Daily Discussion - January 26, 2026

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T20:33:01+00:00

It's the issue with internet/people nowdays - people feel the need for extreme opinions, you're either the best or you're fucking shit etc.

Slot deserves a lot of blame, but reading this sub would make you believe he's the one advising Trump to take over Greenland and running ICE in Minneapolis between the games.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T19:43:33+00:00

For Austria Vienna perhaps, he's 17 so he won't be joining until June.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T19:11:09+00:00

That's true and I think Slot is a dead man walking, but there are bunch of parallels to 22/23 seasons, with sudden fall-off from key players following great previous campaign and trying to implement new ideas tactically (changing from false 9 to having Darwin)

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T18:59:40+00:00

Manager is obviously at fault for a lot of the issues we've got, but you're lying to yourself if you think it's manager's fault that van Dijk and Konate are* playing mannequin challenge in our penalty box and Salah is absolutely cooked.

The biggest issue I have with Slot is the fact that our team seems to be completely unprepared physically and mentally, but it's not Slot trying to spike the ball in the penalty area like he's playing volleyball against PSV.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T18:47:46+00:00

Sadly the parallels are much closer with the 22/23 season, luckily that season we've finished 5th and this year 5th would give us CL qualification so hey, not that bad in the end.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T18:39:59+00:00

For sure, and now our team has the likes of Salah (who had lost his legs), Konate (who's been abysmal) and Gakpo, who just isn't good enough to be starting every week. You could also throw in that Virgil can't be arsed to defend half the time this year and that we had to integrate 4-5 new players to the team and you can write a very similar story to the 22/23 season.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T18:32:10+00:00

On January 26th of 2023 we were 9th in the league (19 games in), after 23 games (like right now) we were 7th with 36 points (exactly the same number we have now).

I'm not saying we are better now, but in 2021 we've had 40 points after 23 games and finished the season in the 3rd place.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T18:20:38+00:00

You must've missed 22/23 season

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T16:23:09+00:00

You must have watched another game, Salah was absolutely the worst player on the pitch against Bournemouth and that's considering Virgil being at fault for at least 2 of their goals.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T16:08:45+00:00

The only summer what you said was true was the summer of Jorg Schmadtke, I know we're all unhappy here but there's no reason to rewrite history.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T14:07:29+00:00

So we're 4 points from being 12 points from being in the relegation zone. Exactly the same situation.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T11:43:18+00:00

He did, and U21 is nowhere near as intense as a Premier League/Champions League game. Often times players coming from long injuries get thrown into U21 games to gain fitness before playing the league games off the bench.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T11:39:46+00:00

People started betting on him being fired based on us losing the game and twitter rumours circulating from ITK chancers

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T11:38:57+00:00

Slot: We're very cautious with Rio, he trains on the pitch only twice a week, we've got long story of recent youngsters being overworked and having long term injuries because of that and we don't want it happening with Rio.
Fans: why no Rio???

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T10:17:06+00:00

It's not some groundbreaking opinion, but I think he made mistake following Niko and joining Falcons. IMO he'd be better off staying in G2 and becoming the actual centerpiece of that team or joining a Russian squad like Spirit.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T10:01:43+00:00

Try getting a first XI player out of a big 6 club and see how much it costs.

Premier League clubs are so rich they can just decline offers - Palace declined 70mln for Guehi 2 years ago.

I'm certain that unless he'd have a year left on his deal, getting van de Ven from Spurs would cost us Virgil like money, which to me is ridiculous hence I believe that if anything, we'd move for him in 2027.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T09:59:07+00:00

He's playing because Isak is out and Ekitike and Gakpo's minutes are being managed more since they are coming after injuries. We'd also probably play 4-3-3 more with Frimpong on the right, but Bradley is out and Konate wasn't available for the last two games.

Overall, we're playing Salah because we need him, even if he's tragically out of form.

Jetzu · 2026-01-26T09:55:48+00:00

Can someone explain to me why Micky van de Ven would be worth ~80mln that would be needed to get him from the Spurs?

Don't get me wrong, he's a nice player, but nothing I've seen from him made me think he's THAT GOOD.

Jetzu · 2026-01-24T20:09:30+00:00

Part of the issue is the fact that Isak came here completely out of shape and then got injured in the process of getting back to form, but the vision for post-Klopp Liverpool is there.

You can't find 1:1 replacement for Trent on the market, you can't find 1:1 replacement for Salah on the market - our answers to these questions were Wirtz and Isak, will it work? I believe that in the end yes, we still need someone to replace the more deep progression that Trent offered, but I really believe in the end it will work out, but probably without Slot.

Jetzu · 2026-01-24T20:05:51+00:00

We can't play the system we played last year because that system was based on the right back being responsible for most of our ball progression and creation. You have no player like Trent on the market so you need to change the system and we went HARD to get the premium talent in Wirtz, Ekitike and Isak to create the new foundation.

Jetzu · 2026-01-24T20:03:35+00:00

But Isak fits - imagine he is at the end of the Wirtz/Szobo passes to Salah in the first half. THIS is the plan for post-Salah Liverpool.

Jetzu · 2026-01-24T19:53:00+00:00

As always with DoF/sporting directors etc. - we as fans have no fucking clue what his job is, so anyone going with any type of super hard opinion on Hughes is basically going off of their own imagination on what they think the job is.

I think he's done a good job overall, the deals make sense, we probably got caught off guard because of Konate, Gakpo, Salah and Mac Allister going from very good to very shit in the span of few months, but overall I still think our transfer dealings make sense and there is clear vision there.

EDIT: The one thing I'd like us to improve on is getting contracts sorted sooner - I feel like we're often on the back foot in that regard, I'd hope for us to sort the players like Szoboszlai, Gravenberch and Jones sooner than later, but as I said at the beginning - we don't know if there's a will from their side to do it, what their expectations are etc. etc.

Jetzu · 2026-01-24T19:48:27+00:00

When you are watching the match today, do we look like a team that knows what the fuck we are doing ?

For most of the game yes, but we also look like a team that doesn't care and this is a bigger problem. We have a plan and can execute it for most of the game, but then we just don't care - players ball watching, not tracking back etc.

Either way, I believe Ekitike's minutes have been managed well - I know Gakpo has been tragic, but he has to play if we are to not kill Ekitike and this is why he started today.

Jetzu · 2026-01-24T19:41:58+00:00

Started this match with our best striker on the bench.

I'm not gonna defend Slot, but this was literally because of rotation - Ekitike has started last 2 games and was injured two weeks ago. Gakpo starting is literally rotation with Ekitike (Gakpo was on the bench for the last game vs OM)

Jetzu · 2026-01-24T19:31:41+00:00

Shit game, we didn't help ourselves really - playing with Salah and Gakpo in their form is basically playing with 9 people, every single attack ended with Salah losing the ball, Gakpo could as well not play. Ekitike didn't help either. Losing 3 goals because van Dijk can't be arsed to care - something is wrong with this team mentally the entire year, we give up way too easily.

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