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

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest edition of the European show. I'm your

host most stewart. It's the first one of the season where we devolved exactly

what's happened across European football. Now the Bundesliga may have already

started but it'll be as a surprise of no one that the biggest story in

European football right now is still Barcelona, the soap opera that never ends.

So we decided we're going to do a little Barcelona special here

because there's so much to get through.

And who better to talk about Barcelona?

Well, I was going to say a man who's forgotten more

about Barcelona than I know, but I'm not sure he's forgotten.

Gabby on Kiroga of the Basel Talk podcast. Gab, welcome to the show.

I want to ask you first a general question because there is so much that's happening

as I say we said at the moment we're talking about players deferring contracts

potentially illegal contracts pay the pay disputes players who may be coming in, players who may not be coming in, players who may not be leaving,

players who may not be registered.

So I just want to ask you, how are you feeling right now?

I'm a little confused Move that's that's for sure for

sure especially Sunday night coming off a preseason match where everyone had very

positive feelings and literally 12 hours later in the morning wake up to in a

season match where everyone had very positive feelings and literally 12 hours later in the morning wake up to hear the news of these illegal contracts that are coming out and you know as you as you highlight it before the drama never starts you know with this team you know

highlight it before the drama never starts you know with his team you know there's always

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