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Hello and welcome to the game we all love.

I mean, McGarry, with me as always as Duncan Castles.

You hear me say before every pod that we bring in the news before it becomes news.

Well, yeah, it was us who broke the biggest story of this year before anyone else on Saturday evening when we reported that Oliguna Salshire

had been summarily dismissed as Manchester United Manager during an emergency board meeting

following defeat to Watford.

So, for any of you who doubt us when we say that we are first, just go on to our social media platforms and you will see the posts way before anyone else and then look at everyone else chasing our tail.

Duncan, as ever, we don't lessen our laurels here at the transfer window because we are

going to take everyone forward in this, the biggest story of the year.

We're going to talk about the candidates that Manchester City are considering where they are

with each of them and also discuss suitability as well as process

and will they finally get it right after nine years since Sir Alex Ferguson retired and last

won the title for the Old Trafford Club.

Duncan, let's just rewind a little bit beyond to begin with because we reported at the time

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