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On this week's Media Matters, Gags Tandon speaks to the man from The Telegraph that broke the story regarding Virgil Van Dijk's transfer to Liverpool FC, Jeremy Wilson. Jeremy details how the deal came about as it's rare for a transfer to be announced five days before the window opens and talks about the details of the £75m fee too!  AI Pro subscribers then sent in questions for Jeremy: Jamal Soliman - Were City in for VvD? Nick Summerfield - who briefed the press about VVD and LFC agreeing on a deal in June? Was it someone from LFC side, or was it as suggested someone from Southampton to try and drive the price up? Harinder Singh: Does the difference in reporting tides show how quickly things changes? A northern correspondent for the same paper had VVD nailed for City. Then Jeremy Wilson swoops in with us and then rest history at lightning speed!! Umang Vithlani: It's been said Mike Gordon worked really hard behind the scenes to rebuild the relationship. Can you specify any details on exactly how this was achieved? Manish Mistry: We saw an unusual silence from the usual LFC journalists in the build-up to the VVD transfer news. Were they fed information and trusted to keep quiet or just told very close to the news officially breaking?  Joshua Ocampo: Does VVD’s form concern you at all? All this and more on Media Matters.

On this week's Media Matters, Nina is on solo hosting duties on Media Matters as she brings a very special episode covering the topic of women in football media. Nina is joined by Bein Sports Kay Murray, as the pair discuss this hot topic and Kay shares her thoughts and experiences on how she broke into this industry and gives insight into her fantastic broadcasting career. All this and more on Media Matters.

On this week's Media Matters, Sachin Nakrani talks with Andrew Mangan, the man behind the long-running, influential and hugely successful ​Arsenal fan site, areseblog. Andrew gives the low down on Arsenal's start to the season, focusing on the form of Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil and Alexandre Lacazette in particular, as well as his views on the man in charge - Arsene Wenger. He also discusses the origins and rise of arseblog as well as Arsenal fan media in general. Sachin and Andrew finish up by previewing Friday's big game at the Emirates and why they hope it finishes in a 4-4 draw.

On this week’s Media Matters, Sachin Nakrani and Nina Kauser speak with David Downie, producer at Radio City in Liverpool and founder of the Blue Room podcast. David gives the lowdown on Everton ahead of Sunday’s Merseyside Derby - his views on what exactly has gone wrong at the club this season, who is to blame and what the future holds at Goodison Park. He also explains how the Blue Room has gone from strength to strength and why he has little hope of Everton causing an upset at Anfield this weekend.

On this week’s Media Matters podcast, Sachin Nakrani & Gags Tandon speak with renowned journalist and German football expert, Raphael Honigstein about his new book on Jurgen Klopp - Bring The Noise. Raphael discusses how the book came about, who he spoke to in order to discover more about Klopp & what he ultimately learnt about the man in charge at Liverpool and how he is going about bringing success to the club. There is also talk about Klopp’s relationship with the media, in England and Germany, and the likelihood of him sticking around at Anfield.

On this week’s Media Matters podcast, Nina Kauser and Sachin Nakrani are joined by Paul Machin, creator and co-host of Redmen TV, to discuss the rise and strength of Liverpool fan-content and the ongoing success of Redmen TV in particular. Paul explains how the channel got off the ground, how it has developed and what is next for the award-winning multi-platform operation. Nina, Sachin and Paul also discuss the difference between Scouse and southern supporters, negativity on Twitter and the positivity of Jurgen Klopp.

On this week's Media Matters podcast, Sachin Nakrani and Nina Kauser welcome West Ham United's head of content Amar Singh to talk about his career in journalism and the journey to working for West Ham United as the head of their content team.  Sachin, Nina and Amar discuss: Amar's duties as head of content at West Ham What the duties are on match days for a content team in the Premier League What Slaven Bilic was like in the weeks leading up to his departure. If Amar misses his career in journalism? The lack of Asians in journalism, do they have it tougher now? All this and plenty more on the Media Matters Podcast!

On part 2 of this week's special fan media orientated Media Matters podcast, Gags Tandon continues his discussion with Paul Tomkins to talk about his career in fan media/journalism with the focus this time on his meetings with Rafa Benitez and John Henry as well as a brief discussion on social media.

On this week's special fan media orientated Media Matters podcast, Gags Tandon welcomes Paul Tomkins to talk about his career in journalism, the journey to creating The Tomkins Times website and the Transfer Price Index. This is the first of two parts of this special Media Matters episode. 

On this week's Media Matters podcast, Sachin Nakrani and Gags Tandon welcome Duncan Castles to talk about his career in journalism, his relationship with Jose Mourinho and his activity on social media!