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

I hope you managed to have a half decent Christmas.

I have, thank you very much. I hope you too.

So are there any good or bad news about injuries or COVID?

Any updates at all?

Yeah, the boys who had to isolate or had COVID, are back, means FAP, back means Fab, Virgil Curtis and Chiago.

Chago was the latest.

He came back and trained the first time yesterday

with the team.

We have one young player was now isolating and two stuff.

So it's put three trig tickets every morning when you come in it's like a little bit like a lottery you hope it's all fine and then one case and whoop okay that's a

situation but apart from that we are fine.

There's a lot of talk of course I'm a Premier League manager's meeting about the

pressure on on players with the with the fixture backlog

and COVID etc. Does not playing on Boxing Day help that situation for you or

does it not really make that much difference?

Yeah of course.

So I said before that the situation is should not be like this and we can discuss about that.

Every year, all this kind of things.

I know so many people think it's tradition.

We wanted to play on boxing day.

He could have played on boxing day, no problem at all.

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