Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

With Sadio Mane missing Sunday’s defeat to Aston Villa, the Liverpool.com podcast looks into his growing importance. Dan Morgan, Joel Rabinowitz, Mark Wakefield and Matt Addison also examine Roberto Firmino’s form, the debate around his position in the team and whether it’s time to mix things up. The variety of Liverpool’s attack comes into the conversation, too, with the predictability of the offensive output up for questioning. Plus, the panel look at the transfer window winners and losers from across the Premier League. including rivals Manchester City, Manchester United, Everton and Chelsea. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Marko Grujic secures loan move to FC Porto after deadline day move back to the Bundesliga fell through; Xherdan Shaqiri latest after testing positive for Covid-19 whilst also speaking about the transfer specualtion linking him with a move away from Anfield; Gini Wijnaldum opens up on 'interest' from Barcelona whilst away with the Netherlands, plus, we look through Liverpool's transfer numbers and discuss the Premier League's open letter to the government to allow fans back into grounds. Join Guy Clarke and Matt Addison as we look into the morning's top stories. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Former Liverpool wonderkid Gerardo Bruna, once dubbed the 'new Lionel Messi', played alongside Thiago Alcantara as the pair came through the youth ranks in Spain. Playing for Real Madrid until he signed for Liverpool at the age of 16, Bruna is the same age as Thiago, who was at Barcelona at the time, and they appeared together in the Spanish team that won the U17 European Championships in 2008. Bruna gives Blood Red's Matt Addison the lowdown on Liverpool's new midfield maestro, signed from Bayern Munich this summer, and explains what it was like to move from Spain to Merseyside as a teenager, while dealing with the 'Messi' tag. Now at Derry City, Bruna has had an interesting career after leaving Liverpool, and he will be watching former teammate Thiago closely as the 29-year-old aims to make his mark at Anfield, and add to the Bundesliga league titles and Champions League trophies he picked up in Germany. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After deadline day passes, we react to the deals that happened across the Premier League, with Manchester United, Arsenal and Everton all leaving it late to get transfers across the line. Marko Grujic and Xherdan Shaqiri both failed in attempts to secure moves away from Anfield, plus we look ahead to the international break as Ryan Giggs speaks out on the criticism Neco Williams received after Liverpool's win at Lincoln City in the Carabao Cup, as well as discussing FIFA's firm stance on players having to be released for international duty. Join Guy Clarke and Matt Addison as we round-up the morning's top stories in the Morning Bulletin. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It’s the morning after the night before and the Blood Red podcast is here to hold an inquest into Liverpool’s embarrassing 7-2 defeat at Aston Villa – and reveal what business, if any, will be done at Anfield on transfer deadline day. With number one Alisson out for up to six weeks, and his deputy Adrian struggling badly at Villa Park, the Liverpool ECHO’s LFC correspondent Paul Gorst joins Ian Doyle, Joe Rimmer and host Guy Clarke to answer the question as to whether Jurgen Klopp will make a last-dash move for another goalkeeper. And what about outs with Xherdan Shaqiri, Harry Wilson and Marko Grujic all being linked with moves away? The panel talk that, too, but only after starting with why exactly it went so, so wrong against Villa. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool suffer the heaviest defeat endured by Premier League champions as Ollie Watkins, Jack Grealish and Co run a mock at Villa Park. Join Guy Clarke for reaction to the stunning, surprising and shocking result as we hear from Jurgen Klopp's post-match press conference; the Liverpool ECHO's chief LFC writer Ian Doyle gives his take from the ground, plus our regular contributors Ross Strachan, Alex Watt, Lauren Black, Mark Baker, Matt Whitty and Owen Thomas all give their reaction as well as those in our Blood Red podcast Facebook group.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A hectic start to the season for Liverpool comes to a close this evening, when the champions make the trip to the Midlands to take on Aston Villa in the final Premier League match before the international break. And to get the lowdown on a revitalised and big-spending Villa side, Paul Wheelock speaks to Ashley Preece, the Aston Villa writer for the Birmingham Live website, who tells all about what has been an exciting summer, and exciting start to the campaign, for fans of Dean Smith’s team. Villa, like Liverpool, boast a 100% winning record going into Sunday’s game. But have they any chance of stopping a Reds side that were at their imperious best in Monday’s 3-1 win over Arsenal at Anfield? Paul puts that question to Ashley, plus more about the likes of Jack Grealish and Villa new boy Ross Barkley.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rhian Brewster is on his way to Sheffield United and the young striker could be joined out of the Liverpool exit door by Xherdan Shaqiri, Marko Grujic and Harry Wilson before Monday’s transfer deadline. Little wonder, then, that potential sales are the big talking point of the Blood Red podcast as the Premier League champions’ razor-sharp sporting director Michael Edwards looks to balance the books after the signings of Diogo Jota, Thiago Alcantara and Kostas Tsimikas. Guy Clarke, Connor Dunn and Dan Kay also look back on Thursday night’s Carabao Cup defeat to Arsenal and Jurgen Klopp’s press conference from earlier today – and look ahead to Sunday’s Premier League clash at Aston Villa. Enjoy. The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has been speaking to the media ahead of the trip to Aston Villa on Sunday. The German was asked about the future of Rhian Brewster amid transfer talk around a potential move to Sheffield United and discussed the difference in development between the striker and Curtis Jones following the midfielder's England U21 call-up. Klopp was also asked about which other players could leave before Monday's transfer deadline before revealing captain Jordan Henderson could feature at Villa Park for the Reds. Klopp finished with a passionate response around his concerns of players going out on international duty. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool are out of the Carabao Cup, losing on penalties to Arsenal after a goalless draw at Anfield. Divock Origi and Harry Wilson, on his first Liverpool start, missed from the spot as the Gunners made it through to the quarter-final stage. Join Guy Clarke for reaction to the match as Jurgen Klopp speaks in his post-match press conference on Xherdan Shaqiri's future amid transfer speculation after the Swiss missed out on the matchday squad. The ECHO's Liverpool correspondent Paul Gorst gives his take after the game, plus our regular contributors Ross Strachan, Mark Baker and Hannah Pinnock share their thoughts, as do those in our Blood Red podcast Facebook group. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices