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Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

Under the Radar: Spotlight on Ibrahima Konate, the Liverpool-linked centre-back compared to Virgil van Dijk

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Sports, Soccer, Sports News

4.41000 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of the Champions League last-16 second-leg tie against RB Leipzig on Wednesday, we get the lowdown on a player who Liverpool will be up against in Budapest, and who, if reports are to be believed, is a possible summer transfer target for Jurgen Klopp. Ibrahima Konate is thought to have a release clause similar - €40m - to fellow Leipzig centre-back Dayot Upamecano, who is moving to Bayern Munich. Konate is being tipped to follow Upamecano in leaving the Bundesliga outfit in the near future - with Liverpool one of the clubs to have been linked with the 21-year-old Frenchman. So what type of player is he? Would he be worth the money? And would he sign for the Reds even without Champions League football? Matt Addison speaks to former team-mate of Liverpool boss Klopp, Guido Schafer, who is now a journalist for Leipzig-based newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung, and then Josh Williams, our tactics and analytics writer, to find out whether there could - or should - be anything in links between the Premier League champions and Konate.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCJoin our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ 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.

0:09.0

Hello and welcome back to the Blood Red Podcast and to the latest edition of the Under The Radar show.

0:14.8

I'm Matt Addison here as we take an in-depth look at a player who's been linked with Liverpool over the last few months

0:20.4

and is a possible solution to their defensive woes.

0:23.6

If you want to find out more about the Red Bull Group in general ahead of the second leg of

0:27.6

Liverpool's Champions League Class 16 tie, we did a special podcast on that, which you can find

0:32.4

wherever you got this one from, you missed it first time around.

0:35.6

But on this show we're going to take a look at Ibrahim Connate, the 21 year old French Central Defender at Arby Leipzig.

0:42.4

Dio Tupacano is of course off the table now ahead of the summer as he'll be heading to

0:46.9

Byron Munich, but Conatee is another one who's possibly going to be on the move too and is very

0:51.8

much highly rated. I'll be joined first by Gido Schaefer, a former

0:55.6

teammate of Yogan Clops who's now an Arby Leipzig journalist for local newspaper Leipzig

1:00.6

at Volt Saitung before I then speak to tactics writer and analyst Josh Williams.

1:05.0

The Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.

1:08.0

Gido thanks for joining me. We're here to talk as I say about Abraham at

1:14.1

Carnate the Arby Lipsig centre back. I suppose first of all we should talk about

1:19.2

his release clause this summer. Could you tell us how much that release clause is and maybe

1:24.6

whether that would be good value for anybody that might be interested? I don't

1:29.8

know it exactly my friend. I think it's for 40 million bucks 40 million euros but also it's it's

1:37.2

for me it's for sure that he would stay in in Leipzig he's very very important

1:42.2

for Abbey Leipzig for the future because the leaving of Diyu,

1:47.0

Duyo will join Bayern Munich and therefore in Leibik they need I'm sure he would stay in Leipzig by Abilabzig.

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