Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Welcome to our new podcast on the Blood Red channel, The Agenda, a bite-sized look at Liverpool news and views before we serve up some of our established shows later in the day. And on this edition, Kristian Walsh and Dan Austin, of our new Liverpool.com website (click HERE to see that), discuss the one and only Divock Origi, exactly five years on since his arrival at Anfield. Now Liverpool.com have been getting some grief for calling Origi a Liverpool legend. So here Kristian and Dan passionate defend that claim. Let us know what you think!*We now have a Blood Red YouTube channel. Watch, like and subscribe HERE. Thanks! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Defeat to Napoli leaves the Reds having shipped 10 goals in their last four pre-season outings, so is there reason to be concerned? Joe Rimmer talks over the defeat to Napoli at Murrayfield with Paul Gorst, Caoimhe O’Neill and Theo Squires. Moving on from the loss to the Italians, focus of course switches to whether or not Jurgen Klopp should make a late dash in the transfer market with a certain 36-year-old Franck Ribery mooted, as well as what to do with Harry Wilson and Ryan Kent. The pre-season warm-ups finish on Sunday in the Community Shield, with the panel touching on the importance of the match following a week in Evian. All that and much more, plus a mention of East 17 (remember them). Enjoy! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was in front of the media this morning to preview Sunday’s Community Shield clash v Manchester City at Wembley. With the Reds off to France for a week-long training camp, the press conference was brought forward, and staged in Edinburgh, just over 12 hours since their 3-0 defeat to Napoli at Murrayfield. On the agenda, apart from the showdown with Premier League champions City, was why the training camp will be ‘massively important’ to the European Cup winners, when Klopp will be able to call on the returning Alisson Becker, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah, the emergence of Rhian Brewster, and the future of Ryan Kent. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It is only pre-season, three of the big guns are back in training tomorrow, and it is only eight weeks since Liverpool were crowned champions of Europe. But the concerns that arose during the US tour very much remain after the Reds were beaten 3-0 by Napoli at Murrayfield on Sunday. Ian Doyle was on reporting duty for the ECHO at the home of Scottish rugby, and it is his verdict on what was at times an embarrassing afternoon that kick off this podcast. You will then hear Jurgen Klopp's press conference in full, which includes his thoughts on the game, the cameo of 16-year-old new boy Harvey Elliott, the future of Ryan Kent, and why his side will be a 'different animal' in next Sunday's Community Shield against Manchester City. On this showing, they'll need to be. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Eight weeks on sinceLiverpool made it six in Madrid, we catch up with Jordan Henderson’s former academy coach at Sunderland, Kevin Ball. Ball, who’s worked as a mentor through Henderson’s career, catches up with Blood Red a year on from reflecting on Champions League and World Cup heartbreak for his former protege to explain the characteristics behind the Liverpool captain’s determination to make amends. Through the course of the interview, Ball and host Guy Clarke touch on the makings of Henderson from a youngster on the training pitches at Sunderland to lifting the European Cup in Madrid. They delve into the mental toughness to bounce back from adversity to lead the Reds to number six as well as the humility shown in wanting to share the moment with manager Jurgen Klopp and team-mate James Milner. As well as the mental aspects, there’s a profile of his technical abilities and how that’s put him in a position to be a leader for both club and country. And moving forward, Ball gives an insight into the mindset of the captain as Liverpool look to go one further than last season in the Premier League, ahead of the new season getting underway in just 13 days. Enjoy! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sam Carroll is joined by Sean Bradbury, Theo Squires and Caoimhe O’Neill to discuss the latest Liverpool-related issues as the US tour draws to a close. With pre-season coming to an end, the panel discuss the need for Jurgen Klopp to dip into the transfer market with questions posed over the depth in the squad given Nathaniel Clyne’s knee injury. With the new campaign on the horizon they also share their views on the winners in pre-season, most notably Rhian Brewster, while Ryan Kent and Harry Wilson may have missed a chance to lay claim to a position in Klopp’s first team. With the Club World Cup dates confirmed for the middle of December there’s a discussion into the impact it could have on the Reds’ season - and there’s even a footnote on Everton’s designs for their new stadium planned for Bramley-Moore Dock. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the final Blood Red podcast. From America. Whereas last year's tour of the US went swimmingly, 12 months on things did not quite go to plan for Liverpool, if not off the pitch, then certainly on it. Fittingly, then, our final dispatch from Stateside goes a little awry. It starts with Ian Doyle and Kristian Walsh looking back on the 2-2 draw with Sporting Lisbon at the Yankee Stadium before the duo are joined halfway through the podcast by Goal's Neil Jones to pick out the Reds' winners and losers from the three matches played in America. But before they can finish that section, the reporters are interrupted by an employee from the hotel they were staying at in New York and have now left. We've kept it in for posterity. And what also made the cut are the concerns the trio have 10 days before the Community Shield with Manchester City and why next week is so important for Jurgen Klopp. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

So that's another American tour over. After defeats to Borussia Dortmund and Sevilla, Liverpool wrapped up their stay in the States with a 2-2 draw at the Yankee Stadium in New York against a Sporting Lisbon side led impressively by their captain Bruno Fernandes. Our Reds reporter Ian Doyle kicks this podcast off by giving his take on the action - we'll be hearing more from him later today in the final Blood Red US Tour Diary - before you can listen to Jurgen Klopp's after-match press conference in full. It's a good one and it includes his thoughts on Fernandes, who could be signing for Manchester United, but as the Liverpool manager makes clear, not their bitter rivals from the other end of the East Lancs. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Fancy some pre-match listening before Liverpool’s final friendly of their America tour? Well, you’re in luck as we’ve got a special transatlantic Blood Red podcast for you with Sean Bradbury and Connor Dunn back at the ECHO and Ian Doyle out in America. Ian has not only been busy reporting on the Reds' first two games Stateside, but also bagging himself an exclusive with Jurgen Klopp and conducting very interesting interviews with the captain Jordan Henderson and the man who continues to defy age, James Milner. Klopp’s comments on the transfer window in said exclusive are assessed as is the reason why Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Rhian Brewster really do (cliché alert) have to be considered as new signings. The panel reckon Henderson’s revelations about what happened after the Champions League win say a lot about him and a lot about what his team-mates think of him – and they also reckon James Milner and Klopp may have been sending messages to Liverpool’s powers that be. Plus there’s the little matter of previewing the clash with Sporting Lisbon at the Yankee Stadium. Enjoy. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Just over two weeks are left in the summer transfer window without the Reds bolstering the first team squad, despite the arrival of 17-year-old Sepp van den Berg. So, as the clock ticks down should Jurgen Klopp be considering moves before the deadline strikes? In the latest offering of Poetry in Motion, led as always by Neil Fitzmaurice, he’s ably assisted in dissecting the latest transfer gossip by Connor Dunn and Caoimhe O’Neill. On the list of subject involved are Nabil Fekir following his move to Real Betis as well as Bayer Leverkusen youngster Kai Haivertz and even a certain Phillipe Coutinho. With Real Madrid doing all they can to offload winger Gareth Bale Fitzy also poses the question whether Liverpool should consider a move for the Welshman with his future clearly looking beyond the Bernabeu. While the transfer window counts down, with it brings nearer the start to the new Premier League season, which leaves the panel to discuss who may be in Jurgen Klopp’s first Premier League team at home to Norwich on Friday 9th August including how youngsters Harry Wilson and Ryan Kent have fared during their pre-season run-outs. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices