Liverpool unlikely to sign defender in January & Rooney in the frame for Derby job
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🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman and David Ornstein are joined by The Athletic's Simon Hughes with an update on Liverpool's January transfer plans as it appears they are unlikely to move for a defender despite their mounting injury concerns at the back.
Elsewhere Ryan Conway takes us inside the unravelling of Philip Cocu's Derby after the Dutchman left the club on Saturday, including insight into the chances of Wayne Rooney ending up in the hotseat.
There is also news of a potential contract dispute for Adama Traore at Wolves, Man Utd targeting Portugese defender David Carmo, plus we hear from former Arsenal midfielder Mathieu Flamini.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Unseen and Chapman Pod on The Athletic. As usual, we're bringing you exclusive insights and stories from David and our team of writers. |
| 0:16.2 | Today, we're going to have the best lines from David's column, including an update on Liverpool's thinking around transfers in the wake of their defensive injury crisis. |
| 0:24.9 | We'll have news of a contract dispute maybe on the horizon between wolves and Adama Troyore. |
| 0:30.8 | We're joined by our Derby writer Ryan Conway as well after the axe finally fell on Philip |
| 0:36.2 | Koku on Saturday evening. |
| 0:38.0 | We'll hear what happened and also what could be next and that of course means whether |
| 0:42.9 | Wayne Rooney will be Koku's replacement. |
| 0:46.1 | To read all the articles we discuss on today's podcast in full, just head to www. |
| 0:51.3 | theathletic.com slash Ornstein and Chapman to sign up for just one pound a week. |
| 0:56.3 | David's YouTube show, Ask Ornstein, continues this week. |
| 1:00.0 | Subscribers can submit questions in the comment section of David's weekly column on The Athletic. |
| 1:05.3 | And I'm back on this podcast feed on Thursday alongside Matt Slater for our new pod, The Business of Sport. |
| 1:14.2 | Okay, David, well, let's start the pod with one of the, well, it's the headline in your column today about Liverpool, their defensive problems and whether they will or whether they won't look to strengthen in January. |
| 1:28.9 | You'd go down the unlikely to strengthen in January. |
| 1:33.0 | Well, only from what I've heard from speaking to multiple people with really good knowledge of the situation. |
| 1:38.7 | Obviously, when Virgil Van Dyck suffered his potentially season-ending injury, there was a lot of talk |
| 1:45.3 | about whether Liverpool would replace him, even more so with Joe Gomez's injury on |
| 1:50.0 | England training duty last week. And now for many people, it's sort of inconceivable that they |
| 1:55.0 | won't strengthen in January. But just reflecting my conversations and it's not saying they |
| 2:00.4 | definitely won't. It's not saying they definitely won't it's not |
| 2:01.8 | saying things won't change but right now from what I'm hearing that they're not planning to sign |
| 2:08.5 | a sense back in January and the hope is that they will be able to go with what they've got |
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