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

Hello and welcome back to the Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

I'm your host Matt Addison with Ian Doyle, Paul Gorse, and Dan Kaye alongside me

as we talk through the latest Liverpool talking points, preview the game with Watford this weekend,

and discuss the key points from

Yoganclops pre-match press conference which took place this morning.

We'll start though with the news that both Allison and Fabinio will be

missing from the Liverpool squad that travels to Watford on Saturday.

D'Ody I'll start with you what's the latest on their situation and can you talk us

through a little bit of what the plan is for then and what Yerken Club has told us so far.

Well, Liverpool were keeping their cards very close to the chest

over the past couple of weeks of what they were going to do with the two Brazilians,

but it's been obvious for a while, clearly for them,

they knew there was only going to be

one option and that was going to be sending them to directly to Spain just missing out the

what for game altogether I mean it is a little bit confused in the sense that this is to do with quarantine rulings rather than just them not being back in time for the Watford game.

There's obviously there's certain layers to it.

First of all, Liverpool wanted the game against Watford switched to from 1230 to 745 to give them a little bit of a chance of getting Alice in them for Bino back in time because they obviously played the early hours of Friday morning UK time for Brazil against Uruguay and

Watford said no the Premier League didn't really want to get involved too much

I don't think and so that was that.

So then Liverpool left with the decision well if we send them straight to Spain they can do the part of the quarantine or

rather part of the non-quarantine over there because the last time they were in a red list

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