Hello and

Welcome to the latest Liverpool Blood Red Podcast with me Ian Doyle joining me

back as he was earlier this week

It's James Pierce our full-time Liverpool reports are both home and away

Also with me is our Liverpool editor, Andrew Kelly, and our echo reporter, Christine Walsh.

James, we will start with you.

You have been speaking to Yogan Club club today and what has he been saying

ahead of the game against West Ham on Sunday? I think there was three players

who kind of dominated the agenda at Melwood I I think they were Loris Carius, John Matip and Daniel

Sturridge for varying different reasons of course. Matip obviously the good news

there is that there's absolutely no chance now that he will go off to

Gabon for the Africa Cover Nations next month.

I think Hugo Brews, the Cameroon coach was quoted earlier on this week as saying

that he intended to try and talk him around.

I've been in international exile I think for the last 18 months but Clop just confirming what we already knew that the

Matic won't be going anywhere which I think we saw last weekend at

Bormuth just how important he's become to this Liverpool team.

So that's great news less so on Daniel Stouridge

and worryingly clop saying that he couldn't put any kind of time scale on a return

two weeks ago we were told it was a tight calf he's missed three games since he's

certainly not going to feature on the weekend so that's a source of a real concern

and and the other one obviously carries as you'd expect from clop you know a very staunch

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