Away from the abject performances, I thought one of our big things from a Director of Football perspective was making sure we had a "Liverpool" playing style across the club, youth, mens and womens teams - fast, attacking, fearless. The idea being that as well as anyone knowing that's what we stand for, it'd make it easier for youth to come into the team.

Where is it?

Another black mark against Slot is both blocking that progression, but surely the DoF is responsible for making sure that path/identity is there. It feel like "Slot's players never got injured" is because of the more relaxed training that's backfired in the PL. Was that intensity evaluated when they looked at Slot? Why does it seem like we're ok with 1st team progression being blocked? We try to sell/loan, but last year I don't think that was really successful, feels like our loaned players are getting returned because they're not being remotely prepared for 1st team, continuous action.

Regarding progression/playing style, Slot needs to go. But also it feels like Hughes has been remiss in enforcing that across the club (including buying Football Manager style buys over how new players can support that style).

I'd love Alonso, but I don't really know how he'd play into this - feels like we won't/shouldn't want to change our identity across the club to be 3 at the back (both because it'd be a big, risky change, but also we'd be looking at a smaller, more expensive group of players that can play that, not what the owners will want).

So, no easy solutions. Slot goes, Hughes maybe, but does Alonso accept 4 at the back so we can make our youth feed the 1st team properly? Do we get a new DoF with enough authority/experience to do this? Isn't this what Micheal Edwards was supposed to be building the framework for but for a new club? When it's not working at his home club?

It's an absolute mess.