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It's the Anfield Radio City Talk.

Before we get stuck into anything else, I want to mention someone who's passed away

one of our subscribers who was an integral part of the official LFC Washington DC supporters club.

His name was Bob Brown.

A friend of ours Wayne Sculls has made us aware of what's happened to Bob that he's passed

away this week.

He's subscribed to the Anfield rap and we did want to take the opportunity to mention him on this show and wish him and his family obviously best wishes and that Bob himself is obviously in our thoughts. I've got Mike Nevin, I've got Andy Heaton and I've got Joel Sanderson Murray with me to clatter on with the business.

That is the Reds.

Shakiri, Fikia, the attack, that is all going to be at the front end of the show. We've also got the World Cup final,

Dejan Lovren, Danny Ward and Nathaniel Klein to work through as well.

We're going to be working through all of that, but we will start with the news that is

breaking around us at the moment,

Shakiri looks as though he's going to sign to for Liverpool at the time of

us recording this show for your listeners. Let's start with the thought process on it

really. Joel, I'll go to you first you can you can see how

Liverpool are seeing this as an opportunity there's the release clause for the

player Liverpool are a little bit short of bodies in attack although we're

going to come on to talk about the fact

they have a lot of them already on the books and they've got some decisions to make

there they may well feel they can get something out of Shaquarie.

Absolutely he's got undoubted quality, everyone can see that everyone knows he's got undelted quality. Everyone can see that everyone knows he's got that he's had a history of showing he's got technical ability and the point that keeps coming across that everyone's made one of the discussion Shakiri since the news broke that he was going to sign for us and

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