Wirtz a doubt for Chelsea & Araujo Permanent Deal Being Worked On | Redmen Bitesize

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Hello everyone, it is Redmen Bitesize. It is Tuesday, the 27th of October. I'm Chris Pajak and I'm going to run you through the Liverpool news stories from last night and from this morning. So we've got a Wirtz update, something about a new kit, Jayden Danz, stuff about Alex Scott, Alexi Scott, Alex Scott, yeah. Some transfer targets and a potential deal for Ronaldo Raujo being worked on. So we're going to go through them in that order today. I'm going to start with Florian Wirtz, who is a doubt for Chelsea in the Cup at Anfield on Wednesday evening because of the ankle issue, which quotation marks needs to get sorted out and quotation marks. So we know he was playing well at the weekend, he twisted his ankle against Brighton, forced him off in the 65th minute. Andoni Iraloa said the injury doesn't look big. And Wirtz himself said the layoff won't be long. Since then he has spoken to Sky Germany, said we haven't done any tests yet, but I don't think it's too serious. I've been twisting my ankle a bit over the last few weeks. I need to get that sorted out somehow, and then I'll be back for the next game. So doesn't sound like he's gonna be out for too long, which is good. He was rested completely in the last round against Tottenham, wasn't he? He wasn't on the bench. I don't think he was on the bench for that game. So maybe Liverpool are taking a sort of precautious approach with Florian Wirtz in Carabao Cup Games, hoping to save him for Champions League and Premier League. But it is interesting that, I don't know, it's the wording. I've been twisting my ankle a bit over the last few weeks. I need to get that sorted out somehow.

It's a little bit cryptic, and it's a little bit like, kind of no one knows what it is. And that's a bit of a concern really, isn't it?

But maybe I'm just reading too much into these words typed on thisisanfield.com. Obviously quotes of his from Sky Germany. Hopefully, listen, I think he's really, really had an uptick in form over the last sort of two weeks, and I really want that to continue. And I think it took him a long time to come back from his last injury, although a serious injury. I just wouldn't want it to be the same, where he gets himself into form, picks up a little niggle, and then has to work to get himself back up into form again. Almost like, not in the same way, but Curtis Jones had a little bit of that, didn't he? It was like he'd always get into the side, be playing really well, get an injury, and then end up on the bench for ages, and force his way back into the sides, and then pick up an injury, and that's kind of how his Liverpool career went. And I really don't want that to be the case for Florian Wirtz. So if there is some underlying issue there, I do think it's probably best to err on the side of caution, and just make sure that he's okay, because if Liverpool are going to have a big season, I truly believe that Florian Wirtz is going to be a big part of said season. So we move on to the next new story now, and that is that Liverpool wear a new special Adidas kit for the Champions League next season. I'm not sure I know when the last time we had the European kit was.

I've seen, obviously, and I'm sure everybody has seen the images of this kit.

It is, well, to be fair, it's an absolute beauty. It really, really is. I won't describe it to you, but if you go to footyheadlines.com, you will be able to see that there. So Liverpool and Bayern Munich are both getting their usual home away in third kits, but it looks like they're going to get continental kits as well, which would be really nice. Obviously, it's sort of, well, I will describe it a little bit for you then. The league kits as it stands are this beautiful sort of red and white checkerboard sort of kit, a pink and black kit with the Adidas Originals logo and a kit that looks like someone's throwing up a little bit of yellow on it for a sort of white and black, crazy coloured third kit, which I'm far too old for and so are you. So there we go. We haven't, actually I haven't seen the design for the European, I was getting confused with the checkerboard kit, which I'd seen yesterday.