Blood Red: Liverpool Confirm Ibrahima Konate Signing - Now Who's Next?

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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4.4 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ibrahima Konate is signing for Liverpool for a fee of £36m after they activated his release clause - but what else does Jurgen Klopp and Michael Edwards need to get done in the market this summer? Host Matt Addison is joined by Ian Doyle, Joe Rimmer and David Lynch to explore the arrival of French defender Konate, who turned 22 earlier this week, and what skillsets he will bring to Anfield. The panel also discuss the rest of the summer window and what manager Klopp and sporting director Edwards must do ahead of next season, with replacements for Gini Wijnaldum and some of the attacking fringe players among those on their to-do list.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCSign up for our Liverpool FC newsletters: https://data.reachplc.com/210734476470860Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.
0:13.6	I'm Matt Addison with Ian Doyle, Joe Rimmer and David Lynch alongside me for this one,
0:17.8	with an exciting topic to get into very shortly.
0:21.0	Liverpool have announced their first signing of this summer so we'll be
0:24.5	assessing how Ibrahimak and our tape will fit in, what he might bring to the table and plenty
0:29.0	more as well as taking a look at what else Liverpool might have to do in the summer before the start of next season.
0:34.8	Doily, I'll come to you first.
0:36.5	Liverpool fans will be really excited about this one.
0:39.2	It's a position they desperately needed to strengthen and they've not messed about they've just gone in paid it and got it done
0:45.5	Yeah now they've got about 15,000 centibacs which is funny
0:50.0	But yeah that was a position obviously that the had the drawn up the five strong shortlist,
0:54.0	hadn't they? Which canati was always the number one choice and I think while there was obviously a lot of stories
1:01.2	earlier in the month and last month about the deal being done.
1:04.0	I don't think it was ever that quite straightforward. I think Leipzig were quite keen on having the
1:09.2	everybody about the release fee which is about 36 million pounds.
1:13.0	I think they wanted it paid up front rather than installments
1:15.8	and Liverpool.
1:17.0	You would imagine we're probably waiting to see whether they qualify
1:19.3	for the Champions League or not,
1:20.5	and once they knew that that kind of funds were guaranteed I suspect that
1:23.9	kind of made them make the be straight away. We know Gergen Clop from the past his
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