Happy new year to you all, and welcome to a new season of 'big pod'! In our first episode of 2023, we welcomed Dan Orlowitz back to the podcast to chat about some of the big changes coming to the J.League in 2023 and 2024, and the possibility of the league switching to an autumn-to-spring season in the future (to 25:10.

In Part 2 we reflected on Japan's showing at the World Cup, and the JFA's decision to extend manager Hajime Moriyasu's contract for a further four years, before teasing our season preview pods - that begin next week - with some of the biggest moves of the winter transfer window thus far (we did not have the Giakoumakīs to Urawa news at the time of recording).