Is Rio ready & how are Liverpool spending so much?

James Pearce joins Andy Jones and Tony Evans from Tokyo following Liverpool's 3-1 pre-season win over Yokohama F. Marinos with Florian Wirtz, Trey Nyoni and Rio Ngumoha all on the scoresheet.

The panel discuss whether or not Ngumoha is ready to make the step up to first team level following the sale of Luis Diaz to Bayern Munich while James also discusses the latest transfer activity around Alexander Isak as well as the search for a new central defender.

The Athletic's football finance writer Chris Weatherspoon also drops in to explain how Liverpool have created so much PSR headroom during what has been a heavy summer of spending on transfers at Anfield.

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Host: Tony Evans

With: James Pearce, Andy Jones & Chris Weatherspoon

Producer: Guy Clarke

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