Jermaine, did you see enough from either of those yesterday?

Right, I'm going to start on Bradley first.

I'm going to give him grace because he didn't have a great pre-season.

He's new to the Premier League, new to his teammates.

We know how hard this league is to come from any other league around Europe to then be thrown in the deep end at Liverpool.

So it's going to take a little bit of time to adjust on that front, get up to match fitness as well.

He came out saying that.

Jermaine, what are your thoughts on this? Lots of people are saying, how can we continue with the Premier League this season, having City being found guilty, but not knowing whether they're going to face any sanctions? Is it making the league a bit of a farce this season?

Is there any times where you've gone on the field thinking, I'm not on the right ship, physically, mentally, and even possibly had a few drinks too many?

Yeah, it was a crazy story, and I wouldn't advise it to any youngsters, but I went out on the Friday, because there was an FHM launch party at Emporium, which back then would have been absolutely huge.

In Poland? Yeah, and Ashley as well, but he wasn't in the squad at the time, he was playing Southampton for Arsenal.

And they was all like, no, you're going to start tomorrow.

I said, no, I haven't.

I've only had a couple of appearances off the bench, five, ten minutes here and there.

I'm not going to play and I'll be home by 12.

How did that come about? How did you get to that point where you go for a check and all of a sudden this information comes to you?

Should that not mean that maybe in the Champions League he'll shine? Or maybe in the Champions League when it's a bit slower pace, he should look better because also we haven't seen it there, have we? And I really like him and I want to back him, but the more I'm reading and the more I'm seeing, the more times it's pointed out to me by pros and ex-pros, I'm thinking, he's got a point, maybe he's right.

Yeah, yeah.

The Champions League is the perfect platform.

The perfect platform to really showcase your stuff.

Because like I said, you know, you come up against a lot of European teams, obviously, which are slower tempo, not as much physical as a Premier League.

So this is like, all right.

I also love playing in the Champions League because like I said, you don't get kicked left, right and center.

yeah are you more optimistic now Jermaine than you were five weeks ago

JP, what did you make of the performance last night?

Yeah, I thought, first off, there was times I was questioning the pressing and how open it was sometimes in the midfield.

Lesko could just get through there with ease.

I can remember when Lorente slipped on his backside, managed to still get up and get a pass off.

But Iriola came out and he held his hands up, which was good to see.

He said, listen, I got that wrong.

This was on me.

What kind of season can we expect to have this year, do you think?

Why do you think the club have decided that we've got enough in those areas?

I don't know.

That's a question for Richard Hughes and the people around him and the hierarchy.

It is a bit baffling.

We've played two games and conceded two goals in both games, home and away.

It's all good having a fantastic strike force going forward to score goals.

But if you've got an average kind of leaky defence in the Premier League, you will get punished.

How difficult or not difficult is that kind of transition from going from one flank to the other?