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

Hi, Ergan, I hope you're well. I just wanted to start with first of all, the German government,

obviously informing Leipzig that there will be no exception for

Liverpool to travel over for the first leg at the Champions League game.

What do you see now is the ideal solution to make sure your away leg is played?

That's not my job to be honest.

Our people are working together with AFa with Leipzig I guess and we find out

we will play the game so it's not our decision.

Well nobody from Germany called me and asked me how is the situation in England.

It's a general decision obviously about traveling from England.

I think with all the stuff we are doing here.

The record we have with cases, the discipline we show with all the stuff we do.

I think it would be absolutely reasonable to make an exemption but I don't know exactly who decides it in the German government but they said so far not possible but maybe it's good to see for the

German people who are not exactly in the in the in the subject we are not

infected we have we have the same problems like you have. We know there's another strain, but we are really in a bubble and we could play at Leipzig as well without spreading the virus just to say that at least once because it's

But it's how it always was in our end at the time the rules are the rules and we will accept them so I don't know what we can

where we play. Obviously big game this weekend just on availability of

players as Caback's international clearance come through, is you ready to go straight in?

How's Allison and Fabino and Manate any chance of playing?

International clearance yes.

International clearance yes and obviously the last few minutes because 10 minutes ago, I know what he told me that.

Great.

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