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Well, praise be to your preferred deity, the seemingly interminable way it is over, and we're about to kick off another eight months of fun, despair, elation, deflation, slips, trips, bitching, falling, and everything else that goes hand-in-hand with Liverpool campaign. Tonight, we look at the final preseason game, which, for many of Liverpool's more hipster fans, was the final pre-kick-off massage, and it definitely had a happy finish. Joining me in the bonger tonight, we have a man of a thousand voices, Steve O'Tittleo, Daily, the Norman Price of Podcaster, Dave Thomas, a couple's new rebeading companion Paul Brennan, and the self-appointed dark lord of the tripper-bonger, Phil Wynton-Kasey. Right then, first up, let's try and talk as effusively as possible about a wonderful performance yesterday. So joining us to dissect this festive football occasion is Neil Poole, who's the editor/producer and the main man behind the wonderful We Are Liverpool fan scene, issue two of which was on sale the ground yesterday. We want to start by looking at some of the debutants, Dejan Lovren and Javier Manquillo. We're pretty impressive, I think you'll agree. Is this the type of signing do you think that despite the mourning of some people, really makes us feel as though the squad is being galvanised? What's that your take on the two new lads seeing them live? Yeah, I think, I mean, at this stage in a game, like yesterday's game, really, all you're looking for is do these two lads bring anything sort of new to the table, but they have something different to the team that we haven't got before. I mean, taking into account that Dortmund does very little threat there, and obviously they're both defenders, there's only some which you can read into it. But I think there's certainly enough there to think they are a good sign and certainly based on that one game and they could make the difference. I mean, in terms of Lovren, he was obviously brought in with the idea that he was going to bring a little bit of leadership and a little bit of organisation onto the pitch. That was something when I was watching yesterday, certainly the first arc when he was doing it at my end, is you were really looking out to sort of see, is this as a leadership that we've been told about, is it all true? And you could see him talking a lot more, which isn't too difficult because we've got very sort of shy and backflow research. I think I got a little bit too carried away because I was actually sort of watching it and you could hear, it was quite quiet in the coffee yesterday, and I could hear someone on the pitch sort of shouting, and I figured I'll get in there, it's Lovren doing all the shouting, doing all the air, the carrogate stuff and everything. But then he turned around and I could see it wasn't him and then I was like, "I don't know, shit, that's in German, that's what the development plays". So hopefully he was into the maybe sort of talk and as quiet as opposed he was. But he was still, you know, he was still sort of, he was pointing a lot. Yeah, well that's always a good sign, yeah, that's always a good sign. He's obviously brought it to the team, ethic and everything. We one thing I did notice is that with each of our four goals, he was very much, you know, he used to be sort of running off, but it was weird because he wasn't just sort of congratulating the person who scores. I saw him like formerly going round, sort of shaking everyone's hands, but it's almost like, you know, he's not entirely sure he was involved in the goal, so he's just a little crazy and he's like, you know, graduating and graduating himself with a popular lad, so he goes on and does not just tell everyone the fucking brilliant. So that was good. I'm glad to see that he cares, you know, they're like to sort of do that. I thought sorry for him to be honest because I think people are waiting for him to be shit. So it was great to see him get his goal. In terms of what else he was, I mean, again, I'm not particularly tactically stupid to tell if someone's reading the game is sort of any better, you know, than it has been previously, but I did. So you didn't seem to get caught out at all. Again, there wasn't much threat, but you know, you didn't seem having to use his pace to sort of recover everything. So that would hint at the fact that possibly, you know, is that anticipation is a bit better than sort of maybe some of the other players we've got, like, scale. So you did well. In terms of, is it manquillow or manquillow? Whatever you have yourself, yeah. Yeah, manquillow. You know, he looked great as well. I mean, he, to me, on a two-year loan, some young lad from Spain is just, is just ready for issuing from the crowd. They'd be as sort of one bad game. So I was really happy for him to sort of see him, sort of do well yesterday. You know, in terms of having something new, the party wasn't so much new there because, you know, we had the energy getting up and down, which I think Flanagan's got, you know, we was good getting into the tackle, which I think Flanagan's got. He looked fast, which Johnson doesn't, well, I know what it allowed us to say about the Boston, but anyway. Oh no, you're free to say whatever you want, Neil. I'll be back in here all the way. Once it's not good. I've been waiting for three months for this. I'll get to that, Lisa. But one thing I did notice is that both Johnson and Flanagan, you know, when they put the crosses in, the after the tendency to sort of fizz those balls in like a hundred miles an hour on the edge of the 18 year box, that just sort of go away between like, you know, wasting sort of chest height and all that ever happens is that we lose possession and it's just in service, sort of, you know, a crowd of bodies. What was good yesterday is that, as he was getting my quillow, especially in the first half, was sort of getting deeper into their heart before he was putting the crossing. Yeah, he was hanging them up nicely, wasn't he? Yeah, that's exactly it. He was hanging them up at the back post. Yeah. And it's only when you haven't seen anyone do that for a few years, you know, oh, shit, that's all I got up at the back post. Actually, just like quite striking. At least even keeps the ball sort of in play. At least there's a contest for that ball and that might break for you. And that is something that we've sorely missed. I don't get the wrong three or four games and if he's still doing that, it's not coming off. I'm going to be thinking, and we're like shouting at him, going, stop putting those shit balls in. But at this moment, since I have to go to close the difference, I suppose that's all you can really ask for. So yeah, it was good. I was happy with both of them. Yeah, big thumbs up from me. Good life. Good life. Paul Bryan, following on from what Neil's been saying there. It was really noticeable, wasn't it? That most people are hanging on to see would love and be this shouting leader type. I don't know whether you saw the game on BT where I did, but it basically didn't must have had a mic up as whole because basically all you could hear was him shouting and shouting and shouting. And it was actually him, not the German lad that Neil told us. What did you make? It was menial. Could have been menial. But I don't think so, because his mouth wasn't moving at the time. It might be his adventure, the quest. OK, let's work with that. [LAUGHTER] That'd be impressive, wouldn't it? It would be impressive, yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no. [LAUGHTER] This doesn't work. This doesn't work? It doesn't work. It doesn't really work on a podcast, but Phil's just on the most incredibly shit. [LAUGHTER] Anyway, Paul. What do you mean? Paul, what do you mean? Paul, your idea a bit lower on what you're making. Yeah, I thought it was brilliant. I thought his front foot defending was brilliant. He was aggressive in everything he did when he was contesting for the ball. Sort of like skeletal does only doing it properly, instead of just fell and everything that moves. I thought he won everything that came near him in the air, a few nice interceptions and kind of tackling the front man as it came into him. And I thought his distribution, obviously, was brilliant. He was involved in the first goal, and he scored the second goal. So yeah, I thought he was really good. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. I thought maybe a couple of times I thought it was a bit of a gap between him and Johnson. But other than that, I thought all around it. I thought he was brilliant. And I was one of the people, you know, whinging about how much we spent on him, because I still think 20 million was a bit mad. But if he continues like that, then I won't be whinging much more like basically. And for you, based on that and based on what you saw, he's looking like he cemented in there. Is his skirt going to be alongside him? And what's going on? Yeah, well, I'd hope that a soccer would go a while, a game in alongside. Yeah, it was a bit disappointing. I know there's the big left centre, right centre, right argument and all of a sudden. I'd have liked to have seen soccer get maybe 20 minutes at the end. Yeah. With Auburn. Yeah. Sorry about the sort of awkwardness here. Steve Daly is making his fucking entrance. [LAUGHTER] Oh, Steve looked in there. Didn't you? [LAUGHTER] Oh, Steve looked in there, didn't you? [LAUGHTER] Hey, Steve, how? Well, Paul looked terribly worse. [LAUGHTER] He looked like I was stroking the back of his head. [LAUGHTER] His ship in Triloguisack. [LAUGHTER] [LAUGHTER] Put your headphones in. And your man's got the shelf right behind you as well. And expertly don't, Paul. [LAUGHTER] You know, he managed to keep a train at heart. That was a question. That was a question. Pack a bastard. Dave Thomas, Javier Manquillo, what was your take on him? He wasn't Glenn Johnson. Excellent. I think that, you know-- Good spot. He was straight away. He was our best right back at the club. No, you know, in all seriousness. I thought, look, with all the usual caveats that it's pre-seasoned. It's a friendly, it's a Dortmund team that were at October 1st the day before, but the Oxford just got off the plane. I thought he did loads of things great. I mean, I agree with most of what Nia said. The other thing I died is he won a lot of headers. You know what? I thought that was pretty noticeable. I mean, maybe Johnson wins loads of headers that I don't notice it, or Flanagan wins loads of headers that I don't notice it, but he won a lot of defensive headers. He's actually bigger than I thought. You know, he isn't broad in terms of his physique, but he's tall. I think he needs to work a little bit on his final third. I mean, as Nia was saying, I think he's crossing. It was novel, but how effective it was. I think, you know, he's going to have to get a little bit better. Particularly if you're putting a ball up in the back post for Raheem Sterling to win. I don't think he's going to win many back post headers. But look, he did well. You know, his first game after one training session, you know, you can't really complain about what he did. And on Lovren, I thought Lovren was excellent. Again, you know, all usual caveats and all that. And I agree, you know, with Paul, I've seen a couple of things on, you know, from a bit of analysis showing gaps and positional play. And I kind of think it's, you know, it's kind of easy sometimes to freeze frame in the middle of a match and say, "Oh, look, this player should be here. This player should be there." But, you know, the headlines are, you know, one key pass, you know, one goal and a clean sheet. I'm not sure what else you can ask for Raheem. You ever send them back, you know, he did great. Yeah, well that's, I think that's about fair and fairness. Steve, what do you think of the more upbeat side of things? Mr. Coutinho, Mr. Sterling, Mr. Sturridge, Mr. Henderson, that whole front? Quartet of joy. Yes, the quartet of joy. How much joy did it give you? And like, do you think there's, can we interpret a lot from yesterday and from the general nice interplay that we've seen pre-season that we're going to continue in the same vein? Well, I hope so. I think one of the big things is the role that Coutinho can maybe play with Suarez gone from the side and in no way do I want to say that. It's a good thing that Suarez has gone. But I think as we've all predicted, and I think we've said it, it's been said here when I haven't been on, we've said it when I have, the way we play next season will not be the same, or I don't think it will be the same as how we played last season. And that's the sensible option. Don't try and fit a square peg into a round hole. You had one of the best players in the world who was unpredictable and was just a magician on the ball. If you no longer have that, then you play to your strengths. And Daniel Sturge is now our strength. And I think it will, I think Phil's said it about it being kind of like the Gerard Torres partnership. I can, Coutinho and Sturge just seem to know where each other are. They seem to know what they're going to do. They're on the same wavelength. When you've got two players, we've seen it over 20 years of watching football, whatever it might be, 30 years of watching football, in your case since 1832. (laughter) So, you know, with that in mind, you know, it is one of those things whereby players just strike up partnerships and reports, and it's excellent when they do. And I think they have that there. Great see, Hendo. I think Chan is going to be an excellent addition. And they're really looking forward to seeing, you know, Chan, Hendo and Stevie Gerard. Or, you know, if Mark Vich comes back, we might see Gerard rested for some games whereby I would really like to see Chan, Hendo and Coutinho there, with Sterling and Mark Vich or LaLana out on the two wide position. Not so much LaLana. (laughter) Yeah, we're back. We're back. That's what it is. (laughter) Neil, a lot of you watching Philip Coutinho must have been a joy. Yes, it wasn't to see him exploiting the space that seemed to be there. Yeah, it was great. He was clearly just, you know, the standout player in his. He is, like, sort of, sort of almost taken over the Suarez mountain. I love he's the new person that, when he gets the ball, everyone says it takes, you know, takes him. No, just with Coutinho and Sterling, Sterling and I think all of them, particularly Coutinho and Sterling, it's difficult to know how their careers would have gone and will go, which Suarez wasn't involved, but you get the feeling that part of the value that Suarez will have bought, sort of, in the sort of two and a half years, it is there, and the 75 million is, like, the legacy will be, like, maybe impact these out onto sort of young players like Coutinho and Sterling, where it really sort of seemed to have been sort of inspired by Suarez in terms of trying to play and trying to do the things that he did. That's sort of freedom, sort of, to the game. That obviously really cool plays anyway. Brendan Modges just got part of it, but just for that little sort of, you know, that little extra sparkle, you've got a sort of wonder, sort of how much an impact Suarez has had, and that was certainly the case with Coutinho. I mean, you know, the ball that, you know, he put him for the end to go. Let's go. And just generally, just like a little bag of tricks, I suppose, he was absolutely excellent. I mean, even with storage, I haven't seen the game back since, so, to be honest, that he might just be, like, he turned left, and he didn't look as impressive as he sort of did in a stand-up. There's one leading to Henderson's goal, I think the ball went out. But even the way that ball right at the bottom, the way he sort of, you know, he turned in on it, and just passed it back to Henderson. That was very Suarez's score. It looked like that in a stand, but as I said, he might have just hit the ball. I don't know. But, yeah, so it was great. And, yeah, it was excellent to see. And he certainly nailed the player. I think Coutinho, though, he had an excellent preseason last season as well. You know, he got absolutely on fire. And then when he went into the season, he wasn't quite as good. And he was a little bit, sort of, inconsistent. I think this is the year now, when, you know, Swiss, Suarez haven't gone. He's still only young, but obviously he needs to take that step up again. And I don't think there's much, there's lots to improve, obviously, his goals score, and then he got one yesterday. But also just that consistency in his game. But seeing yesterday was great. And it's like, you know, you pay your money to go in, and with Suarez going, you're wondering, right? You know, where's the sort of enjoyment coming from? It's there in the recipe team. And I think it's he knows the forefront of that. Yeah, that's actually a really interesting point that Neil makes there, Paul, that, you know, Louis Suarez actually did leave a legacy in terms of the way that people might approach the game. That is a couple of years there. It led to the younger players come up, not just being like Neil was saying, they're inventive and out of the cuff. But the strength that you see in these little guys in the tackle and using their bodies and using their body shape is very, very reminiscent a few times. The way Sterling moves now, the way he uses ours to fend off lides and, you know, gets a bit of space for himself. It's remarkable to watch. And it could be not a lot of the one Neil's saying there. Yeah, it could be because that's what made Suarez what he was, the tenacity to go with the ability. And that's exactly what Coutinho and Stern are doing now. Like, you're sort of like, we're on, we've spoken before about Coutinho, like, starting on Insansi, like, basically headbutt in his belly button nearly. Insansi is twice the size, and Stern is not taking any crap off him. But yeah, like, just watching Coutinho and Stern, I say again, I know it's only pre-season, but it was just absolutely brilliant intensity that they have, like, the ability. And just the hunger they have even in these kind of friendlies. And Coutinho is all around game now. Like, when he first came in, he was sort of, you know, the player you'd give it to him and he'd try something outrageous every time, like, a lovely, like, a true ball. And it would either come off or it wouldn't. But now he's, like, he's dictating a lot of the way we attack now, like, dropping deep, dropping out wide and getting involved in our general play a little more. And, like, I think he could play a lot of his ball this season in midfield, rather than, you know, behind the strike or out wide, which I think is great for us. I think, like, it's all around game. It's just coming on so much. It's just amazing to see someone with that vision, isn't it? Like, that little thing true for a storage's goal. And then, at last, we see him taking a shot in the penalty area and he doesn't drag it hopelessly across the goal. That actually goes in the net. Yeah, maybe you should take it on all what's left for. Yeah. But, what's going on? Yeah, I was, I only started watching it, you know, the second half. So, like, I had to record it because my team, my football Sunday team was getting whipped for one. Oh, dear. Yeah, so, Em, what's going on? I only watched the first half back again and, you know, like, that ball. I kind of go up off the couch and say, "It's going to be like another ball to start." "Oh, my fucking Jesus." It was absolutely brilliant. Just the kind of nonchalance of it, where you just kind of flicked it and just walked off, gone blind. And then, go on and finish that one half down for us. Yeah, but I think he really looks like he's going to rip the league apart this season. Yeah, Dave, would you, would you be in concurrence there that we might have really something on our hand, so in terms of potentially two real candidates for a player the year there in the two boys? Player of the year, yes. In pre-season. I'm just saying it. I'm just saying it. Okay. I mean, I think two things, I would say, one is sterling, I still think sterling's further ahead. Just in terms of his end product, I think he, I think he'll score more goals than Coutinho will next season. I also think you do have to say Coutinho was great last pre-season. You know, he did have a great pre-season last pre-season and we were all like, you know, if he kicks on, you know, he could be something special. The difference this year, I think, is that with no Suarez, I think what's in front of Coutinho is a little bit more orthodox. So I think it'll allow him to be a little bit more, you know, kind of read the game a little easier and play balls that he knows someone's going to go into. You know, more of a percentage player, Sturridge is more of a percentage runner, Sturridge is more of a percentage runner. So you could argue that that plays more into the type of game that Coutinho plays, whereas, you know, what he was playing with Suarez, you know, he's playing a ball. Suarez is going the other way and screaming at him because he didn't get it to feet or, you know, you want to do a bicycle kick or you want to do 18 touches or whatever it was, you know, that's so unpredictable. I think, mostly on anything, the fourth goal was that when I was watching it today, I was thinking, do we score that goal with Suarez in the site, right? And let me just be clear what I'm saying here. I'm not saying we didn't score great team goals with Suarez in the site because we did. But that was like, I think it was nine, one touch passes all the way through, right? And if Suarez is one of those players that gets that ball with his back to goal 18 yards out of goal, how many touches does he take that right? So I did think, I'm not saying that's better, you know, and I'm kind of was, you know, my feelings on Suarez, you know, it was the best player I've ever seen. But I did think it gave you a little bit of a window into how we might play without Suarez and how it might play to the strengths of the likes of Sir Luke Coutinho, who were great with Suarez. But I just thought that fourth goal was interesting. I just, all the way through, I'm going, at one point, Suarez takes another touch there and tries to beat the man. And maybe we still score, but he tries to beat the man. So I thought that's what that one was interesting. But just on Coutinho specifically, take it an isolation. He was fucking majestic yesterday. He was the best player on the pitch by a country mile. And if he finishes more chances the way he took his goal, he'll get 10 goals this season. Steve, I want to move the conversation to the midfield area a bit more. I'm going to talk to yourself and feel about looking at Steve Jarrod and Emre Chan as a potential pairing there. And how do you think they make work? Henderson seemed to be very much pushed on yesterday and certainly playing for the majority in mass in a very attacking role. Do you think that's a thing that's doable? We've always talked about this idea of a two on how Jarrod can't really do it, like with someone who's apparently far more mobile like Emre Chan, do you think that's a doable thing for him with Henderson pushed on? I don't know. It's hard to say in the sense that Jarrod and two with Lucas is absolutely a no-go. And even even with Hendo last year, I think the thing about Chan is that he knows that role so well, and he can play that role so well, that he may be able to bring something more to us, especially if the two are both sitting. You know what I mean, if they're not playing as two orthodox sentiments, then you know what I mean, box-to-box midfielders, then it may be a little bit different. But I don't know, it is very, very hard to call it. I don't necessarily see it being a two with Hendo pushed that far on when we get into the season, when we've placed boys in the city within the first three games. I think that maybe you might see slightly similar to last season with Jarrod tucked in behind Chan and him. Yeah, I think that's how it may go. You know what I mean, it's presuming now. We just don't know because obviously they're new personnel and you won't get that feeling until you get to see a few games and get an idea of how they look together. I think that's the first time I've seen them properly together. The other friendies that have been there haven't even the United game. I didn't pay too much heed to anybody that was playing, you know, and where they were playing or anything like that. It was minutes under the belt. The thing is, we're all making the presumption, we still know that it's going to be Jarrod, it's going to start because that just seems to be Brandon's thing. No, the season may pan out and you may not. You can't start a game this season, so you're going to see variations. We'll go to Chan and sit in front of Alan and Hendo or Holland as I'd like to know. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you know what I mean, I don't know, you know, but that's something I would like to see, actually, it is something, if they're going to play that three the way we played it last season, I would like to see Chan in behind Alan and Henderson, and to see how much ground they could get through. They're all well capable of retaining possession, turning possession over, and covering the ground as well. And that could be nice to see, especially if you're playing three very attacking players. I'm not saying Sterling and Katina don't go back and do their bit of work. Of course they do, and we've seen that last season, but it'd be nice to see if they didn't maybe have to do it as much because the three that were there were so industrious and capable of covering so much ground. Pretty good. What was Emery Chan looking like for you, Phil? Is it concerned that he played half the match? I hear he played another half today behind closed doors. Yeah, I was confused as to why Lucas came on because I don't think he'd be here. Come the end of the transfer window. And I think rightfully so. I think it's time that Liverpool's up. But, you know, I love the Chan. I thought it was very interesting because coming back to the setup, I wouldn't call it necessarily a two, but at times they became a two. It was a very, very fluid formation. It was probably one of the most fluid formations I've seen by Liverpool team in the world. Gerard, you know, where he was playing, he was effectively in possession towards centre back the way he actually played. Yeah, we've seen that a lot. He drops in. The two centre backs went very wide and a post on Mankayo and Glenn Johnson. And then Chan went in and joined in with the midfield and Henderson pushed right on. But when we were defending, it became very much a two. Chan seemed to drop in and help out with the covering that Gerard was doing. And Henderson, the fact that it became one of a three in front of the two. So you had Coutinho, Sterling and Henderson, Henderson, predominantly in the right hand side. So in the old Dorkhout type role, where he was helping out Mankayo down the right hand side, Sterling was on the left hand side, basically playing as our left full. And, you know, that's where it looked like a two. So to me, it looked like that Gerard's position was pretty much fixed in a certain point of the actual pitch. And then Chan is almost sweeping in front of that back three, which, when we're in possession. So it's effectively to try to prevent us being caught in transition, which we've talked about before. And I thought then maybe Brendan was given a last look at Lucas to say, right, will I let him go or not? Is he capable of stepping in and doing that same type of thing alongside Gerard? Personally, I didn't think he was because when he came on, he seemed to stand himself in Gerard, seemed to take up the exact same positions in the pitch, to stand in on each of his toes. And there was massive gaps between our mid, the two of them and the rest of the actual, the tree that was on in front of them. And it was just, you know, it's one of those things that you wonder, you just wonder. Is this the sort of fluidity that Rogers is always talking about that he wanted in the actual team itself? So, you know, it was good to see that type of progression. It was good to see the midfield being so fluid in terms of central midfield and the whole lot. And so I'm on and all, you know, I was impressed enough with the fourth half. As I said to you, when we're talking outside the actual game, I thought that Dortmund, it wasn't a full-streamed Dortmund team by any means or shape. But at the same time, they're going to be about the same level as 60% of the premiership teams that we're playing. Like, that was there of Dortmund so it would be a decent side in the actual premiership itself. And we were able to put a team like them to the sword in the same way we put poor teams to the sword in Anfield beforehand. And so that to me was the positive and I thought, yeah, there was plenty movement and challenge to get it. As I said, we become more or less a front sort of sweep and front of Gerard when he drops into that towards centre back. So there's logic and there's a progression in the way he can play. Of course, I'd be looking forward to seeing him play, you know, as a replacement for Gerard in the defence midfield. That's where I think naturally he'll develop into as his contract wears on with ourselves and as Gerard starts to take a step back. But you couldn't really complain too much because we were so dominant. And that was another good thing. We were so dominant in midfield. We kept the ball so well. And we were able to get that ball and quick ball to the front tree in Sterling Coutinho and the storage. Because Sterling was predominantly left hand side, but Henderson was providing mostly outlet on the right hand side. So all in all, look, the midfield did his job on the day and the dealt with whatever was put in front of it. And you can only ask that. That's what you want in your last preseason friendly. Plenty of confidence and a bit of progression in the actual side. Yeah, Neil, it was a real kind of bonus to get to see storage up top yesterday. I think an awful lot was wary and wondering whether we would or not. And he looks to be in good nick. Talk to me about him. But before you do that, just to finish up this idea of the midfield. Looking at Gerard yesterday, he looked very comfortable. Now, as Phil says, it wasn't exactly the most pressurized he's ever going to be with the standard, the opposition yesterday. But first of all, tell me about how Gerard seemed. And secondly, then, talk to me about that and the storage and the movement that you saw from him. Yeah, I mean, Gerard, Gerard, it's been fun. Gerard had a good game. I think we all know that he benefits from someone to, you know, next room, to help him out. And like, John was pretty close to him for the most of that first half. It's the first time that I'm supposed to see a decent amount of time. And he was nice and tidy. And you know, he was just as a laying off and everything. And he didn't think he was exceptional, but I thought, Gerard, sort of quietly got on about his game. I think yesterday with the exception of like, you know, the forward players and loved them probably, it was one of those as a cliche game where, like, every player, it was like, you know, we need to do the tired. You never did anything wrong. I mean, I'm considering that we're a side that often, well, we maybe led to a less extent to the second part of our season. But a team that makes mistakes a fair bit that does not see those mistakes was great. And, yeah, I mean, I never massively noticed, you know, yesterday, to be honest. I mean, you're there really sort of thinking, like, what's over, like, what are these other players like? Like, I'm a man. I can only concentrate on one thing. God bless. You know, I can only look at one player. I have no idea what to call on the rest of the pitch. So, I'm really like our studies is that, again, it's movement was excellent. It put, you will just always score a goal. You know, we had quiet parties, sort of, certainly in the second half. I mean, I was a bit concerned. I really wanted them to take them off. I didn't want to see him come back on in the second half. I was like, right, he's got his goal. He's at 45 minutes. He's being injured. Right, just rest him because he's essentially our only striker that uses a probably got to face in at the moment. But, I mean, he took his goal really well, but that it's just getting, you get blasé about studies now. He will just always score a goal. And that's sort of, you know, what he did yesterday. And just to have that in the bank, that, you know, you're not counting on, you have to go back to Suarez. To do something sort of exceptional is like, he started to get one or two chances. He will put one of those two chances away. And I mean, the goal speak for themselves. And we did it again yesterday. He was quite, I mean, there's a couple of people around me. I mean, like, there always is sort of complaining a little bit. I don't know what he has to do, really, to sort of like get those few down system outside. He just scores goal after goal. He's moving to really good. I think he'll sort of go up a level now to Suarez is not there because I think he likes being the main man. Like, we just took a stunt earlier. I think with Suarez not being there, studies continue on still. We'll probably work together, sort of better, you know, the freedom, sort of up front. So now he was excellent yesterday and just another game under the goal. And on Southampton on Sunday, he'll just score again. You just expect it now. I mean, that is essentially the rate at which he scored in goals. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think you're ever going to completely shut up those moment bastards that seem to frequent the games. Yeah, that just seems to be the way of it. People just love them all. Paul, to move it on a little bit and maybe look at something that's maybe not 100% as positive. I'll talk to yourself and stay well about this. On the day, maybe if we're looking at lads who weren't just as excellent as you would hope. What's wrong, Phil? Look at him. He can't wait. I'm not going to ask him. I'm not even going to ask him. Look at the faces of him. Oh, he's got a point. He's got a point. Paul, talk to me about three people in particular. And like I said, it's not. Talk to me about Martin Scarlle. Talk to me about Land Johnson on the day and talk to me about the performance of Luke's Labour when he came on. What did you think of the guys and what's running your redemption for them? Is running pushing forward for them? They've gotten a lot of abuse lately. I thought Scarlle was OK. Like, I've made me feelings clear on him. I'd get rid of him if I could. Because I think he's a potentially good player, but he's been here seven years or something. I just don't think he's ever going to be a consistent player. He is capable of games like that where he's solid enough and towards the back end of the last season he played some brilliant games first. But I just don't trust him at all. Johnson wasn't as Johnson as he was. I thought he was one of his better games. But he wasn't even really that good, which is saying something. The last summer he saw Johnson playing well but was probably carried away. You mentioned earlier on where we were chatting before the part of it. The sporadic applause that he got for at the Crossfield ball that he painted. It's almost as if people in this state are saying, "I'll give him a break." Maybe, but that's just a statement in itself that a preseason game where he did OK. I'm trying to plug a positive out, but I don't see the point of him being here really soon. I'm delighted, my career is here. I'm delighted, my reign looks like he's coming. Johnson's probably out the door. Lucas was fairly awful. He came on and basically all I remember him doing was kicking people side and to the back of them. And then just laughing because it's so funny to give away free kicks around the edge. Trev actually did a drawing of Lucas. We might put it up until earlier. He has a drawing of Lucas's favorite spot to give away free kicks. It's just there in the corner of the 18 year old. It's circled as well for emphasis. We've got that open that's where I've made here. And as Phil says, he does get himself out of bookings, but kind of joke with the ref. I'll give him that, but just the ridiculous free kicks that he's giving away. People taking the ball into their feet, they've nowhere to go. Oh, have a free kick. I'll take your kiddies out. You reckon he's actually having a laugh with the refs, or is he just doing his best Manuel impression from faulty carrots? Just looking at him going, "OK." Where do you stand, Paul? Steve, what are the three guys? Would you see any of them featuring Reg Lee? Do you think Skirtle? I think Skirtle is the most likely. I worry that Johnson will feature Reg Lee. He'd start the season popping, won't he? I don't know. Rogers was very, very gushing in his praise of Manquio yesterday. I think he was. He was. And Lovren, he was talking about them today saying that he felt that Manquio had had an excellent game for the length of time. He was on the pitch, and basically saying he couldn't ask for much more than Lovren. He's been searching for that type of player since Jamie Carragher left, so that they were his exact words. And I think we could see that yesterday, how commanding Lovren was, just demanding things of players around him that he's only known for a week and a half. You know what I mean? And that's great. You know, it's great to see. It doesn't matter what level of football you play at. You want to see players come in like that, regardless of whether it's Sunday League or whether it's premiership. That's probably where my fear around Skirtle sounds from, because Skirtle was always vocal that he always felt uncomfortable playing alongside Carragher when Carragher was shouting that I'm telling him to get up on the whole lot. And you know, he always was happy. When Carragher never told anybody to get up, drop, drop, drop. I know. But I'm in the net, Jamie. No, he used to say, you know, he'd feel a bit uncomfortable in his game when Carragher was screaming at him all the time. He had to do different things. And you just wonder, you know, if Lovren is so vocal on the pitch, I don't know, because I haven't been in the ground knowing if that's him or not, how does Skirtle react to that, because Skirtle used to be fucking horrific along with Carragher. I used to always think Skirtle did well along with Carragher and anybody else. But as soon as he played along with Carragher, he looked nervous and was more prone to mistakes when he played along with Carragher. It might have just been the pitch of Carragher's voice that was on running well. Skirtle, when Carragher was at his peak, was probably only about 24 as well. You know, it's so quite young for a centre back. I think Skirtle, he'll play until he's not good enough anymore. You know, I think that Lovren is starting and it's about who plays next to him. I think that, you know, the reality is, you know, there's a lot of love for SAC. And I think this is typical of our fans and we're all guilty of it. It's like, you know, the player that we see glimpses of who doesn't tend to play much, we elevate their performance levels beyond the play. Beyond the players that we see every week, because we see them every week and we see their mistakes every week. You only remember the good parts of the players, you don't see that often. Plus, I think, SAC or from the World Cup, was a lot better to SAC or play for Liverpool. Yeah, absolutely. And still, he wasn't the best French defender. You know, I still think probably Cachelli and definitely Ron were better than him. Boss Shelly. Neil, the most controversial of the guys, he keeps getting a mention here on this podcast, is Glenn Johnson. How did you feel he did yesterday? And do you think he's going to be a starter for the season? I think, unfortunately, I think he will. I mean, the thing is, I've got to be obsessed with Johnson now where, you know, you're watching him to make mistakes, which is unfair because you don't watch every other player, so sort of make a mistake. And you're sort of scrutinizing far more than anyone else. So therefore, it's sort of, you know, like emphasises and accentuates it. So, I mean, yesterday, so I've gone the other way. I'm literally sitting there really trying to support a positive spin on every shit thing that he does. (laughter) And the best that could come out with yesterday was, you know, when the emingulators, those goal kicks, that goes to the halfway line, and you always go out, don't be like, you know, support it, doesn't get it, it goes out. It gives him possession. It emingulated one of those balls yesterday. And Johnson asked his back and kept it in. That was the best thing that saw him yesterday. (laughter) It saved one of emingulations. (laughter) And I think we have to give the same possession from it. And to be fair, he wasn't as bad as he has being, but I just, it goes against the real, I don't, because I don't understand it, that's what I just, like, gets on in air so much. Like with every other player, I think Rogers has been particularly sort of ruthless, and if they're not good enough, you go and, you know, they are pinned off whether to be permanently or whether to be within the game. But for some reason, he just persists with Johnson. It was slightly better, yes, they will. I think the ship has sailed now for whatever reason it is. He's just gone to shit, and he just needs to be sold to QPR or Westam. We'll get, like, 15 million off the horse. (laughter) To be honest, that tells you everything you need to know. I mean, the fact that they're the types of clubs that he's getting linked with, and they're the types of clubs that he will end up with, well, for the team that are going to be going for the league this season, which, you know, I believe in most people, that is clearly not good enough. Straight away, I mean, I don't know if Flanagan's injured, but I'd play Enrique before Johnson. I'd play Flanagan before Johnson. And I'm not as big as fan lads. I was just going to say that has come across clearly their nails for a play team. What is the story of Flanagan, to serve in trust? He's injured at the point of not being ready any time soon. I'd still play him ahead of Johnson. (laughter) I believe he is. He took me to one leg. He had to pop. Can I just say, Johnson's best moment yesterday was he took a throw in, that Chan bicycle kick down the line. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That to me was the bicycle kick, that kid, doesn't it? It's great, isn't it? He nearly knocked P-check out. (laughter) I think knock P-check out is the best. That was quality. Neil, to finish this off, talk to us a little bit about your experience yesterday, outside the ground trying to move units of We Are Liverpool. Talk to us a little bit about it, and the magazine itself, and how people can get a pause on it, et cetera, going forward now. Yeah, I mean, it was a bit slow going yesterday because it was a friendly, and you obviously get a different sort of type of crowd. I'm not having to go with people that go to a friendly chat. (laughter) That paid 25 quits for the ticket is much better than day, so it's a 50 quid for the ticket. And also the fact that you can just get that ticket, so it's a bit alone. But obviously, because a lot of people are regular match goals, and you've got just like little kids and things, I mean, I did that like little, so it's like when I'm sending an eight-year-old, kids over to come and buy a coffee, I was actually turning around and going, "You clearly haven't read full cases, please." I was just going to say, don't let them re-case you, Jesus. (laughter) It's actually a swearing manual. (laughter) So, I was actually turning business away because... Because of Casey. Yeah. (laughter) Yeah, right, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. (laughter) Anyway, did Neil tell us a little bit more about how people can get their paws on it and get buying it online and so on? Yeah, I will quickly say yesterday, I mean, because as you know, how do you like to go around the houses? Well, I was just lagging all the people off. Well, it was actually, it was quite funny yesterday because the queue for the shop went out, went, came out of the shop, onto the streets, and then right along the cop, round the corner to where the sensey and the re-standers... Jesus. And there's people, there's people queuing there for two hours, so I, and all the fuckers are standing where I sell the fancy, and so to where me mates sells the fancy and as well. So I had to move, so we were just, I was standing there. It was lashing it down. I was standing next to a bin. (laughter) But it's cutting his teeth off the top of the bin, like it's like mad skank. Look at all these people in the fucking queue, looking at me like, some sort of poshite. (laughter) It's like the GCSE project, you know, like, what do you got there and getting five people with you in your shit clipart and all that stuff. (laughter) But when I went into the game, I wasn't best pleased. So everyone there was a bastard. (laughter) But the people who bought it, they were excellent. Yeah, they're good lads, yeah. (laughter) And the good thing to see though, which I'm happy about, is both online and for the tens of thousands of people who bought it yesterday. It is, it is, it is, and there's people coming back. We've obviously bought a first issue, and they've liked it, and they're coming back for more. And this is, you know, the say and that type of thing. So really, I'm just in a position now where it's getting people to sort of get it in the first place. But I'm happy with the quality of it and sort of the content and everything. I think, as I said before, on that last podcast that I did with you, that you've attended your other problems with and been gone. Yeah, yeah, we just binge it, yeah. Yeah, I remember that. (laughter) I was speaking at it, you know, when you go home. (laughter) Yeah, sorry, we're having a problem with the line, Neil. (laughter) Sorry for that, I was saying that. Give us the link for people buying online and we'll wrap it up with that. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's a nice short website. I've had to do something longer than LFC day trippers. (laughter) We are thevillefanzoon.com. And if you find on that, it's there cheap. It's literally the cheapest. I can sell it. I mean, like, nothing's such a big product. So it is excellent. There's loads of great writers in there and there's something in there for everyone. So if you want to learn words that you never knew, you can read to them's piece. You know what I mean? Some people know full stops and you can read fills. (laughter) Brilliant stuff. Thanks, Neil. Cheers, mate. Okay, let's have a look forward to the Southampton game at the weekend. And in order to do that, we're joined by Rob Palmer from the final third podcast. Rob, how does it feel to be a Southampton fan at the moment and seeing all the top class players that you have had sort of leaving the side and a lot of uncertainty about who's coming back in to replace them? How's that generally feeling as a Southampton fan at the moment? I have to say, it's probably the most difficult summer that I've had to endure as a Southampton fan. In terms of exits because we've lost as our talisman, we've lost Ricky Lambert, our club captain, and we've lost our voice cap in Alabama, Atlanta as well. Hard to take. Both yourselves, but it's also optimistic in a way because we're a club that are built around youth, the youth academy. And these players leave and we're always planning for the future. So it's kind of good in a way that these young players are now going to get an opportunity to step up. Yeah, that's possibly very much looking at the bright side for it as a Rob. You know, it's kind of... It's only a way to look at it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there a general feeling of annoyance about Liverpool as a club, given the sort of cherry-picking that's going on there from us? For me, not personally, because at the end of the day, as I said, we're selling club at the moment. And Liverpool tend to build in a core of young British talent in that team with Sterling, which he's already had with Sturridge. And he's already adding to that with the likes of Atlanta. Lambert's not young, but he's still English, you know? And it was inevitable that, given the season we had, the best one we've ever had in the top flight, it was inevitable we were going to lose our big players to clubs of a bigger stature than us. So it's annoying in a way, because, yeah, we've lost our players, but I don't hold any grocers towards Liverpool at the end of the day. Rob, talk to me about who we can, you know, you've got an inside track there, and you know, as you mentioned, about the kids that are coming up. Who is it that's going to be impressing for Southampton in the season to come? Who should we be keeping an eye out for? I think the young players that we have already, I think the two players that we have to be looking out for are Sam Gallagher, who's a decent young striker. I think he'll be sort of key with Pele, or talk, because I think Pele is going to take a while to sort of integrate into English football. He's a quality player, but he's being played in the Dutch league, and he wasn't particularly successful and clear, yeah, when he was there. So I think I think Gallagher will be showing a lot of the workload there. And also James Watt, probably in my opinion, one of the best young English talents in the game at the moment. He can play defensive midfield as he plays towards the end of the season, or Pochettino. But he can also play a wide right, and he's absolutely fantastic at wide right. He's got probably the best final ball I've seen of a player of his age. He's fantastic, and then sort of a dark horse might be Omar Rowe. He's, I think he's only 19, and he's a winger as well. Very quick young player. Sort of a bit rash in his final ball of the moment, but he has the tricks to get white people. So he is something special. What about your new signings, Tadditch and Fraser Foster? I think on the final third, I said, first or last season was a bit overrated. And I think, I think paying 10 million for him is a bit sort of over the odds. But we did need a keeper who was a bit more consistent and barge, because he's a bit erratic, to be fair. And Toyota is, he's been brought in really as cover, I suppose. He's not really being, he's not really being featured in French Milan since he's been there. He's going to be in their season. But it means he's off a lot of those Vala, which is good. But Tadditch, out on the wing, he's going to be a quality son. He scored 16 goals from the right side for, I think, 20 it was last season. And he's going to book a lot of assists as well. So he's, he's a very good, he's a very good replacement for Alana and Waipin. How do you think things are going to change under Couma in terms of the setup? Or do you think it will be very noticeable? I think, I think under Couma, it's going to be, it's going to be roughly the same as Pochtino's philosophy, to be honest. I think Couma is more of a defensive-minded coach, not to say that he's negative. But he sort of prides himself more on clean cheese than Pochtino did. Pochtino was sort of, he just wanted to kind of go out and outscore the opposition in a way. We had an RO defensive record at the start. But if I'm honest with you, I think that was just down to luck, to be honest. Yeah. But Couma tends to like, he tends to like to have an organised back four. And he likes to have the two, the two holes in the field. He'll actually do a proper defensive job right and just kind of be in there as a token. So I think, I think we'll be expecting less, less goals from setup in this season. But I think more clean cheese, which is applause. How do you see it lining up or what are your hopes for the opening day of the season? Would you be reasonably optimistic against our loss? And generally speaking, what way do you think it's going to look the shape of your team? I think I'm not optimistic to beat yourselves, to be honest, because it's a way and like you have our entire squad. Yeah, sorry about that. Yeah. Well, I think, I think, to be honest, if we go to Anfield and we get a point, that would be a fantastic result. Because the amount of players we've lost, it'll take a while for this side to gel property. To get them to play the way Couma wants them to play. Because as I said, there's a lot of young players going to be coming to it. And they're not going to be used to top level football. They've been playing into development squads and all this. And they've had a few run-outs in the cup games. But I think, I think a point would be probably the best result we can hope for at Anfield. Yeah. Well, look, let me come out from a very, very selfish Liverpool point of view. I want you to tell me something. Because we've been discussing it here amongst ourselves. We're a little bit nervous about a certain situation. Is Ricky Lambert always a bit shit and preseason? [LAUGHTER] Well, I was reading one of your pieces on your website about Ricky Lambert. I was saying that he's sort of, you think he's override by the whole massive preseason tour of the US and all this. And I think, I think, I think to a sense you're right. But he's also, he's also, like, I don't think, I've never said he's a gifted footballer to get me. He's a mechanical footballer. He's a player who sort of works off, works off his own work rate, if you know what I mean. Yeah. Like, it's sort of like if something goes out of sync in a car as an engine or something, it's going to rip itself to pieces. It's the same Ricky Lambert. If something goes wrong with him, or he take him out of his comfort zone and play him in a big tour of the US, something's going to go wrong. Yeah. I don't think he's going to be, yeah, he's going to have anything to worry about. Because for us, he's not exactly, he's never ripped the place apart and preseason. He's a conservative player. And what he's doing is he's being intelligent, and he's saving himself for the season. He doesn't want to be going into the season and pull a hamstring chasing after a ball in the channel. Right. Right. That's his attitude. In my opinion, he's never, never, never, lived up in preseason. He is a mechanical footballer. And he's gone to many concerns. He's been fantastic for us. I jump off a bridge. He told me that he's that important to me. So he hacked the key that Liverpool did for me. He will. He will. He cast it. She's right. I feel really, really bad for even mentioning that never on any way negative. Listen mate, thanks a million for the insights there. I really, really appreciate that. That's very, very, very useful indeed. Right, chaps. Haven't spoken to Rob then. What do we think ourselves might be the likely lineup and shaping the team for the weekend? Paul Brown, get the ball rolling on this. Will he, what do you think it's going to look like? I'd say it'd be pretty similar to what we saw in our instalment. And I'd be fairly happy with that. Obviously, um, what? Fuck off. Anything that is not the spoken word. No, it's not the spoken word. Paul gets free. Not at all. He goes not at all. It's not like fucking a chucky dollar. Chucky Thomas. Straight from the body. Great. Right? Yeah. Sorry for that. Let's go straight. You reckon it's going to be the same. It's very, very similar to what we saw. Yeah. Like if I couldn't make a couple of chains, I'd get back going instead of Skirtle. Well, like it's not going to happen. If Moraine was coming off a plane in London and airport, I'd get him in ahead of Johnson. Right. Or Flanagan if he's even if he's got one of those big plastic boots, I ain't got boots on. Like I'd know that. I think it is going to be the same. And yeah, I wouldn't be too forced about that. Yeah. Okay. And in terms of setup, then you reckon it's going to look like a midfield three, midfield two. I think it's going like that. I'd say it will be three. Yeah. I think yeah. Okay. Okay. So not a lot of similarities to last season. And you reckon that's the team's the team. Stable presuming you are great because you are not in there. Just like. Not as bad as fucking Dave was. Yeah. Not D. Thomas. I need an adult. Give me some great points. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. I'm not going to be in the game for a five-month term. No, no, Sam, I'm not going to play in the state. There is a defence. Jesus, that's a wonderful answer. Anyway, it's the right thing to you like to see from this team. Paul is talking about the unlikely chances of having changes. Would they be the same for you? And it's the right thing you'd like to see specifically. You're looking for it. I think from, we probably need to realize, in my head, it's on him, that last week or so, in the downtown of last year. They've been asset-stripped. You know what I mean? They've got a different manager. Myself and Phil were at the game last year. And, you know, I was very surprised. Well, I was at the game. Phil was asleep, probably, for months. Well, I don't know. It was the usual thing. But, no, I was surprised at the standard of them on the day. Now, we were poor. Storage wasn't playing. Suarez was. Storage wasn't playing, was he? It started playing. We were confused. We were just poor on the day. And, you know, they're going to be a team that have a lot of new players coming in there. The first game of the season. I'm not too worried. I would think, if the starting eleven to start against Dortmund, yesterday goes out against Southampton next week. We pick up three points. Unless we fuck it up. I don't think anything they bring should be a worry for us. And I know that sounds cocky, but that's how I honestly feel about our side at the moment. I feel that if we go out and play the game that we should play, and haven't got the win that we got yesterday, which I think we needed, we should go out and have far too much for them. We should be too strong. That's fair, Dave, isn't it? Like, you know, there comes a time, a lot of clarity, that we just have to say, look, we should just be beaten, isn't that's it? I think we're going to end up saying that a lot this season, right? That we do everything we should be doing. We'll win. The game last season we got to remember was the one where we played Tour and right back and cycle and left back, you know, which is a fucking like absolute clusterfuck from Rogers. So you'd have to assume that he's learnt. The Southampton team, though, they're going to go one or two ways, right? They're either going to be demoralized because of what's happened, and they're going to be a bit shell-shocked, or they're going to have the new manager bounce. And if you're going to pick a game, like you'd want this Southampton side, but with Pochettino, you don't really mean you'd want this team that's being decimated, but with the old manager, rather than with the new manager. So we'll win. We should win. On paper, we should win. I think we've got too much from all over the park. And if we played 80% of the way we played on Sunday, we'll beat them. Phil, Rob was saying that he would think a point to be a good result for them. I know you're not of that opinion for Liverpool. The winning for Liverpool win is probably the only acceptable result. But with the kids and with the manager, the new setup, we have to be winning this all. Yeah, we have to be winning. Yeah. What the fuck was that? What was it? It's a shamey character, actually. Look, you know, start of the season, you're starting at home. It's a bit like Stoke last year. It doesn't matter what score it is once we win the game. It doesn't matter how we win it once we win the game. And you get your first three points in the board. Because we're going into two difficult games after it and two difficult away games in Spores and City. If we win, we're already three points up on the corresponding fixtures of last year. If we draw already a point up on the corresponding fixtures of last year, you know, and it doesn't boil down to your open, forced three fixtures. But you do take a bit of pressure off yourself in terms of going to what you then take into the next two games. You'll be looking to take possibly six points from those open and three games as a minimum. And allowing you to slip up and want to do what you want to do. What you don't want to do is slip up in your force match and then you're putting yourself under pressure to get two wins or at least a win in a draw in your next two games as well. A point at the end of the day will be a bit disappointing, I think, especially because we have played reasonably well in pre-season. You know, we've looked like we've picked up where we left off. Our pass was crisp and smooth on Sunday. It's all you want is to just keep the ball going, keep the way we've done and keep the confidence going. Especially the forced couple of games without Suarez. Just to keep that belief high and keep that fear on our teams that were still a relentless machine in terms of goals or winning games. And that, yes, we might have lost Suarez, but we're as strong or as daily as strong as a team as we were last season. And it gives the fans a great belief. The last thing we want is to have a couple of dodger results and everyone starts getting the doubt and the fear back into their minds again. That's what yesterday was important from that point of view, isn't it? To see the free-flowing football, because I think people are still worried. And most people, I think, even everybody in this room would still like to see a big name coming in. Even if it is an attack in midfielder, just somebody that will put the shits up the opposition. Yeah, it's that element of fear factor that Suarez naturally brought with him because he was so good. But if Coutinho performs like that against good teams and poor teams, then that fear factor is straight away there. They've already got it with Sterling. When they see Sterling on the team sheet, they're not going to be looking forward to playing against him. The same with storage. To see storage on the team sheet, they're going to say, "This guy has goals." And we're going to have our work cut out today when we go out to play these. So it's all about the fear factor. And with those three, you've got that level of fear factor there. And that's what you need to build on. The other sign-ins that we've made can also bring that to the game as well. When they do eventually start making appearances for ourselves in the force team. I'm very hopeful and very positive about the game coming up. There's not much more you can really say because we don't know what's so tempting to look like. We don't know how they're going to set up and we don't know how they're going to play because they are under Cumin. You can only take your markers off Cumin when he was in Holland. Yes, not so much defense, mind of coach, but he does take pride in the defensive side of the game, as Robert said. So it'll be interesting. I'd imagine they'll come and they'll probably look to Capitite for 70 minutes and then maybe try to nick a goal or take a result at that stage. So it'll be up to us to see how we can react to teams who are going to part the bus without Suarez. Yeah, I was going to say, it doesn't really matter, does it? We don't know anything about them because we're going to have to go and play our game and set up the way we want to set up. And you're expecting a bit of a statement, are you? I'm going to approach the Champions League this way in every game we play this season, so we need to get used to that. But I was just going to ask a question, it's slightly off topic, but we were talking about just wanting to see a big name for the sake of a big name. I'm not sure I do, and I thought I did, right up until about five minutes ago or two minutes ago. But the more I think about it, the more I think about it, the more I can see I believe. Darwin, you guys. But in all seriousness... It's stubborn to the point, I've just changed his mind willy-hilly. Well, he spent, you know, somebody's just said there, even if it isn't an attacking field, I think it was you, Phil. But we've just spent 50 million quid on two attacking fielders. So, you know, from my point of view, here's a question. Is Sterling and Coutinho at the level now that Suarez was when he signed for us originally? No, no. Not in terms of gold trust. Probably not. Well, the different players... How many gold cities score between January and the end of the season that year? No, he was in double figures. Well, if I could rephrase this slightly, who would I rather have Sterling now or Suarez when we bought him? Not knowing what Suarez would go on to do. I'd pick Sterling now. But I... But it was expertly... He's... Yeah. The development... We don't know how two seasons was insane. Well, imagine Sterling... I don't know. Imagine Sterling goes and does that. I still would have wanted Suarez down over Sterling now, and that's not putting Sterling down because Sterling is only 19. Right? We were signing Suarez when he was 23, 24. He had already done wonders at the World Cup, was coming with a grown reputation. It netted 39 goals in 47 games for Ajax the year beforehand. He was already a really prolific gold scorer. And the one thing that we're missing from the Sterling's game in terms of the same level of progression and does he bring it... Is that prolific level of goalscore. And if he's playing in one of those attack and fun tree or even in a tree behind him, he needs to bring goals to his game in the same way Suarez brought goals into the team at the same level. He doesn't need score 21 goals next season. If he scores 15 to 20 goals next season, that's going to be an exceptional return for a 20-year-old kid in a team. But I think it would make 15. Yeah. But I think to be fair, if you extrapolated Sterling's format for, say, the last seven months and last season to the full season, he probably scores 12, 13, 14 goals. So even if he stays on par with where he was last season, you're looking at a guy who's going to get in double figures. The thing about the marquee sign and the big name, I think there's two things. One is I just think the argument for it is that I think it's a statement and we can debate whether that's important or not. But I think that going head to head with a big club and securing a big player for a big fee and showing that we're at that table. I think a lot of the fan base wants us to do that. I've always lent more towards where you are, Stephen, which is about the right player. And it's about who's the player that the manager wants. And I don't see the pointing going out. If you take the link to Far Cow as an example, that makes no sense to me. I don't see why we'd spend that money on that player. When you could take that money and go and buy a player that's better suited to our game. When we talked about some of the names in the last part. So that concept of going to buy a Far Cow, it just makes little sense to me. I would like to invite Dean Maria now. My question is if Dean Maria is available now and he's available for $35 million, why did we buy Markerwich then? Didn't we just spend the extra 10 million quid and get Dean Maria to take the place that Markerwich has now? Because I think it comes down to Rogers and the type of player that he wants. And he's caught that I say in it, right? He wants someone that's going to run through a brick wall for him. Dean Maria is not going to run through a brick wall. No, because Dean Maria is going to come in feeling, "I'm a fucking, you know, an international player. I've played forever Madrid. I'm this and that." We don't know each player's individual. We don't know. We do have a personality traits or whatever it may be, but I'm assuming, given the level of detail that he has as a manager, that he has done that sort of research. Are we saying that we're not saying that? I'm a hypocrite on this because my theory all summer long has been Rogers should be allowed by the players. He wants not the players that we feel he should buy. And then every time the words, "Adam Lelana, come into my head." And I go, "Ahhh!" And the other fucking meltdown, because we spent 25 people in Lelana to one side, right? Are we saying that, right? We still try to put him on as the side of the bench, not the football team. Well, I like Lelana, but are we saying that the Rogers is, are we saying, right? That as a club, we're unaware of who Dean Maria is. And we're saying we're not aware of who Dean Maria is. Of course, of course. So I think if it, I think we need, it's not so much about who the player is. Yeah. We need another forward player, someone, let's look at that game on Sunday. Take storage out of that team, right? We don't win that game. That was the issue in the games that we had in America when, when storage wasn't fixed. Yeah. We only had two real threats, which was Cuteño and Sterling. It's what I think that would be imperfect. And that's, that's not having to go at Lambert either. It's just in terms of the way, the speed that we play at. No, it is, seriously, it's, it's not having to go on. The speed that we put, the way our team played at on Sunday. When you put Lambert into the team and you saw when he came on, we don't play with the same speed in attack, right? Absolutely. Right, so Lambert is there to do a job against certain teams in certain positions. And that is, parking the bus would say 25 minutes to go. That, you know, you're going to lay seats to their goal. He's going to be, we're going to be in their box effectively. And he's there at that point in time to play, to play his little true passes, which is very good at. Yeah. Or provide something else in the box or provide screen passes back for players like Cuteño and Sterling coming on to get shots away in 20, 25 yards. Similar to where Chelsea score goals, you know, they score an awful lot of goals from outside the box. It's not necessarily all crosses into the box. They build it around and score from there. So that's what Lambert, in my mind, was always brought in for him. That's why he was there. When Suarez was coming in, Lambert was coming in to be that option after bench. It's not a Route 1 plan B lumped into the big man up front. So do you disagree with Steve Oz recently formed point of view that he's very passionate? Four and a half minutes ago. Fuck me, you mean it. But do you disagree? Are you of the same mind that a lot of us are, that we definitely need somebody? I'm not saying we don't need somebody. I don't think we necessarily need to sign a big name in the wrong position. No, I think we need a striker. This is what I'm saying. So the point that was made was that, you know, even if it's an attacking midfielder, I'm not certain that that's our priority number one at the moment. Getting Moreno, whoever it is, her left back is an absolute priority and signing a backup striker in a similar ilk to storage is very important. That's why I was disappointed when the Remy transfer didn't come up because I thought Remy had 10, 12 goals a season in him as a backup striker for us. Given that there doesn't seem to be that many of those around, of those players that you're talking about, all I meant was another player who kind of intimidates the opposition, you know? But where did the, like, okay, you go out and you buy that big name player for 30 million quid, right? Then all of a sudden you're under pressure to play him because you've just spunked 30 million quid. If you don't, then you have Lelana and him sitting on the bench. Well, I mean, that's 55 million quids worth of... Let it go, Lelana. Again, the area that Suarez has been sold can really hurt us in depth because, like, we always had either him or storage of it. Like, obviously, for a while it was both of them, but we always had one of them available last season, whereas now storage gets injured. We don't have a top-class striker. So I'd agree that there's no point in going out and spending 40 million on another attack in midfield. When you have such a glare and weakness up front. Up front. In, like, death-wise. Yeah. So, yeah, like, I agree, like, it's not about kind of a marquee sign-in or, like, how much you're spending on, but it has to be the right player. And, like, someone, like, I know, like, there's a big, there was, like, Rami was kind of sniffed at. But he would be, like, a more important, he would have been a more important sign than signing another player where we're already covered. Because we made the point earlier that with players like Cuteño and Sterling, you can restructure the team, like, with the players we have, the first 11 to kind of mitigate as far as it's lost. But once one of those players gets injured, especially storage, that's when you're in trouble. So you need to have the right player. But who is that player, Paul? Because if you think about it, we seem to have fucked the bony deal into a cock-tat, right? So, if that's that, what's, who's left? I mean, there's this marrow of a charity kid that we've been linked to. He sounds like another swire. He's like, you know, Robin Maxx, his wife or something, isn't it? The tattoos is the killer, the detail of that story. But, yeah, I mean, like, you know, seriously. I've basically next to no knowledge of outside the English league, so... I don't have the, I don't have the blagging game that people don't have to pull it off, so I'm not even going to try. I think there is a second option, just to play devil's advocate slightly. Let's say that player is not there, the player that can come in, because here's the difficulty, right? You have to buy a player. Let's say storage is fit for 60% of the season, right? And our preferred setup, this player is not going to play in 60% of the games. So who's that player, right? That comes in. So, Remy would have done it. I think if you spend $20 million on bony, I don't think he wants to come in and play 40% of the game, start 40% of the games. So, a wild card theory is that you, and I was actually chatting to a friend at a pod, Anthony, earlier, you know, go in one local, when, you know, I was saying, well, I think he was making the part, you could buy another attack in midfielder and play and develop Sterling into a false name, because I think what's been interesting in the last two games is the Sterling's playing up front. He's played next to Martin, he's played next to, he's played next to Stardust City. So, rather, I think it's difficult to find that player, and I think one of the reasons that we could maybe come up with three or four games that might fit in, might be able to do it. But the reality is, still forgot to find that player. So, maybe you buy another very good attack in player, like a winger or an attack in midfielder, and you say, well, our plan B is you, we play kind of strikerless, you play with Sterling as a false nine and have two attack in players around him. And maybe that gets us to January, and maybe we take a look again or whatever. If it came down to doing that, or buy a Far Cow, I honestly think I would rather go on by Shaqiri or kind of play anchor or someone that can play behind the forwards and play without a number nine, because I think if any system could do it, I always could do it. Yeah, that's kind of what I was trying to say earlier, like, let's narrow down the focus a bit before we broaden it back out to look at the season as a whole, coming up, and let's just get an idea of how we think the match is going to go. So, I'll start Paul with yourself, how do you think this match is going to end? Two and a half to us. Two and a half to us. So, it's Paul. Steve O. Three and a half. Three and a half. Three and a half. Yes, three and a half. That's it. That's a fresh start. It's a new dawn. It's a new day. Dave. Yeah, I mean, I go with Steve. I think we'll score early, and I think we'll win. Well, three and a half. Yeah, I don't know what to say, because every time last year, I used to say, "Yes, Warr isn't score, so we'll win." Now, I don't know what to say, because I'm just used to the show. Sorry, sorry. I was say storage. That's my new line, right, Phil? Four and a half. Thank God. Everything's back in the city, fellas. It's great to be back. I am Lujware. You are listening to Trippen's Chat. [laughter] With Trippen. Right, first question in this section is from Kieran. Kieran is wondering, I know a couple of lots of opinions about this. Should Liverpool, like a couple of other clubs you've seen, acquire an MLS franchise, any thoughts in this chat? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. Yeah. [laughter] It's looking pretty. Yeah. Yeah. Did you want more? Yeah. You'd like a little bit more. Well, it's called Trippen's Chat. I think what's interesting, it's a couple of interesting developments. I think the first interesting bit is they're all of last season's top five, all went to the US this year on toast. So, actually, so you're right there. Liverpool were there. City were there. Chelsea were there. Spurs were there. You know, so they all kind of went to the States. And with Sydney buying the New York franchise, I think that what they're trying to do is they're not going there for the health of North American soccer. They go in there to kind of invade really and expand the Premier League brand into the MLS. And the MLS is more and more becoming a commercial enterprise for people external to the clubs. Like the clubs themselves have things like salary caps and, you know, most of, I think, 90% of the players. I think I sort of start the Clint Dempsey's deal with like the Seattle Sounders. He earns more than every other player on that roster put together. So, more and more money. You know what? Seriously. It's just a good point you're making, right? But the use of the word roster is starting to really piss me off. That's what it is for them. I know, but it's used there terminology. Go to use squad. Sorry. You can't trip a chat, not Phil chat. Shut the fuck up. [Laughter] That's insane. The use of the word roster. Let's go to this one. What would you like me to say, the squad? Yeah, so your point is. So, more and more money is going into the league. And I think that it's a huge market. You know, obviously 250 million people in the States. You know, the television deal that's going to come out for the broadcasting rights. The next one that comes out of there has the potential to dwarf the domestic rights that we already have within the Premier League. So, why wouldn't we set up something in there that's an expansion of, maybe not necessarily the Liverpool brand, but, you know, our owners are already in Boston. Boston already has, you know, the Red Sox brand. I think it's an opportunity to go into something like that. Nobody else feels a bit queasy at all. The cynicism. I'm not mad at it. I'll be honest with you. I think the reason it's being done by City is because they've got hugely deep pockets and want a way of... Because they can. I'll get around FFA. Yeah, for me, we don't have that problem in the sense that we don't have an oligarchs or an Arab's money backing us. We have a financial model that the idea is for the club to be self-sufficient. So, buying another club over in the States, yeah, it probably doesn't make sense for them because it's where their knowledge of sports is. You know, their baseball, their whatever else they've had in the past. I think American football team as well, at some point. You know, they would understand the franchise model, so to speak. But I don't see how it benefits Liverpool. We're not suddenly going to start signing, you know, Hammers Rodriguez and banging him onto the fucking American books and then loaning him back to us like City of So Sneakyly Dome with Lampard. Not that he's that big a deal to me. No, but it just stinks the whole time. Of course it stinks. You know what? Every time in life people put rules there, the idea of the rest of the people is to find a way around those rules. And that's going to be the case for anything that's ever done. You know, why did Lance Armstrong start blood doping instead of taking EPO? It's because he had to find a way around because EPO was too easy determined now. You know, whatever else it might be, you know, whether it's financial, whether it's sporting, whatever, you put rules in place, it's other people's jobs to find a way around them. And that's going to happen in football now with FFP. We've got it suckered up and we've just got to do it on the pitch. Fair game, Phil. Would you say? Yeah, look, it's a great idea to get around FFP. I'm sure they'll close that loophole soon. I don't know if they'll attempt to close the loophole to rent PSG going out and just getting around their transfers or the cap and stuff like that. Because that's effective. What's the idea? Look, as Dave said, there's a presence already in New England. There's a New England revolution. You'd think if there was ever going to be a synergy or say a buoyant to the club, that would be where it is. Because it's the home base of FSG effectively with the red socks and everything else. Any SN sports network and everything like that. You know, there'll be a natural sort of synergy even more. You're being part of New Balance and that's a New England company as well. So, you know, it would allow a point to something that was down there. The concern would be how much of the focus then would shift to the New England franchise as such as opposed to Liverpool Football Club. And then, as Dave's point is the best, we don't have the where at all at the moment to sign multiple names and send them to another club when at this moment in time, we're talking about not making marquee signings because we, you know, we don't have, we better spend the money on signing two players that will fit our system better. And while it's a nice idea and if we had money, lots of money to be born, I think the main focus should be getting the stadium redeveloped. And that's where all our money should be going outside of, you know, the player acquisition and building our squad. Squad, squad, squad, squad. Are you see the way he was allowed to use synergy and you can't use roster? No, no, no. That's a difference, you know what I mean? The difference is when you slack him, he doesn't stop talking, whereas when Dave, when Phil says something, Dave goes, "What would you like me to say?" I'm going, "Stick it up your bollocks." Next question from Barry Carr, Barry's wondering about situations some of us have found ourselves in the past. When and away ticket is not possible, how do you behave if you're sat with the home fans? And do you want any stories on this? I was at St. James's Park a few seasons ago and we had to sit in the home fans, it was the one where Rayne got sent off. Oh yeah. Like they, like the Newcastle fans had a fucking ball down in, I think, down in Henderson. They all played, they were shit, Carol was a disgrace. And Ricky went to go? Yeah. And what's going to, Carol dived, all he did was tap the ball in, he tried to dive and said he got wreathed off and like, they cheered more for that than they did for the goals. She's there horrible times. Oh God yeah. But the fella kind of, it wasn't me and a few of my mates, but the fella to my wife was a Newcastle fan. But he was fairly sound, but he copped on that we were never real fans. I mean, Sissé scored the opener, he got to grab me and he had like, "What are you fucking thinking of that?" He was really, but then, as the game went on, he was telling us, you know, that all the best places to go out at night in half, which was sound enough. But a couple of seats back, there was some, like, there was absolute lunatics. Apparently, yeah, what did you call it? They were saying they were calling down in a smoggy bastard. And one of my mates goes, "Why is he a smoggy bastard?" The man looks at him as if he's like five eggs. He's from fucking Smogsville. I mean, like these fellas. It didn't say that on Wikipedia. Who's your mate, the pause to ask the question. Like, "I'm sorry, can I just ask you this?" He's crazy. Why would you be referring to him as a smoggy bastard? Leave the fucking lunatics off. Don't poke the bear in here. He just hit a horse last week. Like, we got out of there without any trouble. But I think that was more like when Newcastle beat us. If we'd have won, I'm not sure. That would have been nice. You've got to pick your battles. You don't want to pitch up a mill wall. It's not in the red and fucking gores going in. But in LIV. This one's from an old friend of the pod from the early days, Alex Gausen, he asks a question. He says, "Why haven't managers also adopted "garishly multicolored footwear like the players?" Has anyone got any strong ideas or opinions about "garishly colored footwear"? I'm going to come and marry each other. No, don't be a compliment. I love my color boots. I love booties as well. Do you want us to see? You wear boots with a suit. You can see Brandon being the first manager to kind of break this taboo. If anyone's going to do it, Brandon's going to do it. He's got that sort of like live life passco going on day. There's a lot of ways. I reckon Pasco has a pair of those outrageous warrior screamers or something like that for this season to go with his shorts. What's the story with the two different colored boots? Balletary, thank you. It's fucking brutal. It's pretty interesting. Like your lads on my football team have them now. They're rocking up with one pink and one green. How are you feeling about that as a man who's supposed to be mentoring them? I shout, "Why don't you have black boots who comes?" Yeah, how's that going over? They look at me as though I'm very old and don't understand. Yeah. And they're probably right. I get that a lot. Don't worry about it. You can't use it as the year as well. Yeah, yeah. I think Trevor's still hammering nails into the bottom of shoes. They're going to do it for me. I'm saying that. I used to actually, I went through the phase myself of colored boots when it was just coming out. I got a pair of red Umbral boots to go with a red jersey or a red kit that we had. Oh, you bought the full kit wanker boots? No, no, no, no. The football team I was playing for were red. Right. My more red boots. To go with it? Just because I... Yeah. Okay. But then I saw the arrow in my ways at about 18 and I've never had anything but... Yellow. Yellow for me as a blue color. You struggle. And I have a pair of yellow boots. I struggle to match them up with any other... I don't. I don't. No, you do. You struggle to match them up with anything. Like, you can't wear yellow boots at white socks. This is the point of those garish things. See, this is where it's gone wrong, right? Football kits are not a fashion set. Right? This is where it's all about. They are. Exactly. I don't know which shirt would these boots go with. That's everything that's wrong with them. Oh, my yellow boots don't go with my new dress. Fuck. Fuck. The other keepers were in the same boots as my bastard. Actually, you have a hangover dress that you wear, don't you? I did. Yeah. You call it... No, no, no, no. A moo moo, yeah. I said I'd know the hangover dress. Okay. I still haven't got one yet. Oh, you haven't got one yet. No. Because the idea of the nice... Because booties look low with them. Just like a floaty night gown. Yeah. Flannel... Flannel little cotton number. Just... Just nice and loose so that you can go around. You don't have to wear pants around here. Just nice and loose. It's a freak. Got a moo moo. So, colored boots, actual people who own colored boots around the table, you're admitting to a fill. You've had one pair. Oh, when I was 15 or so, it was 70, like, it's coped them on the outside of the way. Oh, the way. Paul. Not really white boots over. You go for the white boots. Yeah. That's kind of it. Here's another thing halfway house. Keepers wearing anything other than black boots is worse than outfield players. Well, it's good. You know what I mean? You have two keeper wankers in here at the moment, and they both have colored boots, like... Yeah. You know, it's bad enough they were letting you play. It's bad enough, but at least we're fine. If your gloves are white, Jerk, straight, like, I always find that if you match your weight, then the way... I hear you're still matching again. You're still matching. Oh, my God. You match your gloves. What the fuck are you? My gloves are an off-white. And my boots are a brilliant white. Yeah. They're an echo. They're an echo for no reason. Yeah, they're an echo. I'm a black boot man. But I just want to go back to Brendan. I think he is... He could definitely rock up in a pair of rhinestone fucking cowboy boots as I've been on the sideline. That's on the color boots thing. We have this image of like, you know, AVB and Rogers and Martinez, these really smart guys. But let's remember, the vast majority of managers in the Premier League look like Sam Alades. Do you know what I mean? So they're not going to rock up in a pair of, like, pink boots. You know? I think you would find that... This is a fair point. You know, you've got Alades, Purellis, Majesty Bruce, and pink boots. It's just not going to happen. It's amazing the way he matches face. The same pews color as his head. Well, I could see Alades in a pair of white crocodile cowboy boots. Oh, yeah. It's amazing the way Tony Puellis wears that cap and he would probably pass judgment on a manager wearing colored boots. He probably wears that condom cap. He'd probably have got his fucking rotten turn up head. They're proud of... I'm not going to draw on a ton of pews. It's your pewellis and re-enter. Actually, Pewellis is the one that would be most likely to wear football boots. Him and Pasco. He must wear football instead of pews. Because he's in the... Like he is. He probably would have been another one to wear boots. And he likes sharks as well. He likes sharks. Pewellis likes to have a shower with the lads afterwards and get stuck in. Yeah. Do you reckon Pewellis has the kit on? What? Do you reckon Pewellis has the kit on? You know he has. He's got the kit on. He's got the kit on. He doesn't let any of his keepers wear a number one because he has it. He's gone. He's gone. Well, for one. He doesn't have his hand on it. Big toe. Big toe. Right. Okay. Next week on "Tripper Chat." Fucking hell. Okay. We finished with some admin then. As always, we want to mention Astro Park. Five and seven inside football is the place to be. So get on here to the website at Astro Park.ie and book your game. Our own website, LFCDaytrippers.com, is somewhere that you should be checking on to too. You'll be mostly impressed with the content and the work that's being done by the lads on there. And we have a particular special announcement we want to make tonight for a night with Ian Rush, which has been put on by GH Promotions in the Green Island Hotel on Saturday. The first of a number of nights being put on by that group, it's a mean greet with Ian Rush. Tickets are 26 euros for that. And then for general entry, 12 euros. And you can book that ticket on 014593406 and your day trippers tonight where Neil Poole, Rob Palmer, Dave Thomas, Paul Brennan, Stephen Dady, Phil Casey and myself, Trevor Downey. Ben Rong, where they were going, "Ah sure, we're not passing to him." Oh no! He didn't get it. He didn't get it. He didn't get it. He didn't get it. But he didn't have to be felt to be fair, right? He touched his crest. No, no, no. He pointed to his crest. He admitted he's not fit. He admitted he's not fit. Can he not be fit? He is 32 now. I mean, he's 20 years younger than you. Get on to me. No, 141. No, 141. I'm not fair in fucking Ricky Lambert, I think that much. I tell you what, I would love to put that there to the club. I want Trev to race Ricky Lambert. (LAUGHTER) Pensioner wins race with Lambert. (LAUGHTER) I don't know, I think that would push Ricky. (LAUGHTER) Job done? Job, don't look, he's scarred. He's scarred and I'm feeling Ricky. It could be a half time. He's got a mighty red Trev and Ricky Lambert. (LAUGHTER) From 25 yards down. I probably scored in the... (LAUGHTER) What do you imagine? Lambert's turned out. (LAUGHTER) And you're behind mighty red. (LAUGHTER) Yeah, well... What was wrong? What did you call him? Big red. Big red. (LAUGHTER) You have to run the ass bike, you're right. (LAUGHTER) Big red. Big red. That's the fucking show of the week. Is this the ice? What's the fucking story with your mighty... (LAUGHTER) But I've already Lambert scored the two goals today. We won two won and Lambert scored them both. (LAUGHTER) Get the fuck. That's what I read, yeah. Oh, that's actually massive. Nobody was there. (LAUGHTER) I feel... (LAUGHTER) Time to fire up the grill. Time to go to Total Wine and find the perfect flavor to pair with those burgers. Ooh, I love their beer cooler. You love their prices even more. Wonderous selection, helpful guides, ridiculously low prices, total wine and more. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more. 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YEURRRSSSS the real season is back. This week we take a look at the last preseason friendly V Borussia Dortmund which saw LFC close off the preseason in some style with a 4-0 win. We look at what we’ve learned from this and more with creator, editor and genius behind the LFC fanzine We Are Liverpool (get it here - www.weareliverpoolfanzine.com) Neil Poole.We look ahead to our first match v Southampton with Irish Saint and member of The Final Third podcast crew Rob Palmer giving us the lowdown from the St Marys perspective including if Rickie Lambert is always shite in Preseason or should we be worried. We have our new section Tripper Chats which deals with some serious and not so serious no match topics Finally get on www.ghpromotions.com for more info on the night with Ian Rush in the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin this saturday August 16th, meet and greet tickets are €26, normal tickets are €12. Details on buying...
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