What now for Messi & Bale, will Ole's strategy propel Utd & why Thiago is perfect for Liverpool

Transfer Talk

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Pete Graves and Dharmesh Sheth are joined by The Independent’s senior football writer, Melissa Reddy, to discuss what the future may hold for Lionel Messi (06:04) and Gareth Bale (17:45) after another interesting week in Spain. The panel debate whether Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is getting the credit he deserves for the transfer strategy he has implemented at Manchester United and what further additions need to be made following the arrival of Donny van de Beek (24:09). Melissa examines what Thiago could bring to Liverpool if he joins from Bayern Munich as well as Jurgen Klopp’s long-term transfer plan at the club (41:00). Italian football writer Nicky Bandini joins the show to provide insight on Everton’s new midfielder Allan (51:48) and Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly (56:18). Plus, there’s news from Chelsea, Leicester, West Ham, Newcastle, Celtic and much more (1:01:09).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Transfer Talk, brought to you by Bet 365, where every nail biting Neil-Nil, every bizarre
0:06.8	VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap in, false start, dead heat, and absolutely expected defeat is amazing.
0:16.8	From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsports.
0:20.3	Whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet 365. Hello everybody welcome back to a brand new episode of the Transfer Talk
0:36.8	podcast thanks so much for joining us today my name is Pete Graves
0:41.6	is back but is it Pete? I thought it's Steve. Well I thought I was
0:47.4	going to get away with it without you interrupting this week Thomas but
0:50.0	thanks once again for jumping in yeah Steve is not my name, but I'll explain all in a second.
0:55.8	Once I've introduced our very special guest today,
0:59.6	Senior football writer for the Independent, Melissa Reddy joins us on the show as well.
1:03.2	Melissa fantastic to see you. Thanks so much for coming on the show. How are you? I was going to
1:08.5	say it's a pleasure to be on the show but then that bit of humor there makes me think otherwise.
1:14.1	Yeah you're going to regret agreeing to come on this podcast, Melissa.
1:17.6	I'm promising that.
1:18.8	She'll love the humor on here, mate.
1:20.8	Melissa is at the ready.
1:22.4	Never heard that one before, that's she.
1:24.0	Oh, goodness. No, no, no, can I abort this mission?
1:28.0	Yeah, I think I would run for the hills right now, if I were you and that that joke from
1:33.4	Darmish basically sums up the whole podcast. I'm just going to pretend I have
1:37.9	technical issues I mean because this is Zoom and that does happen all the and look the reason why I'm
1:45.0	the reason darmes call me Steve at the top of the show is quite simply that I
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