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

Hello everyone, hello everybody and welcome back to the latest episode of the debrief

we're coming to you live following Liverpool's

3-1 victory over Darmstadt that wasn't at Anfield I was about to say that it was

actually at Deepdale pressing Preston North End's ground.

But I mean, sort of secondary news in terms of what's going on at

Liverpool today, obviously it's been confirmed that we've had a third bid for

Romeo Lavia rejected, thought to be around 45 million pounds and I mean Matt

we're sort of reaching a point now where it's it's sort of pay the 50 million that Southampton want or move on

really sort of haggling over over 5 million pounds and

obviously I mean within 10 minutes today obviously the poor scored two but they'd already

conceded one do you think that they're sort of the need for a number six presence

I'm in you look at that starting 11 there wasn't really an obvious option

for the number six role within that team do you think tonight's just sort of

emphasized again how much

Liverpool do need to get a number six in. Yeah I think that's a fair

assessment I think what we've seen so far from Liverpool this summer is that they

are going to be very open. I thought Alexis

McAllister was excellent this evening. I really enjoyed watching him but he's

just not that player is he's much better a little bit further up the pitch as

are most of the Liverpool players not just midfielders so yeah

it's a little bit of a worry isn't it going into the new season I think we are

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