SAM G-W

Music lover and maker. Computer Scientist. Football genius! Cricket Coach & Boxing fan! Liverpool FC! Always challenge the narrative & views are my own!

[rvo @liverpxxl9]

We’re in Year 3 of the Post Klopp era.

We won a title in Year 1 and got 5th in Year 2, after one of our boys died and signings had huge injuries (Isak, Ekitike).

Iraola has very few transition “problems” to navigate here. We’ve sustained Klopp’s level (on average) and bought the league’s best striker after Haaland. I don’t see why fans are making out he’s inherited Rodgers’ mess of a squad. Get on with it.

[rz @raztakes]

Important win, but this isn't good enough. We won through individual brilliance and luck. Arguably the worst Palace side in years, yet they had better build up and attacking patterns than us lol. We looked like a mid-table side. We need to improve significantly.

[joshua kithyoma @JKithyoma]

@lfcthijs Player power and sentiment has finally caught up with Liverpool , the day we decided a player's rebellion is bigger than the club , that player has to go ...Not even Suarez was bigger than Rodgers and I love Suarez to bits , not Gerrard not anyone

[rvo @liverpxxl9]

Keep seeing people say this & it’s wrong. I’m probs see as a “Slot diehard” (fair enough). But I don’t want Liverpool to lose or Iraola to fail.

“Slot diehards” mainly (1) want consistency of standards when judging Slot & Iraola and (2) don’t think Iraola has enough to merit the job & be successful in it (ie win trophies). Both are totally fair takes - I hope he proves me wrong but we have to judge him consistently. #LFC

[Mike K @scousermike123]

Slot: 364 matches, 219 wins, 60.2% win rate.

Iraola: 384 matches, 147 wins, 38.3% win rate.

But hey were entertaining right.

[rz @raztakes]

This only proves how embarrassing the fanbase was and how badly the players let Slot down. He took the fall for everyone's shortcomings. If we continue this way, we're heading towards becoming Man Utd. Do people think that rot will stop with Slot? It'll consume Iraola too, sadly.

[Carl @Carl_M79]

Slot will be viewed very differently in hindsight when we've gone a decade without winning a PL title.

Remember this tweet.

[Mike K @scousermike123]

All I'm hearing from E Reds is
Team in transition
Start of a project
Going to take time
Patience
Manager getting to know the players
Blah fuck blah
Funny as fuck none of these excuses were afforded to the title winning manager who they hounded out of the club.

[rz @raztakes]

Look at the build-up, the progression, the patterns. He isolated his wingers to perfection. They didn't have to run around like headless chickens. This was the closest thing to elite football we've seen since the 21/22 Liverpool side.

[Sophie @SophieJovi]

Nope. Slot asked for a DM and Hughes failed to deliver. Slot’s job as head coach was to coach and prepare the team. Recruitment, squad building, football operations and long-term planning sat above him. The club neglected the DM, CB and wide positions for years. That’s on the DOF.

[GoalMouth @GooalMouth]

People don't want Iraola sacked; they are simply pushing back on the obscene narratives they were forced to swallow last year, which got a Premier League-winning manager sacked.

Now, the same ones who pinned everything on one man are talking about an "Imbalanced squad," "Lack of options," and the need to rest players because, without a CF, we would be in big trouble (Remind me who played CF when Hugo tore his Achilles last season)?

All the talking points about why we should be happy fighting for the top 4 were ignored last season, so pardon me if people think you are disingenuous for using them as an excuse for the manager this season.

[™️👾 @tm17lfc]

He had to be sacked, damage was done, players gave up.

But the players + management threw him under the bus entirely. He’s a top top manager

[Keepitonthedeck @Keepitonthedeck]

"Stop being predictable to the opponent or you're dead"

- Luis Enrique explains why the coaches who persist with one approach won't succeed in the modern game.

[Doc AI @Doc_A_I]

That bald fraud on the touchline not training these players intensely enough and doesn’t know how to coach a press and isn’t playing Calvin Ramsay or Federico Chiesa or Wataru Endo and doesn’t know how to use Florian Wirtz and insists on playing Cody Gakpo all the time. BUCK STOPS WITH BALDY!

[Sami Henchoz @SamiHenchoz]

If current squad is final there's a strong case the #LIV squad is BETTER v last season.

OUT
Salah (7 PL goals), Konaté (abysmal), Robbo (backup), Jones

IN
Jacquet, Tsimi, Elliot, Munoz, Araujo, Barcola

+ Isak/Leoni's back, Rio/Nyoni +1y, Wirtz etc 1y top club under their belt.

[GoalMouth @GooalMouth]

Let’s take a step back here.

Last season, these guys were saying Slot spent hundreds of millions of pounds and demanded his sacking because he didn't get the best out of the talent available.

Iraola has inherited that squad with all that money plus added hundreds of millions more, and yet the narrative has shifted to one that suggests he is underprepared

I have stayed consistent that the players underperformed last season, and have ALOT of making up to do ( so far, the wingbacks are as bad as they were last season )

It's about time these guys did the same, because the flip-flopping is embarrassing.

[Milla_N47⚽️🇵🇸 @N47_Milla]

Hang on didn’t you say it was slots fault for the players being bad last season? Now he’s gone these players should be better right ? But one player who’s fucked up your statement is szobo he was shit last season an still shit now once again this proves you know nothing 😂😂

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🔥 NOEL GALLAGHER RIPS INTO FURY-JOSHUA: “IT’S A P!SS TAKE” IF THEY TAKE IT TO AMERICA!

Speaking ringside at Itauma vs Hrgovic, the Oasis legend said he’s bored of the saga, but he still wants to see it. And it should be in England.

“If it’s in America it’s a bit of a p!ss take to the English fight fans who’ve paid all the money down the years to see that fight.”

He’s right. The fight should 100 percent be at Wembley Stadium.

He went on to say it’s like Oasis reuniting and not playing Manchester. Then he said don’t buIIsh!t everyone and just admit it’s about the money:

“Fighters want to make as much money as possible. Just say it. Nobody would care one way or the other. Don’t do the dance and buIIsh!t everybody.”

Noel says the fight is too late but would still be epic if it was at Wembley:

“This fight is ten years too late anyway. But if it was at Wembley it would be one of the most monumental occasions in boxing ever in this country. If it’s in Madison Square Garden, Pay Per View, whatever.”

Can’t disagree with that. The location can still make this a great occasion. Not the same in the US.

Noel is then asked if he’d ever have a fight. He laughs it off and says no. If he had to pick someone? The taxman! 😭

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

😰 "One of the biggest issues... Alisson is not the keeper he was!"

🤦‍♂️ "Kelleher is a better keeper today than Alisson is!"

#LFC fan Tony Cascarino believes a lot of the club's problems stem from Alisson being past his best! 🧤😫

[FloWitz @gzewu]

When players left last season or wanted to leave, all blame went to the manager. Today, somehow the manager isn’t catching any heat. I wonder why.