Hello everybody welcome to your blood-red podcast I'm Andy Kelly and today I am

joined by our full-time Liverpool reporter both home and away James Pierce hi

James I'm Andy And our partner in crime today is our

LFC digital guru Paul Gors, you're right Gorsley? I'm on it and something, yeah. Well look at it. It's been a week since we did a blood red and last time we were here we were looking at the Mohammed

Salah deal which was just about to be confirmed by Liverpool indeed was confirmed a few hours later.

So we'll reflect quickly on that James because it feels almost like a long time ago now but it was good

for Liverpool to get one over the line and he's a

player that fans are rightly excited about I think.

Yeah I think certainly I think you know the fact that Liverpool have gone and got someone of that caliber

was a huge plus to kind of to really kick off the window.

I know before that obviously they did the deal for Dominic Salanki but this was the first one of three big priorities for Clop,

ticked off and you know and I think to get someone with you know you look at his

numbers in Italy the last couple of years hugely impressive

certainly the perfect fit for the way that they were play on the clock you know and I

think also a big statement as well when you think that they've taken him off the

second best team in Syria last season and yeah I think that was that was a big boost after you know what been a really frustrating few weeks

Paul the the sellard deal any concerns about it in terms of obviously his time at Chelsea where he didn't get great

opportunities to be fair but didn't do a great deal when he did or are you in the

camp where he's had such a good sort of two and a half years in Italy that he's a different player now?

Yeah, I think he's a very different player.

He was like 21 when he was at Chelsea and he got less than 20 appearances.

He scored 19 in all competitions for Rome last year and a lot of people can say, you know,

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