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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Liverpool.com podcast: How Ibrahima Konate fits into Liverpool transfer masterplan

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4979 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

With Liverpool heavily linked with a £34m move for RB Leipzig defender Ibrahima Konate, Liverpool.com discuss the implications of a potential deal. Host Dan Morgan is joined by Ollie Connolly and Joel Rabinowitz to debate the deal, what impact it would have on Jurgen Klopp’s squad and the future of Ozan Kabak. Moving forward the panel look into what else could lay ahead in the summer transfer window for Michael Edwards and Liverpool. And to finish there’s a new feature looking into the articles across Liverpool.com - and what the writers have taken pleasure in working on. Enjoy.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, welcome to this week's Liverpool.com podcast. I am Dan Morgan. I am joined as ever by Oliver Connolly and

0:14.0

Joel Rebinovitz. We have transfer news on a quiet Monday Jordan the

0:18.8

international break during the time where there's no football Joel. Ibrahim Kannate, Red Bull, Salzburg,

0:25.0

Liverpool, according to David Dawnstein and the Athletic

0:28.0

are advancing on a 40 million-year ordeal

0:31.0

which would constitute meeting a release

0:33.7

course is closer to believe for the defender at the earliest possible

0:38.2

opportunity that would in turn me in the summer in all likelihood.

0:43.0

And we will have a chat about what that means and what it tells us.

0:47.0

Firstly, for me, the first thing that jumps out is that

0:51.0

Liverpool, is that they've a pool I don't think will stop at having one centre back in the

0:57.6

summer I think there's a good chance that they not only do.

1:03.0

Can I say if it's a deal that they think they can get over the line, but also someone else, which may or may not include those in Quebec.

1:09.0

Yeah, it's in quite a few people's kind of initial reaction this morning when it broke saying

1:13.6

that that kind of is the end of Cabak's chances of turning his loan into a permit deal.

1:19.1

I don't really buy into that at all I think from my perspective they should be looking to get two

1:24.9

set the backs in this summer and there's a whole load of reasons for that one is

1:29.4

the age profile of a squad in general I think we need to kind of be continually adding

1:33.6

players kind of in their early to mid-20s over the next few windows in terms of succession planning

1:39.4

for the future and obviously can not say he's 22 now feeds completely into that cabak as well just

1:44.3

turned 21 players you can do a job or perform a very high level at the moment but

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