Guillem Balagué

No, Gabi, stop it.

Stop it.

You've just said yourself this guy is basically talking... Well, to be fair, Guillaume's trying to hint that maybe he's talking sense.

But I'll say the Figo thing was a long time ago.

And I'm going to say that realistically, Haaland isn't going to go there.

And this is the bit that's going to get clipped up when he does go there in August.

But I'm not a believer and I will stand on that.

Yes, it does.

It does from my perspective, but also what I would say through the last year in terms of some of the transfer targets and the fact that some probably thought Liverpool's squad was a little bit light this year.

You do sort of wonder from a planning standpoint there.

Obviously, with the death of Jota, that's a significant sort of hit in terms of squad building generally, if we can take the emotion away from it.

But they did feel light this season anyway.

So to then arrive at this point, and I really didn't understand this because I was...

getting information that Alonso doesn't want to go to Chelsea, Alonso doesn't want to go to Chelsea, but then that was the only available job at the time.

And as Guillaume has made the point, it's a very good job to have, contrary to what many people would think.

So why would Slott not be the right guy for Liverpool, say in the last few days, but the right guy maybe three or four weeks ago?

That's what I really struggle to understand, because if they were planning for him to leave, why was he not just announced to say as soon as the season finished or even earlier?

I think personally that's really...

I wouldn't say it's necessarily really poor planning, but as everyone's sort of alluded to, Alonso to Liverpool felt like the right decision, felt like the right person to be going in there with the right level of desire, who has a history with the football club and we've seen how significant that can be.

If we were to say, for example, a Mikel Arteta in terms of his time at Arsenal,