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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

The Agenda: Michael Edwards, Burnley and Bayern Munich | Inside story of how Liverpool signed Kostas Tsimikas

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4979 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Matt Addison is joined by the Liverpool ECHO’s LFC correspondent Paul Gorst to get the inside story of how the new Premier League champions made Kostas Tsimikas their first signing of the summer, in this special edition of The Agenda. Paul provides fascinating details on the scouting of Tsimikas, explaining why both Burnley and Bayern Munich feature, and outlining the key role played by Michael Edwards in getting the £11.75m deal done. 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.

0:11.2

Hello and welcome to the latest agenda show from the Blood Red channel with myself, Matt Addison,

0:17.2

alongside our Liverpool FC correspondent Paul Gost.

0:20.8

Sign a player, that was the shout from Liverpool fans and that's exactly what they have done.

0:25.3

Greek International Kostas Shimakas has officially arrived from an impiar cost on a five-year deal and becomes

0:31.1

the Premier League Champions first signing of the summer.

0:34.0

The deal was done very quickly after Liverpool saw two bids rejected for Norwich cities,

0:38.0

Jamal Lewis.

0:39.0

And Paul's going to give us the inside story of exactly how it all panned out over the course of the next few minutes.

0:45.5

First of all, Gorsley, before we get into the details of the transfer and how it all unfolded,

0:50.2

just your general thoughts on what we've seen of the player and heard of the player so far.

0:56.4

Emily, if someone who's obviously played for the top club in Greece, played in the Champions League, played the near-over league,

1:02.4

and someone who does seem to come with a little played in the Champions League, played the near-over league,

1:02.7

and someone who does seem to come with a little bit of a burgeoning reputation.

1:06.5

I mean, they'll be under no illusions

1:08.2

that he won't be first choice in Anfield next season.

1:10.2

Andy Robertson, for good reason,

1:12.2

is got that spot nailed down, but I just think he will offer

1:16.7

similar style in terms of when Robertson isn't available. We've seen this season that change

1:22.0

milders is the preferred option when Robertson isn't available. We've seen this season that change melder is

1:23.0

is the preferred option when Robertson doesn't play and they're not like the

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