This is a Liverpool Echo podcast on Anfield Plus, the home of your daily

podcasts bringing you the inside track from Liverpool FC.

Hello, welcome to the Ali La Rouge podcast for the Liverpool Echo.

I'm your host Peter Hooten and I'm joined by regular

guest John Nicholson, Stephen Mutterhan and also pleased to welcome Steph Jones from the Observer, also a season ticket all there at Anfield.

So you might realize the recording tonight is going to be absolutely perfect because you can't

hear noise in the background there's no clinking

the glasses because we've been moved into a room because there's a George Michael

tribute act so we've they give us another room so if you're thinking why aren't they in a pub because all the noise of a pub

won't be here so there's only really one thing we can talk about in this podcast

that's when the hell a Liverpool can assign someone Steph.

I don't know I suppose this week it's been quite good with Allison not bad yeah

so that's a season and

shekiri and Fabino we seem to be doing better than we normally do actually and I think everyone seems to be most excited about

Allison. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I think it's an unbelievable sign.

I think, you know, if you look at the signings recently, you know,

I think everyone's, you know, I mean, it's just going to be one of those seasons,

you know, close season, but I just think it's unbelievable, you know close season we just think it's unbelievable you know and if

someone else comes in you know it's just going to be incredible I mean already

Twitter's gone into meltdown hasn't it you know know, but it's it's it's expectations now, isn't it?

Because the signings have come in and they've been backed by, you know, decent money, you know,

and who thought they'd ever be a goalkeeper with, you know who thought would ever be a goalkeeper with you know 60 to 70

...