Hello and welcome to the latest Liverpool blood red podcast with me Ian Doyle.

Joining me today is not our full-time Liverpool reporter James Pierce, he's still away

also our Ellipse editor Andy Kelly is also not with us today.

However joining me is Neil Jones.

Hi Neil.

Hello.

Also Paul Gors. Hello.

Now we're here because something has happened today regarding the transfer window.

And basically it's got a long story short

it's that Virgil Van Dyke who has been pursued by Liverpool Chelsea and Manchester City

he's made a decision and he's decided that he wants to come Liverpool, which we can only imagine is good news for the Reds,

I thought, so they're certainly judging by the reaction on Twitter that most fans are pretty enthused by the situation.

Neil, we'll start with you, you I mean what's your take on it

mean there's no deal there's no contract drawn up there's none of this has happened

yet but I think the hardest part was always going to be persuading the

player to join Liverpool ahead of City and Chelsea and Liverpool

up here? Yeah absolutely it's a massive head like if they've got over and if

you if you think about the competition that they're up against and the fact that they only found out there the Champions League faith

You know a couple of weeks ago the fact that they've

We hope managed to to get a deal like this set up. I think it's a very good news for the club and

very good work from the club as well in terms of that.

It was the soundings we've always had since the

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