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 along to the latest Liverpool Echo Blood Red podcast.

If you celebrate it, we hope you had a very good Christmas.

We'll be talking about a late Christmas present for Liverpool fans.

News of course breaking that Cody Gackpo has signed he signed last night we'll start with him

doily obviously Liverpool adding to their forward line we'll talk a little bit about the

rest of January and plenty of other things throughout the

podcast but first and foremost what were your initial thoughts when that news

broke apart from you were already very tired after Aston Verlin you'd rather it

didn't happen that particular night.

Yeah, that wasn't very helpful, I'll be honest. And also it happened just after Jorg and Clark

Pieden-Chenichy's press conference, so I didn't come out about 20 minutes earlier.

We'd have been able to ask them about it, but he'd gone by that point.

I think before we go any further on this podcast, I think we should point out, it's the ill podcast,

because I'm not particularly great, seeing Jill's coughing away there, and I know Matt, you don't sound 100%.

So this is that, you know, we're're cracking on this Christmas week for our listeners. That's what we're doing putting our bodies on the line physically and mentally over this difficult for hectic festive period and go back to the yeah the transfer yeah so on the Monday

yeah obviously that's when we discovered it it kind of came out of the blue didn't it in a way because

Liverpool weren't really realistically linked although I would like to point out that we did do a

podcast last week and we did discuss transfers and I said look in Liverpool

going to sign anybody it needs to be a forward without having any knowledge of this

happening by the way. I said that Liverpool

me to sound afford and it and co-spoke today and said they made a decision two or three months ago for sporting reasons to

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