2025/26 Season

[Buzzo]

I mean we probably aren’t as far apart as all that - but of the things that are ****ing people off with performance are happening alongside elite numbers of goals and assists then to me it’s moot. Every team would ****ing kill for that set of issues.

To get the chances you have to take the risks and those risks will include losing possession. But if what’s also happening is you are scoring the goals that win games and leagues the fundamentally that’s what it’s all about.

It’s an incredibly low scoring sport so if you’ve got someone who is prolific in that one action then everything else is by the by.

If that guy then goes on to have a less productive season then that’s a different discussion. And if that guy also publically speaks out against the team he performs on that’s another.

But we can’t also claim that, anyone scores that level of goals or gets that level of assists because the team is set up to play for them - because we know that’s not true. My point really is say what ‘you’ will about the current scenario, however we can’t say that his last season was anything short of phenomenal. The stats and awards tell you (therefor not just my opinion)! That this is not true.

[Exiled_red]

Goals are what counts, goals win games, people don't give a **** if Haaland only touches the ball 10 times a game if he scores a couple of goals.

Salah had one of the best seasons in PL history in terms of G/As but people are still insisting he was ****e, if that's the case why have no players who have had great seasons bettered that?

[Buzzo]

If you replayed last season you wouldn’t ask Salah to do a single thing differently.

[Sus]

If you replayed last season you wouldn’t ask Salah to do a single thing differently.

Maybe fewer contract updates to the media

[Buzzo]

Maybe fewer contract updates to the media

[Buzzo]

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[peterbread]

3 points clear in 4th now.

Not that we’re winning the league but to be 10 off top spot with the season we’ve had and 8 off second in City who have lost 4 games already feels weird. Tough league with so many teams in the middle that can get results.

10 points between 15th and 4th.

[Slinky Skills]

Slot acknowledging that we're poor at set pieces.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c0jexl4y7dpo

[Charly]

Slot acknowledging that we're poor at set pieces.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/c0jexl4y7dpo

He inherrited a solid defensive unit. Trent's was like in the bottom 2% of ariel balls wonfor fullbacks, so this one is purely on Slot if he has changed the system.

[vlahka]

Took long enough.

Liverpool have parted company with their first-team set-piece coach, Aaron Briggs, in response to the weaknesses that have blighted Arne Slot’s side this season.

[Buzzo]

3 points clear in 4th now.

Not that we’re winning the league but to be 10 off top spot with the season we’ve had and 8 off second in City who have lost 4 games already feels weird. Tough league with so many teams in the middle that can get results.

10 points between 15th and 4th.

It’s mad that we’ve had a record challenging run of poor form, aren’t playing all that well with total inbalance in the team and are still clear in 4th. Maybe the prem ain’t all that?

[peterbread]

I doubt we’ll see those 90+ point seasons again or at least for a while. The levels Liverpool and City got to were ridiculous. The quality of those teams was outstanding. The old front three were just a perfect match.

I think it’s a lot more competitive now as well. The money and the level of coaching has gotten so much better that those middle teams are better than we’ve seen before.

[Exiled_red]

It’s mad that we’ve had a record challenging run of poor form, aren’t playing all that well with total inbalance in the team and are still clear in 4th. Maybe the prem ain’t all that?

I've been saying this for a long time but it's not just defeats that cost you in the PL, it's draws too, (more of an issue in 90+ point title challenges) but despite losing 6 only having 2 draws means we have failed to win 8 games, Chelsea, Man Utd and Sunderland have lost fewer but they have more draws and fewer wins Draws are almost as costly as defeats

[vlahka]

Klopp made us believe again. Slot just makes us go back to sleep again.

[Exiled_red]

With the recent run of results I was hoping we had turned a corner, but the performances are still **** and we lack an identity or real style of play. I worry about fitness as I am still convinced a number of players can't (or shouldn't) play a full 90 mins Ekitike, Wirtz, Frimpong, Bradley, Jones, Chiesa add to that the likes of Gakpo, MacAllister and Salah (when he gets back from AFCON) being way off form and 7 more games this month I really think we are likely to see another dip in results. It feels like we really need to bring another couple of players in to add not just quality, but also numbers...