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Hi there, welcome to day four of the Qatar World Cup, the morning after the day before which turned into a news cascade from the shock of Messies Argentina losing to Saudi Arabia

to Christina Rinaldo and Manchester United parting ways and then the club

confirming the Glazer family are open to offers.

Then, just for good measure, that ankle injury to Harry Kane, yes, it needs a scan as England,

a nation waits for news on their talisman.

We'll pick it all apart. I'm Adam Leventhal and this is the athletic football

podcast. It's perhaps fitting, after all the fighting between Manchester United and Christina Rinaldo that I am now stood outside a huge

fort-like building with two huge castle turrets in front of me, two huge great arches, and then a really long drive which goes on for a few hundred feet before you actually reach the hotel in which the Portugal team are staying, including their star name,

Cristiano Ronaldo.

It was during the third game of day three between Mexico and Poland that the news broke that Manchester United

and Christina Rinaldo were going to be parting ways. It was called mutual and they wished

him well for the future and they wished his family well for the future,

but they made a very, very pointed remark in that third paragraph about working together under Eric Ten Harg in the future. I'm here with a few other journalists,

one from Portugal who you will be hearing from very, very shortly. But meanwhile at the

France against Australia game Laura Williamson, David Ornstein and Adam

Crafton are reacting to the news as it happens.

Thanks Adam.

We're here at the Algenoub Stadium waiting to see how France get on against Australia

this evening and on our way to the ground the news breaks that

Cristiano Ronaldo has left Manchester United. I'm here with David Ornstein and

Adam Crafton to dissect what's happening. Well it's enormous news in the football world. I don't think it's a massive

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