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

Hello I'm Paul Bielock and welcome to the latest podcast on the Blood Red channel.

Not that you need reminding but Liverpool were crowned European champions for the

six times just under two weeks ago with the victory over top of the

Champions League final in Madrid sending out a massive statement of intent to

the rest of Europe. So that got me thinking how are the top clubs on the continent reacting

to the Reds win and how are their summers shaping up? We'll no doubt be keeping a close eye on what

Liverpool's Premier League rivals are up to throughout the course of pre-season.

So for this podcast, the first of two European specials, I spoke to a French football

expert and a German football expert to get the

lowdown from Liga and the Bundesliga. Rich Allen is a French football writer and

podcaster for Get French Football News and French Football Weekly who we've had on

blood red before and we

caught up again to talk Paris and Cheaman the lesson they should learn from

Liverpool the Battle of egos between Neymar and Kielian and Bathe, the rise of

Lille, while Yerg and clop should not make a move for

Nikola Pepe or Memphis to pie and of course how could we not speak about

Nobel for care you'll then hear my chat with goal.com's Ronan Murphy in which we

talk about the big spending already been done by

buying Munich and Blusher Dortmund.

Yeurgan Clops chances are returning to Germany in the future and whether

Timo Werner will be on the market this summer and whether he would be a

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