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Take time to think. Hello and welcome to the transfer window, the podcast that brings you the news before it becomes the news, as well as insight and analysis on all the big topics dominating football that you are talking about as well.

Now, today is Wednesday's podcast, which means it's your questions answered.

And of course, it also means the return of the infamous donkey awards.

And we've got a very special one for you.

So I'll listen out for that near the end of the pod.

We've had lots of questions from you guys.

So I'm not going to go through them all about Paul Pogba's future after his seemingly rather untimely comments in the wake of the 4-0 victory over Chelsea in the opening day of their Premier League campaign.

Now, my information is that his move proposed to Real Madrid is receding.

It seems less likely that Manchester United would sell for any price.

And this has been, I guess you could say,

underlined by the fact that our information here that Transferwondo

is that Real Madrid have now contacted the representatives of Christian Erickson

to discover just how enthusiastic, how, I guess, detailed and how positive he would be about forcing his way out of Tottenham.

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