Those Neymar comments, Jurgen Klopp’s straight bat, and assessing Liverpool’s hopes of silverware

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Former Liverpool defender Stephen Wright is the special guest on our latest Verdict podcast.We recorded a podcast with the Academy graduate earlier this summer looking back on his career.But our latest catch-up, at Wrexham AFC’s Racecourse Ground, was all about the current Reds crop and reviewing their season so far.Along with Liverpool’s summer spending, it’s a start that seems to have got under Jose Mourinho’s skin, but Wright has been delighted by the way that Jurgen Klopp has responded to the Manchester United manager’s barbs.He also discusses those comments from Neymar ahead of Paris Saint-Germain’s visit to Anfield on Tuesday week and reveals whether words of opposition players and managers are really stuck up on the dressing room wall.Wright called for the Reds to buy a goalkeeper after Loris Karius’ Champions League final mistakes and, while Alisson Becker made an error of his own at Leicester City on Saturday, he feels the Brazilian has already removed doubts in the fan base and, crucially, in his team-mates, too.Talk then talks to the fearsome front three of Mo Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane, and Wright gives an insight into what it was like playing alongside another great attacking Liverpool trio, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen and Emile Heskey in the treble-winning 2000-01 season, which in turn leads to an interesting discussion about the revelation Owen recently made on BT Sport.Wright has no doubt Klopp’s squad is much stronger than it was last season and that’s why he believes Liverpool should also have a crack at the Carabao Cup.But the final part of the podcast is dedicated to the Reds’ chances of winning the Premier League and the Champions League, given what we have seen so far and given what lies ahead.Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Liverpool Echo podcast on Anfield Plus, the home of your daily
0:05.4	podcast bringing you the inside track from Liverpool FC.
0:08.8	Hello and welcome to the Verdic podcast on the Blood Red channel. My name's Paul Weilock and once again we're recording this podcast on location
0:15.8	this time in North Wales but instead of speaking to one of the leading journalists for this
0:20.1	episode we're speaking to someone who's experienced the Anfield testing room
0:23.2	because I'm delighted to be joined by Formula Defender Stephen Wright.
0:26.4	Thanks, mate.
0:27.4	No problem.
0:28.4	We recorded a podcast together earlier in the summer.
0:30.4	I think it was back in June, to look back on your career and we also
0:34.2	looks ahead to this season with Liverpool and your hopes for Yeergen cop aside and
0:38.0	back then you were confident is that still very much the case after four
0:42.2	wins from four to start the season?
0:44.6	Exactly I think it's over achieved. I think he's over achieved but I think the players that he brought
0:49.2	in has been absolutely out of this world. They've talked you, you know I mean.
0:54.0	As I say, for being you hasn't even played you, you know what I mean?
0:57.0	You've just seen a brief inclusion of them in pre-season which, you know, as I say,
1:02.0	bulge well for Liverpool pool but before wins out of
1:04.4	four going into an international you don't want the international break that's that's a
1:08.0	thing with these international so but as I say now nowadays it's just the amount of players that you've got are going all around the world as well and you're all off to South America and places like that to play international.
1:22.0	So you just hopefully that they don't get
1:24.9	niggles and injuries I think we've had one of them we with Lalaala
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