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

Today we are flipping things over to perhaps the most competitive league in Europe this season

in the form of Seria, where chaos has ruled over the course of the summer.

No less than 14 of the 20 clubs in the division change managers, including

seven of last season's top 10, and only the Premier League spent more than the Italian top flight

in this transfer window. My name's Jack Collins, and I'm joined across the water by a man who has

loved the rebirth of culture over the past few years, live from San Diego, it's our transfer guru, Mr. Dean Jones.

How you doing, mate?

Yeah, I'm good.

Yeah, I mean, it's been basically since we were at Bleacher and the AC Milan resurgence began.

I reckon that's about the time when I properly had my head turned and got back into the Italian football scene.

And I've enjoyed it.

It's just so yo-yo, isn't it?

I mean, in terms of what you get season to season, who's going to be the dominant team,

how far off you fall in terms of a team like Napoli, who obviously won the league one

minute by a long distance,

and then the following season just come nowhere near it and finish 10th in the league.

So there's this kind of, yeah, an expectation of a proper title race,

but caution about who's actually going to be in that title race

and whether they can continue the momentum of the season before.

So it'll be interesting to see your views.

I mean, you love Italian football, probably more than anyone I've actually met in my life,

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