Radio City Talk: Alisson Announcement Is Another Big Statement

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🗓️ 20 July 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On the eve of Liverpool's American tour there is the good news about Alisson joining the club for a World Record fee. What this means for the club is thoroughly dissected by John Gibbons and Paul Cope. John and Paul though also reflect on the news around Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and his injury woes. They look at what our rivals have been up to so far. Also on the show is Ian Salmon talking about the second run of his acclaimed play Those Two Weeks. Alex Baillee joins us to talk about about his photographs which illustrated Simon Hughes's On The Brink work and which now are exhibited in Central Library throughout August. And we end with Blackburn - Liverpool winning 0-2 with a Naby Keita masterclass. Mo Stewart, Paula Murphy and Kevin Murphy join us for that. Hosted it all is Neil Atkinson. It's everything any Liverpool supporter needs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network.
0:05.0	It is City Talk, the Anfield Rap, Neil Atkinson.
0:08.0	I've got John Gibbons and Paul Cope with me.
0:10.0	Later on, we're going to be talking about the Blackburn game, we're going to have done that straight afterwards,
0:13.7	so you'll hear that.
0:14.8	That will be part of this show as well for that.
0:16.9	I like Paula Murphy and Mo Stewart.
0:18.8	I'm also getting joined by Ian Salmon and Alex Bailey.
0:21.6	It is Radio City Talk, it is the Anfield rap and it is always a cast of
0:25.1	thousands. We're really pleased to be able to give you so many different voices talking about
0:28.7	Liverpool Football Club, but there is one thing that dominates today, and it is that Liverpool have signed
0:34.2	Allison, they have got themselves a world record fee for a goalkeeper.
0:38.1	And let's sort of start at that point I'd say, John, a world record fee for a goalkeeper to go
0:42.2	with a world record fee for a goalkeeper to go with a world record fee for a
0:43.5	centre back. It's intriguing this to me you know normally that's not what
0:47.1	managers do normally they front load the money and they presume they can coach the
0:50.6	defense I'm not saying Clops doing the complete opposite, but it does
0:54.0	sort of make sense for the way in which he goes about his business to want
0:56.9	goalkeepers and centerbacks with a ton of assurance, a ton of quality so he can focus his
1:01.6	energies on what's going to help Liverpool win games of football.
1:04.0	I think for those areas he seems to have decided or the football club seems to have decided that there's only so many really good ones so let's just get one of them and pay
1:14.8	what it is and that's something I can get fully on board with really I think he's looking at the
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