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 football podcast.

Back for a second time this week.

And maybe not a last.

My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host today.

And joining me is our transfer Christmas

guru Mr Dean Jones. How you doing mate? Ho ho ho hello Jack here we go. It's the big week.

It is indeed. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to everybody listening. We're doing a bit of a

Christmas special, aren't we? Kind of yeah. There's going to be Christmas specials for about two weeks because this period is a bit mad.

Obviously, episodes don't always drop on the right days.

This is a period of the year where basically time goes out the window.

So we're basically going to drop when and where we can over the next couple of weeks until we get into 2024 and into that January window

where we'll be covering, of course, all of the best of the transfer window, Dean's insight

and knowledge.

But it's all going to get a bit messy from here on in.

We're going to be dropping all over the place.

So we hope you enjoy this all over the place schedule.

We hope it matches with yours. So, DJ, what are we doing

today? Because I've left this episode firmly in your hands for once. It's a weird one, mate.

It's a weird one. But it's a fun one. I thought, right, what are we going to chat about over

this Christmas week? Because everything is a bit strange. There's games all over the place.

We've covered all the main subjects.

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