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Welcome to another dose of the West.

And you'll normally find it Monday and Friday in your podcast feed and on YouTube as well.

Just jigging things around a little bit here as we head out of Christmas into New Year and towards a midweek fixture with Newcastle.

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Our guest, once again, if you haven't caught yesterday's show, he's back. Well, he's not got anywhere for us. In the same clothes. Yeah. It's Berancross. Hello, from the Atlantic. You're right? Hello. I'm very well, thank you. Yeah, so this is part two of a two-parter.

Yesterday, we spoke about the Man United game,

the general form over Christmas and New Year. We are now in January, so we'll pivot towards transfers in this one, if we can. And the window's being open for four days. They've done nothing. What are they doing, Berra? Boo-his. 49ers out, no. They'reing on it, despite what Farka said. Well, I suppose the jump-off point is is Jeol Peru coming off the bench. We asked the question on the match ball, but kind of just, I think we just left it hanging, really. Is that a farewell shot that he executed there and nearly tucked in the far corner? Do you think we'll retain him in January because Farca's spoken about wanting to keep his players, but something's got to have to give, isn't it? If we want to change things up a bit. Farca's quite hard to work out when it comes to transfers because I think the overall point is he's generally very honest and it's quite rare for him to say something and to not mean it.

So, but, you know, two things can be true.

You know, he can say, I want to keep the squad together.

But he can also say it's maybe beyond his control or, you know, he can't foresee what other clubs are going to bid.

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