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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

The Agenda: Joel Matip and Liverpool’s best free transfers of all-time

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Reach Podcasts

News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Liverpool continue their 100 per cent start to the new Premier League season, following the 3-1 win over Arsenal at Anfield. Getting the scoring starting was defender Joel Matip and so here on the Agenda we discuss the Reds’ best free transfers of all-time. Sean Bradbury and Theo Squires discuss their top fives using Matip as a starting point. Gary McAllister, James Milner, Fabio Aurelio, Jari Litmanen, Robbie Fowler, Markus Babbel and Maxi Rodriguez all feature in the discussion, but who comes out on top? You can also watch the episode on our Blood Red YouTube channel here. Enjoy! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy 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.

0:08.0

Hello everybody, welcome to Sunday's agenda with myself, Sean Bradbury and Thee Squire's here to my right.

0:12.8

We're going to do things slightly differently today and of course look back a little bit of Arsenal

0:16.6

yesterday mainly through looking at a Joel Mathis performance but what we want to do we want to leave

0:20.8

this room in 10 or 15 minutes or so with the definitive

0:24.1

top five of Liverpool's best ever free transfer signings which we're now of

0:27.9

course going to make the case for Joel Matip shooting up that list a little bit

0:30.8

let's start with Joel Matte then, Theo.

0:33.4

You were in Anfield yesterday in the press box for the echo

0:35.9

and your analysis pretty much concerned, Mr Matteep,

0:39.5

and what a storming start, he's out to the season,

0:41.2

two goals and four games. He's a one and two man nowadays as Joel.

0:45.7

Talk us through what you think's changed with him. I mean is it is it simply the case of

0:51.6

playing alongside Virgil Van Dyke and what that does to, yeah.

0:54.8

I kind of feel like obviously there's an element of that and the team's grown around Matip a little bit,

0:59.1

you know, it's a much better side now than it has been across the well it's just

1:02.8

fourth season is and it crosses entire time I'm field but is it you want to give

1:06.2

him a little bit more credit than just saying you're playing along

1:08.5

probably the alongside the best sense of half in the world like it's what do you

1:11.8

think's changed in

1:12.5

math of game? He's looking a lot more confident. I suppose that comes from

1:15.9

stability of actually playing and knowing the shirts your own. I think all

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