Mailbag: How should we judge new signings?
Football Ramble
Stak Production
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🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
With high-profile transfers being increasingly scrutinised by the football media machine, we wonder why it’s so difficult to properly assess new arrivals to the Premier League without allowing them time to bed in. I mean, remember Dennis Bergkamp’s first season at Arsenal?!
Marcus, Vish and Jim get stuck into that. Plus: what should Aston Villa realistically expect from Unai Emery and this team? Who’s had the most fairytale-tinged ending to their career? And, after Neil Warnock parachutes in at Torquay, what other managerial comebacks would we like to see?
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| 0:00.0 | Can you get it together, please? |
| 0:02.4 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:06.5 | Chucking iPhones around, like fucking salt on the Brunei. |
| 0:11.0 | Let him go. |
| 0:12.2 | Sorry. |
| 0:16.8 | Right, are we ready? |
| 0:18.0 | Do it. |
| 0:20.4 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Football Rammel mailbox mailbag. Players Right, are we ready? Do it! Hello everybody! |
| 0:21.7 | Welcome to the Football Rammell Mailbag! |
| 0:24.6 | Players bedding in, |
| 0:25.7 | and I'm Eberian fairy tale careers at the orders of the day. |
| 0:28.4 | It's Tuesday, 3rd of March. |
| 0:29.6 | I'm Marcus Speller. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Tim Campbell. |
| 0:31.3 | And I'm the Ducid Hunter Roger. Hello everybody. Good to have you with us on The Mailbag. |
| 0:47.0 | Remember, you decide what we talk about on the Mailbag. |
| 0:51.3 | It's all about your questions. |
| 0:53.6 | Get in touch with us on X Blue Sky or Instagram at Football Round. We'll comment on YouTube mailbag. It's all about your questions. Get in touch with us on X Blue Sky or Instagram |
| 0:56.2 | at Football Ramble. Comment on YouTube. Email us show at FootballRamble.com. And of course, |
| 1:00.6 | Friends of the Ramble get priority. Patreon.com forward slash football ramble or sign up on YouTube. |
| 1:07.1 | Do it. Right then. Let's start with this from Friend of the Ramble, Peter, on email. |
| 1:12.4 | Maybe my recollection is off. |
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