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

Hello everyone and welcome to a very special Transatlantic edition of the Blood Red Podcast with myself, Sean Bradbury and

Connor Dunn back in echo HQ and down the line all the way from the USA is

Ian Doyle here he is you can hear him.

Hello there, hello. Dooley will start with you can hear him. Hello there, hello.

Doily, we'll start with you, we'll go straight to you over in the States.

Give us a sense then of what the atmosphere has been like so far.

You've been to the US before following the Reds, but how big a sense of how big the

Reds are have you got this time? Has it all gone up a notch?

Well, I'll tell you what, around Games and around Open Trading training sessions there's been a lot of

interest I mean the interesting thing is that the actual

and then has probably been what a lot of people might have expected back home

but part of the reason for that is because the game isn't part of this

International Champions Cup which is also going on at the moment around the States.

So what basically means that the people who've been turning up are the

absolute hardcore, the ones who are desperate to see them and they're the ones that have been at those

over training sessions at the games. I mean there was there was 40,000 at the game on Friday at

Notre Dame as they say over here against Bécher Dortmund.

But that stadium is like 70,000 capacity.

So at times it looked like there was a lot of people.

But it was still 40,000 people sending out for a friendly.

You would normally get that in, you know,

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