Well, hello everybody, welcome. No, I'm not going to do that. It's not Pete Graves. Yes, we're all bored. Well done Pete. You're on a sabbatical in Florida

wherever you are and loving life. But this is a special episode of the Transfer Talk podcast with me

Damesheth because the last one we recorded, it kind of got dated very, very quickly because of a certain move for Eberiche Eze.

It was all set for Tottenham Hotspur and now it's all set for Arsenal.

Delighted to say ESPN Sam Ty joins me.

Hello there, Sam.

Hello, my friends.

Quiet one.

Yeah, could say that. Later I'm joined by Sky Sports News

reporter Michael Bridge, but Sam, let's get straight into this. Was this one of those we'll look back

on and think, oh, I remember where I was when I heard that Arsenal had hijacked the EZE deal.

I think so, yeah. And somewhat fittingly,

I was sat on my sofa watching Stranger Things. I'm doing a big rewatch ahead of the final season that's coming at the end of this year. And that's quite fitting, isn't it, for one of the most

prominent transfer hijackings that we will probably ever see.

These are very rare. These are very exciting. They're pretty heartbreaking if you're on the wrong end of it.

But that's why we're here to discuss it, because this is big, big news.

I know people in football will show, are nothing. She prizes me in football. And they it in that kind of voice as well. But did this, did this one catch you off guard? Big time. Yeah. I mean, come on.

There's many elements to it and we'll get into it all. But just the very fact that it's all

been so public and it was all so fast and it's between these two

clubs as well. I mean, it's just, it's just ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.

Okay, look, let's just get into how this deal materialised because this wasn't one of those

ones where Arsenal just came in in the last couple of days and got the deal done.

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