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It's January, which means the European transfer window is wide open.

We're looking at the deals that have been done so far, the big rumors,

and perhaps even the business we think needs to get done to get this merry-go-round spinning.

My name's Ryan Bailey, joining me today on a permanent deal. Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Taylor. Hello, Ryan Bailey. Thank you for allowing me to join on a permanent. I have slapped an 80 million pound price tag on you. I guess that means you are technically for sale, but I don't think any buyers are going to meet that one in January, maybe in the summer. Well, this podcast will be my come and get me plea then.

Let's see how it turns out.

Joining us here with a big sell on fee when he becomes MLS Commissioner one day, Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Yeah, I hope you guys negotiated a great fee because that's definitely going to happen and you're totally going to see that money. It's going to be great. Also with us, of course, the man who would only consider a Bosman if it was a type of pie.

It's Graham Ruffin.

Hello.

Hello, Ryan, Bill. Also with us, of course, the man who would only consider a bosman if it was a type of pie.

It's Graham Ruffin. Hello.

Hello, Ryan Bailey. Very, very accurate. Disturbingly so. And also, I am not moving in January.

I have been pictured on the beach, at least a stone overweight, holding a bottle of beer.

They call it the Antonio Casano, I think.

Well, if you're going to take one of Antonio Casano's traits, being on the beach with a beer, it's probably the safer one. Those other things are left out.

Yeah. Okay, very good. Very good. Indeed. Look him up, Joe. He's a laugh.

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I feel like we have this conversation in every January window, but do you like the January window? Does the merry-go-round give you the Fizz? It does. It really does. I think I am like most people, an enjoyer of transfers, an enjoyer of transfer rumors, except when it's like my favorite player being linked away. Luckily, nobody wants a Manchester United player, so I don't have to worry about that. But I think it always ends up bringing some surprises, even if we don't get the kind of like marquey deadline day, Andy Carroll being choppered in ones that we've gotten in the past, even if it is a lower spending January, relatively speaking, I think it is still pretty captivating, pretty interesting for the moves that can happen and the moves that don't happen as well. I mean, it's everyone's guilty pleasure,

right? We all, we should all really turn our nose up at transfer rumors, but we secretly all

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