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Hello and welcome to the transfer window.

The podcast that brings you the news before it becomes news as well as in set and analysis

to all the subjects you're talking about in football.

I'm in McGarry. I'm delighted to be back for my enforced sojourn and also to be back with my old pal, Duncan Castles, to bring you, of course, everything that is new and beyond what most major media outlets can provide you with, i.e. the inside information. We start today where else but at

Manchester United, another dark week for the Old Trafford Club, which rather interestingly

culminated in players being told that they had the week off. You may have read in some

places that the players were surprised to find out that

they'd been given such a long period and we can confirm that up until last Sunday morning

there was no plan in the schedule of either training, rehabilitation or any work that had been planned to be done this week,

being cancelled, despite of course it being international week and there being a few players

rather than all of the players around the training ground.

What's perhaps even more surprising is that Oligona Solshire, the underffire manager, had not planned to go back to his home land of Norway.

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