Hello everybody. Welcome to your latest Blood Red podcast with me Andy Kelly and

on this bank holiday Monday I'm joined by your full-time Liverpool reporter both

home and away. James Perc, how you Percy?

Hello, and by The Echoes live blog Guru Extraordinary Joe Rimmer.

You okay, Rimmer? Yeah, oh good, thanks.

Listen, we've all been working on a bank holiday.

I don't know if you have been or not, but to be honest,

I think we're all glad we were, because it's been a really interesting 24 hours for Liverpool. Obviously a fantastic result at Anfield yesterday.

And Percy today has been enlivened by lots of transfer venues and it's fair to say some really

for one to transfer venues coming right out of the blue to a certain extent with a deal for Liverpool to sign,

navigated, one of the names of the summer,

to arrive next summer.

Yeah, it did come out of the blue really.

I think it was well documented that

that Liverpool had effectively given up on be able to try and sign Kai to join this

window. Obviously two bids were rejected during the preseason period

it was 57 million and then 66 million and Leipzig just would not budge.

But I think what Liverpool have been very clever because you

know having accepted that they couldn't get him now they've got a deal in

place for next summer July the 1st, 2018 who will become a Liverpool player.

And I think it's, it's good business for everyone because I think Leipzig knew

that they were going to lose him next summer and the release clause kicked

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