Karen Duggan

Even lovelier to not have to head back into a pre-season after it and stay indoors unlike you.

How is the weather in Scotland?

Too much movement, too much movement, some might say.

Don't know if I should get into it too deeply because I could get upset.

And we want to start 2026 on a positive note.

Well, we can go into the big one, though, I guess we should talk about is Athlone's transfer news and the fact that they've one of their first.

They've had a couple of a big transfer to WSL2.

Yeah, and look, I think everyone knew in the lead up to the January transfer window that Liverpool were really struggling and that they would need reinforcements.

It doesn't look like there's a huge amount of backing financially in terms of buying players in.

So looking at loan moves, especially from Liverpool,

from America would seem like a clever move for Liverpool to go down and obviously you're not going to get much better than Denise O'Sullivan if that is something that she is interested in but also they're in such a tight spot at the minute it would be a very tough environment to go into I'd imagine but

Maybe that freshness and the fact that she hasn't been, you know, around the kind of heaviness that the club has endured in recent times.

Maybe she could kind of spur them on a little bit in the dressing room.

We know what a leader she is for Man United or for Ireland.

And perhaps she could be that for Liverpool.

They do need some sort of catalyst.

I think Gary Taylor was speaking again after their goalless draw yesterday.

this weekend just about not being able to punish teams and not being able to get the end product get those goals when they really really need to obviously they've been conceding as well but

you know they need to start putting a bit of end product together and yeah it's going to take new players because at the moment they just they're too light you look at the bench like they had a load of kids on it before Christmas so so they need to do something hopefully they can in the transfer window because you can see that everyone is like shoulders to the grind they're doing their best but it's just it's not quite clicking yet and it's just so tight down there at the bottom of the league whoever does invest and it might just take one player to make the difference

I think so.