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So Manchester City have now reached an agreement with Ilkai Gondawan over a free transfer from Barcelona. So is it a no-brainer for City to bring back a player they let go just 12 months ago?

And why Abbas are willing to allow one of their best players to leave so soon.

I'm Aya Kim Willare, welcome to the Athletic FC Podcast. Here today we have our Manchester City Correspondence Sam Lee and Barcelona writer Paul Belous as well.

Paul, you've run the exclusive today on the athletic athletic big news that Manchester City have now reached an agreement with Barcelona for

Gondewan to return. Can you just give us some more detail on how this agreement has been reached.

I mean it's a story that has been brewing up for weeks in Barcelona like the main thing that

ignited this was Gondogan feeling as a sort of guilty or as a sort of problem in Barcelona.

There was those briefings and those whispers around the club that Gondock and Salry was too hard to take for Barcelona

at this stage, basically because they have not been able to sell

Ronald at Ojo they have not been able to make any big sales and they have Danielmo

still to register and the only way basically to register Danielmo before of the weekend is to

off-load wages and out of the players that they had the club believes that Gunugan

was won that eventually eventually won away out of the club and that's where like things

started. This sort of whispers that I'm mentioning started since Gungun joined the team in

precision so it's not a new thing.

But the city thing basically started last week when Gondogne was like realized that he could start like looking for life out of Barcelona and

Gungugano only wanted life at city if it had to be out of Barcelona.

He has received approaches from Turkey, from Qatar, from Arabia, and as soon as he knew the city door could be opened.

So basically he accepted that alive out of Barcelona could eventually happen and that he was happy to take a new challenge. It was Gundo who got in touch with Man City to know how was the possibility.

Man City opened him the door and then like negotiations between Man City and

Gondogan's Kumb were fairly quick and fairly easy to do because all sides

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