Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks FC podcast.

Hello, Rankanks Squad and welcome to Ranks FC. It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast coming at you from the last week of the transfer window.

My name's Jack Collins and I'll be your host here from London and across the water all the

way from San Diego. It's our transfer guru doing what he does best. It's Mr Dean Jones. How

you doing, mate? Yeah, I'm all right, mate. Yeah. Happy deadline week to everybody. I am looking

forward to the deadline next week. It's been a weird month and I have to say,

I don't know why this has to be a month. Nothing happens until the last few days really.

It's all, I mean, it keeps me busy because there's loads of speculation, a lot of positioning,

false positioning, a few whispers, a few briefings, a few lies from people,

and it's like filtering all of this information, basically just positioning yourself for

the final few days when some stuff might actually happen. Came into the window, not expecting

it to be very busy. And there has actually been loads of chat,

especially in the early days. It actually kind of exploded early on in the first week,

even though there was no concrete movement. And it's kind of faded. I mean, the last couple of

days have been almost dead at times. But there is stuff to talk about. Stuff is going to happen

in the final days.

And yeah,

across this episode,

I've tried to tee up some deals for us to look out for

and in hope that none of it goes out of date.

So,

um,

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