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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

The Agenda: "Transformational!" | Thiago Liverpool Impact & Future Assessed Two Years After Signing

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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Soccer, Sports, News, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Two years on from Liverpool signing Thiago Alcantara from Bayern Munich, the Spaniard has become a crucial part of the Reds' midfield - but his injuries have hampered him from progressing even further.Matt Addison joins Edward Kay to assess Thiago's time at Anfield so far, what this season looks like for the 31-year-old as Liverpool desperately try to keep him fit, and then what the future looks like for him across the remainder of his time on Merseyside. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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

0:08.5

Liverpool FC talking points.

0:10.5

Hello and welcome back to the agenda podcast here on the Blood Red channel.

0:16.0

I'm your host Edward Kay and I'm joined today by Liverpool.com's Matt Addison

0:21.0

and we are going to be discussing Tiago as today marks two years since he joined the Reds.

0:26.3

It was an interesting, you know, first few months for him.

0:30.0

He took a while to adjust a lot of people might have been saying you know he's he's not fit for a left see you know you had

0:37.6

the likes of dede her man saying he was slowing play down but you know just how far do you think he's coming in those two years

0:44.3

Matt and how big of an impact do you think he's he's had for for Liverpool?

0:48.2

Yeah I mean it's a hard one to assess ready I think you you know the two years have gone very very quickly. I think there's been

0:55.8

Certain times where the injuries and

0:59.0

Certain illnesses and various things that have kind of slowed them down, but I don't think, you know, anyone really could doubt him.

1:05.3

He's almost come full circle really. I think that the sort of transfer and his time at

1:10.4

Liverpool almost started the few weeks or months really before he even signed.

1:15.2

There was all the sort of talk from Germany that Liverpool were definitely interested in him and

1:19.7

all we were hearing was that Liverpool definitely weren't interested and it kind of came out of

1:24.8

nowhere in terms of suddenly Liverpool decided that they wanted him and went for him and got that

1:29.4

deal done and kind of the expectation really was that he would come in and be

1:33.8

transformative for Liverpool is not a typical signing that they've made under

1:37.2

the york and clop he's certainly not a typical york and clock midfielder but

1:41.2

this was kind of meant to be the game changer

1:44.3

really the one that was going to come in and take Liverpool's midfield to the

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