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 the latest Liverpool Blood Red podcast with me

Ian Doyle joining me today is I'm delighted to say our full-time

Liverpool correspondent both home and away James Pierce are you Jay

hello Ian how are you James not too bad thank Are you a little wet after a little trip earlier?

Yes, I am, I am, yeah. But I'm just about dried out now and ready for this.

Nice one. Also with me is Joe

Hi Joseph. Hi Ian. How you doing? I'm good thank you. And also Theo's

Squires. Hello Theo. Hi Ian. How are you doing? Not too bad

thanks. Excellent. I'm glad we've all got the pleasantries out the way and we can crack on. James, you and I were at Melwood earlier today. We were listening to Yergenkop talking ahead of Saturday's game against Southampton. He was fairly in good mood

with any. He's bound to be, wouldn't he give him the start of the season

Liverpool I've had, but he did have something to say about Mohammed Sala, didn't he?

He did, yeah, I mean obviously there's been a lot of talk about Sala and you know debate about his forms so far this season.

Obviously a big focus the other night wasn't there on you know how much was he celebrating that

winner obviously the water bottle

got thrown down I think it obviously was blown way out of proportion when the

footage clearly shows he was celebrating the goal just after it had gone in but I think yeah the bigger picture is you can tell

that he's beating himself up a little bit at the moment. I think Clop as you'd expect

was very keen to play down that he's got any concerns at all about Salas for me.

He labeled his defensive work in the last two matches as outstanding

and said that he's got no doubt that the goals will come.

You know, I think he was told that I

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