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Hello and welcome to the transfer window, the podcast that brings you the news before it becomes

news as well as insight and analysis into everything

that you're talking about in football.

I mean, McGowan with me as always, the doyen of transfers, Duncan Castles.

And on this particular podcast, we have news on Manchester City and Pep Guardiola, as well as transfer targets for this summer.

Manchester United have been causing a little bit of a fraca with regards

to their criticism of referees and the giving of penalties, as well as news on potential arsenal

signings, heroes and villains, and much more. Duncan, we're going to start with Manchester City,

and it's our understanding that Pip Wardiola,

who has a brick clause in his contract,

which means he could leave in this summer window,

has been promised by city's administrators a transfer budget which would allow him

to effectively reconstruct parts of the team that quite clearly need to be attended to, one being of course, the continuing travails of

Sergio Guero and the fact that they have been playing without a number nine and playing

a false nine instead, as well as potential recruitment in defence and even possibly

in midfield as well.

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