Arne Slot

[SB]

I bloody hope you’re right. AnField sounded like a morgue last night. No effort from the crowd to try & drown out the Chavs version of the Steve Gerrard song.

[Friend of Moises]

Slot is leaving in July, possibly before. Already agreed.

[Lee]

Starting to? The guy is a colossal arrogant prick who acts to the camera in every interview. I loathe the man. He has potentially destroyed a dynasty and we will hopefully scrape into the CL by luck.

He's severely damaged our club and knocked us back 5yrs and Hughes and whoever else is supposedly running the club simply need to **** off with him.

This is worse than Roy. At least he inherited **** and maintained it. Slot has taken an amazing squad on a plate and ****ing ruined it. I hate him.

Under Hodgson we knew it wouldn’t last long and I also had some blind optimism that we might turn the corner at some point under his management.

Slot manages to be supremely arrogant but with a loser mentality. His man management is rotten. Our pattern is non-existent.

I can’t see me watching too many games next season if he’s still here. I’ve only really watched the CL recently in the hope that we might have pulled off a ****house victory against PSG.

[BobTheCharmer]

If slot goes, Hughes needs to go with him. One bought a load of players that we didn't need and other has zero idea how to play the game.

[peterbread]

Boos, no intensity and no identity - what is Slot's Liverpool?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/cqjp4nex0lyo

He’s taken a team with a very clear identity full of intensity known for playing a certain style of football and being extremely successful with it and striped it all away to nothingness that no one wants.

[marcus50bucks]

Anfield anger towards Slot feels worse than disastrous Hodgson era
Fifteen years ago, the disconnect between Liverpool’s manager and fans became intolerable. Against Chelsea, it felt even more toxic

Dominic King
Merseyside Football Reporter, at Anfield

Much water has passed under the bridge since January 1, 2011, but that bleak afternoon must be revisited following Liverpool’s latest false step.

The context: Liverpool played host to Bolton Wanderers and Roy Hodgson was manager. A few days earlier, his side had been beaten 1-0 by Wolves at Anfield and The Kop erupted, singing “Hodgson for England!” as the contest petered out – the chant, to be clear, wasn’t complimentary.

Hodgson was swimming forlornly against a tide of unpopularity and when Kevin Davies scored late in the first half, ambivalence turned to fury. Liverpool, eventually, turned things around with goals from Fernando Torres and Joe Cole, in injury time, but the big takeaway from the day was the attendance.

Liverpool’s fans showed their feelings to the manager with their feet: a crowd of 35,400 – almost 10,000 below the then capacity – showed the public would not tolerate the situation any longer. A week later, Hodgson was gone.

His reign had lasted 192 days and featured defeats at home to Blackpool, in the Premier League, and Northampton in the League Cup, plus one of the worst Merseyside Derby displays in living memory; there was also the matter of a High Court date when the club was threatened with administration.

That’s only 15 years ago and, truly, that was a time you could describe as being one of the worst in the club’s history. Why, then, does the feeling around Anfield now make it impossible not to draw the conclusion this is worse?

Feeling is a key word. In the tunnel, there is a slogan proclaiming to players that “it’s the emotion that gets you” before they head onto the pitch – Anfield is different in terms of the energy that can be drawn from emotion but, at present, positivity is non-existent.

An early goal from Ryan Gravenberch should have provided lift-off for Liverpool and the impetus to demolish a Chelsea team that looked like it was waiting to suffer its seventh straight league defeat but, instead, they retreated so deep that all they did was invite pressure – and fury.

Boos arrived at half-time, boos greeted Rio Ngumoha’s substitution, boos tumbled down at the final whistle. They perhaps did not carry the same sting as when Tottenham escaped with the only point of Igor Tudor’s brief stint on March 15, but the sentiment behind them was inescapable.

On this weekend 12 months ago, Trent Alexander-Arnold walked into a furnace during a 2-2 draw with Arsenal, with Anfield aiming its fury at a local boy who was soon to leave. If the ferocity of the booing that day, at an individual, was a surprise, there is no shock now when opprobrium descends on the team for its style of play. This is football in 2026.

Still, such visible displays of emotion will not sit well with many matchgoers, those who still pride themselves on having the patience and tolerance for which Liverpool fans were synonymous not too long ago: they are not blind to problems but have never wanted dirty laundry aired in public.

They did not do it when the Brendan Rodgers regime was crumbling in the autumn of 2015, when the team lost its identity and results became horribly erratic. How, then, has it become so intolerable for a head coach who last season led the club to its 20th league championship?

Richard Hughes, Liverpool’s Sporting Director, was in attendance for this game and he was the man who identified and recruited Arne Slot to take the club forward following Jurgen Klopp’s departure in 2024. He could not have failed to take on board the anger in the stadium.

“It is so simple,” said Slot. “What the fans want to see, what I want and what everyone wants is a team that creates chances from ball possession. If you look at the goals scored, it is the biggest difference between this and last season (83 in 2024/25, 60 in 2025/26).

“If the same fans see a similar kind of game but it leads to more chances they would be much happier. And if that leads to a win. I know from being so long in football, judging a performance is mainly done from results. Last season we found many times a way to score a goal.”

The thing is, even if Liverpool had found a goal here in the dying stages, it would not have changed the mood or the feeling of disconnection. Slot had said at his media briefing on Friday that three wins from the final three games would not put a positive slant on the campaign, and he was right.

Slot argued here that if all the balls fall into place this summer, he is confident he can turn the mood in the stadium again but one wonders whether the Dutchman truly appreciates the size of that task. Words, as it stands, do not mean much.

What those who aired their views want to see is a Liverpool team that runs until it is breathless, tackles and works and does all the things the stadium expects. Without those core values, it is going to remain feeling like that grim New Year’s Day.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...s-hodgson-era/

[Slinky Skills]

Boos, no intensity and no identity - what is Slot's Liverpool?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cqjp4nex0lyo

[fidget]

He's a ****ing twit.

[Exiled_red]

I don’t understand why he keeps saying he can’t change things during the season. He keeps going on about not having time to change things and we worked on it in preseason and you can’t change it during the season. That makes no sense you see teams with new managers or the same managers change things during the season not just doing the same thing and hoping it suddenly starts working.

Same, I can understand when there are 2 games a week with travelling that there isn't alot of time on the training pitch, so adapting things can be difficult but that's his job. Also we have one game a week and time to analyse the opposition study their weaknesses etc and we are still ****

[Friend of Moises]

Starting to? The guy is a colossal arrogant prick who acts to the camera in every interview. I loathe the man. He has potentially destroyed a dynasty and we will hopefully scrape into the CL by luck.

He's severely damaged our club and knocked us back 5yrs and Hughes and whoever else is supposedly running the club simply need to **** off with him.

This is worse than Roy. At least he inherited **** and maintained it. Slot has taken an amazing squad on a plate and ****ing ruined it. I hate him.

[vlahka]

The truth is out there....

My eyes hate you.

[danperkins]

To put our season and current state into perspective know this, United finished 42 points behind us last season, they currently sit 6 points ahead of us, having spent half of what we spent in the summer. Let that one sink in. How Slot is still in a job blows my mind.

[danperkins]

I don’t understand why he keeps saying he can’t change things during the season. He keeps going on about not having time to change things and we worked on it in preseason and you can’t change it during the season. That makes no sense you see teams with new managers or the same managers change things during the season not just doing the same thing and hoping it suddenly starts working.

His literal job is to manage, to be responsible for controlling, organizing, or directing the team. If that is not working, you change it ffs. I'm really starting to dislike him.

[baitman]

The truth is out there....

[Buzzo]

Feels a lot like the last days of ETH at Man U. Everyone can see the direction of travel yet the club stick with it beyond the point of no return thereby wasting an additional season.

We had the same, the latter days of Rodgers and all the time with Hodgson. With Rodgers he also had that one season that gave some belief. For where we are now, I just see no signs of things changing in the right direction. Not a single green shoot.