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

This Blood Red Podcast, courtesy of the Liverpool Echo, I'm Guy Clark.

Thanks for downloading and joining us.

Here on the agenda today we'll be talking

Mohammed Salas contract demands.

Garris Southgate Trent Alexander Arnold Experiment.

Plus we'll be digging deeper into the Red's financial model and

looking at more of the fallout from the lack of transfer activity during this summer.

To analyze and evaluate all of that. We have three screen's

Squires, Theo Squires who's got his big headset on today here on the

Blood Red podcast, Dan Kaye and also offering some much-needed expertise our business of football writer Dave Powell.

Gents I hope you're all wealthy. I'll throw over to you first after trying to butcher the gag at your expense there in the intro. I hope you keep him well and the first

thing to talk about today is Mohammed Sala and these contract demands of

what we've read over the weekend were half a million pounds a week he's after.

Can tell it's the international break,

can't it, with you with your cobwebs here,

not able to get your lines out right?

Should be on the beach or something, mate?

It should have been here.

With Salo, it's one of those where 500k a week, it seems excessive for

Liverpool, doesn't it? But you think what's Kevin de Broin on at City? What's

Christina Rinaldo now on at United? What's Messy on at Barcelona and Bape, Namer, these are the fees that big players are getting at big clubs.

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