Now Liverpool have to win the title as a goodbye present

Next Liverpool Manager Odds (skybet)

 

Xabi Alonso 1-2f

Roberto De Zerbi 6/1

Pep Lijnders 8/1

Ange Postecoglou 14/1

Julian Nagelsmann 14/1

Thomas Tuchel 16/1

Marco Rose 18/1

Unai Emery 18/1

Luciano Spalletti 20/1

Luis Enrique 20/1

 

I hear Erik ten Hag will be looking for a new job in the Summer, and he’s all yours! :kink:

I wonder if this will mean Pep will stay on at City a few extra seasons than planned as once Klopp leaves he'll have no competition for the title let's be honest.

 

There will always be someone else!

Who knows! I think we're much better set up now than we were under Rodgers. Alonso feels like the right fit and he's the coach all the top clubs will be after in 12 months time.

 

We are but our senior players like Virgil and Salah are 33 and 32 respectively in the summer and will need replaced so uncertain times too.

 

Alonso would be my choice(although there isn’t a huge amount of managers to chose from at the mo). He’s ex Liverpool, has done well at Leverkusen, is articulate, well educated and an all round cool motherf***er 🤣

Fantastic news! Hopefully Pep Guardiola fucks off soon as well. Then maybe just maybe we might get the good old Premier League back instead of the formulaic bullshit we've had to endure for the past 5 years or so.

 

 

We are but our senior players like Virgil and Salah are 33 and 32 respectively in the summer and will need replaced so uncertain times too.

 

Alonso would be my choice(although there isn’t a huge amount of managers to chose from at the mo). He’s ex Liverpool, has done well at Leverkusen, is articulate, well educated and an all round cool motherf***er 🤣

 

Not a massive problem imo. Virgil can play at the top level for another 5 years and who knows with Salah? I'd love him to stay, but we've shown we can score goals without him. Alonso is the one manager who would be on every big club's shortlist. Even if it fails, he's the one we've got to go for imo.

Fantastic news! Hopefully Pep Guardiola fucks off soon as well. Then maybe just maybe we might get the good old Premier League back instead of the formulaic bullshit we've had to endure for the past 5 years or so.

 

Or in other words Man United can’t win the league so it’s shite 🤣🤣🤣

Not a massive problem imo. Virgil can play at the top level for another 5 years and who knows with Salah? I'd love him to stay, but we've shown we can score goals without him. Alonso is the one manager who would be on every big club's shortlist. Even if it fails, he's the one we've got to go for imo.

 

I’m not sure Virgil can play until 38 in our back 4 every week tbf. Salah will go in the summer and il wish him well as he will be 32 and seen his best years in a Liverpool shirt. He’s the best striker we have despite the other players scoring.0

🔴 Liverpool in the Premier League before Jürgen Klopp:

 

2009/10: 7th

2010/11: 6th

2011/12: 8th

2012/13: 7th

2013/14: 2nd

2014/15: 6th

2015/16: 8th

 

Average points per season: 63

 

🔴 Liverpool in the Premier League since Jürgen Klopp:

 

2016/17 (first full season): 4th

2017/18: 4th

2018/19: 2nd (97 pts)

2019/20: Champion (99 pts)

2020/21: 3rd

2021/22: 2nd (92 pts)

2022/23: 5th

2023/24: Currently 1st

 

Average points per season: 85

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk said he is unsure if he will be part of the post-Jurgen Klopp era at the club.

 

Klopp has surprisingly announced that he will leave the Reds at the end of the season.

 

Van Dijk was signed by the German from Southampton for £75m in January 2018 and the 32-year-old defender's contract at the club runs out in summer 2025.

 

Asked whether he saw himself being part of the next era, Van Dijk said: "That's a big question. I don't know."

Still basking over yesterday's cup win. I know it's 'only' the League Cup, but I genuinely think that goes down as Klopp's biggest triumphant given the circumstances we were under.

Chelsea the billion pound bottlers - think he got that from Houdini!!

Xabi Alonso says he will remain in his role as Bayer Leverkusen manager next season despite interest from Liverpool and Bayern Munich.

 

The Spaniard has been heavily linked with the manager's job at Anfield since Jurgen Klopp said he will stand down at the end of the season.

 

"I feel this is the right place to be for me as a young coach," said Alonso.

Can only assume he's holding out for the Real Madrid job next season. Shame, as I think he is the best candidate. Reckon Almorin from Sporting is the target though.

Good decision to stay and build his stock more rather than risk failing at a bigger club in the first season and suffering damage to his reputation.

Don't think it can be overstated how much psychological weight the 18/19 & 21/22 title races carry for Liverpool fans. That, combined with being denied the chance to celebrate properly in 19/20, along with this being Klopp's last chance, makes this one feel uniquely pressurised. No other fan base has seen their team rack up 90+ points, twice, only to fall short, both times, by a single point, on the final day of the season. This team has done phenomenally well to put themselves in the title conversation, given the scale of the rebuild last summer & the injuries they've had to deal with. It's the wider context which has turned a 'transition season' into one that feels like the be all and end all.

 

Normally, you'd be able to simply shrug off a draw at Old Trafford, enjoy buzz of a late equaliser, and move on without worrying too much about the consequences. It's the emotional baggage from previous near misses that makes this one so much harder to stomach. What underpins much of the current anxiety is that so many Liverpool fans have literally got no lived experience of coming out on top in a tight title race. 08/09, 13/14, 18/19, 21/22. Every set of dropped points therefore feels so much heavier than it needs to be.

Don't think it can be overstated how much psychological weight the 18/19 & 21/22 title races carry for Liverpool fans. That, combined with being denied the chance to celebrate properly in 19/20, along with this being Klopp's last chance, makes this one feel uniquely pressurised. No other fan base has seen their team rack up 90+ points, twice, only to fall short, both times, by a single point, on the final day of the season. This team has done phenomenally well to put themselves in the title conversation, given the scale of the rebuild last summer & the injuries they've had to deal with. It's the wider context which has turned a 'transition season' into one that feels like the be all and end all.

 

Normally, you'd be able to simply shrug off a draw at Old Trafford, enjoy buzz of a late equaliser, and move on without worrying too much about the consequences. It's the emotional baggage from previous near misses that makes this one so much harder to stomach. What underpins much of the current anxiety is that so many Liverpool fans have literally got no lived experience of coming out on top in a tight title race. 08/09, 13/14, 18/19, 21/22. Every set of dropped points therefore feels so much heavier than it needs to be.

 

It's defintely seeped through to some of the players yesterday, I agree for the most part. This team is nowhere near the levels of the 18/19 team though, That team from 18-20 is probably in the top 3 sides the Premier League has ever seen. There are 3 good teams in the title race and we're the team which has the mist growth in us imo, who knows what will happen with a new manager too. The annoying thing in all these title races we've been in during the Premier League era is we've always come on the wrong side of them, and I expect this season to follow the trend.

Yeh the cohesive nature o the attack isn’t up there with the Mane-Bobby-Salah of that team, much more clinical!

 

 

 

They really need to go for it against Palace and first get the win and if they can chase the goal difference down but it’ll be difficult as Palace need another 5 points to be safe so will be fighting for their lives.

Yeh the cohesive nature o the attack isn’t up there with the Mane-Bobby-Salah of that team, much more clinical!

They really need to go for it against Palace and first get the win and if they can chase the goal difference down but it’ll be difficult as Palace need another 5 points to be safe so will be fighting for their lives.

 

Klopp said we wouldn’t change goal difference, and I agree. It exerts a lot of energy and I think there’s more likelihood that ourselves or Arsenal will drop points rather than the title going down to goal difference. We’ve some huge players to come back from injury that could make a difference in the run in.

 

We’ve a good team and some big decisions to make in the summer, but clearly we have a lot of room for growth.