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 the latest edition of the Liverpool.com

podcast I'm your host most juror and I'm joined by Ben Bokchak and James Martin and

I have to say ready or not 22 23 has already begun as we speak and sit here

Liverpool players have already started their preseason trading at the access

center looking forward to a full pre-season campaign.

There's going to be five fixtures in total

and they're going to head off to South Asia

to play against Manchester United and Crystal Palace in Thailand and Singapore,

respectively. And there's also the small matter of the community shield against Manchester City.

So we're going to be looking at the pre-season plans and working out exactly what it's going to mean for the season ahead and who may well be wanting to put their hand up in particular in this period.

But as you all know, there that something else has happened in recent weeks

I'm certain Mr. Mo Salas signed his new contract and there's been a development in

terms of his international career so we're going to touch on that before the end of the show. But then I'll start with you.

We've seen pretty much every season we talk about how much importance clop places on

pre-season planning.

For a lot of the time, he's been very reluctant

to go too far away from England,

normally going to Austria or the south of France

for a training camp, or sometimes to America.

This is our first visit to this part of the world since 2015 and obviously

for the fans who live there it's a great thing to see their stars up close and personal but in terms of how

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