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

We're speaking to a number of managers today, Yergen, obviously we've been asking about the Newcastle takeover.

I just wanted to get your thoughts on it and I suppose what kind of impact you think it might have on the competition as a whole long term. Yeah, I actually was waiting for some official statements about it, like from Richard Masters or somebody else so but we because we all know

there are obviously concerns about human rights issues I think that's all clear

that we all think the same there so didn't happen in the first place happening then

still that's the situation

what will it mean for football?

A few months ago, I think we had a massive, we had a massive argument,

an argument of the issue I would say the whole football world with 12 clubs or so trying to build a super league and rightly so didn't happen but it these kind this is kind of creating a super team if you want.

It's pretty much the same.

Guaranteed spots in the Germans League, not in a few years time, not immediately, all these kind of things.

Yeah, with all the how financial fair play is used nowadays, nobody knows exactly is it still existing or not stuff

like this so it's like it is so everybody knows that the Newcastle fans will

love it of course but for the rest of it just means there's a new superpower in Newcastle. I can not avoid that money cannot buy everything but can over the time that will take time but over time they

they will have they have enough money to make a few wrong decisions to make them the

right decisions and then they will be where they want to be.

So that's how it is. I don't think that's to avoid in the long term, but that's a situation.

Everybody knows that and obviously the Premier League or Richard Masa thought yeah

Let's give it a go. I don't know it, but it's not the first time that it's just a third as far as I know the third club who is now owned by a country

so I'm not sure how many countries are still out there to have the financial power and the

interest to do so but this is how it is and that's how but everybody has to deal with.

For yourself, yeah again obviously we've got the situation regarding Fabino and Allison what is their availability going to be for this weekend or is it a case of them going straight to Madrid?

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