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Ignore all the media talking rubbish against Mohamed Salah. 99% of them don’t even support Liverpool, and they’re trying to get article clicks and trying to stay relevant. 99% of us fans know what his true intentions were for the club to be in a good position after he departs.❤️

I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that. Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it. Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games. Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on. As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

I have witnessed this club go from doubters to believers, and from believers to champions. It took hard work and I always did everything I could to help the club get there. Nothing makes me prouder than that. Us crumbling to yet another defeat this season was very painful and not what our fans deserve. I want to see Liverpool go back to being the heavy metal attacking team that opponents fear and back to being a team that wins trophies. That is the football I know how to play and that is the identity that needs to be recovered and kept for good. It cannot be negotiable and everyone that joins this club should adapt to it. Winning some games here and there is not what Liverpool should be about. All teams win games. Liverpool will always be a club that means a great deal to me and to my family. I want to see it succeed for long after I have moved on. As I’ve always said, qualifying to next season’s Champions League is the bare minimum and I will do everything I can to make that happen.

Another week. Another loss. Another set of injuries. Another round of the predictable ‘coach has got to go’ discourse without wider context. Because you know, context is excuses. Unless the context supports somebody’s favourite coach or player. Quite often, I see a strawman. ‘Do you even have criticisms of Arne Slot? Is he above it?’ Of course not. Nobody is without responsibility. In fact, my biggest criticism is simple. Not ‘bad coach’. Not ‘can’t coach OOP’. Naivety. A lack of risk awareness. The alarm bells rang in GW1 v Bournemouth. Jamie Carragher rightly observed that Liverpool looked very open. Slot’s said this was intentional to facilitate his attack. Fine. When you have clean conditions, a coach ought to trust his principles. But when things start going wrong on repeat? You stop the bleeding. He waited too long. And I have been consistent on this all year. That pivot should have happened right after Palace. Arne Slot took 5 more league games. Chelsea. United. Brentford. City. Forest. All whilst confirming that training time was limited and preparation was disrupted. So that is then a coaching error. Call it conviction. Call it stubbornness. Call it faith. Whatever label, it was a mistake. But he did then shut things down. Liverpool became less expansive but harder to beat. More control. Lower variance. More draws. Fewer games where the team looked like roadkill. 19 unbeaten. Not sexy, but effective and boring by design. That is huge. Because it showed Slot could identify deficiencies and adapt accordingly. He accepted trade-offs. Because sometimes, under constrained conditions, not losing matters more than trying to win on principle. What happened next? Slot got lambasted for the draws, the boring football, dropping a star player, and playing ‘un-Liverpool’ football. He hated the style as much everyone else. I’ve seen this film before. So once performances showed signs of life, risk crept back in. Aggressive spacing. Transition exposure. Here we go again. The young coach believing the environment was stable enough to sustain his principles before the conditions were there to support it. It was not. It was worse than the first half of the season. Fatigue. Injuries. Still missing profiles. All worse than before. So the team lost again. Bournemouth. City. Wolves. Brighton. United. Villa. Each loss reiterated that naivety. Unai Emery fully pulled the team’s pants down last night for all the world to see. That shift from risk-taking, to risk-aware, and back to risk-taking sits with Arne Slot. When you find a minimum viable product that works, you stick with it. Turn half those 12 League losses into draws? You are confirmed for 26/27 Champions League. What annoys me is that the incremental risk did not move the dial enough in the games won enough to matter. It did not pay off. But this is where I differ from the wider discourse. Mistakes get made. The important thing is growth through them. I heard a commentator on The Anfield Wrap recently say, ‘Liverpool is not a learning club. I don’t want my manager learning on the job.’ How absurd. Human beings learn constantly. No matter their job or experience level. And the idea that Liverpool should sit above being a learning organisation? The Boot Room. Never walking alone. Don’t buy superstars. create them. Not a learning club? Hubris. So ultimately, my question is not ‘who do we sacrifice?’ It is whether the evidence suggests a terminal ceiling, or a capable young coach making fixable mistakes in brutal circumstances? Because whilst he has shown naivety, he has also shown an ability to adapt, compromise, and build risk-aware football. Outputs are a product of their environment. Slot won multiple trophies in stable environments. That is excellent. His mistakes should be managed accordingly. In stable institutions, elite development beats hire-fire cycles. Invest in the squad. Invest in the coach. Coach the squad. Coach the coach. Don’t buy superstars, create them.

Going back to this… the cheek of posting it after throwing in 0/10s most week. Yes you’re a legend of the club, but you’re at fault for this season too. Massively.

Salah wasn’t complaining about “style of play” last season. When you’re winning everything is great, when you’re losing everything is a problem.

Got beat 4-2 last night btw, on a plane with a quarter pounder meal, what’s happened to my club Stevie would be embarrassed to leave the house 🤢

This keeper is no better than Mignolet absolutely shite

Blame Slot if you want but this is on every single fucking player this.

The Anfield crowd booed Arne Slot for taking off Rio Ngumoha and honestly, they had every right to. You desperately need a goal and the solution is removing your best player? Genuinely absurd 😭

Coaches who have tactically outclassed Arne Slot so far this season: • Keith Andrews (in his first season in management) • Michael Carrick (an interim) • Callum McFarlane (an interim who has never managed) • Rob Edwards (managing the team in 20th)