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Episode 87 - Transfer Window Special Part 2
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In part 2 of our January transfer window special Rob has swapped in for Tom to join Richard to discuss the potential squad changes we might see at Ipswich this month. The lads discuss who may be leaving and who would come in to replace them ranging from serious links to wacky rumours.
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Ipswich Transfer Window Overview
00:00:09
Global Sports Podcast Network
Hello everybody and welcome back to the daily Ipswich. We are back for the second part of our transfer window special. Yesterday I was joined by Tom Crack. Tom and I went through why the transfer window is so important in January for clubs like Ipswich and how brilliantly Towne have done in the past couple of years. But today I'm joined by Rob Bins to take us back to the present, to bring us back.
Potential Signings List by Rob Bins
00:00:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
we We build you, Rob, as the transfer, kind of like Oracle, who's going to give us all of these names that we've never heard of, that Ipsut should be buying. Are you prepared for that?
00:00:43
Rob Binns
Well, I've got I've got a list of names that I've been that I threw together the other day in preparation for this episode. So some that some we've been linked with some were just I was bored and started daydreaming and tried to think what would be a good fit on who's potentially available.
00:00:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
and cry Are you a fan of the transfer January transfer window or you are you somebody that likes to just focus on the football?
00:01:06
Rob Binns
I enjoy it. I think it it depends on the circumstances really. Like if you're if you also like say some of the teams where you're worried your best player is going to get nabbed, then it's not very fun.
Complexities of January Transfers
00:01:16
Rob Binns
But if you're in our position where we're probably not going to lose anyone, we don't want to, but we're going to try and add to the squad. And it's exciting to see who comes in like any transfer window, but say,
00:01:26
Rob Binns
I don't want to say no or don't, because there'll be times where, and some people that they will hate January, because they'll be sat there thinking that their best player who's carrying all the work, so probably like, a bit like Gioccherez at sport, and our sporting fans are going to be nervous for an entire month, seeing if anyone comes in and nabs him.
00:01:43
Rob Binns
So luckily, I don't think we're in that situation, because the only one, the only worry would be Dilak, maybe, but surely there's absolutely no way to sell him after six months, regardless of what money he offered.
00:01:54
Rob Binns
So we should be fairly quiet.
00:01:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, we we we were talking about this yesterday.
00:01:56
Rob Binns
front.
00:01:59
Global Sports Podcast Network
We don't really sell anyone full stop. I can't actually remember the big the biggest sale we've made in the last few years, can you? Who
Player Sales and Squad Value
00:02:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
have we actually sold?
00:02:07
Rob Binns
saying like what Last few years, there was nobody worth taking the last or five years or so, until pre McKenna, there was nobody worth taking. We never had to worry about it.
00:02:16
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, but I suppose there now. I mean, Leif Davis is probably worth a few quid, Dilap, Hutchinson potentially.
00:02:20
Rob Binns
Yeah. Well, it was new contractors. So that's what walls are doing. We've Cunha, the same thing we done with Davis in the summer is that you tie him down good for the short term, then also the review. you You're probably on up next summer expecting a bid to go in and now you've got next you've got double the price tag because he's now on a six year deal instead of a year and a half deal or whatever it was for Cunha.
00:02:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
That's what we need to do with Wolfie. He can walk away for free in the summer.
00:02:46
Rob Binns
Look, Kenny, I didn't know that.
00:02:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he's only got six months left. We talked about that
Ben Godfrey's Impact on Ipswich
00:02:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
yesterday. Anyway, look let's let's move let's move forward. so We're a week into the transfer window. Apologies if any business has gone out that we're not aware of, but so far we believe there's only one signing that's come through. Ben Godfrey, nice and quick. It was announced just after the full-in game on Sunday. and Quick thoughts on that. We've kind of discussed it before, but I think that that was a necessary part of the squad that needed plugging and he's got Premier League experience. We know he hasn't played much this season.
00:03:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
particularly, but he it it feels like that's a good fit for us. Lots of potential still, good age.
00:03:24
Rob Binns
Yeah, I think it slots in really well. I think that sort of that role we have on the run. I don't want to call it a right back. I want to say the right hand side of the defense with the twins. He was taken completely for himself this season until he got injured that you're right back on paper in a back four, but effectively playing as a center half of the how much, how often Davis goes up and you have to shift across. And then then I was in and in the new fireback setup.
Loan Signings and Squad Management
00:03:48
Rob Binns
He could just play as one of the three. So I think I think that's what I don't think he has been signed as a center back. That's his primary position.
00:03:56
Rob Binns
I think he's been brought into a wide centre back in a far a wide turn back in and a three or as a right back in a four. I think that's why he's been brought in.
00:04:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:04:07
Rob Binns
That's the role I expect to see, but you never know. and though he might might If we go back to a four, he might well take one of the positions in the middle. We've sort of got to see how it plays out, but that was one of four areas I had in my head that I'd like to see someone be brought in in January.
00:04:20
Rob Binns
So we've got one ticked off already. So let's see if we can get the other three.
00:04:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
So was that a straight loan? We don't know anything about that being an option to buy or anything like that, do we?
00:04:30
Rob Binns
Not as far as I'm aware, so I think because I was trying to read up on the loan rules to say some of the players I jotted down just when I was just making them up myself, I had to have a quick refresh of the loan rules of the Premier League because I know we have a few.
00:04:43
Rob Binns
I believe that say that's an outright loan. Phillips is an outright loan. Who you stay is an outright loan. Unless we stay up, then it's an obligation to buy.
00:04:54
Rob Binns
So if if we go down, it's just a loan.
00:04:55
Global Sports Podcast Network
Right.
00:04:55
Rob Binns
He goes back to Napoli. If we stay up, we we have to buy him for £12 million. bounds but I'm not going to, I'm not going to complain about staying in the Premier League and we get confused back again. So can't argue with that deal.
00:05:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:05:07
Rob Binns
Can you say? Yeah. So that one, so let's say we had three of our four loan slots.
00:05:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
Nice. Good deal.
00:05:11
Rob Binns
I believe you're allowed based on very quick research this week. You're allowed no more than two loans from other Premier League clubs, but you can have four in total. So we've got, so we have Phillips and Man City and we have two from Italy.
00:05:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:05:26
Rob Binns
So we could take, I believe that means we could bring in someone else from the Premier League or someone else from elsewhere on loan, but four is the absolute cap. And same as you, it's two from other Premier League clubs is an absolute cap, which I learned this week, which I didn't previously know.
00:05:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right. Well, that's, yeah, that's good to know. Cause it feels like, you know, in the past couple of windows, we have used the loan market pretty well.
Potential Player Departures
00:05:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
which is in vast contrast to us for the previous 10 years before that, where we were using the loan market for basically the whole squad. which was a very depressing time and tea to be a town fan.
00:06:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
But, so if we look at the squad now, then we've got, you're allowed 25, right? You have to register 25. there's talk of de-registering or Benne because obviously he's not going to play until the end of the season.
00:06:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then you can re-register him again at the end of the year.
00:06:11
Rob Binns
Hmm. Yeah, makes sense.
00:06:13
Global Sports Podcast Network
But you've got 25, which are allowed. We've got 28, but we've got Hutchinson and Dilap who are under 21. So they don't count. And now Godfrey is that 26th person on top.
00:06:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
So that's not going to work, which means that people are going to have to leave for others to come in. You're saying you think there's going to be four players. you You would imagine four is the number that will come in.
00:06:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I said the same. And so did Tom.
00:06:36
Rob Binns
Hmm.
00:06:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
We think four is kind of like the magic number. That's what we've done for the last couple of transfer windows as well. So who would be your players that might make way at this point?
00:06:47
Rob Binns
I think it's, I'm trying to link it with a straight match for what, what I'd like to think would come in really. So like, I like to see, I like to imagine a striker would come in, but I could sort of see that current side and with Al Hamadi going out on loan or maybe even permanently down at divisions.
00:06:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right.
00:07:06
Rob Binns
I think that's probably one that, but that will rely on a striker coming in and obviously unless, i mean unless they know something about the extent of Hurst's injury that they don't share, that if he's longer than you think, then you might want to keep him in case you get one more injury up from.
00:07:19
Rob Binns
But I'd expect a striker to come in and Al Hamadi to go out to straight swap in the squad there.
00:07:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:07:27
Rob Binns
I think purely based on the the lack of football, I think Luongo might go in January, or either that will be deregistered and then we see what happens in the summer. I could see that.
00:07:39
Rob Binns
Yeah, I think he he's going to be high on the list just Because if we we just haven't seen him, have we? It's been a fantastic partnership with Morsy for a year and a half ah inlet of league one and championship.
00:07:51
Rob Binns
But
Luongo and Al Hamadi's Future
00:07:52
Rob Binns
the sheer lack of minutes in the Premier League and people jumping ahead of him in the queue, I think is realistically his time is up unless unless they are literally just keeping hold of him because he could do a job in the championship if we went back down.
00:08:04
Rob Binns
I don't know that it's clearly not in Premier League plans. So you'd expect him to go if we're over on the squad.
00:08:12
Rob Binns
And then I'm trying. to Yeah.
00:08:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
i and I also, I just don't think that I don't think they're thinking like that.
00:08:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think they can think like that. I know you, I sort of have to have a bit of an eye on like what, you know, what would happen if, but I don't think the one goes to the future anyway. Right. So they're not, even if we go back down to the championship, I don't think you can be going in with more Z and long ago again in 25, 26, you know, when they're kind of 35, 36 years old, that's just, that's not going to fly.
00:08:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't think. So I agree with you. I expect him to go, but I think there's so much love for him at the club. McKenna really likes having him around. So it might be the Danassian kind of situation where he's not registered in the squad, but he's kind of around the group.
00:08:47
Rob Binns
Hm.
00:08:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
And then he maybe comes back in a sort of Sonia Luco kind of coaching role, potentially at the end of the season and and and sticks around the club because I think, yeah, he he's a really important part of that group and that shouldn't be underestimated, but cool.
00:09:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
So Luongo. we expect to go Al Hamadi as well, depending on the the severity of Hurst or the likelihood of him coming back towards the end of the season. and Do you reckon Al Hamadi that they will sell him or do you think alone is the preferred option at this point?
00:09:21
Rob Binns
I'd imagine the loan would be the preferred option, but don' I also don't think a decent bid would be turned down. and I think you try and suggest loan to people, but if someone then comes in and goes, we're pushing our loan limit, can we have him for XYZ? And I think if a fair price is offered, it will be accepted. so But I don't think that would be the intention. don't I don't think we'd go into the window saying,
00:09:48
Rob Binns
we're going to sell him if we get some money. And I think the idea is they still is highly rated enough that he would go out on
Financial Stability and Squad Size
00:09:54
Rob Binns
loan. And then again, it'd be see where we're out in the summer because God forbid it's relegation. And he's probably got a decent chance of minutes next year with, so, because there's no way we'd be allowed to keep the lap on the championship. So then there'd be that consideration there. Maybe could he get more minutes with someone else gone? But yeah, I think the loan was blown basically, but I also, I think there's a couple in the category of,
00:10:17
Rob Binns
I don't think we're outright saying going it into January saying that they will leave, but I think there's there is a group of players that probably in that category of should the right bid come in, we consider it but because obviously because like you say, we're over on the squad and you are, but we can't keep, there is obviously all these PSR rules that I still don't really understand how they all work, but I know we can't, we can't just keep spending loads of money with nothing, with none coming back the other way. so I think if say if there's there's a smaller like as a category of squad player that if the right bid comes in, you could see them leaving, but obviously it depends on the and whether the interest is there or not.
00:10:46
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
Broadhead and Clarke's Potential Moves
00:10:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, well, after a quick break, we will find out who you think those squad members might be.
00:11:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Welcome back to the daily Ipswich. So Rob, we talked about Luongo Alhamadi, who we expect both to be leaving. You also mentioned that there could be other members of the squad that if the right bid came in, maybe the club would consider it. And actually I did hear that Broadhead was one of those players towards ah ah at the end at the end of the summer transfer window. And that may have, you know, been part of the reason why he was a bit unsettled.
00:11:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
and took so long to get back into the team. I don't think, however, he is one of those names right now, considering how he's played over the last couple of weeks, who who is not for the chop, but you know could leave potentially if the right big comes in.
00:12:08
Rob Binns
I think given The arrival of Godfrey even ah is only alone. I think Harry Clarke is probably on that list now, because again, unless Twanzaby is out for significantly longer term than we've been led to believe, between Godfrey and hopefully soon returning to Twanzaby and Johnson, and obviously now Burns is, now we're in this wingback role, that suits and that seems to have suit Burns better than playing out on the right, that he sort of, he's slipped to, he's already sort of third or fourth choice now, and you've still got Twanzibri to come back. So I think he's getting a bit surplus to requirements, Clark, as fantastic of the and as to have around the dressing room, as you know, obviously someone who, local lad, absolutely, say you feel he's almost a fan proxy on the team, really, Clark, obviously, we particularly we saw it in the celebration. So it's lovely to have him around. But I think if someone from the championship came in, in need of a right back, then
00:13:03
Rob Binns
It's probably in the best interest all round because, for because he's going to, as much as he obviously loves the club and it's a dream to be playing for them in the Premier League, but he's going to want to be, he's going to realize he's fallen down the pecking order a bit now.
00:13:15
Rob Binns
He's going to want to play football week in week out. All footballers do don't know. And then obviously, like I say, from the club side of things, if you get
00:13:19
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
Player Trading and Financial Limitations
00:13:22
Rob Binns
decent enough bids, then you've got to have always have the PSR side of things in the back of your head.
00:13:28
Rob Binns
Don't you? So I think he's probably the leader of that category. I would say definitely.
00:13:34
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. And I think we we were sort of, sort Tom and I were kind of talking about it, you know, the Wolfenden thing, if he walks away for free, is that, is that good business? You know, could you get him to sign a contract so you can keep, keep some kind of value on him and stuff? Because as you mentioned,
00:13:49
Global Sports Podcast Network
the club for years now. I know, I know it jumped up to an extreme level last summer in terms of the numbers that we were spending, but for a long time, since the game changer guys came in, we've been spending money and we've not been bringing anybody, you know, we've not been bringing any of it back really with the player trading stuff. So yeah, there is, there is going to be a time in the very near future. It's not probably going to be this window, you wouldn't think, but there are limitations about what we can spend no doubt this window and and Mark Ashton's already kind of like talked about that so you would expect as you said that the fourth loan option will be taken up on a player and obviously Ben Godfrey was was that loan as well so that's not going to cost them too much apart from wages but the other two positions they're going to probably spend a bit of cash and so we're going to have to try and find it back from somewhere is there anyone I think I think we agree Harry Clarke
00:14:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Luongo, Al Hamadi, they seem the most likely. Is there a player that's kind of, you know, I don't, I don't, I'm not suggesting that we sell them for, for any, for any reason in terms of like their performance or anything like that. But is there a player that like maybe a chaplain, if somebody came in in the championship, who's pushing for promotion, and who's going to say, I'll give you four and a half, five million for Connor Chaplin, because he proved himself in the championship. Would Ipswich accept that offer? Do you think?
00:15:14
Rob Binns
I'm not sure, in all honesty. I think I'd have had a more certain answer on that maybe two months ago, but based on the performances he was putting in and becoming one of the most important players in a forward sense up until he's injured, and then I think now that's probably that enough motivation to reject any bids, and like I say, so because January is difficult as well because there's a lot of conversations that you'd have, you'd have the exact same conversation in the summer and you'd get a different answer just purely because you're going into a fresh season rather than being halfway through it that obviously like we say we're not really a selling club anyway particularly in terms of the ma apart from the squad players being moved on often lower down the the pyramid. I think I just can't see any sort of consistent
00:16:05
Rob Binns
first team regulars being sold in January, whether that's, so you talk about big bids coming in for the key men like a Davis or if it is, like I said, like if a broad head bid came in from, or a Chaplin one, I just can't see anybody leaving in
Motivation and Player Transfers
00:16:19
Rob Binns
January. I think, like I said, maybe we'd have a different conversation in the summer regardless of whether it's Premier League football or championship football next year, but, well, the other thing is as well, it does just decide on what the player wants. And I don't think Chaplin doesn't strike me as one who would push for a move if if ah if a bid came in.
00:16:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
I completely agree. I don't think he would at all. I just think i think there's a real fine balance because it in a weird way, when they're fighting for their lives and sort of putting in pretty good performances, maybe their value is higher at the moment than it would be in the summer if Ipswich were to get relegated, or even if they were to be pushed to the margins of the squad. you know So I think sometimes the prices in January, and this is why there's often a lack of business because they do get inflated even for players that you know aren't necessarily you know worth that amount of money. It would just be interesting because you're right, we're not particularly a selling club.
Transfer Targets and Strategic Needs
00:17:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
and Some of the kind of like assets that we have, the the very obvious ones, the Delaps and the Davises or whatever, they will go for big money one day potentially, but you know everybody else kind of sits at a pretty similar level, I would say. Maybe Greaves you could put in there potentially. O'Shea might fetch a few quid, maybe.
00:17:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
But generally speaking, we've got these kind of two outliers and then a lot of players who kind of sit in a similar kind of like area. All right. Well, let's take one more quick break and then when we come back, we're going to get some exciting names from you, Rob, about who Ipswich might be bringing in.
00:18:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
And welcome back everybody to the daily episodes. Rob, just quickly, I muted you because you were typing away there. So you might have to unmute yourself. Sorry about that. It goes back. and Cool. All right. Let's get to the exciting part. The bit there every fan wants to hear about. Ben Godfrey hopefully will come in and do a fantastic job for us, but he's not the big name necessarily that town fans might be crying out for. and Even if you look back to last year, we talked about this, you know, Kiefer Moore was quite a well-known, fairly big name for the championship. And I think it was a, it was a signing that everyone was really kind of like waiting for throughout that window. And we got him on the final day of the window. So who are we expecting to bring in? We said there's going to be four hopefully in total. Are we saying a midfielder, a wide man and and a striker?
00:19:10
Rob Binns
Yeah, they they're my, they they they were my three as well as obviously the, the twins AB role. I don't, so it I don't want to call it and I'll write back really even effectively. That's what it is.
00:19:21
Rob Binns
But yeah, they were my four.
00:19:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:23
Rob Binns
I was thinking more positions rather than personnel really. And yeah, so obviously that seems to be based on the rumors that have come around so far. They do seem to be the positions we're looking at.
00:19:34
Rob Binns
Obviously we know we all know strikers to priority and then
00:19:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:19:37
Rob Binns
we' spoken a lot about the right-hand side so you'd imagine that's second up on the list despite the recent form of Johnson and know and they say and the the change away from outright wingers almost to wingbacks and wide midfielders if you call it. The Hutchinson number 10 slash winger role he gets in this new setup that we can we'll see how that actually sort of plays out but I imagine that's still up there and yeah just to We've got too much of the same type of a midfielder, I think is a problem.
00:20:08
Rob Binns
we We haven't got a bad midfield. We just have players that are too similar. And then Coaste is the outlier. And we need sort of someone else to be his sort of role, I'd say, rather than than another defensive one like Amorzi or a Phillips.
00:20:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. we We need an athlete.
00:20:22
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:20:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah. We need an athlete. We need, we need like brute sort of power in there. Really. That's the thing that we're really missing. and you're right. Like, I think it's what you said as well in the, in the, the Fulham pod the other day where you were talking about, well, yeah, this formation may be working at the moment, but teams will get used to that.
00:20:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
And it's about us being able to adapt and maybe go back to the previous, formation as well and having havingher other aces up our sleeves. So I think a wide a wide man is important because we do need another option there if and if we do sort of like flick the system again. so
Rumors: Ben Doak and Hadji Wright
00:20:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
Cool. We've been linked with a few people then, some surprising ones. Let's just go through a couple of them. We talked we talked about Ben Doak the other day. Apparently we had a bid for him, 16 million or something like that, to Liverpool. I don't know if there's any validity in that, but apparently they rejected it.
00:21:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
Eagle Jesus as well. Did you see that one?
00:21:17
Rob Binns
Yeah, yeah, so I i think Arsenal were one of the other teams interested in him, but like, as well, I'm not sure how we sort of...
00:21:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
That doesn't quite that doesn't quite marry up, does it? But.
00:21:28
Rob Binns
I don't know how we've got ourselves into that debate, but I can't confess to be an aficionado of him as a player or what he's about. I know know he's very highly rated by a lot of clubs.
00:21:39
Rob Binns
I know that much. So it would certainly be seen as a coup if we you were the ones to pull it off.
00:21:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah.
00:21:44
Rob Binns
but So I can't really, like, Every other name on the list I can give you a lot more comment about, but I can't can't say I've ever, well, to be honest, I haven't heard of him until this January window and I started seeing everyone get linked to him and then suddenly a switch was in there as well.
00:21:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think also what premiieer what the big Premier League clubs seem to do is they wait until a smaller club, you know, right Brighton aren't a smaller club anymore, but they wait until somebody is kind of like proven in the Premier League and then they'll make a ridiculous bid for them later on rather than do their own scouting beforehand, which kind of annoys me to be honest. But anyway, so Igor Jesus, Ben Doak and Hadji Wright from Coventry have been linked. I think Hadji Wright's a really, really good player, would
00:22:26
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:22:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
But is that is that somebody you would like or is that somebody that says to you we're preparing for the potential of life back in the championship?
00:22:35
Rob Binns
It depends what way it goes, doesn't it? like if you come If he comes in and doesn't and looks off the pace, you're going to say, oh, don't worry then everyone will be like, oh, they know they're going down. that's It's a championship sign. He'll do well next year. But if he comes in and starts hitting hits the ground running, then it's a fantastic bit. You've scouted somebody.
00:22:53
Rob Binns
like a Smodix who's done very well in the championship and is ready to play at the higher level, isn't it? People are going to look back in hindsight based on how it plays out. But I think that's a smart sign. Here's one, so my little list I had together, obviously knowing who we'd been linked with and stuff. And that's one that sort of I like the look of. But then my only question mark is obviously we're looking at this financial aspect. How much have we got to spend because Coventry are going to what I want in 16 million reportedly.
00:23:21
Rob Binns
because they want they want to at least double what they paid for him 18 months ago is what the quote was from ah ah the journalists that reported it and yeah they paid eight million for him so it's going to cost us 16 million minimum and apparently Lester are interested as well which could spark a bid in war because two teams that are in dire need of they've got one striker who can score a few goals that haven't really got anyone else who competes in the goal charts as much so
00:23:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:23:48
Rob Binns
So he's a set very good, very good player, isn't he? From what we've seen in his time at his short spell at Coventry, fantastic last year. I mean, but obviously in the championship main, I think it was, what was it?
00:23:59
Rob Binns
I can't remember what it was, 15 championship goals or something? Then he backed a few in the FA Cup, including the court final and the semi-final.
00:24:03
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm
00:24:06
Rob Binns
That is clearly, he has, that's like his only real taste of the higher level has been those Wolves and Man United FA Cup ties.
00:24:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm-hmm
00:24:14
Rob Binns
And he scored in both of them and looked a really, really sharp. in in it both of those games as well. So I think from what I've seen from that, say from the report, I read the somebody, ah ah a source, which is almost always the agent in this situation, have said that he's ready to make the step up.
00:24:31
Rob Binns
If someone came in, he wants to play top flight football. So I think it's one we could pull off there. And we've spoken loads of times, haven't we, about the striker option of are we going down the playing backup route or do you want someone who's going to compete or maybe work together?
00:24:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mm hmm.
00:24:46
Rob Binns
with Dilap, maybe look at the idea of a stroke partnership or in Wright's case, he can play off the left as well. He's played a lot of times off the left for Coventry. So that sort of same sort of role that Schmodix plays, could he come in and compete for that as well as being the out and out striker compete with Dilap or be the backup there.
00:24:53
Global Sports Podcast Network
ye Yeah, yeah.
00:25:01
Rob Binns
And I think say what we've said, you want to get someone who's going to try and compete because you don't want to get someone who's going to come in and be happy to be number two. You want someone who's going to push all the way because you need to value, you need to
00:25:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
no
00:25:13
Rob Binns
suitable understudies should, God forbid, an injury come to the lab. So say obviously, he's va say we haven't seen too much of him in English football in only 18 months.
00:25:24
Rob Binns
But what we have seen of him has been fantastic. And a full international as well. And so I think it's 15, 20 caps roughly for you if for the States.
00:25:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
No. Yep.
00:25:35
Rob Binns
so And take an obvious goal for it. But he's he's a chance creator as well. He gets a fair amount of assists. makes and say opportunities for his teammates as well that I think that'd be a really smart sign.
Financial Flexibility for Signings
00:25:46
Rob Binns
And as long as the money doesn't get out of hand, but if it is reported, so if that 16 million is apparently true, that's also apparently what we've been for Ben Doke. So if we've got 16 million to spare, then abandon that because Liverpool want 25, 30 million, apparently. So abandon that chase because we can't play this 30 million for someone who's not played Premier League football in January. And then that 16 mil beard, put it all back together and send it off to Coventry for had you right instead.
00:26:12
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, interesting. I mean, i like you, whenever I've seen him play, I've been really impressed. He is a bit flexible. He's a proven international. I thought conference looked absolutely fantastic in the FA Cup. And I can't quite believe that they were more of a threat in the league really last year, because they look brilliant. Also, who is their director of football or whoever? Because they seem to find really, really good players for for a championship club. Gorkerez, right?
00:26:40
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:26:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
was was there before sporting. Yeah, I mean, it's unbelievable.
00:26:42
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:26:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Had you right, the guy that plays in mid-fit, the former Arsenal guy in midfield who we were after, Ben, what's his name? Ben, I can't remember his name.
00:26:50
Rob Binns
and Ben Sheeff.
00:26:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ben Sheeff, yeah, who's a brilliant, who actually I'd really like to be honest.
00:26:54
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:26:57
Rob Binns
Well, he was one of my names I said in the summer when I wasn't confident on the Phillips side and I said Sheeff and Gus Hamer at Sheffield United, my two
00:26:57
Global Sports Podcast Network
and But,
00:27:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep,
00:27:06
Rob Binns
championship picks that I wanted instead of Phillips.
00:27:10
Global Sports Podcast Network
yep. Yeah, I would have gone for that, but I mean, that there must be something about him that clubs aren't going for because he's been around for a while now performing at a pretty decent level. So i maybe a bit of a lack of mobility. He's not the quickest particularly, but he's a very smart footballer. Yeah, but I agree. Had you right, it could be interesting. I mean, I think the thing is with Ben Doak, I don't really know much about him, but the profile of him is McKenna all over and Ipswich all over it seems at the moment.
00:27:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
so It would be a risk. I agree. Cause he's not ah ah a premier league, you know, he's never played in the division. He's not an international, et cetera. You know, he's not played much football, you know, let alone anything at the championship level. So would you do it if it was 15, if they came back and said, all right, 18, 15 guaranteed 18 with, with add-ons, would you go for that? Or is it just too much?
00:28:03
Rob Binns
No, I'd go for it for that because say I actually have seen quite a lot of Ben Doug over the years because but say by pure coincidence, i was covered I was doing some work covering academy football with the year he signed for Liverpool.
00:28:16
Rob Binns
so And liverpool say as at the time, because it was very small, as a
00:28:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
This is why we pay you the big bucks, Rob.
00:28:24
Rob Binns
up and coming website I was working for. So we did we weren't I wasn't going to the game. So you basically exclusively watch Man City, Man United and Liverpool, which because they stream their academy game. So I've got, and I've watched a lot of people like copy miner who have come through now the end players like I said, Ben Doke, who was, I think he he joined Liverpool as a 16 year old something like that. He was out the under 18 in six games or something like that. He was he put straight up to 21 because he was that good. He was from every time I watched him was just seriously impressive, really top player.
00:28:58
Rob Binns
And he was so incredibly highly rated by, by coaches at Liverpool. Obviously, I mean, obviously if you've been bumped up from the 18s after a month, but he's, yeah, he's, he's very highly rated there.
Philogene as an Alternative Signing
00:29:09
Rob Binns
He's a full Scotland international already as well. So not even just like the odd game he's played, he's played every single Scotland international game this season. He was, I think there's been six in total.
00:29:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
I see.
00:29:19
Rob Binns
He started four of them.
00:29:20
Global Sports Podcast Network
I didn't know that.
00:29:22
Rob Binns
Yeah, you swear he's played all six Scotland internationals this season.
00:29:22
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh, wow.
00:29:26
Rob Binns
He scored in this most recent one as well, that he's doing obviously very well at Middlesbrough. He's just, so he's one of the, it's the cliche for young players, like what they say about Ahmad Diyala at Man United or Sevigna at Man City, that these young wingers just come in and play without fear.
00:29:42
Rob Binns
They take people on. They're not, they're all just, what they're there to point they're there to impress as much as they are to do the job for the team. He's that sort of player really. So and as Middlesbrough fans are finding out this season, he was someone, he was one of them that everyone was keen to see him go out on loan and see, was he just good at the youth level or could he do it in men's football? And so he stood, it was a very solid start to Middlesbrough that there's a reason why, whether whether that's over-in freighted or not, in your opinion, who but for whoever, but there's a reason why Liverpool are saying 25, 30 million pounds because they they obviously know they've got a player on their hands
00:30:21
Rob Binns
they clearly but but would prefer not to lose because they they cut for a lot a lot better deal than that if they were they were okay with the idea of him leaving.
00:30:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
But he's not necessarily the striker we want, right? He's he's a winger, essentially.
00:30:36
Rob Binns
No, yeah, he played that role on the right. He doesn't play, to my knowledge anyway, the from the fewest of the games I've watched him at youth level and then obviously onwards. He is brilliant near enough exclusively a right-sided winger.
00:30:52
Rob Binns
He probably could do a job on the left if you wanted him to, but then, yeah, I wouldn't see him through the middle because he isn't.
00:30:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:30:59
Rob Binns
He's not the, he's he's a sort of typical winger, nimble build that I'm not sure that would be best the best of jobs up front, especially in comparison to the lap.
00:31:11
Global Sports Podcast Network
No. So, I mean, we've also been linked again with Phila Jean, Jayden Phila Jean from Villa, who were obviously very close to signing in the summer. We've gone back in for him by the sounds, I think, so of Everton by the sounds of things as well.
00:31:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Doesn't look like it was a great move for him to go back to Aston Villa. I think he's only started two games. And maybe that was a ah ah PSR thing from them, basically, trying to bring him back and then move him on again.
00:31:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't really know.
00:31:36
Rob Binns
Maybe, yeah.
00:31:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
But it would It would be one or one or the other, umm I guess, with Dokor or Philogene. Any sort of opinions about that? I mean, Philogene you'd get for ah ah for for a lower deal, you'd think.
00:31:51
Rob Binns
Yeah, well, that's the thing really. if It's going to be one or the other. And if you're telling to me you've got to go buy one for 25 million quid, or you can have the other one on loan, it seems a near enough no brainer, especially given that Phil Eugene has, has slightly more experience at this level that say, merely it's all substitute appearances, but in in the Premier League, but I think, so I think it's two starts, but then I think he's had four in total. The other one was a Carabao get, and then randomly he played 90 minutes and the the game they beat by, as as those he' don't he's only champion league star from when I looked it up, but he played the full game in that, that
00:32:27
Rob Binns
hasn't had Premier League minutes and say that, I think this is a really interesting one because he's picked Ipswich before, didn't he? He's effectively got all the same clubs who queued up in the summer. And it was all nailed on for him to come to Ipswich apart from Villa's matching rights, but Villa aren't going to pull the loan away at the last minute and keep him there unless they get an injury. So it'd be, you'd think in theory, everything that sold him on Ipswich in the summer and made him interested and joined in woods.
00:32:53
Rob Binns
would still be there again if we win it you'd have to back us as the favorites is what i'm trying to say really in that market of the other say of who comes in because it say it does seem like so it's very heavily reported that he can go on low i think emory's even said he said i think emory's quote was i can't rule out which for a manager is basically saying yeah it's happening because it's as far as you can go in a press conference when you get asked about it but i think that'd be
00:33:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:33:22
Rob Binns
Really, say we we obviously know how good he is some whole last year. We know there's interest there. We know there's interest' mutual interest as well, like I say, because I think it was definitely Everton who have come in again. It was Barcelona randomly, which he turned down because he knew he wasn't going to play. And then there was another Premier League club and say it looked, I think it was a deal agreed with Everton and with us. And then he sort of sided towards Ipswich and then obviously Villa pulled the matching rights out and nabbed him back. but think I think that's one that could really realistically happen. That's why I was had to Google all the loan rules because I was thinking then suddenly if he's only on loan and we've got three already, I had to double check that. but say that's We could have another loan from a Premier League club because we've only got Phillips. It's feasible, but it seems like Ed ... I feel like it could happen if we if we made the move for it, but it does seem based on the most recent reports coming out at the time of recording. It looks like Ed had made the first move. and
00:34:21
Rob Binns
potentially we're and we're in danger of leaving it too late and missing out while it looks for that.
00:34:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
But I mean, from his point of view, why would you go to Everton? Why would you go? I mean, I know it's a bigger club. I get that. I know it's in Liverpool in a city. Maybe that's attractive or whatever. But, you know, he's going to be playing for Sean Dyche at a club that have been keeping their head above what was barely.
00:34:39
Rob Binns
Exactly what I was gonna say.
00:34:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, I get it. I get I get the reasons why. But it just seems to me that, yeah, yeah you know, he was so close to joining us. He played with Liam to last year at Hull. it it's a bit of a no-brainer. But
Potential New Attacking Lineup
00:34:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah, it would be it would be him or or Doke. Interesting, though, that we would use it on Philogene. I mean, imagine that line behind Delac, if you had him on the right, Hutchinson in the centre at number 10, and then probably Broadhead at the moment and as the number 11. That's quite a a small set of three players behind the laps. so ah you know And I think that means even more so you need to bring in a physical midfielder behind them. It feels to me like you you really, really do at that point. All right. Is there any other names in the forward line before we move back into midfield?
Danny Ings as a Backup Option
00:35:32
Rob Binns
I think they would say Igor Jesus and had you right with the main two that have been thrown about up front and then the two whose name was the wingers. I did see one say it's hardly any I don't think it was anywhere near being officially confirmed in a report, but there was a very loose link to um Danny Ings as a to play the purely backup role as obviously because he's West Ham are looking for another striker which would knock him to fourth choice fifth when Antonio comes back from injury, but There's issues from what i from reading up about it.
00:36:03
Rob Binns
There's issues with his wage demands because Southampton wanted him back in the summer and then found out he's on 120 grand a week and doesn't really want to drop down, which for a team down the bottom, yeah you don't want to be playing a backup strike or 120 grand a week.
00:36:16
Rob Binns
like West Ham seems to be happy to do it if that is true and what he's on, but certainly not one for us because he would that would be a purely backup 20 minutes off the bench roll.
00:36:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
ay
00:36:25
Rob Binns
and If that's what you're looking for, if you don't want to spend big, then he's probably one of the best options you could get as that pure backup role because he's proven Premier League pedigree.
00:36:27
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:36:35
Rob Binns
Obviously we know he's not going to go and have another 25 goal season like he did at Southampton, but already this year for West Ham, I think it's eight or eight, nine games, something like that. He scored a last minute equalizer against Fulham and he's won a penalty that one of the game against Man United and his little 20 minute cameos he has off the bench.
00:36:52
Rob Binns
It's certainly been an improvement on Alcamadi for and say that 15 minute roll, he's going to offer more threats, maybe go and get a big goal and those sort of games where you're hanging on or chasing, but it doesn't really strike me as a Kieran McKenna player.
00:37:10
Rob Binns
That would be my thing. It would surely just be, just it would just be, say, proven Premier League striker, scores goals everywhere he goes.
00:37:14
Global Sports Podcast Network
excuse me Excuse me.
00:37:19
Rob Binns
We've got obviously sitting and in yeah but Obviously not as mobile enough to fit in our system, really. But I don't really see that one happening. But as far as backups go, you're not going to get much better.
00:37:32
Global Sports Podcast Network
No, agreed. But
Versatile Forward Options: Wimmer
00:37:33
Global Sports Podcast Network
yeah, i it it seems, I mean, 120K. That's a lot, isn't it? Yeah, we'll see.
00:37:40
Rob Binns
Yeah, that would be the stickler.
00:37:41
Global Sports Podcast Network
Danny Ings. It doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't quite fit the profile. You're right of, of, you know, either the the whole ethos of our signings or, or a McKieran McKenna player, particularly. Um, there was another name that I saw.
00:37:52
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't know anything about this guy. He's an Austrian international Patrick Vimmer. Did you see that report? Well, this is pure spec yet we're into the pure speculation part of the pod, uh, where we're just pulling names out of the internet.
00:37:58
Rob Binns
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
00:38:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, he's yeah.
00:38:05
Rob Binns
Wait until the next one.
00:38:08
Global Sports Podcast Network
ah ah Okay, great. Austrian international, I think he plays across the front line, so, you know, could add versatility. But again, at this stage of the season, I don't see us taking a punt so much.
00:38:23
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think it would go, you they they would be more comfortable going for players that they know a little bit already. ah ah McKenna has already said a few times that Ipswich are way behind other clubs in terms of scouting abroad and, you know, their analytics in those kinds of areas and stuff.
00:38:38
Global Sports Podcast Network
So I expect most of the business we do will be from players that have played in the Premier League or the championship.
Nemanja Matic's Potential Role
00:38:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right, Rob, we we've got a few minutes left.
00:38:44
Rob Binns
Yeah.
00:38:47
Global Sports Podcast Network
Talk to us about any other names that you've seen.
00:38:50
Rob Binns
Well, the the big surprise has come out in the last couple of days that, say, which' certainly, I don't think any of us saw coming, is Nemanja Matic, who is, I think, 36. So when we're talking about wanting a bit more mobility in the midfield to play the, to play the, the Coaste role when when he has to come off with the tired or whatever that I'm not sure that quite fits that bill. and I feel like he fits more in the Phillips-Morsie category, but obviously has played at the top level, won loads of trophies. Chelsea and Man United has been a very key player in those teams, particularly when Mourinho was in charge. and so And then because of obviously his time at United has worked with McKenna before and per se, and
00:39:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:39:37
Rob Binns
but believe it's Leon currently, who are in big financial trouble at the point that literally that they may be forced to be relegated from the league. They don't sort themselves out by the end of the season. ah ah Regardless of where they finish in the table, they could they could well be going down. So shifting players on is very much in their interest in January. So Matich, it's just like it's it's it's Premier League experience, which obviously so we have a lot more of now being halfway through a season, but we're still an area we lack in compared to most teams in the league.
00:40:06
Rob Binns
So someone who has played at a top level, say knows the manager potential there for almost player coach role, the unofficial player coach where he could be for the young, for younger players could offer them a lot of advice and the way he's played, obviously say two spells at Chelsea, man United is at Leon now.
00:40:25
Rob Binns
I can't remember, I want to say Roma, but I'm not 100% on if that is where he went after, after man United.
00:40:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, he went to Roma, yeah. yeah
00:40:32
Rob Binns
Yeah, he's so he's had to Ben Fieger as well, I think that he's had a lot of, he's played for a lot of top clubs at a good level. So he would be a good head to have in the dressing room and seems like he's going to be available fairly cheap with everything going on at Leon.
00:40:43
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:40:45
Rob Binns
But is he the right fit for what we want in midfield?
00:40:48
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but if Danny... Yeah. I mean, if Danny Ings is on 120 grand, what's Neman Giamatic on?
00:40:53
Rob Binns
Well, I don't know. Well, based on Leon's financial situation, he's probably on quite a lot. Probably every player in that squad seems to be on far too much money in the situation there.
00:41:02
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:41:04
Rob Binns
and
00:41:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
I mean, if there wasn't the McKenna link, I think that this would be an absolute disaster of ah ah of a ah but signing because this is the kind of signing that I absolutely hate when clubs at the bottom do. They make these kind of like, it looks good on paper. You know, I would humbly eat my own words if he comes in and he's absolutely brilliant. But he's clearly miles past his best, miles.
00:41:30
Global Sports Podcast Network
And he's a very slow player. You know, if he gets his foot on the ball and he's allowed to kind of like play, I'm sure he can still be very, very effective and play good football and stuff. But is he allowed, is he going to be allowed to do that in the Premier League in 2025 when, you know, players are scurrying around him 12 years younger than him? I'd be amazed. So the McKenna link makes it make a little bit of sense because clearly I don't think he makes stupid decisions, generally speaking. So, you know, you've got to trust Kieran McKenna, but otherwise it's like,
00:41:58
Global Sports Podcast Network
Oh God, why are we linked with 36 year old midfielders? But, you know, you never know. It would be mental, wouldn't it?
00:42:06
Rob Binns
Well, I'd say it's, yeah.
00:42:07
Global Sports Podcast Network
To have the manager of Portman Road.
00:42:10
Rob Binns
Say it loosely, let's say that's the thing as well. He's obviously, luke we're down to the loosely linked part. We've progressively got less and less likely as these signs, as these names have gone on throughout right the episode.
00:42:17
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, fine.
00:42:22
Rob Binns
But yeah, the that would just be, it'll be in the Phillips category.
00:42:25
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay.
00:42:26
Rob Binns
it's That's just a statement sign. We're getting a name in so people can tell we're trying to take things seriously and where we do it, but it would be, it wouldn't they It came out of the blue
Dewsbury-Hall as a Loan Option
00:42:36
Rob Binns
that the loose reports.
00:42:36
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, but is that a statement signing?
00:42:39
Rob Binns
I don't know. It's a name, isn't it?
00:42:40
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, yeah. i It's a name. Phillips was definitely a statement signing, whether it works out or not, but I think Matich is a bit more of a... Well, I don't know. If it doesn't cost him very much money and he's don that he's not on big wages, then then maybe it's fine. I don't really know. and All right. Any other any other business
00:43:00
Rob Binns
I think we've ticked off every name that has been some sort of headline about in the last couple of days. But there's someone we haven't been linked with that I wrote down that I have no idea if it's plausible or not.
00:43:12
Rob Binns
It's probably not, in all honesty. It's why it's not happened. But someone who is apparently in that category of could leave on loan, and we have that Premier League loan spot available left, is Kiernan Drusary Hall.
00:43:23
Rob Binns
He just doesn't play at Chelsea.
00:43:24
Global Sports Podcast Network
Mmm interesting
00:43:25
Rob Binns
He doesn't even make matchday squads. Mariska's, again, done the classic manager thing of He can't, he can't confirm or deny whether. Dewsbury Hall or any other player in his squad will still be there in January. The the classic response, but the lack of football he plays. And then. So I know that Lester were trying to get him back on a permanent and Chelsea have basically said, well, he's obviously not going on a permanent. We signed him six months ago, but they seem to be not rolling out alone. But say Lester is the obvious club there, but they've got their two loans. They've got odds and Edward and but they're not.
00:44:00
Rob Binns
from, so as their two Premier League loans, they can't have another one.
00:44:01
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah.
00:44:03
Rob Binns
Whereas obviously, if we didn't, if we've, we've only got one at the moment, if we didn't go for Philogene, then there would be a slot there. And if he's available, then another play, you know, how incredibly good he is from last season.
00:44:16
Rob Binns
And he's clear to say, he has been playing in the conference league and playing well, but whoever, where you ranked the conference league is a competitive competition compared to a relegation scrap.
00:44:26
Rob Binns
I don't know, but He has for ah he's the fact he's not even making squads most of the time for Chelsea. It's not even like he's on the bench getting a few minutes or not even and get on the bench and not coming on. He's not even making the 20-man squad and in most games, particularly in recent months outside of the conference league. like the pre In the Premier League, the wrestler's not even seen him when he put him in his top 20 on a Premier League game. So he surely, if the right alone offer came in, then he would be available to go. And if the FA is the case, he'd be
00:44:58
Rob Binns
someone we should be looking at all over, really, if it can be afforded with rate wages and the loan fee and everything.
00:45:05
Global Sports Podcast Network
He should take heed of another Leicester City midfielder who wasted his career at Chelsea, Danny Drinkwater. um So, Keenan, if you're listening, leave.
00:45:15
Global Sports Podcast Network
And we would welcome you with open arms at
Wrap-up of Transfer Speculations
00:45:18
Global Sports Podcast Network
Ipswich. Absolutely. Yeah, no, good shout. Good shout. All right. Well, I think that will do for the speculative names.
00:45:26
Global Sports Podcast Network
I don't have anything else to to add. I don't think. The only other one was like Evan Ferguson, but that's like a flyer, right? Everybody would love Evan Ferguson on loan.
00:45:33
Rob Binns
Oh, yeah.
00:45:35
Rob Binns
Well, that's but that's where that's where the Danny Ings links stem from when I was reading that.
00:45:35
Global Sports Podcast Network
and
00:45:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
don't
00:45:39
Rob Binns
It's because West Ham want Ferguson and that would then make Ings available to be shifted on.
00:45:44
Global Sports Podcast Network
I think we'd have a better chance of getting Ferguson than West Ham, personally.
00:45:48
Rob Binns
Probably, yeah. Unless they shift Falkor on, which is also apparently they apparently they've had enough of him after six months as well, but we'll see.
00:45:56
Global Sports Podcast Network
Yeah, that's not worked out, has it?
00:45:58
Rob Binns
Nice.
00:46:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
Anyway, this isn't the daily West Ham.
00:46:01
Rob Binns
Left is out. Nice.
00:46:06
Global Sports Podcast Network
All right. Well, thank you, Rob. You have been superb. it's really interesting yeah to think about, you know, speculate on all these things and think about where town will actually be in three, three weeks time with the squad. We do expect some changes and that will mean some players leaving as well. So, yeah, be interesting to see what happens. We will be back on Sunday, I believe after the f FA cup game. or are we going to be back tomorrow, Rob? I don't know.
00:46:33
Rob Binns
yeah, we'll have a, we'll have a preview tomorrow. I think for Bristol Rovers probably be a bit shorter because yeah, we don't, yeah, we haven't got, I don't know what we can, I don't know how much we can, yeah.
00:46:37
Global Sports Podcast Network
We do, sorry.
00:46:42
Global Sports Podcast Network
Apologies. Listeners, listeners you didn't need to...
00:46:46
Rob Binns
We can't pretend we know loads about Bristol Rovers, can we, to, to, for that preview, that might be a short one, but we will have one.
00:46:51
Global Sports Podcast Network
No.
00:46:54
Global Sports Podcast Network
Okay, we will have one. Yeah, it well, look, it's the Marcus Stewart Derby, isn't it? So we definitely have to have one for that.
00:46:59
Rob Binns
Of course.
00:47:00
Global Sports Podcast Network
But yeah, no thanks for today, Rob. Thank you all for listening, and we will see you tomorrow.