TDD review: Palace in a pickle as Mateta stays and Strand Larsen joins | Jacquet picks Liverpool | Romero slams Spurs | Tonali and Arsenal

Transfer Talk

Sky Sports

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4.5 • 886 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Dharmesh Sheth is joined by ESPN's Sam Tighe and the legendary Henry Winter to review transfer deadline day as Crystal Palace get Jorgen Strand Larsen in a club record deal with wantaway striker Jean-Philippe Mateta being forced to stay at Selhurst Park after AC Milan pull out a deal following a medical. Plus, Palace upset Dwight McNeil and family after pulling out of a loan deal at the eleventh hour, Jeremy Jacquet picks Liverpool over Chelsea for more first-team opportunities and Sandro Tonali's representatives offer the player to Arsenal to the bemusement of Newcastle.

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0:43.0	Hello there. Welcome to another edition of the Transfer Talk podcast.
0:45.7	My name is Damesheth. Pause for applause.
0:49.2	I wasn't supposed to read that bit, clearly.
0:52.6	Look, the January window slammed shut.
0:54.3	Slammed shut.
0:56.0	Always slam shut, doesn't it?
0:58.0	Doesn't just close peacefully?
1:03.3	7pm, Monday night, no shortage of surprises on deadline day, of course.
1:08.1	Not least, Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly going on strike in Saudi Arabia.
1:11.8	Fortunately, neither of today's guests are going on strike.
1:19.6	That's despite being paid considerably less than the reported 500,000 pounds a day that Cristiano Ronaldo receives at Al Nasser.
1:23.3	Well, close, anyway.
1:24.9	There are two legends with me, Henry Winter and Sam Tai from ESPN. Henry,
1:30.3	let me start with you. How are you? How was your deadline day? And just on Ronaldo, he said
1:35.9	to be unhappy with the way Al Nasser being run and that the other three Saudi pro league clubs
1:42.0	owned by Saudi Arabia's public investment fund, PIF,
1:45.8	are getting preferential treatment in the transfer market. What have you made of that story?
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