This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Good news that we've heard from you that Virgil Van Dyke's had a successful surgery on injury of course.

I just wondered how he is on a personal level and the conversations you've maybe had with him about the next few months and what the

challenges are for him of the pitch. Good afternoon. For a moment I don't think

it's a scenario order to place to talk about personal things with virtual or whoever.

But I can tell you that after a surgery and it was successful which is really good.

The best news you could get is that this time is

always unpleasant everybody who had a surgery knows that you don't wake up and

everything is fine so you feel still the surgery so and that's it but he's good he's good as you can be and

that's it.

In your time here you've had other players that have had to come back from long-term

injuries I just wonder what the club does to make sure

that they still feel part of the squad and to help them with those inevitable mental challenges that come

with being out. Everything, easy answer.

Absolutely everything.

So it's all individual, it's all personal, then what this person needs or this person needs,

but we do absolutely everything we did always and we will do this time 100%.

And I know the club has now had those conversations with Mike Riley about the Jordan Pickford Tackle and about whether there's some of the other incidents in the Merseys

Derby and I just wonder whether you're satisfied with what you've had back

essentially from Mike Riley. I don't want to talk about this anymore.

I would talk immediately about it if it would change anything but it doesn't.

And I'm not sure if the world is really in a place right now where we have to keep this story going.

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