Liverpool Transfer Rumours

13 Nov 2025 07:50:04
Carra mentioned recently that Slot is unlikely to be the manager next season. Ed's or those in the know have any idea who we may go after if true?

13 Nov 2025 08:39:23
Wouldn’t be surprised if Xabi Alonso was initially first choice, and the rumours of player power and Perez being unhappy that Alonso wants the players to actually train and not party in Ibiza after games, we don’t go back in for him should he come available.

13 Nov 2025 09:37:06
Alonso has made a great start, and winning is all that matters to Real so I can't see him leaving anytime soon. In fact I think he'll be there long term.

Iraloa all the way, unless Enrique is up for a change.

13 Nov 2025 13:29:17
At the moment, I still hope that Arne can figure things out over the next 10 games, plus a couple of strategic signings in January that help fix our build up and physicality issues.

If things go belly up for Xabi Alonso, you would hope we are in the mix for him. No doubt Bayern would be there too.

Enrique is another that would be brilliant. He's won everything and has a great personality. But I don't see him getting bored of PSG at the moment. Unlikely.

I really admire Iraola's progress but boy would that be a leap! You wonder whether he needs one more job at a side that is likely to face low blocks more often. We need to see how he fares with that.

13 Nov 2025 16:42:22
Carra didn't say that Slot is unlikely to be our manager next year. He said that he is of the opinion that he won't be. That's a huge difference tbh. He didn't say it as a matter of fact but rather what he thinks would happen. The only fact that he mentioned was that the higher ups would not be shy to dismiss him if/ when necessary and that there are a few top managers who would be willing to join us.

Personally, the only two I'd want is either Iraola or Enrique.

13 Nov 2025 17:57:13
You’re only ever 3 games away from the sack at Real Madrid so anything could happen.

But Alonso turned us down so he would not be on my shortlist.

If you don’t want to come to us then you won’t be asked again.

13 Nov 2025 18:47:41
Alonso likes 3 at the back, a tactical set-up that has a ceiling beyond which it’s not effective. I really think a club going all retro and playing 2 strikers in a 4-4-2 could monster things. A throwback not just to 90s Prem teams, but also the great Italian teams of the Sacchi era.

And you know what? We have the squad for that. Dom on the right, Flo on the left as a drifting 10.

{Ed001's Note - he played a back 4 before Leverkusen and he is doing so at Madrid.}

14 Nov 2025 07:05:18
“ (It) has a ceiling beyond which it’s not effective” …. That sounds quite reasonable - although you could say that about everything really.

15 Nov 2025 09:16:04
Crazy to me when a current champion manager is being talked about as if he's not top notch. I personally hope Arne's here longterm but if he's not god help the next guy if he loses a few on the trot because unless its Pep he won't have the fact that he's actually WON the league we play in to fall back on.

11 Nov 2025 17:53:34
Dom rumours are tosh, as it has been known for about 2 years its Macca they are after.

Bastoni rumour has legs but I wouldn't be placing any bets on it. His preference is to stay in Italy with Inter and sign a new deal. Although his agent has said he is open to listening to offers for him, that could just be games to get a better contract.

11 Nov 2025 18:52:02
Any news on other CB alternatives, Schlotterbeck has been mentioned previously?
I hope we get Szoboszlai and Grav both extended soon.

11 Nov 2025 19:20:05
Outside of Guehi. The only other ones that I've heard about, who would come into the first team as starters are Lukeba and Konsa. That was in the summer tho EM.

11 Nov 2025 20:06:07
Appreciate that cheers, I don't mind Konsa at all. Not seen anything of Lukeba.

11 Nov 2025 22:15:46
Is it really impossible that they would want to sign more than one player from us? Or maybe performances of both this season make Dom a more attractive target?

11 Nov 2025 23:18:44
I’d really like Schlotterbeck.

12 Nov 2025 00:14:55
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that both Mac Allister and Konate had their best game of the season against Real Madrid, the club they would like to join next summer.

12 Nov 2025 01:12:04
Don’t rate Konsa, just another bang average English defender and at 28 he’s at the wrong end of his career, Lukeba is poor in the air and had a lot of time out through injury. No thanks to either of them. I think if Madrid offer £75m plus, Mac Allister goes.

12 Nov 2025 03:03:12
Ed001, who was the CB you really wanted us to sign in the summer but wouldn't mention his name? Would he still be your first or preferred choice for us?

{Ed001's Note - Agbadou. Not with the style of football we are playing, which incidentally Pereira changed to in the summer as well, which is why Wolves are bottom of the table. They were constantly passing it around the backline and had a few errors, which resulted in goals, the confidence of the defence nosedived and they disintegrated as a unit. If we are going back to an aggressive, front foot style, higher up the pitch and not asking the defenders to be the playmakers, then he would have been an excellent signing. Now his confidence is gone, I am not sure a move under such pressure would be good for him. That tends to just lead to players struggling to establish themselves and failing to make the grade. You need to sign them when they are on a high, so they can come in full of confidence and step right up. Plus you need to sign for the style you are playing, which is not him for this set up.}

12 Nov 2025 14:26:46
Latest Real rumour, aside from the Szob one, is Wirtz and Rodrygo swap. Probably started because of his history with Alonso. I’d prefer that to losing Szob tbh, but would also rather let them have Macca provided it’s for a fee.

12 Nov 2025 19:53:54
Fields, can u please pour lots of ice cold water on the Upamacano rumours?

12 Nov 2025 20:39:05
I'm ok w Macca leaving. For me he's the odd one out in our best XI. Dom was looking like the fall guy going into the season but he's first on the team sheet now.

13 Nov 2025 03:58:59
Once otyer clubs sense we cannot qualify for champions league, the vultures will circle and go in for dead carcass.

13 Nov 2025 09:30:32
Macca is a fantastic footballer but not mobile enough to be as effective in the premier league. He'd be an absolute full blown baller in the Spanish or Italian leagues though I reckon. Agree with above, good offer and off he goes I reckon.

13 Nov 2025 11:59:35
Why would anybody want a dead carcass?

I understand that logic isn’t a prerequisite for opinions but who would want to buy contracted players for inflated prices when the players are performing consistently badly?

11 Nov 2025 10:05:11
Rumours beginning on real Madrid and sobosli. Get him signed up Liverpool.

11 Nov 2025 10:41:14
Woah diddly ho, how can you butcher his name that badly Batman!?

I’ve not heard anything on my end.

Mac Allister is the midfielder on our team they’re looking at, as well as the elephant in the room with Konate.

11 Nov 2025 11:13:33
Negotiation tactic.

11 Nov 2025 13:10:35
Bit harsh on elephants there Ned.

11 Nov 2025 15:17:51
Best player in the team right now. Cannot afford to lose him.

11 Nov 2025 16:18:07
Szoboszlai is going nowhere. As it stands unless an absolutely gargantuan offer too good to turn down comes in, we would rather see him depart on a free than in the summer to Madrid.

11 Nov 2025 18:16:52
There are Concrete Rumours that Slot wants an immediate improved contract offer for Konate, before the international break finishes?

If True both must leave LFC ASAP, and Klopp and Gerrard installed as manager and coach respectively, with immediate effect.

Of course Henry will do nothing his only concern is the Jingling of the Tills, if we were to get beat 10 nil in every game till the season ends, he would not care one iota, he only ever turns up at Anfield when we beat a low block team!

Slot and Henry "Couldn't even Run a Bath"

11 Nov 2025 18:41:02
Klopp and Gerrard…are you having a laugh mate lol.

11 Nov 2025 19:49:44
You're having a Giraffe, you prefer Slot and Van Broke-US LMAO to two Anfield Icons, knows how much you know about LFC history and Football?

11 Nov 2025 23:59:14
Gerrard who couldn’t even hack management in Saudi Arabia is now suddenly fit to manage the PL champions? Yeah pal, you’re right - I don’t know much about football ??.

12 Nov 2025 21:12:25
Klopp all day, but I wouldn’t really want to do it to him as he’s given us everything and should enjoy his time in the sun. If he’s reenergised maybe, but they do say don’t go back. One thing that would intrigue me though is how he’d get Wirtz playing, and ultimately Isak as well that would be exciting.

Stevie I don’t think so, I’d guess he’d be fine in some ambassador type capacity at the club but not coaching.

I always thought Xabi, but he’s getting some stick at Real for being a control freak, and not allowing the players to be expressive enough. Sound familiar?

11 Nov 2025 09:12:37
Whispers abound that the club is keen on Bastoni. Having not seen anything of him, is he a player that would improve us? Ed’s…. Is he a left or right CB.

{Ed001's Note - he is probably the best left-sided centre-back in the world right now. He would 100% improve us and would be my dream Virgil replacement but he has said he wants to stay in Italy. If that hasn't changed, then I would look elsewhere.}

11 Nov 2025 10:06:18
As always, your insights are appreciated mate. Fingers crossed he and lGuehi provide the solid back line for no 21. One can but dream lol.

{Ed001's Note - yeah, it would be a nice dream to have come true.}

11 Nov 2025 10:34:58
Yeah I’ve said along with some others Bastoni is the dream signing but he has to be all in otherwise no thanks.

11 Nov 2025 11:05:50
Would he currently displace Van Dijk? not really seen him play.

{Ed001's Note - on current form? My gran could displace Virgil right now!}

11 Nov 2025 13:11:39
I don’t really want to write a post which says:
“Is your Gran available Ed? ” ?.

{Ed001's Note - she was always very fond of you Ron.}

11 Nov 2025 15:17:32
Bastoni + Leoni = torri gemelle. that would be an absolute dream.

11 Nov 2025 19:27:57
That's not what your Gran said to be Ed001. Typical of her no loyalty ?.

{Ed001's Note - you can't expect better mate, she was a blue after all.}

11 Nov 2025 19:43:42
Oh yeah I forgot about that mate. Typical Bluenose ?.

{Ed025's Note - hey!!, we will have less of that talk Bazza.. :)

11 Nov 2025 21:40:10
Very sorry Ed025 ?.

{Ed025's Note - no problem Bazza, we are family mate.. :)

10 Nov 2025 10:06:39
Hi eds does anyone know if there are any plans to approach Heitinga now he has been sacked from Ajax to rejoin the coaching team. Having huge doubts about GVB.

{Ed001's Note - I haven't heard of any plans yet, but something like that can be done and him starting before news leaks anyway. There is not a lot of negotiations needed as he could simply return on his previous contract terms.}

10 Nov 2025 12:09:41
Kha, what exactly are you blaming GVB for and how do you know his input is the cause of this season's problems? Is this widely known/ accepted?

10 Nov 2025 12:16:22
Genuinely hoping this happens as I can’t see any other reason for our downfall this year. Maybe Heitinga was more responsible for tactics and our set up.
Ed 1 do you know just how involved he was/ integral to our play?

{Ed001's Note - he had a big say as he was brought in to be the Premier League experience in the group. So he was always consulted at least, though it is difficult to know how much Slot actually listened to him.}

10 Nov 2025 12:28:21
Not sure our issues stem from GVB directly. But noticeable change in our style of play and players at times seem lost. No doubt big part of this is slot but I know Heitinga was a highly rated coach and number two so me just putting 1+1 together and perhaps getting 3! We will see what happens.

I can take losing where we are trying and playing like we used to, but can’t accept us losing in the manner we have against city and games before that. We have looked completely lost and exposed.

10 Nov 2025 12:57:40
I had hoped we'd bring in Thiago as Heitinga's replacement, as he was free at the time and think he would have fitted better than GVB.

10 Nov 2025 13:17:27
Can’t see how bringing him back would be a smart decision. He was part of the coaching staff last year when we dropped of at the end of the season.

Brings back memories of when Rodger’s was in charge and they changed the coaching staff for him - signals we don't have trust in the manager.




Arne is the manager and it’s on him improve the team.

10 Nov 2025 13:30:39
I heard Heitinga was responsible for the switch to the slow possession football. So a no from me,

10 Nov 2025 18:58:41
Scouse John could we get any slower?

10 Nov 2025 20:29:03
This run of indifferent performances began in March when Heitinga was at the club so I’m not sure bringing him back is really going to change anything.

10 Nov 2025 20:37:38
Indeed, there are many slow people.

10 Nov 2025 21:33:14
He won’t be coming back as it would completely undermine Slot’s position. Basically indicating Slot is lost without him.

Just hope one day there’s a place for James Milner on our coaching staff. A fine example of a pro with incredible experience of the premier league and Europe. He’s humble, intelligent and a grafter.

10 Nov 2025 22:17:04
But is he a top assistant coach though, Ron?

10 Nov 2025 23:03:41
I’ve been hoping for the same Ron.

10 Nov 2025 23:18:35
@TB2, agree with your take on things, we switched off when we won the league and everybody ‘clocked off’. with the change of squad, assistant coach and a variation in the way the head coach seems to think he wants to play we have temporarily lost our rhythm.

That said, the clutching at any straw blowing in the window and the abandoning of any crack at logical thought before contributing is pretty entertaining.

11 Nov 2025 02:09:57
Don't see how any of us know the inner workings of the coaching and who's doing what. Same stories we had w Linders. We've been inconsistent and lost almost half our games since March so I don't see that Heitinga makes a difference or GVB or even Slot at this point. We've lost 11 of our last 27 competitive matches.

{Ed001's Note - we knew exactly what was happening with Lijnders, Klopp even confirmed it, so it wasn't just stories. Klopp stepped back when he agreed his new deal and Lijnders took main control of training and tactics. It was closer to the way Man Utd operated under Ferguson, where his assistant manager was in charge of training and tactics.}

11 Nov 2025 02:13:52
We've been poor this season scraping 5 wins then winning 1 in 6 and losing 5. I get the "clocking off" from last season but this is now no longer temporary and I would call our form borderline crisis esp considering the money we've spent.

11 Nov 2025 08:33:45
Do you think that's a good idea Ed, getting Heitinga back? Where would that leaves GvB though, would he stay. I think its a big problem if the entire coaching team including Slot himself decided that they can't figure this mess and needed Heitinga to help them out.

{Ed001's Note - I think he could hardly make things worse, so has to be worth a try right now.}

11 Nov 2025 12:52:58
I heard mentio of Thiago as an asst coach?
Don't think he will pass his medical.

11 Nov 2025 15:19:06
A team of James Milners wins the league!

11 Nov 2025 15:22:55
GVB is not the problem.

09 Nov 2025 22:07:11
To the Eds, is Slot genuinely in danger now? I know we had two wins before today but there was something that felt more systemic in today's lose. I am personally losing confidence in Slot and I don't want to believe this but I am starting to think that he won last year with Klopp's team and was just in the right place at the right time.

{Ed001's Note - not as far as I am aware, not imminent anyway.}

09 Nov 2025 22:17:00
He should be. Anyone can see he’s well and truly out of his depth and if the club are serious about success they’ll show him the door as soon as possible.

09 Nov 2025 22:32:00
Nonsense. Today was a game too far after showing the blueprint in the past two intense home games. After the break, we probably need to put Gomez in for the hapless Konate ( who drains the side of confidence ) and hopefully have Isak fitter to hold the ball up and offer us some centre forward play that Hugo can’t.

In his second season, Paisley won just 3 of his first 7 games and even the great 88 side had a five match run in the Autumn where they couldn’t win. This is a transition season and inconsistency is normal. Slot will get it right, probably after the break with nine winnable League games before Arsenal.

09 Nov 2025 23:08:12
Im not convinced. He's not good at managing egos in the team and were predictable as a result.

10 Nov 2025 00:32:11
Can you provide evidence of the egos getting in the way during the match, please? Or do you have any evidence that egos are disrupting us off field?

OP, did Klopp win the PL with his squad in his last season? Perhaps he was in the wrong place at the wrong time?

10 Nov 2025 02:50:28
JB, agree with the Konate sentiments but Hugo has been very good across the board when he's played. Isak at this point i would say is a more complete player but not since he's been with us. Hugo has been better.

10 Nov 2025 03:45:55
You don't sound 450 million for a transition season.

10 Nov 2025 06:28:28
You do when you are moving towards a different style of play and your key players are ageing, you have to plan for the future. I don't want to make excuses for this season and I think the transfer committee made a mistake not adding more grit to the team, but we are only one or two players and a few months from being a dominant force for the next few years.

It hurts but I think we can still have an amazing year in Europe this year.

10 Nov 2025 06:56:16
Utter rubbish. Players like VVD and Salah don’t turn bad overnight and JoeBuck aka Midnight Cowboy you’re in a fantasy if you think Gomez would make any difference to the results. Slot’s playing style is the issue and completely hindering the play. If he doesn’t go back to the more aggressive, forward pressing style we shown against Real, show him the door.

10 Nov 2025 08:00:30
I hope other teams don't see city's tactics as a blue print. Konate isolated with the ball was clever. Pep identified him as the weak link.
Instead of switching to the occasional long ball to avoid this we persisted with it. He is so hesitant sometimes, it leads to us being blocked in MF.

We must push hard for Guehi and others to come into defence. I honestly don't see Gomez as a solution.

So so gutted. YNWA.

10 Nov 2025 08:20:13
Players did well vs. Madrid so not blaming the lineup. I think there are too few options currently to rotate. We have 3 x good MFs and that's it . in a position where we need energy, movement, dynamicism, ability to retain possession and take it back + stop attacks. In some games Grav / Szobo work well together, today they just didn't. No control / open / barely able to string 2 passes together

Mo could be sold in the summer if he keeps up like this. Has lost a yard of pace and control letting him down. In saying that there is no understanding between players . that's for the manager to sort on the training ground.

Wonder if Jurgen fancies coming back after his break. His old house in Formby isn't sold yet.

10 Nov 2025 08:25:09
Winning 2/ 3 from the last 3 games ain’t bad. Still not sure where Wirtz fits after 20 games which makes me think he doesn’t fit apart from in games where we can play less solid in midfield which won’t be many. Hopefully we haven’t wasted the only transfer window we’ve ever had where we can outspend everyone else.

Slot needs to replace Salah and Konate in January and get the tactics right whilst getting top 4. It’s a transition season so get used to the ups and downs without calling for the managers head at every loss.

10 Nov 2025 08:33:44
Rs15, the club aren't serious about success. They proved that in the summer when they only spent 400 million. Such tight ar*es.

10 Nov 2025 09:08:53
Dropping Konate for Gomez changes nothing. That’s just shifting deck chairs on the titanic. The midfield is a huge issue and we’re just too soft and weak in the middle. Our midfield is is too porous and invites pressure on our defence all the time.

Maybe the Villa and Madrid games were false dawns. That’s certainly not the best City side for a long while, but we made them look like world beaters.

10 Nov 2025 09:47:24
I think it is quite clear that we have brought in good players that don't fit our system. There seems to be a disconnect between the recruitment and the head coach. I hate this "Here's the players, its up to you to make it work". Its not fair on Slot. I think the club have to take some responsibility for the Frimpong, Isak and Kerkez signings.

Frimpong is not a replacement on TAA unless you change the formation or system. Because of these strange signings we are seeing a coach who is at odds as to what to do or how to make it work. We failed to strengthen our defence after spending half a billion and for me, that is on the club, not the manager. But ultimately, it is he who will be sacrificed.

10 Nov 2025 11:05:05
Rome1977, the owners have stepped up yes but the point stands. You can’t spend that kind of money and employ a manager who doesn’t know how to get the best out of them so, yes, if they’re serious about success they’ve a huge call to make. I wasn't slandering FSG at all.

10 Nov 2025 13:46:12
@Rs15, what’s the difference between, as an example, you and Slot? The first difference is that one of you managed Liverpool to win the PL last season and the other one didn’t” of course you are offering your opinion but, I think that the evidence suggests that the basis for your opinion is less than sound.

10 Nov 2025 15:47:31
WDW, me not being a manager is a ridiculous argument for you not agreeing with my opinion. Yes he won the league but the point stands and anyone can see that we are not good to watch and there’s serious coaching issues.

10 Nov 2025 16:59:07
Saw a damning stat that we’ve lost 13 of the last 31, which in comparison to Roy Hodgsons whole tenure at the club is 4 more. Really feels like he’s massively out of his depth and ideas now, which I’m not sure anyone would have imagined would happen back in May.

10 Nov 2025 20:09:44
This is sheer madness at play.

We should have had a transition season last year, but we won the title. The nunber of changes we have made over the summer both in terms of playing style and personnel will take time.

We are basically getting our transition season this year instead of last, but we got a title thrown in, that might not have happened in reverse, well worth it if you ask me. Slot is still working out his best formation and how to get the best out if some of the new lads.

Let us not forget that Klopp would often take a while to bed in a new starter.

10 Nov 2025 20:39:56
Pep did have something to do with isolating Konate but it was not Pep Guardiola. It was Ljinders, he knew our weakness and nailed it.

Shrewd move, he could write a book about it.

10 Nov 2025 23:34:54
@Rs15, we’ve actually won 2 of our last 3 and 3 of our last 5 games, in the PL and CL so my assertion that your opinion still stands. Slot’s performance since he joined the club suggests very strongly that he is one of the top echelon of coaches in world football.

The squad has changed dramatically since last season and I strongly suspect that the coach still hasn’t been able to play the side he wants, let alone a settled side and that’s contributing to the poor performances. Of course the coach has overall responsibility but ascribing all things that you (and others) perceive as being bad is myopic. There will be a plan and moving from present to future state is always going to cause problems - seen, like getting the squad to adapt to new strategies and formations and - unseen, injuries, loss of form, losing out on a player who wanted to join and was on his way to a medical, dubious devisions at potentially key moments - for instance, if Donnarumma couldn’t see the ball he must be clinically blind.

We should revisit this thread next April / May.

11 Nov 2025 10:04:49
People saying it was a game to far are puddled as city played the same this week. Pep embarrassed Slot yesterday with his tactics all over the field as we were opened up like a can of beans.
Where do I start with Wirtz? I questioned his signing at the time as he’s too small and weak for the Orem league in my opinion and he’s definitely not a left winger.
Why we bought Ekitike and Isak I have no idea as we haven’t got the wide men to supply as ours constantly want to cut inside and shoot all the time.
The selling of Diaz with no replacement was shocking by Hughes and Edward’s and shows they are clueless when everyone knew it was a bad sale.


Looking back the summer transfer window has been a complete nightmare as we never got players in we desperately needed.
Current form puts us down there with the likes of Fulham and currently I don’t even see us making top 4.
Should Slot be replaced? I wouldn’t trust Hughes or Edward’s with that job and certainly not mid season but definitely he shouldn’t be in charge next season and Hughes should be shipped out with him.
Sorry for the negative post but there’s nothing this season I’ve seen that gives me hope under the current management team.