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Hello and welcome to the Transfer Window, the podcast, which brings you the news before it becomes news as well as insight and analysis

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

I'm in McGowan with me as always is our transfer guru, Duncan Castles,

before we got started on a packed pod today. We just want to remind you, please, a lot of you already done this.

Keep them around some going. Go find the British podcast awards and vote for the transfer window. We'd love to be able to bring that trophy home.

It will be for all of you as well as us. So, Duncan, nowhere else to start today than what can only be described as the shambles at Spurs

regarding appointment of a new manager. I can, you can probably count more than me, but so far I think they have tried with Antonio Conte,

Minister of Pochartino, Julian Nagelsman, Hansi Flick, Ten Haag, Niro Spirito Santo,

Paolo Fonseca and Reno Gattuso.

Now, for any club, that's a lot of candidates to get through in the last sort of three months or so,

and many of them, of course, just in the last month.

Exactly what is going on because obviously there was the news that you reported last night that Goodtuso had effectively agreed terms.

Although I should point out to all our eagle-eared and eyed listeners who were on social media claiming Duncan had got this wrong,

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