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Hello and welcome to the transfer window.

The podcast, it brings you the news before it becomes news. And of course, insight and analysis into all the subjects you're talking about and we're

talking about in The Beautiful Game.

I'm in McGarvey and with me, of course, is Duncan Castles, or Sir Duncan Castles,

as apparently a certain dramatized version of history has been calling him this week.

If you haven't seen it on social media, then please go and have a look.

It is very funny.

So, Sir Duncan Castles,

today we will be talking Manchester City, Manchester United, Bournemouth. We'll be talking about Real Madrid. We're going to be talking about Sheffield United as well. And of course,

much more, including hero and villain.

We start, however, Sir Duncan, as I'm now going to call you all the time, we used to be Dr. Duncan.

We're not going to be Sir Duncan, about some interesting and very revealing news on the back of this week's decision for Manchester City's European football ban of two years being overturned.

There was some doubt because, of course, Sergio Guerrero has never won the Champions League.

And the club had shown a willingness to allow him to move somewhere where he may

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