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

Hello there and welcome to the latest Liverpool Blood Red podcast it's a wonderful Monday afternoon glorious day we're all stuck inside

so I hope you're out there listening to this somewhere on your headphones I'm

Joe Rimmett today I'm joined by three wonderful gentlemen on my right.

It's the man who does laughs of old Hall Street. It's Christine Walsh. How are you,

Christian? Hello Joe. On my left, towering above us all, the tall man, tall poor

Goss, how are you? Afternoon Joe, I'm on it. And across slouched across from me.

It's the main event, everyone's favorite LFC reporter both home and away James Pierce. How are we James?

Very thank you. Very good. Thank you Joe.

Yeah. Very thank you. Very thankful to be here. I hope and we'll start with James and some very positive news

we all woke up to this morning. James Mohammed Salas signed a new five-year deal

at Liverpool? Yeah a decent way to start the week and to kick off pre-season.

I think it was no great secret that Liverpool had been very keen to kind of reward

what was an unbelievable first season for him at the club.

And I think it's a sign of just happy how happy

and content he is with things on and off the pitch at Liverpool the fact that

those negotiations were so swiftly concluded and yeah you know

written a piece today on you know some people would be cynical and say we know what's the

big deal Suarez and Catino both signed lengthy extensions and McGone within 12 months, but you know it's still it's still a

Fantastic piece and use for the club, you know to have one of the elite players in the world showing that he

is so committed to the club to sign for five more years and I think the biggest thing from

it is the fact there is no release clause.

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