into a grafter. Olise is peak now, there is no way he is just suddenly going to turn into a worker.}

29 Apr 2026 07:21:15
Ed001 I think Olise has bundles of talent the work ethic is a problem but another one for me was at palace playing in the Premier League where it is more intense and physical he seemed to miss a lot of games.
Also Ed PSG have a massive advantage in the champions league with this new format with the French league being so one sided they can sleep walk through the first half of the season ready to peak from the last 16.

Something we can't in our league going to make them hard to beat from the last 16 onwards every year. First part of the champions league now just seem a formality for nearly the same sides every year.

29 Apr 2026 08:16:14
Plus the financial outlay for Olise would be ridiculous. I also think he is a little one dimensional in how he plays.
My ideal summer signings would be
Tan Diomande
Jarrod Bowen
Elliot Anderson
Pedro Porro

Bring back Tsimikas took.

29 Apr 2026 08:51:16
I'd have Olise in our side, all day long. At this moment he'd pretty much walk into any side in the world. Never going to happen though.

29 Apr 2026 08:53:38
When you say Olise is "one dimensional", Todd, do you mean he's brilliant at scoring goals and assisting?

29 Apr 2026 10:32:37
Cheers for the response ed 1, indeed i only see the good bits more than the rest i guess too

29 Apr 2026 11:23:44
To be fair, Kane was back defending multiple times last night and put a good shift in. Olise was great, particularly first half but fully agree with Ed, he tended to just disappear when opposition had the ball.

29 Apr 2026 11:32:28
Tan Diomande - that's going to be a username soon. ?

29 Apr 2026 11:51:29
Rome, Olise would certainly walk into any side in the world. I've barely seen him break into a run ;).

29 Apr 2026 13:28:32
I see what you did there, Drac. And I love it. Loved the Bayern/PSG game too, but with Bayern leaving that many gaps in behind, they were always gonna be ripe for the taking esp. vs a PSG team that covers as much ground and can exploit such gaps in transition.

29 Apr 2026 02:26:26
I’m gonna call it. Nobody knows what is happening about Slot. There is not one ITK that knows! Sorry, but it’s plain to see that it’s all guess work!

{Ed078's Note - so, by that logic, in order for you to "call it", you must be ITK to know that nobody is ITK?

29 Apr 2026 04:07:50
Things change in life. "Calling it" that no one can predict the future is hardly a revelation.

29 Apr 2026 05:50:17
Ahhhhh... Flange is the ultimate ITK then... Cause Stone "Flange" Cols says so...

29 Apr 2026 06:42:05
The ITKs have changed their tune more times than I've had hot dinners! Even a broken clock is right twice a day!

{Ed078's Note - keep digging mate.

29 Apr 2026 06:43:23
If there is a problem with leaking information at the club, then one way of dealing with it is to create lots of conflicting stories.

Don't worry about it.
It suggests sources are genuine, but they're being fed strange info.

29 Apr 2026 07:30:49
You do realise that up until the second the trigger is pulled, clubs will continue to explore multiple options, so numerous things can seem to be true at once. ITK's are relaying interpreted info, so it always comes with a dash of somebody's opinion on top. Even if you knew somebody on the board, opinions at that level still differ, so whilst Slot staying/going, Xabi, Hoeness, Nagelsmann may all be options, and discussions with all of them may be ongoing, even at board level, there's no definitive answer.

Even if I was best mates, Hogan, who wants Xabi, and you were mates with Edwards, who wants Slot, we would still have 2 different versions of the same story.

Don't take everything so literally; pinch of salt, read between the lines, use common sense, make your own mind up.

29 Apr 2026 07:32:37
Maybe a rumours page isn't the best place for you Flange.

29 Apr 2026 07:38:37
My thoughts are the club are flooding out loads of mis-information to try and find a mole.
Or else, doing it to muddy the water to try and hide what they are actually trying to do without the real news spreading.

29 Apr 2026 08:05:32
KDLS

I think this is where I am... I no longer have a clue if Slot is staying or going, but I do think LFC know...

I think they are trying to find a mole as well as muddying the waters at the same time...

Can you imagine the media circus around our club if one of these stories is true... the same questions 3 or 4 times a week... reporters camped outside the training ground...

players getting chased by them... Slot's pressers... not a fan of the man, but it would be grossly unfair on him to put him through that...
Then the same would apply to the new man in charge getting chased everywhere...

Just seems all unnecessary when they could just blow it all away with one story fed to the press... Slot is staying...

29 Apr 2026 08:51:42
I'm going to call it - you're a gob person.

29 Apr 2026 08:53:11
I can't fathom why people complain about rumours on a rumours site. We were spoilt with good info when Ed002 was still around but even then, things changed so fast in football that he got more than his fair share of things "wrong" too.

29 Apr 2026 11:34:14
I mean, if we knew the rumours were always 100% true and legit, then that would also remove a lot of the fun from the discussion.

29 Apr 2026 11:39:57
I am not in the know, but what I do know is Edwards, Hughes and Slot are employees of FSG and the 3 of them have contracts till 2027.
What we know is FSG will have a meeting at the end of the season and discuss the way to improve our failings this season.

The lads that come on here and contribute to the site are passing on what they have heard, read, whatever and that's welcoming because it's a rumours posting page.

Some posters are coming on to ridicule and that's different to banter.
I have been a visitor of this site from day 1 and the original football rumours site which it branched from and know we had the occasional toxic troll, but now!

Everybody as an opinion and that's what it is an opinion. When the team is losing, opinions on the site are a bit more aggressive and if posters challenge that aggressive view with facts, they are insulted.

You might have the opinion that the results this season are all down to 'Baldy', banter and you may be challenged by somebody looking at the bigger picture, who can see reasons for the drop off other than the coaches failings.

I am of the opinion that the squad is not good enough to play the 3 games a week part of the season, backed up by our losses have come when we have played 3 games a week and the odd one after international breaks.
Alison 6 losses in 34 games compared to the 11 losses in the 19 games he's missed.

Salah 29 league goals last year to the 7 he's scored this season.
It's not all down to the coach, people who want him gone because the style of football that's fine. But we played a similar style last season and won the league.
I have always said that it's nice to win looking good, but winning the points should always come first.

You might not agree in what I have written, but let's not just insult me for my views. Let's respect each other and agree to disagree.
Have a nice day.

29 Apr 2026 13:18:28
I appreciate it is a rumours site, lads, just pointing out that it seems to change so much. I hope Slot goes and the decision is made quickly. I'm also entitled to an opinion on said rumours. I appreciate Carra and all the information he/she offers, but it doesn't mean it's true, does it?

Salah - no idea what a gob person is, btw, but thanks!

The club seems to be in a mess.



Love all the 'fans' saying they won't follow us anymore, etc. Maybe support another team, hey!

29 Apr 2026 08:39:30
{Ed078's Note - so, by that logic, in order for you to "call it", you must be ITK to know that nobody is ITK?


Ed078's response has just made me head fall off, that's all I know.

{Ed078's Note - mission accomplished

28 Apr 2026 23:41:34
If there's one thing to take away from that fantastic game tonight it's the ability to be clinical in front of goal. How many chances have we had this season where we've fluffed our lines and could of ended games earlier.

Every time I watch PSG they are so clinical and put the ball with power in the corners. No harm in going out to them over two legs. Far superior side.

29 Apr 2026 03:01:13
PSG are a very good side, but they are far from invincible. I don't care what anyone says - any defence with Pacho, Hakimi and Safanov in it is able to be exploited.
We'd have given them a much tougher test if we hadn't had a cowardly manager in awe of them.

29 Apr 2026 05:53:20
Spot on, Lowe....
PSG could almost be compared to Rodgers... in that our plan was to always simply outscore the opposition.

We didn't attack PSG, and it became their easiest set of fixtures in the competition.

They didn't even get out of 1st gear against us.

The 2nd leg promises to be another goal fest though, 2 heavy weights slugging it out, can't wait. ?

29 Apr 2026 06:44:15
2 teams with little or no domestic competition are lighting it up in the CL.

How strange.

29 Apr 2026 09:16:45
Celtic should have been lighting up the CL for years then.

29 Apr 2026 11:16:16
Celtic are a club with about 1/50th the finances of PSG and Bayern, JK. We can't pretend that the fact that those two teams can rotate and rest their players in a league that is physically less demanding than the Premier League isn't a huge benefit to them.

They are great teams, studded with brilliant players. Nobody is denying that, but the intensity of their domestic competition surely has to be a big consideration/determining factor in the latter stages of the Champions League.

29 Apr 2026 11:34:56
Thanks PB, well said. ?

29 Apr 2026 16:45:21
Crazy to think. In the last 8 finals there's been

7 PL appearances
2 French appearances
2 German appearances
2 Italian appearances
3 Spanish appearances.

Poor Premier League teams are definitely being victimised by all these other farmer league teams.

29 Apr 2026 16:35:28
Is that why Bayern and PSG always win the CL and no English clubs do?

Finances weren't mentioned just no league competitions.

Pat you come across like someone who would argue with themselves In the mirror.

I'd imagine you would be great fun at games.

28 Apr 2026 23:28:25
I've been told football is a game of two halves. I think we'll see the other "half" tomorrow when Arsenal play Atletico. Lol!

28 Apr 2026 22:43:36
The real winner from the PSG Bayern game is slot. He showed how to defend against PSG… we only conceded 4 over two legs, poor Bayern conceded 5 in one…. Well done slot, oh but Bayern did score 4 against them in one leg where as we scored one on 4 legs but hey we were just “unlucky”.

29 Apr 2026 05:54:01
Slot the revolutionary?

29 Apr 2026 10:44:18
Great game to watch.

Reminded me of us @late 2019 - you can score 3, we'll score 4. I honestly believe the squad we fave can play at that level if we had the right coaching staff.

Bayern and PSG can defend - PSG managed against us, as an example. The thing about tonight's game is that two of the best attacking teams in world club football went for it. Can't wait for the second leg.