Liverpool banter 5

26 May 2026 20:37:04
Is it true Slot has gone out to Ibiza already or am I having my leg pulled?

26 May 2026 21:10:41
He flew out Saturday. That was only AI on the bench the weekend.

26 May 2026 21:21:36
Explains why we didn't lose Florian!

26 May 2026 22:09:20
Who knows, but what we do know is that people here are obsessed with Slot.
Start a fan club.

26 May 2026 22:54:27
They're obsessed with getting him out. Nothing wrong with that.

27 May 2026 08:55:45
Is it working, Kippers? ?
What was that definition of insanity that I used to read a lot on here? ?

26 May 2026 20:41:23
Hi ED01: Let's start by saying thank you for all that you do. Secondly, do you think Slot will be our manager next season?


Thank you

{Ed001's Note - as far as I can find out, Hughes and Edwards still stand by him, so it seems likely. The only hope I have is that Gordon might step in due to the toxicity and clean house.}

26 May 2026
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27 May 2026 01:18:31
The away kit looks clean. I like it.

26 May 2026 18:44:03
Anyone else think Slot is the most protected manager we've ever had? The amount of PR from journalists defending him is ridiculous. You can count on one hand the number of articles questioning his tactics, his uninspired football, the amount of losses we've had, or his constant excuses whenever we lose.

On the flip side, we've got journalist after journalist coming out with excuses to defend him almost every day. We keep getting told it's not Slot's fault and that it's all because of the transition year, injuries, or just bad luck most of the time.

26 May 2026 19:42:39
100%, whatever you think of him or how he did it, he's still a Premier League winner, and the club will back him to the hilt until they're absolutely certain he's not the man they thought he was.

26 May 2026 19:50:44
He's a Premier League winner by circumstance. He didn't achieve anything that Rodgers didn't as they both got 84 points, but Slot had a much better squad.

26 May 2026 19:54:56
Yeah, it's worth remembering that Brendan survived a worse season and without a league title under his belt.

Although arguably that was in part because Klopp wasn't ready to commit in the summer.

26 May 2026 19:59:54
No, just a manager who won us the league. Every Liverpool manager deserves protecting, whether genuine or not. You nor I know nothing kidda, so be patient as it's embarrassing now.

26 May 2026 20:00:10
@Mfahmee2, I fully agree with you that Slot is very well protected, and there could be a reason why, and this has to do with the American sports ownership culture.

The Red Sox manager that just got fired won them the World Series in his first season. The team has been crap ever since, but they stuck with him despite howls from the fans wanting him out for years, till this season when he finally got his walking papers.

Hence, it seems they are trying to apply the same logic with LFC, where, on the contrary, fans like us don't care about any of that, cos it is more a case of, "Yeah, thanks for the title but surely, this team is a shambles up and down the shop and the manager is out of his depth" type culture, and FSG think they owe him something, and, frankly, despite the damning stats which they seem to avoid, a lot of LFC fans believe that as well.



So they wanna give him every chance to get it right and then, sack him at long last should things eventually get to a point of no return, even tho, many of us think we already passed that months ago. It's a sports culture thing, if you look at it.

26 May 2026 20:03:56
The thing that will bother me about this whole process is that when Slot is eventually sacked, they will all run stories about how it was the correct decision to sack him. They're utterly spineless, the lot of them. I'm not saying they should come out and lay into the man personally.

But writing an objective article basically saying it's unacceptable and that his position has become untenable. Instead, all I see is brushing over fan opinions and focusing on non-stories.

26 May 2026 20:05:12
I think his position is on an absolute knife edge and everybody knows it.

I'd say if the first two or three performances next season look similar to this season, he could be gone. That's how close he must be to the edge.



I see him as a dead man walking.

It would be absolutely miraculous if he turns this around.

Such a strange decision to stick with him. The man they want must not be available right now.

26 May 2026 20:08:59
Why would journalists defend Slot?

A Premier League winner by circumstance, and he didn't achieve anything that Rodgers didn't, Babbity?
I think that's the best one yet about Arne Slot.

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There's enough to have a go at Slot about- even if journalists are not doing their job- without having to stoop to those levels.
I thought being bald, Dutch and a part timer was bad enough.

26 May 2026 20:15:27
Babbity Rabbity, that's exactly what I meant by "whatever you think of him or how he did it".

OliRed, Don't be ruining my day with stories of managers being backed for years despite fans calling for his head. Now is not the time, mate.

Frode, 100% mate, too many bootlicking journos just trying to stay in the club's good graces.

26 May 2026 20:19:25
OliRed, what has American sports ownership culture got to do with journalists?

26 May 2026 20:26:53
Stepping back a little bit, think back to the last time we had a manager that was under a lot of pressure - Rodgers.

That was 10 years ago and although keyboard warriors were still around, there were fewer of them than there are now with the huge explosion of social media, whether written or video, than there are now.

Go back even further and we're back to Hodgson in 2010/11, even less social media.

So, there are far more negative opinions flying around about Slot than there were about Rodgers 10 years ago or Hodgson 15+ years ago.



So, coming back to the main point:

1) Do I think there are more apologists for Slot than there were for Rodgers? Maybe a bit, but he was the manager of the defending champions until a couple of weeks ago whereas Rodgers didn't win the league.

2) Do I think we are better off without Slot? Absolutely, he may have managed a title winning team but his style and ideas have regressed us in so many ways.

Hopefully he goes and is replaced soon.

26 May 2026 20:31:01
I still think he's gone. I don't care what the journalists say, or what he says. Or what current opinion on here says. I've never witnessed this much energy being expelled towards the manager situation at LFC, ever. He has lost some of the players publicly, he has lost a lot of fans publicly, he misses his family and wants to go back to Holland, Bill and Ben look like they're on the move as well, and the season has been a disaster.

It's only due to the good fortunes of other clubs that we have Champions League next season. Any other season is top four only. He's being professional about it, until he's told otherwise. That's my take on it anyway.

26 May 2026 20:37:21
Isn't Chelsea owned by Americans?

26 May 2026 20:49:32
The same client journalists were writing the similar kind of opinion pieces and similar kinds of articles when Rodgers failed in 14/15, with similar trite remarks about that Rodgers nearly won a title, and that it gave him the credentials to put it right, that he could improve the squad in the transfer window, how FSG were happy to give him more time and his job was secure.

Only for the following season to continue in the same pathetic manner with equally pathetic results, and Rodgers being sacked nearly three months into a season. Something which should have happened some 5 months earlier.



We're at the same junction again. A title win should not be a permanent exemption from being sacked. We're just sleep walking into the same crap we had with Rodgers, and if people are unhappy or furious about that, then they've every right to be, it's sanctimonious self righteous nonsense to say otherwise.

I'm still Slot out, there's been nothing to suggest that he has any answers to the issues we have, he's had a whole season where it has become progressively worse. The longer that man stays the worse it will get, we're just delaying the inevitable.

26 May 2026 20:49:53
Actually Brendan Rodgers got 61 and 62 points in his worst seasons, both more than Slot got this season.

26 May 2026 21:12:11
Red Sox don't have to worry about stuff like relegation etc

26 May 2026 23:16:58
Rigsby, I don't believe in the nonsense Simon Jordan way of thinking that there's no nuance other than the number of trophies. According to him, Klopp isn't a Premier League legend because he "only" won one Premier League, even though he had seasons with 99, 97 and 92 points. For context, Alex Ferguson never reached that tally in a 38-game season.



I don't understand what's so hard for you to understand about what I said. If Slot and Rodgers both achieved 84 points, what exactly did Slot achieve that Rodgers didn't? The only thing going in Slot's favour is that he had preferable circumstances to Rodgers in that no other team achieved 84 points while Rodgers was thwarted by City.

27 May 2026 00:12:40
'If Slot and Rodgers both achieved 84 points, what exactly did Slot achieve that Rodgers didn't?'

A Premier League trophy. It's not how many points you have that counts, it's how many more than the other teams.

27 May 2026 07:48:14
Which is purely down to circumstance. I don't know why this is so hard for people to grasp.

27 May 2026 09:10:44
Were there no circumstances to Rodgers' potentially title winning points tally, Babbity?

I do understand what you are saying, mate.
It's about the number of points accrued and not the actual League table? Oh, and circumstance.

Do you want an asterisk for Slot's PL title win like some wanted for Klopp's PL title win because it was achieved during COVID?
Maybe give Rodgers' second placed season an asterisk, too, because he could have won it under different circumstances.



Each to their own.

27 May 2026 10:13:55
Klopp had essentially won the league by the time of lockdown. Everyone knows that people trying to invalidate that season just have sour grapes.

My point is, there is no special extra that Slot brings that Rodgers doesn't have, which enabled him to win the league, which Rodgers couldn't do.

Luck and circumstances were why one won the league and the other didn't.

The argument is being put forward that Slot deserves more time because he is a league-winner, but that is an argument based purely on sentiment.

There is nothing concrete in the football or his coaching techniques that you can use as evidence to say performances will significantly improve next season.

If Rodgers couldn't turn it around, there is nothing in Slot's skillset to suggest that he could turn it around where Rodgers didn't, because the reason why Slot won the league and Rodgers didn't was due to circumstances beyond their control, but people are acting like it automatically makes Slot a superior manager to Rodgers.

26 May 2026 16:42:56
{Ed's Note - MK Scouser has posted a new article entitled, Slot, Reijnen and a Summer of Big Calls

26 May 2026 17:10:11
Nice one, Mk. Good realist article that. I'd like to think the lw area will be Rio and a new attacking player keeping Wirtz central. Think you're right about Gakpo being Isak back up.

What gets me is that Semenyo would have been ideal for rw. If you're backing Slot for next season, why not give him some tools mid-season? Bonkers!

26 May 2026 17:21:53
Semenyo is a great player we missed a trick there.

26 May 2026 17:37:06
Semenyo was a huge miss. I'm not actually that fussed about Guehi. I really wanted Semenyo though. I think Mbeumo and Semenyo were the best two wingers in the league to replace Salah, and we've let them slip into the grasp of the two Manchester clubs. Which just rubs salt into the wounds!

26 May 2026 17:43:10
Mbeumo was a Utd fan, so we would not win that race. Semenyo at £65m or Diomande/Barcola for similar but younger is why I reckon we didn't go for him. Woodman is out of contract in June 2026.

Jones, Endo, Gomez all out of contract in 2027, so unless Jones is offered a new deal, I suspect he will go to Inter, with Dumfries coming in, plus cash.

26 May 2026 17:47:07
Unfortunately, Gakpo has shown multiple times now that he isn't a CF. Hopefully Rio has learnt a lot this season and will continue to grow and strengthen. If the stars align and he applies himself, the LW position could be his to lose.

26 May 2026 18:17:31
We can't hang our hat on Rio at lw. Liverpool 2026 is a different cat to the 2013 one where we relied on Sterling. We need a Mane and Rio to cover and play cup games. We also need a manager who will demand he runs and tracks back too in order for him to progress.

He doesn't look like he's improved this season, and he sometimes seems lost to me watching the game rather than playing it. A good manager to help is needed, or he will be wasted.

26 May 2026 18:25:10
To be clear, I love Rio, but I'd say Rio is an excellent young player that needs guidance, good coaching and nurturing rather than us relying on him to save us like we have at times this season.

I'm all for giving young players a chance, but at times senior players have been giving him the ball as if to say "here you go, can you make something happen because we can't" & fans have been putting too much pressure on him to come up with the answers in games.

26 May 2026 18:33:47
You snooze, you lose, and Hughes was fast asleep with Semenyo.
For Hughes, pure incompetence in the January window, he should be sacked ASAP, but it appears FSG are quite happy with scrapping through into the CL with zero trophies, an abysmal 60 point season.

26 May 2026 19:12:50
That was a depressing read, MK, because none of the incoming players bridge the gap between being able to compete at the highest level in the league or Europe. Wharton, Barcola and Dumfries would be tragic signings for what the team needs and will have the next manager when Slot ultimately fails picking up the pieces of a disjointed squad.

26 May 2026 19:13:13
What really happened with the Semenyo deal?
How could a former Bournemouth DOF get it wrong?

26 May 2026 19:13:49
Rio is an exceptional talent and has a great attitude, but, at the moment, he doesn't seem ready and needs more time. Physically, he is just not ready to be our main RW, and I think it's unfair to put that pressure on him. We 100% need a LW and RW attacker this summer, and arguably more with Chiesa looking likely to leave.

26 May 2026 19:22:44
Defo agree with the Rio comments. That poor kid has not been used properly. Excellent prospect, but that's it, a prospect.
Senior players have been so unfit, it needs a relief for them to give him the ball. I'm always wondering why we don't swap the wingers over during games. For Rio it could have been productive in getting round full backs and getting quick crossers in.

Just for ten mins during a game. Keep it fresh.
Poor lad has been left to drift out of games for long periods, then the senior players remember he's still there and, by then, it's too late.
Just sayin. Mix it up a bit.

26 May 2026 19:29:44
Exact same season but a lower finish, I reckon bottom half. 11th -14th.

Send off for Van Dijk and Alisson end of season. Just like Mo n Robbo.

FSG Out protests by Christmas. Slot gone within 8 games.

26 May 2026 19:36:47
Agreed, Scouse John Down-ey, Rio is a breath of fresh air in this squad, but he's only 17. Whilst I fully believe he's proved that he should start more games, it's way too early to be counting on him. He's a little bit of a one trick pony at the moment as well. There's not much wrong with that if his ceiling is as high as we think, but right now it's just a little too much to rely on.



With Semenyo, 1 or both of the following happened: We heard City were going to make a move and decided we weren't getting into a bidding war and/or the club simply chose not to invest any more money in what they likely labelled a "knee jerk" decision, after an ineffective £450m summer spend with a manager they half expected would be getting the sack.

26 May 2026 20:01:31
For a kid of seventeen he's also played in a side low in confidence. Seriously bright times ahead, but unfortunately we've seen it before, hence why he shouldn't be rushed.

26 May 2026 20:07:26
LFC8, we've just become the highest earning PL club for the first time in our history. 60k capacity stadium. New training ground. Highest outlay of any British club in a transfer window. Yeah, let's get rid of FSG. What a sound idea.

26 May 2026 20:22:47
Not necessarily saying it's right, Rome. But it'll happen.

Not been a divide between 'club and fan' like this for many years. Klopp isn't here anymore to be the link. Already started this year with ticket prices.

It's coming and I think you know it, which is why you've picked your side. You go the games, you know I'm right, the people are very unhappy.

26 May 2026 20:27:14
There's no point to any of that in LFC8's world, Rome.
I think it's a self preservation thing. If you keep expecting catastrophe, then you're less disappointed when things don't go well and you can say 'I told you so'.
It must be tiring avoiding hope all the time.

26 May 2026 20:53:26
It's not a case of taking sides, LFC8, it's a case of appreciating what you've got. The club listened to the dissatisfaction regarding ticket increases, so fair play to them for that.

I've hardly enjoyed this season, and I've stood by the coach for longer than most did on here.

I do want him gone, but I'm resigned to the fact that he's staying. No matter how many times he's called a bald fraud on here, it's not going to change that.

Asking for the removal of sound owners is a dangerous path to take, in my opinion.

26 May 2026 21:18:02
Rigsby, if Slot had given any reason to have any hope for next season, it would be different, but he hasn't, and it would be entirely disingenuous to suggest otherwise, and given that we've had a season almost exactly like this season back in 2014/15 with Rodgers, it feels like Deja vu.



None of the new players we're looking at bringing are going to stop us conceding cheap goals, being weak in midfield, being second best all over the pitch or sort out our physical conditioning.

27 May 2026 09:21:15
Vik, it's been less than a week since the last season finished, but you've no hope for the next one, already?

Players that you have read that we are looking at are not necessarily players we are bringing in. Are you basing your hope on rumours and social media?

If it feels like deja vu, it doesn't mean it is deja vu.

26 May 2026 15:37:19
Pierre Sage answered ‘Liverpool’ when asked who he’d like to manage, now he’s not slot, so I’m already all in on this guy.

26 May 2026 16:18:30
He needs another move first before us. I don't think now is the right thyme.

26 May 2026 16:25:44
I'm not sure. Could be a mint signing when the thyme is right.

26 May 2026 16:28:11
We'd be stuffed with him in charge.

26 May 2026 16:34:49
We might be able to stick it in the onion bag with him in charge.

26 May 2026 16:43:04
Not quite the seasoned pro we're looking for.

26 May 2026 17:12:41
Never herb of him.
It'd be interesting to see him on the payroll though.

26 May 2026 17:14:54
I remember in his playing days, he gave some player a nutmeg, and the fella put him in a Korma... good ending, as his wife Rosemary woke him up.

26 May 2026 17:16:27
Sounds like a wise and enlightened person.

26 May 2026 18:03:17
I can just hear the Kop baying for Sage.

26 May 2026 18:23:37
Nice to see the suns melted all of our brains just the same ahaha.

26 May 2026 19:05:47
My brain's always been melted, Jerry!

26 May 2026 19:38:06
I'd prefer Lee Parsley.

26 May 2026 20:01:32
And who is this extremely Sage fellow you speak of as wanting to manager LFC?

26 May 2026 20:09:44
That would be a supherb appointment.

26 May 2026 13:00:36
White Jersey is class.

26 May 2026 14:39:07
Any pics.

26 May 2026 14:43:26
Red Rum was better.

26 May 2026 15:02:04
If it's the same one I've seen it's really nice.

26 May 2026 16:35:32
Assuming the leak is correct it's nice. Last year, loads of leaks got it wrong, and all the pre release China kits bought were all no good haha.

26 May 2026 12:46:48
Iraola to AC Milan is almost done, according to their reliable journos. So I guess it's Slot or (hopefully) Hoeness for us, then?

26 May 2026 13:16:43
Slots staying, and we're having another big summer in a hole that it works, and the big wigs can pat themselves on the back.

26 May 2026 13:18:57
Good luck to Iraola, AC Milan is an iconic club and a sleeping giant in European football. I hope he does well and I'm sure one day he'll be back managing a top club in England.

26 May 2026 13:22:17
Funny that given GdS in Italy are talking Michael Edwards as CEO. ?

26 May 2026 13:35:52
I know it was a typo, but "in a hole" just about sums it all up.

26 May 2026 13:51:13
Whilst I have little faith in Slot and Edwards turning things around, surely if he stays, that is what we all want, to be proven wrong?

My preference would be to get rid of Hughes, Edward and Slot and start over!

26 May 2026 14:09:49
God, no, not Slot again ffs.

26 May 2026 14:47:01
My thoughts and prayers are with Ron Keague during this tough time.

26 May 2026 14:52:09
The big wigs have no balls.

26 May 2026 15:20:00
Sorry I meant Hope not hole. Hole on the mind, clearly.

26 May 2026 15:53:39
I said weeks ago, FSG are completely to blame and have no ambition, only to finish in a CL position.

26 May 2026 18:18:31
? I'm not fussed about the manager's name, just want a better product on the pitch, and happy with whoever is in the dugout.

Not sure Italian football is a good move for him, we'll see.

26 May 2026 11:45:54
Ed001 mate, I seen your comment earlier about Klopp his house etc and people putting 2+2 and getting 22. Well another way to get 22 is to give Jurgen a 2 year deal.

{Ed001's Note - good one.}