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 am your host most duer and I'm joined once again by

Matt Addison and Ben Bachchak and at the moment there's lots going on in the world of Liverpool even though

the games aren't happening yet.

Yogan Club on his team we've been causing pandemonium down in Thailand ahead of

the game with Manchester United and while that's been going on sporting director Julian Ward has been

quietly going about his business as well as I'm sure you all know.

This week's seeing the club secure a great fee for a good young player in Nico Williams

and tie down a potential defensive cornerstone in Joe Gomez for its prime years.

And there's maybe more to come with deals for Nabi Kaita and in particular

the Ogo Jota who's going to be of interest to us on this show. So Matt I'll come to you

first on this one we now know four of the five forwards who we've got

the front line forwards are going to be here for at least the next three seasons. We still don't know

what's happening with Fomeno he could extend he could leave. But how are we going to fit them together?

This is the fun part, isn't it? And do you think we're going to be able to get a few hints off of these

matches against Manchester United and Crystal Palace later on in the week.

Yeah, I mean the games are going to be really interesting I think more in a sense of finding

the partnerships elsewhere other than in the front line if that makes sense.

So I'm interested, for example, to see

is there a bit of development in pre-season

between Andy Robertson and Louis Diaz,

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