Welcome, everybody to soccer 101. My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week we've got a topical one.

It's the transfer window.

It's the silly season, Graham Ruffin, which means it's also the time for the transfer request.

Are you excited?

Are you going to surprise me on the show by demanding a transfer?

That's awkward, Taylor, because I've got my agent here.

He's drafted up this document here, do you want me?

I'm not going to need it.

I'm going to need it handwritten by you before I'm going to authorize any sort of activity.

I was born in 91, Taylor.

I can't handwrite anything.

I've done that in at least a decade.

Oh, man, we are deep into the transfer request nerdweeds already.

I'm very excited for it because, yes, there are obviously transfers during the summer window.

There are negotiations and free transfers and obligations to buy and loan clauses and all of these many things.

But the transfer request itself is one that we don't always get into,

but is really interesting because it can happen for very different reasons in very different ways.

But it is a thing that when it happens feels very severe, Graham.

Yeah, so this is something you might hear about in the reporting of transfers, which we're

obviously getting a lot of at the moment due to it being the summer transfer window when

we're recording.

And transfer gossip as a whole, even in the time that I have been watching this sport and

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