This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello everybody and welcome to a special edition of the Liverpool Blood Red Podcast with me Ian Doyle.

Joining me today is our Liverpool correspondent

both home and away.

It's Paul Gorse.

Hi Paul.

Hello Ian.

How are you? Very tired actually. It was an early rise wasn't

we were on a 615 flight to Amsterdam but as you say home and away so we're

very much away on this one. We go again. Yeah we are joined in Amsterdam by the former political correspondent both Home and

away. He's now he took the money and he went to the athletic. It's James

Pierce. Hi you Jay. Hello Ian, how you doing?

It was a pleasure to be in your company.

You didn't seem to please with it at about half or what was it?

No five o'clock this morning when we were in the little coffee shop at Liverpool Airport,

but a bit tired

very tired yeah if you've got over it here yeah I'm really

not really I'm rather hoping to have a little siesta but it's not happened

you had to do some work didn't you that's unusual's unusual. Like the old days working for the echo.

Anyway, we'll start with you, Gosti. We're here obviously for Champions League game against

Iax. We've already been up to the stadium once today. We listened to our ex-manager Albert Schroeder. I've

nearly forgotten his name there. Alfred, say I did forget his name. Alfred Schroeder and the

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