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Well, we never got to use it because we would only hit home runs. Annoying. The phrase is from Geico because they helped save people money. Geico? Yeah, they were our team sponsor. Geico, 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. [Music] No one could ever run. Moreno's gonna avoid art lane. It's the day trippers. [Music] After an outstanding three-nil win, despite some Ricky Gervais' style, finishing, it's a happy tripper bonker tonight. Joining me to pick the bones out of victory and moan about international breaks is Emre Chan, Franklope Present, Phil Casey, Bala Telly, Skeptic, Andy, Buzz, Killington, Young. Mohican fancier Paul Brennan, and we'll also be joined in the line for his tripper debut by Twitter's Graham Kelly. Right then, it's one of those weeks when we can't wait to get the review, so let's begin our look back at Spurs now Liverpool 3. What a simple question for all, and that is, are you firmly on the ballo boss, and what do we make of the Italians debut? Graham, would you get us started, please? I'm well and truly on the ballo boss. I've been on a since since he was linked with us. I like someone who's a little bit crazy and you know, and if there's anyone that's crazy, it's Bala Telly. But I think he did an exact job for us really against Tottenham because I thought against City, we seemed a little bit toothless, don't get me wrong, we controlled the first 35 minutes, but I just never thought, I never felt that we were going to break through with Bala Telly, just seemed from minute one, like he was a big strong centre forward, and you know, we had that chance with the header very early on, you know, after a couple of minutes to score. I felt he was a, I felt he was a trouble for Tottenham throughout, you know, just menacing, and they couldn't get the ball off him. The one that led to the mistake from Laurie's, where he called the score, where, you know, he had the ball, the ball came into me, had two Tottenham players on him, and in that situation, you know, like you say, Lambert can hold the ball, but Lambert had held it up, held it up, and then passed it back to the full back, all the centre after it. And Bala Telly got it, turned, ran at the player, tried to slip a ball into Staelan, and then that created the issue with Laurie's, and then he added stats from it, and the best part of the whole move is Brendan Laffen clapping in the background, so, you know, I was actually glad he missed it, so Brendan was laughing in the background, to be fair. You wouldn't have noticed Brendan was laughing if I hadn't made it for his teeth, like the white... I don't know, I have a fucking girl. It was like I said a floodlighter, I'd say in the background. I think he'd had a fresh, fresh spray tan as well, I'd need a day before, as well. Yeah, he was looking gorgeous. Andy Young would you, as a man who was, let's say slightly, slightly, slightly scared to go about the L Bala Telly situation. How'd you feel, Avra? I'm converted now. I know, Alec, I mean, I want to give the fella a chance, so that wanted to be on his case before, you know, he's barely kicked the ball. That doesn't sound good, that sounds like you saw an awful lot less to like than we did. Well, there was a few things, right? I didn't like the way he decided to come out onto the pitch league, both at the start and at half time. I don't know what that's all about. That's just wanting to be sent at the stage or something. It's just a bit immature. I think a top-class striker puts away two of them for our chances you had, at least. I'm being a bit hypercritical now. You can make excuses. It's a force game. You can't be expected to hit the ground running. He looked a bit rusty, but on the positive side, there was an awful lot of old about his game. I was well impressed with Walkray, you know, which I didn't expect from getting right back, you know, tackling, winning headers. Brilliant, you know, and a few little touches, like little backhales and stuff, like, so it's just going to be, it just looks like he's going to be, as Graham says, a bit of a menace, and watching him roll that player at a time and, you know, drive on and show a bit of strength, you're really, really waiting for it when that ball drops back to him again. That looks like the easiest thing to work with, fell off his ability to finish that. I know it's a long way, but it does look like something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I don't know, I just give a little square ball, I think, Henderson will stand away, so he could have just passed it in. Does that not show that maybe he's, like, human, after all, has a bit of anxiety, a bit of debut in front of all these people? Yeah, yeah, but of course, yeah, I mean, no one ever suggests he was an alien. That is the voice of defensiveness, right? Fucking hell, like, Paul, but I'll tell you a step, you give me a shot. Yeah, I was, yeah, I was impressed with him, and I was kind of, not as much as Andy, but I was a bit kind of skeptical about it. I think it has to be with all the stuff that's gone on with him in the past. Yeah, like, the work rate was the biggest surprise for me. Yeah, which got, shut up. The work rate was, like, the biggest surprise, like, for our Forrest goal, he makes it offensive header, you know, in the left-back position, and I think it's about eight seconds later. It's him, the presses cabol to go back to the reach, and the reach loses the ball, like, hopes it up the pitch, and he was doing the all-game. He worked up and down for the whole game. It's all round game was brilliant. As you said, when he, like, cabol again, when he spun away from him, like, he left him in the door, like, and cabol is huge. So, like, I thought it was all round game was brilliant as a work rate, just obviously, the finish, and he, like, he really sure that's hard one I tell, but we're giving back up because it's his debut. I thought it was really promising. Yeah, um, Phil finished it out then. Yeah, look, yeah, I thought he did brilliantly. I really enjoyed watching him, you know, you're, and the one thing I think you said, I said incredible, yeah? Non-human, it was incredible, thank you. It was the first ever game of football. The reason why I thought it was incredible is because it suddenly changed the way we played football again. What it does is it just creates the space for storage in Stairland to drive in, which we didn't have in the previous two games. And his intelligence with the ball in terms of what, as Graham was saying, when the ball has played into him, even though he's able to hold the ball up, but his forced instant isn't to lay it back off, like, an awful lot of, say, traditional target man is, take the ball in, lay it back to the midfield or whatever. Like, he's arrogant enough to, you know, to find a touch and spin around and do some type of trick to get him into space, to beat the player that he's actually holding, got his back too. And he did that a couple of times, you know, there was one great moment. He was out on the, on the boy line where he then tried to play a ding pass into the unknown and Stairland that was slightly over hit. But you're saying to say, if you can see why we looked at when, when the opportunity was there to get him, that they went and got him as opposed to say, making the signing for a count on loan or something like that, because he has all the facets in his game that a big game player has. It is, it is critical of the finishing. And, you know, I'd say forward down the line, he probably finishes one of those chances. And the reason I say it is if you go back to the World Cup, and he got the chance really when he, when he was match fit and he was fully fully open running, he scores an identical header to open the score and for against England. And so, you know, there's that when I'm looking, one of his strengths is his head. And so I was surprised he didn't score one of the headers. But at the same time, you're looking at him, Andy said, like he was struggling to put his toys, laces a half time. And we've seen how much issues had with babes. So like, laces will be fucking the next step on against us. That was the delay, a couple back on there. You probably need to pair those. Remember the PMA disc boots that you used to tighten with it? It's just that it's lazy. So I'd say, you know, but overall, that's what you want from you. You want them engaged in terms of playing the game. You want them engaged in believing what the team is about. And for like to walk, if he helps puts that work rate in, if we can keep that work rate up from Mario Ballotelli has a chance to fulfill his potential as a footballer. What do you think of all the general chit chat around it from people in the club listening to Jared, listening to Brandon, they're, you know, yeah, very supportive. But there's still not a caution, it's an early colour. He needs to pull a sock. The only thing I'd say is if you listen to them, though, he sounds like he's a gas man. Yes. There isn't a snideiness in the way to talk about it. There's an affection. If you see the Jouraritin when he's talking about him today, there's a genuine affection in his face and all when he's talking about him. I say he's a gas fucker to have around. I say he's just nuts, like, you know what I mean? And there's plenty of fellas who are nuts in that dressing room as it is. So for him to stand out, it's some gone. And you need those characters. Like Suarez was such a huge character in that dressing room. And not just, you know, in his will to win in the whole lot, but he brings a different emphasis in terms of the character. So they all want him to succeed. And you can see it in the way they're talking about it and seeing the way they address him. And you know, that's probably why there is that air caution because they don't want him to think that he's done and it's done and dusted. So they need to stay on it. I'd say I'd say part of it's probably a bit of carrot and sticks and yeah, you're doing great. Keep it going. Keep it going. But you know, he has to stay focused. He has to stay on the game. It's there's a bit of bulk on on there, my opinion. Yeah. One thing I did not was actually a bell to say. Remember the Rogers comment that he said to me, I want you to pick up on corners and by the telly apparently says, Oh, I don't my anchor corners. You do now. Yeah, it sounded like it wasn't a disruptive type of thing. Yeah, it was just, it's just he's just speaking his mind and he's not it's not looked upon as disruptive. He just kind of laughed it off and says, how are you doing now? Yeah. And there's no problem. He went and you don't know. Yeah. Whereas from the outside, as opposed before user player, you might look at that and say, Oh, that's a wanker and interesting room, but it doesn't seem to be the case. Yeah, great. The way Rogers went into that though, I felt like it was, you know, with regards to the Oh, you do, you do mark a corners. It was like ballot tally hadn't been trusted before to mark a corners. You know, we're previous managers and stuff and Brendan went on to say, you know, I'm treating them like an adult, which some people have probably treated them like a child for so long that, you know, he's he's talked that role on himself. And he's not being he's not really grown up. I think he's bought into the Liverpool thing. Quite, you know, if you look at his Instagrams and as he seems to get on with everyone already with, you know, with the Daniel stories thing saying, you know, now you're bad, you're old enough to to get a new and better dance and stuff, you know, I think he's I think he's he's bought into all that. And he knows it's probably similar to storage, where he's got a reputation where it's it's it's not really needed on the pitch. He's not a prick on the pitch. He's just a bit of sometimes a bit of a loose cannon off it. So I think he's got this reputation that it's you know, it's your last chance saloon. And I really don't think it should have been storage is last chance saloon. I don't think it should be ballotallies. But it is. So he will knuckle down. And I just think he gives us something. So no, whether it's buying Mark of which Lelana and Sterling being bloody absolutely fantastic, we're gonna have a lot of players running from deep. So with regards to Suarez, Suarez is always on the front foot. And I don't give me wrong. Don't take me in slagging Suarez. I love him. And I still cry myself to sleep over him going now. So it's, but I think with ballotallies, he's gonna hold the ball up a lot more. And he can bring players into play who run from deep and it gives us a different option. So what Suarez gave us in my opinion, or? Yeah, fair enough. Well, look, we'll probably look a little bit more about telly, but I'll tell you later on, and the way he interacted with storage, probably in the later part of this. And we're looking at Danny's storage, but we're trying to move it on now. Maybe to have a look at the defense. And what you'd have to say was pretty ballsy move from Rogers to name a back for, which had three newbies in it. And I'm a psycho coming in, having been out of favor. So we start with the flanks. And with Moreno and Mikey, oh, we have, we look like we have two full backs who can defend and they can attack, which is a bit strange. So how good was it? Paul, the CDs, two youngsters flying forward, pressing, blocking cross is tracking back. Yeah, I think both of them basically had perfect games. Obviously, Moreno is gonna stand out because of the, the running the goalie have, but Mikey, like nothing came down. And KO said either at all, him and Henderson shut down the right side. And then Moreno and Allen shut down the left. So like it, it's been a complete contrast to what we've seen. Basically, in the past few seasons where you could say only kind of Flanagan really is the one that you'd say was good defense again. We won't mention the G, the G, J, we're a positive ahead. It's been brilliant. And that's kind of the biggest plus so far of the season. I think for us, the fact that like now that the two of them look like they're reding in the two, I think they're going to be brilliant. If you were to pick out one feature of the game of each of them, which would you, which would you pick it? I just, I just think, man, KO is general kind of a solidity, but just the whole game, like nothing got past him at all. And he looks, he looks really intelligent, like he knows what's going on around them. And then obviously, Moreno, he, Moreno's my new favorite player, he is that, that goal has been, he just reminds me of a, he reminds it, is that chill? Kind of reminds me of Henderson, the way he's really kind of passionate about everything that you could see, how much the goal meant to him. Yeah. And there, what's going on? Like, like people have been shamed, was saying those kind of shades of reset, though, just, you know, kind of driving straight into the space and then smashing it into a firepost. Yeah, the lads were worried about coming in on them when you're celebrating one day, you could see the fucking elbows coming at you. And you don't want to dig off that line. Don't trust anyone with shit tattoos. And the up-the-full backs, which do you think, what do you think stood out about them? Or did you see a massive difference? Yeah. I mean, it was so refreshing. The whole back fall was so refreshing to look at like a very aggressive back fall, but with the full backs in particular, yeah, I fell in love with it right now. Brilliant. Like, you just really want to see our full back, like eat up that ground like that. Yeah. It was unbelievable. I don't think the Tottenham players could believe how quick he got away. And what a streak. What a fucking streak. You know, it was nowhere else in the goal. It was going in, really. It was everything about it, wasn't it? It was the fact that he won the ball as well. Yeah, he won the ball. So it was, it was a Henderson-esque like that, you know, where he fights and then he, then he goes forward and he delivers. So, and I mean, he's absolutely smashed it. Yeah. You know, it really does give you something to look forward to, like, because you're going to think this, like, you know, it gives the opposition a bit to think about what we're going to need to watch him. And it's going to open space for, for other players. Forward, getting back. Again, he's, just like Moreno, he's very fast. So it's absolutely brilliant to look at the difference, the difference on both them. So it's Gavin Johnson, our Enrique, our anyone. I mean, look, we all love Flanagan, but the two boys look way back in Flanagan. Yeah. That's an overall package, like. Yeah. Great and Kelly, full backs to stop crosses. This goes. Yeah. I think I've gone on about this quite a bit on Smith and stuff. And, you know, statistically, when the, when we were bought, that is one of the strengths that, that don't let balls in the box. And that was, you know, last season, that was one of the main, main things is, I felt people could score off every cross or corner or free kick into the box. I'd rather the other panel, you know, me, because it was just, it became that apparent that we couldn't handle these balls in. And when someone said, and I didn't notice it because I didn't watch Moreno and awful lot in Spain and Manquillo, I think he, I think I played more games for us less than he did. So, you know, for people said that when they did play these guys, it is statistically the best guy, the stopping balls coming in the box. And I thought, immediately we're buying camp, you know, so they're not going to get through the middle corner or whatever you want to call more chan. And, you know, it's, it's one of them, whereby we're stopping the, you know, the play getting through to the centre backs as easy as it was last season. So that'll improve the defense straight away. I can't fault, you know, Moreno against City. It was a hard game for him to, you know, his first game to come into English football, play against, unfortunately, the champions. I think, apart from the, what the first mistake, you know, he coped quite well. I can't fault Manquilla. I don't think he's had a, you know, one thing to bother me since he's been at the club in the games that he's played. He's looked, he's looked sharp, he's looked fast, he's looked good in the past, good in the tackle. And I just wondered what he'd be like against someone that got at him. But, you know, he just doesn't, he doesn't stop. And I think when you look at Moreno and Manquilla for the, for the price that we pay for them as half the price of Luke Shaw, I just think it's an absolute master stroke. I can't remember the last time, you know, we had two good fallbacks at the same time, who could both defend and attack. You know, we've had, you know, John Oou can attack and we've had Rissi, who can defend the times and then attack. But then we didn't have, you know, on the right hand side and then you know, Finn and Oou had an alright season and you had the, but we've now, I can't remember two young strong players you can good with the ball, good in the tackle. And yeah, I'm absolutely amazed at both of them. And I think it's a master stroke, we've got them. Yeah, absolutely. Phil, Moreno is going to get all the headlines and probably rightly sell for what he managed, but Manquilla on the other side. Lovely salad football, isn't he? Yeah. Look, I've, when you look at them, I've given up so much over the last, I don't know fucking how long about the idiots we've had as fallbacks, right? And name us some names there. Just one of them. But like the difference that, you know, in a side that's looking to play very advanced and very aggressive in the way that oppresses teams and your fallbacks are able to retain possession whenever they are in the park. Now I'm not just talking about the middle tour, I'm talking about right the way through the park. The problem we've had is air fallbacks give away possession. Flanagan didn't give away possession last year and that's why he looked so good in the team. He didn't and that's why he looked so solid. You know, Johnson runs into players, kicks the ball of players, just gives the ball away. Now we had two fallbacks who didn't give the ball away on Sunday, who didn't give the possession away cheaply. And if we don't give away possession cheaply, teams can't get out of us. They can't break us and they can't go true transitions quickly against us. The one thing I'd say about Manquilla and it's, it's, it's Ward Noten, the guy is still a teenager, right? He's got picked up two yellow cars very early on in both games. And in both games, the level of maturity he's shown in keeping his head and not picking up another broken for a rash, for a rash challenger, anything like that is just completely beyond me. You know what I mean? So I'd say, I'd say like, I think, I think Manquilla, I know it's a two year long deal. Look, if his progression carries on the way it is, then he could nail that spot down for another seven, eight years, whatever it is. There was a lovely contrast, wasn't there? Thankfully, we were comfortably up towards the end of the game when, when, when our previous left back came on. And he was playing in a super striker role. And listen, that's, that's where he excels. I remember Swansea away a couple of years ago, but he just looked so headless and lost and the people are tipping the ball around. I'll, I'll say it is, I'll joke on the side. Enrique can, we'll have a function in that squad. He's, he is a left back. He can have good games. We know he can have mad games as well. But as a backup to Moreno, I have no issue with that at all. Because I know, I know you're going to get a certain level of performance out of him. It's not going to be the worst in the world. He might do the odd math thing, but at least you've got reliable backup. And the issue we've always had is that like, look, at last year, if Flanagan was out injured, right, then it's, it's a lovely job because Enrique was out injured. Who, who was going in there, were putting, you were putting centre backs in there to cover the spots that's going on. I have no issue with that at all. At least this year, if there's an injury, you've got Flanagan and you've got Enrique who can, well, Flanagan cover left, and right back, and Enrique comes in at left back if we need to rest Moreno, or he picks up a knock or something like that. Also, the other thing, Moreno, he picked up that knock on against Cityon, on the night, and he didn't look like he had any knock on Sunday night. That just shows that the level of heart and passion that he has, whatever, even if there was a bit of residual pain or whatever, he played through the pain barrier brilliantly on Sunday. You know, it's great seeing a left back that looks like, well, a left black, we seem to be able to trust. Like, Jesus, how long has it, since we've been able to trust the left back? It's a long time. Some of his coverings have been great as well. Yeah, yeah, so we've switched on. And that's the other thing, and also got a tackle, like. Maybe if we bring it on to the defence as a whole, right, every single one of those defenders knew when to cover the defender in the match on Sunday, especially through the second half. Well, dude, the two full backs were new, if the centre back pushed out or seen somebody on them, they were so quick to get around and sweep. Like, at one stage when Reyno comes darting across, clears the ball away, and he did the same against Silly on Monday night as well. He got right the way across the pitch and was able to cover from... Well, I think the two kids were probably a little bit more aware than perhaps the two central men. Well, until... In the fourth half, definitely, there was definitely communication issues in the fourth half, you could see it between the two. But in the second half, a few look, and it was shown a few times, even in the analysis package, and all. Sacco became more aware and started covering love on an awful lot more, because I think he just accepted that love run is going to go. He was saying the guy is rash, so if anything, Sacco was the one to sort of step off and start sweeping in behind love run, because I think the mistake in the fourth half, which almost leads to Chadley's goal, is almost an awakening moment for Sacco, where he says, right, your man's going to come for everything here. I'll just hang in and fill in the positions, because that's what he's going to do. And then we'll show the great video clip of Sacco last year, when you're already scared to get to cut out of position, and it was Sacco all the time that was the one that was coming across, and it didn't happen in reverse. When Sacco was cut out of position, Sacco was still standing in the position that he was in, and not covering, and that's where an awful lot of the gaps started to happen as the defence were on through the season. But, honest, to start a whole new back four, which is essentially what we did last night, because it was the fourth time there's been a non-raffa back four, fully non-raffa back four, and it was the fourth time that I actually thought that that was the most convincing sort of form of how I'd imagined the Brendan Rodgers team would defend. They were post-hired and denormalier. The fullbacks were well pushed on, and Gerard was clearly an auxiliary centreback when the fullbacks went. He dropped in, and then it allowed Alan and Henderson to run at plays effectively as a two in midfield, and we were trained at the back for an awful lot of time when we were in position and attacking on the front foot. I think people were worried about starting a brand new back four at the start of the league, but I think when you're changing your whole system and you're changing your mindset, sometimes it is better to completely start the fresh and use a certain style of defender and not have a mix and match them of two types, and we've definitely got to mix and match them in terms of what's in the squad at the moment. Andy, the pair that we ended up with starting the maths cycle and love reward pair that most people have been shouting out for for one reason or another, and true injury and circumstance, that's exactly what we ended up with. That feels touching the fact that it took a little while for the lads to gel. Did you see the evidence that he saw that there was actually that gelling by the second half? Yeah, just a point there about the team. It was the, if Rogers had a put out on Twitter, lads, fans, I want you to pick the team, it couldn't have been any closer to what the fan base was sort of edging at. Between the two, what I sensed was, Lovren felt that Sacco maybe was a bit rusty at the moment, we find his feet again, and he said, he said to set himself, "Well, I'm going to go for everything." Sacco probably didn't realize that early on. You could see he was edgy enough with his pass, and then everything he was a bit loose, and I mean, he's an unbelievable pass and completion record, and he puts the ball into people's feet a bit too quick for me. He makes it awkward from the control, especially with players closing down. But I think Lovren just sensed that we're going to need to take the lead here, and I'm sure we've been told 100 times now that he's meant to be a leader. So, it's won't be long before there's a good understanding between them, avoiding to keep that, you know, pairing together, and I mean, we can only see positive silver. Yeah, that's an interesting point that Andy makes there grimace about keeping that partnership together. If Skirtle is back 50, reckon he steps back into the team, or what do you think Brendan will do there? I completely agree with you all within the fact that we should give them time. This is the first time that Backfire played together on the Back 4, and you know, it's the first time Manquillipade, when Moreno played, it was just so many permutations, because it was so new and fresh. It was, you know, it was, and it takes time to build up a, you know, a relationship as a Back 4, if you look at Arsenal, they played together for years when they had Adams and Bold and all that. And I think, you know, you've got to have that communication, and as everyone said, everyone knows Lovren goes for the bauble soccer, who probably didn't know that, and that's something he'll learn, and then he'll sweep behind him. And yeah, again, soccer, he was just very, very nervous. We got away with it with the one or two chances of the other boy or chance in the chadley chance that me and you lay safe, and we got away with it there. But after that, I thought the second half Tottenham didn't have a sniff, because of how well Lovren and soccer managed to, you know, add a bio or any other players and thoughts. Again, I agree that it's the best defensive display. That second half is the best defensive display I've seen from Liverpool under Rogers. So it just gives me confidence for the future. And I definitely give that, that'd be my start back for me for going forward. Yeah, Paul, Stephen Gera, as Phil was mentioned earlier on, is a key role in the, I think, defensive. We're doing these days. On the day, you'd have to say he had one of his patchers performed, especially with his passing his distribution. It was kind of uncharacteristically shoddy. But he still had the strength of the character to stand up and take that penalty and pull it away, even if the keeper did get a hand of it. He did it. Do you think it's just typical of the slow starts we've seen from Stephen Jared in recent seasons? And do you reckon he'll play his way into it? Or do you think he's having trouble adapting to what's going on? Maybe he definitely has made really slow starts the last two seasons under Rogers. And I am, I have kind of said the past two seasons that I don't think, I don't really agree with status as a nailed-on starter where, you know, he definitely starts and the rest of the midfield is then kind of shaped around them. I don't think he's that important to us. But I do, yesterday, his passing was fairly poor. But that's, that's sort of the best defensively I've seen him play in a good way. Like there was about, I'd say there was even just in the first half alone, I thought there was kind of about seven instances of him, you know, kind of bailing people out because like the lad said, love her. And like he went for absolutely everything like, and he did, he did get caught a good few times. And like, there was a good few other times there was Jared that baled him out. And then I think, I think like the lad said, the defence was very, it's like the most organized, we've seen it in a world like that. And you know, in terms of shape, like we don't have that kind of, what we've had in previous kind of weeks, where it's Johnson and Skirt or kind of lagging behind the wrestling, there was a real kind of shape about them. And I think Jared was like, he was very important in that as well, ahead of it. As you said, though, some of the past was really, really bad, like, but I think he will kind of, that is the sort of thing that Jared will play his way into. So for me, it was more encouraging to see, see the, sorry, the defence of side of this game, like, come on a bit. Because I think the team did look, they looked like a team that kind of, were told that it wasn't good enough, like, what was happening against C. So that was like a big positive for me. And I think, like, I think it is good effect. So I'm showing the grip. It's just, just the, Greg, what are you saying, your man, a Finch farm, the, the deal they'll be in putting the reporters here. Sorry about that, Bob. It's something worth saying. I just do what they face. Oh, Jesus. That'll change guns, if you think of his head. Oh, it's purple, it's a purple one. Supposedly, Indi-Kyla has just said that, "Man, you know, it would have been 75 million for the day." So, yeah, Gera and Gura. And I thought it was impressed with Gera and defensively. I think it's the best game. He's had defensively for a good world for us both. Yeah, obviously the passing needs to improve. And I think it will. I think that's the part of his game that you're like, we know we see he's decent, but his distribution, like, so it's good that his defensive game seems to have kind of sharpened up with that as well. I feel before he started distracting us all with purple demos. It's going to be hard to get a better distraction than us. It's going to be hard to get a better distraction than us. I think it's better to go with our part. The purple's global. No purple, no purple, no parity. Would it be fair to say that that side of Gera's game was actually very much on the ball. The part where he wasn't necessarily in possession. Positionally. I'd say it again, right? The form of Henderson and Allen, Adam and Cha when he comes on, allows Stephen Gerard to be able to perform in that role. It's not so much that he's not playing your traditional defensive midfielder, where he's going from fall back to fall back, breaking up things as he goes, right? He as I said, he drops in as the auxiliary centre back in those instances. Allen and Henderson being able to play as well as the AR. Then it's all about, again, it's being able to, they're pressing, they're pressing, and you're not relying on Gerard to step into the midfield and press it as much as he can. It's a bit about, you can't have Gerard in the defensive midfield role, performs once Allen and Henderson performs around him. If the two boys don't and Henderson didn't perform on Monday night, then Gerard will look exposed as he looked on Monday night. He needs the two midfielders to perform for him to look as comfortable as he does. The passing thing, again, I genuinely think the last two years has been the same. He's always been a bit slow and hasn't been up at the top of his game until after Christmas. But it wasn't the 80-yard ping wand, although there was a few, it was tough. It was the sharp ones that were going sloppy. And Graham, Phil reckons that Henderson and Allen need to be very much on their game. Henderson, I don't know what you think, but he's really putting his hand up for me as a candidate for Vice Captain in the wake of Agra Leaving. But how did you feel the two lads did as the fulcrum and heart of the team? With Anderson, I think he's for me and a lot of people disagree. But I think he's the first name on the sheet for me now. I think he's so pivotal to the way we play and he's really the one that's pushing and pressing to get that ball when we're in other people's half. With Allen, I like Allen a lot as a player and he can recycle the ball. He's intelligent with the ball. He wasn't early on in his career. Well, he had the first few good games and then he went through a really bad patch due to his own health and things like that. I think he's good recycling the ball and keep holding it. He's an intelligent player. But he's fantastic off the ball the way he squeezes it and you have to watch it. You can't watch it on the telly to see that when you're at the match and you actually see him off the ball, he doesn't have squeeze the space really, really well. Yeah. And that's what moves the home midfield. He can dictate play without the ball better than he can with it, which is a bit odd because he moves them and field round to a point where we have got an opportunity to win the ball. Yes, very good point. I completely agree. No, I was just saying it's a very, very good point because as you say, you're watching highlight packages or people watching the match on TV and they don't actually see necessarily that. And even watching them on a telly sometimes, I go to the match and I come back and go, fucking hell, I'm his boss. And people go, you shit. I'm watching the same game, but I've been there and I've seen what he's done to help us win the ball and what he does with the ball in tight spaces and things like that. But what I think is, it comes down to Gerard and his legs, them two lads have to do all the running. And if they're not intelligent and you're playing a better team, you've got a bit of a more vibrant midfield who has a strong midfield, then it's putting a lot on Gerard and he can't play the two roles where he used to because he hasn't got the legs of breaking from deep to pushes on forward. It's either he's being defensive or he goes up, or he does push on, but then he's not getting back. So it means that may feel that happens to do his job. If he decides to do one of them, he can't do the other. I'm so respectful of Gerard and he's our best ever player in my eyes. That'll be controversial with that leash and things. But I just struggle to see what his role is going forward as the years go on. Next year, is he really going to play that role again when he might have lost another little yard? I'm really confused to what the next move is for Gerard. Yeah, fair enough. Andy, feel free to touch on Stevie if you want, but in relation to Alan and Henderson. Maybe could you bring us into a little bit of a chat about the idea of the midfield diamond that Brandon seems to prefer when you think it's appropriate and if you think it's the best way for us going forward? Yeah, well, Gerard, I mean, one thing I know of this as well, you know, he likes a bit of space when he gets the ball. So you know, it's a few times I'm backpedaling and you really end up being the last man. And I think that contributed a lot to his nervousness on the ball. That he had to move a little bit quicker than he normally would. And he didn't get to pick out because the two boys are up with ours and gone past and pushing out. So he doesn't want to be the last man and lose the ball, especially after what happened towards the end of last season. So that's a little bit of a reason, maybe. And I think Gerard can go on for a long, long time in that role. It doesn't take a huge amount of legs and Rodgers will start managing them. I think we probably see it a bit like they had the discussion about his international career. So I think it's that management leaving me on certain games. And he'll do that. He'll continue to do that. He's still one of our best players. The diamond, it wasn't a fan of the diamond. I just let him just in love with a four tree tree. I think it's just it's Rodgers all over. It's very balanced, but particularly at home, a four tree tree. But I mean, that just walked the charm. And it was the first time he kind of said to me, sir, maybe this is our real formation. Maybe this is the way we go for now on. When you haven't got Coutinho there, for whatever reason, maybe, you know, it does seem to suit better, doesn't it? Yeah, well, the best football we've probably seen, Coutinho was playing was in the diamond, on the corner, right hand side of the diamond. Sterling through the middle, again, like he's so dangerous, boy have melt in the wing, you know, so stick him in the middle, he's capable of playing there, stick all your best players through the middle, you know, the spoiling of the team, and he's so dangerous. So it's starting to be kind of be calmer, you know, or definitely our formation away from home and the tougher game, you know, against, you know, against boys. So it just seems to work so well. Yeah, you've got any thoughts on that yourself? I know you have ideas on the diamond yourself. I think a bit in the way, Brendan, his mind works. There's an awful lot of rotational goes on in the actual formation during the game itself. It's like we are set up, say, as a diamond, because you've got Sterling for one of a better world dropped off as a false nine in many ways at the tip of the actual diamond itself. But in the actual game, he has the key. He drifts anywhere. Yeah, so it's not rigid at all. It's not rigid. Like, and you could see it on Sunday initially, before we got the goal lead, you know, the time to drop into a 4-4-4-1, as Balotelli went wide left, and Sterling went wide right, and storage was left on his own, and they were looking to break quickly. And then even with the substitutes that were made, we ended up playing a 4-3 at the end. I just think once you have good enough and capable enough center forwards, you're not stuck to one formation on the pitch in the way that Brendan Rogers plays. And if you have, once you have the likes of Alan and Anderson in the middle, and Chan as well in the middle, when he came on, your midfield can suddenly be very fast, aggressive midfield up top, or they can break back and cover in. So you can change the formation as it goes in. Yes, it's a diamond for all in terms of the way it's set up, but it just doesn't stay that way. And Balotelli in a way facilitates us to be able to rotate, you know, storage to be able to pull out wide, or staring to pull out wide, or go through the center or whatever. And he seems to have the intelligence as well, from what Rogers has been instructing him to be able to go into the same sort of mode, because he wasn't, he wasn't couldn't stick to one side of the other side. He'd swap places with storage, you know, at times he was the one that was dropping into the point of the diamond, and Sterling was the one that was up top. There's just a lot of fluidity in that front tree, and it'd be cool. Actually, it's a front five, because if Henderson and Alan were so far up with the other tree, and then the two fullbacks push on, when we're in attack, because your arrow drops in deep, we've almost got seven players in the opposition's half, within 10 seconds of breaking with the ball. It's just so quick, it's lightning quick. It's where the Balotelli signing makes so much sense, and it's exactly what we needed after the last of the quarter fall, isn't it? Because it leaves us with that kind of flexibility, mobility. Yeah, but it's great to see that Sterling and Storage having the freedom to play, and cause the damage that they do. And just like an hour talk about Alan and Henderson and now we're due to come on and talk about Chan, but when he comes on, the impact he has on the game, he still looks like he's short on fitness, but for the 24 minutes where he was running freely in the hole, he was just a fucking powerhouse. It was a relief to see the concrete out of his boots. It was a different type of midfielder again to what we had. When the Balotelli comes out of the sky and he takes it down, the chance that Sterling misses, the one that he danced to the team, but even the initial take, the Balot has pumped up boy. The torch that he takes down to get away from the Balotelli, and then he just shrugs him and saw it, and your man, the Balotelli is rather like a mad thing after him, ends up following him because the chance still gets the pass away, and then Sterling does the magic and just was unfortunate with the finish. He had the Ricky Gervais finish as Brendan says. That brings another arrow into the bow, and like Graham was saying, where does Steven end up, right? When I see Emory Cham play, he can drop in and fill in that role, and I'd love to see us in the League Cup games that's coming up, seeing Cham sit in into that role. Straight to up for Stevie. Yeah, I'm being the go-to man. If Gerard picks up an injury or something, he goes in there, and you have Cham Gerard and Alan saying away games, or you have Cham Gerard Henderson and Coutinho for other games. I'd love to see that because I think he's going to be the future, along with the two other boys, and even Lalana to come in and Coutinho. There's so much variation you can drop into what's a diamond, but the players can rotate around the positions as well. There's so much rotation. Be a fucking nightmare for the journalists who hate rotation going back over the last 10 years when not only had the players coming in, so the team is moving down the pit. Do you know what's going on? There's not straight lines. There's not so much of a formation at all. I mean, Rodgers has said it several times. Like it's a philosophy he has, and it doesn't really matter what the formation is. Now, which just so happens, certain formations fit in with it better. We've seen formations that don't work with it, but it's not a formation at all. It's just to get the players to move quick. Yeah, which is why the defensive thing wasn't so much of an issue, because as you say, it's more the idea. Speaking of mobility, Danny's storage was seriously good in many ways on the day. Energetic, really strong on the ball, creative, drive enough players, beaten many at will, linked very well with Sterling. Did you see any signs of a potential partnership there starting with Balotelli, but even props? Yeah, I don't think they even have to link up that well with each other. I think the Diamond, it is an idea about linking up with Sterling, and then as the midfielders advance on the side as well. We saw that with the first goal with storage. I said in pre-season, I think it's play when he drops out wide. It's absolutely brilliant. It's ball retention and he is creative with it as well. Like him and Henderson, it's just that Henderson gives him the ball and makes a run. Storage holds it up, dribbles with it, and then just releases Henderson. It takes five sports players out of the game. They're just gone, and then it's the square across the box for Sterling to score. Then it was him again for the second goal. He dropped out wide and then faced up to the defenders, put up between them for Alan, and then that Alan could have been killed with that challenge. Yeah, it was a big band coming through his way. I thought his legs were going to fall off. He didn't pull his arm, it was sucked. But I think that's going to be a huge feature for this season. How storage plays when he drops out wide and when he drops off. Suarez obviously was really unpredictable and he's brilliant at carrying the ball, but nowhere near is going to retain and possession of storages or squeeze the ball through to people I don't think. I think that's going to be a big plus for us this season. Yeah, but Graham and Paul referred there to Danny Surge's ability to carry the ball, and it's almost an underrated ability that he has to take on defenders and create space for the rest of the report of attackers. That was very much an evidence at the weekend. Yeah, I think with all of the players, and I mean every one of them when you look at storage, and storages me main protagonists with it here, but when you look at storages and Sterling and Valatelli and Markovich and Lelana and Coutinho, all these players have got really quick feet. You can just shift the ball and get past players at ease. Well, I was speaking to a guy I'm with today, and I was saying about storage does as well, but we're still, and everything just seems so effortless. It's just nonchalant, he just doesn't have to put the efforts in. When he skipped past all the players, and Roger said he finished like Ricky Gervais and danced in there like Ricky Villier, but it didn't seem like with other players, they seem like they're having a hard slog to give past people. It just seems quite easy and effortless to him, and I think he's the same with storage in the fact that the natural footballers have got ability. You don't see Daniel's storage, his holder plays got a lot better, but he doesn't lose the ball because he's always got it by his feet. I can't speak highly enough for the lads, since he's come to Liverpool, and he's brought into what you guys spoke about is the philosophy, ethos, and when he's coming here, we used to have tickets with Wake for Bolton, and he's fantastic there. And when he came to Liverpool, I was ecstatic that he came because in that, I think he played a lot of game to them, scored 10 goals. I thought we can get anything like that. We'll have a fantastic player on, and I think he's got a big in all seriousness, one of the bargains of the Premier League, when he's played some 50 games and got 36 goals or something. He leads the line for it, he's being very loyal. We've not had any skirmishes in his private life or on the field, he's not at the red card, he's not being deemed lazy. It's the complete package is afford for me because we don't have any problem with him whatsoever, and I think he's underrated by our fans. We all love Suarez, and I'm the worst for it because I adore Suarez, but he's banned for the season. This lads cause there's no issues inside that outside football. Doesn't stop saying red or dead. There's a lot in the community with charity work and things like that. He's always talking about Liverpool on Twitter as the city, and he's also on Instagram, the city and the club. I just think it's one of them whereby I don't know why he isn't adored more than he is. It should be a folk hero really. Yeah, absolutely. Phil taught me a little bit about Danny Sturridge, but also Graham Tush on Ryan Sterling, another amazing performance by the kid. Yeah, I said it myself there a couple of minutes ago. There's just everything. Once you have Balotelli, you've just got so much movement, so much space for the two boys to operate in, you give Sterling a storage space to go on to destroy you, and Sterling, folk, and went to town on Sunday. It was brilliant. It's just brilliant to watch him. You're looking at a guy who's 19, 20 this year, right, who is coming into the farm that if he was playing for, if he was Sterlingo, and he'd been signed for Barcelona to be talking about him as one of the upcoming greatest players in the world. That's what we're talking about here. The way he glides past players, his footwork, his trickery, his ability on the ball, that run, I know he doesn't score the goal, that was messy. I don't care what anyone says, that's the type of run that Messi has made. Yeah, it's a trademark messy run. The feet are so quick that defenders just can't get to the ball. No matter what they do, you try to mark him, he turns you, you try to kick him, he gets back up, he kicks you harder. All that type of stuff that he's doing is the type of stuff that people when they watch foreign football rave about these footballers, right? We are blessed to have a kid who has the potential to go on to be one of the world's best footballers. Now, we might have lost one of the best in the world currently, but we're having one that's coming through that could potentially be, could dominate world football, because you're looking at Messi is at 25, 26 now at this stage, he's going to start coming on, Ronaldo is heading into his torties, you've got Suarez who's 28 now at this stage, this fella is on the course of greatness, and he continues to progress with the guidance that he has from Rogers, because don't take away from what Rogers has done for this guy here, he's really torn him into a superstar. If he continues under his tutelage, we could potentially have the best player in the world inside the next six, seven years. He never fails to say it either, the kid in every interview, he always mentions Rogers, and did you know, as he mentioned, he said something about, yeah, well, as the manager and the assistant manager, Pasco, we're saying the video, there's fucking hilarious, I just said pictures of Carly jumping up and down going fucking get it. That's my hard work area. Yeah, but like, and that's what I'm saying, like we're talking about storage, and you could wax lyric about storage, about how Gaudias has showed forward, but we also have to give credit to Sterling. That the run from the back of Chan's run, which was just, had he scarred that, you may as well have just torn off Gaudia this season, because nobody's getting close to it, but to have two wonder runs in one Gaudia would have been just, just figured out about it, like, you know what I mean? And even his finish, his finishing is getting much better, I know he didn't finish that one, but the force one, he places it beautifully into the bottom corner, you know, he's just, and he's even his awareness of where the ball is going, like when you, when that Chan's broke out, it's got bollocks, there's nobody at the back post, and all of a sudden, he just puts his little fucking mad boarster paste onto the back, to get to the back post, because he knows that Henderson is putting the ball there, you can see that they're training round moves, you can see that they're working on that interchange, that type of cross, you know, low, direct, carrot cross balls, to get him in, because they're great chances for goals, and even, even like the earlier Ballotelli chance, they're all coming from the similar type of thing that we're trying to do. And he's allowed to hook my old J.A. coach used to call his standing leg. Yeah, it doesn't have a standing leg, if you can shift the ball back quickly between your feet, you don't have a standing leg. It's just great. And he, as Phil said, we could go on ad nauseam about the two boys up top, because they were tremendous. How good was it for you to see the likes of Markovich and Emery Chan come along, and actually genuinely having an impact, it's a real squad now, you know, we've got the unknown quantity in red, at least, of LaLana, coming forward, we've got Coutinho sitting there, waiting the wings, we've got Flanagan, person got to come back, no doubt, it's a squad. Yeah, absolutely. And there's going to be a sense there, another 11 goals out that, you know, we've got to play well here, because there's capable players now in nearly every position, you know, and particularly the likes of Markovich, Coutinho, Chan, they're gonna be mad, they're gonna be mad, they're all players who are going to want to play weekend, weekend, weekend. Chan, different story coming on, Triniel up to Triniel down. True. So there you go. But he did seem more mobile, didn't he? Didn't he? Yeah, he did, but I mean, psychologically, you know, go on there soon, Triniel down as opposed to go on there and impress me there, Triniel up. So it was a lot better, and it was the Chan that, I suppose, fails being bangin' on to build something that we, you know, we believe him. Yeah. Markovich probably impressed me a little bit more against City, because you got a chance to isolate his man a couple of times, but yeah, I mean, I'm quite positive to build that one as well. So yeah, a squad there now, like, I mean, I tweeted a kind of 2/11s there last night, and I don't know, not half bad, you know, a complete 2/11s. It's not going to be Chelsea level, is it e-level, but I'll probably next. It's a lot better than it has been for a long, long time. Yeah, probably next in terms of two strong 11s. Yeah. You know, and that's not like looking across it, it's not like we inexperienced kids are out like that. No. These are our players that will fancy themselves to nail and down this ball. Like, I mean, I didn't even have Johnson in either of them, but he's kind of think. Of course he is. Yeah. He's kind of frozen to get back in. But that's a he won't think that. Yeah. Emre, Emre Chan was involved in probably my favorite part of the match, where I think I was an alert, something broke down the left and pulled it back to them barely, and Henderson and Chan are like, like, two like yard dogs, they're running out of town, he's back towards the halfway, though. He actually ran in half. It looked like, like, if you just watch it, you think them barely was shooting the other way, like, because he picks them all up and does nearly a crop tournament set to build in a way from the two. High speed towards his own goal. Yeah. Chan kind of gives a little, he has a bite of his ankles and hinders and just keeps running after him. Like, you can almost hear hinders and bark and that. The one thing I'd say, and we didn't touch them, but the snoilingest that was in our play, you know, like, we had a roiko fucking, a little prick, like, you know, if Romero was playing for your love, there's a little naginess in the whole lot of people. He was a really little prick on the picture. And Joe Allen wasn't afraid to travel for you, you know, the lads. They sent him rain, it was over a couple of times towards him as well. And, you know, they were smacking him. And when he was getting up, there was no fucking tapping on the heads and the hole, like, you were getting hit and you were getting left down on the ground. And, like, even for the penalty, that was nice to see. Oh, look at the wave. Enjoy that. It was good to see, like, you know, you can't direct, well, he didn't can't do referee. And fairness, Doyle was a tick to do what he did. But we got away one down one low from goals and choice to take to Jersey, I thought it'd be hard, but I suppose referees are just used to what airplanes are trying to take Jersey's off. And Allen said, yellow car that he got worried, you know, your man took the ball off and I was like, now you're not going down there. I'll just pull them down, like, ridiculous to, like, short talk brilliantly. But that's what you want. Exactly. You know, it's not, it's not the Lucas, it's not the Lucas field. You know, the one that's in a really dangerous area around the edge, eating your box for 20 minutes to go. It's like it's, it's, it's, it's a horrible fucking game-room and snoidy tackle that just stops the frame. It's something that shelters his Mourinho does consistently. And they had a slow emotion of lamellae. Remember, he picks them all up and he builds back and around because he knew he was, he was running out there two centre backs. He was running out there two centre backs. He was running a few times, he would have been in that air two centre backs and he was fucking pissed off. And that, like, that, that horrible fucking snoidiness was in our play. I think, I think Allen did an interview during the week on, oh, Joe Allen doing an interview with Shockley. He was one of every two fucking days for him to say, but um, I think he said that we needed to get out of here. He's taken up counts. Remember, count used to be under so constantly. And today, and today is daily bit under count meals. All right, that's going to do an interview a fuck off. By the great sandwich. I don't feel him, Joe Allen just goes in and types them up himself. What would you ask me if I was going to do a good job? Agram, after watching live, were you able to see someone, what Phil was touching on there and Paul would chat about the kind of little age on our play? Sorry. What was that, didn't it? That's a bit. Yeah, I was just saying that being there live and watching it yourself, were you able to see a lot of that little kind of, we all say nastiness, but a little bit of snoidiness or age on the football? But I think, yeah, I think we've done that for a while, if I'm honest. I think we've, you know, I'm going to, I'm going to probably say something, you'll come up with the game here, but I don't remember a game since Roger's first season, maybe where we've been bullied out of it. If you remember, Baja Benitez when he first came and we played Burnley in the FA Cup and stuff early on and the famous Jimmy Triore goal and his own goal and stuff like that. I believe we got bullied quite a bit, but I think this team are quite up for it. You know, they do like a little bit of a bite and if anything happens. The one thing I don't like is we don't seem to get involved or whether it's good or bad. I don't know when something kicks off. We don't all crowd round and go and support our player. He's like more or less on his own, but yeah, everyone seems to, you know, have a little bit and people's give Alan, Alan a lot of shit saying he's a bit of a shit else and he's, you know, he's, he weighs two parts of football and stuff, but he is very, he leaves his foot in quite a bit. You know, there's been many a time. My dad says that should be yellow for Alan and he seems to be because he's so make a mild, get away with a lot when really he does, he does he has a go like. Oh, would you? He has a smirk that if you're playing against him, you don't want to punch him in the face. Do you know a thing that's a choir boy? I love it. Like I actually do it all over. Like I say, remember that lamellabit, like, you know, he does it, he could just say him down here. And he just drove the metaphor command and that, I like that. There's like, there's a hint of shark off when he does it and a hint of shark. Yeah. Yeah, there is. But he's got a shark because he's a vegan. Oh, is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a bit of an unknown fact. It's an unknown fact. I like that. It's good information. What I reckon was nobody credit me on the referee for the Henderson, the Henderson got a bit of a snarlam this weather, isn't he? Henderson's just everywhere, no. That's like, he just can't, he can't can't handle because he's just everywhere at the exact same time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I have loose worry. You are listening to Trippen's chat with Trippen. Transfer window. Let's talk a little bit about transfer window. It's kind of-- Look, we just were lively going down as we speak. Live, as we speak. Phil cult earlier, our favorite never present. Tripper. The Phantom Tripper. The Phantom Tripper of the bunker. He reckons, he's a bit pissed off that we weren't in for Falcon, and he reckons that he's wondering why we don't have that kind of pulling power. Have you got any take on that? Yeah, I said it to Andy earlier on, I said, the whole fall counting, how do you sign for us over the top? Yeah, great sign, right? But at the same time, we sign Balotelli. Now, if you look at the deal, if fall count is on $346 grand a week, I'd say it's after tax income of whatever it's meant to be, right? And they've also paid a loan fee upfront. Then the whole year on loan, it's going to cost you more than it's cost us to bring Balotelli in for two years, including the transfer fee. And also, the key thing for me is, I think Balotelli fits us better than Falcoud was at this moment in time. We're talking about a guy who's had a couple of crucially knee ligament injuries, and we're not quite sure what level he's back there. Now, I don't want to talk for a call, but I think he's talking about why don't we just go in on top of having Balotelli just to be fucking just for badness. Okay. And then, and then, right, the thing I was thinking about this as well, is like, then when does he play? Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? Are you going to drop storage for Falcoud? Would the fans like to see that happen? I don't think they would. No, not for what storage has done for us since he signed for the club. Now, then you're going to drop Balotelli, but you've just signed Balotelli as a permanent player to play Falcoud. So I just don't see how it fits. And that's why I wasn't open arms about it. If you know it, you know it's time for Falcoud. You know it's time for Falcoud. I don't give a shit like to be put on the switch. Do you give me a shit, Andy? I suppose there are various signs. It's the one I kind of envy most. I don't envy the fact that I'm paying the man 350 grand a week. That's just out, you know what I'm saying. That's not getting paid anything near that I live up here. And I wouldn't like any other people to get paid like that. I like to kind of think that most of the team is there to play for it, play for the club. I also know that that's a fantasy stuff too. But you know I think if we are to kind of try them with a leg or I do well on the Champions League, although actually Falcoud hasn't really got much Champions League experience, does he? You want to do his stuff? Well certainly not recently. I think you need to make statements like that. But I think we're all right. You know only the fact that I'm happy with what we've done. I'll be a little bit more pissed off. What the fuck is that? It must have been attacked at a total of around now. What the fuck is that? Is it an actual total round or is someone shoved that in over to kill one? No, it actually looks like an actual total round. Oh that's fucking brilliant. There's a certain comedy here what's going on at the moment. They're just completely ignoring the areas that everybody can see. They're the problems. They're just singing. It's just fucking mad. And trombone around the place. And they're probably not finished. There's probably going to be at least one more mental thing before Jim Hoyt needs to screech this on. Paul who did if you were put money on them that get in someone else would you? You know it. Yeah, before this is over. Well they've obviously dropped out. They're trying to sign vidal because of his knee and they're playing fun. It's so funny. His knees are much better than they did. That's as torrid. Crucial ligament. I didn't know that until today. I don't know if it's just knee operations are crucial obligations. But some of you get a few people have said that, that he's had three. And he's also 46. Crazy. Yeah, he's got the same score as Sam yet. He was meant to have made his professional debut at 14. But there's rumours that he's three years older than he's meant to be. So effectively he'd be 16. Like how many 14-year-olds can hack it in the Colombian professional league with Ben? Like I'll joke him aside like in terms of physically what he's doing. He's doing a fucking unit of a human. He is the only boy. Like he's more a chance of making if he was 16 than he would if he was 14. So you know, had he signed the 29-year-old and he signed the 22-year-old with Dajnees. We're justifying that. Listen, if he goes in and scores goals for him, then he's done his job. But at the same time, I wasn't getting upset about it because I think we've done really good business in terms of what we've done. I'll put it this way, right? If I recently had to sign Falco, I would have been a lot more probably annoyed about it. Because I think he would have, I think in that team, there would be a bigger threat with him as opposed to Wellbeck in the Arsenal team. Yeah. Right? So I don't think it will, you know, I don't think you know, it'll probably famous last word here, right? But I don't think by signing Falco, that you know, it'd make themselves particularly any stronger as a team than, and as a threat to us in terms of... That's the important thing. That's the important thing. Challenging for the title. Not genuinely. I'm serious. Dan say, Dan, Arsenal saw in Wellbeck, I don't think that that makes them particularly stronger in terms of the challenge they were going to post was. But if Arsenal saw in Falco, then I think Arsenal would have been a lot stronger and a lot better equipped in terms of challenging for the title and challenging where we want to finish in the league. Dan... Just like Chelsea, Arsenal are a shorty girl away from being a really top team. Have a more handy about what you think we should have got, because we're all talking all the time, but it was a really good window. And we've been in fairness, we've been in the market because of the band, rightly so we should be. But if you've got to have a moment about what you liked, it's a one area, one player that you'd love us to have gotten. I think Royce, maybe. Yeah. So another attacker, really, is where you would have gone? Well, maybe instead of Lana, like, you know, like, I can hardly mind because I'm not that dissatisfied with the whole team. No, no, no, no, no. You know, if we've all chosen Rodgers, I think if that's what Rodgers wants, you know, I'm going to row him behind him because he certainly knows what he's doing. And so far, just what we've seen, the little bits we've seen, he's done quite a good business. So, you know, you would like a kind of a "I hate that word, my key" sign, but just a big, big sign, and you know, sort of just seems everyone else around and stills a, you know, and we're not going in the same restaurants as fielders, or that's sitting at the same table. We're not even sitting at the same table, we're not going in the same restaurant, but look, for me, but it's Ellie's a big name sign. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, well, there's not a, there doesn't seem to be the sort of the man for the top player, like, you know, whereas you look at Royce, maybe, could have been six or seven clubs across Europe after him. We just went in and got balled, Ellie, because he was available and no one else really wanted him. Yeah, but again, sort of, a lot of it comes back, you know, if, if, if I am a druid have gone for Hernandez, instead of taking the risk and Falcale, right? Yeah. And you've got the wonder. Yeah. Why? Look, there was a lot of clubs, not stupid. I mean, the reason you're not able to come out with this is because there's other clubs are backed away, even city wearing stupid enough to pay to, you know, our ass and the last one would have never done that anyway, because they're why he killed her. Maybe so. Cost to know. That's the one. Cost is the one last year, right? Yeah, maybe we had a, because he's a Roy Conte, I would definitely would have loved him. Of all the signs that were made in the Fellowship, he would have been the one now that I would have loved us to go out. And he hasn't even been as Conte as you look at it. I did not see him. See, I was at the car. Oh my God. I don't know. How about meant that, I was just, I can't get back in, and it, Castle just, you knew Castle was just breaking his bollocks laugh. That's how it was done, man. That's when he's a complete jib, but I think it's, he's the oldest 25 of them. I think, yeah. I must be certain that the Martin's been. As Tony goes on, he's going to, he's going to be harmful there. He already is, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, big time. Now, I mean, he's harmful from the goal, but I'm talking about the discipline. Oh, really? Yeah. I think he's going to be hard for Maureen to have to control. I think, I think, I think Maureen lapsed that stuff up, because he's just, he's just a conflict. But, like, literally, he'll do anything under pitch to one of the other players open. He was the same. Yeah, yeah, but still, yeah. Yeah. It's not, it's, he won't bite somebody around to make that, but he'll, he'll, he'll slow kicks, you know, in your face, fucking just scream, and I just, he blew his nose into his glove and throw in a stage of ram on his face. Yeah, yeah. I'm happy. Yeah. It's fucking brilliant. That's what you're talking about. That's the only one, really. That's the only one. What about a keeper? Well, look, if we have your breath, if, if, if, well, he'll, for Brad, as well as backup, but I had this, we've had this debate before. It's, if you bring in somebody now, all right, and you're bringing in somebody, you've got to make a decision. Are you giving Minuli another season to prove himself, or are you replacing Minuli? No, I don't. Like, that's why, like, I know Romero's meant to be going to you now, right? So, he was probably one of us saying, yeah, that would be a decent competition sign from him, but does talk now that we're signing Victor Valdez anyway next month, right? I'll be surprised if Valdez hasn't got a good shout of getting that in my own jersey before the end of the season, if we do sign him and he's back to the level he was a person on it. I know everyone right in the morning, but given the style of goalkeeper, he is the level of, of ability he has. I wants to crack there because he's out of contract, he's available, so it's, yeah, but he had an injury as well. Yeah, yeah. So, like, he's free. He's a free agent. Yeah, so he can sign at any stage and they're saying that he will sign next month once he's proved his feet, once he can pass a fitness test or whatever. And there appears to be a deal there at all from him, so it's like, just prove your fitness and he's in. So, you know, if we sign Victor Valdez, fucking hell, that's, that's a top quality sign. Yeah, to wrap us up on this, I'm not necessarily reviewing much, but just a review in general of what's being on lately, Graham, and they were just coming down to where the transfer window slams shut. So, could you tell me what you think of the business as a, as a, as a bundle? I think we've done really well. And as you guys have already said, we've got a squat now, but when I look at everywhere, apart from me with the keeper and, you know, that might get him, that might change with, you know, this talk of Victor Valdez in October, November, if he can prove his fitness. And although I don't think he's the handset, he's not a bad backup keeper, the former Barcelona, first choice goalkeeper, is he apart from the keeping position? I'm quite confident where we are with things. And it's not just about what we've got currently, it's about success as well. You know, we have, so you've got your schedule, your love room, your soccer, and your tour, like, you know, some Champions League experience with touring, schedule there, soccer, too, with PSG. But then you've got Laurie out on loan, and for the right back, you've got Flanagan and now Manquillo and Johnson. You know, okay, Johnson, if we went tonight, I don't think anyone had shed a tear. But then you look at the left, the Moreno, and Enrique, and Flanagan play over there. And I just think when you look through this squad, we are actually getting, you know, some real, real depth of absolute quality. To bring, I'm going to always call him can, but can or channel with whichever it is, to come on with Mark of it. Last year, you know, we'd be lucky to be bringing on one of the youngsters or something. And it just seems to me that, you know, Rodgers has done it such a patient way. He's looked at the right positions and he's bought with, as you've already said, but he's bought with a philosophy. I don't see that at your night at the moment. I don't see it, you know, I do see it in Chelsea, and they just buy big and Moreno buys big players. And they've had a good transfer window, but I don't see it with, I don't see it with City even, but with Rodgers, every player's bought with some sort of philosophy with a thought behind it about where they're going to, where they're going to play in that system and what they're going to do. I think we've had possibly, you know, as we, I think we should have said before, it's the best transfer window. I remember, especially since, you know, since I was a kid and definitely pushes us on, especially with the guys out on loan and stuff to come back. I'm absolutely made up. I do think we could have, I know Bernie's staying now, but I do think we could have done with a forward or a wide forward if he'd have gone, but he hasn't. And, you know, as a third or fourth choice backup, I think you can do a lot worse than an Italian international, you scored against three of the four top sides last season. So yeah, I think it's, I think it's been a crack on window and, you know, I'm really positive for the future. Bernie and stuff, Bernie and stuff, Graham, thanks for your money, really appreciate it. No problem. Andy, Danny Sturge, let's talk about him for a second and the lack of a song, despite Ray Brady's best efforts. What's going on there? You heard, like, you heard like me, there was a Balletelli song already. Yeah, Balletelli's song already. I suppose how these, most of these songs get, get gone in the first places with the away fans traveling down on a culture train are in the pool beforehand. And someone's just come up with a crack out there for Balletelli and it's very catchy. Storage is a hard man to put a song together for. And there's been lots of quality players over the years that never got a song. You know, and a lot of players deserve the song. It's just there's no real, right? Like it's, a player shouldn't take offense to that there's no song, but it does kind of bogey a little bit to think that Balletelli's coming in, don't know, and has this fucking song that they've sang for pretty much the whole game. And storage must be thinking after last season, he's finally got rid of that fucking Suarez. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to get a song now. I'm going to get a song. And again, he started in Balletelli's shadow. So it's a funny one, but it's a crack out of a song. I mean, if there was ever a thing that you know, warned me towards a player, it's a good song. I was in the shower and all today singing it. And give us no barber there, wasn't it? Fuck off. He needs labor. I don't even know the fourth story of him singing that song. I was laughing head off, but I wouldn't mind that coming back to make the bell. Let's bounce in a minute. Dancing in and out. What? We're going to dance in a minute. What the hell was that? Was that actually? No, when it was at the start of the target song, we're going to bounce in. Oh yeah, yeah. We're going to dance in a minute. There you go. Yeah, yeah. It's weak. Yeah, good work, that's it. It's just next one. Yeah, it's it's just difficult, isn't it, for a storage song, but he should eat this air as one. He doesn't even get the clap like, you know, they just get the clap. They know the clap. I said, I let that one sit for a bit. More people do those. You know, I don't want to talk. He's a good, he's a good, shame lad like that. Yeah, yeah. I don't want to feel like I'm strong enough to not too long. And then Tara's got to be strong. Yeah, fucking hell. Even I just got to be strong for a song. I just give money to come back to the campaign. There you go. Storage deserves the clap for Danny, hashtag clap for Danny. Yeah, yeah. That's the name of the odd start. Finish as usual with some admin. 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