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

Hello, Rank Squad, and welcome to Ranks FC.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.

And as we head into an international break, we thought we'd mix the script up a little bit.

My name is Jack Collins, and I'll be your host today. And joining me across the water all the way from San Diego. It's Mr Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? Hello,

mate. Yeah, I'm good. I'm good. We're out of transfer season now. Most people are at transfer season now.

Not me, mate. Never. Never stop thinking about what might happen.

Can't do it.

I can't do it.

It's impossible.

Yeah, you're putting your guru back.

The guru hat back on today to talk about some potential deals that might happen in 2026.

And I got sent this through.

I woke up this morning to this message about Dean, be like, yeah, this is what I want to do for the episode. I was like, okay, cool. We've had some discussions about little bits and bobs. It's probably time for another sacking or saving Europe's under fire managers in the near future as well. But I was like, wicked. Let's get stuck into this one. So I'm basically going to hand you the floor,

mate. It's a big Dean Jones Carry episode. Yeah, look, it's an international break. We don't want to

talk about international games because it's too difficult and a lot of people don't care. Yeah, well,

you like international football. So many people switch off during this period. What we like is to imagine the

future, some of those big moves that are going to happen. It just feels like a timeless one. You

could even jump into this one in December and hopefully it still stands up. We'll do the save or sack

episode when we come back, I think.

We can get prepared for the domestic action, getting back underway next week.

So yeah, here we go.

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