For many Liverpool supporters, this season has not simply been disappointing.
It has been emotionally exhausting.
After the excitement of winning the league and heavily strengthening the squad in the summer, fans expected Liverpool to build forward and become even stronger under Arne Slot.
Instead, supporters have watched a season filled with frustration, confusion and growing disconnection from the football team they once loved watching every week.
The disappointment is not only about results either.
Yes, Liverpool have suffered damaging defeats.
Yes, they have dropped points against teams supporters believe they should comfortably beat.
And yes, unwanted records involving goals conceded and defensive collapses have only intensified criticism towards the manager.
But for many fans, the biggest issue is something deeper:
The football itself.
Large sections of the fanbase believe Liverpool’s style of play has become passive, slow and emotionally flat.
The intensity, aggression and unpredictability that once defined Liverpool under Jürgen Klopp often felt completely absent this season.
Instead of exciting supporters, many matches simply became difficult to enjoy.
That emotional connection between crowd and team — once one of Liverpool’s biggest weapons — has felt badly damaged.
And perhaps most worrying for supporters is the feeling that very little improved across the season.
Fans expected difficult periods during Slot’s first year.
Most understood transition takes time.
But many supporters believe the same tactical issues continued appearing month after month with no real solutions.
The frustration has only grown further following some of Slot’s recent comments.
The Liverpool manager continues insisting things will improve after another summer transfer window and further tactical evolution.
But many supporters simply no longer believe it.
Not because they refuse to be patient.
But because trust has already been badly weakened.
There is now a growing fear among sections of the fanbase that Liverpool are heading into a dangerous cycle.
One where every defeat immediately reopens old wounds and panic returns instantly.
Some supporters already believe that even if Liverpool started next season brilliantly — winning their first 15 games — a single damaging loss afterwards would immediately trigger alarm bells again.
Because confidence in the overall direction feels fragile.
That is the real problem Slot faces moving forward.
Not just fixing results.
But rebuilding belief.
Rebuilding excitement.
And rebuilding the emotional connection between supporters and the football team itself.
Because right now, many Liverpool fans no longer fear individual defeats.
They fear another collapse.
And after everything they watched this season, patience next year may disappear far quicker than before.
Jamie (The Kopite View)
I wil be taking a gap year fm LFC if Slot is staying. He is building a Dutch club it seems.