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Hello, my name is Paul Wielock and welcome to the first Liverpool weekend preview

podcast of the new Premier League season.

On today's show we will be looking ahead to the Reds is opener at home to West Ham United on Sunday.

And to help me do that, we have the main man, our very own Liverpool FC correspondent James

Pierce and the West Ham writer for the excellent football dot London website Sam Inkersoe.

We'll also be hearing some of the highlights of Yergen Club's pre-match press conference,

including those brilliant Rocky Balboa quotes in full, but we'll kick off with the reporter who knows

Liverpool Inside Out. Yes, it's James Pierce.

Anfield Plus podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

Hi James, thanks very much for joining me on this podcast.

He doesn't feel two minutes ago that we were talking about or

previewing the Champions League final in Kiev. Everything that's happened since then. Is it

left you feeling confident going into the West Ham game in the new season?

It has, yeah, I think, you know, from the obviously the huge, you know, heart-wrenching disappointment that night, I think, you know, the club has kind of picked itself up and gone again really.

I think you know you look at the business that COP was able to do over the summer I think he's

addressed areas of glaring weakness in the

squads you know young players have really stepped up over the course of the summer.

Key players have come back looking really strong.

So yeah I think it's been about a positive pre-season for Liverpool as I can remember really you know no no trunter sages in terms of any

star men trying to try to force their way out of the club not perfect in terms of injuries, but by the same token, you know, not

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