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 your latest Liverpool Bloodrep podcast with me

Christian Walsh there's no James Pierce today he is at home our Liverpool

correspondent both home and away and there's also no Ian Doyle sadly some would say

but we are here with a we are here with a we are a we are a some trio

aren't we really when you think about it. Very much perhaps like the trio that will

be running out for Liverpool next season hopefully. So we've got to my right my immediate right we have

Nabi Kator who is known as Paul Gorse. Afternoon Christian. And to my left we have

Dan Kay who can be the Fabinio of the of the free.

I'll take that Christian thank you.

And then I'm your host Christian Walsh and I suppose I'm the Nabil Fokir

because the news has come we've got it on a very reliable source that Liverpool

will have pretty much ready to seal the deal for Nabil fair Kia. A little bit of

housekeeping to start with. Liverpool haven't actually announced it yet, but we are pretty confident that it will be done.

So you might be listening to this after he's held the shirt, said those things, all those sorts of nice things that the internet goes crazy for but as it is it's not happened just

yes so we will talk in the present to future sense anyway Paul Gorse Nabil

Fakia he will be a Liverpool player very shortly by the looks of things so it's nice to get it over the line isn't he?

It is yeah especially when you consider the statement that Liam put out less than six hours or so ago

I think that might have been a bit of posture on

their side. I'm not really sure why they felt the need to say don't trust anything

except our website and Liverpool are basically hours away from completing a deal for their captain.

We've been doing that mantra for years.

...