Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

So, the new Premier League season is here and with that comes a look ahead to the opposition Liverpool face on the opening night. After waiting 9 weeks, 4 days, 22 hours and 3 minutes since the full-time whistle in Madrid sounded, the Reds are back in action. Here we catch up with freelance broadcaster, journalist and commentator Stuart Hodge to get the lowdown on Norwich City. From the style in w...

The transfer window has shut, the new season is on our doorstep, it’s time to get ready for action. Theo Squires is joined by Dan Kay and Liverpool reporter Ian Doyle to talk through a summer of transfer business with Sepp van den Berg, Harvey Elliott and Adrian joining the Reds. They also touch on the importance of Jurgen Klopp keeping his squad together, looking to go one further in the Premier...

Ahead of the opening day of the season, Jurgen Klopp has been addressing the media. Speaking on Deadline Day, the manager has spoken about the Reds transfer policy through the summer. He also had words on the fitness of Sadio Mane, following his return from the African Cup of Nations. With VAR set to be introduced into the Premier League for 2019/20, he also gave his thoughts on the introduction o...

The final day to do business in the transfer market is upon us. A mad-dash, supermarket sweep-style is happening across the Premier League. Here, Dan Morgan and Joel Rabinowitz from Liverpool.com talk through Liverpool’s moves through the summer, or lack of, as well as taking a glance at the moves a number of rivals have made. If you want, you can also check the pod out on our Blood Red YouTube ch...

Neil Fitzmaurice is here ahead of the new season getting underway to preview what’s to come over the next nine months ahead of the start of the new Premier League season. Joined by Connor Dunn and Caoimhe O’Neill, there’s plenty to get through ahead of the new campaign. With Harry Wilson off on loan to Bournemouth there’s a discussion whether Jurgen Klopp is doing the right thing in not strengthen...

With transfer deadline day just a day away, one name is on everyone’s lips: Philippe Coutinho. The former Liverpool midfielder has been linked with the exit door at Barcelona all summer and now a crowd of Premier League sides seem set to make a move. Manchester United, Tottenham and Arsenal have all been linked with a loan move for the Brazilian, with a move to north London seeming most likely. He...

The new season is upon us - or is it already here? - as Liverpool get set for another tilt at the Premier League title. Kristian Walsh and Josh Williams sit down to discuss Sunday's penalty shoot-out defeat to Manchester City and ask: does it really matter? There were certainly some interesting numbers to take from it, some of which show the Reds are ready to take the fight to City in the Premier...

Your weekday talking point today centres around Simon Mignolet’s Liverpool career. Following his move from Anfield to Club Brugge, Liverpool.com’s Dan Austin is joined by the Liverpool Echo’s Paul Gorst to rule an eye over the Belgian’s six-year stay with the Reds. Looking back to his debut campaign in 2013/14 under Brendan Rodgers to how he’s kept his professionalism through losing his place as N...

It may have ended in a penalty shootout defeat to Manchester City, but there is plenty to be optimistic following the Reds’ Community Shield showing. Blood Red look back over the curtain raiser as Sean Bradbury is joined by Ian Doyle, Paul Gorst and Theo Squires. With confirmation of one in, one out in the goalkeeping department the panel discuss Simon Mignolet’s departure to Club Brugge and the a...

The curtain has been raised - the new season is here and of the evidence of what we’ve seen at Wembley in today's Community Shield, it seems this year Liverpool and Man City are ready to go toe-to-toe once more. It may have ended in a penalty shootout defeat to City, after Joel Matip cancelled out Raheem Sterling’s first half goal, but Jurgen Klopp’s Reds certainly put Pep Guardiola’s men to the s...

Welcome to the first Behind Enemy Lines of the new season. If you’re a first-time listener, this is the podcast where we get the inside track on Liverpool’s next opponents... who just so happen to be Manchester City in Sunday’s Community Shield at Wembley. Now the domestic treble winners need little introduction after their titanic Premier League title battle with the newly crowned champions of Eu...

We had the pleasure of chatting to former Liverpool defender, and new QPR signing, Conor Masterson for our latest podcast. Speaking to Jonathan Higgins, the Republic of Ireland Under-21 international tells us his story of how he went from playing for his local side, Lucan United, to joining the Reds, his childhood dream club. Conor spent more than five years with Liverpool with one of the big high...

Ahead of Liverpool starting their season in the Community Shield against Manchester City at Wembley Sean Bradbury, Paul Gorst, Connor Dunn and Ian Doyle (back from following the Reds across the globe) talk through the hot topics out of Anfield. Kicking off they pose whether or not it’s stick or twist for Harry Wilson at Liverpool before getting into the business other rivals have done in the trans...

With Bournemouth’s Ryan Fraser linked with a £25m move to Liverpool Dan Austin and Joel Rabinowitz discuss the possibility of a move. Following the success of Andy Robertson, Gini Wijnaldum and Virgil van Dijk having arrived from Premier League sides lower down the table, the lads discuss the positives of a move for the Scot. If you want, you can also check the pod out on our Blood Red YouTube cha...

Ahead of the new EFL season getting underway, we catch up with former Liverpool midfielder Danny Guthrie. Now with Walsall, the 32-year-old tells us all about growing up at Melwood, training alongside the likes of Steven Gerrard, Dietmar Hamann and Xabi Alonso to making his full debut away in Istanbul against Galatasaray. As well as reflecting on his time at Anfield, he tells Guy Clarke about the...

Welcome to your latest podcast on the Blood Red channel with a man who is not only a big Liverpool fan, but also one of the best young managers in the Football League, Ryan Lowe. Now you may remember the podcast we did with Ryan last summer before his Bury side took on his beloved Reds in a pre-season friendly at Gigg Lane. Well it turned out the words Jurgen Klopp said to the 40-year-old after th...

Following Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Lyon, focus turns to winger Harry Wilson and his future at Anfield. Join Dan Austin and Dan Morgan as they talk about the options the 22-year-old has after his spectacular individual strike against the French outfit. Through the course of the chat the team discuss what Wilson’s options are; whether he can break into the first team and whether he’s following in th...

Isn't it amazing what the return of world-class players can do for a team? With Alisson Becker, Naby Keita, Xherdan Shaqiri, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah thrown straight back into the starting line-up after returning to training, Liverpool rounded off their pre-season preparations with a 3-1 win over Lyon. The win went some way to erasing the memory of what was a pretty poor performance again...

Analysing Anfield is back! After a near six-week hiatus (due to Josh being on holiday, and then Kristian being on the US tour), the team are back to bring all the latest analytical and statistical discussion around Liverpool. In the second part of a two-part series (the first part was released on June 18, if you want to refresh your memories...), Kristian Walsh and Josh Williams briefly discuss th...

Your daily dose of Liverpool-related news is back in it’s bitesize chunk looking into the latest major transfer rumours around the Premier League. Today Kristian Walsh and Dan Austin discuss the moves the Reds’ Premier League rivals are plotting as the transfer window draws closer to its close. Which north-west rivals look set to beat Tottenham to the signing of Juventus forward Paulo Dybala, is H...

It's the Allez Les Rouges podcast with a difference! Host Peter Hooton and regular guests Ste Monaghan, Kieth Culvin, John Nicolson and Joe Blott are holidaying in Sorrento and so watched Sunday's friendly at Murrayfield alongside Napoli fans bar in a bar in south-west Italy - and it's from there where they recorded their latest show. Split into two halves, reacting to the first half and then refl...

Welcome to our new podcast on the Blood Red channel, The Agenda, a bite-sized look at Liverpool news and views before we serve up some of our established shows later in the day. And on this edition, Kristian Walsh and Dan Austin, of our new Liverpool.com website (click HERE to see that), discuss the one and only Divock Origi, exactly five years on since his arrival at Anfield. Now Liverpool.com ha...

Defeat to Napoli leaves the Reds having shipped 10 goals in their last four pre-season outings, so is there reason to be concerned? Joe Rimmer talks over the defeat to Napoli at Murrayfield with Paul Gorst, Caoimhe O’Neill and Theo Squires. Moving on from the loss to the Italians, focus of course switches to whether or not Jurgen Klopp should make a late dash in the transfer market with a certain...

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was in front of the media this morning to preview Sunday’s Community Shield clash v Manchester City at Wembley. With the Reds off to France for a week-long training camp, the press conference was brought forward, and staged in Edinburgh, just over 12 hours since their 3-0 defeat to Napoli at Murrayfield. On the agenda, apart from the showdown with Premier League cham...

It is only pre-season, three of the big guns are back in training tomorrow, and it is only eight weeks since Liverpool were crowned champions of Europe. But the concerns that arose during the US tour very much remain after the Reds were beaten 3-0 by Napoli at Murrayfield on Sunday. Ian Doyle was on reporting duty for the ECHO at the home of Scottish rugby, and it is his verdict on what was at tim...