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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Red Bull x Liverpool Special: Influence on Klopp | Upamecano and Konate | FSG future

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Ralf Rangnick's influence on Jurgen Klopp; Joel Matip, Sadio Mane, Takumi Minamino and Naby Keita, and the future of Fenway Sports Group - the links between Red Bull and Liverpool FC are plentiful. So, ahead of Tuesday's Champions League clash between RB Leipzig and Liverpool, Matt Addison speaks to Karan Tejwani, the author of the excellent book Wings of Change, and the Liverpool ECHO's business of football writer Dave Powell, to get the lowdown on how Red Bull's football branch operates, what Liverpool can learn from them, and how the links between the two are only set to get even stronger.In the future, players like Ibrahima Konate could transfer to Liverpool from RB Leipzig, while current Borussia Monchengladbach boss Marco Rose could be a contender for the Anfield manager's job once Klopp departs. And at the same time, FSG are likely to move towards a similar model in some respects, in order to get around Brexit regulations involving the transfer of young talents, and further strengthen their hand after recent interest in investment from Billy Beane, Gerry Cardinale and the RedBall Acquisitions group. In short: Liverpool's clash with RB Leipzig is just the latest link to be formed between the Reds and the soft drinks corporation. And plenty more are set to follow in the short, medium and long term.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCJoin our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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.

0:10.0

Hello and welcome to the latest Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

0:13.2

I'm Matt Addison and ahead of Liverpool's Champions League Last 16 First Leg Flash with

0:17.2

RP Leipzig on Tuesday.

0:19.1

I wanted to dig a little bit deeper into the Red Bull Group once again. Last year we spoke with

0:24.1

Red Bull Seltsburg boss Jesse Marsh while there's plenty of links to Liverpool,

0:28.1

not least Sadio Manet, Navi Keita and Takumi Minamino. Ralph Ragnik might no longer be a part of the Red Bull project, but he's been instrumental for them over the last few years, and much of Jörgenkop's philosophy was based on his.

0:41.7

There's also an even more contemporary link which I'll be

0:44.3

discussing in a short while with the echo's business of football writer Dave Powell

0:48.2

as Red Zoneers Fenway Sports Group looked to the next stage of their project within football.

0:53.0

But first here's a conversation with Karen Tishwani, the author of the brilliant book

0:57.8

Wings of Change which looks into how the Red Bull Group work, how they made their

1:02.0

mark in football and with

1:03.4

I'll be Leipzig now the pinnacle of the sporting conglomerate is the perfect

1:07.2

time to take another in-depth look.

1:09.1

Karen I'd like to start with a look really at the Red Bull Group and sort of how that came about really.

1:16.3

Take us back to the start first of all. That was in your book, one of the most interesting parts for me.

1:21.6

It was sort of where they came from and sort of the

1:25.1

mission of them when they first started up really. Yeah they started off in 2005

1:30.1

with the takeover of Red Bull Salzburg or Austria Salzburg as they were known before

1:36.4

Red Bull took over. Obviously Austria Salzburg were a relatively struggling club

1:41.7

in Austria. They didn't they had a few that a bit of trouble with a relatively

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