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.

My name's Jack Collins and I'll be your host today as we take a look at the most improved players in Europe this season.

Very exciting episode, one that's been a bit of a

staple of the ranks stable for some time, but it's nice to get back into some old ground. I'm joined

across the water all the way from San Diego by Mr Dean Jones. How you doing, mate? Hello, mate. Yeah,

the warmest winter I've ever had.

I can tell you that much, mate.

Still wearing shorts most of the time over here,

so that's a lovely feeling.

A birthday coming up as well,

and I was thinking,

I'm going to have a warm birthday for the first time in my life.

Yeah, nice.

Yeah, nice vibes, right?

Might even go to the beach. Who knows? Even if it's not warm, I might go to the beach, just because I can. But yeah, I'm okay. I'm certainly better than Pep Guardiola, mate.

I know that much. Not many times in my life I've been able to feel like that either. So,

yeah, nice to be able to have something up on Pep Guardiola.

I feel a bit sorry for him, to be honest. As we record this, it's obviously Tuesday when we record this and it goes out on Wednesday.

So it's worth pointing out before I do my thing I love about this week, like Man City

haven't played yet.

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