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KONATE NEW CONTRACT? BREMER TO LIVERPOOL?
28 Plays20 days ago
Catch up on all the latest news:
* Alisson injury update
* Konate contract update
* Giovanni Leoni injury update
* Juventus defender Breme to Liverpool?
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Liverpool's Recent Challenges
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Hello and welcome to the Daily Liverpool podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network.
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It's Thursday, the 2nd of October. Where is this year gone? I mean, it's absolutely flown by. How's everyone doing? Still feeling rubbish.
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Understandable. We've lost to Crystal Palace in the Premier League and then followed that up with a pretty abysmal performance midweek in the Champions League away at Galatasaray.
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We did a post-match on that. So i suppose a couple of days brings some perspective. It's not the end of the world.
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We've lost one Premier League game and we've lost one Champions League game. It's not the end of the season. It's not the end of the world. But I do think that it's valid to have some concerns because it's it's not just that we lost.
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I think most Liverpool supporters would would accept that we haven't really played well this season and and that this this kind of these kind of defeats were coming.
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you know Maybe not back to back, but certainly a defeat was was on the cards. If we continue to play like this, then just the law of averages suggests that you're not always going to get that last minute goal to salvage a point or or get a win.
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Although we did think that against Palace when we got that... late goal by Chiesa we thought okay here we go you know we've got 10 minutes or so and you know you'd put money on on Liverpool getting a winner but so it didn't work out that way we lost the game and Galatasaray again I just think that I just think that fundamentally, I think theyre just we're just too slow in the way that the we're playing and that's got to change. But credit to Galatasaray.
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Let's give some credit to them because their last Champions League game was a 5-1 battering at the hands of Frankfurt.
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And we go there and admittedly, we we make it, I think, a bit easier for them than than it should have been. But I thought Galatasaray were really good. And I think you've got to give a bit of respect to that team because you look at some of the players that they've got.
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it's It's a very, very good team. And that environment, I mean, what an atmosphere. that's That's what football is about.
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You know, that kind of atmosphere. And I mean, I was but just watching it at home and my ears were hurting every time we were in possession of the ball because the noise that Galatasaray were making, it was actually a relief when we lost lost possession because they stopped whistling.
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But you just think great, great stadium, great, great atmosphere. And yeah, I just thought it was, you know, a great spectacle.
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If you were watching as a neutral, you'd you'd probably yeah know give Galatasaray round of applause. But look, we go again. We've got Chelsea on Saturday. We'll have the preview for that tomorrow.
Injuries & Recovery Plans
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So let's round up some other Liverpool news that's doing the rounds. Alison Becker turns 33. thirty three So happy birthday to Alison Becker. But he's injured again.
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He's injured again. And Arnie Slott has said that he will definitely miss Saturday's trip to Chelsea. So we're not quite sure yet as to the extent of the injury, whether it was a calf strain, looked like a bit of a hamstring, which, you know, it could be anything. It depends on how...
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severe that injury is, if it's a hamstring strain, if it's a tear, you know, it could be anything from four weeks to four months.
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I would suspect that it's going to be, you know, four to six weeks. It does bring into question, once again, the only thing that you can really lay at Alison's door really is his fitness record.
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he's he's probably for me he is the best goalkeeper in the world there's just no doubt about that but it's the only thing that lets him down is that he will suffer a a significant injury at least once every season and So he's going to be out. I mean, I suppose it's a blessing in a way that we're on the cusp of the second international break.
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So once we play Chelsea at the weekend, it's a two-week international break. It means that Alisson Becker doesn't travel to the Brazil national team. He stays on Merseyside and, you know, just concentrates on his rehabilitation. So again, depending on how serious that injury is,
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He could be back after the international break, but I would suspect that it'll be at least a couple of more weeks after that. So I suppose it does make the club's move to bringing Georgie Marmadashvili to the club, you know, just all the more smarter. I mean, Liverpool, we've always waxed lyrical about the recruitment department.
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and you know how they they're always a couple of steps ahead in terms of the players they bring in and i think marma dashville definitely fits into that category as i said allison has turned 33 he's got He's in the last year of his contract, but there is an option to extend for another season.
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I would expect Liverpool to to activate that option. And I'd expect Alisson to remain at Liverpool for another year.
Key Players & Team Dynamics
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But I'm not sure whether Liverpool, as a club, are going to hand what would then be a 34-year-old Alison Becker a new contract for which he would be happy with.
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I think there's every possibility that are from a contract, but I think it would be probably on reduced terms. And then it just depends on whether Alison Becker wants to accept that or whether he thinks it's time to move on, maybe go back to Brazil.
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i think 34 is is not really <unk> not really a significant age for a goalkeeper. Goalkeepers can really go up to 40. And I just think that he's he's good enough you know to to carry on for a good few years, certainly to be Liverpool's number one for a good few years. So I would like to see Alisson get another contract.
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But I think Marma Dashley coming in, I think it just... spots spotlights that position and the situation that Alison Becker is in and his injury record. And I think that in a year's time, I think there'll be a decision to make for both the club and for Alison Becker. But I've got no qualms about Marmadash really coming in on Saturday. day I mean, he's he played he played the League Cup game against Southampton. I know it's Southampton, but he just looked very, very assured.
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Very assured. He looks huge. You know, and I think that's a good thing as well. So, yeah, I think having him as as a backup goalkeeper, I think, keeps us in in good stead, much like we we had last season. You know, we've always had good backup goalkeepers. So...
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Yeah, let's let's see how he performs on Saturday. Funnily enough, Alison Becker shares a birthday with one Roberto Firmino, who also...
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Actually, he turns 34 today, so he's a year older than Becker. Yeah, happy birthday, Bobby Firmino. What a fantastic player he was.
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Absolutely central to Jurgen Klopp's formation and that Jurgen Klopp era. You do kind of miss that, the kind of mayhem that that forward line brought to to every game.
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we're We're so much more measured now in the way that we approach games. Let's move on to some contract news.
Transfer Talks & Future Signings
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According to reports in France, Liverpool are now confident of agreeing a new contract extension with Ibrahima Canate.
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Real Madrid and his hometown club PSG are said to be very interested in signing the French international on a free transfer in the summer.
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And French outlet Le Keep are reporting that Liverpool have now submitted a new offer to Canate and that the club is confident that an agreement will be reached.
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I mean, bearing in mind... the kind of start that Canate has had this season.
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Do we want him to now sign that contract? And maybe even Real Madrid and PSG are having second thoughts. I still think that... He's worth a new contract, even if it's just on a purely on a business level. Because if you bring if if you get Canate, who's, I think he's 26 now, if you get him to sign a new contract and you do want to moving on move him on, then you're going to get a fee.
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And I think that's why even Real Madrid, you know, their they their business model now is very much around snapping up these free transfers.
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One, to bring into the team, if they're good enough. But I think there's a business element to that as well, is because if you snap them up on on a free transfer and you don't see them as kind of starting 11 players, but they're good enough to be on the bench, they're good enough to be in the squad and they're part of the, you know, kind of rotational squad.
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You could always move them on in 12 months, 18 months time and get a a healthy fee and you just make a profit on these kinds of players. So do think that it's worth keeping Canate, but I do think that he's got up his game because he's had a really, really poor start.
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And I don't know if if anyone saw the tweet that was put out by Duolingo, the language learning app. They sent out a tweet on on Twitter or or X saying that Ibrahima Canate is now a member of the Spanish Diamond League.
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So he's he's obviously brushing up on his Spanish. I just hope that he brushes up on his defensive skills as well. And I'll bet Canate is over the moon about that tweet as well.
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Talking of centre-backs... Gleason Bremer, Brazilian defender, playing for Juventus, 28 years old, has emerged as a possible alternative to Mark Gehi.
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Lots of rumours around Mark Gehi and whether Liverpool... are willing or able to go into the January transfer window and, you know, to sign to sign i am Gay. He won because obviously we want him.
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We showed that in the summer and we were this close to signing him, but also in light of the injury suffered to Giovanni Leone in that League Cup game that i mentioned earlier against Southampton.
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And so Bremer is seen as as a possible alternative to Mark Gaye if if that one doesn't go through.
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He joined Juventus in the summer of 2022 on a five-year contract and reports suggest that Liverpool are looking to him yeah to add to the squad as an alternative to Gaye.
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Or is it as as a long-term replacement for Van Dijk? mean, Van Dijk is 34. And Bremer is is very, very good in the air. He's very dominant. he's He's a real leader in terms of organising that back line. So i think that it's entirely feasible that Liverpool move for Gleeson Bremer in addition to going for Mark Gahie as opposed to a replacement.
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And, you know, I love these Brazilian names that have got just football heritage, as Jose Mourinho would say, just written all over it.
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Apparently, he was named after German defender Andreas Bremer. He scored the winner in the 1990 World Cup final for Germany against Argentina, Diego Maradona's Argentina.
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He played at, he was a fullback, was it a left back or right back? And he took the penalty, he would take the penalties and he scored. I think he played for Inter Milan in Serie A when Serie A was the dominant league in world football.
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But yeah, that's another interesting one too to watch out for.
Team Health & Endorsements
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We mentioned Giovanni Leone. He's had his surgery to repair that ruptured anterior cruciate ligament injury.
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Leone took to Instagram to post surgery you've done. Thanks everyone for the messages. I'll be back soon. Yeah, look let's let's hope so. I honestly think...
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He would have got game time this season. I mean, the way that Canate has been playing recently, i mean, I would have stuck him in in the side. Absolutely no issues. He looked very, very assured on his debut against Southampton in the League Cup. So,
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Let's hope we see him back fit and firing soon. That's all for today. You've been listening to the Daily Liverpool podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network. Join us again tomorrow as we start our build-up to the weekend's big game against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
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