Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

With Liverpool heavily linked with a £34m move for RB Leipzig defender Ibrahima Konate, the Blood Red podcast is here to discuss any potential move. Host Guy Clarke is joined by the ECHO’s Liverpool correspondent Paul Gorst and Marcus Banks to discuss the Reds’ defensive options in the transfer market. With Duje Caleta-Car and Ozan Kabak also on Michael Edwards’ shortlist, the panel evaluate Liver...

Catch our exclusive interview with former Liverpool defender Gregory Vignal as he speaks about Gerard Houllier, Rafa Benitez and Steven Gerrard. Having signed for the Reds back in 2000, Vignal was involved in the club's historic 2000/01 treble-winning season during his three-year stay on Merseyside. Speaking with Theo Squires, the Frenchman talks about his relationship with “the boss” Houllier, in...

Liverpool sent Takumi Minamino on loan to Southampton for the remainder of the season in January, but how is he getting on so far? And what does it mean for his future? Matt Addison speaks to Hampshire Live's Southampton reporter Tom Leach and Liverpool writer David Lynch as they look into Minamino's time on the south coast, what Jurgen Klopp thinks about the Japan international, and the factors t...

With the transfer rumour mill in full swing, on Blood Red we discuss the hypothetical possibility of re-signing two of Liverpool recent greats, Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho. Both players are rumoured to be available for transfer in the upcoming summer transfer window, so who would be most suited to an Anfield return? Guy Clarke is joined by David Lynch, Matt Addison and Marcus Banks to debate...

As Uefa get set to revamp and overhaul certain aspects of Financial Fair Play we discuss the impact for FSG and Liverpool. Guy Clarke is joined by the ECHO’s Business of Football writer Dave Powell to discuss the potential tweaks and changes being considered. Amongst those would be the introduction of a salary cap and external sponsors being able to invest in player transfers. But what effect coul...

Josh Williams and David Hughes are back to answer your questions, from Gini Wijnaldum to Roberto Firmino and Naby Keita, in the second part of their Analysing Anfield Q&A special. There is plenty of individual focus on players and roles within Jurgen Klopp’s system from the questions submitted, including.. could Liverpool move to a back three? The futures of Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are b...

Welcome to a brand new show on the Blood Red podcast channel, which we’re tentatively calling ‘The Bottom Line’. Why ‘The Bottom Line’? Because this podcast is all about football finances – and Liverpool Football Club’s in particular. The Liverpool ECHO now has a dedicated business of football writer, Dave Powell, and we will be calling on him, plus special guests, to give our listeners an underst...

Liverpool played an internal 11-vs-11 friendly match in Kirkby at weekend with Mateusz Musialowski and Kaide Gordon among the youngsters to impress. So Matt Addison joins Guy Clarke to give Reds fans the lowdown on the starlets who featured, including Billy Koumetio, James Balagizi and Tyler Morton, as well as Ben Woodburn, who hit a hat-trick and is now back at the club after his loan spell at Ne...

Ahead of the summer transfer window, the Liverpool.com podcast is back with a transfer simulator to assess what Reds could do in the market. Dan Morgan is joined by Joel Rabinowitz and Ollie Connolly as they make their fantasy picks on how things could play out. With a budget of £65m, generated through player sales, the panel each pick the players they’d like to see arrive at Anfield. Amongst the...

Matt Addison, Sean Bradbury and debutant Mark Wakefield join host Guy Clarke for the Blood Red podcast as they talk Gini Wijnaldum, Xabi Alonso, and Mohamed Salah and Harry Kane. A report over the weekend stated that Wijnaldum has agreed to move to Barcelona once his Liverpool contract expires in the summer. So the panel react to that news, look at the legacy the Dutch midfielder would leave behin...

Following wins over RB Leipzig and Wolves, the Allez Les Rouges podcast is here to talk about Liverpool's upturn in fortunes. Host Peter Hooton is joined by regular guest Kieth Culvin as well as Accrington Stanley manager John Coleman and Spirit of Shankly chair Joe Blott. The guys begin with a look back on the victories over Leipzig and Wolves before reacting to the Champions League draw, which w...

With around a quarter of the season to go, how are the Liverpool players out on loan getting on, and what might the future hold for them? Matt Addison speaks to Bundesliga commentator and reporter Kevin Hatchard about Loris Karius, Lancs Live's George Hodgson about Sepp van den Berg, Wales Online's Glen Williams about Harry Wilson and Sheyi Ojo, and Plymouth Live's Chris Errington about Adam Lewis...

Liverpool will take on Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and then either FC Porto or Chelsea in the semi-finals should they progress. Join Guy Clarke, Ian Doyle, Joe Rimmer and David Lynch as they discuss the draw and what it means for the rest of this season. Could Liverpool (and Mohamed Salah) get revenge over Zinedine Zidane's men (and Sergio Ramos)? They have already k...

Ahead of this morning's Champions League quarter-final, and semi-final, draw the Blood Red podcast discuss the teams still in the competition with Liverpool set to face one of: Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, PSG, Porto, Chelsea or Manchester City in the last eight - and then potentially the last four. For live reaction to the draw, join the Blood Red YouTube channel from 11am (GMT)...

You’ve all seen them on social media. So, after a quick recap of a second straight win for Jurgen Klopp’s side, the Liverpool.com podcasts gets stuck into their five favourite Liverpool conspiracies. On the agenda for host Dan Morgan and guests Ollie Connolly and Joel Rabinowitz is: the relationship between Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane; the injury problems are ‘all the fault of the medical departm...

With a 19-day break between Liverpool matches underway, the Analysing Anfield podcast dedicates the first of two special shows to listener questions covering a wide range of topics. Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe and transfers get a mention, as does the wider FSG strategy and approach heading into the summer, where Liverpool might need to attract players without the allure of Champions League footb...

Neil Fitzmaurice is joined by the Liverpool ECHO’s Paul Gorst and Joe Rimmer for his latest Poetry in Motion podcast. After a tribute to Ian St John, and a brilliant story involving Bill Shankly, Fitzy talks Fabinho, who Gorsty calls Liverpool’s most important player, and Diogo Jota, whose winner at his former club Wolves on Monday got the defending champions back on track in the Premier League. B...

The 1-0 win at Wolves on Monday was the type of game Liverpool won regularly on the way to the Premier League title last season. And the latest Blood Red podcast, hosted by Matt Addison and featuring Ian Doyle and Sean Bradbury, wonders whether that would have been the case this season too had Jota not spent a large part of it on the sidelines. But the Portuguese is back now and his winner against...

Diogo Jota returned to his former club Wolves to grab his first goal for Liverpool since his injury lay-off and help them to get back to winning ways in the Premier League. The strike, on the stroke of half-time, was the Portuguese's 10th of the campaign as Liverpool saw out the slender advantage. Worryingly, Wolves goalkeeper Rui Patricio was forced off on a stretcher after a late clash with Cono...

Liverpool travel to Wolves off the back of a morale-boosting Champions League victory midweek - needing to translate that form into the Premier League. Matt Addison speaks to Birmingham Live's Wolves reporter Alex Dicken to get the lowdown from Molineux ahead of the clash between the sides. Diogo Jota is going back to his former club for the first time, with Pedro Neto the man who has stepped up t...

As the summer transfer window gets closer, Liverpool have been linked with two high profile forwards in Erling Haaland and Paulo Dybala. Matt Addison joins Guy Clarke for the latest episode of The Agenda to discuss the links with the Borussia Dortmund and Juventus forwards. Is a centre forward top of Jurgen Klopp’s summer shopping list? How much would either Haaland or Dybala cost? And how importa...

At his press conference to preview Wolves v Liverpool in the Premier League, Jurgen Klopp gives an update on Roberto Firmino’s fitness and why Ben Davies has yet to feature. Liverpool boss Klopp also confirms that Nat Phillips and Ozan Kabak will continue in the centre of defence against Wolves on Monday night – providing they don’t become the latest centre-backs to pick up injuries. Watch and sub...

Join Dan Morgan, Ollie Connolly and Mark Wakefield as they talk Fabinho, Liverpool’s captaincy and Mohamed Salah. Jurgen Klopp moved Fabinho forward into his favoured No 6 role in the Champions League win over RB Leipzig. It was a decision that certainly paid off but can the Reds boss afford to no longer consider the Brazilian as a centre-back option? The panel discuss that, and the performances o...

Fabinho was back to his best as his performance helped transform Liverpool in midweek - and now the task is to take that form into Monday's match against Wolves. Meanwhile, Jurgen Klopp might have his template for the Premier League after the Champions League win over RB Leipzig, with Ozan Kabak and Nat Phillips solid enough to warrant another chance. Host Matt Addison is joined by Paul Gorst, Dav...

One year to the day since Liverpool were the last English club to welcome a capacity crowd to a game on home soil, Guy Clarke explores the impact the pandemic has had on each aspect of the Liverpool FC community. Paul Gorst, the ECHO’s Liverpool correspondent, explains the effect on working within football; chair of Spirit of Shankly, Joe Blott, talks about the campaigning that supporters’ groups...