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

Hello and welcome to another Liverpool.com podcast. I am Dan Morgan. I'm going to be hosting this week. I'm joined by

Lippil. staff writers Mark Wakefield and Joel Rabinovitz and also Blue Reds,

Matt Addison, gentlemen, hope we're all okay today.

For you the listener, for you who are just tuning into this at whatever time or place,

fear not, we're not going to spare you Aston Villa all over again. We will take some sound bites and some

talking points from Villa to look at because obviously it is a massive sort of shock and reverberation around the

of the poor supporter,

consignions and rightly so, but we're not going to

spare the gory details.

Believe me, we've done it to death and we are sick of it. So that being said, Mark, I'll come to you first because I want to talk

about Saudi or money and you wrote a piece for our site this week.

And I think I'm fair in assessing that the tone of the piece was how in many ways

mane by virtue of becoming Liverpool's one of Liverpool's most important players if not the most important

has also become a bit of a problem in that sense too

because he has gone to levels which make him so unique that I think it's unfair for supporters and anyone who you know

Expecting the Elgo Jota to sort of replicate what Saudi almani can do in this team

But I think it is fair, isn't it, to suggest that he is now, in a lot of senses defensively

attacking game intelligence, one of, if not Liverpool's most important footballs.

Definitely I mean when you talk about the topic of

Liverpool's most important players often people will say either Allison, Bandike, Sala, even at times Drum Henson

in midfield but I just think with Manne you just see like he just sets the tone for the whole game whatever game he's in he just saw it against Arsenal

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