2025/26 Season

[Sus]

Nope. Previous lowest total was 60. In the Premier league that is. Us again

So we need a win at the weekend to avoid breaking or equalling our own record.

That's a pretty lucky break for our embattled manager - he surely would have been out the door if we didn't qualify

[Doc_Piptorious]

Incredible we have essentially made the champions league with 59 points - wonder if that has ever happened before

Nope. Previous lowest total was 60. In the Premier league that is. Us again

So we need a win at the weekend to avoid breaking or equalling our own record.

[Sus]

Incredible we have essentially made the champions league with 59 points - wonder if that has ever happened before

[peterbread]

Hopefully it lets the team come out and play to send Mo and Robertson, and hopefully one other guy, off in style.

[kingfunk]

In this absolute bat **** mental season I now think we’ll somehow finish 4th.

[Cerbie]

Unless we get absolutely done at home to Brentford we’ve scraped 5th in the league.

[peterbread]

Unless we get absolutely done at home to Brentford we’ve scraped 5th in the league.

[Yozza]

Pat Nevin...


51 point swing....!


As I sat watching Aston Villa destroy Liverpool on Friday night I had an unexpected internal reaction: I wasn't surprised.

*The defending champions have fallen so far that a 4-2 defeat in which their brilliant, if ageing, centre back Virgil van Dijk was their most potent attacking weapon no longer had any real shock value. It's a huge fall considering their comparative position last season.

*They may well get into the Champions League again by the skin of their teeth but they are a massive 25 points behind where they finished last season, with only one game to go.

*There are a list of difficulties facing Arne Slot: replacing half the defence, getting the new forward line fit and gelling, getting an increasingly dissatisfied fan base back on side, and the list goes on.

*Their form was so poor that at one point Everton looked like they were going to catch their neighbours. It isn't the Toffees who Liverpool fans compare themselves with. Manchester United are of a similar worldwide stature but Liverpool have lorded it over them for a while. In the past decade, Liverpool have been contenders, have two league titles and one Champions League win, United have none.

*Last year Liverpool finished 42 points ahead of United, as the Manchester club had internal wars everywhere and Rubin Amorim dragged the team into his failing monoculture.

*Now United are nine points ahead Liverpool – that is a staggering 51-point swing and they are making good decisions.

*Michael Carrick looks certain to land the manager's job and the backroom team are just what the club has needed for years. There is buy-in from the fans with an upward trajectory very likely. The opposite could be in store for their rivals along the M62 if they are not careful.

*While neutrals actually look forward to watching United now, they are beginning to watch Liverpool through their fingers.

*Please tell me anyone who had even a flicker of a suspicion that this might happen in less than nine months. Then again, in this mad football world it is just as likely to wing back Liverpool's way again – if they have a good summer getting the right new players.

[peterbread]

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2026/05/liverpool-stats-mid-table-champions-league-red-herring/

[Buzzo]

It’s absolutely mental that we are most likely going to get Champions League football. We don’t deserve it at all.

[Kenneth]

So, only Bournemouth can knock us out of the CL places now. Even if we lose our last game to Brentford, they have to beat both City at home and Forest away, or draw one and win one and turn around a -6 goal difference. A draw for us and we’re in the CL.

If villa lose away to city and we win, we'll get fourth on goal difference.

[Sus]

Yay. Now I’m happy

[Mark79]

Man City can secure CL football for us on Tuesday night if they beat Bournemouth

[Doc_Piptorious]

Nah, you can’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

There is talent within the squad. It needs organised and it needs motivated. You can’t throw tell the team don’t believe in the tactics anymore - it’s been clear that he lost the dressing room since at least PSG away.

I agree leadership is an issue. There is little sign of who is going to drive standards. Maybe Dom, but he can have a touch of arrogance about him at times.

We look confused, unfit, poorly coached with no tactical discipline and no connection between the players and staff. No bond. It looks a shambles.

Much as when Klopp came in, the right personality with the right messaging could fix quite a lot of what we are seeing.

Nah, I want human sacrifices, lamentations filling the air and little Gucci toiletry bags flying through the air.


The Riddle of Steel, 2026 version


And that lazy baby. What's he doing in the bath water anyway? Taking a nap or something? Send him down a coal mine to work, the little ****.

[Buzzo]

Hope plenty of them leave with Slot. Gutless ****s. Our so called leadership group are nothing of the sort.

Thankfully a good chunk of them wil be gone this season or next as if this is what we can expect from them when games are tough then they can go pick up their fat pay cheques elsewhere.

We know the coach is cooked and he will know it too, but that excuses none of the players that are giving eff all in terms of effort on the pitch.


If MacAllister, Konate and VVD all fecked off with Salah this summer I would not give a toss.

The only ones from the so called leadership group I will be sorry to see go will be Robertson and Alisson. At least with those two you know their heads do not drop during tough games and when everything is going wrong they will back the team on the pitch.

Nah, you can’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

There is talent within the squad. It needs organised and it needs motivated. You can’t throw tell the team don’t believe in the tactics anymore - it’s been clear that he lost the dressing room since at least PSG away.

I agree leadership is an issue. There is little sign of who is going to drive standards. Maybe Dom, but he can have a touch of arrogance about him at times.

We look confused, unfit, poorly coached with no tactical discipline and no connection between the players and staff. No bond. It looks a shambles.

Much as when Klopp came in, the right personality with the right messaging could fix quite a lot of what we are seeing.