104: Martinez TRANSFER Plea! RASHFORD Swap Deal?

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1:45Hello, everybody. Good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your The latest Manchester United transfer news as Emi Martinez, the Aston Villa goalkeeper, sends a come and get me transfer plea. Will that be enough? Is it actually the goalkeeper Ruben Amrim wants? We have suggestions that it actually isn't. Also, what does that mean for Marcus Rashford? Could a swap deal happen between Villa and Manchester United? He's certainly facing a setback this morning with terms agreed between Nico Williams and Barcelona. So the Barcelona dream is over for Rashford. How does he get his World Cup England hopes back on track?

2:25Also, we've been linked to Kudos. What a load of... I won't swear. And we've got a few other bits to get into as well in relation to Osserman, the striker situation as well, and a little bit on Embermo and why that deal is probably taking a little bit longer. It's common sense. It's common sense, certainly. So lots to get into. Also, we've got Ben Jacobs live on the show at midday today. So get involved with that. Obviously, he's dropped this story about Martinez last night. He's live on the United stand at midday today, talking strikers, midfielders, goalkeepers, the lot, budgets, etc, etc. etc.

3:01But let's start off with this story from last night. So Martinez, Emilio, well, let's call him Emi. Emi Martinez has made it clear that he's interested in moving to Manchester United this summer. Due to their PSR position, Aston Villa aren't refusing to rule out of a sale. This is coming in from Ben Jacobs. It could take up to 40 million for Aston Villa to sell Martinez. Man United are still to make a decision regarding Anana's future. Well, look, we've had a week this week of, I think it was The Athletic who said it, a couple of other people have said it as well, that Inanna is expected to stay at Manchester United.

3:36Inanna himself said last weekend that he doesn't know what's happening with his future. The reality here is that Amrim wants to move him on and the reality is here is that Man United are bad at selling, especially when a player's got a big contract and a big wage. You're on 140 grand a week, which is the equivalent of 250 grand a week for a goalkeeper. 140 grand a week is massive money. You've still got three years left on your deal and nobody wants you apart from Saudi. So you basically sit there and go, I don't want to go. Don't have to go. Don't want to go. I'm here. I'm going to make the decision.

4:09And it's weird at Manchester United because in Anana's position, you actually decide whether you get another chance next season. Not the manager, not the club. You decide. It's weird. I'm staying here. I'm going to prove everybody wrong. I thought I was the manager. I thought I was the CEO. No, I've got the contract. I've got the wages. Check it out. You can't remove me. I'll be staying. You can't replace me. I'm going to have another go in goal for Man United this season. It's my choice. And that's what it comes across as because it's very, very clear that Amrim wants his own goalkeeper. It's very, very clear that Jason Wilcox is a good technical director on the footballing side and knows we need a new goalkeeper.

4:49But removing Anana is key. And that's why last night when I saw the Emi Martinez story, I was like, well, it's a great story and it's a true story. But where in that does it say that Man United want Emi Martinez? Where in that does it say that Man United have got 40 million to buy Emi Martinez? And where in that does it say that Inanna is going? And unfortunately, and we should get more out of Ben at midday, But unfortunately, Emi Martinez wanting to sign for Manchester United is the same as any player that wants to sign for Manchester United. You know, maybe the Monaco striker wants to play for Manchester United.

5:25I want to play for Manchester United. Maybe you want to play for Manchester United. Just because it's a player that we'd like to play for Manchester United doesn't change the fact that Manchester United need to want them. And Man United need to want to have the money. And I think that Emi Martinez would fit Man Utd, pardon the pun, as a goalkeeper like a glove. But where do we get that money from? And we're certainly not going to have Inanna and Emi Martinez in our squad when we've got no European football. I don't think you'd have Emi Martinez and Inanna in your squad, even if you had Champions League football, Wimbledon to play and everything else.

5:59You know, they're too high profile. So the biggest problem we have on this story is, yeah, Emi Martinez's personality. Argentina won the World Cup because of him. He's an experienced Premier League proven goalkeeper with the personality to be a Man United goalkeeper. He's probably one of the top five I would pick. But it's annoying. It's frustrating. I wish we had this with the striker. I want to come to United, Osman, et cetera. But interesting thing that Rio Ferdinand said about Osman. We'll talk about that in a bit. but Martinez wanting United's great how do we do this deal and and that's the thing I would say also what I would say about the goalkeeper is and obviously you can just say this is speculation whatever but the indication we've always had from Portuguese sources that have spoken to us in the past about sporting etc people quite close to sporting is that Amorim would go for Costa from Porto, that would be his goalkeeper that he would want.

6:58Now, I don't know. I think it's worth running a poll on that because I don't know that Costa is, let's just call it either or. I don't know that Costa of Porto is better than Martinez. I can see the attraction and I reckon he might end up at Man City. But all I would say is whether Amorim wants Costa and whether Martinez wants Man United, you've still got that barrier. I mean, the ironic thing about Inanna is, is he's terrible in goal for Man United, but this is probably the best block he's ever made. It's probably the best stop he's ever saved. You know, he's stopping us getting a new goalkeeper, which is ironic because we want to get rid of him because he's not very good at stopping anything.

7:52So, yeah, look, I would be very happy with Costa from Porto or Martinez from Villa. Very, very happy indeed. But the barrier is Inanna. I don't really care. You know what? If Inanna left tomorrow and we were going to go for Martinez or Costa, I'd say let the chat decide, even though you won't decide. I don't really care. I'd be very, very happy with either of those goalkeepers. Obviously, you've got a risk with Costa because he's never played in the Premier League before. I've seen him make mistakes, etc., etc. But there's a lot of goalkeepers that have come into the Premier League that have never played in the Premier League before and done well.

8:28Martinez would have the personality as well, I think, definitely. Dan in Denmark says, why are footballers contracts like this? If I underperform and have a bad relationship with my boss, then I'm gone. Too much player power. They've always been like this, mate. They've always been like this. opinion on signing to stegan as the goalkeeper says obi-wan i mean i think people would be very happy with that very very happy with that uh martinez is old says clemmy um let me just double check his age because i genuinely don't think he's old um 32 33 in september i mean it's not that old for a goalkeeper.

9:0840 million is a lot of money for a goalkeeper at 32, but it's not old for a goalkeeper. I'd say for a goalkeeper, 32 is the equivalent of probably being 27, 28, maybe even 26. Goalkeepers tend to come into their prime in their early 30s. So you'd get another three, four, five seasons out of him, I would say. Yeah, Ter Stegen would be interesting, Obi-Wan, especially as they're signing Garcia at Barcelona. Um, Scott Palmer says, have you seen what you, what you saw with Jokeres yet, uh, or not? If you have any, has anything changed? You need to tune into the show, Scott. I've said it about 20 times.

9:47What I saw on that Sunday from somebody very prominent in the footballing industry was Jokeres to Manchester United is red hot. Watch what happens. and you know I still think something can happen um but I'd be lying if I said what happened at the weekend hasn't it's like the fire went out a little bit you know I was really excited last week and I was really confident um I think I went to seven out of ten so 70 percent um and I you know I was working on my tan I said I'm gonna I'll take my top off and run around the garden if it happens. But honestly, Scott, it's a good question. I don't think a lot has happened with Jocheres other than we had that horrible bullshit story on Saturday that ultimately ended up being nothing.

10:37There seemed to be this mad scramble on Saturday to make out that Jocheres had snubbed Manchester United for Arsenal. And then ever since Sunday, we've had, no, he hasn't. He hasn't snubbed them at all. Nothing's actually changed from last week. Arsenal would be favourites if they don't get Sesko, but Man United have got a good chance. And it was like, I almost feel like I was reading some of the stuff that Fabrizio said and other people said on Saturday night, and then I've listened to what they were saying before and afterwards. And I'm like, it was almost like they all got drunk or something and just spouted.

11:08Like all last week, Fabrizio was saying that United are in daily contact with Jocarez, expect something in the next few days, almost hinting at a here we go. Saturday, it's like he's choosing Arsenal. Saturday night, he hasn't rejected Man United. Last couple of days, still very much open. But on Saturday night, it was like United unlikely, you know, very unlikely now. And it sort of flipped back again. So what I would say about Jocares is that, and it fits in with Martinez as well. Apparently, George Mendes is now representing Emi Martinez. Now, I don't know how true that is. I think it was something that Fabrizio said, but George Mendes is now involved in the Jocares deal.

11:47and apparently George Mendes is also involved in Emi Martinez. So, I mean, look, George Mendes for Manchester United last summer did a very good job. Agate and Yoro were directly down to his negotiations. George Mendes, this agent, or as we call him, super agent now because he oversees deals. Imagine if he delivered Martinez and Jocares. That would be absolutely fantastic. Martin Lewis, I'm just going to remove you. I don't know whether you're doing it on purpose, but um i just i just can't be bothered with people like you um so basically it's just basically coming in saying what's the news like we're 10 minutes into a show literally talking about news that's coming and about the goalkeeper and we're going to talk about a few other bits in a minute um and we've only just started the show impatience get yourself on tiktok if you like 30 second shit swiping left and right um i actually do i do actually it's quite addictive um but I tell you what, TikTok's great for my old reactions.

12:47I'm not a narcissist. I'm just saying when I go on TikTok, I'll see an old stuff that I can't remember and I'll watch it and it just gives me loads more. But anyway, what we're saying there is around George Mendes, could he deliver Martinez and Yoceres? I'd say probably not. But what a sum of that would be. But in relation to Jochores, I don't actually think anything's massively changed from last week to today, other than Saturday just really made most of us just feel a bit deflated by a deal that we were a little bit excited about. It's not over with Jochores. I actually think it's got a lot more to run.

13:23My observation on the Jochores deal, whether it's Arsenal or Man United, is it's got a lot more to run. I think that favours Manchester United if we've got to sell to buy and we're working on Embermo. I think it suits us that the Jokeres deal goes on for a while. And I think fundamentally it comes down to Sesko. I saw what his agent said and they're very much about we're not competing with anyone. We do things the right way. We believe in respect. We believe in a certain way of conducting our business. And if it doesn't happen, then we'll stay at Leipzig. We want to treat Leipzig well and we want to behave in the right way with the club that wants us.

14:03And if the right project comes, we will go. And I thought, you know what? What a refreshing way to conduct your business as an agent. Because what they're basically saying to Arsenal is stop pissing around with Jokeres. If you want us, then you want us. If you want Jokeres, go and sign him. But we're not being part of your machine that Berta is actually creating. Berta is lining up Jokeres and Sesko and trying to play them off each other to get the best deal. They might miss out on Sesko because basically what Sesko's agent is saying is that we're not going to be part of that. You either want us and you want to pay a good price for us or go and do the deal that you're doing.

14:41And I think Arsenal and Arteta do want Sesko, but they're having to negotiate. And I think that has an impact then on Jokeres. So this deal, when it happens, for whoever it happens, with Cesco and Jochrez. I feel that United are being delayed because of that, but it probably suits us because we know we need to sell to Bayern. As our CEO said, he thinks it's good that deals take a long time. So we'll wait and see. On Mbermo though, just a little bit of an update on him. There are still people trying to predict when we're going to get the here we go. And I think that they, you know, that would, that would be very, very interesting.

15:24but um

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17:26I think with Embermo, there's probably an element here of obviously negotiation. Man United trying to get the best deal. We'll be trying to save five million somewhere on Embermo. We know we're going to pay 60 million, but we'll be trying to do it in money via Amazon vouchers or IOUs. There'll be something United are doing to try and make money, Bitcoin or something like that. They'll be doing something to try and save money. And we understand that. But as Mr. E says, it could be one to two weeks before we get Embermo done. But I also think there's probably a logical explanation on the Brentford side as well.

18:05if I was Brentford, Mbermo's so important and money is so tight and they haven't got a new manager yet. Are they waiting for the new manager to come in before Mbermo goes? More importantly, are they looking to get a replacement lined up before Mbermo goes? Because I actually think Brentford could be facing relegation next year. I think losing Mbermo and losing Thomas Frank is quite significant for them. So I wouldn't be surprised if Brentford are also saying to Man United, we're not doing this deal until we've got somebody lined up as well. So that could be something to do with it. Could Watkins be a possibility with Villa's finances?

18:44He's not young, but he'd be cheaper and give us goals. I don't think Oli Watkins is available for cheap at all, Keith. I think Oli Watkins reminds me a little bit of Marcus Rashford. There's definitive quality there, but is there a market for him? He's 30, he's on good money and Villa will want good money for him. And I don't know where Ollie Watkins goes. The striker market is diluted this summer. There's a lot of strikers available and I don't know where Ollie Watkins would go. So that would be, I would take Ollie Watkins if Jokeres went to Arsenal and, you know, I'd take Watkins over Eketike because he suits us better.

19:22But I think he'd still be very, very expensive. Do you think they will want Nbermo in before sorting Inanna out due to being a fellow countryman and putting Embermo off, says Christopher. I mean, I couldn't give a toss about Inanna and Inanna being fellow countrymen. You don't keep a goalkeeper like that just because he's got the same, you know, place for the same national team. Still laughing at the Inanna's best stop jokes, says Mira. And that was off the cuff. It wasn't meant to be funny. Just Football says stop player hates. They have contracts. United board. Stop being a prat, mate. You should change your name from Just Football to just a prats what are you talking about player hate i can't i can't deal with people who um when you basically say that you don't rate their player fc they call you a hater um i just i just i just don't i don't buy into this like it's football and you can have an opinion on somebody um without it being hateful um christopher i've done that one uh lee capetown hope how you doing well how Hope you're doing well, Lee.

20:30Hi, Mark. Any goalkeeper is better than Inanna. Not Costa at all. Martinez rather. But as much as we want, Inanna is digging his heels in like any other player. Lee, stop being a hater. Stop being a hater about Inanna, Lee. Stop being a hater. All I'm getting there is hate. No, you're right. We can't do anything until Inanna goes. Let's not be in denial. Preferring Arsenal is a snub, says Simply Red. Let's not be in denial. Preferring De Lapp to Jocarez is a snub. I think you need to remember stuff like this. We went for De Lapp before Jochores. So it's OK for us to go Jochores plan B, but it's not OK for him to come to us as a plan B.

21:06Hypocrisy on a Thursday morning. Could what we've done that one. Jochores deal still feels possible, Sir Damien, but he has got options. George says, I understand there are financial restraints, but do you not view the midfield as a higher priority than striker as there is more creativity in service with Kunja and potentially Nbermo? I think this is a great question, George. I'd love to know what everybody else's thoughts are about the midfield. I certainly think the midfield is an area that Man United need to look at. We're going to ask Ben Jacobs about this live at midday. Anything in the midfield?

21:39I find the midfield, I mean, I've got news to get into, but let me just, I don't mind shifting off. And George did do a super chat for it. In relation to the midfield, all I've ever been told, and we fed it straight into you, is that if Man United wants a midfielder, someone's got to get sold. Now, we said to you a couple of weeks ago that what we were told is that Casemiro or Maynou need to go. Collier could go as well, maybe on loan, but Collier's future at United ain't looking great at the moment. Certainly if we buy a midfielder. So we've got a roster of Bruno, Maynou, Collier, Casemiro, Agate, and we're only playing domestic football.

22:19We haven't got European football, which can add. look if you're in Europe you're playing minimum probably 15 games 16 games maybe 14 12 of your shit that's a lot 12 games is a lot so we're not playing those extra games and if United want a midfielder they've got to remove a midfielder because the roster's already too big I think the balance of our midfield is terrifying George I mean Bruno to me is not a midfielder Maynou plays in Bruno's position and Bruno never doesn't play. So that means you've got to play Maynou out of position. Basically, Bruno's playing out of position in Maynou's position and he never gets subbed.

22:58So therefore, Maynou, if he's going to play, is going to have to play out of position. You've then got Casemiro coming towards the end of his career, Collier who can't stay fit, and Agate who needs a big second season. So we've got five midfielders, but the balance isn't right for me. So I definitely think we need a midfielder, but who are we linked to? lots of people say Hackney from the championship I've only ever heard that as a fan theory Edison has completely and utterly disappeared um not him actually you know he's he's safe and well he's on holiday uh um but I mean as a transfer target the United ever since we didn't win the Europa League that's disappeared completely although he hasn't signed for anybody else yet he is linked to Saudi.

23:38Adam Wharton is a pipe dream in relation to no chance. So yeah, I don't know. I don't expect anything in the midfield, but we'll certainly be asking Ben Jacobs about that. We got van der Sar when he was 34. Let's get Martinez's Drew. Will says, would you take Sanchez if Chelsea go for Mignon again? No, absolutely not, Will. I don't want anything from Chelsea. you know if Chelsea said do you want a Krispy Kreme donut I'd say no because you're probably shit in it and I love I was up at the Manchester office the other day and one of our producers came in with some Krispy Kreme donuts and I love them and I'll often have two but if Chelsea came in with a load of Krispy Kreme donuts I'd throw them in the bin or out the window and everyone would go why and I'd say because it's from Chelsea it probably looks nice from the outside but inside they've pissed in it or shit in it or something wouldn't go anywhere near anything from Chelsea thank you and Chelsea fans know what I'm talking about um HKA says if we're going for Eketike who's 100 million why not go for Isaac or at least try to persuade him I know I'm sounding stupid um I'm sure I saw something about Isaac and Man United this morning I might have been dreaming I mean there's no chance there's absolutely no chance and as um Baz said what about the Kudos story.

24:57So this is coming from Jacob Steenberg, I think, who writes for The Guardian. Jacob Stinkberg. That story stinks. Kudos is not coming to Manchester United. I saw Laurie Whitwell saying last night that there are rumours that Man United might use Kunja and Embermo as a number nine next season. Well, let's prepare for relegation. You can't keep putting people out of position. Embermo is not a striker and Kunja is not a striker. Now, they're good enough to play there, but specialists in specialist positions, what we're going to do, put Harry Maguire up front for a few games as well. Like, we need to buy a bloody striker.

25:35We don't need, we didn't need, look, if we don't buy a striker and we buy Embermo and Cunha, I would say, why did we buy two number 10s that we didn't need when we needed a striker? It's great to sign Embermo, but I'd have been happy with Cunha and a striker rather than two number 10s and not a striker. We need a striker. We better bloody buy a striker. We need a specialist. but we're not buying Kudos. I don't know where that story's come from. It's the same people who keep linking us to Ezi and Semenyu. We're not in for those players. We're not talking to them. We're not in advance talks with them.

26:08We're not considering them. We have bought Kunya and we are negotiating for Embermo, who wants to sign for us. We are not in for Kudos. We are not in for Semenyu. We are not in for Ezi. We weren't in for Cherky. We've gone for Kunya and Embermo. They are plan A's. I will put my hands up and I think everybody needs to acknowledge that. Kunya was plan A and Bermow is plan A. That's who we're going for. We're not in for kudos. I don't know why that story has come in. He plays for West Ham if I've pronounced his name wrong. Just football, can't even spell Pratt.

26:46Okay, I'm not getting into a back and forth with someone who can't spell Pratt. It's the easiest word in the world. English might not be your first language, but it's really easy. Pratt Pertratt it's not got two A's in it Pratt sounds like a bloody sheep

27:05everyone says Anthony's the worst signing Mudrick is even worse says Oddmark we didn't sign him mate and George we've done that one thank you very much as well let's talk about let's just talk about Marcus Rashford for a moment because really interesting we have to acknowledge package outgoings of course um as much as incomings especially when we need outcoming outgoings to facilitate the incomings uh and what that means is we've bought konya we're negotiating for embermo but beyond those two deals we are going to need to sell players now i saw beth's video yesterday about ganacho posting about psg i mean i'd be stunned if he went to psg i mean they've got an abundance of wingers why would they need uh ganacho um i still think ganacho is probably going to end up at napoli because i saw chelsea link to somebody else yesterday i couldn't get my head around it uh pedro pedro of chelsea pedro of brighton to chelsea they're also looking at eketike they're also looking at gittins um they are looking at lots and lots of players so I don't I don't I don't see where that's going to end up um but what I will say is with Marcus Rashford Nico Williams is going to go to Barcelona so that is the end of that and I have sympathy with any player that sort of puts their well maybe not Tevez or Di Maria But look, Marcus Rashford wanted Barcelona in January and they wanted him.

28:46They couldn't offload Fatih and they... It sounds like you're being waitiest when you say that, doesn't it? They couldn't get rid of Fatih. It's the only time you can say it and not get into trouble. I'm going to say it again. So Barcelona really did want Marcus Rashford in January. I'm laughing like a kid. Look, be serious. Barcelona really did want Marcus Rashford in January they wanted him on loan till the end of the season and Rashford desperately wanted Barcelona that's why he ignored the Italian clubs at the start of January and anybody else because he was waiting for Barcelona and remember he hadn't played football since the middle of December realistically if I was Rashford I would have been like I want to move at the start of January because I need to get back playing I haven't played for ages, but he really wanted Barcelona.

29:37Barcelona wanted him. He waited to the end of the window and then they couldn't get rid of Fatih, Ansu Fatih, who was at Brighton, probably pronouncing his name wrong. So ultimately he ended up going to Aston Villa. He did quite well, but there was this belief that because Barcelona wanted him in January, they wanted him again in the summer and they did but then nico williams went i want you you want me let's move and rashford sort of sat there now going that's that's another that's a that's another dream gone so i mean robert mcormack's not here i don't think that he would be saying they still might want to buy him um they still might want to go for him but in a way i think it's a good thing for us i think he would have been a good signing for Barcelona but obviously Nico Williams is better but what was going to happen with Barcelona is that they were going to play games they were going to go we haven't got any money we're going to wait till the end of the window I would rather know that Barcelona aren't going for Rashford in the middle of June than the middle of August so Rashford's now I'm not who am I to advise Rashford who are you I mean I you know I'm not his biggest fan in the last 18 months anyway I think some of his performances and effort and everything hasn't been where it can be.

30:59Having been one of my favourite players, I think it's time to part ways, of course. But I do think he's a bit unlucky because he nearly did get the Barcelona move and it wasn't his fault. They've now gone for Williams. But what Rashford needs to do is look at what he did at Aston Villa and realise you don't always get what you want. And in his career, he's had a lot of things go well, playing for Manchester United, playing for England. And there's a lot of options beyond Barcelona. So he's got to find another option very, very quickly because he will want to be in the World Cup next year. He will want to be in the internationals for England in September.

31:37And he just won't be in that squad if he's not. If he's still at Man United at the end of August, he won't be in those squads. So he's got to find himself a move and he needs a preseason. Now, some people are saying, what about an apology to Amorim? I mean, look, it could happen. I'll be honest. I will see through that like most people will. That would be because he can't find a move. It would be, you know, people talk about Jokeres, you know, choosing, you know, Arsenal over us. I mean, Rashford wants to leave. And if he stays at Man United and apologises, it's because he can't get a move. I don't think he'll do that.

32:14I think he's got way more respect for himself. I also think Ruben Amrum doesn't go back when he's made his mind up. So I just wonder whether Aston Villa might enter the party. Emery really liked Rashford and Rashford had a good time at Villa. I think they parted ways because Villa didn't get Champions League football and Rashford wanted Barcelona. But if he can lower his wage demands, then I think there might be an opportunity there. Newcastle have been linked to him, but it's in the sun and sky. And why would Rashford suit Newcastle? Like Rashford needs to play left wing. They've got Harvey Barnes and they've got Anthony Gordon.

32:54So unless Anthony Gordon's going to Liverpool and they're going to go for Rashford, I don't see that happening. So could we do something with Aston Villa and a swap deal is what I was thinking about. And I think swap deals are very, very difficult because you've got all of Emi Martinez's entourage. You've got all of Rashford's entourage and everybody has to come together on one deal. They're really difficult to do. also Manchester United will probably want to pocket pure profit but in the case of Rashford it might not be such an issue I don't think we're going to see a swap deal involving Marcus Rashford and Emi Martinez but it's far more viable than it would be for a Ganacho Osserman or something like that so I think the Rashford situation is not ideal I really wanted him to get the Barcelona move I think it would have been interesting I think he'd have done well there and you could understand why he wanted it.

33:53But you can't trust Barcelona in the transfer window. Barcelona do what's best for Barcelona. And he had a good run at Villa and there won't be a shortage of people looking at Rashford. The great thing about that Villa loan is nobody can look at Rashford and go, but he's lazy and he doesn't turn up for training. Like, which is basically what Amrim was saying. He did well at Villa. could have done better but definitely could have done worse so you're gonna look at Rashford and you're gonna go I reckon there's something there the barrier will be his wage um but I think if you're Marcus Rashford you can't just go I'm gonna sit on my arse at Man United and earn 300 grand a week for the next three years because your career is gonna die so he's got he's got he's got to swallow the bullet and go and and find a football club So look, the negative is that he ain't going to go to Barcelona and where's he going to go.

34:51But the positive is he's still got three weeks before the start of preseason to get out there and do some work and find a club. Stephen says, with Arsenal losing out to Nico Williams, why not go for Rashford instead? So Stephen, I still think if I was Arsenal, I would look at Rashford and Ganacho and go, there's something there. because Rodrigo's going to stay at Real Madrid now. Nico Williams is going to go to Barcelona. So the strike at the winger market isn't that good. Bayern might look at him as well, although I think they're looking at Matoma. But it could be a good market for Ganaccio in Rashford.

35:31Paul, thank you very much for your super chat. Appreciate that. Irish Whiskey said we bought van der Sar at 34 and he was a legend. Patrick Lynch is in the house. He says squad construction is a real issue the last few years. Some players that don't quite right fit the league or system, despite needing a goalkeeper and striker, they seem to be the last on our to-do list, says Patrick. So what you're basically saying is that we do need a goalkeeper and a striker, but we have got players in our squad that don't suit the system or the league. yeah I mean as I said I think the I'm not convinced that our wing our wingers are the right wingers whether they're fullbacks or wingers I don't think they're right for Amirim's system but we're going to neglect that and I certainly think the midfield isn't right for Amirim's system as well but that's partially on Amirim you know he could have he could have he could have pushed Bruno out the door he really likes Bruno so I think that the midfield as much as I don't think it's balanced it is the midfield that Amrind wants I want Lemans best goalkeeper in Europe says Christian and I think I have a better chance of pleasing my wife than Gannaccio going to PSG hope he doesn't think he's going there says Pengers I only see United selling two players Gannaccio and Anthony anyone else will be loans at the end of the market this is going to be a problem says Edward yeah I could I could definitely see Rashford going on loan and I 100 % think Sancho's going on loan English lessons from Mr Goldbridge how to spell Pratt says Yuv I'm confident Xerxes is a striker flourishes this season this is class of 99 Xerxes has got a part to play at Manchester United and we shouldn't dismiss him or Mount they will be here next season without a shadow of a doubt but I'd rather see Xerxes playing in the number 10 position rotationally than seeing...

37:28I don't like the idea of Xerxes as a striker. I mean, it's not improbable. It's certainly not impossible. But I do think that he's more creative than a finisher. Snowball says, Rianana, disruptive players should be frozen out, but is doing that to a model professional who's not quite at the level tantamount to workplace bullying or victimization? Some people see it like that, Snowball. I would see it as I've told you to go, you won't go. So I'm not using you. You know, it's not school sports day. You don't get a winner's medal when you run last. You know, you're slow, mate. Rajaf says check out my super chat at the beginning what about a midfielder on loan with an option to buy says Ben give us a name give us a name I think that's the thing I would say about there we need a name Corby says hi Mark from Sydney just curious if you know where Terry got his trophies from maybe can borrow United one of the Premier League ones for 2028 you never know with Terry you know probably a car boot sale I don't know and on a contract not his problem United board to blame says JustFootball.

38:40Rajaf says Nico Williams to Barcelona is huge could they win the quadruple also important for us as it kills Rashford to Barcelona says Rajaf thank you very much. I wanted to bring this in actually just on the striker situation let me I don't want to get misquoted on this so this is Rio Ferdinand the United legend YouTube influencer and proposed director of football. This is a direct quote. Number nine, they already know who I want. The comments know. The people who know who I want, who I would go and get. Osman. It looks like he's turned down Al-Halal. He must be waiting for Man United. I don't know if Man United are going to come.

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41:31i'm glad no one's ever got him involved in the football club um yeah i like osman I like Osman, but at what point do these ex-players actually stick their head in the real world and take a breath of reality? At what point would you say publicly Osman's waiting for Manchester United? I mean, he's clearly not waiting for Manchester United. If he wanted Manchester United, you'd just make it clear you want to come to Man United and Man United would go, let's talk. Nothing has changed with Osman from what we were saying last week. Man United will be interested in Osman, but he's got to fulfil two major requirements.

42:23One, he's got to say, I want to come to Manchester United and no one else. And two, he's got to get realistic on his wages. He's done neither. He's never done neither. so he's not waiting for Manchester United at all and it's just hyperbole nonsense at a time where we need some real talk yeah you may as well do a TikTok on that I'm hearing Man United that he wants to come to Man United if he wants to come to Man United it's deal done it's here we go like United would be all over it it's why we've got Kunja it's why we're going to get Mbemo No, because you've got two players, rightly or wrongly, who have said, that's the club I want to play for.

43:08Manchester United. And yeah, we're negotiating with Brentford and yeah, we negotiated with Wolves. But primarily, both those players said, I want Man United. I don't want Spurs. I don't want Newcastle. I want Man United. Osserman, if he wants Man United, could very easily be a Man United player. because if Osserman said, I only want Man United, he'd be wearing a Man United shirt for that first game of the season against Arsenal because Man United aren't bloody stupid. Amrind might want De Lapp or Jocharez. I don't think he wanted De Lapp actually. I think it was just a cheap option. But Osserman's playing the field.

43:46Osserman's basically going, where's the money? Which is why Saudi's still back as an option. It's why Galatasaray might be where he ends up because the demands he's making, I don't know how Galatasaray are affording it, by the way, but fair play to them. But yeah, Osman, I would love him at Man United, but there's just no way that he's waiting for us. We've never, and the thing is as well, we've never really been in for Osman. And I think we're not in for Osman for the same reason no one else is in for Osman in the Premier League. There's this general consensus that everybody's being played to try and secure the biggest deal, which still could be Saudi.

44:29George says, are you concerned that the current transfer focus is very system and Amrim-centric when there is unfortunately a realistic chance he doesn't last? I like Amrim, but could be worth considering. You blame Ineos for that, George. You can't blame anybody else. I think one of the things that

44:52excites me about... One of the things that excited me about getting Ruben Amrim was that he was so different to Ten Hag in style. So I looked at it and went, if you bring in a manager in like that, it's so different, you've got to back him. And if you're going to back him, you've got to sell a lot of players, you've got to buy a lot of players, open heart surgery. But you're right. if it goes wrong the next manager's not going to play the same way as Amorim so you've got to break it all down again um look I listened to what Paul Scholes said and I don't necessarily agree with it but I also understand it and he basically said look this is not a system for Manchester United it's just so different um it's so tunnel visioned and effectively if you sack him you're in a big problem because you've got loads of players that are a specialist players for a certain position but that's not on Amrim that's not on you that's on the board and that is why I said last night I think all these zooms saying Amrim will be gone by Christmas that can't happen like as bad as it gets we can't be sacking another manager halfway through the season because this is such a distinctive style of play that you've got to stick with it for a period of time and like you say you can't not you can't say to Amram I'm not buying you any players because I might need to sack you in the future and then I've got a load of players that don't suit the next manager you may as well sack him now we're gonna commit we're gonna buy these players but that means that they've got to commit for a longer period of time I don't think Rashford Ganache or Sancho should apologize this club is nonsensical mess and the players are reacting to it glazes out says keel um i wouldn't apologize to the glazers no but i think marcus rashford would have to apologize to amrin based on the fallout they had in january that's i think that that's what would have to happen why can't we pull a marino on sancho uh let him rot in the reserves force him out i know i'm dreaming says steven um and john says i feel like rashford will go on loan again with arsenal losing out on nico williams why not rashford says steven i've done that one uh what do you think of alonso changing his formation says robert mccormack um

47:17not a lot really robert um i've seen some of the hipsters so basically obviously um uh javi alonso at leverkusen played with a sort of three four three didn't he uh and at real madrid last night he didn't um so you got a few hipsters going look how a good manager changes his formation when he goes to a big club but ultimately that is just such a again like there are so many ways to observe football and not at one not at any point did I think oh Alonso's changed his formation so so should Amrim because it's all dependent on the interview that takes place now maybe Florentino Perez said we play with a back four at Real Madrid is that going to be a problem.

48:03Absolutely not. I'm not that locked in on 3-4-3. I'm happy to play a back four. It's an honour to be Real Madrid manager and I want to keep the traditions going. And that's why that's happened. Whereas at Man United, maybe they interviewed Amrim and Amrim said, look, I play 3-4-3. I've done it all my career. I'm always going to do it. Is that going to be a problem? And Man United went, no, it's absolutely fine. So they're not comparable, Robert is what I would say. Alonso playing a back four at Real Madrid when he didn't at Leverkusen might be because he looks at the players and that's what he wants to do.

48:38It might be because that's what he's been told to do and he's okay with that. But at Man United, it's very, very clear that Ineos has gone, yeah, we want you to play the 3-4-3. So I don't think you can look at the two situations and go Amrim should play a back four at Man United because it's all dependent on the conversation that's had with the recruitment team and Amorim from day one has always said I'm a 3-4-3 manager if he'd have gone to Man City he'd play a 3-4-3 so you know you can flip that around as well what if Alonso does really bad at Real Madrid and when he gets sacked everyone goes well they shouldn't have forced him to play his system so yeah I think it's my observation on it is that It's just irrelevant.

49:27And again, it takes us back to the morons who just keep talking about the system like he's playing a system that's never been used before in football.

49:42Do you think Martinez can happen? I've seen some shitty source about we've approached Martinez, but look, until Inanna, gets moved on, we ain't approaching anybody. That's my real feel on that.

50:06But of course I would take Emi Martinez at Manchester United. Absolutely. Absolutely. Virts is doing his medical with Liverpool. Oh, great.

50:25Jochores, Arsenal I don't know I don't know the only reason I mean look Jochores is Arsenal's plan B it's very clear that they want Sesko so maybe that's what this summer's all about plan B, plan B, plan B

50:52just having a quick check here so there's a bit of breaking news but I'll have a look no it's not sorry about that so yeah we're live with Ben Jacobs at midday so we should get some new stuff coming in do you reckon Osman will sign for Man United I mean I wouldn't say it's beyond the realms of possibility but I think if he prioritised and wanted to sign for Man United we'd sign him like United at the moment I don't know whether you've ever seen Oliver Twist um well Man United are like Oliver Pist no I'm joking Oliver Twist is a classic Charles Dickens novel uh you may have seen the film and basically he goes bowling and and ask for some more food right and we are a bit like Oliver Twist at the moment like we we've gone to Liam De Lappe and we've said please come to us he's gone to Chelsea.

51:40We're now there with Jocares going, please don't go to Arsenal, come to us. You're telling me if Victor Rosamund, like Rio says, is waiting for Man United, if Victor Rosamund's agent rang up and said he really wants to join you, do you think United would be there going, please Jocares, choose us. We'd be on it like, you know, hungry person on cake. Nearly said something else. So, no, he doesn't want to come to Man United. We'd be all over that deal. If he wanted to come. I don't know why he doesn't want to come. Is it we're not offering enough money? Is it we're not in Europe? I don't know. Really interesting poll here.

52:21Either or. Costa or Martinez. Amazing. We've had 12 ,000 votes. Which is nearly 80 % of the people watching the show. We've had 12 ,000 votes. Costa of Porto. Martinez of Villa. Who would you rather have in goal? 50-50. be. I'm happy with that because to be honest with you, I don't care either. I would go for either. I don't mind. When we didn't sell Bruno, I kind of lost interest as Kiel. I mean, I have said multiple times, I think we need to move on from that. But in all honesty, I shouldn't have said it. We don't need to move on from it because we won't move on from it. We'll keep coming back to it because it was a very significant moment in our summer transfer window and it would have changed a hell of a lot of things if he'd gone.

53:11I wouldn't say it's anywhere near the same as Qatar or Sir Jim, but obviously I wanted Qatar because it was the full sale. It was the debt gone. And I sometimes think about where we'd be now if we had. I mean, look, they might have made Rio Ferdinand director of football, in which case we'd be bloody relegated. But I still look at it and go, I wonder what would have happened there. In a very different way I do look at the Bruno thing and go if he had gone and we got that 100 million what would we be doing now but we you know as I said it's really important that the manager gets what he wants and he wants Bruno I just wish he'd play him as a number 10 thanks everyone for watching I better go because we are back live in an hour with midday with Ben Jacobs don't forget to tune into that John says to be fair to Xavi no pre-season just thrown into a random tournament maybe just getting settled.

54:03Yeah, exactly, John. It is very early days for Alonso as well to get his team playing a 3-4-3. Great comment. Okay, we'll see you at midday. We're live. I'll speak to you in a bit. Take care.

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