Hello and welcome to the game football podcast from The Times.

Chelsea and Manchester City are busy sweating it out at the Club World Cup, but what about their rivals back home?

On today's show, we'll catch up on what Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa,

Wolves and other clubs have been up to so far this summer and wonder what deals might they have on the horizon.

I'm Tom Clark and joining me today we have the former football attorney journalist Gregor Robertson and the reporter who, helpfully for the topics on this show, happens to cover Manchester United, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa, Wools and more.

It's Charlotte, hello. Charlotte, hello.

Morning.

Nice to hear from you.

I mean, great to be hearing you at all.

I was having lovely flashbacks to that preseason show we tried to do with you in Paul Hurst last season where we couldn't hear a single word and we had to abort the whole thing.

So this is a serious upgrade.

I could hear and see you. You could see me and I was just a mute. So maybe it was for the

best that time. But yeah, you can't see me this time, but you can hear me, which is the main thing.

That is the main thing. Absolutely. Let's start with Manchester United. It's making probably one of

the more interesting signings of the summer so far with Matthias Cunia coming in from Wool's.

That deal happened quite a while ago and all the talk since then has been about

Brian and Bumo and other players that might be coming in.

Just give us a kind of overview, a bit of a summary of where we're at with Manchester United at

the moment.

Yeah, so obviously they moved quickly to get Cunia in, which was an easy deal for them to do

because he had a release

clause. So they initially tried to, as everyone knows, get out of the terms of that release clause

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