 It's obviously been quite an interesting week in the press. There's been some there's been some smack talk going on back and forth. Obviously Trent Alexander-Arnold came out yesterday and made a pretty outrageous quote. I don't have the quote verbatim in front of me, but he was pretty much saying that the trophies that Liverpool have won mean more, mean more because of the way that they did it. Now I couldn't for one tell you what that's meant to mean. He said the two financial situations of the club, which again feel like there's a bit to unpick there. But he said that he feels like Liverpool are actually more successful even though statistically City more successful because of the inverted commas way that they've done things. What are your thoughts on that? I mean it's mean more FC, innit? They've invented caring now. Brilliant. Yeah, you did that. Thanks. I'll go try and care now. They've invented having fans who like winning trophies now. Yeah, it's just a mad comment to make before we play each other. Some of that's going to rifle things up, obviously. I just don't agree with it in the slightest. Really? That surprises me. I thought you said it actually didn't mean a lot to you when we were on the treble. I just think I don't agree with anything that you're saying. It means more to them like why? Why would it mean more to them? Why? Like it doesn't make any sense. I saw a tweet that said something along the lines of when Rodgers scored that goal in Istanbul, I quickly got out of my XL app on my phone, went through all the Manchester City's finances for the past 15 years before deciding what my barometer of celebration will be in accordance with the financial records. It's like, is that what you think City fans are doing? Yeah, we have to go through it. How much money do we spend to get to this point? Right, okay. That's that much per goal, which means I can be this level of happy. A bit too much for me to be eccentric. I've got not a cry, not a cry. I've not quite got to that point yet. Like auditing the goals. Can't quite take my shirt off because we're putting in a bid for Gavadil, so can't do that. Can't do that. We'll have to rein it in a little bit so we can afford that Gavadil. It seemed to me like a really row common, which you don't expect in this day and age because plays are generally so media trained to say the appropriate thing. It seemed to me like a comment from days gone by when like Thurgy and Venge used to throw shade at each other at every single press conference. It seemed like that. And to be honest, I'm kind of all for it because obviously we'll get on to there's been a bit of a retort today on that from a city player, but it kind of builds the tension around the game. I don't agree with the comment itself. I think that he's chatting absolute rubbish, but it gets you talking. Like we've got some stuff to talk about. We're speaking about it now, right? I like it. I like the animosity that it kind of brings. It adds a little spice to games. Like Derby Day is now, for an example, the not as fiery. It's all they'll hug each other after a match. It's all nice, nice Derby Day nowadays. When we're Manchinian, it's all kicking off with Fergie on the touch. I remember when Mark used it. Yeah, yeah, I kind of lost Tevez doing little, what was it like talking? Yeah, yeah, see that kind of stuff, it's that adds to it. It adds so much to it. Like, and then so yeah, the trend doing that, like I say, I agree with you. I don't agree with anything that I said. I think he's chatting, but I'm here for it. Yeah, you keep talking like that. I want to fuel that fire. Yeah. And speaking of fuel on the fire, we'll obviously get to the quote that came out today from Harland, which was cold as ice. He pretty much got told about the comment from a journalist for the first time. He hadn't heard it. He was read the comment and his response was, well, I've been here one year. I won a treble, which was pretty nice. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't know how that feels. Which is it's peak. It's like, I love it. I love it. I love it. Well done, Harland. I love that so much. What I do love now, and I'm not, I'm not about to like take the side of United fans in any way, shape or form, but I do love just being able to pull a treble out your pocket. Yeah. Like a little trump card. It's like a new, no reverse card. Anything you say, but everyone in trouble. It annoyed me for 30 years when they were doing it, but oh, shut up, like get over it, United, whatever. But now I do. Now we can do it. You get it. Oh, yeah. It actually feels good doing that. Anyone get, you know, any Liverpool fans, Arsenal fans now start going, oh, you're rubbish at the weekend or they start making comments or 115 charges or whatever. I'm like, oh, what's this on my back? Oh, treble. Oh, treble for you. Where's yours? Where's yours? Come on with these, mate. You're not going to treble. You're not going to get invited. And Harland literally did that. And Harland did that in the press. He did that in the press. He was just like, Trent Alexander, Trent Alexander, under Arnold said X, Y, Z. He just went, no treble. Basically did that. It's great. That's what I mean. That's going to add to the weekend. Everyone's, everyone's just both seen these quotes, both quotes from both players. The thing is, is like, if you're a Liverpool podcast or you're a Liverpool fan, you should almost be enjoying it as much as we are because you should be going, I don't agree with what Harland said and it's rubbish and their dirty cheats and they did it with all the money and whatever, blah, blah, blah. But you should love the fact that they're both saying it because it's just, it's tension for the game. It's because it just adds a lot to the weekend. Like rather than being, oh, nice and nice and Trent being like, oh, I respect everything man city have done. The guy came out and started shooting and I'm glad that Harland fired shots back. Because when I seen that quote from Trent, I was like, yeah, I don't agree with it. I did not expect anyone to respond to it. And I thought if they didn't even get asked, say Pet got asked or anyone got asked, it would be played down so much. But how to come back and say that is just, it's almost like he's gone off the rails a little bit. I think city be like, whoa, we shouldn't have said that. What I love about his voice, watch the clip. So cool and calmly says it. He doesn't like, he doesn't bite. He's not like getting angry. He's not like, that's rubbish quote. Like you should think about the fact that we want to treble. He literally sits and he goes, well, I've been here a year, I want to treble. It's quite nice. Can't imagine how it feels. The thing is the best way to come back to it is the success that we've had. That is the best way. Like us pulling out that treble card is just the best way of coming back to anyone. And when it gets to the weekend now, and we see a crunch in tackle from Trent, or we see Harland makes him and score a goal or whatever else, like we know we know it's going to mean something. Yeah, the tension is there. But Harland would be scores to celebrate in Trent's phase or just do anything. Or Trent's scores and then we'll have to be sat there thinking, oh gosh. I mean, he scored against us last time. So that's on the cards now. Like I say, as a level of excitement for the game at the weekend. Yeah. Yeah. What are your thoughts going into the weekend in terms of, I guess, if we're going to win? If you think we have it in us to win, what you think in Liverpool at the moment? Liverpool getting the results. I still think, I think Liverpool fans are degrees. I still think we are the better side. I just think they're getting the results, which is showing champion form, which is great for them. And that's why they're currently sitting top of the Premier League, because they keep getting clutch results. Norwich, sorry, not Norwich. Forrest. Forrest, and you've got lute and like kind of games and things like that. They're getting good results, which fares. I mean, I'm all for it. They're doing it in a similar way that they have done before, which is scrappy games, but they'll grind out the results. They keep getting a lot of like 80 plus minute goals. Yeah. But I feel like when you win the Premier League, I feel like you do kind of, it's not all these 5-0, 6-0 kind of thing. You do have to grind out the results where you're not particularly playing well. They're doing that. I think we are the better team. I think going into the weekend, I do feel like we're going to have to be playing at a high level, but it's something that we all know. We've not won at Anfield with fans in the stadium, which is the Anfield curse. Although people say, no, it's gone because we won there in the Covid year. For me, and I'm a Man City fan, I feel like there's a bit of an asterisk next to it. Yeah, because not the fans out there. Or it's in brackets like we won, but there was no fans. I feel like it's we won, but the curse is not broken. The curse still remains. It's still a thing. The Anfield curse is fully there, and it's something that we're going to have to overcome this weekend. I back us to do it because I'm looking at what we did last year. I know I go back to them kind of games, but we had to get to a level to beat the big dogs. If we want to win this Premier League, anti and then players, you need to go there and you need to beat them. Yeah, obviously we can draw against them, but I say the Liverpool driving point from now to the end of the season is far and few between. I don't know where it's going to be. So we need to get up there. You've said for a few weeks now, like you feel like we're going to win, but you feel like we'll get that result. I'm really not on the same boat. I genuinely feel like we'll do it. I'm really not on the same boat. I hope we will and I want us to win, obviously. Yeah, but I don't have this sort of like assuredness. Big Steve was saying when he was last here, that he feels the same. Like he just has this feeling that we're going to win. Yeah, I don't know what I can't even explain it. I just have a feeling that you don't have to do it. We're going to get up for it and we're going to win that game. I was like that last season when the Champions are going to feel like a lot of City fans were, from day dot, from the day the season, the Premier League season started, I was saying to all my mates, City will win the Champions League this year. And people, you know, they were going to me, I've got this feeling like you keep getting back, like just last season, just in April, you got embarrassed by Real Madrid, you got knocked out in the 120th minute, you know, blah, blah, blah, and all these upsets, like what's making you so sure now. I was like, I can't really explain it. I just have this feeling that this is the season that we win the Champions League. And we did. So I hope your feelings are right. I hope my feelings are right. I hope you feel it's all right. Now, does it mean that I'm going to be nervous going to, not nervous going to it because I have this assuredness? No, not at all. I'm going to be, I'm going to be just as scared as any time that we play these kind of games. I think it's going to be difficult and... It's going to be horrible. It is, it is, but I'm just hoping we get the peak of these players. We've had a few players in midweek who got a bit of a rest, which is nice to see you, Kevin Abroins, Phil Forden getting a rest, Rodney getting off at halftime. I think it will kind of walk again a full rest. John Stones getting a majority rest and that's clutch. So to pull it back to the Champions League game last night, that's pretty much what we said, wasn't it? Is we just wanted injury free. We said that was the biggest thing in this game. Yeah. Injury free resting players and going through. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. I mean, again, without being disrespectful, going through felt quite assured, especially after the first 10 minutes. After that, we just said... At 10 minutes, I said subs. Yeah, yeah. Subs at 10 minutes. I was thinking there's not quite even keeping any of these players on the pitch. Rest up. Some people were asking why we bought off Rodney at halftime and it's like we don't need him. We just don't need him at this point and we need the rest ahead of Sunday. So fingers crossed. Fingers crossed it goes well for us, but it's mad to think that on Monday's episode, we could be top of the Premier League. We could be. We could be top of the Premier League. Or we could be third. No. No. Don't tell me that. Top of the Prem. That's all you can see. Top of the Prem. Top of the Prem League is where it's at and it's where we will be on Monday. I believe... You know what? You're making me believe more. Good. Which is good. You're inspiring me, which is good.