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Hello and welcome to the transfer window, the to bring to the news before it becomes news

as well as insight and analysis on all the subjects you're talking about in football

I'm in McGarry and we apologize for the lack of pause last week.

It was unforeseen circumstances, although I can tell you that Duncan was off on one of his butterfly excursions,

but he rejoins us today, which is always good news.

And it's been quite a momentous few days in terms of the dust finally settling on St.

James's Park with the takeover going through.

We'll be taking you through each step of how that came about.

And also giving you news you don't know about what the outlook is

in terms of the plans of the consortium who have taken control from Mike Ashley.

We also have some news on Manchester United Christiana Ronaldo and also their training methods, as well as an update on

Antonio Rudiger's situation at Chelsea. Duncan, we're going to start at, as Chris Waddle once said to

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