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

Top of the Premier League, top of the Champions League group and through to the last 16 of the Karabao Cup.

It's been close to a perfect start to the season for Liverpool going into a huge match with Manchester

City at Anfield on Sunday and it has been a squad effort

with Yergen Club having used 26 players in Liverpool's unbeaten nine game run to start the campaign.

And one player was certainly taking his chance to shine is Costa Simicas who is already

well on his way to surpassing the seven appearances he made in his debut season at

Anfield.

The Greece International has been excellent in the four starts he has made so far this season,

proving to be more than enabled deputy to Andy Robertson. So to find out a little bit more about

Simicass, the Liverpool echoes Theo Squire has picked up the phone to form a Bolton Wanderers winger, Euro The who also explains how close he came to becoming the first Greek player to play for

Liverpool hope you enjoyed a podcast. The Blood Red Podcast from the

Liverpool Echo. Our time in the national team, he was not the player that he is now.

So, and because my spell in the national team was a little bit short.

The moment Kostas has become very, very hot in the market.

I wasn't in the national team, so I didn't have the time and the chance to speak with him and get a cost with him.

But then I'm sure he's a player you would have been aware of over in Greece.

Yes, of course.

When he was... Yeah.

His progress has been phenomenal.

That's why this is the main reason that Liverpool came to sign him.

Obviously they saw they have been watching him for a long time and especially the scouting system of these big clubs is very very important. So they bring, they don't let anything, they don't rely in luck,

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