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Good morning everybody and welcome to your daily news update. It is me, Luke, bringing you today's LFC news. I'll have a look and see if anyone is in the chat. I see my mate Kyle in there as always. We've got, I suppose he says, Mornington, Mornington Reds.

Yeah, I hope you are all doing very, very well. Everything feels better, doesn't it, after you've got a big win at the weekend. So yeah, all feeling very, very good, though very cold and very wet in Liverpool today. Anyway, we have got quite a bit of news to get through. We'll let the chat fill up and a few of you guys to jump in. We will do the routine stuff first of all. And Florian Wirtz yesterday come off with a little bit of an injury watching it on the telly. I was in here. Actually, I weren't at the game this weekend. I was doing the socials in Redmen HQ. Florian Wirtz landed a little bit awkwardly. Didn't look massive. Didn't look like a big injury. He's saying, yeah, I'm OK. Just twisted my ankle a bit, but that should be all right for the next few weeks. So we'll have to wait and see what Andoni Iraloa says on Tuesday, probably in his pre-match press conference ahead of Chelsea. However, I wouldn't be expecting Florian Wirtz to take part in that one on Wednesday night. Hopefully okay and hopefully all right for Arsenal at the weekend. He was walking around and stuff like that. He actually spoke to Skysports Germany after the game, and he said on his poor performances and people sort of talking about it, and maybe having a little bit of a pop of him, he says, I generally couldn't care less what anyone has to say about me. So anyone is welcome to talk about me. I just play football because I enjoy it and of course, I want to be successful. So, yeah, Florynvyd is blocking out all the noise and trying not to let anyone talk me, maybe getting his head a little bit to be totally honest. There's a big price tag on him and a lot of pressure, and he's just trying to block all that out. And I'd argue that's probably the best way to do it. And his performances of late, in my opinion, have improved, and he's been a lot better. He's getting himself amongst the goals. He's had a few assists in there. He created many chances against Brentford. I thought he played well against Brighton yesterday despite Liverpool winning the game 2-0. Not having too much of the ball, to be totally honest. But yeah, I think Florian Wirtzer is starting to turn a corner a bit. He may never live up to that huge price tag that we paid for him, but he's definitely becoming a better piece of this Liverpool team at the moment. And I would argue he's in quite good form. So yeah, hopefully all OK for the weekend's game, but likely will miss Chelsea on Wednesday night.

We've got a plough ready, he says social media is toxic. Some players need to stay off it. I would argue Florian Wirtzer probably is one of them players. I think we've all probably gave him a little bit of a stick, maybe for not being as influential as we would like him to be. But it's when the abuse starts to cross the line, starts getting a little bit personal, stuff like that. And also, it's not just good for the mindset. We're just trying to concentrate on the game, stuff like that, all the outside noise coming in. He is only a young lad who transferred Liverpool for £120 million or something like that, something ludicrous. So yeah, it's not been a great start to life at Liverpool Forum. But like I said, is playing a bit better now, is getting amongst the goals, is getting a few assists. Hopefully, this little knock doesn't stunt us for. I think he would have probably been left out of Chelsea on Wednesday night anyway, giving a little bit of a rest, maybe an appearance from the bench. I don't think he would have started the game regardless. So I don't think it's too much of a blow for Liverpool.