The whole ‘ITK’ culture does my head in sometimes. Not because fans shouldn’t chat about transfers, but because we act like every confident post is knowledge when most of it is just educated guessing. Semenyo to City is the perfect example: plenty of people could see it coming without a single contact in the game.
Guesswork dressed up as certainty
There’s a difference between reading the room and having genuine information. City move quickly, offer the cleanest pathway to trophies, and when a name starts circling them it often ends where you expect. That doesn’t make anyone a genius, and it definitely doesn’t make them ‘connected’. It just means the obvious outcome happened.
What bothers me is how that same certainty gets recycled back into Liverpool chat. One day it’s “he’s nailed on for us”, the next it’s “it was never happening”, and the only constant is the confidence. It turns proper discussion into noise, and you can see why people get cynical.
The unbeaten run that doesn’t convince
Results without context can flatter. An unbeaten run looks nice on paper, but if it’s built on scraping past struggling sides and letting leads slip, it doesn’t automatically mean we’re ‘back’. It can just mean we’ve found ways to survive, not ways to dominate.
That’s the heart of the frustration here: it’s hard to buy into a “turnaround” when the performances don’t feel like progress. If you’re watching matches and thinking, “We’re still hanging on here,” then the table can’t fully settle your nerves. Not at Liverpool, where standards are meant to be higher than muddling through.
Why the project looks unappealing
When fans talk about a “project”, it’s usually shorthand for stability, a clear plan, and a team moving somewhere. If it feels like we’re ripping up what’s been built over the last decade, then of course players and agents will look elsewhere. Not because Liverpool suddenly isn’t massive, but because the direction matters.
And that’s why, in this view, the manager becomes the main issue. If you think Arne Slot is the reason the standards have dropped, then waiting until summer feels like accepting it. No half measures, no “give it time”, just a hard reset.
Maybe that sounds extreme. But football is emotional and Liverpool fans know what a proper side looks like. If this is the level, and it stays the level, then it’s not hard to see why the faith drains out of the whole conversation, transfers included.
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