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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Why Liverpool are now acting like a big club – and the key to toppling Manchester City

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The phoney war is over, the real stuff starts on Sunday, but before then there’s the little matter of transfer deadline day to get through. So to talk the last day of the window, and look back on pre-season and look ahead to the new campaign, Liverpool season-ticket holders Sean Bradbury, Dan Kay and Paul Philbin join host Paul Wheelock for our latest View from the Kop podcast.The Reds have impressed both on and off the pitch during the summer in a manner that Sean, Dan and Paul Philbin believe befits a big club. Indeed, apart from the pursuit of a certain Lyon midfielder, the trio struggle to think of any major dramas since the Champions League final. Dan is a little concerned, though, that a key member of Jurgen Klopp’s squad has yet to put pen to paper on a new deal.However, the mood is overwhelmingly positive, with all three praising the 17-year-old Scouser who has played his way into Klopp’s plans, and the less heralded new signing who Paul reckons could have an impact similar to Yossi Benayoun.Sean, Dan and Paul are relaxed about transfer deadline day and reckon that whatever happens between now and 5pm on Thursday, Liverpool will have done the best business of any of the top six. So will that lead to a first league title since 1990? Dan is very confident and Paul believes, although Sean wonders whether Manchester City will prove just too strong again. That said they all three agree that pre-season has proved the Reds have a key factor in their favour when it comes to toppling Pep Guardiola’s men. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is a Liverpool Echo podcast on Anfield Plus, the home of your daily

0:05.3

podcast bringing you the inside track from Liverpool FC.

0:08.8

Hello and welcome to the view from the COP podcast. The phony war is over. The real stuff starts on

0:13.6

Sunday, but before then there's the little matter of a trunter deadline day to get

0:17.1

through. My name's Paul Weelock and to talk through the last day of the

0:20.1

window and look back on pre-season and look forward to the new season ahead.

0:23.7

I'm delighted to be joined by Paul Philbin.

0:26.1

Hello?

0:27.1

Sean Bradbury.

0:28.1

Hello and Dan Kaye.

0:29.1

Hi.

0:30.1

So let's start with Tuesday night and the final friendly of the summer and another impressive win this time over

0:34.4

to Reno at Anfield. So how did you all look back at pre-season? Is it just West is the opposite further?

0:41.0

Yeah I mean I think it was important to have a good pre-season because obviously, even though it was a terrific campaign last time around, it obviously ended in a fair bit of pain and disappointment.

0:52.0

And it can, you know, well perfect example before

0:54.8

years ago 2014, you know, there were obviously factors in that in terms of Louis Suarez

0:59.9

leaving, but there was always a danger when you have a big high and a big low at the end of the

1:04.3

season that it can drag on.

1:06.7

I think remember to hear the podcast with you Paul within a couple of days of Kyiv and we'd already brought Boston signed in then and I think generally I think

1:15.8

I think you'd be hard pushed to find too many Liverpool things that aren't encouraged

1:20.5

and heartened by the preseason that we've had and are very much looking forward to

1:24.0

the real stuff getting underway on Sunday. Yeah that spot and the fact that we were able to

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