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Hello and welcome to the Transfer Window, the podcast, which once again this week has proven that we bring in the news before it becomes news as well as in

say and analysis into the subjects you're talking about in football.

I'm in McGarry with me as Duncan Castles, who of course is the man, the journalist, the man, who told you first that Jan Lujid Donoruma, the Italian International, would be joining Paris Saint-German around six weeks ago on this pod.

And of course, that was confirmed this week. Today's

pod will bring you news on Real Madrid, on Manchester United, Arsenal, Spurs, Chelsea, as well as

some other roundups of things that are going on around football, both here in England but also

in Europe. Duncan, let's just

start quickly with Donoruma, because as I said, you broke that story and it's one which,

you know, many people have now followed up. It is one of the biggest transfers of the summer

window, isn't it? Yeah, well, you're looking at someone who just won the European Championship,

boated player of the tournament by UFS Technical Committee.

I think some people could argue about it.

There's no doubt he had a fantastic tournament for Italy,

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