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Liverpool are involved in talks about a potential pre-season tour of America this summer.

The Reds currently have a number of proposals on the table as Jurgen Klopp considers how best to prepare his squad for the 2018/19 campaign.

A trip to the USA is on the cards in July but the length of their stay and how many matches they will play remains a topic of discussion between organisers, sponsors, Klopp and the club’s commercial team.

One option would see the Reds stay in the States from July 20 to July 29 but the ECHO understands that nothing has been signed off yet.

Klopp is keen to also have a Europe-based training camp before the start of the new Premier League season on August 11.

The World Cup in June provides an added complication when it comes to making pre-season plans.

The tournament in Russia doesn’t finish until July 15 and lucrative contracts for showpiece summer friendlies usually stipulate that a club’s star players must be involved.

If Mohamed Salah’s Egypt, Roberto Firmino’s Brazil or Sadio Mane’s Senegal were to enjoy an extended run in the knockout stages of the World Cup then they would still be on holiday when Liverpool head for the States.

The Reds are likely to have at least one warm-up game at Anfield - the first for four years.

Liverpool weren’t able to play pre-season matches at home in the summers of 2015, 2016 and 2017 due to the building of the new Main Stand and the installation of the new pitch.

Anfield could even host a mini two-day tournament like Bayern Munich’s Audi Cup which the Reds were involved in last August.

Klopp will be central to all the decisions taken over the coming weeks with football rather than finance the over-riding priority.

This will be the third pre-season of his Anfield reign. In 2016 his squad visited America to take part in the International Champions Cup. They spent 12 days based at Stanford University in California, playing matches in Pasadena, Santa Clara and St Louis.

Last summer Liverpool won the five-day Premier League Asia Trophy in Hong Kong before heading for a week-long training camp in Bavaria.