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Another line from Limerick, we have the unique stylings of Moly. Okay, first up, let's talk about actual Liverpool football matches. So in general, waylads. What do we make it a friendlies that we saw against Brown being against Preston? What's the right thing that we can take from those games at all in general? Moly, what was your overall picture? Well, I missed the Brown B game and gone by reports. I don't think I missed much in that one. The depressing game wasn't about the game I owned, but what can we take? Probably not over that trip. It's these pre-season games and nothing but just meaningless friendlies where the players try to get back to fitness. If there is one bright spark you can't take from it, is the young lads that have come true. Like, you know, especially people like Jordan Eybe, he's been fantastic last couple of games. Even that guy, Kevin Peterson, who's got two and two, and the guy who I've been really impressed with is a Jordan Roster when he's coming here. He's look brilliant. So they're doing really bright sparks, but regardless, you know, performance and how the team plays is, you can't look into too much interest. Moly, when you say about the young lads, are you excited in a way that you might think they might actually get some game time this season, or do you just see it as being the end or a little step for some of them? Like, all of those guys there, obviously Roster is very young, yeah, which didn't you actually see being part of the first team squad? Well, you'll probably be looking at it. No, I haven't said anything. There's a lot of players blocking his pass. Not only Sterling, but obviously to Brody, Mark, which is well, and Lilana. So you'd wonder where is he going to fit in? So, you know, he's probably going to go out and log in for the season, which in a way is a bit of a shame because he's great. He'll give you a fantastic player for us. I really think he could be pushing Sterling in a season or two for that, you know, a top-class teenager in the world figure. So out of the players that I've seen so far, I would obviously be the main guy to come true. But if he does go alone, I would like to see Roster could be, I know he's only I think he's only 16 or 17, and I don't think he's going to break into the first team. But he even got a couple of games in the lead cup, came on himself a few times, that'd be great. Yeah, absolutely. Ryan, how did you get to see the two games, first of all? I seen the Preston one. I was in work for the for the Broncos. Okay, and what was your overall impression of that? Like Molly said, you can't really take a whole lot from the Preston game. I mean, first half performance was pretty, you know, lax eight days ago. I wasn't too surprised that when all the youngsters came on that we actually started to play a bit more impressively. That's because they're, I mean, the team, the Rogers was kind of lining out was, you know, a mixed match of loads of players, ones that he wants for the future and ones that he has no intention of keeping. So, I mean, the goal itself that we conceded was very poor and, you know, was nothing that we hadn't seen throughout the whole year, but I mean, yeah, it's great to see a lot of the youth players coming in. And I was disappointed that Laurie got injured on Wednesday because he was, you know, it was when I found out that he had went off in the first half. I was like, it wasn't even ours to turn on the second half. And I've seen, you know, I only wanted to see him because I'm dying to see him in like a 20 yards sprint. I watched some of the highlights of Coutinho, who again, on this pre if it was, you know, if we could play the whole season, like pre-season, we'd have Coutinho as an ex-messy and Aspasses, Falcau, it'd just be perfect, you know, but obviously that's not how it goes, but, yeah. What did you make of the goal? The Sousa goal was quite special, wasn't it? The leg goal, yeah. I mean, I actually didn't realise it was his first goal. I completely, I actually thought that he had scored before then, but I thought he looked bright. I mean, you know, I know a Neil Cool had a great article there for a while ago of how he's kind of covering his arse, you know, that he's back and he, you know, he said, "Oh, I'd like to go to Porto now, I'm not so sure," but, I mean, that's his job. He wants to be a footballer somewhere, but I'd love to have him. I don't see any problem with having Sousa, so I don't see how there's not a place for him in some ways. I mean, you know, he offers something different. He's left-footed, you know, as reductive as an argument that is, you know, it's something that we don't really have. No, I do. If you go through that squad now, we move Sturridge in an attacking sense, and I can't really think of a whole lot more. There's probably someone who can name them to me now, but I mean, Sousa, I think he's got, I think, you know, I think he's got decent bit of pace. He's no slower than Catina or Allen in a race, in my opinion. He's clever. I think, you know, I think he can play deep. Like, I think we spoke with him at the last time. He plays in the number eight role for Spain, the under 20s are he plays for? I think there's a great future for him if he wants, but it's kind of the same as, you know, another player that looks to be on the way out of the door. If he stays, he stays. I'm happy. If he goes, he goes. I'm probably happy as well. Right. Okay. So sort of moderated excitement there from Ryan with regard to the players that made a little bit of a breakthrough fill your own pressure of the, did you see the two games? I did. Yes. Yeah, I recorded them and watched them. Same as that. Yeah. Yeah. And first of all, the biggest impression I had from the two games is that the kit front down looks really well. Oh. And then from the side, there's a bit too much weight on the sleeves. And there is a strong hint of Middlesbrough after the side view of the kit. There's a serious bang in Middlesbrough. Yeah. And that's really disappointing to me, very much so. More than Luke's as performs as that really got to me a bit. Right. But I do, I do like the color. It's a good color. So the first, the first impression from the two matches was the kit looked okay. I have to say, it looked very well on the mostly Emory Chan coming out there in the top. It did. It did. He looked very, he looks very well. He looks very well. He looks, he looks very powerful. He does look bad. He does. He's a powerful looking man. Yeah. Wonderful hair. Beautiful. Wonderful hair. He also, he was bossing the midfield until he got injured. Was he bossing it? Yeah. Yeah. I liked, and I liked the way he bossed it. Okay. Especially where he, he just naturally drifted into that defensive midfield role, and told Lucas to fuck off the pitch basically. And yeah. You know, it was nice to see that. It was a man who was in control of the, of the game, in control of the tempo. Not the daunting rash, wasn't given away stupid free kicks. You know, we'll, we'll, we'll flood. He's just after making his way into the bunker here. So we'll talk about Lucas and that him falling over a lot in a few minutes. Yeah. But tell me again more of the happy, happy tarts that he had with regards to the two games. They watched them, of course. I was struggling to find happy, happy tarts. Okay. Right. Like Jordan. Yeah. Great. But you know, it's gas because most of the happy, happy tarts came after the substitutions were made. The one that was the U team plan. Yeah. One was the U team plan. I think there's, there's, there's a level of, you know, they're more eager to try and make an impression to be, you know, to put their name there in what Rogers' tarts, they're the ones who are really pushing to do something to say, right, look, I have a future at this club. And, and the like Molly mentioned, Patterson, I think, you know, if you're looking at, okay, remove the fact that we paid an awful lot of money for Berenia and potentially were selling them for 14 million. If you saw, just saw Berenia and you saw Patterson, you know, as two U team players come and true, you would be saying that Patterson looks a better option than Berenia or the two games. People always going to go how brilliant Berenia's movement is. I think Patterson showed incredible intelligence in the actual box for both chances. He creates a little space. He actually gave the ball away against Preston, but was smart enough to, to drop the layers run far back in and make himself open then for Oib. The other thing where Oib was, and I really, what I really enjoyed about him was he was going mad attacking the Boyloin at Las Juarez. You know, I was looking at it. That was that pace just driving at the Boyloin and then we're not looking to knock in the name of his cross. He was getting the head up and then trying to pick players out in the box for a chance. And that's how the Patterson goal comes on. And the strength for the Souso goal as well, that he just the way he held some love at full pace. Exactly. And, you know, Flanagan, I thought, look brilliant again. He does doesn't he? Yeah. And he's so comfortable on both sides now. Let me say two words to you. Sebastian Quatez. Yeah, yeah. You know, look, I've been a big fan of Quatez for, you know, when Common True was a kid, like, you know, when we signed him as a character, like this kid, watch them in the m. Copa America. You're a veteran of money Copa. And many World Cups. But, you know, I watched him and, you know, he had all the skill sets. Yeah, since he came over to Liverpool, he looks slow in relative terms to other center halves that we have. But, you know, the way he wants to play the game reminds me an awful lot of the way Saka wants to play the game. He does try to play it on the front foot. You could see that he likes to sit higher than he does, even though he's limited with pace. He likes to go and attack the bottom and instead of waiting for teams to come on to him. Now, it's a very limited amount of time you're looking at. But I actually thought the defense looked a bit more comfortable when he came on. He seemed natural in what he was doing. And he was eager again to impress. Now, whether that's eager to impress, to get a decent move away, or whether that's, you know, to say, "Look, Brendan, I'm still here. You need a right center back," or he can be your answer. I don't know. But, yeah, you know, this is what pre-season's about. You look at players and you say to yourself, "God, you know, maybe they have got something to offer." And then, what can they convert that into real season form? And can they get confidence back? But the one thing I say about Quattice, he's always looked like a player to me that if he was given some confidence by the manager, he may actually repay him in dividends. And he has looked like he's been lacking confidence since he came to the club for, be it the fourth season when he was basically ignored for the whole season. And then the second season, he seemed to be getting a bit. And then we went to Angie Makakashilakashilakashilakashilak. And he had that game against Lacey in a triore where he got done all over the shop that day. And Rodgers has never fancied him since. So who knows? Who knows? But, you know, as things go, a bit of a ship performance in Brumbi picked up an awful lot against Preston. We got a win against the Preston one. You know, it's something myself on the demo, what I talked about before, in terms of pre-seasons. You can't judge much, but if you're losing and drawing every single game in pre-season, you're not going to hit the ground, run on one decision. Yeah, this always makes me laugh about pre-season games of people writing them off. I think a run of wins really does psychologically make a difference. Well, it did last year. It did last year. You know, Fluddy, you're in the door and we'll go maybe away from the more general area, very stuff, and start looking at specific players. And I know a man that you always have an opinion about is Lucas Leyva. He did, in fairness to him, look well off the pace. He fell over quite a lot. You're a thought on his future. I'm glad I just come in about now. They show you over there. If you get down to the nitty-gree, I would reckon I fell at one and go get fucking checked out for us or process or something. It's fucking legs, and fucking animals, brains. We start off the game fairly sharp. We're moving the bar well, and I say, "Geez, we look tasty here." It goes to Lucas. We get web possession. You know, we get the bar back to another couple of passes. It goes to Lucas. He falls over. And I'm watching him and going, "Okay, he's a little bit off the tempo here." But it was fucking horrific. It just wasn't even that he was off the pace lately. Like, let's remember that this is a leg one team we're playing against. He should be bossing that game. You know, boy, he looked totally shut down. That's been us. Now, I know I give him a lot of slack or a lot of stick. And I have for a long time and totally deserved my opinion, but he's gone. He's getting worse. And to see this bullshit down in the evening of people coming out, "Ah, I lived at Lucas alone, bollocks." If you're not good enough, you're not good enough. And the story. If it was anyone else, I'd say the same. You would say yourself, and you have said it before, there's no need for fans to be getting on and abusing a major on Twitter. You can have your opinion and you can criticize him for his performances. There's no need to tell a fella to fucking retire. Some gobshire I did on Twitter. But I'm his biggest critic, and I wouldn't even do that. Yeah, I love it. Well, I'd be our name, wouldn't it? It wasn't me. You're just your mum, you're a critic. Yeah. So, bro, moving swiftly away from your bogus accounts. So, tell me more. Officially, or effectively, are you telling me that what you see is not a real future for the game? Especially when you compare and contrast them with the likes of the wrestler who came out and looked really calm. Oh, I think we were talking in the group during the game, and that was the one thing. Like, this kid has come on 17 years of age, and he's changed the game in that position. Lucas was shocking. There's bogus into the corner in the fourth half. I thought it was a little crazy torn laser on his ass. You know, at the level we are and where we want to be, not one player's like that, that's what. Just on him as well, you'd question the mentality bit, because you remember when he came back from the World Cup, when he came back to Liverpool, when he removed all his Liverpool bits off, his Twitter account, it's like he's already left the club, and in a lot of ways to me, those two performances looked like a player who was just waiting to go out the door. There could be a lot to that. There could be a lot to that. Can we say something? If I was a manager on those Rogers, and that was the case, and then I was going out the door, I put a plan on him, put a roster on him, give him 90 minutes. That's one of the frustrating things about preseason though, isn't it? Yeah, but it's a shop window stuff as well, isn't it? That's nonsense. Yeah, I think that would have taken that last one. If the club was going to boy a player, they're not going to boy him off, what he was against Preston on the Saturday. That's what we're going to know, what he's doing in previous season. I don't believe in that shop window show you hit early. Yeah, fair enough. Molly, with regard to the defense, how many of the first choice defenders that we're going to end up with, do you reckon we've actually seen performed there against Braun being impressed and so far? I mean, basically, I don't know, if you think about the targets, you think about the talk, about the people who are likely to come in in London, maybe Moreno, and imagine they come in their first teamers. What was your impression of the defenders that we saw on display in the two friendlies? Well, as Phil said, he did a great job in against Preston. Enough to be your first choice for you? I said it's during the party, during the last season, that if I was picking a team, like Plano would be the fourth or fifth name on my team sheet. I know right after Moreno, and what is it, 16, 17 billion for a left-back deer? To me, we're slightly wasting that money when we have John Flanagan who can do such a probably as good as Jaws Moreno-Tiard left-back, but we need a right-back, more badly than a left-back, in my opinion. And if we're a national 16 or 17 million, we should look at the right-hand side, for that type of money he said left-hand side, we have Flanagan, he's doing a fine job, or as Enrique has come back, he's going to be taking selfies on the pages, he's defending so well in London. So, can you give those lives a chance? He didn't let us down last season, did he? So, what has he done to deserve? Brendan Rodgers going, "Okay, Plano, you've had a great season on that, but I'm going to go out now and, you know, I'm going to go out and look for a Moreno." Or, "He looked at Pandey, if you're even wearing a veteran, but Plano's definitely better than a veteran. He's at the level of Davis. I don't know much about this Moreno-Gai, but for me, I have Plano as my first choice left-back on into the new season." Your first choice left-back? I mean, it's not because you're as faithless as all the rest was in your belief that Glenn Johnson will be the first choice right-back. He will be the first choice right-back. Let's be honest about it. I don't think he should be. As I said, I'd like to see that spin-dapp running money on the right-back, but I can't see that happening. So, I think we just have to get used to the idea that Glenn Johnson will be our first choice right-back. And it looks like that, you know, if we are going to the left-back, then Brendan probably wants to see Plano challenge Johnson for that position. So, they come next season when Johnson's contract is up, and he's gone, because less free energy is not going to be kept on. So, he's gone to release 10-3 next season and then, you know, maybe, Brendan sees Plano's position more as a right-back, and that's where he wants to see it from next season, and... Yeah, fair enough. Ryan, after the fenders that you saw on display, who impressed you? Flanagan. Just as simple as that. About it. I mean, Skirtle... No, not good enough for me. I don't even remember the rest, I'm to be honest. Were you having a chorus at the time? It was a cold. I got a lot of abuse for that point. It was John Claude Van Dam there. I just, you know, I mean, at the defense, look, we know it needs a complete overhaul. I think Flanagan should be on the right for me. No, he's good enough for both sides. I think he's a good deputy for either side. I was hoping that wisdom would come back in, and he'd go to right-back because, one, if you had wisdom on the right, and even if you had Flanagan on the right, the only problem there is I don't think Flanagan has enough physicality in some ways to what I'm thinking. But if you had wisdom on the right-hand side, and you've made Moreno on the left, who appears to be a very, you know, a gunhole attacking left-back, I think I've seen a few people that say that his style is, you know, he's not kind of diving into tackles, he's a presser, you know, he presses the ballback, which is what we need, because we can't have full backs or defense-made feelers, Lucas Leyva, who break down the play, you know, that's not the game anymore. We have to turn it around. We have to get the ballback, win the ballback, force seems back, but if you have wisdom on the right and Moreno on the left, I think you've got an opportunity to have one left-back that goes forward a lot, and then you've got Sacco coming over a bit, and then all of a sudden you've kind of got like a flat three in some ways, but Mollie's right, we do need a new right-back. It doesn't look like it's going to happen, but- So on the points there that Ryan's making, what do you make of the people we have to choose from currently in our defense? Who would you like to see shipped out? Who do you like to see coming in? Look and have what we've got there. What we've got available, the only one for me that should start to see is the Sacco. That is the honest route, the rest of them can get in the fucking bin, and I already want to go. It's not going to happen, but Flanagan for me, okay, he reminds you of a general shape. He is what he is. I don't think he's ever going to be an exceptional fullback. I think he did a little job. He has got his own flaws in this game, and I think everyone's just got no other case of Flanagan's quality art because he's Liverpool, he loads the tackle. He gets thrown in half a lot as well. The corner gets tended to be overlooked because he makes a statement, challenges, and clatter somebody out, which is horrible as well. But when we go into Champions League and we play top-so-its, you don't want a skillful winner running one on one on him because he's going to destroy him. I think the Palace game sticks out for me. If anyone goes back to the Palace game, it was like Piotas pinpointed that, and you melt the times they got him or he slayed in the one on one and just ghosted past them. It was ridiculous. He's still on your kid, and I don't want to be able to squat. I think he has a future at the club, but Johnson, for me, he shouldn't be able to show his right back going to the season. Skirtle has his own issues. Again, he was a squat player for him. We needed to have the partner cycle, and I would like to say, I knew that for a little bit. Skirtle probably, like I was saying, just to Phil, I think last week, given the noises that he tends to make when he goes off to play for his international team, he's not the kind of lad who'd be happy sitting on the bench anyway. He'd be rumbling, and if he was on the bench but Christmas, he'd want to go out with me. Well, do I guess he's kind of not the toilet of his career, but he needs to be playing. He needs to be playing every week. He's not a kid any more that he can be waiting to play with. If Lovren comes in, I reckon it will be Lovren's cycle will be the main till, if that's the case, I think the two lazzle product or his other firm, and I go out and Skirtle and do want to. That means we need to boy another two or something like that. I think Skirtle is here anyway this year, right? I think Lovren is going to go out on loan. I'd like to see Lovren go on loan to a premiership club as opposed to going to Spain, just to see how he gets on in the Premier League. I wouldn't be against the idea of a lorry going to Southampton for a season with Lovren coming the opposite way. And again, he gets, because Kuman's not going to play long while football, he's going to try to play pass and start a game in the whole lot. So I wouldn't mind seeing the lorry go there for a season and be good for him, and we'll see how he stacks up into the actual premiership. I said about Skirtle last week. Skirtle is a season great, a season great season and everything in this pre-season has already indicated to me that he's going to have a couple of really good form after Christmas. That's why everyone thinking back about Skirtle having a good season, he didn't have a particularly good season up until Christmas. That's the Gerald thing. My worry is, if we're placing our eggs in the right centre back being Skirtle, and we're bringing in Lovren, and we've got Sacco there, and we've got Agar there, let's say, we've got three predominantly left centre backs. I can see the logic in if Agar is going, bringing in Lovren, but we still need another right centre back in my book, right? Because we don't have another specialist one there. So in reality, I think Lovren is going to play right centre back, and I don't think that's the right option if we're going to use them there. My argument around Lovren, I think Lovren is actually a decent player, and I think it's a good defender, and I will tweet it's similar about it, right? But I think if I was signing Lovren, I'm looking at signing Lovren because Sacco's injury record is not great, and he picks up an awful lot of injuries, and you're going to need somebody who you've got confidence and faith in in terms of playing on that side of the pitch, and that's why I'm signing Lovren, right? So I have two 16, 17 million pound centre backs to cover that position. Then I shift across to the right-hand side, and I'm looking at Johnson, I'm looking at Scarett, and I'm looking at Tory, right? And that doesn't inspire me with confidence, and that's why the defence, and that's where I think we're not all our focus is on the left-hand side, where potentially we could get away with what we already have, and none of the focus is on the right-hand side. Said it enough now, but that's just the opinion on the defence. In terms of the friendlies, you cannot judge the defence because it hasn't been particularly good. As I said here at Hakwada, did well when he came in and did a spare, that already looked the most composed of the right centre backs that we played. I don't think Kelly's done very well in the title, I don't think he's done any favours in terms of staying. Well, let me come in there. It was one of the things I wanted to speak about, which is the kind of players that are on the fringe. We've mentioned a few of them there in passing, but I'm thinking like Kelly, I'm thinking like Connor Cody, are these guys pretty much making their way away, do you think, from the club? Floyd, what were you taking up? Oh, we definitely think so. Before the game started, I was seeing the line up and I had Kelly and I centre half, and I was quite excited to say, okay, you think you've had a 6'4, 2'6, 1'3. There's very few 6'4, 2'3, full backs in the world. I don't normally end around kind of 6'4, or smaller. It's just where the actors are, they're quicker round the tone. I wouldn't look in the 6'4, Kelly, get a run on centre half. It is this position. It always has been this position, and he's kind of being bred in as a refool. I would like to see him get a run in there. Well, it's not looking weekly now at this stage. He doesn't say that I've come back from that injury that he got. Cody makes Lucas look mobile. Jesus. I don't know what it is. Like, what is he? 22 years of age or something like that? You won't think he could ever. The ball comes into it. He takes a touch and you can hear him creaking as he's torn, and he gives it away. I think his level was where he was last year. He has a future there. Molly, talk to me about a fellow that keeps coming up there a lot, and that's Ryan McLachlan. We didn't see him, and he seems to have been gizomped a bit, but it's new kid. Adam Phillips? No, Kevin Stewart. What am I getting, Adam Phillips? He's a 20-year-old, right back that we saw him from Spores. Kevin Stewart, yeah, if this Spores kid is who I'm taking off, yeah, okay, I got mixed up. What's your take on that, Molly? It's a bit of a strange one, trying to drive this Kevin Stewart side, I think, because I know he was released by Spores, so that worries me straight off, so thinking, well, if he's not going off for Spores, how come he's going off for us? Obviously we have Alex Ingletarp, who used to be the Spores Reserve manager, so he would absolutely know what was Stewart and bring to it, and now that he's our reserve team manager, he's brought him over. What worries me is that he's a right back. What's going to happen to Roy McLachlan? Because he hasn't seen the stiff of the first team. I thought he was going to tour either with the United States onto the US. It's a strange one, because he would tough low on apparently last season, and by all accounts, he was fantastic there, and the fans were raving about him. Anytime they were seeing him at a reserve level, he's been brilliant. He's gone on to play for darn early in full international, and even if he was two summers go out last week towards the US, he was playing against Roy McLachlan and he didn't look out of the place. The same time he's seen him. He's a brilliant bush. For some reason, he just doesn't seem defensive. He can't reminds me of that kid. He has always arrived about him, Stephen Derby, you know, when he was going to knock him around to his areas, and he took on the youth teams at the time, and he looked like a real star of the making, and he just disappeared as well. I think he went for one or two, and he just disappeared. The government could be heading the same direction. Just a few lines like that. I remember John Welch, who ended up playing for Press in there the weekend against us as well, looked like he was going to be a little midfield carrier, and just does some pilot. Cody is the same. McLachlan is very interesting, though, because when we talked to Rob Jones that time, he was raving about him. He does seem to have something. He was saying about him and Brad Smith. Both of them have huge big futures, and from what he's seen, he taught McLachlan and all the tools, and definitely was a future right back for Liverpool. He actually taught that he'd be pushing this year to get into the force team. We've gone out, and as I said, we've signed this guy, Kevin Stewart. He's 20. You'd imagine now if Ingle Torp has signed him and has walked him previously, that he'll definitely be playing him in the 21s, and maybe looking to fast track him into the force team, given the issues we have right back. As we said, McLachlan had a fantastic half-season alone, apparently. Maybe he's gone back out alone, and they do have big plans from, but they know that he's gone alone, so it's not going to serve him well when he could get probably a long move early, and maybe move in the preseason to it. Like wisdom going to West Brom. Well, it would make sense if they hadn't brought wisdom on Torp. That theory, you know. Let's just talk briefly about the games that are coming up and what are we even vaguely excited about them. Obviously, the quality of opposition is quite decent after the initial games. I think all of them are being broadcast between BT and Sky as well, so we'd probably get a chance to see them. Is there any particular game you're interested in looking at, or is it basically all blending to one for you, Phil? No, look, I enjoy watching this all the time. You know, in preseason, there's no real pressure in terms of watching the actual matches. You can just sort of sit back, relax, and enjoy, and see who's impressing and who isn't impressing. It'll be more interesting as the players start coming back. The likes of Dragon, Tor, Lalanna's, and Torre Sterling is there as well. You know, you've got the anyone who has knocked out the force around the World Cup, showing in relatively soon in terms of the force game that's on Torre. So you start to get a better idea of what type of shape that Roger's is going to go with, especially because Suarez has gone, I can't see us playing the same shape that we played last year because it was very much to build a team around Suarez. He's going to have to re-jig how he's going to set his actual team up and how the team's going to play. So yeah, I'm interested. The one this weekend, obviously, great. It's another match on the television, something I can sit down and enjoy on a watch, but particularly, you're not going to see, you're seeing it mainly to see, is there anybody standing out? Or is there something you can pick up in formation, why is it the way we want to set up? Will we play three at the back, say, a bit out there? You know, we've started hinting at doing that previously. And how do new signings fit in? I'm really eager to see what Markovitch brings to the side. I think there's rarely being a player, Ryan, that a lot of us sort of look forward to seeing him do his thing as much as Markovitch. Because of, I suppose, the fanfare random on what we've seen in the clips, would you agree? Oh, yeah. I mean, you get all the people who watch, you know, the Portuguese league, you know, we can week out, you know, like Marco, and I don't know the guy's name, the Porto Ball. Yeah. You know, he, like he said, he is the best talent he's seen. And he's been watching dedicated, watching Portuguese league for the last four years. He says he's Bertrand Hammers Rodriguez. He's Bertrand, you know, all these youth, the one UK that I can remember from Portugal. That'll do. Yeah. You know, William Carvala, he says he is the best teenager. He's seen at that level. And I mean, he looks, he does look amazing. I think the hair alone has me kind of solved his eyebrows. The phone tucked in the sock. That's not a phone. The baseball, he's just got every, I mean, he, we've all seen the goal where he loves the keeper. I mean, like, every kind of nowhere, it's almost like kind of rolls off his shin over. It's just, it's beautiful. But I'm really looking forward to seeing how he gets on. And I can't say he's, I don't know if he's going to like the league this year, if he's a year. Yeah, you know, I mean, is it the year too early? But then next year, he'd probably have a storm room for Benfique and he'd cost you 40 million to cost you 50 million. So it's best to get him now. And I think we can just hope that, I mean, he's with the right manager, Rogers, I know, hopefully take him on to a new level, but I'm just really, really excited to see him play. I mean, for someone so young, it really feels like we've, we've signed, you know, Royce the season he joined from Brisbane Munching Lab back to Dortmund, or maybe the year before. Maybe that really good year. Maybe when he had that really good year Munching Lab back and then got his mail put. I'm just really looking forward to seeing what this kid brings. Cause I don't know. I mean, I don't, is he a gold score? Is he a creator? Is he both? That's what I want to see. I want to see what he does. Yeah. So that's, that's at least one exciting study. Anyone else jumping out of jail that he can, he, he, he, he, he, I'm particularly excited about camp. And I would like to see the poor chap. I know, yeah, unfortunately. Typical. Yeah. So you're not watching the matches now, you know? No. I have a picture of him. But he, he, he feels something that we need. He feels a void that we've, we've lacked. So I want to see how that pans out on the line. It's really annoying because he looked really good for 15 minutes, you know, cruising around the park there. He just looked strong. Is he, is he big or is he carrying a few pounds? He looked a little bit unfair. I think he's just tremendously well built, man. Yeah. Yeah. So I believe. What is it there? Is it a unit? We talked about Markovitch in a oil statistic. What did we handle? 20 odd million for the kids. He stinks that they're rowing babbles for me at the moment. And he's not happy guys. Or remember when we, we got linked with Babble and we bought a Babble. Yeah. Perhaps I had the YouTube, like, sir, I had the old Markovitch, a new folk called Bell. Looks great in YouTube, all these little flake stones, looked exciting and came over and I never really walked out from, you know. Now that could be a difference as you played on a raffle beneath as Tim. I don't know enough about him to, to say that you can exote me. It's what I hear, I miss. It could be really hurt in this way. Let yourself go, Fluddy. No, I am. Honestly, I'm not. What about Lallana? You're not excited about Lallana? No, not only excited about him here. No. No, he's going to win a league's win. Fluddy, do you enjoy Christmas, do you? Mollie. Mollie, help us out here about the album book. Who's the one or two players that you're looking forward to seeing? Would it be Markovitch, the obvious one or two anyone else? You'd like to see? Well, Lallana, I was really interested in seeing every kind of bush. I'm far too. You won't be seeing him, no, because he's older, determined. But you would coach out here, in regards to Lallana. Do you know how you actually kind of forgot to resign Lallana, do you? Do you want me to ask? There was loads of talk about him coming in and then he kind of came and there was no real fan affairs going to go, "Oh yeah, Adam Lallana is there." Yeah. So, yeah, we kind of interesting to see how Lallana fits into club and where we're bringing plays and when you put them in, that's number 10 role or where you put them in open wonder-wise positions. So, yeah, be it to see all that out of your side. Same as that, I can't wait to see him play just to see what he's going to do. It's, as you say, it's the most underwhelming 20 plus million signing ever. Although, sorry, yeah, there's been rumours about the actual deal, isn't there? What about just to round us off then, Phil, for you, who's the person you're looking for? It's the same most. How was it, Enrique? I was delighted to see him back. Yeah. I'm convinced he's going to wear one of those GoPro cameras on a stick stuck out of his jersey so he can get live selfies with a bunch of shows on him. When he's taking shows, he's getting pictures with the fans and everything I'm getting skinned by. Live feed to YouTube. Right issues aren't over the shop, but he won't mind because a big smile in his face. He was happy out. He's let his hair grow again. Yeah. He's obviously been impressed with Chan's hair cut and all this, all to take on it. It's a horrific version of what it is. It's like a side parent, but it's like it's greased down onto his head. Just now Slicker doesn't know anything. No, he doesn't know anything. It only takes him a night to grow that hair anyway. Oh, no. He's got, he actually, he must have been listened to the part and I heard the Lego stuff and just went down, got a Lego wig and just got it. Yeah. I said, "I'm off to the States." Yeah. I'm actually interested to see how LaLana gets on. I think it is. It's funny because a lot of us did start to forget about that. LaLana was, you know, there. You do tend to forget that we signed them and we spent whatever amount a million on them because of the amount of soilings that we're doing. For a team that wasn't necessarily in a transitional phase to use that phrase, but because Suarez goes, we seem to be back into a transitional phase and we're signed in six, seven, I always expect that we'd buy five or six players purely because we needed the squad to compete in the Champions League. And I'd argue that the squad is a lot stronger than it was last year. You'd question whether the Force 11 is stronger and I don't think, I don't think your Force 11 can be stronger when you've lost Suarez, right? Because the question marks now will be where the golds come from. That's going to, you know, that's the first thing we have to get over. We have to get, you know, to show that we can win again without Suarez and win repeatedly without Suarez. And I think the Force 10 games will be crucial to how the season actually pans out because that's when you need to, you know, you need to sort of get behind and move on. But we have a difficult opening. But like, again, I'm looking at some of the kids. It'd be interesting to see. It'd be interesting to see how Seuss all gets on because he has looked well in the games. Like, like, Coutinho. But I think Seuss all probably possesses a bit more of a gold threat than Coutinho does at this moment in time. And yeah, Mark of it, to be interested to see what he brings to the parrot. It'd be interesting to see how we're going to line up. And it goes back to how we're going to line up in these friendlies, you know, where does the Atlanta fit in? What type of formation do we play? Is storage going to effectively become, are we starting heading back to a 4-2-3-1 where storage becomes, for all intents, porps, as a Torres type center forward? Because we know he has pace. We know he looks to run the channels. We know he looks to go avoid and then cut in and attack. And then do we have a rotate and tree behind him? And potentially a better rotate and tree than Rafa ever had behind Torres at any point. Because we've got more quality on, you know, for say, a left side and a right side of that tree behind what we would have had then. Then the question is the two. And, you know, can Chan, you know, release Gerard to play a controlled road? People think that he can't actually play in a two there. But, you know, if you have, I don't know, maybe you don't play Gerard there. Gerard sits out a few of the games because, you know, he is getting older. He's acknowledged the boy retiring from international football. There's going to be games, I think, Jordan the League, that he doesn't play. And then what type of tool would you play there? I think Henderson and Chan could be a great option in there for a two. Yeah, Flurry, we kind of touched on this last week. I think it was something I'd suggest to myself. And people are writing off the idea of the preseason friendlies. Would the seismic change now with Suarez out means there is going to be a change in the way that Liverpool set up? I mean, just has to be. So, is it going to be seen in these games in the tactical approach from Rodgers? I mean, do we need to actually, like, get our shit together and start working whatever the health system he's going to work in these games coming up? If he's not thinking that he should be, let's not make a mistake and think of this. He only found that formation half of a two-year season. The Detroit three or four formations to guess Suarez and storage in the same team. And that only happened half of a two-year season. Then we sent the kick on when we found that kind of magical formation to start the Christmas. He's just going to have to come up with something again. But I think he should be looking at it now. A deal tank, as Phil said, we might move to a four, two, three, one. That's actually quite excellent, which you said. Henderson can plan them too. The mobility in the two of them and the work rate in the two of them. Fantastic. With the likes of, again, Don, what about Magrich, who's supposed to be this silky skills and left, standing on the right, the line in the middle of storage. But that's excellent. But if we settle for that system, and Jared comes in for his rotation, which he will, does that not automatically leave him a two, understand that automatically leave us in trouble? Because it doesn't really soon, does it, that two? No, you can go back and go with the three. You can go with the four or three. Trade away, we kind of finished last season. So you have to adapt? Yeah, adapt. And you go with Henderson and Chan, present the ball. You're out sitting where he is, and then you have the width of Magrich and Sterling. Yeah, with storage up top. It's looking like it's going to be storage every year, comparing. That's much as he can, yeah. As much as he can. It definitely, as he said, Jared's not going to play every game. There's a lot of hope. Which happens to live football. He's not going to be able to do three games a week, not a chance. And he's got to be protected a little bit now with this season. They'll have a man at his age, they get in the middle of the morning, he hasn't had a clock playing every single minute of every game. Ridiculous. Yeah. But isn't that why we have now? We have Alan, we have Henderson, we have Chan. We've actually got, if you look at the three of them, they can play in a myriad of positions in that midfield. Unlike, you know, if you have Lucas, he can really only play as a replacement for Gerard in the midfield, in a tree effectively. And even if a system he played, he couldn't fill that role. Like, he can play as a defensive defender, but he's not going to control him. So turn into a proper Roger squad, where you have people who can. Yeah, you can call him multi-cast. Give options. Yeah, yeah. You can really option there. Molly, is that fair enough? We heard the news today that Jared has gone to Knuckle and Headwood, England. Would it be fair to say that we'll probably see a little bit less soon this season? Or would you fully expect him to start every game as the season begins? Well, I think he'd want to start every game, but I think we're all right. I think I can see him playing every game of season, especially when we have Champions League. I'm sure we're going to want to go on a better couple on this season than we did on last. And I think that's why we brought in the likes of Emery Chan. So he can't fill that role. And as you said, we have Joe Allen, even Lucas. Even Anderson could probably fit that role as well. So we have a kind of variety in midfield who can play a couple of different positions. So even though I think Gerard would want to play every game, I think Brandon might sit down and him join us. Um, listen, Stevie, you know, we ain't got a laser, you used to. So I'm afraid you're going to have to drop out every now and again. Yeah, yeah, fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. The spirit of Florida, you're strong on this one. Finish this out on the Jared Tough, Florida yourself. Do you want to see him start as many games as possible? Or do you think it's very, very important that he's rationed? I want them for the big games. Let's be honest, in all disrespect to the bottom half of the table clubs, we should be out of stage. You can fucking beat this without this DVD. And I do think with the Lucy Chan and the handoffs and Jared, that can play there in that position now, we can't rest on. We can use them that when we really need them. I do think when you were saying them typical games that you've got a player that's going to drift in. I think we'll go with a trick across the middle. I think Henderson and Jared will all play. And I think we'll have the two avoidments. We'll drop in as if so when we lose possession of all, they will drop in and become literally a 40-man midfield. Yeah. And then when we win possession, we're just hitting them with pace. That's what we're doing very well last season. A lot of the things that we've mortared the looks of everything that I asked on at home. We don't that very well that we let them have possession of the ball. We were quite willing to let them have it. And we were kind of dropping 40 yards and saw it around half. And said, well, come and break this down. And you could see straight away as soon as they won the ball. Sterling went that wood. And I actually think Suarez filled in on the left side. He had a really effective avoidment. And we just were very hard to break down. As soon as we won it, Jared was opening up teams. He was getting on it. And I think all of Henderson can and Jared. Jared's the only one that can do that. You can see something quickly and get us on the front for quick. Which is the thing you think we're going to need at certain times? I think we will need it because you're not going to need that in other games. Maybe in Europe where you want to keep it a little bit taller. Then you can go with your Henderson and can as a tail. And you can just keep things solid there. You're not looking at the spring as quickly. And you're just looking to maybe use the pace of storage and styling or you don't know somewhat. That's lovely. And we'll start off with I suppose Barini. And there is he going on a horse's story kind of set up. Only your latest take on the Barini situation as well. It looks like he's there. His agent came out today and said that he's going to refuse the sooner enough that Barini wants to stay and fight for his place. And he thinks he's going to play some game time this season. But it looks like he's there. And I'm really sure a great summer dash that lip pulled it. And that she want to celebrate your daughter. Or they didn't show it. Or they didn't want to let him put you off her. It was just too good to turn down. We'll never see 14 million on the table for him again, will we? No, no. And he says you couldn't turn. Like I'm not really against selling it. But as you said, 14 million. You can't turn the money down for him. And if the fair is bringing you, he's probably taking himself as well. It looks more or less as gone. So that just leaves Remy and Lambert to get past. The glass season, Barini got 10 goals in 40 games. So you know, compared at Lambert, he got 14. And he said he wanted matches. That's only next to four. And you could argue really that Lambert's Southampton team is much better than what Barini played with in a certain team. Rema, he got 14 as well. So he's going to get four more than Barini. Now, fair enough, he only talked 27 games to get to that. But if you look at the stats wise, he's not. He's not miles behind guys like Lambert. How many penalties though, Molly? The Barini score. Yeah. I didn't look at it, but I know he scored. Was it two or three games for the director of the envelope? He scored 10 goals in 14 and more penalties. But to say, I couldn't turn for Lambert. Yeah, I've been saying that a few weeks earlier. Yeah, I don't get this. Let's start on Lambert, seriously. Yeah, so basically, yeah, yeah. So you think it's looking, because the guy's entering on the rest of him, the noise is coming from his agent. It's looking more like he's staying than he's going. Yeah, it's look like he's staying more more than he's going. And as I said, look, 14 million. You have to set up that money for a player that hasn't really ever been a part of our team. You have to set this. But if he wants to stay, I said, go look to the lead. Henderson did a few seasons ago when he wanted to move him off to Fulham to bring him to Dempsey. And he said, no, I want to save five for a place. And look what he is. So really, he's doing to save five for a look to. Yeah, fair enough. Phil, would you be happy enough to see the kids staying around, or would you? Who, Barini? Yeah, would you prefer to take an early run? Look, I thought Barini would have a much bigger impact than he has had at the club. When he came, I was a bit excited, because I'd seen him play for Roman in the season beforehand. He looked like he had all the natural instincts of saying in Zagi, where he's not necessarily brilliant at what he does when he gets in the box. He's rootless. He's never shown that rootlessness at the club. And in fairness, he didn't show the rootlessness at Sunderland. He had a good run towards the end of the season. As he said, it's got a lot of penalties. You know, score goals, you know, in big moments for Sunderland, which galvanizes reputation with the Sunderland fans. And for him, I think he needs to take away the whole Liverpool team, whether he's good enough to play, right? But I think him moving to Sunderland will potentially be a very good move for the kid, because he will play week in, week out. He will get a chance to develop as a centre forward, you know, and see how high his standard reach. My only take on it, and I think it's a valid point. I think the guy wants to go about Italy, if he's going to go anywhere, right? And if he's going to go back to Italy, we'll be lucky to get 8 million for him. Yeah, that's the whole thing about it. Now, if you're trowed at against, we're going to pay 8.5 million for Remy, and you say you're swapping Remy for Burini. Like, it's still a neutral deal, and, you know, we're coming out with a better striker, who's going to have a bigger goal trip than Burini will, of course, over the course of the season. But it's, you know, it's one of those games where we could end up with him stuck until Christmas, and then he goes out and loaned, because the Italians, and we all know the fucking notorious for wanting loaned is, look at Napoli getting meat on loan. You know what I mean? That just shows you what they're prepared to do, and then there'll be these things that he has to play certain amount of games for the boy option to kick in, and they'll play him a half a game less than he should to make it in and come back and look to negotiate at the table. Whereas I think for the club and Sunderland, obviously, they want to do the deal because it works for both of them. But, you know, you can't force a guy to leave, who has his contract there, and maybe he might be looking for a bit of a sweeter. You know, look, you're getting 40 million here. I'm saying I don't want to go. I want my loyalty payment to stay. If you want me to go, you're going to have to pay me X amount out of the rest of my contract, because I'm not going to get the same wages if I go to Sunderland. And that, look, there's nothing wrong with that. That's his contract. He's entitled to do this. He's entitled to do what he wants, because he's not wanted at the club anymore. Ryan, when he came to the club first, an awful lot of those were grasping at straws and saying, "Oh, look at the lovely, intelligent movement, because the guy wasn't scoring goals." That wore a bit thin, and then the goals that materialised either. Now, he seemed to do quite well with Sunderland. Maybe it's got something to do with being trusted. Who the hell knows? Is he the guy that you'd like to stay at the club, or would you be happy enough to see him move on for somebody else coming in? Um, it's very much 50/50. I mean, I was expecting him to stay. What now that the bit has come in, like, I'm not surprised that he might go. I mean, when he, like, I think he is a clever enough player, but I think Phil is right. I mean, I think he found his groove in Italy. I mean, he, it was kind of, it's not our fault, but we shouldn't have taken it. Like, we wouldn't know that he wouldn't work anymore. I don't think the English speed and the style, I don't think it suits him. I mean, I think he's more, the more he has to think of a chance, I think the more he's likely to miss. I mean, we've seen him in on goal a couple of times. I remember, again, as if the Shamrock girl was named, the only game I've been to in the last 10 years. That you remember I've got. And he was put through on goal by, I don't know who played the pass. I think it was, it could have been Alan. What a beautiful passing on goal. And all you have to do is knock around the keeper. I mean, the keeper's going to door, and he doesn't, he just keeps his run straight. He doesn't bend his run, and he did it in the preseason of that year as well. And I was like, nothing has changed in a year. I mean, if you look at his goals for Sunderland, there's one screamer against Newcastle. There's a very good goal against Man City in the final. The rest are penalties. He doesn't really score ones where he has to compose or think about it. They seem more like snapshots, if you know what I mean? Yeah. Where he's like, "Fuck, I gotta hit it, I gotta hit it." And he gets a great connection and it's in. So a lot of his goals in Italy weren't like that, but I think, look, 14 million pound, how can you turn it down? As well as the rumoured, 7 million for us, past, I mean, I suppose, I saw Haiti. 21 million pound for those who considered and paid, what, 15 million, 16? It's 16 and a half, but hell never. Okay, well, that's still a profit. I mean, you know, I feel sorry for Breen. I really thought he cares a lot. He has a lot of passion, but his touch is shit. He isn't finishing it. He's not going to get a run up front. He's going to have to play as a wide forward. He's not a wide forward. He's a number nine. Or else he's going to play with someone who's a number nine. He's going to have a partner, but look, I think it's just tiny. It's probably best if he got the move. Feels right. Why should he go to Sunderland? Maybe he isn't a level above that. He might be in the mid-table level and he's going to the bottom half of the bottom half, the bottom quarter of the Premier League. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I shouldn't have had this one point. It's still like the half and the one hundred percent. Yeah, the one point, the one point. Bloody Efella, who seems to be on his way, certainly to the club, apparently he's on a plane. He's picking up Chan who had a parachute out in the green land. Did you? That's really the rescue. He wants to see polar bears. He's about to get zapped. The rest of them. It's a little like Remy. What's your thoughts on like Remy as a man who can be critical as hell? Is he someone you're likely... Oh, I just think all footballers are shit at this present point. As I said, the World Cup was crap. I can't handle that, but when you're aware we want to be and what we're doing and the toy storage is going to be our main man next season. We know we can coin a sense of why Rogers is going to play. Yeah. I don't think we play the tail, we play one. And the only player out there that we can say that has any kind of likeness to the storage is Remy. Yeah. And 8 million, that's a steal, that is a steal. And he could coin out to be a decent player, you know. Especially, he has golden... It's around the boy better players as well. Yeah, exactly. He has goals and I'm like... Me and Phil always have rails over this. All you're looking at when you're a striker is with a bit of pace. You know, a bit of pace, a bit of milk, a bit of gold. Yeah. You know, I hate to use wooden fuckers that run in straight lines. Yeah. And you know, and you kick a ball and bounce off, maybe swap. I hate that, I want real strikers. And Remy is a proper striker. You know, you can see him, he's looking to get off the back of the defenders and if he's not getting off the back, he's coming short, looking for the fee. Constant milk, but I hate to use wooden players to just want the fee and that's it. And you don't want to mention it. At least Remy has some kind of options about it. But I can't actually think of any... It's actually a decent deal, you know, just as possible. Get him, get him. So this is all wrong, so let's get you back and track here and tell me a little bit about Ricky Lambers. Come on. I know you're mad to talk about Ricky Lambers. No, no, no. No, we've got them up now, right? No, don't fucking bring it down, right? We've already had fucking Lucasville. No, I don't want fucking Lambers. I don't see what he brings to the table. Yeah. Everyone's saying he's a plan B. To me, he's not a plan B because a plan B is something you want. The boxing is going to get in the end of things. One thing that surprises me about what I've heard from you is you don't seem to see any guy in the bottom, which is something I would have picked up on. Oh, I don't think he has a lot of guy in the bottom. He's game. He's one of them defenders. He's got a passing him, bloody. He's going through passing him, surely. Yeah, but he's supposed to be in the end of the fucking things. Don't point true passing him. [LAUGHTER] There's lots of good examples of front men, not necessarily having lots of pace, but with a bit of vision, can open up, get defenses with good slide passes in the hole. Similar to the way Berberthoff operated, if he has a decent forward around him. And I know you don't think he has much about him, but for me, I think for 4 million quid, it's, you know, we've now-- No, it's-- But instead of Aspasparini, right, as backups and options after bench, we've now got Lambert. And we're going to have Remy who's going to be challenging for the spotlight. That's class. Oh, no, but you have a lot more strength there. You keep saying, instead of Aspasparini, you have Remy and Lambert. No, but instead of Suarez and Aspasp, you have Remy and Lambert. So-- But you're changing your shape. So look, you're not necessarily playing the same way. So you're building your team in a completely different way to the way it was with Suarez. We can't replace Suarez, because you see-- No, we can't do that. But if Lambert comes in, does he plays the tail, or does he play on top of his own? I think you play him as a number nine, he plays as a false nine. Yeah, that's great. And drops off. And then you have a MAC of it and Sterling, where you have-- Why do you stand your side? For example, in the first game, we broke down the left-hand sword, and he makes her run from the middle of the pregnant fair play to him. He makes the run. It's a fucking straight run for 40 yards. He doesn't show the movement of a top striker, or maybe pulling slightly after the defender, and then coming back to the front post. He doesn't-- he just makes the defenders more. He looks-- makes it easy for him. The defender just runs the sword and wins the ball. He doesn't show any movement. That's the type of goal at the top side of the fall to have. And honestly, I don't see him scoring a lot of goals. So it's movement, is he? He lacks movement. But I think he's not going to fall back. He's just going to close. Now he's out of the halves. But-- Now I see, I think you're seeing him in a game where, if we're going to-- I think we'd be more likely to play him in games where they park the bus, and where he's not making those runs from 40 yards out, where he's going to be played in around a packed box. Where are the type of balls that we were saying right now? One pass, normally. Yeah, take the ball into him. Take it off, give it, and then he has the capability of playing a little true ball. And if the forestness wide and the ball is coming in the box, he has a genuine threat in the air, which we didn't have last year. So there's options to his game where you can see an awful lot in an Anfield towards the back end of the season. Teams were just putting nine, ten lads in the box and not even looking to break against us. And then it's up to us to break it down. And I think that's where he gives us a different option. And I think in the cups, going back to, especially in the fourth half of the season, the league cup, and then the second half of the season, the FA cup, he's going to play most of those games as well. And I think he's, you know, I think he gives, I think you need options. I think he's going to be someone that that gives us something. But, you know, I don't think he's going to be forest choice, but at that way. I definitely will be. Let's talk about one more man. Then before we wrap this up, that's Dejan Lovren, who again is beyond the strong link at this point. It seems to be very much a thing that's going to happen. Ryan, your own thoughts on him. Like, I mean, is Lovren going to be the answer to our problems there in defence? Or might he just be a man who's going to raise more questions for us? Look, we could have got him last year and we didn't put the club of gone back in again from so they're obviously keen on him. A lot of people believe he's, you know, he's a Roger sign, he's a committee sign, and like, apparently he's actually both. You know, they both want him, which of course he is, because Roger is on the committee. But in my eyes, right, I don't mind if he comes in. And are we overpaying? Probably, probably. And should we have got him last year? Probably as well. But last year, I think the only reason we're seeing Martin Skirtle for another year or why he was there last year is because he went and bought Sacco. And I don't think that was the plan. I think Roger's wanted a right centre back to keep Agra for one more year or two more years. So since Sacco has come in, like, he's either like, he is the best centre back at the club, for me. And, you know, I don't think it's going to be Agra. I don't think it's going to be Skirtle who should be number one or the ones that you build your defence in. It has to be Sacco. So if Lovren's coming in, if he's coming in for that money, he's not going to be sitting on the bench. He has to play beside Mamadou Sacco. Look, he's, you know, he's a tidy player. He's got, you know, a nice bit of tricks here and there. Like, I'm yet to be fully, you know, convinced that this is the man that is going to change our fortunes. But, I mean, he can't be any worse than Skirtle was that, you know, over, like, I mean, people are coming on at the scale of the great. See, I've seen, I've generally seen people put Skirtle in their team of the year, Premier League team of the year, and it's complete rubbish. I mean, he had eight to 10 games where he was good. Yeah, it's not too late to stop us. Like, look, Lovren, if he's coming in, if Roger's one Smith, he is the one that he believes that he's going to be the one that changes the defence around. Who am I to say he's wrong? You know, so I'm, look, I'm not going to, I'm looking forward to seeing what he brings to the table. And he's obviously desperate to play for us. Like, he's fucking guiding us. The person who you're trying to reach is currently unavailable. Secrets of the trade. Fluddy, your man is patrolled around in front of the goalkeepers and the defence yourself. Is there anything to recommend Deja and Lovren for you? Is he a guy that you'd like to see play? I don't know a lot about him. You don't know a lot about him. I'm not going to sit here. Well, OK, well, what happened to him? Well, maybe not even talk about Lovren specifically. What is it that you think is needed there? And is Sacco your first, like, for Ryan? Is he your first man to start? And who goes alongside? He's a highly rare Sacco I have for a long time, but I do think not that he lacks. Not what we really need. We need a semi-hippier. You know, somebody that that commands the back four and controls the back four. Sacco seems to be fairly dominant in his game and his tackles is winning. He passes the ball well, but does he control the back four? Do you think he might grow into that? He can't because he's only young, you know. He is, he's only young. And he might grow. I don't know what his English was like last year. Yeah, it's a big deal. So, no, no country. Well, I do think we'll record somebody like that. It's kind of, we spoke about Phil. It's a pair of med stackers. It's the slowest player in the Premier League, but he controls the back four so well. And he kind of, everyone knows what they're doing. Yeah. We seem to lack that one later in our back four. Everything's kind of reactive, defending and shit themselves as soon as the ball comes in. Well, we want to keep that as a unit, as such. So, if Lorenz is the man that they were at, well and good, I don't know a lot about him. I think, you know, I think Sacco tries to push the defense for it. I mean, like, we're presuming that we're trying to play a high line. You know, when Sacco's playing that high line, he's got at least two defenders in Skirtle and Johnson, who've naturally, over the years, have played in deeper defenses. You know, Skirtle came to Liverpool under Rafa Benitez, who sits with a deep defense. And you can see it, look at the Norwich game. Sacco is trying to push up and Skirtle and Johnson are shit in the bed. And they're dropping, dropping, dropping. So, if Lavaorn is coming in and he's going to push forward and get on the front foot, Sacco will come, you know, he'll do the same. It then requires some seminulated comfort in the penalty spot. But, you know, I still think, you know. I think a lot of the defense comes in for a lot of stick last year. And kind of, we shipped a lot of goals. But we've set it all last season. I don't think we had a proper defense in the field. I have to share that back for. Yeah. Like, a lot of the goals we got were cutting transition. You know, where, like, anyone, we'd watch Mash around on the World Cup. It was fucking everywhere, you know, like, that's happily made in the semi-point. Remark of stuff. It wasn't been able to hit last year. Last year, last year. Well, he never stopped, you know. And we haven't seen that. I've had that for the last few years. That we have that defensive shield in front of our back four. And we always say a little bit of power up of, like, intentions get us and stretch us because we haven't got that shield. So, maybe we can come in there. You might see that shore up a little bit better, you know. Yep. Okay. A return now for an old favorite feature, which was listeners' questions. We may or may not have this every month. We'll see how it goes. Our first question tonight is from Slippy G, which is a bloody fantastic name. And Slippy G wants to know, does the five-second rule apply to soup? Yes. Depends on what, are we talking about the soup following onto something, or something falling into the soup? Oh, yeah, well. See, because if it's something falling into the soup, then I'd say yes, the five-second rule applies. And then it depends on what the thing was. If the soup falling onto something, it's coming. I don't know how you're going to back it. It's just not doable. That's just not doable. Especially if it's on the table that's had pledge. Imagine the residue, you know. That's just horrible stuff. You know when you spray it and you get the residue in your mouth? Have you ever seen anyone eat stuff off the ground? Not soup now, but have you seen people eat stuff? Like, for example, if toast fell on the ground, buttersight down, would you eat it? Yeah. What are you? You would, Ryan, would you? Yes, sure. It's only my ground. It's only my ground. Okay. It's not me saying it. If somebody's saying it, I'm saying it. You're fucking disgusting. No, I'm fucking sick. You don't eat that, they don't eat it. It's not only a round, I'm picking up what I'm talking about. Otherwise you're eating them, germs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What time am I at? Are we talking about? Why, what the hell does that have to do with me? But the different classes, the dirt and reservoir. The dirt and reservoir. It just goes like... If you've been out and you've had a few and you come in. You have to open up the next barn and you know, I had to try a curry sauce on the chest and you're still sort of a bit worse for the wear and you just have a little dip in, just to save you. Yeah, I'll put you out on the curry sauce. You've eaten curry off your own chest. Oh Christ, we need to move it on. Next question's from Scott and Scott wants to know, Moly. Would a shark, which would a shark find easier to eat? A midget or a Labrador? Well, I'll do my research on this first. Of course you have. Have to be prepared for these parts. Come on. But basically midgets, they have a high bone density and they've also got very thick muscle structure. So going by that, I would reckon with a Labrador, the shark would prefer to go for it. Especially a fat old Labrador. Nobody wants to take more sills and bones and stuff. Crystal or stuff. No, no, no, no, no. So you're going, you're going, you're going to Labrador. You're going to Labrador. Okay, I'm going to ask something to say. Isn't there sea Labrador? What the hell is a sea Labrador? It's more likely to be in the sea. A sea Labrador. I think there's a sea lion, you'll probably take the bird. Yeah, he's not great like that in the old nature. And next one's from Paul, Paul Murray. Paul wonders, our drivers with personal reg plates, the saddest people to grace this earth. And then he asks, in a kind of a backhanded dig, "Have any of you thought of getting one?" So I don't know what Paul's trying to play there. But first of all, the open question, personalized reg plates. Are we any opinions on them? Look, in my opinion, you have to have about 100 million in the bank account to get away with a personalized one. But you're not still around. Because it doesn't matter, doesn't it? You don't care. You don't care about being like that. 'Cause it's on the back end of a Bugatti Veron or something like that. So you can put anything on it. Yeah, fill one. Yeah, fill one. Literally fill one. Brilliant. Bloody, would you ever go for one of them? I know you like a car. Would you ever think it personalised it in that way? Hey, all that bollocks. Do you? Ah, I hate that shit. Yeah, especially if you don't really get to meet tits. Come on. And yolks, oh baby on board. Then fucking stickers that he put in the back window. So off to the baby on board. I'm not going to crush you anyway. I think I have them stupid car stickers. I think the worse is the reindeer cars. I'm sorry if any of these do. But I can't. Oh, anything to stick out flags. What's the reindeer? Oh, the Christmas edition, isn't it? You get their namfers on the window. The better one, the bigger namfers. The better one to the market. The better one. Definitely the better one. Oi lashes. Oh, jeez. Oh, jeez. Thank you. What type of mindset says? Why do you not look at it? What if we put some on it? I'm not going to look at it. Personality. I love your dern. What actually she wants. Eh, I want the air conditioning. I mean, I'm going to ask you. I'm going to turn around. What do you use on your eyes? Bibby, bibby. Molly, could you ever see yourself customizing a car with a number of players, fella? No, I don't think I reckon Steve has one, though. But who remembers your license plate before these these years come out? And I'm nearly sure one of them at license plate was H-I-V. Who is the unfortunate fucker that had to get that license plate? Cars weren't very popular out here. Nobody bought a new car. Yeah, that didn't pass J-N-C-T in a week. Price. Two questions from Gray then to finish. The first one is the more controversial, too. So we'll go with that first. Gray, as it is, want, asks us, which, if you had to pick a pensioner, to shag, who would it be? I think we kind of touched on this before, or as they touched, just, you know what I mean. I think Daimel should go with this one, because he was talking about Cadavers earlier on. Yeah, go on. Well, you've got a couple. I actually read that out later. Super Mario. Sorry, mate. Sorry, it's like... Trevor, it'd be you. It'd be me. I think we can all get behind that. Literally. No, it'd be your one in the... Your one in the king. You're one in the king. Who's it going to be? You're one in the king, Harry. The bar made in the king, Harry. That's all I've been using. Oh, yeah, yeah. You were enjoying that, yeah. And you love America, the street shows. I did, yeah. You're a man. Nah, it's fucking easy. Seriously. Oh, no, John, would you give out seriously? There's not one block out there that would say no. It's hella meringue. It's hella meringue. No, that's multi. No, that's multi. No, no, no. How about Vayne hands and all that? Well, make a way. No, you're saying no, are you? No, you're saying no, I can't, hella meringue. Don't you don't know, Vayne? I do, don't you know, clearly. No, no. Well, here we go, man. Well, Jeff. It's fair enough. Everybody see the other Henson documentary that was on. You're not going to say it on Henson, eh? Have you seen him? He's missing his in this. I don't know if she's a pensioner or not. I was going to say, yeah. You're my book. Yeah, yeah, you're happy with that. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll tell you go and say Henson's a pretty man. There are some last one then to wrap us up. Again, from Grey, which fruit or vegetable would make the best weapon in the fight? Now, I actually have a taking this because when we were kids, I live in the country and we used to fire potatoes, like, you know, like, it doesn't get more Irish than that. And they will-- That was during the famine times, doesn't it? But just show you how rich you were. Yeah, like, we were a landed gender. This, this, this, this, they will fuck you up. A potato on the head. He built one and he fired that cheap. I was in his house. A full potato. I swear, I swear my life. I mean, mother's life. Well, I want to use air pressure or something. He got, he went down to the local hardware show and he got a huge, you know, PVC pipe. And I don't know what way he did. He's really, he was really good at technology. Clearly. And he just, he kind of had some kind of fusing, but yeah, I was to do a pressure and potatoes. I don't know, I was probably sat there and-- How would the shape afterwards? A table. Taming. Taming really went far. I mean, these fucking potatoes. [LAUGHTER] Potato mortars. Yeah, yeah. And the other shared spare potatoes, because I think I'm in apples. Yeah, that's going to work. Yeah, that's going to work. [INTERPOSING VOICES] He used a lemon or an orange and peel it. Squeezer in a rooish. Oh, that's, that's, that's, that's. You have to eat a whole banana there. Put a hand, hand, hand, hand. Hand, hand, lemon, comes. Worst vegetable will be a mushroom. Why would that? That's just going to hop off you. Exactly. It'd be pointless. It's like, I'll be the most useless. Oh, I mean, it's really pointless. Yeah. OK. Right, we've finished on that. So madmen, then, we'll start with a mention, as we always do, for Astro Park. If you want to play five or seven-side football, then you should get onto them and book your game on www.astropark.ie. Get on a website for some great articles, including currently a bell there there by Neil Poole. There are only six days left until the winner of the Stevie G. Jersey is nine. 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