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Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast.

I am John McKenzie and I'm joined as I always am by my good pal and producer Mike Zimmerman.

Mike, how are you?

I am doing well, John. How are you?

I'm doing really well because today we have a really exciting

episode, which is all based around sensible transfer. So you have just listened to that episode.

So what did you make of it? I love the Manchester United conversation talking about raising the

ceiling versus raising the floor. And it seems that Manchester United in the recent past has

kind of just raised the floor and hasn't made a

signing to raise their ceiling to take them to the next level. And the conversation between

striker and goalkeeper, what's Manchester United's big priority? I really found the Manchester United

conversation fascinating. Yeah, and we've talked about a number of different clubs, the clubs that we have covered in the sensible transfer video. So do you make sure that you've checked those out on our TIFO IRL channel. We talked about today, Spurs, we talked about Newcastle, we talked about Manchester United, and we talked about Chelsea. And so I think without further ado, let us go to the

episode itself. So we are hosted by Ruben Pinder. So the next voice that you will hear is Ruben the

baby boy Pinders. Enjoy the episode.

Hello, boys. Nice to be back. I'm in the big boy chair now. It feels like a long time since I've seen you in this room. Lots of boys chat here. Yeah. You use the word lads? Am I not allowed to use the word lads? Do you ever you want. I don't think you didn't use the word lads, so it's fine. Okay. Anyway, sensible transfers. I'm going to be for awkward already. It's good. It's the transfer window. Are you enjoying the transfer season? You've been doing a lot of research on who clubs should buy. How's it going? Oh, I love all the transfers. Yeah? All of them, everyone. Nice, John.

There's not been a huge amount, has there? It feels as though we're just about working up to the period of the transfer window where everything starts coming through. But I was looking through the Premier League's list of official transfers that have gone through, and there's not many clubs who've done a huge amount. I noticed that Brentford have done a fair amount of business. Is they? Well, sort of they they've got a few players who they've brought in. So, for example, Kevin Sharder, they had on a buy to loan to buy. Does that count as a transfer, though they already had him, man. Yeah, but they only brought him in January, so. It's a bit like when Kovitch went to Chelsea on loan, and then he was the only one they were allowed to keep because of the chance for Embalgo doesn't really count. Yeah. So already had him. Yeah. But so you've got,

you guys have been making, went to Chelsea on loan and then he was the only one they were allowed to keep because of the transfer embargo it doesn't really count yeah yeah so already had him yeah but so you've got you

guys have been making videos about who you think big clubs in a Premier League and a few others

should sign um what's the what's the process of uh how you make one of those videos

yeah so i think people might be surprised how much of a process there is behind them,

actually, given how people say that we haven't put any effort in whatsoever.

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