Blood Red: The Liverpool Fc Podcast

What can be done about Liverpool's recent, and unexpected, struggles? Join Neil Fitzmaurice, Paul Gorst and Connor Dunn as they try and answer exactly that question. The trio discuss and analyse the defeats to Watford and Chelsea, with Fitzy wondering whether Jurgen Klopp must find different ways to break down opponents, while Paul and Connor wonder whether a series of hard-fought victories, which make a mockery of the claim that the Premier League is weak, are catching up with the Reds. Talk then turns to Timo Werner, the futures of Xherdan Shaqiri and Naby Keita, and the influence of injured captain Jordan Henderson, before Fitzy springs a surprise quiz on his guests. See if you can do better! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Liverpool's unbeaten record and hopes of a treble this season now in tatters, where has it all gone wrong for the Reds and Jurgen Klopp? The defeats against Watford and Chelsea are dissected, before talk moves on to Bournemouth - the 'ideal' next opponents for a team lacking attacking form - and then the big one: Atletico Madrid. Liverpool's Champions League hopes are on the line next Wednesday, but both Josh Williams and David Hughes believe the Reds have a good chance of getting through. Predictions for that game are made plus much more besides as the Analysing Anfield show returns for another episode. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two defeats in two games. It seems almost unfathomable for Liverpool with the Treble hopes now gone after being eliminated from the FA Cup against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Sean Bradbury and Connor Dunn both look back on the recent showings following defeat to Watford, prior to the cup game with Chelsea. They discuss where things have just fallen off the high standards that had previously been set from the defensive woes to the lack of goals in recent showings. As well as talking broadly on the team, the guys discuss the form of Fabinho who has struggled to recapture his early season form after being one of the standout players prior to injury against Napoli in the Champions League. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Goals either side of half-time from Willian – and of all players – Ross Barkley ensured Liverpool’s dream of winning The Treble came to and end as they were beaten 2-0 by Chelsea in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge, which is exactly where we start this podcast with Paul Gorst's definitive verdict and Jurgen Klopp's post-match press conference in full. Then you'll hear from two of our regular fan callers, Simon Donnelly and Ross Strachan. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Connor Dunn, Ian Doyle, Joe Rimmer and Matt Addison as they reflect on the rarest of events: a Liverpool defeat in the Premier League. It was Nigel Pearson's Watford - second-bottom in the table heading into the weekend - who ended their 44-game unbeaten streak, and the panel analyse exactly where it went wrong. Dejan Lovren was the Reds man who took most of the criticism online, but he was far from the only one who under-performed. With Liverpool to face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the FA Cup on Tuesday, how will the weekend's result impact that fixture? And how strong will the line-up that Jurgen Klopp selects be? All those questions, as well as the shock departure of under-23s boss Neil Critchley, are discussed and analysed in the latest Blood Red podcast. Enjoy! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp speaks to the media ahead of his side’s FA Cup fifth-round tie at Premier League rivals Chelsea. As well as previewing the Stamford Bridge clash, Klopp gives a fitness update on Joe Gomez, James Milner, Naby Keita and Xherdan Shaqiri, and talks the impact of the loss captain Jordan Henderson. The Liverpool boss also responds to criticism of Dejan Lovren’s performance in Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Watford as well reacting to the news that U23s manager Neil Critchley has left to take over Blackpool. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liverpool Under-23s boss Neil Critchley has left the club to take over as manager of League One outfit Blackpool. The 41-year-old has spent more than six years with the Reds and will arguably be best remembered for leading the youngest team in the club’s history to a 1-0 FA Cup win over Shrewsbury Town when Jurgen Klopp and his first-team stars were on the Premier League’s winter break. Connor Dunn and Matt Addison react to this breaking news. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the first Post-Game podcast since January 3, 2019 that's reacting to a Premier League defeat for Liverpool. Yes, the Reds went down fair and square, 3-0 at Watford tonight, to see their 44-match unbeaten league run come to an end. It has to be placed in context. Jurgen Klopp’s side have been nothing short of magnificent this season and it's only a matter of time before they get their hands on the title. But there’s no getting away from it – it was a very bad night at the office. And that much is underlined with the views from the pressbox, the dugout and the stands that you’re about to hear. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liverpool this week released a summary of their annual accounts, which showed a record £533m turnover, and a pre-tax profit of £42m, despite the fact the club spent £223m on players. So armed with those headline figures, Paul Wheelock picks up the phone to leading football finance expert Kieran Maguire to see what this will mean for the Reds' summer transfer business, and whether it could bring an end to the financial dominance enjoyed by the Manchester clubs, United and City, in the Premier League. And, naturally, with City being Liverpool's main rivals on the pitch, Kieran also provides a fascinating insight into the Etihad outfit's upcoming legal battle with UEFA after they were banned from European club competitions for two years. Enjoy! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liverpool’s eye-watering financial accounts and the competition for a midfield starting spot between Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are the big talking points of the Blood Red podcast. Paul Gorst, Ian Doyle, Theo Squires and host Joe Rimmer also talk the Reds video for Chaokoh coconut milk that went viral , Saturday’s trip to Watford, and the usual line-up and score predictions.  For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jurgen Klopp speaks to the media to preview Liverpool's trip to Watford on Saturday. Klopp was also asked about the fitness of captain Jordan Henderson, James Milner and Xherdan Shaqiri, whether there's a battle between Naby Keita and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain for a midfield starting spot, and the precautions Liverpool are taking with the coronavirus. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Allez Les Rouges podcast is back with host Peter Hooton joined by regular guest Ste Monaghan, singer Kieran Molyneux, and Brendan 'Jockey' Wyatt, owner of city-centre trainer shop Transalpino. They look back on the defeat to Atletico Madrid, and the performance of Diego Simeone, as well as the win over West Ham United, and the actions of the Anfield crowd before and after Liverpool fell behind. Talk then turns to Trent Alexander's brilliance, why Jurgen Klopp needs to keep faith with Naby Keita, and what the Reds boss must to if he is to give supporters the best bragging right of all over their Manchester United counterparts. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liverpool have announced a record £533m turnover after a stunning season that saw the club claim their sixth European Cup. The Reds have released their annual accounts for the year ending May 31 2019 – one day before the famous Champions League final win over Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid – which show turnover rose by £78m to £533m. That represents sustained growth across the club (the 2018 accounts recorded a £455m turnover) and enabled the further investment into a playing squad that won the Champions League and came desperately close to lifting the Premier League title. Match revenue (£3.5m to £84m), commercial revenue (£34m to £188m) and media revenue (£41m to £261m) were all up with Liverpool posting an overall pre-tax profit of £42m. And here, the Liverpool ECHO’s Sean Bradbury looks over the financial results. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liverpool's unbeaten record in the Premier League remains in tact. West Ham United were the latest team to be dispatched by the Reds, though it was far from comfortable on the night. Join Josh Williams and David Hughes as they analyse that game in detail, with particular focus on one man: Naby Keita. The Guinean has been at Anfield for almost two years now, but he is still dividing opinion among supporters. The numbers suggest he is having a big impact, but do they tell the whole story? There is also a look ahead to this weekend's clash with Watford, where a Liverpool win would put them three victories away from being officially crowned champions. Enjoy! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Liverpool machine just keeps rolling on and on. And after their latest Premier League victory, which took the Reds to an incredible 26 wins from 27 this campaign, Paul Gorst, Connor Dunn, Caoimhe O'Neill and Theo Squires are here to discuss all things Anfield as the champions elect took another stride towards the title by beating West Ham United. On the agenda was Naby Keita's struggles, Jordan Henderson's chance of becoming the PFA Player of the Year, the excellence of Trent Alexander-Arnold and Jamie Carragher's comments about the potential for Mohamed Salah to be sold this summer. Even with no match until next weekend, there was plenty to get stuck into. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not quite the resounding performance many were expecting, but Liverpool again showing another side to their game to come through and continue their winning run in the Premier League. West Ham seen off eventually 3-2 at Anfield, despite forcing the Reds to come from 2-1 behind to win. The victory takes the Reds level on 18 for the record of consecutive wins in the top flight whilst also making it 21 wins in a row at home in the league equalling a club record set under Bill Shankly in 1972. Join Guy Clarke as we bring you all the reaction from Anfield. You can catch Jurgen Klopp's press conference in full, the ECHO's Liverpool correspondent Paul Gorst gives his view as do regular contributors Matt Whitty and Mark Baker plus plenty more from the Blood Red podcast Facebook Group. Enjoy! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another weekend of Premier League action passes with VAR once again takes centre stage, time then on Blood Red to talk about the technology. There has been plenty of LiVARpool jibes thrown about throughout the course of the season, but with the Reds not in action until tonight, this weekend has allowed a chance to sit back and see how it has effected the rest of the league. With Chelsea's game with Tottenham coming under the spotlight, so too Man City's win at Leicester Guy Clarke and Matt Addison talk through the pros and cons of the technology and how best to try and get on board with it - and ultimately whether or not it's worth all the fuss. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Liverpool's U18s welcomed Man City's youngsters to Kirkby on Saturday for a shootout at the top of the table with both sides vying for the league title. Despite City running out 4-2 winners, the Academy Show is here with all the news out of Kirby. Guy Clarke and Matt Addison take you through how the youth sides have been getting on since their night under the lights in the FA Cup against Shrewsbury Town at Anfield to discuss the U18s and U23s under the guidance of both Barry Lewtas and Neil Critchley respectively. We hear from Lewtas, following the defeat to City, before touching on how a number of the youngsters are developing, with Matt rounding things off with his One to Watch as Max Woltman came on to score for the U18s. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neil Fitzmaurice is backing with the latest episode of Poetry in Motion, as we react to the midweek defeat in Madrid - that's right defeat for Liverpool, the audacity of it! After the 1-0 defeat in Madrid, Fitzy is joined by Caoimhe O'Neill and Matt Addison as we get stuck into the nature of the result, the play acting by Diego Simeone's Atletico Madrid and the true villain of the piece, the referee! After moving on from the antics in the Wanda Metropolitano there's a look ahead at what may lay in store back at Anfield before getting onto the run of games to come and how Liverpool's transfer policy has changed with the players now doing the talking as Timo Werner eyes up a move to Anfield. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a week in which Liverpool suffered just their third defeat of the season, the Blood Red podcast is here to react. Join Sean Bradbury, Joe Rimmer, Ian Doyle and Connor Dunn as they take a look back on the defeat to Atletico Madrid and what might happen in the second leg where the Reds will be favourites to turn the tie back in their favour. As well as last Tuesday night's game being contemplated, there is a look ahead to Liverpool's next Premier League match, as they host West Ham United at Anfield on Monday night, with captain Jordan Henderson set to be missing through injury. With almost a week to prepare for that one, team selection could be interesting, with plenty of options for Jurgen Klopp to choose from and several decisions to make - the injured Henderson aside. Enjoy! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices