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Hello. Hello and welcome to the transfer window.

This is the podcast that not only takes you inside the biggest deals at the biggest clubs in world football,

but brings you insight and analysis of the issues that matter every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I'm Johnny McFarlane, and

joining me are our pundits extraordinaire, Duncan Castles and Ian McGarry. On today's transfer podcast,

Adrian Rabio's agent has blasted PSG in an astonishing interview. It's also his mum's, so perhaps her fury is understandable.

With this in mind, we take a look at the phenomenon of parental agents and assess how it affects

the game. And Paul Pogba has appeared to issue an old-fashioned come-and-get-me-play to Real Madrid,

but is a move to the Spanish Giants likely, given the faith

only Gunnar Solshar has given to his midfield Maverick. We're going to start today with a little

look at parents as agents of top-level footballers. Adrian Rapio, who is currently in dispute with

PSG, has his mother as his agent agent and she's come out with some fairly astonishing quotes.

She said, my son is a prisoner at PSG. The only thing he has asked is to complete his contract and that it is respected.

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