00:00How do you reflect on deadline day? Obviously you're getting a deal for Alexander Isak over the line,
00:04not getting a deal for Mark Gay over the line, and Harvey Elliott leaving the club.
00:08Yeah, so a lot of things happened on the last day, which is not always the situation,
00:13because last season we hardly did anything during the whole window,
00:16but the thing that pleases me most is us getting Alex the deal from Alex over the line.
00:24Richard's ownership, everyone involved worked so hard to get the deal done,
00:28and it's very good for the club, for our fans, for the players, for me,
00:36that all the work they've put in resulted in Alex signing for us.
00:42How close were you to getting the deal for Mark Gay over the line,
00:46and therefore what chances are there that you will go back in for him?
00:49What chance do you feel there is that he will become a Liverpool player in the next two other minutes?
00:54Nah, I think it would be a bit ridiculous if I'm going to deny that we were close to signing him.
01:00That is so out in the open, that would be ridiculous.
01:04These things happen in football, it happened to our players maybe in the past as well,
01:10that they thought they were so close on signing somewhere else,
01:12and then in the last moment things changed.
01:14This can happen, and for me we would have liked to sign him of course,
01:21because we were in for him, and he was, like I've said many times,
01:25if we can feel we can strengthen the team with a chance in the market,
01:29we never hesitate to do so, and that's what we tried to do.
01:32But one or two days before we played Arsenal, where Ibu and Virgil played an outstanding game,
01:39and Joe came in 20 minutes before the end, Joe Gomez, and did an outstanding game as well,
01:44with us signing Giovanni Leoni, who had his first international call-up,
01:48and Ryan and Watte can play there, so it's not like all of a sudden we don't have options in that position anymore.
01:55It's a pity, but not only for us, but also for the player I think.
02:01But he's in a good place, playing at Palace, where he won the Charity Shield and the FA Cup,
02:07with a very good manager as well, so let's see what the future brings for him and for us.
02:14Just to push it out, would you be thinking January or next summer?
02:18If I'm thinking anything, you know, that what I think I don't tell you,
02:23but the thing I think most about is Burnley at the moment, I can assure you.
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