Ibrahima Konate SPECIAL: Inside track on Liverpool new boy from journalist who broke transfer story

Welcome to your latest podcast on the Blood Red channel. But if you were one of the first people to sign up for the Blood Red Club, then you may well have heard this. But if you haven’t signed up, this is the kind of content that you are missing out on. So what is the Blood Red Club? Well, it’s a way of giving something back to our loyal listeners and viewers. Every week we send out an exclusive podcast to Blood Red Club members, for no cost whatsoever. If you want to join the thousands of Liverpool fans who have already signed up, simply head to www.bloodredpodcast.co.uk and pop your email into the box provided. But just to give a little taste of what you can expect - and given we should see him for the first time at Anfield this time next week - we’re now publishing our first Blood Red Club exclusive podcast, which was all about Liverpool new boy Ibrahima Konate. Guido Schäfer is a former team-mate of Jurgen Klopp at FSV Mainz 05 but is now a journalist for the Leipziger Volks-Zei-Tung newspaper in Germany. And he was the person who broke the story back in May that Konate was to become the Reds’ first signing of the summer. And in this podcast, he gives Matt Addison an unrivalled insight into the deal that has brought the France Under-21 international to Merseyside, and what the centre-back is like as a person and as a player. There’s also details of conversations Klopp had with Red Bull supremo Ralf Rangnick over Konate and Dayot Upamecano, and conversations Klopp had with Schäfer over Naby Keita, who made the move from Leipzig to Liverpool three years ago, and who has looked impressive in pre-season this summer. Enjoy.

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