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Daily Liverpool - Salah Signs Contract!
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Jesse Sarwar is joined by Connor Norcott and Karl Coppack as the team reacts to the news that Egyptian King, Mo Salah has put open to paper on a new deal that see him stay at Anfield for another two seasons.
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00:00:19
Karl
Thank you.
Mo Salah's Contract Extension Announcement
00:00:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello and welcome to the Daily Liverpool projectd podcast brought to you by the Global Sports Podcast Network in association with Zencastr. It is Mo Salah Day. Liverpool have announced a new contract extension with the Egyptian King.
00:01:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's the news that we were all waiting for. It's the news that we were probably all expecting. But the way it's kind of dragged on, I suppose there was always the the fear that it might not happen.
00:01:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
But we've got Karl Kopach and Connor Norcott with us today to to discuss events. Carl, your thoughts on Mo putting pen to paper.
00:01:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's going to be with us until the end of the 2027 season. Good news for the club.
00:01:33
Karl
Yeah, it is. And I think it will end there as well. I think they'll just let him go on a free after that because of everything he's done for us. but Like everyone, I think I'm um'm hit with two emotions. One, thank God for that. I mean, he's the best goal scorer in the world. Why would you let the best goal scorer in the world not go go and play for somebody else? I think it's a credit to Mo as well in as much as he hasn't spoke to an overseas club because I would have done at that point.
00:01:55
Karl
oh if you don't want to talk to me, I'll go somewhere else.
00:01:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Thank
00:01:57
Karl
Fine. And the second part of it is, I love the fact the club are getting credit
Salah's Loyalty and Squad Stability
00:02:03
Karl
for it. what if What are you doing? why Why have you left this till now? The man's been desperate to sign.
00:02:09
Karl
Absolutely. He's been running to the press every 10 minutes. The second... always come back to the to the interview you did on Sky after Old Trafford. And I watched it a few times in case they sort of like say to him and ask the contract going.
00:02:21
Karl
And the question, he famously says, you know, it's my last season here. The question that is asked him is by Daniel Sturridge, which was, I like your haircut, Mo. And he goes from that... to, you've had a trim, Mo, he says.
00:02:33
Karl
And he goes from that to, yeah, it's my last season here. So, like, he's been brief and all of it.
00:02:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
yes
00:02:36
Karl
I want to stay. Why have we left it to an eye? But, of course, it's it's it's a relief because he's not going to go somewhere else. And how do you replace Mo Salah?
00:02:47
Karl
I mean, I don't know. We've done it in the past. we we You know, we replaced Keegan. We replaced Dauglish. We replaced Rush. No, we didn't replace Rush. But and we replaced Torres with Suarez. You know, that sort of thing. But... i'm just I'm just glad he's here.
00:03:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Connor, your thoughts on Mo giving us another couple of seasons, hopefully, banging in even more goals.
00:03:10
Connor
I think i'm I'm going to echo one of Carl's sentiments there and its relief. Like it really is because it's April. It's the 11th of April. and And finally, this has been done. And we've kind of known for the last...
00:03:26
Connor
maybe 18 months now that this has been hanging over us and and is it going to happen? And all these players are at a contract at the same time. And I'm willing to give a little bit of credit because yeah, it's done.
00:03:36
Connor
Thank God it's done. There's more to do though, you know, and and I'm so happy that Mo's saying because he is kind of, he's a really singular footballer. There's nobody quite like Mo Salah. So how privileged are we to have two more years of him?
Impact of Salah's Contract on Team Optimism
00:03:50
Connor
don't know. How do you feel about it, Jesse? Yeah.
00:03:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, I don't think there's a Liverpool supporter that's not over the moon. And just, as Carl said, just relieved. You know, we we knew what we wanted. We knew that the likelihood was that this was going to happen.
00:04:04
Connor
Thank you.
00:04:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
But just the longer it dragged on, you just thought, oh, God, are they just going to mess this up? Or is he just going to think, you know what? You've had enough time to sign me up.
00:04:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, I'm off. And so just to get that relief, just to get that signature done and dusted, I think it's just, it's a huge lift for us. and And I think I mentioned on a podcast the other day, it's kind of weird to say that it's a lift, you know, it gives us all a lift because we're going to win the Premier League.
00:04:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
And, you know, that that should be more of it, enough of a lift for Liverpool fans this season, because there's there's a lot of kind of, I think a lot of nonsense swirling around that this isn't going to be that great a season. And, you know, we we crashed out the Champions League, we didn't win the League Cup and blah, blah, blah.
00:04:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I just think, look, you know, we're we're going to be champions of England and we're going to be champions of England for the 20th time.
Debate on FSG's Contract Strategy
00:05:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I will take take that all day long.
00:05:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it just means now, I think, that with Salah signing, think, it just, I think, secures that kind of forward line or it just gives a bit more stability for next season because there might, obviously, there's going to be some ins and outs for the squad and there's a lot of talk that maybe Nunes, you know, might be done and dusted. He might have to leave.
00:05:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I just think that if you've got that kind of anchor in in that kind of forward position, which is Salah, then I think that will serve us well, even if we do buy one or two players up front, because it's all right, lads, he's there.
00:05:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
And I think that will be the same for that back line. if and it's an if and but you know there's a lot of rumors swirling around that Virgil van Dijk is gonna sign today's war or announce today as well but if we've got van Dijk in that back line as well he's that anchor then for that back line as well and we can just build around that but Carl, I wanted to ask you about the kind of the way that FSG have approached these contract negotiations and not just with with Mo, but with Virgil van Dijk.
00:06:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
We've got Alison, who's, you know, getting into the last 12 months of his contract.
00:06:32
Karl
Yep.
00:06:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's going to be up for renewal next season.
00:06:34
Karl
He's next.
00:06:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
So is Andy Robertson, Ibrahima Kanate as well.
00:06:37
Karl
Yep.
00:06:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm just wondering, and and again, I mentioned this on a podcast the the other day. a lot of people have been saying this is really, it's negligent. it's it's It's terrible management.
00:06:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can't let your your best players run down their contracts. And I'm just thinking the more I think about this and the fact that this is happening now to multiple players, Is this now an FSG strategy? Is is this the way now?
00:07:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
they're They're kind of ripping up the kind of football, you know, contract renegotiation playbook, which which is, and and you mentioned this before with with Manchester City, you get down to your last two years, we're going to offer you a contract.
00:07:22
Karl
You sign or go?
00:07:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
You either sign it or we get a fee for you. Are FSG thinking, well, you know what? Two years is a long time in football. Anything can happen in two years. They may get a serious injury. Their form might fall off the edge of a cliff and they might not be the same player in two years' time.
00:07:39
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are they just thinking, you know what, we'll just run it down. it's a contract it's a It's a four-year contract. So we'll run it down to four years.
00:07:47
Karl
Well, there's two problems with that strategy.
00:07:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then we'll...
00:07:49
Karl
the the The first one is it's not two years, it's 18 months because they can speak to new clubs when they want in January. And I mean, they're very, very lucky Mo Salah didn't do that.
00:08:00
Karl
And Virgil too. And also, they've just lost Trent Alexander-Arnold that they could have sold for 120 million quid, like a year ago.
00:08:11
Karl
And they are obsessed by money. i think that's thee I think that's why that strategy doesn't work. I do think it's negligent because I keep coming back, and this is still the case this morning, that next month Virgil van Dijk could lift the Premier League trophy and not know who he's playing for in August.
00:08:29
Karl
And if the club side think, well well, he is.
00:08:32
Connor
Thank you.
00:08:33
Karl
Well, he is playing for us. Then someone's got to tell him. Because it's a testament to to both players that they've been fantastic this year. Because after a while, you will start to think, well, they don't want me. Why am I busting my pipe doing all this stuff for you?
00:08:49
Karl
Yeah, it's great. I know i want him in the league and these are my lads and this is my club and everything. but if you don't want me, then, you know, hello, Saudi Arabia. you know that They can play for any club they want in the world. you know It's as simple as that. And I think that's a very, very risky strategy. And it's a problem I've got with FSG is because they they did this when they started as well, where they think they're being clever.
00:09:09
Karl
And it worked very well because they got Jürgen, which is is their greatest ever signing, obviously. And there's a school of thought. this but it's It's like, for example, the Clint Dempsey thing, where they announced they've got Clint Dempsey and then they spoke to Fulham thinking it would push Fulham's hand.
00:09:26
Karl
if it had forced their hands, and Fulham said, no, no, we're keeping him. we don't We don't want Jordan Henderson. And to which they sort of went, oh, okay. And the whole John Henry, why are they smoking over at Arsenal?
00:09:39
Karl
Don't do that. Just don't do that. And we've been the most successful we've been in our years. There's an argument saying that the 2018 to 2021 side is the greatest Liverpool side ever.
00:09:51
Karl
And they can stand up and say, that was that was on our watch. But this season, with the three contracts, I think we've all known that Trent is probably going to go, and I think we've all known that the other two, because they want to stay, will stay.
Salah's Ambitions and Career Management
00:10:04
Karl
But I think there's there's always a risk with those. And I just think one day they're going to get massively, massively found out. If if Virgil says, it's all right, lads, I've been speaking to PSG and they're going to offer me too many quid a week.
00:10:15
Karl
And yeah, enjoy the league. Cheers. And suddenly we've got, they they're looking at, you know, you know Gerald Quanta and Gerald Gomez and thinking, lads, can you both be fit for next season?
00:10:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:10:27
Karl
You know, it's going to bite them in the house one day.
00:10:29
Connor
Ha ha ha.
00:10:30
Karl
It is going to bite them.
00:10:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Connor, let me rephrase that question then. And i'm not saying that i'm I'm not saying that this is a good strategy. I'm saying because this is happening again and again, it's it's happened with Mo, it's happened with Van Dijk, it's happening with Alisson, it's happening with Robertson.
00:10:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's happened with in the past with Roberto Firmino, right? I think Ox left on, I think, on a free as well.
00:10:56
Karl
Yeah, we did.
00:10:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
So is it with players that are reaching a certain age bracket that they're thinking, we're not going to give you a new contract. well We'll let your contract run down and then we'll see at the end of the season.
00:11:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
Do you think that this is now an FSG policy? Because otherwise, if if it's not, it is absolutely negligent management.
00:11:21
Connor
Yeah.
00:11:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
If it's not, I just cannot see how they can how they can allow the contracts to drift if it's not a deliberate policy.
00:11:31
Connor
It's a weird one, isn't it? Because and we kind of live in this age now of player power and the players have all the say and, you know, that we keep talking about Trent as well and like,
00:11:42
Connor
much has been made. Apparently Trent's been in discussions with Real Madrid for years now, and this move has always been planned out like this big Machiavellian plot twist that we're not expecting to happen. But oh my God, it has happened.
00:11:54
Connor
i I don't know how much of it is on FSG because surely for a club that is so data driven and so money driven, you would want to either secure your assets for the long term so you can also Recruit money for them in the transfer market.
00:12:09
Connor
Or if you're letting players go just to get wages in, that's fantastic. But you're also missing out on on that money coming in from the transfers. but I just don't really get it. Negligence is kind of the word if that is the approach. It's a bit like it's a bit like a poker hand, right? They're trying to constantly bluff.
00:12:26
Connor
and bluff and bluff and you know what it's kind of paid off so far with Mo Salah let's hope it does with Virgil van Dijk but it definitely hasn't worked out with Trent it really hasn't and I'm reticent to give them too much credit for the Mo Salah thing because we have an example of what it looks like when it goes wrong you know on on the same side of the pitch you know i mean so I don't know it's a weird one
00:12:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Well, let's come back to Mo. You know, he's he's going to be there now for the next two years. He's quoted as saying, of course, I'm very excited. We have a great team now.
00:13:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
Before also we had a great team, but I signed because I think we have a chance to win other trophies and join my football. It's great. I had the best years here. I played eight years.
00:13:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hopefully it's going to be 10. Enjoying my life here, enjoying my football. I've had the best years in my career. And then he goes in to say, I'd like to say to the fans, I'm very, very happy to be here.
00:13:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
I signed here because I believe that we can win a lot of big trophies together. Keep supporting us and we'll give it our best. And hopefully in the future, we're going to win more trophies. I think, Carl, we're seeing a Mo Salah that is it's completely, I think, obsessed now with his legacy, and which then leads to more goals, breaking more records and winning more trophies with with Liverpool. I mean, he's got his sights on becoming Liverpool's greatest ever player.
00:14:05
Karl
Yeah. And there's an argument to say... Well, he's he's third at the moment. i'm just I'm just looking at the list now. he's on He's only on 243. So two years, he's got he's got to do another 42 to get to Roger Hunt.
00:14:19
Karl
And to be honest, too that's as far as he's going. he's not going to get the but it's goingnna He's not going to get the big man, is he?
00:14:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's not doing nothing.
00:14:23
Connor
Yeah.
00:14:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's not doing nothing, man, yeah.
00:14:26
Karl
Yeah. But I love the fact that he's probably thought about it. He's probably got...
00:14:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Without a doubt, he's thinking about it. He is thinking about it.
00:14:33
Karl
He's got a picture of Ian Rush tucked into his bedroom mirror like Rocky IV.
00:14:37
Karl
You know, and he just stares at it every day. I'm coming for you.
00:14:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm coming for you, yeah.
00:14:42
Karl
Yeah, it's... I love that about him because he's such a nice man. He's such a lovely man, but would absolutely he would trample over a million people just to get an assist.
00:14:54
Karl
I love that Suarez was the same about that, which I really liked about him. Yeah, I think that basically, I mean, part me hopes that he even said during the negotiations, look, I'm only 42 behind that Sir Roger dickhead. I want to get to him next. What's he ever done?
00:15:09
Karl
Yeah.
00:15:11
Karl
So, yeah, I don't think he's happy don't think he's happy with top three somehow, but top one. Sorry, mate, that's not happening
00:15:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
He's got a fake night fit as well.
00:15:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
It's not happening. It's not happening. But you know what, Connor? if If he's 103
00:15:23
Karl
happening. He's 103 behind. i mean, I'd love to see him do it.
00:15:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
behind what? Behind?
00:15:27
Karl
Rushy.
00:15:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah I'm telling you now, Connor, I'm telling you now that Mohamed Salah will think he's got a chance. He will think he's got a chance.
00:15:38
Connor
I think you have to be, the players like that have to be wired that way.
00:15:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
His mindset is, that yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%.
00:15:43
Connor
Yeah.
00:15:44
Karl
yeah
00:15:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
100%. He'll be thinking, you know what?
00:15:48
Karl
Three seasons, 30 goals each.
00:15:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah One more contract extension and and he'll do it.
00:15:51
Connor
Yeah.
00:15:53
Connor
Yeah. And then a swan song. Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
but so But you know what? It's good to have, you know,
00:15:59
Karl
I'm taking corners. I'm doing everything.
00:16:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'll take it. He's going to be taking it. But, you know, you've got to have, you've got to have that mentality, right? If you're going to succeed at this level and at this age, you've got to believe that, you know, you're going to, you're going to start any season thinking, you know what?
00:16:15
Karl
Thank you.
00:16:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm going to have the season of my life. I'm going to hit 40 goals. You know, I'm going to, that's my target. you've got And he's got that mentality.
00:16:27
Connor
I think he does. And I think what I'm really interested in seeing is how we fit Salah in for these next two years and manage his minutes, if possible, because he is a player that does not want that.
00:16:40
Connor
he wants to play 90s every minute he's fit enough probably to do it as well every game to play 90 every game but for the for the last few seasons we've kind of seen that post february he starts to slow down a little bit and you know you're wondering how do you keep getting the most out of mo salah how does he keep getting the most out of himself for the next two years because he could definitely play on past those two years i think at the end of his contract in 2027, he'll be 35, 36 maybe.
00:17:08
Connor
You could see him play until he's 38. I could. So it just it really depends. And I think what Liverpool do at right back is also really going to affect that too. You know, if you have somebody who has the legs, we've been linked with people like Frimpong, who might not be the most defensive player on earth, but in terms of attacking, might free up some space for Salah because he offers such a threat as well on the overlap.
00:17:29
Connor
I think it's going to be really interesting.
00:17:30
Karl
I think he plays well with Conor, to be honest. I really do, because Conor Bradley's so forward-thinking that, like, you know, he pulls his man across when...
00:17:33
Connor
Yeah, so do i
00:17:38
Karl
Because Conor Bradley loves to run in field all the time, and...
00:17:39
Connor
Mm.
00:17:42
Karl
Whoever's Mark and Moe's got to drift on it. He's got to keep an him going in there in case his number six can't get to him or something.
00:17:48
Connor
Mm.
00:17:49
Karl
I'm really excited for Conor Bradley and Moe Salah. I think that's going to be really, a really interesting, the way to start.
00:17:56
Connor
Me too.
00:17:56
Karl
It's interesting to say that, they Conor, about how he'll go on paying until he's 38. A lot of people don't realise footballers get older and that there is like a there's a minute when, as Gary Neville always says, there's a minute when youre just think, I can't do this anymore.
00:18:09
Karl
He's not Neil Ruddock, is he? He's not Ricky Lambert.
00:18:12
Connor
No.
00:18:14
Karl
Yeah. And also, pace isn't really part his game so much these days.
00:18:15
Connor
Thank God.
00:18:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
to say about Neil Ruddock and Ricky Lambert, Carl?
00:18:20
Karl
Yeah. He's not them. I think he's still quite fit and agile. And I'm going to gently suggest that in their 30s, those two gentlemen weren't so much, really. But...
00:18:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it's an interesting point Conor makes though, Carl, in terms of
Salah's Drive for Top Scorer
00:18:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
potentially managing his minutes over the next two years of his contract.
00:18:41
Karl
I think that's going to happen.
00:18:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
It is going to happen. but But what I'm what i'm saying is that it's interesting that and then having a manager like Arne Slott, who doesn't like to rotate, but he's going to have to now with Mo, isn't he?
00:18:53
Connor
Hmph.
00:18:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Surely he's going to have to now.
00:18:57
Karl
ah ah think that's a fit I think the slot thing is basically because it's his first year and there's lad he doesn't like the look of. i mean's like go Famously, again, Gerald Quanta, straight away, no, not having you.
00:19:08
Karl
And then he brings him in bit by bit because you know they're all walking around on one leg. I think that might be an element of that. I think that might change when he brings his own men in. And he trusts people a bit more.
00:19:20
Karl
And, yeah, I don don't think he's got a great deal of time for Darwin Nunez, to be honest.
00:19:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:25
Karl
and
00:19:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
ae
00:19:26
Karl
And, you know, and I think that just sort of happened. Harvey Elliott, there's something he just doesn't quite see in Harvey Elliott and Keiser maybe as well. But I think, yeah, I think the problem in managing his time is it's a brave man who says, I'm not starting Mo at Old Trafford.
00:19:42
Karl
yeah Yeah, you are.
00:19:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:19:43
Connor
Yeah.
00:19:43
Karl
Yeah, you are. You start, you start, you start, start, you start in the cup, but I'll only play you for an hour. That's what I'd think. All right. You can have the last hour.
00:19:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
Well, it is Conor. That is going to be, I think, a test of Slott's management next season. How he manages Mo's minutes, because he he won't be able to do the three games a week.
00:20:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
And do you think... But significantly on on kind of Mo's side, do you think that, do you think he's ever going to arrive at a place where he thinks, yeah, you know what, i maybe I can't do three games a week. Maybe maybe the manager will be right just to play me, you know, maybe once a week or once every 10 days. Do you ever think he's going to arrive at that place?
00:20:30
Connor
I think if we're in a world where Mo Salah is like the impact sub at Liverpool, something is either going really well or really, really badly. I'm not too sure because he doesn't seem like the kind of guy. He seems like a very, really driven, really hungry professional footballer. But obviously he has that thing in him where he is the main man and this is his team.
00:20:53
Connor
you know it We all might not feel that way. People might think, okay, it's Slott's team, it's it's it's Van Dijk's team, whoever. But I think Salah thinks it's Salah's team. This is his team.
00:21:03
Connor
And he's the he's the main man of this team. So I can't i can't see it now. i can't of i can't picture it, what it looks like with Mo Salah being the player who's like... I'll sit this one out.
00:21:15
Connor
I'll come off the bench in this one. Don't worry, guys. I have my full faith in all of you fully fit, fully consistent forwards to go do the job. Because in truth, we've only really had Mo that's been doing that recently.
00:21:29
Karl
I don't think he plays a domestic cup game for us ever again.
00:21:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, that's a big call, Carl.
00:21:33
Connor
Hmm.
00:21:34
Karl
I don't think... It may be a final, but I don't think i don think he does. I think... i think Yeah, Derby County on a Tuesday night. Yeah, kick put your feet up, Mo. but' We'll see you on Saturday.
00:21:44
Connor
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, i''d I just think
00:21:47
Karl
i I think that's how you do it.
00:21:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think that's how you do it. But I think that's, those are the games that I think are really going to hack Mo off because he's thinking, I could get four goals.
00:21:56
Karl
Four goals there.
00:21:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
I could get four goals, you know?
00:21:58
Connor
Yeah.
00:21:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then, you know, that that big guy in front of me, you know, Mr. Rushy, he'll be definitely sending a text to Arnie Slott saying, look, don't play him in the domestic cups.
00:22:09
Connor
yeah
00:22:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
You don't need to play in there.
00:22:11
Karl
And the Electro Embrace, while Ian rushes in the stand, probably flipping him the bird throughout the game every time he misses one.
00:22:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:22:20
Karl
I love that that. That's what Shearer said. He was at the England game when Harry Kane went past his record. And he said, yeah, he said, I knew the cameras on me. had to just smile and applaud politely. So was furious with him.
00:22:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
furious you know what i i but i respect that because i i hate it when you get these players saying oh yeah you know what i'm i'm really happy that he's broken my record you know it's never true these these footballers especially strikers you know that the the reason why they are strikers is because they've got such an unbelievably selfish streak in them and yeah russia is going be praying that that mo doesn't play any domestic uh cup
00:22:38
Karl
Yeah.
Speculations on Van Dijk's Future Contract
00:22:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
games now between now
00:22:57
Karl
Can you give you an athletics example? Only because I heard this the other day on a podcast. You remember Jonathan Edwards, the triple jumper?
00:23:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:23:04
Karl
He broke the world record at the Olympics and then broke it again in his next go.
00:23:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's right. That's
00:23:08
Karl
It's still standing today. If I'm Jonathan Edwards, I'm going round to every single triple jump meet. I can. Just saying, no, no, did I did more than that.
00:23:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
right.
00:23:16
Karl
And I'm sorry, that was 30 years ago, lads. so
00:23:18
Connor
Yeah.
00:23:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:19
Karl
And I'm sure that's why Ian Rush goes to Anfield all the time. I'm to write about this.
00:23:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Just a laugh at Mo definitely. Yeah.
00:23:24
Karl
Yeah, you missed that one, Mo.
00:23:25
Karl
So I'm on 346 and you're not. Okay.
00:23:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
You know, that there's some news on the wires that apparently, obviously this completely unconfirmed, but that Virgil van Dijk will be announced at midday.
00:23:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
So, really?
00:23:42
Karl
I was thinking Monday, to be honest. After West Ham, yeah.
00:23:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
They're not going to go for that 11th of April thing? 11 and 4? Yeah,
00:23:49
Karl
I think we're giving FSG just a bit too much credit of knowing what date it is
00:23:54
Connor
Yeah.
00:23:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
but our media department knows.
00:23:56
Connor
It's like they're like, yeah, but but come on. it's it's like It's like this is the kind of thing that you would watch in, don't know, a video essay on a Christopher Nolan film or something.
00:24:07
Connor
You're trying to pick the references apart and make sure that it's, I don't know.
00:24:10
Karl
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
00:24:11
Connor
and' i Listen, I'm happy with it.
00:24:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, we're going back to our film podcast now. We're going back to our film podcast now, Connor.
00:24:16
Connor
Yeah.
00:24:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:24:18
Connor
Yeah, i couldn't the the water cooler, that's what we called it, wasn't it?
00:24:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Our, seem to be launched film podcast.
00:24:20
Connor
Yeah.
00:24:21
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:24:22
Karl
When's his birthday?
00:24:22
Connor
Yeah.
00:24:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Who's, I don't know.
00:24:24
Karl
When's Virgil's birthday?
00:24:25
Connor
Hey.
00:24:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Are you doing a like live Google search?
00:24:27
Connor
Oh.
00:24:29
Global Sports Podcast Network
Go on.
00:24:30
Karl
i
00:24:31
Connor
Yeah.
00:24:33
Karl
8th of July. No, you can't do that.
00:24:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
You can't do that.
00:24:36
Connor
yeah
00:24:36
Karl
you see what no Sorry, going to have to give you a random date based on your squad number.
00:24:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah you You can't do that in July. That's pre-season.
00:24:45
Global Sports Podcast Network
So we'll see.
00:24:45
Karl
That wasn't your decision anyway.
00:24:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, we'll we'll we'll see. all the All the indications are that Virgil van Dijk is going to follow suit as well. What does that mean then, Connor? If if we get the... And i think I think most Liverpool fans would say that these are the big two.
00:25:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
From those those three contracts that we wanted re-signed at the start of the season...
00:25:06
Karl
The most likely answer.
00:25:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but but I think if we could if we had to pick two out of those, then Van Dijk and Salah, I think.
00:25:09
Connor
yeah
00:25:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
What does that say for Liverpool going into next season?
00:25:20
Connor
I think you could argue there's a case to be made that you might, I think it was yourself, Carl, that mentioned, like or maybe it was you, Jesse, were talking about anchors in the team and Van Dijk, Mo Salah.
00:25:33
Connor
Okay, Mo Salah might play on the wing, but they really are like the spine of the team. They are like the leadership team part of that squad and I think why what reason why Liverpool have been so successful this season is that there wasn't that much change to complement the amount the crazy amount of change happened off the field there wasn't that much on the field and I think this kind of ensures the same thing hopefully we're not losing our captain we know now for certain we're not losing our top global scorer and probably one of the best players in Europe, if not who has been the best player this year.
00:26:08
Connor
And that kind of consistency is is is so important because they are players that you can rely on. They're consummate professionals. They're big game players. They're leaders.
00:26:18
Connor
They show up when it matters. And most importantly, they've been there and they've done it and they've won everything. And they're going to do it again this year. So I think you need people like that to help others get over the line. And if we're going to see some...
00:26:31
Connor
hopefully some on-field change this summer. You know, you've got players like Salah, Van Dijk, they can help bed them in and show them like, this is this is how we do things. this is how you meant This is how you win things at a club like Liverpool.
00:26:44
Connor
I don't know. i Maybe I'm just too excited.
00:26:45
Karl
I think it's also how...
00:26:46
Connor
It is. No, go on, sorry.
00:26:49
Karl
I think that i think that's you also use him for signings. So if you've got a big number nine you want to attract, you can just say to him, do you want to stand to the left of Mo Salah?
00:26:54
Connor
Mm-hmm.
00:26:59
Karl
Yeah, I think I do, yeah.
00:27:00
Connor
yeah
00:27:01
Karl
yeah
00:27:02
Connor
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:03
Karl
I think that's the way you do it.
00:27:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then if you're if you're if you're if you're a top quality defender, you know, you want to play next to Van Dijk or Kwanzaa?
00:27:05
Karl
It's... Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:11
Connor
yeah
00:27:13
Karl
Look how far Qanta came on. Look how Joel Matip came on next to Virgil.
00:27:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:27:17
Connor
yeah
00:27:19
Karl
And I think like it just makes a difference to everybody else. It also, I think the timing is interesting in as much as it really... We've been a bit flat. know We lost the League Cup final. We went out to Europe. We lost at Fulham the other day.
00:27:32
Karl
Three defenders had nightmares. And you know we've got to get this thing over the line. And I'm sure we're going to be okay. I'm not worried about it in the slightest. But... standing up to league and saying, you know these lads who have just won the league, despite them in their 30s, and they are the top two this year, without question for me. They're the best two players we've had.
00:27:50
Karl
But they're still here, and we'll see you next year.
00:27:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
We will see him.
00:27:53
Karl
And I think, because I think if I was if i wasn't a fan of Liverpool, I'd think...
00:27:53
Connor
Mm-hmm.
00:27:58
Karl
yeah they haven't got Salah anymore. and They haven't got Van Dijk. They're just going to go back to having average centre-backs, is what we did for years. you know, Dejan Lovren, Martin Skirtle, Daniel Iger. I think he was average. just pick Just pick up a man from a corner, Daniel. Just every now and then. See what it's like.
00:28:13
Karl
Oh, you've drove me mad. I think that makes a bit of a difference to the rest of the league that you can say, like, you know, yeah, you know the level we're at. We're still at that level.
00:28:24
Karl
And yes, we are still in a transition because it's a new manager, but but we've got transition with a league championship in a squad that struggles occasionally. This isn't a classic Liverpool team, but it's still one with Mo Salvin and Virgil van Dijk in it.
00:28:37
Karl
And the goalkeepers coming next. And if they don't sign the goalkeeper,
00:28:41
Karl
if he gets through to January 1st, I mean, it's it's time for it's time for for flame and torture standing outside the Paisley gates, isn't it? Dear me.
00:28:50
Global Sports Podcast Network
I'm sure you'd be leading the way, Carl. But so that is going to be all for today. Don't forget to follow the podcast.
00:28:57
Karl
We're going to end the podcast with me setting fire to the Paisley gates. Thanks very much.
00:29:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. It was it was only going to be Carl Coppac. It was never going to be Connor Norcop, right? So Connor will follow Carl.
00:29:08
Karl
Get out here, Werner.
00:29:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:29:09
Karl
I want this sorted now.
00:29:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah
00:29:11
Karl
Yeah, like he's there. Like he's ever been there.
00:29:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's all for today. We may well come back later on today if Virgil van Dijk signs as well. But join us again on Monday when we'll be reviewing the match against West Ham. Hopefully that's another three points closer to the Premier League title.
00:29:31
Global Sports Podcast Network
Until next time, thank you for listening.