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I'm in my gallery and with me is Duncan Castles, the transfer guru, as he is known throughout the globe.

And what a very, very dramatic last few days we've had in the conclusions so far of both the Champions League and Europa League campaigns

being played in Lisbon and Germany, respectively. Exits for all of the English Premier League

clubs in both competitions, we have two French and two German clubs in the semi-finals of Champions League, but perhaps, and maybe not even perhaps, I think we can all agree that definitely the most sensational result, as well as the consequences which have followed, was Barcelona 8-2 defeat to Bayern Munich.

Today it's expected that Ronald Coon will be confirmed as Kiki Zityen's successor at Camp Now.

We asked the question, though, not just where next for Barcelona, given the crisis that they're in,

and we have spoken about this at length on the podcast over the past two to three months. But what next for Leo Messi, Duncan? Because you've had a briefing and information from the club and those close to it today, which suggests that Messi's role at the club and indeed his influence may not be in the future,

or it has been, in the immediate past.

Yeah, I think all of this has been a long time coming.

I think you can go back to the podcast we did with Graham Hunter on a lot of it on

Barcelona and what we talked about, the Civil War at Barcelona.

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