The Late Challenge – Liverpool FC Podcast

Mo and Robbo celebrate Liverpool's first win of the season, discuss the tenure of Richard Hughes and look forward to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League
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With the transfer window closed, Gareth Roberts, Stu Wright, Mo Stewart and Paul Cope assess Liverpool’s squad, the business done and the gaps that remain.
Also on the agenda: the early signs under Andoni Iraola, Liverpool’s defensive problems, the route back to the top and Friday night’s trip to Ipswich Town.
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Bradley Barcola is a Liverpool player but The Reds’ squad still looks way short with only a day left in the summer transfer market. So what is Richard Hughes doing? What should he be doing? And what did the Nottingham Forest draw at Anfield tell us about where Liverpool are at? Gareth Roberts and Mo Stewart get into it all.
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Welcome to the first Midweek Sports Special in the studio from The Late Challenge. Gareth Roberts and Stu Wright get stuck into the latest Liverpool FC talking points, including Bradley Barcola, what the numbers tell us about the French winger and what his arrival could mean for the rest of the squad. We also look at some of the increasingly wild verdicts on Alexander Isak. Is he really injury prone? Can he actually “string games together”? And is anyone remotely justified in writing him off after such a small sample in a Liverpool shirt? There’s more transfer chat too, including Gakpo, Elliott, Minteh, Sarr and Alex Scott, before attention turns to Iraola’s first Prem match at Anfield. What should Liverpool change after Newcastle? How dangerous could Oliver Glasner’s Forest be? And where is the hope-ometer heading as the new season gets properly underway? Midweek Sports Special will initially be available free before becoming an extra show for Patreon subscribers and YouTube members. 
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Liverpool legend John Barnes joins Mo Stewart and Gareth Roberts for an in-depth and wide-ranging chat.
Barnes discusses his new podcast, Defend and Attack, remembers the great Kevin Keegan, reveals his favourite goal in a Liverpool shirt and lifts the lid on what training was really like at LFC back in the day.
He also gets into the differences between how fans see football and how players and pundits see the game, life after playing, how football has changed, Liverpool then and now, and much more besides.
A proper natter with one of the greatest players ever to wear the red shirt.
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