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Hello and welcome to the transfer window.

The podcast it brings you the news before it becomes news, as well as insight and analysis into all the subjects you're talking about in football.

I'm in McGarvey and with me is Duncan Castles as always.

Today we have a delicious mixture for you of both news that's coming your way as well as a couple of questions that you have asked us.

They include Manchester City, Leo Messi, Barcelona, Manchester United, a certain

manager who used to have a job in Manchester, a damo Trollery, as well as what's going on with the

Premier League and the issue of five substitutions. Duncan, we're going to start with Leo Messi and City, a story which does not go away.

We obviously reported in detail on this particular subject through the summer.

It ended for Messi anyway with him deciding to stay rather than take the club to court or vice versa.

What our information is now is that Manchester City are actively pursuing a potential deal

that would bring the Argentinian World Player of the Year to Manchester City in January potentially.

Now this is something which has a little bit of the stars aligning about it, Duncan.

I say that because we know that City have yet to persuade Pep Guardial to extend his contract

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