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 not our full-time Liverpool Correspond. Blood Red Podcast with me, Ian Doyle.

Joining me today is not our full-time Liverpool correspondent,

both Home and away, James Pierce.

He's very much still away, extremely lazy,

not in any way.

Earned break that he's got while the rest of us plow on regardless.

However, I'm pleased to announce that with me I do have the tallest member of the sports desk,

Paul Ghost, hi Paul.

Hello Ian.

I also have returning, it's hey Dan hello Ian and and a very very special

guest a veteran of the sports desk you don't hear very often on this podcast but

here he is it's the nightest man in sports journalism

Christopher Beasley hi Chris hello Ian I'm I'm very good thanks everybody for

asking nobody ever bothers to ask what else else? No, thank you.

Anyway, Dan, we will start with you and I will ask you about a certain Brazilian footballer

called Neymar.

He has been the big story this week with comments that he's made apparently in a poker tournament

in Barcelona the other week he was quite why it's taking this long to come out I don't

know but he was he was he was this is it's international break anything that happens minutely happens is big he

was asked about who he thinks going to win the Premier League he said in English he said

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