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Welcome to Libero, the podcast about the most important of the most important things, as the great Sandra Matsuola once said.

I'm Rory Smith of The Observer and Men in Blazers, and I am joined today by Miguel Delaney, the award-winning author of Stuttgart, the Saipan, and Chief Football Respondents.

As your own.

The Independent and Jonathan Wilson of the Jonathan Wilson extended universe.

Today we are talking about transfers, although we're not really.

We're actually talking about, talking about transfers, and we will acknowledge straight away

that we are fully aware of the irony that is kind of inherent within that.

And we're exposing our hypocrisy, because we think this is actually quite an interesting thing. It's the sort of thing we actually talk about quite a lot when we are in private, not leveraging our lives for content. The transfer industry, as I think we probably, it's a bit pretentious to call it that, but it's probably what it is, is something that we do, yeah, can't consider quite a lot.

Even though, Miguel, it's kind of just you, really, that covers it in any real detail of the three of this. Yeah, I suppose it's, yeah, one part of my job just, in the same way, you get a news line, you do a news line. you get trans throw line which tend to be quite abundant

and there's a lot we don't do

and you cover it but of course

I think what were the key You do a news line. You get a transfer line, which tend to be quite abundant, and there's a lot we don't do, and you cover it.

But, of course, I think what the key really here is, I suppose, is how it does feel like,

I don't want to overuse this phrase because of the media industrial complex,

but that's what the transfer industry is now.

It feels like there's football coverage, and then there's football transfer coverage.

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