Sean Rogers

yeah harvey like yeah just i'll speak to you next summer basically you ain't playing for me and he won a title and you have to accept that but i think one of the challenges that then gives the sporting director is how many squad players and younger players are knocking on your door going get me out of here nice i'm not seeing i'm not seeing a kick he doesn't fancy me he doesn't want me

And that's where I think it becomes difficult because I think if you're Liverpool, I think they need to spread their butter a bit.

You don't want to go thinner.

They want to concentrate it on a core group.

And I think if you're head coach at Liverpool, you have to accept that you might have an Endo and a Simakas and three youngsters that you don't want to use, but tough luck.

You are going to have to make the very most of that and get the best out of them.

Yeah, and if you're a sporting director, you go, and I've given you forwards, you've got Chiesa, you've got Rio, now I don't think they're necessarily like options, and I wouldn't count Rio because of his age and stuff in that sense, but he goes, similar to exactly what you just said Ian, he goes, no, you're not the required quality, I'm not using you, and that's why he then references how many minutes all these players are having, it's still a choice, I think he might feel like he doesn't have one, and

Again, when you come to the away record, against the top 10, Liverpool have had eight games, lost six, drawn one, won one.

And I don't think you can count the one they won because it was Everton and they shouldn't be top 10.

So what I would say on that, though... Let me count, it's Sean fucking out.

We count it, but not as against the top 10 side.

Now, look, Man City have won league titles where they've not had a good away record to the top six.

You can be successful without having to be great away to the top six.

It's really difficult.

Neil and Josh have done some real good stuff on trends, on this kind of thing.

But, yeah, Liverpool's away record is not good.

And Aston Villa's home record is pretty good.

It's worth saying the defeat to Spurs is three days after the away leg defeat to Nottingham Forest.

So I wouldn't... You can read some tactical things in that, but I wouldn't read too much into that.

Like, at home,