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 the Liverpool.com com podcast I'm James Martin joined today by Tom Beatty

and we're going to be looking through the euros,

bit of a sort of Liverpool slanted look at the tournament, a bit of a preview for you and of course what it means

back at Anfield which is the bottom line we always come back to before we dive in a

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podcast episode description box. Right, Tom, euros, it's coming up, it's nearly upon us.

Of course, it's sometimes a curious one for Liverpool fans,

some get very excited about it,

some maybe a little bit less bothered,

but we'll go through player by player but first the more

sort of general discussion of course slot gets pre-season underway on July the

first so in all probability a lot of his big names are going to be missing both with the euros and the

copper America as well what sort of effects you see that having on the on the kind of

early days under slot? Yeah I think it's possibly not ideal, obviously, you know, first new manager or head coach in nine years, so in an ideal world, you would have wanted this whole squad there but I think obviously realistically pretty much every summer now there is

international football in some kind of capacity and so I guess that's kind of something he's going to have to grapple with I think moving forward.

Yeah, it's not quite ideal, but then you know on the flip side, you know, we've got kind of a healthy array of younger players as well they were

coming through we obviously won't be featuring the Diureaus or the Copper America so

I think it'll be interesting to see kind of how he plays that as well.

But yeah, I think we've got kind of a month, haven't me give a take before the US tour starts.

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