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

Hello, Ranks Squad and welcome to Ranks FC.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.

Back to normal service after a couple of weeks of Champions League,

dominating the conversation.

My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host today. and joining me all the way across the water in San Diego. It's Mr Dean Jones. Hey dear mate. Hello, mate. Yeah, I'm very

good, very good. Yeah, I mean, heading towards the final couple of games of the season, plenty to be

decided, but obviously this is the time when I have a little switch of

tact and go full transfer mode.

So, yeah, things are really ramping up in my world.

Most nights, I'm awake in the middle of the night on my phone on my laptop, usually between

3 and 5am just to make sure that I'm not got anything wrong, haven't missed

anything, see what messages are coming in, see what's been reported. It's like part of my sleep cycle

now. I sleep like 10.30 till 3 and then like 5 till 6.30. That's pretty much how it's working out.

So yeah, that's me. That's you. It's only going to get

busier over the next few weeks. We thought about going transfer modes today, but I think we might

as all hold it for a little while, just to let's go. Yeah. And also we will be starting it on

Patreon tomorrow. So if you want a load of transfer stuff, both audio and newsletter-wise, come over to the Patreon and I'm

going to keep you tuned in to everything that's going on. Absolutely. The link as ever is in the

description. We'd love to have you over there over the course of the summer where Dean's can be

doing loads and loads of transfer bits. Today, though, Dean,

we're going to talk about the Ballondeur, which has become, I think, a more interesting

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