Beth Lindop

And I also have not been pleased with Gakpo's season by any stretch of the imagination, but it felt like an innocuous change to me.

And yet I think the boo is indicative of that thing that is on a hide into nothing.

Exactly, whereas...

It's tricky because I'm sure we'll discuss some of the managerial options.

I'm not wholly thrilled at some of the people who are being linked with the job, but Xabi Alonso is the one to me who feels like the sort of shining beacon of hope where if Alonso came in and started next season as badly as slot did, if we sort of, you know, can almost theoretically line them up side by side.

I know that Alonso wouldn't get the same reaction that Slott would, and that to me is where I'm kind of looking at the club to be like, you think it's less of a risk to keep Slott.

I can promise you that just isn't really the case at this stage because that goodwill has eroded so much.

and also there are people in the media space who have criticised in this season like I've been saying this to basically anybody who listens to Trouble is a lot of these people who sort of put these lines out there don't listen is like David Lynch over and over again has said they basically thought the manager should have been sacked already at this point Mo Stewart has come out and said it himself these are people who do still have access like I'm personally especially now that I'm not a

I'm not someone who has access to Liverpool Football Club in the way that it's viewed, but those people do, they still attend press conferences, they still do all this stuff, and they think the manager should be gone, so it's that sort of ignorant, I'm just going to put my hands over my ears, I'm going to say terrible things because I can get away with saying it, whereas if it was one journalist saying it to another journalist, you could sue for libel and stuff like that.

Nowhere else.

That's the thing, I think every other link feels tentative because there's someone who you sort of assume is a better candidate for that job.

And when I say better, I don't mean like more suited or anything like that.

I just mean like, you know, with City, a lot of people think that the reason Maresca was sacked by Chelsea was almost out of spite because he was talking to City and because that seems like a natural sort of almost boot room-like succession for City is to hire a fella who was in Pep's backroom staff once.

With Chelsea, it feels like it's been Iriola until it wasn't recently, with Iriola now being reported to be going to Crystal Palace.

Chelsea, the ones who I'm kind of suddenly worried about have come on the scene.

I think one of the comparisons that's been made over and over again with the sort of back end of slot, if we're calling it this now, at least sort of presumptively, if nothing else, is the Brendan Rodgers comparison.

I think what ends up happening in quite a nice, sort of succinct way is that

assuming Jürgen Klopp was the number one target to replace Brendan Rodgers even from the point of the end of the 14-15 season Klopp was on his sabbatical so he wasn't ready to take that job at that stage and keeping Brendan on actually ends up being the sliding doors moment that leads to you to get Jürgen Klopp in October or November whenever it was that Jürgen eventually took over it

feels like it's actually the opposite way around with this where the guy who at least we're all assuming is the number one candidate for the job and who feels in our hearts like he should be the number one candidate for the job is possibly only available in the summer I think hanging on until like you know as Mark said before like if you go and do it in October or November instead in the way to how you did it with Brendan it opens up the World Cup managers a little bit more maybe because

The reason they wouldn't be able to take over in pre-season is because they'd be away with their World Cup teams.