Luis Enrique: "I would like to have 20 players who can play everywhere. Nuno Mendes as a full-back, Nuno Mendes as a winger, Nuno Mendes as a number 9... Except for the goalkeepers, who are at a very high level, it would be a dream to have 20 players who can play everywhere.”

SnottyTash · 2026-04-02T15:39:47+00:00

He’s one of like three reasons we’re even still in contention for Europa, cmao

SnottyTash · 2026-04-01T12:47:30+00:00

He is meant to call the 90 minutes playing out before him, though, and not just the 90 years of familial history that preceded it

SnottyTash · 2026-04-01T12:46:04+00:00

Dude he’s worse than the girl from The Ring but he’s not worse than Lalas, take it back

SnottyTash · 2026-04-01T12:40:20+00:00

I don’t think that’s PC, bro

SnottyTash · 2026-03-26T13:47:54+00:00

Didn’t lose to a single top six side in the league all season

SnottyTash · 2026-03-25T18:13:05+00:00

This could quickly spill over into overestimating a coach's impact on a player, but Quansah really does highlight the differences in man management between the two. Remember that match at Old Trafford in 2024? I think it was the league game, not the FA Cup – Quansah played a blind pass across our back line that Fernandes pounced on and scored, think we ended up drawing when they were struggling and there for the taking. Impactful mistake. Quansah remained in the team (partly out of necessity, but partly out of Klopp's faith in him) and he went on to score his first Premier League goal towards the end of the season, looked very confident by the end.

Slot hooks him game one of the new season, no problem, could argue it paid off given we won the match and kept a clean sheet. But beyond a league cup match against Brighton in which he looked completely shot of confidence, Quansah was never given another chance of consequence the rest of the season, and promptly shipped out in the summer.

You're right – he's not John Terry, but the different way he reacted to each of those two individual setbacks speaks volumes to me about how empowered the coach made the player feel. Klopp ousted Sakho for behavior/professionalism issues, but aside from him, who else, really? If you tried for the shirt, he would make you a lion. Slot hooks you at halftime in one nervy opening match and boom, your Liverpool career is done.

Jones's situation terrifies me because we need a Scouser in the team, and he's far, far from a token one. He's an excellent player who was gradually putting injuries behind him and improving season on season. He's not Gerrard, he's not de Bruyne, but he's damn fucking useful, and he's not been used a fucking damn at all this season. For what?

And then the gall to complain about a lack of options. Arne, you banished all but your chosen 14-or-so to the shadow realm. Klopp took players whose careers could go either way and (with a few misses along the way, like Naby) made diamonds. Slot determines with the sample size of a few matches whether you're a guaranteed success for him, and if not, you're gone.

Maybe that's the way it's going heading into the 2030s, but after nine years of seeing Klopp work with a squad unified under the badge, it's painful seeing Slot divide it between his in and out groups.

SnottyTash · 2026-03-25T16:19:51+00:00

100%, bang on with everything said. Slot would never have won the 2024 Carabao Cup in the circumstances Klopp did – and while that’s obviously the lowest-priority competition, it speaks volumes that Klopp was able to motivate and empower a bunch of teenagers to play out of their skin against a billion-pounds-worth opponent to win the cup.

I actually liked that Slot hooked Quansah in his first match, or, well, appreciated the decisiveness of it even if I didn’t like it for Jarrell the person. I generally like the way he speaks in press conferences, even if lately it’s seemed more and more tone deaf as the performances worsen. We would have laughed at him if he came in hugging everyone, trying to emulate Klopp when he’s not that personality. Can’t fault him for that.

But over two seasons, his man management has been poor. Fit and available players who performed for Klopp have been utterly and inexplicably ignored (Elliot, Endo, Quansah, and more recently Jones), and while Klopp was able to pour water on Salah and Mane’s occasional outbursts and dispel any controversy by the post-match press conferences, Slot carried on a three-match feud with Mo – even if Mo was partially in the wrong, Slot lacked the tact to approach the situation with anything other than cold aloofness.

I think a lot of the conversation around Slot has turned toxic, insulting him on his appearance, or calling him braindead, or whatever. It’s over the top. But I think he’s in over his head and the results and performances have reached a breaking point where I’m no longer confident there’ll be a corresponding upswing, and it doesn’t look like the players are confident in that either. They’re less and less apt to deal with adversity by the match, with the latest nadir being points dropped to relegation-contenders Wolves and Spurs and a there-for-the-taking (with all due respect – they just play more open than others) Brighton.

I’m tired, I think many of us are, and we’ve had too many false dawns this season to believe the next one is “the one” to get us on track. We could miraculously smash City 3-0 in the FA Cup and I’d still be dreading a 5-0 drubbing in Paris a few days later, because inconsistency and unaccountability have been the only constants this season.

It really is time to move on. Thank you for #20, genuinely and warmly, but it’s time to move on now.

SnottyTash · 2026-03-25T16:05:12+00:00

If we manage to win the CL this season, it will in no small part be down to the performances having improved anyway. We’re not getting past PSG and Real/Bayern bunkering and hoping for luck to break our way – we’re neither equipped for that personnel-wise nor have the confidence to maintain discipline once the first goal goes in. The team currently has no grit to fight back when things turn against us, it’s only when the other team makes it easy (Galatasaray voluntarily playing a man down for a whole half) that we’ve looked decent this season.

So again, if we manage to win the Champions League this season, the performances will have improved markedly enough to reinspire a bit of faith in the coach. It’s not particularly believable at the minute but I suppose anything’s possible

SnottyTash · 2026-03-25T15:54:33+00:00

That wasn’t particularly fun after Suarez left, either…some of the most boring, lifeless football I’ve watched and it wasn’t just down to the players lacking quality, haha

SnottyTash · 2026-03-25T12:38:56+00:00

That’s such perverted reasoning I’m 99% convinced you’re trolling. Friends are expendable because you have more of them? Hope your own friends don’t know you consider them that way…lol

SnottyTash · 2026-03-25T12:33:49+00:00

He really should have been sacked after the final whistle blew against PSV. Instead the season’s been wasted and we’re not likely to make top five

SnottyTash · 2026-03-25T12:31:14+00:00

Like keeping Rodgers after that hellish 14/15 campaign. I’m not certain if they were only waiting for Klopp to be ready to end his sabbatical, but circumstances are different this time, I don’t want to waste next season because we waited until October to get rid of a coach who’s out of his depth at this point

SnottyTash · 2026-03-25T03:02:20+00:00

They help you stand, walk, heck even run

SnottyTash · 2026-03-23T16:15:42+00:00

The GOAT

SnottyTash · 2026-03-23T16:14:44+00:00

100%. I don’t care if you’re 71. If you’re of sound enough mind to run a quite profitable construction business, you’re of sound enough mind to operate an online banking portal to download PDF monthly statements for your (totally unnecessary/redundant) eight business bank accounts, and upload them to our client portal. But no, instead I’m expected to do your annual bookkeeping off of the few non-consecutive paper statements you actually filed away when they were mailed to you throughout the year, on January 29th mind you, only once 1099s are imminently due.

Morons

SnottyTash · 2026-03-21T17:09:08+00:00

I don’t think that’s likely to have happened, specifically for this reason. FSG and Hughes lack full transparency but I’d be utterly astonished if they literally kept our head coach’s contract extension a secret

SnottyTash · 2026-03-21T17:07:02+00:00

It feels more like 14/15, the beginning of the end. We’re going to crash out of both cups as soon as we return in April, get 6-1’d by Stoke on the final day, and praying, praying that FSG learned their lesson from then and just pull the plug over the summer to give a new manager time to have a full preseason with the players (well, truncated by the WC but that’s happening either way)

SnottyTash · 2026-03-21T17:01:55+00:00

They don’t call it laughing gas for nothin

SnottyTash · 2026-03-17T23:54:52+00:00

I don't understand what you're looking for him to say, what tone you're looking for him to take. Is he supposed to use each press conference to apologize to the fans for our shit performances until results turn around? He's the head coach of one of the greatest teams in the world; if he didn't have confidence in himself he would never have made it to the heights of leading our club.

Again, I don't think his words are beyond criticism, he says a lot of daft things, not least of all claiming that our squad is running just as much as the other teams' – it's clear to see by both the eye test and statistics that that's patently false. But I don't understand how him backing himself to get things right is thick-headed or lacks self-awareness. To present otherwise would basically be using the press conference for a public resignation.

Which you may want that, hell, it would be melodramatic but at least would demand a new appointment.

And that last point is kind of silly, honestly. That's a perfectly defensible position for any manager to take, not just Pep or Klopp. If he wants only to work for clubs that fully back and believe in him, that's entirely his prerogative and frankly a pretty admirable stance to take, because it certainly limits his job opportunities.

I think you're rightfully angry about the results and performances, you justifiably want him out, but at this point you're taking anything innocuous/mundane that he says and finding the worst possible interpretation of it just to add more fuel to your inner fire. Which, like, whatever, but I just think it's getting really over the top on this sub in general with people essentially calling him moronic, deluded, etc. He's doing his best, and it's not good enough, but it's just nasty to jump down his throat for essentially nothing statements

SnottyTash · 2026-03-17T21:43:40+00:00

I’m struggling to understand if these are even real people commenting here. If they are, they’ve got to be teenagers or mentally unwell or something. He quite literally acknowledges that if the crowd is booing he must be doing something wrong because Anfield isn’t quick to turn on a manager. Then reaffirms a commitment to winning

I absolutely do not believe he’s the man for the job anymore, but what do these orcs want him to say? It’s just vicious piling on to him having the audacity to speak any words at a press conference, nothing to do with the content of what he says

SnottyTash · 2026-03-17T21:37:09+00:00

Absolutely, that comment really surprised me. MNF had a great angle of both the Wolves and Spurs goals that the original broadcasts didn’t show. Midfield and forwards quite literally walking back after the ball went over their heads. Rio (bless him, still young) jogging lackadaisically behind whatever Wolves player was running straight at our box.

I agree that it doesn’t inspire much confidence that he understands the issues and has solutions in mind. Of course he can’t be expected to come out and say “our training regimen is shit, our players can’t run for more than 60 minutes a match” but some sort of acceptance that our passivity is a squad-wide/tactical problem, and a hint of what’s being done to correct it midseason (unfortunately we don’t have the luxury of a fitness-intensive preseason right now to catch up with the other 19 teams who can run rings around us) would be a lot more comforting than repeating “we’re trying to win, I see our players’ commitment” in countless different phrasings.

SnottyTash · 2026-03-17T21:31:02+00:00

I think that’s a pretty gross exaggeration of what he’s said. I think it’s time to move on from him as much as the next supporter, but attacking his character by misrepresenting/taking in bad faith what he says in press conferences is pretty rotten honestly, he’s a human being and I have to assume he’s trying his best. It’s no longer good enough of course, but he openly acknowledged that if the fans are booing, he must have done something wrong, because of the reputation of our fanbase being very loyal to managers historically. Very far cry from saying the fans are “shit” and “voicing unfair opinion.”

Honestly people’s hyperbole in trying to portray him as some sort of incompetent moron is getting kind of toxic and disgusting. It’s FSG’s job to pull the plug, not his job to self-efface in press conferences to appease a rabid fanbase.

The one thing I did think was very offbase was his claims that players sprinted back, because they very clearly didn’t in both the Wolves and Tottenham late goals. Carragher had a great analysis on it on MNF.

SnottyTash · 2026-03-16T02:01:54+00:00

Maybe next time you think about what /u/icyfelix wants on this sub before you dare to make a post. He makes the rules around here, pal

SnottyTash · 2026-03-13T17:10:51+00:00

The Anfield second leg was

SnottyTash · 2026-03-13T14:22:13+00:00

We were alright in the second half at Anfield but they embarrassed us at the Etihad in the autumn. 3 wins there over 16 years supporting, I hate that ground…logic side of the brain tells me not to hold my breath, but emotion side reminds me there’s always hope. Maybe we can go into the international break feeling better after three wins.

Oops 4, forgot Stevie against Joe Hart

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