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Take time to think. Hello and welcome back to the football podcast that brings you the news before it becomes news.

We're back from a short break and we're back with a very special guest, journalist extraordinaire, musician extraordinaire, and most importantly, I think in these troubled times, a ferocious excavator

of truth. Welcome back to the transfer window, Philippe O'Clair. Thank you very much, Duncan.

I mean, excavator of truth. I'm going to put that in my business card from now on.

Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you for speaking to us again. Among other subjects,

we're going to discuss Chelsea, as we have to do this week, Everton, Monaco and football geopolitics.

Philippe is here as a super substitute for Ian McGarry, who in Best Transfer Window podcast tradition

is off hunting butterflies.

I'm going to start with a bit of exclusive news that Ian has passed on and passed on before

is Butterfly Sojourn, which is about Carlo Ancelotti's response when he was contacted by Manchester United

as part of their search for what they'd like to describe as a permanent successor to Uli Gunnar Solshar.

We can tell you that that contact was from the new Manchester United Chief Executive Richard Arnold. It took place over two weeks ago.

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