If I'm Xabi I'm taking the rest of this season off to re-charge and will make decisions about my future direction in the summer.
Probably not. But as a candidate to be the next Liverpool manager, I think he’s head and shoulders above everyone else. What he did at Leverkusen was similarly impressive to what Klopp did at Dortmund.
I think Arne has been dealt a more difficult hand this season given the amount of change in the squad plus some long term injuries which have limited options so I do feel for him to a degree. However having taken that into consideration I'm disappointed in how he's gone about dealing with these issues ie his hesitency to fully use his squad. I feel had he shown more faith in many of these guys he could have got more from them and also taken the strain off of his favorite core which he's used over and over. Top four is a minimum target, will we get there?
Another outstanding display from this guy Florian Wirtz vs Burnley pic.twitter.com/KFIe3itHgl— 🎴 (@sbzcomps) January 17, 2026
That’s a super disingenuous argument. Arsenal is…what, 11 points ahead of us right now? And that’s one blip as opposed to essentially 3.5 months of them?
Kerkez and Gakpo should never be on the pitch together ever again. Burnley's goal just makes Konate look even more pathetic. Drawing against the worst teams in the league feels like a big loss.
In some ways, Xabi's Leverkusen stint is more impressive than Klopp in that he had less talent to work with and won the title in less time.
Not disingenuous at all. Point is: teams at the top of the PL are all having difficulties getting consistent (expected) results vs teams at/near the bottom -- not just us. All evidence shows the gap between top and bottom is smaller than ever (discussion of reasons to be held at a later date I'd suggest). Of course we've been poor for months, but you're dismissing the multiple reasons for that which have zero to do with Slot, and forgetting that he did a great job last season blowing all expectations out of the water. As I've said before, dumping him now would be imo classic MU behaviour. Do you think we should install a revolving door on the manager's office that gets used every time things go bad on the pitch for a few months? He still has time to turn this into a very acceptable transitional season - but we all know he needs transfer support to do that which may or may not materialize.
That was a great performance as well. And all of a sudden forgotten. No progress here! Yesterday - for the first time in a long time - we saw us combat an ultra- low-block team the way we need to. Move the ball fast, lots of one-touch passes, constant moving. A huge change from the boring-as-shit MC method of slowly trying to pass our way through by repeating the same passing movements a hundred times waiting for them to screw up.
The performances have been utterly indifferent to bad since about PSG/Newcastle last season. This isn’t just about a transitional blip. This is about a pattern with Slot that goes back to the middle of last season. He won a title after everything went wrong with every title challenger during the first half of last season. And as noted above our PPG is lower than Hodgson’s-is keeping a manager that’s performing that badly consistent with the behavior of a top club? Are we really using the squad well or is he doing what he did last year and running the same core group into the ground? There’s a difference between a revolving door of overreaction and not giving into the sunk cost fallacy. We’ve gotten it wrong. Fix it before it gets worse and you really end up in a downward cycle.
Again - completely ignoring the factors affecting our season that have eff-all to do with Slot. Do you honestly think we'd be this badly positioned if: - Mo was the Mo of last year - Mac was the Mac of last year - Ibou was the Ibou of last year - Diogo was still with us - Wirtz we see today started out like that - Isak came in fully fit - Bradley hadn't been injured repeatedly - Frimpong hadn't been injured - Joe hadn't been injured repeatedly - Leoni hadn't been injured - Guehi had signed Pick any 3-4 of them. And do me a favour if you reply to this - don't ignore the question.
But isn't that called adversity, Sam? last year basically everything went right. This year it hasn't. Any managers job is to find solutions. You can argue that Slot is doing well with the current state of the squad. You can argue that in hindsight that Alexander is exactly what we did not need (though we still would have needed another striker). You can rightfully point to Jota's effect on the team. You can also argue that he's doesn't trust his squad, he's not come up with anything innovative, and that his seeming inflexibility (is it a Dutch thing) are worrying signs. Throw in our disaster set piece defense (and scoring) and lack of fitness which have to have some coaching blame - the signs aren't great. I'm in the keep slot til the summer and assess (get your deal agreed with Xabi now or close to it).