Xeka

So it's still-- they're still a team in glimpses.

What's fascinating to me is the, you know, how elated Liverpool are, the fans with Xeka.

You know, how we're like, "Oh, we don't even miss Konaté." Very un-Liverpool way the discards are being reassessed.

You know, Konaté suddenly, you know, when, when he used to be injured, people would be full of dread.

It makes it tough for Andoni Iraola, but playing Areola at right back or Joe Gomez in some games will at least help with making us a little bit stronger at the back.

So it's not just Virgil and Xeka left exposed the way it was Virgil and Ibou the last few years.

Julian Ward stands a really good chance for Liverpool sporting director.

Um, former sporting director and current FSG technical director Julian Ward has been thrust to the top of the internal candidate list to replace Richard Hughes.

Jeremy...

They- You've got Xeka as well who's moved into center back.

He's gonna potentially grow into being another great guy that they have as well.

And so I feel like having all of these exports actually ends up benefiting the national team because you've just got a ton of great French players in, in all these different clubs now.

You've got Michele Cangà at Lyon who's doing an amazing job in the women's game, in the men's game, but she's saying like, "Hang on, this is not sustainable anyway just me putting money in.

So we need to have players trading because that's where, that's where the money is and that's where the money comes from." And as much as you are weakening your league, because that's the case, there will be a time when if every summer Premier League clubs and, and, and, and others, you know, in Spain, in Italy, in Germany, come in and buy for 1.3 billion of our talents, there will be no talents left.

Y- Th- Those cy- those cycles, we will need another two or three years to have the next Barcola or the next Cherki or the next Xeka or the next...

You know, they d- they...

And you can still be excited about all the attacking players they did, and I was.

I wanted Isak, I was happy with Wirtz, and I thought Xeka could be a really smart sign.

And so it's not to say I wouldn't have kind of done any of those, 'cause certainly the attacking players I was really kind of enthused by.

Maybe a little bit less so the defensive ones, um, mainly because around Frimpong didn't know loads about him other than I'd seen bits and pieces, but wasn't quite sure how that would translate to the Premier League.

I'd much rather find out who we've signed and then we can figure out who's taking what number, but, you know, 23 was taken by Munoz, obviously, so 11 is still there.

Um, five was taken by Xeka, and he looks good.

He looks good in the number five actually as well.

Uh, Justin Adam said, "Can I ask a simple question?" Oh, these, these, these can end one of two ways for me, Justin.

This is, I think this is exactly...

After we knew that Xeka was gonna be, uh, fit and he did his nice-

Right

... uh, really nice promising first half last week, um, I think this is where we, everybody predicted we'd be.

You what with...

I mean, again, benefit of the doubt is it's the same as the, hopefully it's the same as the Xeka substitution in the, in the-

Fitness wise

...

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

With Xeka-

I'm just saying, like with Xeka he's in-

But he was certainly giving things out.

Like, that challenge on Xeka late on-

on-Yeah

... that's, Ballard got a yellow card for that, and that lad had just come on and nothing.