Endo

[Brizzle]

I think the outcry to Slot not utilising him enough this season shows just how much respect he built from the fans last season too. Can't not love this guy - he is work rate plus leadership plus execution. He does the things he is there to do very well, and relentlessly.

I think we are seeing that appreciation of his role now and this is also why there is surely zero chance he leaves. What a guy to have in the squad - never injured, gives 100%, makes life an absolute nightmare for opponents and can play a very different yet important role in helping us change the nature of games.

 

[keniget]

View: https://youtu.be/6a7j1kNb4KY?si=d6YM-lgYst45Khco

Replace the word movie with Lucas

 

[Farkmaster]

It's not that deep.

Endo, like St Origi before him, is the Patron Saint of the unloved, the unbeautiful, the unskilled, and the physically unimposing.

Everything he has in life, was earned through pure grit. Just like your high school coach told you was possible (before sniggering to your better endowed mates).

To date, he is the only known player to have been written off by Arne Slot and come back stronger.

It's the definition of a cult hero

See this is the sort of hilariously patronizing shit id hate if I were Endo. Unskilled? He captains an international football team and has had a long and successful career. Here he gets head pats.

 

[Farkmaster]

Endo > Curtis.

Sorry not sorry.

Yeah, I think if Endo had got Curtis' minutes we might have put something together this season. It's the hope that kills you.

 

[Dreambeliever]

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[Frogfish]

By the way, it's interesting how after we are done rigbteously felating our first 11, that man number 12 Curtis Jones seems entirely overlooked, despite playing a far more significant role, and being a scouser. He's both too relevant and not relevant enough to get the hipster treatment.

I don't really think Curtis is overlooked because I think quite a few of us here are likely to think in terms of the first team consisting of 14-15 players not just a first XI..

 

[Frogfish]

It's not that deep.

Endo, like St Origi before him, is the Patron Saint of the unloved, the unbeautiful, the unskilled, and the physically unimposing.

Everything he has in life, was earned through pure grit. Just like your high school coach told you was possible (before sniggering to your better endowed mates).

To date, he is the only known player to have been written off by Arne Slot and come back stronger.

It's the definition of a cult hero

First time I've ever heard of Origi being called 'physically unimposing'!

 

[Farkmaster]

I don't really think Curtis is overlooked because I think quite a few of us here are likely to think in terms of the first team consisting of 14-15 players not just a first XI..

That was kind of my point. Curtis is in that first team group for me but receives very little praise. He exists in some vast liminal space between condescending cult hero and our midfield is full of legends first three (when we are winning).

He's contributed massively this season. He's a scouser. What gives? And don't tell me some people don't rate him on here, they don't.

 

[King Binny]

View: https://x.com/michael_reid11/status/1904578372149145797

 

[dee]

As said in the match thread. This has all the hallmarks of being the career end for Wataru and that is gutting. Christ knows how bad he must feel. The end of his playing days (in any meaningful context).

I empathise so much for his situation over the last couple of seasons with a manager that just doesn't do rotation. To finally get a chance in a role he was 100% clearly unsuited to but put in a shift as best he could and even after rupturing whatever he did in his ankle to still attempt to battle on.... fucking awesome. We should sing his song for years

 

[King Binny]

View: https://x.com/michael_reid11/status/2021701015372750925

View: https://x.com/Sean_Rogers/status/2021712740038087062

View: https://x.com/chomakovg/status/2021701122319155325

 

[localny]

Poor Ole ENDO. Not one comment on his own thread from March 2025 to Feb 2026. Almost a year.

Hope the injury is not as bad as it looks

 

[Liverpool HK]

endo has never been the speedy type, but he is 100% toughness. he has strong defensive awareness to lessen his speed deficiency. now that he is out, gomez will play for a match or two and not available again. Slot should have put more faith in his squad. instead of putting out all squad players at once, he should rotate one or two non-starters into the line up to give rest to starters.

 

[King Binny]

Poor Ole ENDO. Not one comment on his own thread from March 2025 to Feb 2026. Almost a year.

Hope the injury is not as bad as it looks

My support for him is evident 😂 — I’ve kept him as my avatar since his heroic performance against Man City seasons ago.

I had thought that, having previously worked with a Japanese player at Feyenoord, Slot would be better placed to appreciate and utilise Endo.

Instead, it almost felt like he was simply dismissed as “useless.”


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