James Pearce
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466 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Sep
James Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But ultimately, it was one we simply felt we had to.
It was genuine, you know, the repeated kind of backing a slot at various points during the season when the team was really struggling on the field that...
You know, there was genuine respect and admiration for how he dealt with the tragic loss of Diogo Jota last summer and the challenge of trying to pick up the pieces and guide the club through that.
You know, there was sympathy for some of the recruitment decisions hadn't paid off, that new signings had either been injured or hadn't been able to make the kind of quick decisions
impact that anyone hoped you know there was also sympathy in terms of dealing with you know the Salah situation the breakdown in that relationship and established stars form falling off a cliff really but I certainly got the impression when I spoke to people over the weekend the mood had shifted during those last couple of weeks of the season you know someone pointed me that
You look at where they were at in late April when they won the Merseyside Derby, they beat Crystal Palace at home.
Suddenly there was that injection of positivity and it was like, now can they go on and give someone something to believe in going into the summer?
And unfortunately...
slot wasn't able to do that because there was a horrendous defeat at Old Trafford.
You know, a real morale sapping draw with Chelsea at Anfield when slot was subjected to the biggest show of dissent from Anfield showing their manager since the latter days of Roy Hodgson's
rain in 2010-11 and then you had you know they crumbled in defeat at Villa Park and then a pretty lifeless draw with Brentford on the final day and I think ultimately you know when they reviewed everything in that week after the season you know we know how much emphasis Liverpool place on data and the data was pretty grim in terms of the way that performances were heading and unfortunately he hadn't been able to find solutions to all the problems that had dogged Liverpool.
And they felt that the mood amongst the fan base and in the dressing room meant that a change just had to be made.
And I think also they probably have learned lessons from what happened with Brendan Rodgers a decade ago where they kind of stuck by him after a really tough season.
Yet,
That negativity, you just couldn't shift and it rolled on into the next season and they had to make a change in the October and of course Liverpool knew if they were to do the same this time around, the candidates available for the job, you wouldn't be able to select from the same kind of ones in October than you would this summer.
They didn't, although I don't think for a minute that that Salah post had any impact on the decision that Edwards and Hughes made because they also knew that Mo Salah on his way out the door had an axe to grind because Arna Slott was the man who had dropped him last November and left him out of the team when he felt that they needed to go down a different route in terms of trying to get some solidity back into it.
And I think we need to be careful about players liking posts because we also know that most players don't even control their social media accounts.
When I did an interview with Florian Wurz in the last week of the season, I asked him, I said to him, do you realise by liking it, lots of people have interpreted that as your siding with Salah against the manager?
And he said, no, no, no, that isn't the case.
I liked it because I thought the sentiment was absolutely right.
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