Football. It has its ups and downs. There's the players who kiss the badge and kiss the club goodbye.

Right after you've splashed out 100 quid to get their name on your kit. And oh, the ailer striker who always sticks it in Rose Ed.

The good news is the Ladbrooks Acker gives you auto insurance, free bets back and big odds boosts.

So whatever else lets you down, it won't be your Acker. It's a gaffer of an ACA from Ladbrooks.

18 plus online and mobile, minimum mods apply.

Maximum 1 to 3 £10 free bets per customer per day.

Up to £50 at boosted odds, restrictions and TNCs apply.

Begamblerware.org.

Take time to think.

Hello and welcome to the Transfer Window podcast, where we bring you the news before it becomes news, as well as insight and analysis into

all of the issues that we love about our game.

I'm in McGarry, and with me always it's Duncan Castles and today we're going to be bringing

you lots of market news because yes despite the fact that transfer window is yet to open there

are lots of things going on behind the scenes. Well, football continues to struggle and indeed find ways to return matches for us even if they

are behind closed doors.

Duncan has news for us from Manchester City regarding a potential swap deal, one right back for another.

Duncan.

Yeah, I can update you on where things are with Manchester City and the proposal they've put together to swap Jean Cancelo.

The fullback they signed last summer for a record fee of 65 million euros with Nelson Samedo at Barcelona.

Smedo is a player they've been interested in before this opportunity has presented itself

because of what we've talked about the podcast

on a couple of occasions which is the financial difficulties Barcelona are in and their desire

...