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Trains now on Uber. Tees and sees apply check the Uber app. Welcome to the game podcast and Gabriel Marcotti and this week we're doing things slightly differently since there's no league football

But I'm delighted to be joined by an all-star lineup of Patty Barclay Tony Evans and Matt Dickinson for this extra special edition of the game.

Today we're focusing on the big boys.

More on the continuing takeover saga at Liverpool

and also drawing from the fact that Patty has just written a book about him,

the epic career of one, Sir Alex Chapman Ferguson.

But we began in Liverpool and now I appreciate guys the situation is sort of

evolving as we speak and we don't want to be dated here so I'm not going to

ask something like what's the latest but can we maybe take a step back and provide some context about why when this deadline was approaching and why all of a sudden the board comes out and says we've got two bids on the table

and we're the presumably maybe Jeffrey Wang and the Chinese being one and

John W Henry and and the New England Sports Ventures the other.

Why exactly this came out now, or at least prior to the deadline, Tony?

Well, I think as we were approaching the deadline, we got a situation where

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