In the city that Joe Frazier and Rocky Balboa helped make famous, it was fitting that Diogo Jota brought the fighting talk.
Now heading into his fifth season as a Reds player, Jota is ready to strike back, as evidenced by a taxing sparring session at Philly's Front Street Gym on Monday.
The striker remains arguably the Reds' most gifted finisher
Jota has been unable to showcase those talents anywhere near as often as he would have liked, with setbacks so often destabilising progress.
Perhaps that was best highlighted by the successive draws with Manchester United and Arsenal at Anfield back in December.
Despite 34 shots at United's goal at Anfield on December 17, Andre Onana's resolve was not broken as Klopp's side missed the chance to go top of the Premier League
Six days later, Arsenal also escaped L4 with a point, despite a second-half onslaught at the Kop End.
Jota was forced to kick his heels on the sidelines during both games, injured with a muscle problem
Jota said:
"Last season especially was really frustrating because I had three injuries in three good moments,"
"I worked hard to get into those good moments with my form. But each time my momentum was stopped due to injuries.
"The last one especially was bad. I feared that I was going to miss the Euros. That would have been the second time in a row in terms of major tournaments after missing the World Cup.
"Mentally, it was tough. But what gives me hope is that in the minutes when I've been on the pitch I've always performed. If I can stay fit then I know my numbers will be good and I can help the team."
So, did such a frustrating period on the shelf get to a man whose squad number - 20 - is so affectionately sung about on the Kop?
"Yes, of course,"
"When you know you are injured and you are going to be out for a while it's like a knockout. You need to get up again. You need to get ready to be able to run again.
"We're playing in the best competitions in the world so it's not so easy to get into form and make the difference. But I felt like I did that last season every single time I was on the pitch. That gives me hope for this season. I want to stay fit and that's what I'm working on in the pre-season.
"It feels worse when the team isn't doing so well and you can't help. It's not so bad when the team is doing okay.
“You feel double frustration when results aren't good as you feel that you could have been there to help and maybe things would have been different. That feeling isn't nice at all.
"Yes and no," Jota says when asked if he is doing anything different to now stay fit under a new regime. "It's hard. One of the injuries was muscular, the other one someone fell on my knee and there was nothing I could do.
"In football sometimes there are things you can control but other things are hard to predict and avoid, especially with the way I play.
“I do my best to avoid what I can avoid. We haven't spoken about [injury prevention methods] yet.
“Whatever he's getting the team to do, I'm doing it at the moment. It's only been a few days so far and there's a lot of time to talk.
"I remember the really tough week [in April] where we had Fulham, Everton midweek and then West Ham.
“That was a crucial week and we lost points. The Premier League is very hard and competitive.
"Every game we play we can lose points, especially in a week where we have three away games in six days!
“Being injured did not help as I could have been another option but we had to force the same options. It is not easy to find a reason why but we all failed as a team."
Fitness issues blighted Liverpool last term with as many as 13 first-team players sidelined at one point in late February
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