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Hello and welcome to the Transfer Window, a podcast that brings you the news before it becomes news. Of course, news is very important to us, but we

also bring you expert insight and analysis and all the issues of world football that you want

to hear and debate.

Today, Wednesday edition is, of course, your questions answered, where we love to engage with you guys, all our lovely listeners, and get your questions and hopefully bring you some insight on the things that matter to you most.

As always, Dr Duncan Castle, the Transferred Guru, joins me, Ian McGarry.

And as usual, Duncan's got some news for us to start the show off.

Yeah, let's talk through the Romula Lukaku situation.

We've seen Roberto Martin, who's given an interview in Belgium, basically underlining

that Lukaku has to move.

It's another version of your fight for sure transfers through, which is the player says he wants to move. It's another version of the, of your fight, force your transfer through,

which is the player says he wants to move out of a club.

His agent says he wants to move out of the club,

and then you get the international manager to say it would be in his best interest to move.

And what Martinus had said is,

it's clear that he has to leave Manchester United.

It would be a good thing for both parties,

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