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

Welcome everyone to the Liverpool.com Podcast. I'm your host Dave Vachumiford and I'm

joined once again in our Liverpool City Center studio by the Liverpool.

com editor Matt Addison and in today's episode we're going to take a deep dive on Alexis

McAllister who was signed in the summer for about 35 million pounds from

Brighton and like Dominic Sobisley started every Premier League game for Liverpool since he arrived

but it's probably fair to say it's been a little bit more of a mixed bag for him for various reasons.

So Matt just to kick us off on this one I'll ask you a pretty straightforward question.

How would you rate Michaelus's star to life? this one I'll ask you a pretty straightforward question.

How would you rate Macales' start

to life in Anfield out of 10?

Well, you say a straightforward question.

I had a little look at the agenda last night

and I was trying to come up with a number.

I think it's so hard to, it's hard to judge in terms of you know how good he is in terms of his start because he's not playing in his position as we'll come to. He struggled a little bit at times. I think he's looked good in other games as well. So, look, it's been a mixed bag. You'd probably maybe go for a six or a seven, maybe, if you're being generous. But it's one of those where I'm judging him,

but I don't really want to judge him just yet

because we know that he's not really doing the job

that he was asked to do and he was brought in.

So if we're talking about a score and you're saying sort of six or seven, I mean to what extent

you kind of factoring in the fact that he's not in his you know favourite position because you could say in the

circumstances maybe it's been a seven but sort of overall

it's maybe closer to a five attempts of his actual performance levels I mean he is

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