Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

De Zerbi reminds me a lot of Eddie Howe at Bournemouth. Plays one way no matter the opposition or personnel available to him and gets praised for "giving it a go" even when a more pragmatic approach may have been more successful.

That being said I admire his style and think he could do a lot better if given a better squad than Brighton's (though I'd rather another team take a punt on him than us)

Don't we do the same under klopp? Plan A is plan A.2

His midfield was gutted, no real replacements and he's managed to drop only a couple places. Look at the squad like, it's fairly poor.

Your getting less and less of these pragmatic managerial types, these days. They have a style of play and stick with it.

I wouldn't be disappointed with him, but everything will feel like a downgrade whoever we hire.

”Feel like”? It will be a downgrade. Unless it’s Pep or Ancelotti it’s a step downwards, to some extent.

Adidas > Nike for quality I reckon, so I would prefer them 100%.

Whichever pays the club the most money will get the big and most important thing there really.

FFS 🤬

He can't stay fit ^

At what point do we just lose all patience with Jota and sell?

@_pauljoyce

Feyenoord coach Arne Slot interesting Liverpool.

The Feyenoord head coach Arne Slot has emerged as a leading candidate in Liverpool’s search for a replacement for Jürgen Klopp.

The 45-year-old led Feyenoord to success in the KNVB Cup final last weekend and has compiled a strong body of work in the Netherlands, having led the club to their first Eredivisie title in six years in the 2022-23 season.

In addition, Slot’s ability to improve players and his aggressive, high-octane playing style are attributes that would appeal to Liverpool’s kingmakers.

His Anfield ascension is far from a done deal and Liverpool are continuing to discuss other contenders as well, while managerial vacancies at Bayern Munich, Barcelona and AC Milan this summer complicate matters.

If it is him I just hope he's not as useless as the ETH and is actually able for the step up in demands.

Jota FFS

Its a disaster.

The ETH comparison is actually a very worrying one for me. At least ETH had a few title wins under his belt and did well in Europe with Ajax. He had some sort of credentials behind him but couldn't step up to a bigger club and league. Similar to Frank de Boer. Arne Slot doesn't really have the same credentials behind him.

I heard the Jota news at the same time I heard that Cole Palmer is likely to miss Chelsea's game against Arsenal tonight with illness. It's been the story of our season, really - our players dropping like flies, while Arsenal and City have very few injuries, while Arsenal especially seem to play every team while that team is missing their best player(s) either through illness, suspension, missed the bus etc. It's a bit comical at this stage.

I have no clue on which manager would suit us best, so will not try to predict or get excited or upset when we are linked with managers I did not know existed before Klopp announced he is leaving. It is interesting that we were quite good at controlling the flow of information from within the club the past few years with a settled team and very little leaking from them. But with a new manager search all of a sudden it opens up so many more new sources that these new candidates have that may leak news.

Add in journalists that will speak among themselves and look at 2 and 2 and get to 8, it will be tiring I suspect for the next few months. Still don't know who you can trust in England for Liverpool news, seems like you still have a few chancers with their exclusives that you don't know where it came from.

I'm terms of journalists to trust, I think Paul Joyce, Neil Jones, James Pearce, David Ornstein and Chris Bascombe are all pretty reliable

Ornstein is a little keen on an "exclusive" so may jump the gun a little. Pearce used to basically be an unofficial mouthpiece for the club so anything he says is, I think, half approved by them. Joyce is probably the best, doesn't say a lot but it's normally well informed when he does

But all are likely to run a story the club ask them to, and I'm sure the club have their own agenda at play sometimes

Arsenal going to batter Chelsea tonight. First goal and Rice made that goal. He really is the key for them. City will win the league, I think third is the best we get.

Random comment from a Feyenoord fan on a Reddit thread:

"Condition and stamina is key, very high pressure, high backline, he used both normal wingbacks and inverted wingbacks, cdm drops down in possesion, wingers usually lefty on the right and a righty on the left. His biggest ability imo is he can read games like no other. Players always praise him that everything he prepares before a game with what the opposition is going to do comes true. I'll add on to this comment later, need to reevaluate my life without him for a bit.

Edit: the amount of times we turned a game around is mental. Also incredible at keeping the whole squad happy, cant remember ever hearing anyone complain in 3 years. He's amazing with the media never heard him say anything weird or strange. A few weeks ago he was at Rondo a football program in The Netherlands with the likes of Ruud Gullit and Marco van Basten. Slot gave a masterclass about some subjects and they both were looking at Slot like he's their teacher. Man i hope he doesn't go but if it's any other club I would' ve chosen Liverpool its a perfect fit imo.

here's some Slotball"

Other comments suggest he's really good with the press, is popular with the fans and is an all round decent person.

I'm waiting for more YouTube analysis videos. Because I'm weird.

In a cruel irony, Feyenoord could actually finish this year on more points than the year they won the league. So he will have experience of having an excellent season but still come second 👀

Why do they deserve to win it?

Just in from training not a bit surprised to see arsenal are battering chelsea,here's hoping we can do similar tomorrow night but at least get the 3 points

if we don’t win it I rather the cheaters win it won’t feel so bad then . But at least let us win out .

'Deserve' is always a weird thing to argue, but I do think they've played the best and most exciting football this season. Far more entertaining to watch than Man City. Have also scored the most goals, and conceded the fewest, which is usually the mark of a deserving champion.

Yeah, fair enough, but that's obviously not a thing that can be determined until the season is over. So in talking about where the league is right now we obviously have to pick from criteria other than 'winner'. (and of course as well as being top scorers, best defenders, and most exciting to watch, they are also currently top).

Oof, I can't bring myself to hold out any hope for United getting anything… away to Spurs is my one real - and still unlikely - hope.

*Except if it's city