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What happens in a football medical?
''A deal's been done, subject to a medical.''
These are the words we hear throughout the Premier League transfer window, when clubs have just a few weeks to buy and sell players to fine-tune their team.
But what actually takes place during a medical? Today's sport presenter Sonali Shah went to St George's Park to find out.
First broadcast on Today programme 1 December 2014.
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