Liverpool's Xherdan Shaqiri problem and why Richard Scudamore £5m bonus is an insult

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Liverpool are enjoying their joint best start to a Premier League season, and are just two points behind Manchester City, but universal acclaim for Jurgen Klopp's high-flying side is in short supply.So, for our latest View from the Kop podcast, Sean Bradbury, Paul Philbin and debutante Emilia Bona join host Paul Wheelock to question why that is the case.Is it pressure? Expectation? Or is it Klopp's change in tactics? That in turn leads to a discussion over the merits of - if not boring - less entertaining football v winning football.Or is the form of the players? Paul Philbin, for one, believes the fact that the Reds have yet to truly blow a team out of the water this season, unlike on countless occasions last season, could be down to the way that Roberto Firmino is being utilised.Firmino has scored just one goal in his last 11 games and just four in the 22 since Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's serious injury.But is he being given a chance to score? And what kind of problem does the form of Xherdan Shaqiri cause both Firmino and Klopp?Liverpool's Champions League chances, and what priority they should give the competition they went so desperately close to winning last season, are then mulled over.And the podcast rounds off with a passionate debate about the decision of the 20 Premier League clubs, including Liverpool and their Merseyside rivals Everton, to hand a £5m farewell bonus to outgoing executive chairman Richard Scudamore. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:09.0	Hello and welcome to the View from the COP podcast. I'm your host Paul Wheelock,
0:13.0	and I'm delighted to be joined by three Liverpool fans
0:15.2	here with me today in the Echo Studios.
0:17.2	We've got Paul Philbin to my right.
0:19.0	Hello.
0:19.6	Sean Bradby right across from me.
0:21.4	Hello.
0:22.0	And to my left, making her debut on the show is Emilia Bonner.
0:24.6	You okay, Emilia?
0:25.6	Hi, I'm good, I'm happy to be making my debut, yeah.
0:27.7	Good stuff.
0:28.7	Look forward to having you on.
0:29.4	We'll start with the fact that you probably all recognize Paul Philbin's voice when he
0:33.7	listeners, regular listeners to this show but what you may not realize is that since the
0:37.8	start of the season he's not had his hair-cass and he has done that on purpose
0:41.8	because he's refusing to do so until
0:43.7	uh and so Liverpool lose their first Premier League game of the season with 12
0:47.1	matches in now Paul did you ever imagine it got this long going on the hair
0:51.9	no not really I've like always wanted an excuse to actually grow
0:55.9	me here a bit, but I like the barbers too much so it's been an easy, easy cop out really to just nip the barbers and he got to a certain length where is it I've
1:05.8	said something and there's money on it people have started having the sweeping the
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