Lars Sivertsen

Yeah, yeah, it could also be true.

I mean, he's not 100% there, is he?

I've been very much in a World Cup frame of mind the last couple of weeks because I got kind of carried away during the international break.

I think the Swedes will be hoping that Isak finds something because it seems like he's not fully there.

Speaking of World Cup, worried about Ekki Tiki.

I mean, we haven't heard anything yet on what that was, but that didn't look very good.

dr barry's saying no world cup for him dr bass that's my prognosis but hopefully i'm wrong yeah and um maybe i'm thinking about what you guys saying am i over praising liverpool it's possible that the bar has been set so low now because they have been quite dreadful in a couple games and maybe i was just thinking they're just gonna get

get done here and perhaps I will concede the point it's possible that but I do also think like if if we're talking about how well the PSG keeper played then Liverpool have actually managed to put some pressure on them at least I'm not sure there's that much more to say about the game I thought Liverpool are lost to a better team and we're better than the first leg but not good enough I would say Lars though the Liverpool signings have been spoken about a lot but like that was a game where you

I guess it's a good example of why handing out really big contracts to players past 30 is kind of scary, because it just sometimes happens quite quickly, like you say.

And at least in here, they've reached a conclusion that I guess suits everyone, is that they don't have to fulfill the full terms of that deal, and he can go somewhere else in summer.

I think with Chevalier, it's always hard to be the guy who comes after the guy.

You're replacing Donnarumma, who was really good in the Champions League last season, and his departure was a bit of an odd one.

I think that was not an entirely uncontroversial decision by the club, especially in terms of how the fans and media will have viewed it.

So which loss?

The first half of the season, there's a lot of things going on.

There's the shock from the very tragic death of Diogo Jota that you've spoken about many times, Max, is something that we probably should add more to the equation of this season for Liverpool than we do.

There is Trent Alexander-Arnold leaving a player who was very integral to how they would build up the play before, a very important part of how they created attacks.

And you have the Mo Salah drop-off happening.

So there's clearly a lot of stuff going on.

That, for me, gives them maybe not a total free pass for the first half of the season, but you can understand why they went on that losing run.