Allez Les Rouges: Dealing with being Liverpool's next big thing and the former favourite who could turn one point into three

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Counting down the days until the start of the season? Or still revelling in the fact that Liverpool are champions of Europe and what was a glorious weekend of sport? Allez Les Rouges host Peter Hooton and regular guests Ste Monaghan and John Nicolson are in the latter camp and, judging by Jurgen Klopp's demeanour at the start of pre-season, the Liverpool manager is completely relaxed too. And no wonder when he has young talent ready to burst through like Rhian Brewster. Our panel discuss the 19-year-old's flying start to the summer, and how his setback last season could actually be a blessing in disguise, but also why there is a danger of being branded the next 'big thing'. Klopp has also been boosted by the return of senior players to full fitness but Peter, Ste and John argue that does not mean the Reds can afford to be letting players leave. Talk then turns to transfers and reports linking Philippe Coutinho with a move back to Anfield. When Paul Pogba is valued at £150m by Manchester United, how much would Coutinho go for? And, anyway, would he be welcomed back? But for now it is purely speculation and as things stand, it has been a quiet transfer for Liverpool and a lot of their rivals. Unlike in the sports journalist world... Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:09.0	Hello, welcome to another edition of Is Lou Rouge, a close season special.
0:15.0	And I'm pleased to say that we have two of our regular guests back, John Nicholson and
0:20.7	Stephen Monaghan.
0:21.7	But unfortunately, he's keep coving, he's pulled up in training with a recurant injury and he can't make it so we've sent him home.
0:30.0	So it's what 40, I think it's about 45 46 days since the glory of Madrid
0:35.9	are we still we still reveling in there or are we looking forward to the new season
0:41.0	which is three weeks away on Friday.
0:43.0	For me personally I'm still traveling.
0:45.0	Yes, I'm sure you're right.
0:47.0	It's pretty corners away and you just point you, you know, five fingers up there.
0:50.0	And you're the one.
0:52.0	And you're the one. and they just keep reminding him
0:53.6	six times baby as a as the boss said yeah and but you know what it's it's nice it's a
0:59.2	nice to have a blob as well isn't it you know from you start looking down I come see every weekend yeah it's a bit of
1:04.8	family time now as they say yeah but we've also a joining what have you been if you've been
1:09.0	DIY better gardening going to shopping centers watching the cricket watching the tennis
1:14.9	to be honest with you I was watching the world cup the cricket world
1:21.5	cup yeah a fair bit.
1:23.0	And I thought, even before Sunday, it's been absolutely brilliant.
1:27.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:28.0	There's been some great stuff in most of the games,
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