Hello everybody and welcome back to the Football Vision podcast. Champions League football was back this week and I don't know about you, but I haven't felt very Champions Leaguey. Maybe I need to get used to this new format, but there still doesn't feel like much jeopardy yet with six games still to play and such an extended league system. Anyway, with that in mind, we're going to continue our anatomy of a transfer

mini-series today. And after interviewing data scientists, scouts, and player care experts,

we're taking an interesting turn today and delving into the world of social media and the rise

of transfer ITKs, who have now become a timeline staple for many football fans, which is why I'm delighted to

welcome team news and ticks to the show, who has risen to prominence over the last 18 months

after breaking injury news, line-up information, and Arsenal Transfer updates under the guise of

anonymity, amassing over 230K followers on X in the process. It's great to have you here, man.

How you doing?

Yeah, I'm good.

Thank you.

And thanks for having me.

Interesting series to, you know, as you said, usually we see the basics player

science for club player earns X amount and that's that's about it.

So it is something I've always been interested in the sort of the whole, the total 360 of a transfer rather than the linear of just news drops, player signs.

Completely. There is so much that goes into these things. And I thought heading away from the traditional football model, the way we use and absorb social media nowadays is so interesting.

And it would be very difficult to talk about the transfer market, especially in football, without talking about social media nowadays is so interesting and it would be very difficult to talk about the

transfer market, especially in football, without talking about social media. Just before we start,

could you give the listeners some background on yourself and your journey into football? I was reading

your profile bio on X, which says spent years and thousands of pounds on a journalism degree, ended up leaking

team news on Twitter, which I found quite amusing.

Yeah, I mean, it is true.

So I've always been football obsessed from sort of as young as I can remember.

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