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The Transfer Window
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🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Football. It has its ups and downs. There's the players who kiss the badge and kiss the club goodbye. |
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| 0:30.9 | Hello and welcome to the transfer window. The podcast that brings you the news before |
| 0:36.4 | it becomes news, as well as insight |
| 0:39.3 | analysis on all the topics that you're debating in football. I mean McGarry and as always with me is Duncan Castles. |
| 0:57.4 | And of course we live up to a reputation of news before news because Duncan has some very interesting information regarding the defensive crisis at Manchester City and indeed how Pit Guardiola may look to solve that |
| 1:12.4 | in the January window. Duncan, tell us what you know. Yeah, our regular listeners will remember |
| 1:20.2 | that we gave them the heads up on Jean Cancelo and Rodry signing for Manchester City last summer. |
| 1:27.2 | What I can tell you is that the first choice top target for a new centre back at Manchester City is |
| 1:36.3 | Ruin Gias, the Portugal international defender at Benfica. |
| 1:42.3 | 22 years old, he has been a central part of Benfica's defence for the last two seasons, |
| 1:50.0 | very highly regarded by the club. |
| 1:53.0 | In fact, a player, I'm told by one Benfica source that they would intend to build around |
| 2:00.0 | long term and like to keep there as long as possible. |
| 2:02.6 | However, we know that Benfica are fundamentally a selling club and that they will allow players to go when the right prices are achieved for them. |
| 2:14.6 | I can tell you that Manchester City tried to sign GIS last summer, and there was a period |
| 2:21.4 | in which it looked like that deal could well go through. |
| 2:28.0 | The problem, which is something we mentioned on the podcast previously, was that City, |
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