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

Hello, Rank's squad and welcome to Ranks FC.

It's your favourite transatlantic football podcast.

It's not Transatlantic this week.

My name's Jack Collins and I'll be your host today. And joining me is the one, it's the only.

It's the rank of Mr. Sam mr sam thai hey do mate hello yeah

not trans atlantic at all we are sat next to each other yeah it's about the most opposite you could

get from you and dean possible it's great it's great back in the studio we're uh have where we normally

record the truth the truth's set for friday. We're, uh, we're flying this

week. Double shift for me. Yeah, double shift for you. You get double ranks this week. So,

all pays? Double pay, mate. Is it double pay? Yeah, double zero. But yes, 100% double pay for you.

We're going to talk about underrated players. I'm excited about this because there's so many different definitions of how you can go about underrated. We're going to talk about underrated players. I'm excited about this because there's so many

different definitions of how you can go about underrated. We're going to look at some who people

write off perhaps or people haven't kind of got to their, their favourite bits of yet and have a

look at why they're actually excellent footballers. So that feels like a good start.

Yeah, underrated has forever been a very

difficult concept because it really does depend on like, first of all, first of all, first of all,

your opinion of a player and then all the opinions on that player of people that you know,

but you don't know what every person in the world thinks of this player. So you could be

completely wrong by saying they're underrated. So what I decided to do was pick the most difficult topic possible for my big return and just, just, just wind us up, wind us up and make it as difficult as possible. But we'll get there. We will get there. I'm going to start with things we love, which is fun, because we haven't done that for a couple of weeks. And I know that you have a certain Manchester United midfielder who's recroped up on the radar in recent weeks. Yeah, I'm not trying to rub your nose at it, because you've obviously been of the opinion that Cobby Mayne was one of the worst players ever to have looked. This is just so unfair. I'm giving so much stick for this. I just thought the Cobby Mayno was a bit overrated when he broke through.

But he has been absolutely excellent.

Did he drift into underrated?

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