Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Liverpool Echo Blood Red

Liverpool podcast I'm Neil Jones standing in for the absent lazy duo of

Andy Kelly and Ian Doyle.

Don't worry about that though, because we have got a all-star cast.

We've got back on terrafer, back from globe trotting the world,

back from weeks of dodging work across the planet we have the full-time

Liverpool correspondent both home and away and abroad. James Pierce in person.

James welcome back. Nice to be here.

Yeah, absolutely.

He's our marketing tool, our shared seller for this podcast.

Our functional midfield duo are also here Joe Rimmer

hello Joe yeah

and christian whilst she will be going box-to-box for us today christian as always

hello hello

and we're here to look ahead to the weekend, ahead to the new Premier League season and back on the recent

events around Liverpool which have been plentiful, plenty to talk about, I think.

But I think we'll start with James firstly now you're back reflecting on the

preseason so far you've been Hong Kong Berlin Munich Dublin

Dublin Egbith as well, obviously,

brief, very briefly.

What have you made of Liverpool's pre-season

and how did you find the schedule? Yeah, I think, well, I think in terms of on the field stuff, there's been loads to admire about it.

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