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

Welcome to the Liverpool.com podcast, week's edition it's Dan Morgan Joel

benefits and Oliver Connolly it's dark it's cold there's no sign of light and

that is just currently Liverpool's form.

But we will come to that.

In the meantime, Jen, hope you're well.

I want to start this week by touching on transfers, the concept of transfers,

center backs, Liverpool, transfers across the board,

and a particularly sore spot for you, Ollie,

which is David Alabar, going to Real Madrid. We spoke about this yesterday and I think it's a really

really talent move. One that is in many senses completely obvious.

Isn't that just because Liverpool had been linked to a player doesn't mean there's some

Wizards of O' smokes green there that means that they're secretly trying to get him.

But also the fact of what kind of profile

of centre-back Liverpool are looking for, if they're looking for one at all now, given the

fact that the problem seems to be they're not scoring goals, even though they're not

conceding them.

Yeah, my alabba thing is if your profile rules out

David alabba, then the profile is wrong, not the player.

Because my thing with him was not even so much. then the profile is wrong, not the player.

Because my thing with him was not even so much,

that to me was the perfect fit of this season and beyond

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