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

This is the agenda. I am Don Austin from Liverpool.com.

This is Paul Gorse from the Liverpool Echo, and we're going to talk about a Liverpool footballer

the finally departed am field yesterday Paul after six years it's hard to believe

that it's been that long but Simon Minule has joined Club Blues. You've gone back to Belgium

for a fee potentially rising to $9 million euros, feels like decent business for Liverpool for a second

goalkeeper. What I want to talk about though is how we look back on them because it's fair to say that Simon

Minule has had a career of ups and downs at Liverpool. He starts and probably

peaks with that penalty save against Tug City in his face, never much.

Back under Brendan Rogers, he ends by winning a European Cup even though he wasn't playing

a lot of the games.

There's an awful lot.

There's a big rollercoaster in the middle there isn't it where he's constantly on

people's lips, he's constantly an issue that people are talking about. How do you think that in the

grand scheme of things history will look back on Simon Minule. It's an interesting one on this because I think it generally will differ

person to person. Normally there's like a general consensus with players when they leave or they sign and

I'm not too sure where many labels

sit because for me I thought he was a decent goalkeeper very professional very

solid dependable and then every so often to be the odd clanger which was highlighted to the end degree and that's what a lot of people seem to remember more than the saves and the good performances.

You mentioned to me just off camera there.

Win ratio was only 51%, which seems remarkably low for a goalkeeper, we play for Lippur.

But then you factor in the fact that he was playing at a time when

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