Reacting To Konate’s Liverpool REJECTION, Pogba’s NEW Club & More!

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On this week’s episode of ‘What’s On Our Feed,’ Matt reacts to Konate rejecting Liverpool’s latest contract offer, Paul Pogba’s transfer to Ligue 1, Real Madrid’s Club World Cup interviews from Courtois and Bellingham + Chelsea’s transfer business takes a crazy turn!

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00:00Welcome back to 442, where today we'll be talking Liverpool's latest contract rejection,

00:04Pogba's latest return to football, Chelsea signing a 13-year-old, plus much more.

00:10I'm Matt Vrolick, and here's what's on our feed.

00:15Right then, let's kick things off with a very good summer for Liverpool that may have turned a little bit sour,

00:21and it's Ibrahima Konate.

00:22I've seen a load of reports saying that he has rejected Liverpool's latest contract offer,

00:27and not only that, but he's disappointed.

00:30That's not when you do something bad and your parents are like,

00:32I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed.

00:34That would have really hurt Liverpool, and apparently, it's hurt a lot of Liverpool fans as well,

00:38because I'm seeing them absolutely blowing up in the Twitter comment section,

00:41saying they're done with him.

00:43Nobody gets angry at their own players like Liverpool fans do,

00:45once they decide, or once they find out, that this player could potentially leave.

00:49Anyway, it's all to do with wages, as is so often the case these days.

00:53And Konate's on 70k per week, he wants around 200k per week, which is a massive jump,

01:01and apparently Liverpool want to offer something like 130,000, 120,000, 130,000 per week.

01:06To be honest, I totally get it.

01:09Like, yes, this is in their own little bubble, and 70,000 per week is more than enough to live off.

01:13It's more than most of us learn in a year or two.

01:15But the likes of Joe Gomez, Simikas, and Chiesa are all earning way more than Konate.

01:21And Konate is, in a best Liverpool XI this season, maybe even last season as well,

01:26the best centre-back pairing with Van Dijk that Liverpool have.

01:30He's their second-best defender.

01:32They're relying on him.

01:33So the fact that he's only on 70,000 is actually a bit harsh.

01:36And then, when you throw on the fact that they have spent so much money already this summer,

01:41the hundreds of millions on the likes of Verts, Kerkersh is coming in, Frimpong as well,

01:47that's not even discussing the amount of money that's then put forward on wages as well.

01:52Totally normal, by the way, not calling Liverpool out for this.

01:55They're signing top-quality players, and you have to pay big money.

01:57If they were signing Konate now, they'd offer him a load of money.

02:01They'd put him on a very high wage because he's their starting centre-back in a title-winning team.

02:06So why wouldn't they go and do it now?

02:09On top of this, he's 26 years old.

02:11He's coming into his prime.

02:12I think he's at the perfect age for a massive, massive contract.

02:15And the issue that Liverpool have got is if they don't go ahead and sign him to a new long-term deal,

02:20remember it runs out in 12 months,

02:22PSG, Real Madrid, even someone else in the Premier League, which seems kind of unthinkable,

02:27can all offer ridiculous wages.

02:29Konate will literally have to pick up the phone to Trent Alexander-Arnold and be like,

02:32hey, mate, how much more are you getting at Real Madrid than you were at Liverpool?

02:35And I'm sure he'll have his answer very, very quickly.

02:38Obviously, Liverpool don't want that to happen.

02:42That will sort of be massive for them.

02:45To lose another player on a free next summer to Real Madrid, like the second year in a row,

02:52it's not a good look.

02:54It's not a very good look.

02:55And I wonder at what point do potentially Liverpool fans go, you know what, I'm sick of this.

03:00The club's got to do something about it.

03:02Because if he's not going to sign, you've got to sell him.

03:04You have got to sell him this transfer window.

03:06And the good thing is about Konate, like I said, I think he's unbelievable.

03:09One of the top five centre-backs in the Premier League, definitely.

03:11Top ten in Europe.

03:13So even though there's one year left, paying £30-40 million for him is a pretty good deal.

03:17And what a time to be a Liverpool fan.

03:19Not only have you proved it on the pitch by winning the title,

03:22but then to go and win the transfer window.

03:24It seems like every time we do a video, there's just more Liverpool news.

03:27No other team is doing anything.

03:28In the Premier League, certainly.

03:30Liverpool are just streets away of everyone else in this transfer window.

03:34Moving on to the next one.

03:35We're back on Instagram, checking out some of the latest content that flies around on our feed.

03:40Hence the name of the show, obviously.

03:43Paul Pogba.

03:44He's back.

03:45Pog back.

03:46Monaco are the latest team to take a punt on the former Manchester United and Juventus man.

03:51And I kind of like it.

03:53When I say I kind of like it, I'm here for it.

03:56I am here for Paul Pogba to return, to get back to his very best.

04:00And why not in his home country?

04:02He's never played in Ligue 1.

04:03And when you put him in a French setting, like the French national team, he's unbelievable.

04:08It was day and night between club-level United Pogba and French national team Pogba

04:12that we were seeing in the World Cup 2018.

04:15He's unbelievable.

04:16We know that.

04:17Monaco just seems like a good place for him to go.

04:19You know, maybe even dismantle PSG at the top of Ligue 1.

04:21Okay, that was ridiculous.

04:23That was me being stupid.

04:24I know.

04:25PSG is streets ahead.

04:26But regardless, Pogba back.

04:28Ansu Fati joining the club.

04:30They've got Akriush in that attacking final third as well.

04:33They are the team to watch in the Champions League football next season.

04:37They are the team to watch in the Champions League next season.

04:39Honestly, all three of them, under Adi Huta as well, a very good manager.

04:44I think they're going to be a very, very interesting team to watch.

04:47Watch this space.

04:48And also, Paul Pogba on a free transfer.

04:51He loves a free, doesn't he?

04:53My God.

04:54From the sensible in Paul Pogba to the downright ridiculous, this is the definition of games

04:59gone.

04:59When Chelsea are paying 750k cheap in today's money, unless it's for a 13-year-old, a 13-year-old

05:07South African wonder kid, Camden Shaper.

05:10I think it's pronounced.

05:11Sharper?

05:11Shaper?

05:12Granted, he scored 45 goals and got 65 assists for Blackburn Rovers youth teams this season.

05:17I just can't think of a world in where paying 750k for a kid is doing anything beneficial

05:26to them.

05:27Like, surely, and this isn't Chelsea's fault, by the way.

05:29I get this is just the way, like, football economy works these days.

05:32Surely there's something that benefits the player's development where he can move on to

05:36a higher level and then some sort of fee is owed to Blackburn in the future, like, upon,

05:42I don't know, appearances or upon turning 16 and still being in the Chelsea Academy.

05:48Like, to attach that price tag to a 13-year-old these days is just not a very good thing.

05:55But I also think that Chelsea obviously have other parameters which they're looking at for

05:58a 13-year-old, like, to go ahead and make this decision.

06:03Because just saying that he's really good at 13, he's playing against other 13-year-olds.

06:08While some of them are quite good, he's playing against an age group where there are very,

06:14very few who are very good.

06:15So when you're extra talented like this child, obviously is, he's going to stick out a lot

06:19more than if he was good at 18 where the competition is even tougher.

06:23So yeah, maybe just, like, I don't know, move the transfer fee to an older age.

06:27It just seems crazy.

06:28They actually beat Manchester City, who have previous in doing this.

06:31I believe they paid £1 million for a 14-year-old.

06:35At what point is there some sort of, like, labour laws that are going to come into effect,

06:38like child labour, not politics stuff, that really stops people from paying so much money

06:45for 13-year-old kids?

06:46So Thibaut Courtois, at half-time in their match recently, called out Raul Asensio for getting

06:52sent off in the seventh minute saying, you know, he's inexperienced, he got caught,

06:57he got a red card.

06:57Totally understandable, by the way.

06:59But isn't this the sort of conversation that should be going on in the dressing room?

07:03Like, the most ridiculous thing about this, isn't Thibaut Courtois, isn't what Asensio

07:08did, isn't him calling him out?

07:10The headline is the fact that there's an interview at half-time in the first place.

07:14But yeah, I am not here for half-time interviews.

07:17I don't need to hear about it.

07:19They've probably got somewhere better to be.

07:20And also, this has to be the most short-lived content of all time.

07:24Because shortly after that 15-minute break, whatever happens in the second half pretty

07:28much renders the half-time speech redundant.

07:31Although here I am talking about it right now.

07:34Well played, Cub.

07:35Well played.

07:36You got me on that one.

07:37Anyway, the other Real Madrid ridiculous interview was Jude Belliam calling out the pitches.

07:43The reason I find it ridiculous is, it's rather funny, is that players always seem to call

07:49something out or take the moral high ground after a victory.

07:52Because you can't do it after a loss.

07:55If Real Madrid lose or Belliam complains about the pitches, everyone's like, what an excuse.

08:00You're complaining because you lost.

08:02You're rubbish.

08:02Get on with it.

08:03Same for both teams.

08:04Blah, blah, blah.

08:04And it basically makes the whole complaint redundant.

08:06But when you've done it, when you've won, it's like, oh, wow.

08:09They won and they're still complaining.

08:11This must be a serious complaint.

08:12Like, FIFA are saying, this is the best club tournament in the world.

08:16They're hosting the World Cup there next year.

08:18If you want the best possible matches, the most entertaining football, you provide the

08:23best facilities.

08:24That includes the football pitches.

08:27Dortmund made their substitutes watch the first half from the dressing room.

08:3232 degree heat, which is very hot when you're, like, walking around and, like me, you know,

08:36getting really sweaty walking around on the day to day.

08:39Never mind playing a football match, never mind running around sprinting for 90 minutes

08:43in 32 degree heat.

08:45So, yeah, Dortmund players, the substitutes, watched the first half from the dressing room

08:50and got absolutely ripped to shit in the comments.

08:53People calling them soft knees, people saying the South Americans can deal with it and it's

08:57Europeans just being weak.

08:59One person actually did make a very good point and asked what happens when the substitutes

09:03are going to be brought on.

09:04Doesn't normally happen in the first half, granted.

09:06But if they had an injury or something, they'd just call back and a sub just runs out like

09:09some sort of WWE intro.

09:12Like, they'd just sprint down the tunnel, run straight out onto the pitch.

09:15It'd be amazing.

09:16But, yeah, it is a very, very valid point.

09:18Like, it's ridiculously hot.

09:20How is this going to, you know, affect the World Cup next summer?

09:24And what is really going to be done about it?

09:26Because you can't just have a few people who are used to it and a few who aren't.

09:29Last time at the Qatar World Cup saying, we're going to interrupt the middle of the season

09:35because it's too hot to play in Qatar in the summer.

09:37Fair enough.

09:39They actually did it.

09:40Yes, it was still very hot.

09:41They played a lot of games at night.

09:42It was pretty cool for most fans and most players.

09:45They played in, you know, when was it?

09:47November, December.

09:48So, something to think about definitely for the organisers of the World Cup.

09:52Sort out the pitch and make sure the players aren't passing out on the field when it's too damn hot.

09:56But we'll wrap up, though.

09:58I'm not having a go at Italian football, but this is just so Italian football.

10:03With the fact that their playoff game in Serie B got suspended.

10:08This is the relegation playoff between Sampdoria and Salerno Tala to see which one would get relegated.

10:14And there's this whole huge backstory to it.

10:16It's not even just that this game got called off.

10:18So, Sampdoria were going to get relegated.

10:21Brescia got an eight-point deduction towards the end of the season,

10:23which then meant that they got relegated.

10:25And Sampdoria finished 17th and they have a playoff with 16th, which is Salerno Tana,

10:30only if they are within four points of each other.

10:34Then it's deemed unfair if one of them streaks ahead of the other.

10:37So, 17th goes down as well as the fourth relegation spot.

10:40However, there were a few points within each other.

10:43Sampdoria played Salerno Tana, who were facing back-to-back relegation.

10:47Sampdoria won 2-0 on the first leg and ahead of the second leg.

10:49There was mass food poisoning throughout the Salerno Tana squad.

10:54The game was postponed for 48 hours.

10:56They then played it.

10:57Sampdoria then went 2-0 up again.

10:59So, it's 4-0 on aggregate.

11:01Well, the game was abandoned, suspended, cooled off.

11:04It looks like Sampdoria are going to get a 3-0 win.

11:06So, it's actually 5-0 on aggregate.

11:08Both teams just falling down this low is quite sad,

11:12especially for Sampdoria, who were a massive team over the last 30 years.

11:15You know, they've even won Serie A in the early 90s.

11:17But it was just blowing up the internet on the weekend.

11:19And it was all over our feed, from Instagram to Twitter to Facebook,

11:23as was that really nice story, very quickly before we go,

11:26about Santi Cazorla helping Real Oviedo,

11:28his hometown club at the age of 41,

11:31back to La Liga with a promotion.

11:33That's some good news, but it's like nice good news.

11:35It's not as wacky as the Italian football stuff.

11:38Anyway, that's all from me for this week.

11:40That's all from me for what's on our feed.

11:42Make sure you stick around for the next 442 video

11:44and all the upcoming content that we've got over the summer.

11:47But until next time, I'll see you in the next video.

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