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Hello and welcome to the transfer window.

A podcast that 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 Ian McGarry, and with me, this is the darling of Twitter, also known as our transfer guru, Duncan

Castles, pack pod for you today. We're going to be talking news on Tottenham Hotspur, Crystal Palace,

Everton, also Manchester United, Bruch of Dortmund, Brighton Rove Albion, and a tiny little bit of England,

given the tournament starts this weekend.

Duncan, we're going to start with the not so straightforward appointment of a new Spurs manager

and indeed a new sporting director.

Now, we know the names of both, but what people out there probably don't know is exactly how complex

this deal became and how quickly it was done in the circumstances.

Yeah, Paulo Fonseca, I'm told that deal is done, done very rapidly.

According to people close to Fonseca, the initial serious contact from Tottenham Hotspur's side came on Monday.

The deal was concluded on Wednesday when Fonseca flew from Sardinia to Roma to finish up the terms of that contract with Tottenham's incoming. Well, we don't know whether he's

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