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A total player. To get a quote in 30 seconds, enter your regs number now at weebynicar.com. Hello and welcome to Shredford Paddock. My name is Joe. that's Ronaldo. That is Mark Critchley from The Athletic and this is the Paddock podcast. Yeah, that's so, yeah, sorry, sorry. What are you playing? I was, he was actually playing your thing because... Oh, was it? I'm so in tune to what happens on Stratford Paddock, like it comes on under my crotch. You've got his playing out of your subwoofer.

We've got a lot to talk about today. We're going to be talking, obviously we've got Mark here, so we're going to be going through some of the recent athletic articles. A little bit on this meeting in Switzerland that took place in the sort of United HQ top boffins, whatever you want to call them, a little bit on sort of Ruben Amram. And also we're going to talk about this article that came out today that seems to have taken sort of the world by storm, doesn't it, Mark? First of all, though, how are you? I was fine until this article came out, honestly. I got a text off J.A. on Friday, like, do you want to come on the pod? Monday? I was like yeah sure nothing's nothing's going on on Monday supposed to have the week off actually that'll be fine now I feel like I've walked into a fight in a pub car park pretty chill day for you so I'm going to read the title of the article you know you've got into split a fight open and a punch hits you yeah exactly that's exactly what's happened I'm going to read the title of this article and we'll go into sort of why it seems have, well, let's just say captured people's imaginations, whether that be good or bad. So the title is, the Athletic Survey from Best and Worst Deals, sorry, the Athletics Agent Survey from Best and Worst Deals to Selecting Champions and Relegation Candidates. So you've interviewed, or you, the athletic with you as part of it,

have interviewed a number of football agents and asked them a series of questions. 20 is the number to be specific, largely to do with Premier League transfers. Give us the sort of background on

how this sort of story came

about and you know you're involving it and then we'll get into why it's kind of sort

of you know I wouldn't say gone viral but like Rinalysis before in life the tweet

specifically with the CESCO bit that we'll get into has got two million views

on Twitter at the moment. Brilliant that's really reassuringuring, calming. No way anxiety-inducid. So, no, it's actually

an article. It's a piece that we've done consistently for a few years now. I think the first

one was going back to about 20-21, I think, before I was at the company at least. But it's, yeah,

I think it's a worthwhile little insight into what people within the football industry think of how,

yeah, the trance, we usually do it soon after the transfer window, just opinions on who had the best deal,

what, you know, themes that are running throughout the transfer window, so there's questions in there about PSR, questions in there about

over elements and things, you know, player power, I think was one. And yeah, and who's at a good window and who's not and which are the best signings and which aren't and who's going to finish as champions, who's in the top four, who gets relegated, that sort of thing. So I think it's useful because, you know, these are people on the inside of the industry.

They can be quite difficult to get hold of and to get to set aside the time because they're

very busy people, especially during the window. But I think in the past, and yeah, I've not

worked on them before, but I asked a couple of questions for this one. I think in the past it's a

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