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The Phil Hay Show.

Hello there.

Welcome to the Monday edition of The Phil Hay Show, brought to you by The Athletic,

along with the Square Ball, Dan here from the Square Ball,

with Phil Hay from The Athletic.

Just a heads up, due to reasons beyond our control,

that chestnut, the show will be dropping back down to one show a week in a few weeks' time,

but you do have us twice a week for the time being,

so enjoy that one while you can.

To read Phil's stuff on The Athletic, Theathletic.com forward slash leads pod.

What's on there at the minute then, Phil?

Lots of talk, takeover talk, transfer talk.

Yes, we've got a piece coming tomorrow just on where we're at with the 49ers and Radrazzani

and obviously the follow-up from Villa as well, which was looking fairly closely at what's

going wrong with the team at the moment.

And also reflecting on what was a slightly old night because in actual fact, Leeds played

as well as they have for quite a whale at Villa Park.

Should we get into that straight away then and address that particular matter?

Because I said to you over the weekend, it's been quite hard to sort of unpick the performances from the general direction of travel

and some of the weaknesses that are kind of baked into it.

It's strange, isn't it, that Leeds looked really quite threatening going forward

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