The guffaws from Jurgen Klopp are likely to be audible down Simonswood Lane when Liverpool return to duty at the AXA Training Centre in Kirkby today.
The Reds boss will welcome back a handful of his senior players with that trademark smile today (Saturday, July 8) as day one of the pre-season schedule gets underway in familiar fashion.
In a day on the calendar that is surely dreaded by those on the playing staff, Klopp and his famed taskmaster and drill sergeant Andreas Kornmayer, will put the team through their paces with hard running and the now infamous lactate tests.
For a manager who places so much stock on working on the training pitches - something which he often laments an inability to do during the busier parts of the campaign - these sorts of days are imperative to Klopp. This, he will insist, is where his corn is earned.
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And given he has a renewed determination to make sure this summer runs smoother than last year when his players succumbed to a string of muscle injuries between mid-July and the end of August, Klopp will be even more keen to whip his charges into proper shape in the coming days and weeks.
Plans for the 2023/24 campaign, in all reality, started months ago and there has been a feeling that Klopp and his backroom team firmed their resolve and narrowed their gaze as recently as four months ago to ensure the new term is much more like what supporters have become accustomed to.
On the transfer front, it's a case of so far so good for the manager and his recruitment staff having added £60m Dominik Szoboszlai to the ranks around three weeks after Alexis Mac Allister's £35m release clause was triggered at Brighton & Hove Albion.
Both players, whose combined fee of £95m represents the most significant outlay for five years at Anfield, will provide an overworked midfield department with a new, fresh new look about it going forward and that's even before a potential deal with Southampton over 19-year-old Romeo Lavia.
Throw in the mouthwatering prospect of Trent Alexander-Arnold's menacing range of passing from more central areas going forward and the engine room suddenly has a vibrant feel about it that hasn't been there since Thiago Alcantara joined the champions of England in September 2020.
The upcoming use of Alexander-Arnold will be fascinating. Having adjusted superbly to a new 'hybrid' role that saw him shift into midfield when in possession, he continued that excellent form with England - with the No.10 on his back - in wins over Malta and North Macedonia.
Alexander-Arnold, it is understood, cut short his holiday to just a week after those Three Lions games in an effort to make sure he is as well prepared as possible when he returns to pre-season training himself on Tuesday.
Training work that looked to improve speed and endurance was undertaken when he used the Portland, Oregon headquarters of sponsors New Balance. It's a critical campaign for Alexander-Arnold as he looks to build on what has been a wildly successful career to date already at the age of 24 and the efforts that have already been made suggests he knows it as much as anyone.
The versatile defender will clock up his 300th Liverpool game early next season and a strong campaign at Anfield could see him become an important figure for an England side that will head into next summer's European Championship as one of the competition's favourites.
Another player whose determination to improve led to the curtailment of another holiday is captain Jordan Henderson, who has been training with former Liverpool physio Matt Konopinski in Portugal. The Reds captain has looked more like a cruiserweight boxing champion than a footballer during his pre-season workouts on social media.
"Footballers will take very little time off now, even when they do have their rest in the off-season like now," Konopinski told the ECHO last month. "They want to improve themselves and that is also difficult in-season, which has become a lot longer because it is jam packed with games.
"So yes you can improve yourself technically and I think if you look at physical attributes: strength, power and speed; it can become more difficult because you might be playing two or three a week."
Such out-of-season dedication will be music to the Liverpool manager's ears as he gets ready to welcome back his international contingent next week after beginning the early work on shaping the coming campaign from Saturday onwards.
The fact that Klopp has seemingly avoided any post-season or international-related injuries to his players is another agreeable aspect ahead of a major pre-season period for the football club.
There's plenty of work to be done both on and off the pitch for Liverpool before the start of the season but the early summer efforts have given the club plenty to build on. Early optimism is building.
