The Agenda: What Thiago Alcantara transfer means for Liverpool

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Liverpool are closing in on a £27million move to sign Bayern Munich midfielder Thiago Alcantara, making him their second transfer deal of the summer. The 29-year-old Spaniard was not an active target for the Reds until Monday when talks were opened, and the player is expected to be officially unveiled shortly. Liverpool.com's Joel Rabinowitz joins Blood Red's Matt Addison to react to the news, talking through how Thiago represents a change in approach for FSG, where the midfielder will fit into the starting XI, and what it means for Fabinho, Curtis Jones and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.The deal is NOT dependent on Gini Wijnaldum leaving the club, so Jurgen Klopp has plenty of midfield options to pick from as the Premier League champions enter the next stage of their evolution. 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/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCVisit 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-size look at some of the big
0:08.5	Liverpool FC talking points.
0:11.2	Hello and welcome to the latest agenda podcast on the Blood Red channel.
0:16.0	Liverpool.com's Joel Rabinovits alongside me, Matt Addison, to react to the news that Tiago
0:21.5	Al-Kantara is edging closer to becoming a Liverpool player.
0:25.6	The Reds have now opened talks for the 29-year-old Spanish midfielder, and while the deal is not
0:30.4	done yet as we speak, and there is still work for Liverpool to do. It seems that they
0:35.1	are about to spend 27 million pounds or so on the player. Tiago wasn't an active target.
0:41.4	How many times have you heard me say those words over the last few months?
0:44.4	But that all changed on Monday when talks between Liverpool and Biomeunuch were opened.
0:49.2	Wayne Rooney said a few weeks ago, Joel, that Liverpool to Yargu would be a bigger deal than
0:53.8	Manchester City signing Leonel messy so while it's not done yet the excitement is
0:58.4	very much there on this one and rightly so yeah that's a big claim saying it's bigger and messy, but it's certainly, in my lifetime
1:07.2	and I think in the Premier League era I'd struggle to name a sort of higher profile signing.
1:11.6	Liverpool don't do these signings very often at all, if ever, established World Cars
1:16.6	players being kind of in the top five probably in his position in the world for kind of
1:20.6	of most of his career really from a fellow European heavyweight who is important
1:25.1	a member by Munich didn't want to lose him they offered him a new contract they
1:27.9	wanted to keep him so yeah it's absolutely enormous you look at the kind of the
1:32.4	team Liverpool built now has all been players who were brought in when they were in there kind of early to mid 20s about to kind of enter their peak on the brink or something and that's how Liverpool got to where they are.
1:44.8	But I've said it all summer really once you reach the point where you won the European Cup, you won the
1:48.3	Premier League, there is some scope there to kind of adapt the model slightly. You don't always have to keep
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