AFTER Liverpool’s opening day fixture offered up a late sting in the tail — hot on the heels of Phil Coutinho’s transfer request — Neil Atkinson is joined by Mel Reddy, Stu Wright and Gareth Roberts to pick through the pieces.

Is there any optimism left? What went wrong and what went right at Vicarage Road? Is it the ‘same old Liverpool’?

What happens next in the Coutinho saga and what of FSG and their approach — and the manager's — to transfers this summer? Finally, the panel look to Hoffenheim and the Champions League – what opportunities does Jürgen Klopp have to change things in such a crucial match for Liverpool?