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

It's the Blood Red Podcast, courtesy of the Liverpool Echo, I'm Guy Clark.

Thanks a lot for joining us the new

season is getting closer international football can go back in its box and

back on the shelf the Reds are out in Austria and Virgil Van Dyke's back in

group training.

It's a buoyant blood red.

The new season starts here

and bringing you the latest reg chat.

We have our Liverpool correspondent fool-gorse,

Matt Addison,

and having watched England eliminated at the final hale, Wembley, Theo Squires is here to Jensen.

I hope you're all well. Gorsey, throw over to you first.

You've had a bit of time off, but you're feeling refreshed and ready to roll for the new season?

I am yeah three weeks off which is the longest of I've ever had off since I've worked with the

I hope which is coming up to six years and I think it's the longest I've had that just any kind of work since 2010.

So we're a good few weeks, a bit disappointed that me accepted the Dominican

that to be Kybosh because of the COVID situation.

But we scheduled for the She's at 10 minutes and a national break.

Manage to get up to Edinburgh and now I'm back at the helm and ready to have a lot to vote for football.

Happy days, that's a way to spend your international breaks.

They're not going and watching England.

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