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Got 3 points in the end ill take them but we were underwhelming. At least we are close to UCl spots now. Qualify for UCL and hopefully change of management in summer.

Rio should be starting, Gakpo is so predictable he's practically a meme at this point, i dont think i've ever seen a footballer with so little faith in his left foot, he will not go down the line for love nor money its inside and on to his right every single time.

7_Kewell » Mon Feb 23, 2026 12:18 am wrote:

woof woof ! » Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:16 pm wrote:We got Lucky Lucky Lucky  !
Got to admit Lads , I'm sick of a manager who tries to plays chess when everyone else is playing "Call of Duty"

It’s the slow, shyte football that grinds my gears.

I can take losing. But this depressing football is the worst since Roy was here.

Quite frankly if this is Slot's gameplan, why the bl**dy hell did we spend a fortune on world class footballers?
World class players should be playing world class football, not playing like a relegation side desperately clinging on for a point.

I guess that’s a good question, I’d say clearly he is adjusting and improvising to adapt to a whole host of issues namely major injuries to our back line, the loss of form of our best striker, new players adapting, the loss of form of our greatest defender, bad luck and poor officiating etc. I realize many fans are against him but he didn’t become an idiot in a season, he has to have something about him if he won league title in two different countries. Some fans seem happier we lose so they can attack the manager than win a scruffy match.

I have nothing against Slot personally Kazza but what a drop off in performance, motivation and effort from Klopp's last season and last season. We have a world class squad but they seem to have lost confidence and drive and the majority of fans seem to be saying it's the managers tactics that are to blame.
He's not decisive enough for me, LFC needs a strong character at the helm and so does the team and Slot comes over as anonymous.

Also the fact that we run less than our opponents in almost every match is clearly a deliberate tactical decision. It seemed to work last season in terms of less injuries but that now seems to have been only coincidental. That plus the slow and boring build-up are all down to Slot's tactics unfortunately, IMO.

But it's true that he has had a lot of problems to deal with this season, the many changes in the team in the summer, drop of form in some key players like Salah, the amount of injuries we're having, Jota's passing etc. So it's not all his fault but he's not blameless IMO.

I wasn’t calling anyone out in particular, and Slot has to take some blame certainly, it just seems to me that leeway is not being given for obvious things that are not in his control. Just a simple example would be had Mo taken his chances and played like he does just before renewing his contract then we would be 10-15 points better off (I’m not blaming Salah as that is just one example). Another is VVD has made some big errors this season that he didn’t make last season, again not blaming him but without those errors we would be multiple points better off. I can’t see how that is Slot’s fault. I think that this year was always going to be the transitional year as last year we changed manager but had the same players. This year, although we are champions, is our transitional year as we have so many new and young players. And we can’t blame Slot for the squad, so many players leaving and so many players coming in is actually above Slot’s pay grade, those were executive decisions.

The running part I agree with as it looked alot nicer to watch players busting a gut than the tactical buildup we see now, but we were a little reckless under Klopp and we did suffer a lot of muscular injuries with Klopp’s style. We did have big injuries this year but they seem to be less muscular than under Klopp. Joint injuries this year were more about bad luck, muscular injuries seem more from over use. I’m sure someone cleverer than me can look it up and make the comparison but that is how I remember it this year. Klopp’s style was a lot of fun to watch but it did make you age as it was like cup matches, no control, no defense just high octane and you needed a super quick Van Dyke to pull it off as we played such a high line. To be fair I think Slot is more about control and patience, probably more suited to an older and slower Van Dyke

Calling for a manager to be sacked that just won a title (regardless of who’s team it was) the next season seems rash and impulsive and I don’t see our owners doing business that way. I believe Slot needs at least another tweek of the squad and another season before you could definitively say he’s not up to the task. He may or may not be the right guy, sacking him this year even without CL football would be impulsive considering the money spent to invigorate the squad with talented young players. My bet is he’ll be our manager next year and we should just get behind him until he isn’t our manager.

That is just my opinion

I think he's made mistakes, big ones, it took him half the season to realise Salah is not the player he once was and there has been more than a hint of deer in the headlights about him at times this season like he genuinely had no idea what to do.
That being said he has also been unlucky, our signings are really starting to come good now but it has to be said when they first arrived they were miles off the pace, miles off it, they needed time to settle - not much a manager can do about that, plus every time something has looked promising be it the Bradley/Frimpong partnership down the right or Isak suddenly starting to look something like the player we signed not to mention the young lad Leoni injury has struck as well, bad injuries too keeping players out for months even the rest of the season in some cases.
Even the weekend, losing Wirtz in the warm up, just seems to sum our season up to me.

All things considered imo he is lucky to still be in a job though, i know he won the title last season but at one point we'd lost something like 8 out of 11 and were on our worst run since the Titanic went down, our form wasnt just poor or even bad it was horrendous. He has steadied the ship though got to give him that, we are still in the CL and FA Cup and we've got ourselves back in the mix for a top four finish. If he wins a trophy and secures a top 4 finish he'll not only keep his job you'd have to credit him for being tough and resilient.

All fair points lads but bottom line is the football is just so slow and predictable. Given the rumblings among the fanbase and pundits we continue to stick at it. It is a bad season for injuries but even when all where fit we still struggled and it gave Slot more issues as he seemed to not know what to do with them. We only cover half the ground we used to and struggle for long periods during games to even test the other keeper. More often than not the 1st half of games are really poor and we get it together in the 2nd. Its not like we suddenly become a brilliant team either but more like it couldn't be any worse than the 1st.

Im not calling for him to be sacked but couldn't care less if he was. What I will say is that he needs to figure out his best team and their positions when all fit. Can't go into next season trying to figure that out.

Yup we've had problems, but I ain't seen anything this season that suggests we are trying to form an identity and build on it. Currently it looks like Slot is just not trying to lose because he hasn't really got a clue on what works. Begining of the season he tried to outlay his style but got found out because we were too open. We got lucky with the last min wins and when he realised it he abandoned that "style".

He will always get Klopp comparisons, one is elite manager the other is well somewhat trying to get there. It ain't fair at all but it is what it is.

Slot is a nice fella but I don't think he'll get us back at the top. We look like an average side, in any other season where competition is strong we'd be sitting a lot lower. This season epl is poor all over the board.

Future is hard to tell, keep him for few years and maybe he'll figure it out or he'll blow more money on transfers and will be stagnant.

Lets see how the rest of the season pans out, who knows maybe he will show us a glimmer of what his "philosophy" on the pitch is capable of.

It's got the 1992 feeling all over it. Kenny (Klopp) leaves a champion team and Souness (Slot) takes over and we spend the next 30 years chasing. I wouldn't expect us to play the dire football we do play from this group of players.

FK IT !
So many banging on about what a nice guy Slott is and making excuses on his behalf for why we are performing below expectations !
He's not the only manager we've had that has had to deal with a rash of injured/unavailable players.

Gimme a manager , I don't care whether he's a "Nice Guy" or a total ***** ! Just as long as he's one that can get the best out of a squad that's available to him.
For me ? Slott isn't that guy. 

He may or not be that guy woof, I’m just saying that one below par season with extenuating circumstances should not define him as a manager, especially after he won the title last year. I’d say he needs a tweek of the squad this summer and and another season and I’ll judge him next season.