This is the Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.

Hello and welcome to this week's Liverpool.com podcast, myself, Matt Addison and Michael Plant.

We're going to have a chat about preseason.

We were both at Anfield on Monday as Liverpool played Athletic Club, not once but twice,

and there was plenty of things for us to learn in that game, as well as in the Asia tour,

and one or two of the other fixtures that we've seen Liverpool play this summer as well.

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Michael, let's get into it then.

Preseason has come to a close, though I suspect there's a few people who might count the community shield

as a bit of an extension of that before the main event

against Bournemouth a week on Friday now, isn't it?

It's just around the corner, the new season.

But I suppose let's just start with some general thoughts on preseason.

We'll get to specifics, winners and losers, individual players across the course of the next

half an hour or so.

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