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Ranks FC - A Football Podcast

Welcome to Ranks FC - the show that takes football and puts it in the right order. Join Jack, Dean & friends every Wednesday for rankings that discuss the best of football across Europe, from the Premier League to Serie A, La Liga to the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 to the Primeira Liga and beyond!If you"re here to hear about the best players on the planet, the next generation coming through, the biggest transfer deals and the under-the-radar steals, you"ve come to the right place - all with a positive

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01:02:21

Ranking Next Season's Golden Boy Contenders

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2022/10/26

Hello Rank Squad!We're back with one of our favourite episodes, discussing some of the best young footballers in the game on the back of the Golden Boy award handed out last week to Barcelona's teen sensation Gavi. To make sure it's differentiated from our Best Teenagers episode a while back though, we wanted to look at some of the notable omissions from this year's list that you will want to keep an eye on for next year.We talk Southampton's new midfield anchor, a Dutch superstar lighting up the

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01:06:05

Ranking Next Season's Ballon d'Or Contenders

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2022/10/19

Hello Rank Squad!With Karim Benzema locking down his first Ballon d'Or trophy (and deservedly so) on Monday night, we wanted to use that as a springboard for some discussion. First up, we look at a very uncontroversial decision to give Mercedes Benzema his first ever Golden Ball, as well as the podium places and some chat around the Kopa trophy for the best young player!But time waits for no man, and so we head onwards to next year, to examine the five players that have had the most stunning start

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01:09:17

Ranking the Carnage So Far in Europe's Top Leagues

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2022/10/12

Hello Rank Squad! It's time to look back at the first quarter of the season, or as we like to call it, the end of the start. So, with so much ground to cover, we decided we'd rank Europe's top five leagues in terms of the carnage factor of the beginning of the season - everything from struggling giants to remarkable fairy stories and everything in between. There's Things We Love, which looks forward to a stunning weekend of football ahead of us in terms of teams in their respective top fours playing

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01:22:40

Sacking or Saving Europe's Under-Fire Managers (v2)

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2022/10/05

(Firstly, apologies for the audio quality, Jack's gone AWOL to Sicily and tried to continue with the day job)Managerial careers are a bloodbath. You can win a Champions League these days and be out of a job 15 months later, so it feels like anyone is fair game really. It's not pretty, it's probably not right, but it's just how it is in the cut-throat world of elite-level football, so we take a look at the heads who might be under the cosh already. Max Allegri of Juventus, Brendan Rodgers of

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01:02:36

Ranking World Cup Selection Surprises

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2022/09/28

Hello Rank Squad!It's been a window full of intrigue, but some players have used it to devastating effect, to make the jump from squad players to locked in starters in Qatar, or to inscribe their name firmly in their managers squad lists. We look at a couple of Dutch delights, an England centre-half (no, not that one ), a brilliant Brazilian shape-shifting to good effect, and a Belgian on the rise.There's also World Cup Watch in Things We Love, where Dean discusses France's strange defeat to Denmark

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00:56:03

Ranking the Biggest International Selection Dilemmas...

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2022/09/21

It's under two months to the World Cup, but which positions for which teams are giving their managers headaches? We discuss the biggest logjam positions in the international realm, from England's right-backs to Spain's left-backs, and from the glut of glorious attacking players for both Argentina & Brazil, to France's ridiculous depth at centre-back.There's Things We Love as well, where we discuss Ethan Nwaneri's emergence as the youngest player in English top-flight history; Iñaki and Nico

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01:01:43

Ranking the Best Teenagers in World Football

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2022/09/14

Teenagers are fleeting - one minute past their 20th birthday, and they're gone into the big wide world of everyday footballers - so we have to give them their due whilst we can. And it seems only yesterday that we were punctuating this list with Ryan Gravenberch, Nuno Mendes - and even Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland. But the seasons flow, players grow and new wonderkids wind up on the block every single season, so it's time to put them in order for 2022. We talk a host of names, from a Barcelona

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01:14:08

5x5: Predicting the Top Five in Each of Europe's Top...

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2022/09/07

The transfer window has closed and we've had a couple of games in each league, so whilst pre-season predictions are fun, this feels like a good time to lock our selections in for the season - which can only mean it's 5x5 time. The concept is simple - we each pick how we think the top five in England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain are going to look when the curtain falls in May.We look at what happened last time out, before working through our selections, our thoughts on how a shedload of sides

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00:55:55

Ranking The Best Transfers of the Window

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2022/09/02

Hello Rank Squad! Welcome to our third and final episode of this week, this time looking back at the transfer window as a whole and working out where we think the best deals, steals and keels have been found. Jack and Sam split the rankings into four parts - best big-money deal (over £40m), best low-cost deal (under £15m), best loan deal and, controversially, the deals where we think clubs might have dropped a bit of a clanger. It's Ranks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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01:13:44

Ranking The Biggest Transfer Stories Ahead Of...

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2022/08/31

Hello Rank Squad! Deadline Day will soon be upon us, and we've set DJ to work in order to line up TEN of the biggest stories and sagas that will look to go right to the wire this summer. From the world's biggest players to free agents looking for a new home, title contenders and relegation battlers, we've covered loads of deals, rumours and late dramas that may well go down to the final hours. There's also Things We Love, which this week entails the off between Richarlison and Brennan Johnson at the

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01:24:14

The Postbox: Liverpool Roar Into Life, Comeback City,...

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2022/08/29

Hello Ultras!Happy Bank Holiday to those who are enjoying it! And to those who aren’t: Perhaps this podcast will help you through the day.We covered all of Europe and beyond (as usual), with a heavy dose of transfers included too as we hurtle toward the end of the window.Here’s everything we talked about! Enjoy the week ahead!PREMIER LEAGUE—Liverpool scored 9 and Salah did…nothing? + Midfield transfer talk—Man City’s Mentality Monsters—Arsenal grinding through, Ødegaard brilliance + Saliba’s World

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01:10:17

Ranking PL Teams With The Most Left To Do in the...

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2022/08/24

Hello Rank Squad!It's creeping towards the end of the transfer window and certain teams are still desperately in need of reinforcements - as we prepare for things to get stressful over the next week. We take a peek behind the curtains at Goodison Park, Stamford Bridge, the King Power and Old Trafford to analyse the players that need to come and go before the window slams shut if Everton, Chelsea, Leicester City and Manchester United are to live up to expectations this season.Things We Love takes a

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01:03:52

Ranking Players Who Desperately Need A Move

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2022/08/17

Hello Rank Squad!We're back to normal programming after the madness of Preview season, and it's nice to be back on home ground. With that in mind, we return to a staple of the Ranks Calendar - the biannual visit around the grounds to see which players are in real need of a move with just two weeks of the transfer window left.We start in Wolverhampton, with a mercurial winger; travel to the Bernabeu in Madrid, the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam and the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund, before ending our

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00:57:25

The Big Serie A 22/23 Preview Show

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2022/08/11

Hello Rank Squad!Welcome to the sixth and final episode of our Big Season Preview Series - as we culminate in the casa di calcio, Italy! With Milan holding the title, Inter snapping at their heels, Juventus hoping for a return to power, there's a major title race to discuss, first and foremost - and then a dive into the chasing pack, last year's third place side Napoli, who have lost a tonne of major names; the winners of the window (?) Roma, under Jose Mourinho; and Maurizio Sarri's new-look Lazio

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00:58:31

The Big La Liga 22/23 Preview Show (with Football...

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2022/08/10

Preview season continues here on Ranks FC, moving over the Iberian Peninsula from Portugal to Spain! La Liga is back, and there's brilliant battles up and down the table - so we were incredibly lucky to be joined on today's show by the expert analysis of Alan Feehely, editor of the mighty Football España.We pose five questions ahead of the season beginning: Who are now title favourites out of Real Madrid and Barcelona? Will Atleti improve now they are back in their underdog role? Is Sevilla's

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00:33:00

The Big Primeira Liga 22/23 Preview Show

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2022/08/05

Hello Rank Squad!It's time for our fourth episode of our Big Season Preview Series - this time, a slightly shorter one on the Portuguese Primeira, and the major storylines ahead of this season. We take a dive into where all of Portugal's Big Three are ahead of this season - can Porto retain their title? Are Sporting still their closest contenders? Could Benfica, under Roger Schmidt, be back in this conversation?We also discuss a little bit of the 'best of the rest' - Braga's role of late, but are

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00:51:47

The Big Ligue 1 22/23 Preview Show (with Football Per...

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2022/08/04

When everything comes at once, everything drops at once! Moving from England across the Channel, we take to France to look at life in Ligue 1 this season - and we're joined by the expert analysis of Alex Collings, of the Football Per 90 Podcast and a writer for Scouted Football.We pose five questions ahead of the season beginning: Can PSG break their points record (on back of a lot of hype and smart summer) Who is the best of the rest? What can we expect from Paulo Fonseca & Lille? Who is the

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01:06:38

The Big Premier League 22/23 Preview Show

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2022/08/03

Hello Rank Squad! The summer has passed, the international tournaments have been concluded, and the return of domestic league action is just round the corner, so it's time for the second of our Season Preview series - and it's a big one, because the Premier League is back! We start at the bottom of the table, with the battle for survival taking place there; and end with the thrill of the title race - but in between we discuss everyone else too - from those consolidating to the fight for European

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00:59:59

The Big Bundesliga 22/23 Preview Show (with Tifo's...

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2022/08/01

It's all systems go this week as we head into full preview mode! First up, the Bundesliga! We're joined by Jon Mackenzie of the mighty Tifo Football to work our way through how German football's top tier looks before the season opens.We talk a number of different categories - the Top Four, the European Battles, the teams looking to find their way back to European paradise, the middle-of-the-roaders, and the relegation scrap!How are Julian Nagelsmann's Bayern going to set up? Are Leipzig a genuine

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01:21:33

Ranking the Best Players Still on the Transfer Market...

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2022/07/27

Hello Rank Squad!We've seen some massive movers and shakers in the market this window, but as we settle in the 'deep breath before the plunge' with less than two weeks left until we see the return of many of Europe's top leagues, we take a moment to check on the players who are still where they started the summer, and might well be available if the right option came up.We rank five categories - best overall player, best free agent, best forward, best goalkeeper and best defender - with Sam and Dean

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