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

See you again, first of all, how to assess the competition you face this season to retain the

Premier League title and where do you see the biggest threat coming from?

From all the other opponents probably yeah so with leads. Here it goes on with Kelsey Arsenal and so on.

That's how it is, how it always is and the biggest challenges, there are plenty of challenges and they are like they are

similar to all the other years but there are some other ones as well and so it's

about the press a normal season in a in a shorter period which will be a proper challenge,

especially with the wonderful rule we set up with 18 and 3 pretty much which is

okay it's only about player welfare by the the way, only to say it.

It's nothing else, but I don't know why we have to discuss it on this at all.

And not everybody says, yeah, of course, like the whole world is doing, by the way,

at least whole Europe but that's how it is.

Yeah so it's just will just be difficult but it's always difficult so that's not new.

We don't have to think in this moment about the whole season we have to think about leads and that's enough

to think about honestly because it's it's a primary league team with a, and I mean, but new in a Premier League with this, but really a

Premier League team quality-wise, and with a world-class manager and an incredible intense idea of football.

And we have to be ready for that.

So that's what I'm thinking about and not too much about the rest of the season.

Can I ask you about things off the pitch? not too much about the rest of the season.

Can I ask you know about things off the pitch though as well?

Because we heard of you having talked to Gene Wilden this week.

What people are about those talks and how likely is he

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