Liverpool unlikely to sign defender in January & Rooney in the frame for Derby job

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🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 34 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Unseen and Chapman Pod on the Athletic, as usual, we're bringing you
0:12.0	exclusive insights and stories
0:13.9	from David and our team of writers today we're going to have the best lines from
0:17.8	David's column including an update on Liverpool's thinking around transfers in
0:22.2	the wake of their defensive injury crisis.
0:25.0	We'll have news of a contract dispute maybe on the horizon between Wolves and Adama
0:29.6	Troyore.
0:30.6	We're joined by our Darby writer Ryan Conway as well after the axe finally fell on Philip
0:36.2	Cocoo on Saturday evening. We'll hear what happened and also what could be next and that of course
0:41.6	means whether Wayne Rooney will be
0:44.1	cock-oose replacement. To read all the articles we discuss on today's podcast in
0:48.8	full just head to W. W. W. The Athletic.com slash Ornstein and Chapman to sign up for just one pound a week.
0:56.2	David's YouTube show Ask Ornstein continues this week's subscribers can submit questions
1:02.2	in the comment section of David's weekly column on the athletic
1:05.5	and I'm back on this podcast feed on Thursday alongside Matt Slater for our new pod, The Business of Sport.
1:11.5	Okay, David. the business of sport. Okay David, well let's start the pod with one of the, well it's the headline in your column today about
1:21.9	Liverpool, their defensive problems and
1:24.4	whether they will or whether they won't look to strengthen in January.
1:28.8	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
1:36.1	with really good knowledge of the situation.
1:38.6	Obviously, when Virgil Van Dyke suffered his potentially season ending injury, there was a lot of talk about whether Liverpool would replace him, even more so with Joe Gomez's injury on England training duty last week.
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