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 to the latest Blood Red Podcast. I am your host, Sam Carroll and today a little bit of a depleted crew. I'm joined by Paul Goss and Kiv Reneel. And very sadly, it's our first ever Blood Red podcast without the very own James Pierce?

How are we feeling?

Sad. I'm just looking to me left where he would normally sit and there's no one there

and I'm a bit like, what like you break up song for James be if we could just sit

here and listen to a sad song. Something by like James blunting something. Keep it, keep it, is that

because his name's James? It wasn't, but that actually makes sense.

Kiva, you're missing James?

Yeah, I'm a bit hungover.

I'm still from his leave, to be honest.

There's a big night.

A special night for... I think anyone who follows James on Twitter could probably tell that by the fact he was just

posting pictures of random rosary just emo-gis all the stuff. He was a yeah it was it was a rough Saturday. We'll get straight into it though today.

Paul reports this week breaking that Yanklop is stolen on the new contract I think designed to make people a little bit worried

you're here to tell us that's not the case hopefully?

Yeah it was interesting stories yesterday I was in the office yesterday and there was a report from the Sunday

mirror I think it was and they were claiming that Anfield insiders are getting a bit

bit Navy and a bit unsettled the fact that there's no seemingly no no contract signing on the horizon for clock but I don't I

wouldn't have thought that'd be the case I think the club are quite relaxed about

the situation they'd love them to sign a new deal and I think Tom Werna said

said as much himself to James Pierce last month just before the Champions League final.

And obviously he's only going to won that Champions League final so he's strengthened his hand even further and

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