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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Blood Red: Remembering Fernando Torres and what next for Rafa Benitez as Liverpool's left-back search continues

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

July is just a week away and Liverpool have yet to make their first signing of the summer. In contrast, it looks like Manchester City are about to get busy in the market with the big-money acquisitions of Harry Maguire and Rodri. But is our latest Blood Red panel worried? Not in the slightest. After squashing the latest speculation, Connor Dunn, Paul Gorst, Joe Rimmer and Theo Squires argue why it is City, and not the Reds, who have the more pressing business to conduct. But with little in the way of transfer activity, and the first friendlies still more than two weeks away, our podcasters are having to be creative, and most of this show focuses on two former fan favourites who have long departed Anfield and another who will soon do the same (well, the ECHO). Over the weekend Fernando Torres explained his decision to call time on his playing career, and Joe, Gorsty, Theo and Connor (El Nino's biggest fan) look back on the striker's Liverpool career, his departure, and the regard he is now held in by Reds fans. They also react to the breaking news that Rafa Benitez, the man who brought Torres to Liverpool, is leaving Newcastle United, as well as addressing the fact that our much-loved Liverpool FC correspondent James Pearce - the man who was once asked for an autograph while interviewing Champions League winner Antonio Nunez, and who last week had Reds CEO Peter Moore asking about him - will soon be leaving the ECHO. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:08.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the latest Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo I'm Joe River

0:13.2

and alongside me today I've got three of the finest young gentleman around in

0:17.0

sports journalism on my left is the tall man Paul Gost how are we Paul I'm

0:22.1

all the better for me in the Scriads young to be honest,

0:24.1

oh cheers. And I'm to be honest. A moment, Theo and Connor. But I mean, you're not doing too badly.

0:30.4

You've got smooth shaven faces we keep hearing every pod. You know what's tonight, are you,

0:35.6

Paul? No, no. You're looking good. Anyway, we don't want to dig that off. I get I get tweets every now and again taking the

0:44.8

mick out that I've it. Do you ever hear you know? No I've got nothing to add. I thought

0:51.1

we did okay to me honest but I thought I had.

0:53.0

I thought we did that right.

0:54.0

No, no.

0:55.0

Another smooth-shaving young man is Connor Dunn,

0:58.0

always well turned out.

0:59.0

How are you, Connor? I'm very well thinking Joe, if only it was shaved.

1:01.0

Sorry?

1:02.0

If only it was shaved. it's just all natural.

1:04.0

Just natural, yeah.

1:05.0

Conborough Bed.

1:06.0

Oh, well, okay.

1:08.0

That's something... Breaking news.

1:09.0

I'm a glad red pod today.

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