Hello and welcome to the TIFO football podcast. I'm Joe Devine and I'm now joined by Seb Stapford Bloor.

Hello Joe Devine. And Alex Stewart. Hello. Hello there. Today is another sensible transfers episode.

Now I hope you're all viewing and enjoying the sensible transfers videos that we have been

releasing on the TIFO football channel so far. I believe we have Manchester United and Spurs.

By the time you're listening to this, I also think Arsenal maybe. Can't remember. Anyway,

one of them will be out. Rail Madrid, actually. Oh, Rail Madrid. Even better. Is it? I don't know. But I don't, you know, maybe it is. Some people, for other people, not. And today we'll be continuing our sensible transfers podcasts, where instead of focusing on clubs, we focus on players. We have a list of players, some of whom have been provided by the YouTube community. So thanks to everyone who

submitted some names and we're interested to hear us talk about them. I believe Seb has added a few

today as well because we'll be focusing on free agents of which the number is large and there

are some pretty great names on this list. Some of them I believe will be free agents officially

as of the summer but are available to talk to other clubs now in January. This will be a fun episode, I think, and I

believe you'll be surprised to hear of the quality on this list. Before we get to that stage,

we also have a special segment at the beginning where we're going to talk to Matt Slater

about a situation developing with the prospective purchase of Burnley. Now that's very interesting. I will direct you when we start talking to Matt to an article he's written that you can read to get the full details and the full information. It's, well, it's interesting. Let's put it that way. So we're going to chat to Matt for 10 minutes. Then we're going to get into transfers. And at the end of the podcast, Seb, you spoke to someone else. Sure did, Joe. I spoke to Greg Evans, who is the Athletics, Aston Villa correspondent. And it was great to catch up with them, actually, because last time we had him on the pod, it was just after Villa had escaped relegation. And obviously, six months later, they're much improved. And we talked about all the reasons why. I will point out that you've spoken to Greg this morning, which is Friday the 8th, before they play, I think, their youth team against Liverpool and the FA Cup, right? So it won't include that. Well, we deliberately stayed clear of all COVID matters, just because it's obviously quite a fluid situation. But yes, Villa will play Liverpool in the Cup with what Greg

described actually is more of an under 17 side, which sounds quite strange. So we'll see how that goes,

but obviously we did record before that happened, yes. Yeah, cool. Okay, well, that's what we've

got coming up for you today on the TIFO football podcast. Before we get to into it, into it big time,

I would like to remind you, listeners, that there's a wonderful available opportunity for you

to snaffle at, to strike at, to grasp with your hands, you know, fingers gripping around

the one pound per week deal to the athletic. You know what?

The harder you grip it, the better it will be because you'll get more out of it. Does that work?

No. I've gone down a path here. But what I'm saying is you'll get, you know what? Hey, wow, it's a £1 a week deal to subscribe to the Athletic at the moment,

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