Hello and welcome to your Liverpool Echo Blood Red podcast. I'm Neil Jones standing in for Ian Doyle.

It's an international week so it's all quiet but it's not in here because I've got three guests with me.

I've got our full-time Liverpool reporter home

and away James Pierce I've got Joe Rimmer and I've got Christian Walsh as well and

we're here to do a little bit of a quarter season report on the red top of the table going quite well so I think

we should be plenty to talk about but also going to look at the the January

transfer window and what if anything little people need to do during that so I'm going to

start with James like I've just said they're going quite well you were pleasure to

cover the club at the moment yes and he is yeah it's just been an absolute pleasure to be there every step of the way so far because I think it's fair to say it succeeded everyone's expectations. I think I must admit when the fixtures came out you thought you know that

it's really it's going to be a huge test on the especially on the back of you know

major championships in the summer where players were coming back late and you know it was it couldn't

have been any more difficult could it that the fixtures Liverpool had been faced with

to find yourself at this stage was it 26 points at 33 is I think

you know Liverpool have over achieved so far and I think they've made people stand up and

take notice of them you know know, that just, you know,

you've only been one game really you could point to and say

the performance was poor, and that was at Burnley.

Apart from that, standards have been very high. And, you know

know they deservedly lead the way there's no you know there's no

been no luck attached to that they've been the best team in the

Premier League so far

squad looks very strong and all completely brought into what Clopers asked from them.

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