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It is the Anfield app, Neil Atkinson with Gareth Roberts, John Gibbons and

Neil Jones from Gold.com to talk through effectively what is the biggest

Liverpool men's team story of the last few days

and it is around the non-signing of team over.

It'd be nice if it was just the idea of a return to association football to be quite honest with you but instead

Team of Erna appears to have slipped through

Liverpool's fingers and Garath it's become one of those things that it feels as though there's a lot too.

It hasn't just come out that, oh a little pool decided they didn't fancy him at the last

minute, which is what I was expecting it to be if it happen instead it's become it's become

something that maybe tells the story in advance of the club

across a few weeks and months.

Yeah I didn't really I was never really on board with the idea that they just didn't fancy them.

I think what we know about Liverpool's strategy over by players in recent years is that they put a lot of time and effort into it.

And I think, you know, it was so obvious. that they put a lot of time and effort into it.

And I think, you know, it was so obvious that there'd been some kind of contact,

it was so obvious with the way that when it was flating with Liverpool every time

he was in front of a microphone, that there was flirting with Liverpool every time he was in front of a microphone,

that there was something there and to me it always looked like and now seems pretty certain

that it is that Liverpool pulled back Liverpool pulled away from it and the

manager seemingly did one and was in contact with them and spoken to him I think we said

uncertain the other day like you know not entirely sure how that works and

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