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mechanics behind the transfer deals that did

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So it has been a very long transfer window in exceptional circumstances. So what I thought we'd do at the start

of this pod, David, is to go right back to the start of the window, go through all the deals

that you said were going to happen and see how many you got right. It's all right? No, it's not

all right. You're just trying to embarrass me on our own

platform. No, I wouldn't, I wouldn't do that. And as we always say, in any transfer deal,

you're going to be hearing a lot of different things from a lot of different sources. I would

imagine, therefore, it's been hectic for you. Yeah, probably more hectic than normal because there

was the added complication of COVID and the extreme financial conditions, which might not

appear to be the case when you look at the overall spend, certainly the gross outlay as opposed

to the net spend. That looks pretty normal and, in my opinion,

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