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 the latest Liverpool Blood Red podcast with me your host Christian Walsh joining me today is our full-time

Liverpool correspondent both home and away James Pierce hello James hello James

hello and also with us is Echo reporter tall Paul Ghost.

Afternoon Christian.

Afternoon Paul.

Today obviously not much has happened in terms of incoming for

Liverpool as we all know the World Cup's rumbling on and there's not much in the

often at the moment a couple of things in terms of departure though James and you know

we've been with Danny Ings now he wrote a piece a couple of days ago about the dilemma that faced the striker, you know,

does he stay, does he go? Well it looks like he's made up his mind.

It does, yeah, I think not a great surprise that Danny Ings has decided that his career is probably going to be best served away from Liverpool.

You know, I think I understand he's obviously made it with a very heavy heart,

reluctantly deciding to move on after three years but I think it's just a decision

that probably makes sense for for rule parties and Liverpool don't want to lose daniings

there's certainly no sense of you of shoving him out the door or anything like that.

You know, Clop would rather he stayed around because he's such a popular member of the squad and a decent option,

you know, off the bench at times but I think Club understands why he wants to go, he wants to play,

you know he missed so much football with those two serious knee injuries you know and he's at a point in his career now

where he doesn't want to be warm in the bench anymore and I think when you look at

the scale of the challenge facing him at Liverpool trying to force his way into that team

you know be very very difficult to see him start in many games in 2018, 19.

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