John.

How important is it?

They get back to what they were this weekend against Borman?

Well, it's a huge champions.

Don't get in the following way.

You spoke about perspective on there's a lot being made about.

Lost three in the last four.

I'd prefer to think we've lost three four, including one last season, the last 70 or 80 matches.

Now this was is easy to say now, but I don't think he's ever gonna continue.

Liverpool had been painting the maximum and maximize your potential.

Liverpool have necessarily got better players than any other team in the top 45 They have a great attitude, commitment, determination, harmony with the fans, which meant that they maximize your potential to do what they did.

Now if you look at three or four games before they lost the ground results out and I thought I was playing better last year than this year, so I'm not saying this was always gonna happen, but they would become a stage in terms of what not never mind this season.

Last year we lost one game off the incredible run we had where there was gonna be a dip.

Fortunately, with 20 points ahead, we are gonna win the league.

But it could be a huge week out to their fake up.

Hopefully, we don't go out of the Champions League because we're out of the Champions League while we are going to win the league.

It'll be a bit of a damn script at the end when we've won the league because you know we wouldn't leave would maybe seven games to go when you know what do you play for?

Perspective is required because you're in quotes.

Never been past that round in the F A Cup because he a clearly targets primarily on the Champions League.

So that's why I say his perspective required what is the problem?

Winning is a wonderful habit, tohave and so is having momentum so ahead of Atletico they need to shake themselves down.

Those suggest suggested for one second that they're not gonna win the Premier League.

Of course, no.

Yeah, with the points, the price caps a massive and you're right.

I need to get back to winning ways But you gotta look at the game last night, for instance, against Chelsea, you're brilliant.

I think if it wasn't for a lack of cutting edge and and finishing, they would have won that game comfortably.

So I'd say before we see the first lost Yeah, they groan that results of games where they should have been being if somehow I managed to nick a goal the end.

But I think they've been necessary plan bad of recent, especially as I said yesterday against Chelsea.

Their chance off the charts and they just can't take him.

So it's not that difficult to then turn it around because, you know, four or one or two of them go in a completely different game and I think born with his world team, that's been with the kind of been a plan to Well, I think I'll get back to winning games.

But again, Liverpool in the Champions League when the second legs outboard it's a completely different kettle of fish does not matter how they're producing plan their former forever reason when they get teams in that second in Abbeville.

It's a completely different story.

I think it's different.

Playing athletic commission in Barcelona, you say Barcelona is a better team than Athletica, but not defensively on if they have to be very in prosperity and if they have to have 20% possession and not concede, that's what the agency Meoni does.

So it was a huge shock to Barcelona.

Don't get me wrong, but I think it's gonna be more difficult against Athletica, plus the fact that depending on how the board game goes, it'll be even more difficult.

But as I said, listen, in the last 18 months, let's forget this season what happened last year.

We cannot criticize him any way shape or nobody is.

Don't nobody's criticizing.

It was brilliantly phrased question by my colleague Patrick Davis and after the war will gain.

You did the game for us, John.

Hey said to Jurgen Klopp, he said, I'm not picking holes in the magnificent season, but did you see signs of this in the last few games?

So again, I think that is perspective.

But you know when you say see signs of it, their games when he saw scientific.

But it didn't come because the West time game and theses and nor is the first game of the season.

Tottenham Andi say when they win and they don't play well, If they had lost, you can say, Well, I've seen signs of it So with seeing signs in the previous games, But they still got the job done, which is what they did.

They just didn't help did within the last two games on.

As I said, it's a bit because you know they will play consistently well.

And of course, money and salad will start to score again.

So I really just think it is just one of those things that happens in football.

Is it hypothetical or we're really seeing how much Little Miss June Anderson?

Yeah, they miss him not just for the role he plays down the leadership, I think because I think against what for what for played very, very well.

But I think a lot of the situations might been avoiding George Henderson.

I mean, hasn't said he He's running in place where some fortune for himself that you're only really fully appreciate him when he's not there.

Like when he's on the pitch.

People take for granted like what exactly do what he could.

But the moment you take him out of the equation.

People start getting our need.

George Henderson back for himself.

That's a little bit unfair in some regards, but I think he's a massive, misses their leader.

You meatballs and screens and pulls people into position.

And I think that voice on the pitch is what they're really, really merciful.

Liverpool have a clearly defined way of playing how they place.

They've got three hardworking midfield players who we could argue, not particularly creative on.

We get our creativity, our energy, our flare from the two fullbacks in the three strikers.

Now, on the odd occasion that the two fullbacks aren't creating three trackers on firing, that is where our lack of so called creativity in midfield is a parent.

So we're saying we need more something more from midfield now, with our lack of creativity in midfield were 20 points ahead.

We lost one game last year and we are where we are very much like Manchester City when every now and again they may not play well and they may lose.

You, then say they need more defensive players, but for 90% of the time they're fine.

So for Liverpool, it just happened that the fullbacks would create a lot on the street.

Strikers didn't perform and that's when we say we needed something more in midfield.

But I would put up with that all day long for what we've actually achieved.

Okay, I want to put to you to something that cropped up on the debate earlier this week.

Jamie Ohara on Paul Merson and the argument Waas.

If Manta City win both domestic cups on the Champions League, have a have a better season.

The livable.

If they win the Premier League, the best team in the country wins the league.

The Premier League.

You can be lucky in the Cup because you can, you know, play against going through drops.

You can be lucky depending on the drawer, because you could win three cups of not playing you want even in the Premier League.

Of course, they can't know because you see the F A Cup draw, but I don't know competitions and see that as as a marker as to who the best team is now taken in consideration.

Liverpool level 1 30 years.

As far as I'm concerned, that would be immense.

Manchester City, the greatest 13 Champions League as well.

But for May believe a poodle.

The league is the most important thing, but Mattresses City have never won the Champions League.

I think that's the Holy Grail that guardian was brought into one the primly of all the ones in context.

If you play too much to see having already won the Premier League before you're gonna began hell for Leather to win the Champions League.

And if you could win all three cups, that's a fantastic season.

But if you play for Liverpool, who you said never done it before you and you've already run the Champions League, you could say, You know what?

Family is a Ferrari, but but you don't play for either.

So I'm asking you a dozen anything that I would love to be the family, me hundreds, and I would love to win that permit because that shows 38 games different, difficult games.

You go through periods where to pour gasoline on the test is different tests.

I just think to be the best in the permanent 38 games, you've got to be consistent enough to win for me.

I'd love to have one family, global scale.

Of course, the Champions Leagues, the Champions League.

But I agree what John said that you can be lucky with the drawer in the group you're in but permanently gonna be lucky to win 38 games or to go free again.

You started.

So are you saying it is simple?

If that's how it finishes Manchester City do the trouble and therefore win the primary, you still think live will have a better season than that?

Yeah, I agree.

Not next year.

If we won the league this year, we won the league again next year.

Then I'll say, Man city for 30 years.

We waited a long time.

I mean, this is bigger than the World Cup for a Scouse Is your your in and around Liverpool a lot, John, What is the feeling like up there at the moment?

Well, how would you describe the atmosphere of what people are saying when it really depends on my brother knows an Evertonian So after the same thing for the city and they're just so happy that obviously I think that we could have wanted to Goodison had one there, So they just delighted about that.

I would urge Liverpool fans even when they were disappointed last year and I said not the Champions League because it said had we lost the championship glass here, what that would have meant that we lost two games old season, the Champions League on one game in the league, finished second in the league and get to the championship final, which would have been a magnificent season.

But we were disappointed now, urging Liverpool fans.

He didn't lose to athletic commensurate then say it's been a great year because I think people will be disappointed.

Yes, we've won the league but I don't look at it as a bit of a downer because we got out the F A Cup that got out of the Champions League.

But I say for 30 years we waited for this so if they win the league, every Liverpool fan will be absolutely delighted.

I don't forgive them going out of the champions sign for that the beginning of the season.