Richie McCormack

There you go.

It's delightful to be back up here at full two floors back to the Towers to be speaking to yourself about this.

Well, yeah.

so podcast stuff this is going to be a six part series yeah six part series so the basic synopsis of it is the series is called Sliding Doors and for those who don't get the reference it's in relation to a 90s movie that starred Gwyneth Paltrow I was going to say are Gwyneth Paltrow fans going to try to go oh my god someone's finally done a six episode deep dive into the film it only dawned on me when I finished the thing I was like people mightn't actually get what Sliding Doors means so it's this sense of missed opportunity and

what might have been.

And in the instances of these transfers, they kind of range across the spectrum of would have had a massive influence on the other club that could have signed this particular player that's the subject of this episode.

And there is one that would have had minor influence, but it's certainly an interesting one that happened just this past year.

So it kind of takes in the breadth of the lot of them.

And yeah, it's thrown up a couple more since then.

possibly going to have to get around to if there's ever time for a series two.

Yeah, but the one we have that I think starts off the series is Ronaldo, 90s Ronaldo, the good Ronaldo, almost signing for Rangers.

Now, I kind of put this down to, yeah, right, whatever.

And there's a lot of these stories you kind of initially do.

This series obviously goes to those particular potential transfers that went beyond that little, ah yeah, right, whatever.

These are transfers that almost happened.

So you cast your mind back to, I think it was the summer of 1997.

Ronaldo has become disenfranchised with life in Barcelona after just one year because certain promises were made to him.

Those promises aren't going to be met.

There's going to be changes in management, etc., etc.,

So he gets a bit antsy in his looking around.