Hello everybody, welcome to the Redmond TV and your latest episode of Transfer Insight. My name is Dan Club. I'm delighted to be joined by the magnificent Kevin Hatchard. Kevin, my friend, how are you? Okay. Yeah, really good. Really good. Sun shining. Makes everything better, doesn't it?

Doesn't it? I was going to say, the sun is out. It's seven o'clock in the UK at time of recording, and it's still glorious outside my window. And that can mean only one thing. It means the summer is out. It's seven o'clock in the UK at time of recording and it's still glorious

outside my window and that can mean

only one thing. It means the summer is fast approaching

which means the summer transfer window is fast approaching

and for the first time in 2026 we're going to talk about it

and unsurprisingly, Kev, the hottest link to Liverpool

right now just so happens to come from

a Bundesliga club,

and it's Jan Diamanday, somewhat of a breakout season, because obviously he wasn't actually

a Leipzig player last season, but let's start at the start in terms of his story, his journey,

because I'll be honest, I didn't know a lot about him whatsoever until about two, three months ago

when he started to come on most people's radar. So, yeah, it's been quite the rise.

Yeah, it's a meteoric rise. And I think you're right. This is the definition of a breakout season,

really. Because I think if you look, he was, it wasn't that long ago, he was playing

in what was effectively a youth competition in the

US and he'd been there for for several years and then he got the move to Spain to leganes and

he only played 10 times for leganes last season he made his debut against rail Madrid he made

his first start against

Barcelona and you could see already there was something there he was fearless he was

somebody who could beat players one-on-one make things happen somebody who's very quick very

hard working and then he makes the move to Leipzig. And the first time that I properly looked at him

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