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 your latest Liverpool Blood Red Podcast with your host

Christine Welsh.

Ian Doyle is still on holiday.

This is the longest holiday that man has ever known.

And our full-time Liverpool correspondent,

both Home and away James Pierce is also away today

I've actually got something a little bit special for you if you can call that special it's

tall Paul Gorse is sitting opposite me how are you Paul?

I'm not too bad Christian yeah and as I said before I'm Christian

and there's only actually two of us in because obviously it's the World Cup

it's the summer people are taking holidays that outside in the sunshine eating a little

bit of ice cream it's not really fair is it and you know know what right? I've seen James Pierce before on Old Old Street. I was getting my lunch and I've seen him in short, flip-flops on his way for a pint and you know what? He didn't even offer to come in and get involved I mean it's almost

a sackable offense scandalous absolute absolute nightmare from James Pierce they

wearing flip-flops yeah so what we're going to do today, you know, Liverpool are not doing much in the

transfer market at the moment. It's very much anticipated that very little will happen

until the World Cup is not necessarily completed but until it starts

to wind down a little bit.

But you know everybody is talking about the World Cup.

So we thought we do a little bit of a twist on things this afternoon and we talk about the

World Cup but put a Liverpool slant on it that's not saying that we're going to

talk about Man A Sala for me now Jordan Henderson necessarily what we're going

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