Welcome to Soccer 101, the show where we scratched the soccer itches you never knew you had.

We find ourselves listener in the midst riches you never knew you had. We find ourselves

listener in the midst of yet another summer transfer window with questions over who will stay,

who will go, and which agents will be able to afford a new Bentley. Today we're looking at the

biggest transfers of all time, our personal favourite transfers of all time and the deals that

really move the needle

in bringing change in the beautiful game. My name's Ryan Bailey. Here on a high percentage deal is

Taylor Rockwell. Hello, I'll take that deal. Here triggering the awesomeness clause in his

contract, Joe Lowry. Hello, Ryan. And here holding up one of his thousands of shirts for the media, doing some keep-ups on the field and having his picture taken, doing a thumbs-up during a medical, Graham Ruddman. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Try to theme them all around transfer stuff. Do you see what I did there? I did, yeah. Excellent. Thanks. Good stuff. All right, why don't we get started? Graham, I'll come to you straight away. I want to know what makes a good transfer.

For me, it's the same thing as going to Chili's. It's about filling a hole at a reasonable price. Yeah, pretty much. Absolutely. I'm not sure you're going to do that at Chili's. But anyway, that is not the discussion. Yeah, from a soccer transfer, primarily, you want value for money. You don't want

to be overpaying for a player in the transfer market. So part of the battle with making a good

transfer is working out the value of players, not just the value of players in the open market,

but also what is the value of a player to you and your team? Just because a player is worth

a certain amount to another

team doesn't necessarily mean that they're worth that much to you. And then another aspect of

what makes a good transfer is will they change the style of a team or allow that team to play

in a different way, whether that's a plan A or maybe as a plan B. Alternatively, a good transfer could be

a player that immediately fits into the team and the system that you have already built. So look at

someone like Louis Diaz who looks like he's been playing for Liverpool for years, despite only

joining them in the January transfer window. And transfers, they're not the only way to build a team,

but they can be the most effective and certainly the quickest way to build a team, but they can be the most effective

and certainly the quickest way to build a team. So they're a fundamental part of the sport,

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