Ranking the January Transfer Window's Best & Weirdest Deals

Ranks FC - A Football Podcast

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🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We take a look back at a relatively quiet Deadline Day and an interesting window as a whole, examining some of the best deals, some of the more bizarre ones, and some of those you may have missed.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is international football commentator Derek Ray, and you're listening to the Ranks
0:04.8	FC podcast. Hello, Ranks Squad. Hello, Ranks Squad and welcome to Ranks FC.
0:26.8	It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.
0:29.8	The transfer window has slammed shut in most of Europe.
0:35.5	Our deadline day deals have been completed.
0:38.9	There have been some interesting things that have happened in the transfer market.
0:43.3	And we're going to get into all of them today.
0:45.8	My name is Jack Collins and I'll be your host day.
0:48.2	And joining me across the water is the one and only Mr. Dean Jones,
0:52.1	fresh off deadline day, the transfer guru himself. How you doing
0:55.6	mate? Hello, mate. Yeah, not bad. It was, to be honest, I quite like predictable deadline
1:02.2	days. Mostly, it was predictable. Most of us working in it thought it would be a quiet last few days
1:13.1	And it did pretty much turn out to be that
1:15.4	It was the same old storylines
1:16.9	Going over and over again
1:19.2	You know
1:20.0	So it wasn't a yeah
1:23.4	It wasn't an all-timer I don't think
1:25.0	But yeah
1:26.1	It threw up a few
1:27.0	Quarks didn't it?
1:30.2	Yeah, 100%.
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