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Hello, I'm Mark Chapman, welcome to the Athletic Football Podcast coming up after the impact of Ronaldo.

David Ornstein tells us Paul Pogba could now sign a new contract at Manchester United.

The Champions League returns this week.

I'm joined by the Athletics Olli Kay.

He'll tell us why he believes, despite its imbalance excesses,

the tournament is fantastic and there is lots to get excited about this season.

Our Wals writer Tim Spears joins us to assess the start of manager Bruno Lange

and also to tell us about his interview with the codz owner Jeff Shee

and the Athletics German football writer Rafael Honestine joins us

to talk about an exciting start to the Bundesliga.

Thank you. joins us to talk about an exciting start to the Bundesliga. Well, let's start the pod with the exclusive Paul Pogba line in David Ornstein's weekly

column on The Athletic.

So from what you understand, David, he's leaning towards signing the new contract

at United, which I'm guessing is based purely on the fact that he loved park life so much

in the city this weekend. I was dancing on stage and just wants more of that. I was about to

say, don't we all, but you and I don't go to things like that anymore. So I may have done new order on Friday night.

That's more my era, but now we're talking.

Even then, I just thought, I'm still, I'm too old.

Anya.

So, I mean, this is really interesting, and maybe it's quite helpful for our listeners

to explain a bit of the journalistic chronology as well,

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