The Agenda: Inside Liverpool's summer window transfer swoop for Thiago Alcantara and Diogo Jota

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 24 September 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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After Liverpool signed Thiago Alcantara and Diogo Jota inside two days, the Liverpool ECHO's LFC correspondent Paul Gorst explains the inside track on the transfers. Speaking to Matt Addison, Paul talks through how the Jota deal unfolded out of the blue, including some details on how Liverpool tracked the player, and how assistant manager Pep Lijnders was crucial to making it happen. There is then talk of Thiago - another transfer that was done relatively quickly once the Reds decided to make their move, with Bayern Munich accepting an initial £20million fee. And finally, with Ki-Jana Hoever gone, could Liverpool sign a new centre-back? And what does the last few days mean for former targets Ben White and Ismaila Sarr? All is explained. Enjoy.The Liverpool Echo sends a twice-daily Liverpool FC bulletin out via email with the all latest news, views and analysis from Anfield. Sign up for this service here: https://communicatoremail.com/F/QvfUCndgGDRHFbKqw0Z7Ip/Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-TbqyJWlhRPedk-if0rKtw?view_as=subscriberVisit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fcDownload our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple – https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425 Android – https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Agenda Podcast on the Blood Red channel, taking a bite-sized look at some of the big
0:08.5	Liverpool FC talking points.
0:10.5	Hello and welcome to the latest agenda podcast from the Blood Red channel with myself, Matt Addison, alongside our Liverpool
0:18.0	FC correspondent Paul Gorst.
0:20.0	I'm sure it hasn't escaped your notice that Liverpool have made two signings over
0:23.7	the last few days with Tiago Al-Kantara having already impressed at Stamford Bridge and
0:28.1	Yogo Jota potentially to make his debut this evening against Lincoln City in the Carabow Cup.
0:33.0	So what better time to get the inside story of how the two deals unfolded?
0:37.6	Over the course of the next few minutes we're going to take a look back at perhaps the most exciting
0:41.8	24 hours or so in terms of
0:43.5	Liverpool transfers that there's been in a long time. Paul, welcome along to the
0:47.9	podcast. We'll start with Yogo Jota more because sort of most people will know
0:52.1	more about Tiago than the Portuguese.
0:54.3	We will come on to Tiago of course a little bit later but a 41 million pound arrival and
0:59.1	it's almost gone a little bit under the radar.
1:01.8	It has, it's strange.
1:04.0	I think it's obviously that's been taken up by the excitement of Tiago, a player who
1:07.6	Liverpool fans have been hoping and wishing for
1:10.9	for the best part of three months, so they've had a long time to kind of
1:14.0	steal themselves for the day that they finally get over the line and this was it. So I think that is why the
1:20.8	attention has kind of been taken away from the over just a little bit and especially
1:24.9	given the fact that not a lot of people knew it was happening did they I mean we
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