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Hello, welcome back to 1874. It's Monday, a little bit later than normal, but it is the podcast with myself, Dan Bardell, and my good friend, one of my favourite people in the world, my skyscourt, or sports news colleague either, even. David Reed, joining me to chat through Aston Villa 2, West Ham United One in the FA Cup, Villa in the hat for the fourth round, which isn't something that's happened too many times in the last decade. Also, Marlin looks set to sign from Dortmund. Dave and myself are going to discuss that as well. That's one of the reasons the podcast is a little bit later. We did think it might progress a little bit quicker, but a fee has been agreed,

and I would expect that to happen very, very soon.

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Right, David, how are you?

Looking forward to. We're together tomorrow, aren't we, on the television, looking forward to spending some time together in person. Yeah, it should be good, looking forward to it. Good line-up tomorrow,

strong lineup. Yeah, this is kind of like the warm-up for us, isn't it, before tomorrow's main event. So it's, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing you, as I said, going to be a good show.

So if you want to see Dave and me on the telly tomorrow, tune in on Sky Sports News 9 o'clock and midday,

and you will see us both, and hopefully we will get to talk a little bit about some Villa.

Right then, David, let's start about, let's start with the breaking news today that Marlon,

the offer has been accepted by Dortmund from Aston Villa Football Club, around the 20 million

pound mark, 19.4, I think it's the price that the athletic are reporting. A signing I'm

really, really excited about personally, I mean, he's been a good player for Dortmund,

mixed messages from the Dortmund fans, but as I said on Twitter earlier, you know,

Middlesbrough fans said that had our pants down for Rogers.

Lester fans were laughing at a signing Tillamond's member in the Champions League.

You know, there is no exact science to this, you know, just because a player hasn't worked

at one club or as fan base isn't keen on them, doesn't mean they won't work here. And I just think that under Emory, the way we play, the way we like to attack in transition,

his raw pace, you know, left-footed is a Bailey alternative.

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