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 and welcome to the latest edition of the European show.

I am your host most Stewart and we are going to be looking across the channel

for this addition to our friends in France.

League Ann has been the place to see if you're a big fan of the big players with

Lille N'O Messie joining there.

But we're going to be looking a little bit aside from Leonel,

Massey, looking to the rest of the league,

and seeing if there's any other hidden gems

that might well be on Liverpool's transfer radar.

Now, I'm joined by CBS's France correspondent Jonathan Johnson.

John, thank you for joining us.

Let's get straight into it.

Let's get with some names.

Now, the name at the top of most people's list in terms of a Liverpool target from

Ligon is Jonathan David. He is the top scorer in Ligon right now for current

champions Lille. He's been playing fantastically well all throughout

2021. It's got 22 goals in this calendar year. And Lille have had their own financial

problems so have had their own financial problems. So is this the kind of deal you can see happening in January

or do you think the Lille are going to be one of those teams who are looking to save all their transfer dealings to the

summertime. Okay great to be back on. Thanks for having me. I think this one for

a number of reasons is now one to watch going into the summer. I don't think it's something that will happen in the winter. I be extremely surprised if we'll deal. Separate with too many more players, mainly because they've already managed to get Jonathan I Kone out of the door to

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