Opération policière en cours sur le Pont Jacques-Cartier. Plusieurs policiers sont sur place et un périmètre a été établi à titre préventif aux alentours. Le pont est fermé dans les deux directions, nous demandons aux automobilistes d’éviter le secteur. Plus de détails à venir.
🚨 Liverpool reach verbal agreement with Andoni Iraola to become head coach. Set to sign 2yr contract (same as #AFCB deals) & wants Pablo de la Torre, Tommy Elphick, Shaun Cooper, Tom Webber on staff. #LFC plan to present 43yo by end of week @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/uYB8DBzOWR
Mohamed Salah will leave Liverpool at the end of the season, the English club said, after nine years at Anfield in which he has established himself as one of its greatest-ever players. https://t.co/sFFc1M5rI2
🟥 The Manager, The Ownership, The Inevitable
As laid out in my match post earlier, the performance wasn't an outlier. It fits a pattern that has been building for months.
This should have been addressed in November. The evidence was already there. Since then, it has only grown stronger and more damning.
Five consecutive domestic defeats, something not seen since 1953. Six losses in seven league games, going back to 1902. Nine defeats in twelve matches, the worst run in over seventy years. Ten league defeats in a season, a threshold not crossed in more than a decade. Nineteen defeats across the 2025 calendar year, set against one in the entirety of 2024.
These are not selective numbers. They are the reality of where Liverpool are.
FSG, along with Michael Edwards and Richard Hughes, own that reality. This is their appointment, their structure, their judgement. Reluctance to confront a failing decision has allowed the situation to deepen. There is a sense that being proven right has been prioritised over being effective.
They rarely speak, but when they do, it's often about data guiding decisions. The data now is unequivocal. Performances have declined, results have collapsed, and the trajectory is unmistakable.
The head coach looks like a man awaiting his fate. The players look unconvinced. The supporters are moving beyond anger into something colder, to a man, woman, boy, or girl; we are doubters again.
This international break offers a final opportunity to act. Not as panic, but as recognition.
A week ago, the idea of an interim felt unnecessary to me. Now it feels like a question worth asking. What is there to lose? The only caveat is clear: it cannot be someone seeking to turn it into a permanent role. The club must not stumble into another long-term mistake.
If a short-term figure, even someone like Steven Gerrard, can restore belief, connection and basic standards, then it's worth considering.
Do nothing, and the direction of travel is already clear.
Xabi Alonso is available. I don’t know what Richard Hughes is waiting for. This brother thinks he will get a religious miracle and somehow it will all get better. Gang of clowns if they don’t do something. Should have happened much earlier.