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 the latest Blood Red Club exclusive podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

I'm Matt Addison and on this episode of the show is the build up to Liverpool's opening game

of the campaign against Norwich City continues.

I'm getting the lowdown on the new season from writers who cover the other clubs hoping to be in

Premier League and Champions League contention. We'll shortly get the view from

Manchester with Alex Brotherton and Richard Faye who cover Manchester City and

Manchester United respectively for the Manchester Evening News. But first European

Champions Chelsea have had another few months to settle into life under Thomas

Tewkel and they've spent big once again.

The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

And I'm now joined by Sam Incasol Chelsea reporter for football London.

Sam thanks for jumping on with me. What's the summer being like for Chelsea? It's been but it was quiet

until a few days ago when the news broke that Romani Lukaku's signing is

should be agreed imminently or well I was agreed over the weekend and he should be joining up which is a huge move

No just in terms of the transfer fee believe it's about 98 million pounds, but it addresses the big area that Chelsea needed to address from last season that they struggled for goals under Thomas Tookle

So that was so other until then it was quite quiet. It was more dominated with outgoing and trying to get players off the books because we do have a

42 man sport at the moment and then that still needs to be chopped down by a long shot

but yeah so it had been quiet and then it's all of a sudden just kicked into gear and

they've had a fairly decent pre-season, unbeaten in pre-season.

A lot of, a lot of, not really, in terms of friend out there they had to cover behind closed

doors games one against Peter Brown when another was an interest

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