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Duncan Castles
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Football journalist •Sunday Times •Daily Record •Insta @duncan.castles •Twitter @DuncanCastles •The Transfers Podcast https://apple.co/3XQNQOv https://bsky.app/profile/transferscast.bsky.social
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🔸Arteta buys control
🔸Liverpool self-destruct
🔸A year of Amorim: Is he the new Ferguson?
🔸€462m to build 'The Erling Haaland Team'
🔸Sell & Win: Bournemouth, Brentford, Brighton
🔸Berbatov & Villain

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October 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Jose Mourinho in talks with Benfica to return as the club’s coach after a quarter of a century.
• Benfica dismissed Bruno Lage after Champions League loss at home to Qarabag
• Mourinho has continued to target return to Portuguese football following Fenerbahce sacking
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September 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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🔸€3.6bn on Premier League transfers
🔸'Are they completely crazy?'
🔸Europe's Big 5 now a 1
🔸Wrexham spending like Champions League finalists
🔸Man Utd Semenyo bid
🔸Why Tottenham beat Chelsea, Villla to Kolo Muani
🔸Liverpool repeat old trick
🔸Chelsea €0.75bn churn
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September 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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As reported on today’s Transfers Podcast, Rasmus Hojlund’s transfer from Manchester United to Napoli has been negotiated as a €5m season loan with a €40m obligation to buy.
The obligation is conditional upon Napoli qualifying for next season’s Champions League.
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August 29, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Senne Lammens, Gigio Donnarumma, Ederson
🔸Galatasaray offer higher transfer fee + personal terms for Lammens
🔸Lammens prefers Man Utd
🔸Gala aim to negotiate down Man City’s €25m asking price for Ederson
🔸City progressing deal with PSG for Donnarumma; agent’s commission an issue
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August 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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🔸Amorim doubts, Man United's error
🔸Mourinho, Solskjaer sacked
🔸Galatasaray bid €20m+ for Lammens
🔸Man City advance Donnarumma
🔸'Woltemessi' a new Isak?
🔸Arsenal's Hincapie plan
🔸Villa move for Asensio
🔸Barca open to selling Fermin Lopez
🔸Saudis tempt Fernandes
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August 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Scandi Noir
🔸Gyokeres + Isak
🔸Same home country
🔸Same upset at broken promises
🔸Same exit strategies
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August 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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🔸Eze master stroke?
🔸Liverpool play hard on Guehi
🔸Tottenham options: €70m Akliouche, €50m Lee
🔸Isak vs Saudi
🔸Conte pushes for Hojlund
🔸Man Utd midfield
🔸Donnarumma decision
🔸Sinisterra takes Bournemouth sales to £202m
🔸Sporting market Harder
🔸Juanlu chooses Napoli
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August 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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🔸Man City, Chelsea to win Donnarumma war?
🔸Man Utd ask €50m for Hojlund
🔸Leoni, Guehi to Liverpool
🔸Kolo Muani complications; Juve’s step away from Sancho
🔸'Brain of Como' Fabregas
🔸Sacked by Saints, hired by Atalanta
🔸Can Gasperini fix Roma?
🔸Gennaro Gatusso: Why?
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August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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🔸Man Utd win Sesko war
🔸A new Haaland, or another Hojlund?
🔸Howe bad are Newcastle?
🔸’20 years’: Amorim revitalised
🔸Baleba option
🔸Thiaw bid as Guehi waits for Liverpool
🔸Chelsea advance on Garnacho
🔸Justice for Players: Danger for football?
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August 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Gianluigi Donnarumma
🔸New signing Lucas Chevalier will be PSG’s starting goalkeeper
🔸PSG want Donnarumma to leave this summer after Italy international declined to accept contract offer
🔸Interest includes Internazionale, Manchester United, Chelsea
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August 2, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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🔸Man Utd bet on high-risk, high-reward Sesko
🔸Why no Isak bidding war?
🔸£50m for Watkins
🔸PSG press Donnarumma to leave
🔸City catch Trafford; NUFC borrow Ramsdale
🔸Sporting ask €80m for Hjulmand
🔸Wissa pushes for move
🔸Chelsea’s Hato win
🔸Zabarnyi insists on Paris
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August 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Liverpool recruiting like no Premier League champions before them
🔸Pushing for Alexander Isak at £120m+
🔸Lead race for Marc Guehi
🔸Hugo Ekitike €75m + €15m
🔸Florian Wirtz at £100m + £16m
🔸Kerkez + Frimpong for ~€100m
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July 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🔸Liverpool focus on Guehi at centre back
🔸€75m Ekitike in; wantaway Isak next?
🔸Chelsea pursue €60m Hato + Simons
🔸Michael Edwards: The new Alex Ferguson?
🔸How Man Utd beat Tottenham to Mbuemo
🔸Gyokeres secured; Arteta out of excuses?
🔸Can Guardiola stilll win?
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July 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Bryan Mbeumo
🔸Manchester United yet to agree transfer fee with Brentford
🔸Brentford value Mbeumo at £70million
🔸MUFC intend to stay ‘disciplined’ on price
Details and analysis on today’s @transferscast.bsky.social
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June 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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🔸Jackson option as Arsenal seek best deal
🔸No agreement on £70m Mbeumo for Man Utd
🔸Barcola seeks improved terms
🔸Why Brentford chose Andrews
🔸Newcastle bid again for Elanga, Trafford
🔸Man Utd's Carreras error
🔸Frank's Tottenham
🔸Donnarumma considers future
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June 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🔸Liverpool talk to Hato
🔸Why Gyokeres will strike to join Arsenal
🔸Man Utd offer £60m+ for Mbeumo
🔸Frankfurt won't cut €100m Ekitike asking price
🔸Kerkez, Zabarnyi sales near
🔸Wirtz a 'perfect forward'
🔸Berrada's brave belligerence
🔸Club World Catastrophe
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June 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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😂🤣😂
It was 10-0. And I have never seen an attack momentum graphic like this.
King Gianni’s Saudi-bankrolled tournament is a joke on multiple levels.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Midday kick off in Los Angeles in mid-summer.
Genius King Gianni, genius.
#PSGATM #FIFACWC
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June 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Paris Saint-Germain hold direct talks with Bournemouth over the transfer for Ukraine defender Illya Zabarnyi.
• Bournemouth rejected PSG’s proposal, asking for a transfer fee in excess of the £50m Real Madrid paid for Dean Huijsen.
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June 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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🔸Bournemouth ask record fee for Zabarnyi
🔸Portugal Saint-Germain
🔸Martinez out, Jesus in as Mourinho waits for 2030?
🔸Amorim: Disaster season or disaster coach?
🔸Mbeumo, Cunha at Man Utd
🔸Fernandes rejects €18m net at Al Hilal
🔸Gyokeres prefers Arsenal
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June 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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May 31, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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This is a lesson in the complete rebuilding of a football club.
Luis Campos and Luis Enrique - utterly deserved European champions. A joy to watch.
#PSGINT
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May 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The Transfers Podcast previews the Champions League Final with RAI TV's Aurelio Capaldi.
#PSGINT #UCLfinal
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May 31, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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🔸Inter offer Donnarumma Serie A return
🔸Inzaghi to reject Saudis
🔸Conte chooses between Napoli, Juve
🔸Allegri takes Milan; wants Reijnders sale blocked
🔸McTominay McMigliore
🔸Garnacho 'not a priority'
🔸Man Utd Italian nightmare
🔸Ancelotti to Brazil, Rangers
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May 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM