The Agenda: Liverpool’s defensive transfer dilemma | Konate, Kabak, Phillips

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Liverpool still have four games to play as they try and get into the Champions League spots, but behind the scenes, transfer plans will be taking shape. Nat Phillips, Ozan Kabak and Rhys Williams have all filled in for the injured Virgil van Dijk, Joe Gomez and Joel Matip this season, and Ben Davies is at the club, too, but is yet to make his debut. So with all those names to muddle through, plus Fabinho and Jordan Henderson, who have both dropped into the backline at times as well, how will Jurgen Klopp and Michael Edwards play things in the transfer market come the summer? Matt Addison is joined by Marcus Banks as they analyse the situation Liverpool must assess, and debate which central defenders should stay or leave the club this summer - and who could possibly be signed, too, with Ibrahima Konate heavily linked with a move to Anfield.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCSign up for our Liverpool FC newsletters: https://data.reachplc.com/210734476470860Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ 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-size look at some of the big
0:08.3	Liverpool FC talking points.
0:10.5	Hello and welcome to the latest agenda podcast from the Blood Red channel with myself, Matt Addison,
0:16.6	alongside our social media editor, Marcus Banks.
0:19.9	Liverpool, Yerkenclop and Michael Edwards have plenty to think about heading into the summer,
0:24.4	not least about the centre of defence.
0:26.8	That's what we're going to have a chat about on this episode of the show,
0:29.7	looking back at the weekends game against Southampton in terms of the defence and the head to the
0:34.4	summer transfer window in terms of central defence as well. I think the obvious place though to start
0:40.0	really Marcus is just to point out really that this has been a remarkable season in terms of injuries and a particularly
0:46.3	remarkable season in terms of centre backs as well.
0:49.1	It's been so strange and surely and hopefully we won't ever see anything quite like this ever again.
0:54.5	Yeah it is it's it's definitely the definition of unprecedented I think I'm not 100
0:59.7	sure but I think it was the 20th different partnership centre-back partnership this season which is it's it's it's it's it's all
1:06.7	different to words you know like how crazy that actually is when you actually think about
1:11.7	it especially you know a lot a lot was made of
1:14.4	of Man City's injury problem last year not having the poor for which wasn't even
1:19.4	significant part of the season you know they did miss him for a few months but
1:23.1	Liverpool have had the best defendant in the world and Virgil van Dyke out for the
1:26.6	season his number two Joe Gomez out for the season Joe Mattep has been
1:31.6	injured various parts of the season and is now probably ruled out for the season
1:35.0	and even the players coming in in January to solve this injury problems have also been injured you've got back out now.
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