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

Hello, bonjour and welcome to the latest podcast on the Blood Red channel with me Matt Addison.

With at least another month until Liverpool are back in action, this is the special series

of podcasts that we're running giving you the low down on the players being linked with

Liverpool ahead of the summer transfer window.

After our Spanish podcast, which featured the likes of Ferrant Torres of Valencia and

Savias Diego Carlos, and the German version with Timo Werner,

Jayden Sancho, Mario Goetz and plenty more.

This episode is all about the French League.

Like in Spain and Germany, there are plenty of players being linked with a move to Anfield from League on for us to sift through.

And so to speak about all of those rumors, I'm delighted to introduce French football expert and freelance football writer Tom Williams.

Tom, Tom, thank you so much for joining us and welcome to the Blood Red podcast.

Thanks very much, Matt. My pleasure.

Before we move on with the rest of the show, I think it would be remiss of us not to ask about the

situation in France now in terms of the coronavirus and firstly Tom forgetting

football just for a second I mean where we're we up to in France with the outbreak are they in a similar period to what we're experiencing over here in the UK?

Basically yes I mean like a lot of the other major European nations fronts went into lockdown a little bit before we did.

Their confinement rules are a little bit stricter than ours in that if you want to go out you need to have a piece of paperwork

with you sort of justifying why you're out and about where you're going and what you're doing.

Which given France's love of paperwork is no real surprise.

And yeah, everyone is just sort of sitting tight waiting it out the same way that we are here.

And yeah, in terms their their football situation there are talks

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