Liverpool banter 7

25 May 2026 21:43:24
Watching Sky Sports tonight, it looks like the "in the knows".
Didn't know. His staying ?, but the pressure to start the new season convincing will be immense. As fans, we can only knuckle down and hope the Liverbird turns into a phoenix from this season's flames of despair.

25 May 2026 22:03:41
I no longer care. We are a joke. The owners of two London clubs think so - one Prem and one Championship. Knowing HNWIs, I know that FSG won't tolerate this b******* for more than a short while. It's a closed set and face is everything.

25 May 2026 22:55:38
But Carra said he was told he was leaving months ago and was happy to see the season out.

25 May 2026 23:13:11
Anfield Agenda, even saying he was wrong and Slot to stay

I think the ITK's got this massively wrong. Slot will be here July / Aug and September.

25 May 2026 23:32:44
Let's give it a couple of weeks max, Rix, before condemning Carra and co on here.

26 May 2026 00:39:22
Maybe Edwards has played a blinder.

26 May 2026 00:47:15
If he stays Carra end the rest never got it wrong the club did.

26 May 2026 00:49:57
We just have to wait until November now.
We are waiting until November because there will be no other managers available then.
It might not matter because the club might be destroyed by then anyway.

26 May 2026 00:57:49
Rax, Craig from Anfield Agenda does not have any inside sources; his source is a journalist, which he's openly admitted.

26 May 2026 01:19:37
A big clue will be if his old assistant is appointed by the club.

26 May 2026 02:01:29
Seeing as it's a rumors site, how bout we stop calling out people for the information they pass on. No matter what, I appreciate everything Carra, the Fields, Robbie, Ned Flanders and anyone else sharing what they heard. Please keep the info coming.
Cheers
Matt in FL.

26 May 2026 04:31:40
Spot on, 420FL.
It reminds me of the John Cleese line in the Life of Brian.

Something along the lines of 'Oh yes, he's the Messiah ... and I should know, I've followed a few'.

There are a lot of people who contribute on here who follow a pattern. They read a rumour / opinion and, because they want it to be true, they convince themselves it's true and, hey presto, we have the person who posted the original information elevated to ITK (and, as ever, I've never seen anything from the lads themselves claiming to be ITK).

Of course, once circumstances change, the ITKs start to come in for criticism as though they are the ones who are actually making decisions for the club.

26 May 2026 06:48:11
100% 420FL.
Thing is, the likes of Carra & Ned tell us what they know at the time. But things can change, and/or false stories spread to flush out leaks. This is a rumours site, and if people are castigated for posting rumours, we may as well shut it down!

26 May 2026 07:10:31
We're doomed...Doomed! (For the older viewers)

26 May 2026 07:26:28
Private Fraser. ???

26 May 2026 08:39:22
Liz Truss?

26 May 2026 08:45:25
Don't panic!!!

26 May 2026 09:57:42
Not a fan of Coldplay, Barry. Very like our football.

25 May 2026 21:22:01
As Salah and Robertson depart at the end of the season, it feels like we are losing a lot more than their capabilities as players. If, as rumoured, Slot is to depart, is there a possibility one or either stay?

25 May 2026 21:36:36
Salah said it was the right time to call it the end. Robbos said the club didn't offer him a contract. I suspect, if they did, he would have stayed another year.

25 May 2026 21:39:59
Amazingly, in the last 3 seasons we've lost 3 vice captains and 1 captain.

25 May 2026 21:40:32
I would say there's not a cat in hell's chance. It's time for Salah to move on, and folk were giving Robbo pelters last season, so his time had come also.

25 May 2026 22:14:04
Exactly, Rome re: Robbo. let's not start acting like many of our own fans did not want Robbo gone after lasts eason. in fact, I remember fans wanting Robbo gone in Jan. of 2025 so the revionist history stuff needs to get in the bin.

Robbo had been declining for the last couple of years and his time was up. Time is undefeated and even he knew it, despite what he may convinced himself of Salah? Ed01 said Slot did not want him to sign a new contract last summer and yet, he got one against Slot's wishes. The dye was cast from that moment, imo.

Salah's time was already up so let him (and Robbo go) and we move on.

26 May 2026 00:59:52
That was quite perceptive of Slot then, Oli.
In his first season Slot starts Salah in every League game. He wins the Golden Boot, all the main player of the year awards, and we comfortably win the title.
Slot was then prepared to let Salah go, but he stays, and he has his worst ever season for us.

26 May 2026 01:27:49
This season is finally over. TFFT. Usually hate the end of the season. If only Pep Linders was still around to write a book. Potential best seller in the mystery category.

26 May 2026 03:54:05
Should have ended Salah, VVD and Robbo last year with the title and that parade as farewell. That was a bad decision by the club. They knew the team needed changes, and we had 500m to spend, which could have been used to replace all 3, but we let the opportunity go amiss and wasted money on subpar players like Isak and Frimpong.
Slot had said this: he didn't want Salah and VVD with new contracts because he couldn't build the future with them.


There were problems with Salah and Slot once it was out that he had voiced his concerns on new contracts and this season just busted everything out in open.

Most in club feel last season could have been best send off for the old guard and move into new season with a fresh team.

Learnt the lesson, and club will be ruthless going forward now no matter how immature and indecent it looks.

26 May 2026 05:05:35
That would have got you lynched if you'd put forward the idea of getting rid of Robbo, Mo and VVD at the end of last season, No matter what people may be writing now. Ironic the contributors who thought we'd turn into a bad side this season if we got rid of .

26 May 2026 07:44:46
Did you really just call Isak a 'subpar' player, Cafu? He might not turn out to be a great buy (though if he gets back to anywhere near the player he was at Newcastle and we actually find a way to get him more involved in the game), but he certainly isn't a subpar player.

Neither is Frimpong, by the way. It's all about finding a way to get the best of him. Leverkusen Frimpong was box office, the way he skinned defenders on the flanks to get cutbacks in and made late runs towards the back post every game to get on the end of chances.

26 May 2026 08:40:19
Cafu should be renamed Snafu

26 May 2026 09:21:53
Cafu, what did Slot actually say about not wanting Salah and VvD to get new contracts?

I remember the club being a joke last season because they hadn't re-signed, and that was before VvD lifted the PL trophy and Salah cleaned up at the end of season awards.

26 May 2026 10:18:30
Rigsby, I am only saying what Ed01 told me when he responded to my comment at the time.

That's why I used it in my comment to voice my opinion on the topic on this thread. If you need more info, I propose that you refer to Ed01 for more details.

26 May 2026 10:22:11
If we were that ruthless then the incompetent and hapless slot would have been binned off ages ago.

25 May 2026 21:03:50
Lad's seriously, what is the story with the shorts on the new kit. ?

25 May 2026 21:58:49
That's the way the shorts were in the 89/90 season, they took their inspiration from that and went with it. There's an article about it on BBC.

26 May 2026 05:45:55
So the club now are even using the media to "convince" us as to why they went with that kit combination...

Has this ever been done? Has a club ever had to justify its kit choices?

Maybe im reading too much into it...

but very strange to write an article about the kit choice and to try and justify the decisions.

Im not really one to buy the full kits in any case, maybe I'll buy the shirt, at some point, but regardless, the full kit is damn awful.

26 May 2026 08:34:53
You are reading too much into it. It's a kit.

26 May 2026 09:22:56
Are they chaffing you, Barry?

25 May 2026 19:18:35
Sky Sports News reporting AC Milan are now in the hunt for Andoni Iraola. Let's hope the end of season review happens sooner rather than later! I think most of us on here will be going mad with another season like this one.

25 May 2026 19:48:43
Can see it now - Iraola now a free agent, but we don't move on him, so he goes to another Steller club!
Alonso already snapped up by Chelsea, and we leave it late enough for Maresca to have a total mare at City, who then gets Kompany back from Bayern cus he's failed again in the CL and Bayern snap up Houness?

And we're left with?

25 May 2026 20:12:20
He's not a free agent until 30/6/2026.

25 May 2026 20:17:40
We'll still give him a Swerve though, Ron!

25 May 2026 20:29:38
Looks like Slot is staying, I can't believe it, to be honest, it's like we're run by Man Utd fans or something.

25 May 2026 20:45:55
If he remains, Musala eats humble pie. That's the only plus.

25 May 2026 21:23:39
Whoever has been feeding the ITKs info has mugged them all off with duff info.
It was pretty obvious months ago when Salah wanted to go a year early that Slot was staying or Salah would have seen his final year out, I'm sure.

25 May 2026 21:44:05
There is more than 2 managers out there, Alonso has gone, but looks like we didn't want him, maybe he wanted to be a manager instead of a coach, who knows. Irola's family is homesick n Italy isn't his home, so it's undecided where he is off to.

Hoeness looks a good fit, let's see what happens, I know for a fact Slot won't be here next season.

26 May 2026 05:48:13
Hope so, Stromsgodset.

The worrying thing is that the managers we were supposedly interested in are slowly being snapped up.

There will be major changes around Europe from a coaching perspective, I reckon, and I hope we pull our fingers out before it's too late.

26 May 2026 09:22:51
JLC, it would be pure madness to keep Slot, as you say there will be major changes around managers this season. So the pool will be bigger, to me ppl. think there is only a few elite managers about, but how many countries have managers? Its like players mightn't have heard much about them, n then you see them play n we say world class hes going to be.

25 May 2026 18:32:10
Milan make approach for Iraola. Will he wait for a couple of weeks until our season review is finished? Maybe need to forget about him now too.

25 May 2026 19:08:55
Think we need to accept the owners are happy to make CL and we are keeping Slot.
Shame on FSG, absolute joke.

25 May 2026 19:42:10
Iraola is a smoke screen for Enrique. Just waiting for this Saturday's final to get out the way before making the announcement. ;)

25 May 2026 21:05:14
With talk of Iraola's family unsettled, I think Milan is likely a very attractive option for him.

26 May 2026 05:18:54
@Klopp4pm, How many Liverpool matches do you that Henry, Hogan, Gordon etc watched in, say, the 10 years before they bought the club?

They weren't / aren't interested in football per se.

They were interested in buying an asset with a view to expending / augmenting the asset's revenue streams and turning a profit when they sell or when they onboard significant investors in the club. Having bought the club for @ £ 300,000,000 (allegedly), it is now (again allegedly) worth between £ 300,000,000,000 - 400,000,000,000.



The CL is a source of major revenue and we qualified - job done in a business sense, so, being Devil's advocate, what's the problem? From a business sense there isn't one. From this Liverpool football fan's perspective there are a number of big problems, but unless FSG are savvy enough to understand that the quality and reputation of the asset is diminishing day by day in the football context we may end up with same crap being served up next season on and off the pitch.

26 May 2026 06:52:36
WDW, I am very sure they will be aware of how the negativity is affecting their brand. They will have their marketing department, and disgruntled fans, along with booing at the matches, will be noted.


It comes down to whether FSG trust Edwards and Hughes to resurrect things, or whether they need to roll heads.
C*ck on the block, I think Slot is gone in the next two weeks.

26 May 2026 10:02:55
I always thought you were a bord?

25 May 2026 18:29:27
45 points in the last 33 games.

Plenty to build on, plenty to believe in. If you're foolish.

25 May 2026 19:09:27
Man barely cracked 60 points and the word we hear from the club in "reports" is literally, "Lots to build on for next season".

25 May 2026 19:54:52
I'm selling a couple acres super cheap. Only issue is the land is quicksand and nothing a bit of cement won't fix. I can give u a great price. Ripe for condo development.

25 May 2026 22:30:51
Nothing to build on, cause you can't build jack s*** without a solid foundation.

25 May 2026 18:22:26
Why is slot not sacked yet! Come on FSG, pick up the pace.

25 May 2026 17:53:21
Reports from Germany that Eikhorn has a €12m release clause. Highly rated, but is wanted by most big Prem clubs as well as Bayern, Dortmund, Leverkusen and Stuttgart. If we managed to buy him then I'd say a few years on loan in Germany would be ideal.

25 May 2026 18:44:17
After the season that Wirtz has had, do you see the lad following in Wirtz's footsteps?

25 May 2026 19:07:39
Leave him in Germany so he gets games, coz he's not getting near the pitch with us and Slot in charge. If Slot does stay, I'd send Rio out on loan too, so he gets regular football, which he needs to step up to the next level.

26 May 2026 05:20:34
Uncle Jurgen still has a caravan leased under the central pier at Blackpool. Don't give up hope just yet.

25 May 2026 17:17:32
Sky Sports have been reporting all day that slot is staying. I was hoping that he would be gone but it seems more likely he is staying.

25 May 2026 18:40:54
Don't worry, Sabres, the Slot staying crew will soon be sitting at the same table as the flat-earthers and the green-cheezers!

25 May 2026 19:08:23
They'll have their Kleenex Tissues out.

26 May 2026 00:45:11
If Slot stays, I'll be happy that I didn't spend the last 6 months calling him all sorts of names and acting as if an asteroid was coming to strike down the entire universe.

Only for the point that we can then move on to thinking about next season and where the improvements may be made.

If Slot goes, then I'll be happy about whoever the next guy is coming in and what that project looks like. I feel comfortable claiming that whoever comes in, I will be one of the few voices on here speaking to bigger picture and through the inevitable ups and downs that will come, while the usual suspects on here start the campaign early to get rid.



Remember, it we were a season in and the Klopp doubters on here were in full voice.

It isn't about being right or wrong, or defending a guy or trying to tear him down. I look at it kind of like a family. We are together while we are together, primarily we think about how we can get better together.

Kumbaya.