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 this week's Liverpool.com podcast. You'll be glad to know it's not sponsored by any conservation drinks brand.

And with me Dan Morgan, I've got Guy Clark, Kaidelini and James Martin and we are going to have a look at Yeagen Club's summer.

What he needs to do, what he's already done and what will still be on his tick list

whilst on holiday in a lovely Spanish part of the world which I'm not

sure I should name for reasons being alluding to his privacy and the fact that he just needs a nice holiday away from people.

But on with the show and Kai I'll start with you. I mean look we have to look at the summer in general already being underway I think

But within that any kind of international tournament usually creates a bit of a lag

Doesn't it with things happening around clubs.

There's none more so in terms of that context right now than the managerial situation

across the Premier League I'd say, you know,

Spares and Everton seem to be biding the time and not sort of the main thing that

is going to basically define how they do next season which is the manager but a lot of it in terms of managers in terms of transfers in terms of managers knowing what they have to work with, when, it's dependent on how for certain

players going these competitions. But for Liverpool, we'll start with transferring and we know Ibrahim Kanate.

Shari has already been done.

But I mean, given that we're already short of mid-June, now what do you think the priorities will be for the club for the rest of the

window? Yeah I think you're right there generally any summer tournament puts everything

back at least a month,

maybe even five, six weeks, but Liverpool did well to get Kanate and

didn't know before the tournament started and that was really the one position

that was obviously such a problem for them last season and they did well to box that off and get that sorted.

Obviously paying the release clause from Leipzig and just getting that done and dusted before, you know, well before the

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