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It is the Anfielder at Neil Atkinson with Emma Sanders, Rob Gutman and Gareth Roberts to work through all sorts of

bits and pieces. We are back and I never thought I'd do this again having to talk

about the club versus country debate but this is in the context of COVID and threats from

FIFA and also the unfortunate nature of Nabi Kaita is in there as well.

We're going to have a chat about the way fans in Europe.

We're going to mention the Swiss Ramble discussion around Liverpool's finances,

but without being exhaustive, exhaustive around it,

as there's a lot of very technical stuff in there.

And we're going to talk about the early decline as so many perceive of Sadio Manet.

So it is a packed and field rap even though it's an international break one and that is the thing I would say Emma.

It's thrown into greater relief by virtue of the fact that the Brazil versus Argentina game is

postponed last night off the basis of health officials getting on the pitch to

confront the Argentinian players. But there has been a space of stories from a few

days back saying that there is a threat from FIFA that certain players may not be able to play for five days after

the international break.

Liverpool's Brazilian players could be one of them if Brazil Lodge a complaint.

It's not confirmed yet whether or not they have and I would have thought the events of last

night make that less likely.

But nonetheless we are just in a situation where these threats,

this idea that players have got to go.

When there's so many movable parts, so many movable little bits of this in terms of which country has which regulation where and why.

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