Hello everyone, welcome to Red Med TV and it's the buildup show Liverpool back from their warm weather break. I wish we could say the same. It's been freezing here. We're going to talk about our bottle of pull lester. Chris Payjack joins me, Andy Grant's special guest. Joined us and you know what, Ahmed Guder joins us. You're also a special guest. You just don't have a book yeah it's all right but we'll talk

about that a little bit later on but yeah chris as mentioned they've pulled back from the

break um pocettitino's chat about how we're still in four competitions and liverpool and

juby yeah that kind of blew up in his face but yeah in your face potch um but i mean that just means that it's on Liverpool now to prove that we've been, we've happily bought into the narrative that this is a good thing for Liverpool not to have a fixture pile up. We sat off at the weekend while, you know, they have got things up in the FACC. You know, well, it kind of proves Pottino's point to some extent, doesn't it?

Is that, you know, their squad wasn't good enough to fight on four competitions. I don't think ours was either to be perfectly blunt with you. And I think, you know, we recognise that very, very quickly. And Klopp managed to manufacture a warm weather break. And I think that he did try to go through against Wolves in the Cup and stuff but coming back from the break the worry is you know we've seen Klopp take these players on warm weather breaks before and they've not come back firing it's taking a few weeks to see the benefits of it and hopefully it does it happens a little bit faster this time around it's one of those isn't it andy where it feels at times like

klop's teams enjoy pain they actually enjoy being in the middle in the middle of it in in the

fight and this is right that where you know i haven't done the research into it probably sort i should

have done really um but it does i i have that feeling too like we don't always come back from breaks

as quick as we should but realistically there's no there no letting up we've got, this has got to be one of those things, we've got to turn this into a positive and kick on for the season.

Yeah, it's interesting hearing you say that as well.

I had no idea that after a break maybe we haven't come back firing.

But I think it was important for him to go away

and have that time.

I don't think anyone would doubt that.

Do the thing, I think it was important for him to go away and have that time you know I don't think anyone would doubt that do the thing I think to notice as well is all this talk on

who's spending and the big squads and things like that I think as a me as a Liverpool fan

we've got a great first 11 and maybe another couple of players but we haven't got the squads and

anyone's kidding themselves with the thing we can challenge in all four so again I was happy that they had the break and I'm just hoping yet

it it does do what it was meant to and just give them that break that coming together because

that's what we needed it's a chance for Klopp to get the squad out of the normal environment

to think sometimes you can get you can get a little bog down with the daily grind of life and whether you're a football player or you're working on office or anything it can become almost boring because they're previewing a game they're playing the game they're having a couple of young players as well on the fringe having them I'm presuming they all went away with them as well that's surely got to be a good thing that's it we were talking on the podcast last week i'm about how things like klop's big on this he's big on refreshing things you know like changing the training kit midway through the season stuff just to make the players feel like they're coming back into something like it's not as you say it's not a slog because it is a slug you know it is a slog, you know, getting them through the season. It's a very long time. It doesn't feel like it for other times. But that's what this has got to be about. And he said this wasn't like an intensive trading session. He's going to talk to them on it. It was team building. It was recovery. And it was a bit of work. and I think everyone will have come back. The Oxley Chamberlainstuff is one of the big things to come out of it.

He's prop, he's playing with that. That will have given that's another one of those things that will have given everyone a massively. Yeah, I also think it's got something to do with the weather as well, you know, with injuries and what, not coming up. I think the weather can play a big part as well at this time of the period.

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