Hello and welcome back to 1874. It's Monday, so it's time for our podcast show.

And I'm your host, Dan Bardell, joined by the elusive Jacob Tanzwell,

Aston Villa's athletic correspondent. So we're going to talk through a few things today.

I'm going to catch up with Jacob on the squad cost rules.

We're going to look at Villa's pre-station schedule.

Of course, I can't have Jacob on and not ask him about transfers. If I'm being honest, it's probably the only reason anyone is watching, because all anyone wants to

talk about is transfers. And I've also had some questions in off Twitter as well, so we'll

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out the way. As I mentioned, the ever so elusive, Jacob Tanzwell, you have not seen him

anywhere, probably since the season finished. He's been in hiding. He's been enjoying life, still

working hard on the athletic, but Jacob, not working hard on podcast. A little break for you.

A little break for me.

Yeah, I've only had three or four days holidays, not been anything huge.

It's just been, yeah, a lot of work, a lot of laying the groundwork, really,

because, you know, obviously, when the season starts,

you don't have much time to meet contacts and travel and do a lot of things like that.

So I've just been doing that, been working on a few stories.

Some have already come out already.

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