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 Blood Red podcast with me, Ian Doyle.

Joining me today is our full-time Liverpool correspondent, both home and away and neutral venues.

Yes. We always forget that. It's Paul Gost, hi Paul. Hello, Ian. How are you doing? I'm very tired. What about you? Yeah, good. I mean, you've had a bit of an ordeal, just getting into the place this morning. That's what happens when major roads are closed on the way into Liverpool. See, I enjoyed the luxury of major travel, Mezier Rail which is that ever a luxury? Let's be honest. Is it? Is it really? I wasn't stuck on Scotty Rose for an hour. I might have avoided it you see but unfortunately

everybody else had the same idea and I got stuck with all of them. Now with it being the

international break this is a special podcast which normally means

absolutely nothing's happened and nothing has happened over the past three or four days

and that was a podcast.

So what we will do is we'll have a little bit of an assessment of things which of

course we've just not been doing it all the way through.

But we will base it around

our play ratings now normally myself but you've done it quite a few times already this season we

rate Liverpool's players out of 10 depending on their performance normally you have to play about

15 minutes there are some exceptions to that and we've had a look overall at how they're averaging

and safe to say we can see why Liverpool

perhaps aren't performing as well as they should be because there's quite a lot of low ratings.

But we'll deal with some of the bigger ones first and could you guess who's top?

Is it the Boslai? It is the Bosla? Yes, it is the boss.

He's the only player to have an average mark of more than seven. For a bit of context, I'm pretty sure last season at this point there was quite a few of them had more than seven. And certainly back in 18, 19 and 1920, there were a lot of them. And some of them even finished the season above seven with an average rating, which is difficult really when you think about it because they play so many games and to have such a

high standard because even finished the season above seven with an average rating, which is difficult really when

you think about it because they play so many games and to have such a high standard because

six is average and if you're getting over six, then you're doing okay. But, Sabaslai, 7.1 between

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