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

Well, hello and welcome to a very special, a very somber episode of Blood Red with myself Joe River joined today with our full-time Liverpool correspondent Paul Gorst.

It's just an incredible sort of pod that we're doing today.

Yeah, the Egenclop has announced this morning that he will leave the club at the end of the season.

Bombshell news, probably the biggest I've been at the echo 10 years, probably the

biggest bombshell news I've ever dealt with, I guess, the same for you.

And yeah, he says he's tired, but burned out and has told the club his decision in November and has taken the time now to announce it.

I mean just, we will cover various topics topics we will talk about this at length

we'll talk about who could possibly replace him who else is leaving but just

give us your initial thoughts as soon as you heard the news yeah Yeah, I mean, they took the decision earlier this week to have Clops Press Compromised the day after the full game.

So Lipel drove back from London Wednesday night and the press conference was for Thursday afternoon which

unusual isn't it a very unusual sort of manoeuvre from the club and you know me and

Doylewood travelling back from one yesterday with

James Pierce of the athletic obviously formally of the echo and we were kind of

a quick question what if they done now it's a bit out of character a bit

different a bit odd and apparently people at the club are saying, well,

Yeagen's got something on on Friday, so he needs to do it today. And didn't anything

too much else of it, you know, Clop has that many commitments a week to week that it could have been a

commercial sponsorship thing that you have to be at or could have been any one of a number of things that none of us

twig that it might be because you're sitting down with the club to announce that he is leaving at the end of the season.

He called her a bombshell lad in the introduction and I think that is, you know, sometimes that words probably overused isn't it?

Particularly in, you know, know in the media but I think

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