00:01So if you could raise your hands and we'll get through with Manivia if that's possible.
00:07Welcome to Chicago. I'm very different.
00:10I'm curious just what your impressions are about the city.
00:13We've had a lot of important visitors here this summer.
00:16So what are you talking about around the city and the training centre as well?
00:19The training centre is amazing.
00:22I think everything is here what a football player needed.
00:28The city is as much as we could go outside for a little walk, maybe a coffee.
00:35It's very nice.
00:36The places are nice as well.
00:39The people are very friendly.
00:43So yeah, happy to be here.
00:45I'm curious also, do you have any recollections of one of the club legends here at Manivia Neek Beach?
00:51Yeah, I had to speak with him two days ago.
00:56He said he scored many goals here.
00:59And now it's my turn.
01:01Yeah, I'm not playing for Chicago.
01:05But yeah, I'm close with him.
01:08I know when he played here, he was also a top scorer as I remember good.
01:14So he said he had an unbelievable time here and he just told me to enjoy it here.
01:21How did the media group go to Chicago?
01:24Just after your games that the club has played in Nashville, New York and the school area of Liverpool,
01:30what are you most looking forward to in this match in Chicago?
01:35Well, I think these two games was maybe a little bit different than the games played in Chicago.
01:43Because obviously we have Ryan, Flo and Alex back who played the big role last season as well and the
01:51season before.
01:52I mean Ryan.
01:55Yeah, I'm looking forward to it and hopefully we can be even better than the last two games.
02:02But Dominic, Joe chats on tap Sportsnet in Chicago.
02:05Curious, you had the opportunity, you played last night.
02:07Then you had to take the long flight home back to Chicago, then train this morning.
02:11That's something a lot of people talk about when they come to America to play.
02:13What was that experience like in the recovery like on a long travel journey and a quick turnaround this morning?
02:20It's not easy, so respect to the players in the MLS.
02:25As you say, we are not used to it in Europe.
02:29But yeah, this is pre-season.
02:32We are actually here to enjoy but not to enjoy.
02:38It's tough but I think we need right now this toughness to be ready for the season.
02:47Hi Dom, Ian Whistle from The Times.
02:49From the outside looking in, it looks like quite a summer of change or upheaval at Liverpool.
02:54Obviously a new manager, a couple of club legends have left the club.
02:58I just wonder, does it feel like that from the inside?
03:00Does it feel like maybe a new chapter that sort of things are changing?
03:04Hopefully for the positive, I assume.
03:05But does it feel like a kind of uncertain summer in some ways?
03:10Yeah, as you said, a couple of club legends left the club.
03:15But I think the club is still the club it has been always.
03:22So one of the biggest clubs in the world.
03:28So now someone left, someone came, we have to step up.
03:33We have to be an example for the younger generation maybe.
03:38I'm not saying I'm old but I try to be also an example on the pitch, off the pitch.
03:44I try to help everyone.
03:46And I think many players think in the same way like I do.
03:49And we want to be successful all together.
03:53Hi Dom.
03:54First time I've spoken to you since you've signed your new contract.
03:57How happy were you to get that over the line?
03:59And what are your ambitions for the next four or five years that you've signed on for?
04:05I'm very happy.
04:07I said it before.
04:11Actually, it was a long way until we got over the line.
04:15But I'm happy to sign the new deal.
04:19Hopefully I can stay as long as both sides want.
04:25And win everything that is possible.
04:27As I said when I signed here first.
04:29And I'm saying the same things I signed now.
04:33I want to win everything that is possible.
04:35Achieve big things.
04:37And yeah.
04:38Just be there for the club.
04:42Adam, just on stepping up like you were saying earlier.
04:44Do you feel that added responsibility given some of the seniors have gone?
04:49And how does that look?
04:50Especially on a day-to-day basis.
04:52I mean, there was a video yesterday of you talking to Curtis.
04:54Is it just things where you're more a guy that people look up to, people speak to?
04:58How does that look?
05:00Yeah, I think now a couple of guys left.
05:04And maybe we are not the oldest in the team.
05:08But we've been here for a long time.
05:10And for example, Flo is the same example.
05:16Ryan is the same example.
05:17Maka if he comes back.
05:19Curtis, Alex, obviously Virgil, Ali, Joey.
05:23So we are all in the same boat.
05:26And we want the best for the club and for each other.
05:30So that means we have a captain Virgil.
05:33We will follow him everywhere what he and Agafa are saying.
05:39And I think I can talk from everybody's side that we want to be successful this season.
05:46And it's a long term because obviously we have a new manager.
05:51The team has been changed.
05:53And yeah, it's maybe not in a couple of months.
05:58But in the long term I think it will work out.
06:02Yeah, just in terms of obviously there's a lot of transfer speculation and everything else.
06:06Is there an expectation from you that you hope that this team will also strengthen further in the transfer market?
06:14I think it's not my job to tell anything about this story.
06:21So obviously I'm reading also the rumors and hearing stuff here and there.
06:30But at the end the club is going to decide.
06:32Of course, we're always happy to have players who can help the team.
06:41But it's not my decision because I'm not the money guy.
06:52You won the first two games preseason.
06:55And I want to ask you how is the new coach?
06:59How is the new face with this new coach?
07:04He's very good.
07:06I think the intensity what we need it's here now.
07:12What we have been missing it's back from the coach side, from the player side as well.
07:20So now we have to put this together with the quality of the players we have.
07:26And I think it's going to be quite nice.
07:32Thank you guys.
07:35See you.
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