Hello and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com.

How are you? Hope your well-hope all is good with you and yours wherever in the world

you might be today. As ever, thank you very much indeed for being here and thank you

for listening. It's hugely appreciated. This is what I like to call the quiet time.

It might sound poetic, a chance to stop and reflect and take stock and look at where we

are as individuals as a collective. No, I mean that there is a natural low at the end of

the season after the Champions League final and before all the transfer stuff starts to

really get going. It's a bit like when you see a roller coaster going up the way. It's

slow, slow, slow, slow and then it gets to the top and then it goes and everyone's screaming

that is what is going to happen at some point. But we're in the bit before the roller

coaster even starts going slow, slow up the way. Which isn't great if you are a hashtag

content creator or you're trying to make podcasts for people, but fear not. We do have a

show for you today. There are a few bits and pieces that we can talk about, a reported

departure that shouldn't be any surprise to anybody and that might merit some discussion.

It was that brilliant thread during the week, which really highlighted how far the Premier

League is moving away from all the other European leagues on a financial basis. And what that

might mean. Some transfer links with another Manchester City player apart from Gabriel

J. Jesus and more. So we will do all that. But you might have seen earlier today Thursday,

yesterday when you're listening to this, but Lewis Ambrose did a tactical review of

the season from an arsel perspective, obviously. And I think there are some interesting aspects

to that. So I wanted to talk to him about that. We'll talk to him about those things.

And we'll talk to him about the other bits and pieces I mentioned as well. So let's

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