Thanks for joining us on First State Kopites - it’s episode 2 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Justin, Daz and Haitham.

In part 1 we talk about expectations about how we will line up for 2022-23 season.

It’s less than 4 weeks to the season opener at Fulham. We’ll talk a lot about our expectations for the season in the next few weeks, we wanted to start with an actual listener question. How do you think we will line up?

• Gomez new contract - changes for the defense?
• The midfield - Chamberlain and Keita roles
• Attack - Núñez, Carvalho, Luis Diaz, Firmino

We’ll do more on expectations for the season as we get closer.

Part 2:

• Pre-season games - Man Utd and Palace coming up, then off to Austria
  • Previous Asian tours… Sterling not willing to travel in 2015, monsoons in Hong Kong (and Coutinho fallout) in 2017.
  • July 21st and 27th friendlies against the Red Bulls
  • 3 weeks to the Community Shield
• First month is now set - early games and Monday afternoon?

Part 3 a round up of what’s happening elsewhere

• Incomings/outgoings elsewhere - what have you been impressed by and what looks less than impressive:
  • Surprise, surprise, Barcelona seem central to so much of what’s going on.
• Women’s Euros - if you’ve watched what are your highlights?
  • Holland - Sweden? Performance of France, Spain, Germany?
  • Chris Kavanagh involved in the most doubtful refereeing of the tournament - shock horror. Why are male English referees even involved?
• Liverpool Women - some new contracts, Emma Koivisto - Finnish defender - joins.
• Sepp Blatter/Platini - innocent until proven guilty

We’ll be back next week after Liverpool have played their first 2 pre-season games. Thanks to Haitham, Daz and Justin.

Music is courtesy of Hypenotic - a Welsh electro-pop band - https://hyperfollow.com/hypenotic