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The United Stand

23 Jun 2025 · 47m · 17 chapters

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107: Garnacho CUT PRICE Deal! Amorim BIG Power Play!

In short

United Stand (Manchester United transfer news) discusses how Man United should respond to Alejandro Garnacho’s Instagram/Aston Villa shirt post after being dropped, arguing for a “cut price” sale (around £35m plus add-ons) rather than holding out for £60m. It also covers the club’s broader slow transfer business, the need to move quickly on exits and incomings, and rumors linking Rasmus Hojlund to Inter Milan after Inter sell another striker (name mentioned: “Tarimi”/“Tarimi”).

Guest backgrounds

No podcast guests are present; it’s hosted by Mark Goldbridge with live chat/comments.

Key claims

Garnacho’s shirt post is deliberate disrespect and devalues him; United can’t demand top dollar after publicly making him available; only Aston Villa and Napoli are viable suitors.

Notable examples

comparisons to other players wearing rival shirts; calls to sell now with add-ons/sell-on clause; criticism of United’s handling of multiple exits (Rashford, Sancho, Anthony) and striker recruitment delays.

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Chapters

0:39

Ganacho's Aston Villa Shirt Controversy

Discussion on the implications of Ganacho's post wearing an Aston Villa shirt.

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1:27

Ganacho's Aston Villa Shirt Controversy

Discussion on the implications of Ganacho's post wearing an Aston Villa shirt.

“we're asking the question, how do Man United solve this quickly?”
2:19

The Need for a Quick Sale

Analyzing why Manchester United should sell Ganacho quickly and at a lower price.

“I'm talking about this football club actually behaving like a bloody football club.”
4:51

Understanding Player Value in Transfers

Exploring the realities of player valuation and Manchester United's expectations.

“That is ridiculous because there are a few factors at play here that any intelligent business person, football person, football fan will attest to.”
7:11

Current Market Dynamics for Ganacho

Discussing the limited interest in Ganacho from other clubs and the urgency to sell.

“happen is, is that because we're run by the Glazers, they will have already cashed 45 million.”
9:29

Quick Actions Needed for Rasmus Hoyland

Addressing the urgency for Manchester United to act on the potential sale of Rasmus Hoyland.

“Somebody said last night we should put a buy-back clause.”
14:00

The Future of Garnacho and Rasmus

Discussion on the potential transfers of Garnacho and Rasmus, the club's negotiation tactics, and the implications of ownership.

“But what we'll do is we'll spend two months negotiating, trying to earn another million pounds, because this is what Barada was saying last week.”
17:45

Managerial Dynamics and Player Discipline

Exploration of the managerial approach of Ruben Amorim and the impact on player discipline, with references to past legends like Roy Keane.

“Mac, McCarnacle says, you really need to, I love, can I just say, I know where this is going to go.”
23:06

Rashford vs. Garnacho: A Study in Maturity

Comparison of Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho’s behaviors and public perceptions, including the implications of their actions.

“It's moving forward even when the path ahead is unclear.”
28:01

Transfer Concerns: Player Exits and Club Inaction

Discussing the pressing need for player exits and the lack of action from the club regarding transfers.

“How long is it going to take to get rid of him?”
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29:29

Garnacho's Future: Premier League Interest

Analyzing Garnacho's potential loan options and the clubs interested in him.

“There are Premier League clubs interested in him, but it's loan deals or clubs he'll never go to.”
31:30

Summer Transfer Window: A Cause for Concern

Comparing the current summer transfer window to the previous year and discussing the delays in signings.

“I think it is a big, big concern how slow we are.”
33:34

Striker Situation: Market Dynamics and Club Strategy

Examining the striker market and Manchester United's approach amidst transfer challenges.

“Not because humans aren't enough, but because they're everything.”
35:13

Rashford and Garnacho: Club Loyalty or Desire to Leave?

Discussing the relationship dynamics between Rashford and Garnacho and their implications for the club.

“One of Rashford's inner circle also once dubbed him a fucking Ronaldo wannabe.”
42:00

Arsenal's Decision Impact on Transfers

Discussing how Arsenal's decisions affect potential player transfers.

“And Robert McCormack says, annoying that our only two unplayable players went on.”
44:16

Player Power and Club Dynamics

Analyzing the issue of player power at Manchester United and its ramifications.

“Some people want to blame the world and some people just take a deep breath and go, thank you and move on.”
47:28

Garnacho's Value and Future Prospects

Exploring Garnacho's declining value and future with the club amidst transfer rumors.

“How many players have left Man United and slagged it off?”
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1:19Hi everybody, good morning. Welcome to the United Stand. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United transfer news. As the fallout from Ganacho's post last night hits fever pitch, we're asking the question, how do Man United solve this quickly? And there's one big power play they should be utilising, but will the club behave weakly as normal? Also, Rasmus Hoyland, Inter Milan, is this a deal United could get moving on? What else is going on in the transfer world for Manchester United? As we approach the last week of June, are United doing enough? I think the honest answer is no, but will we see any sense of leadership, strong behaviour from Manchester United over the next few hours and days?

2:03Well, look, the jury's out, but let's start off. We've had a night's sleep. It was last night when we saw Ganacho posting a picture of himself in an Aston Villa shirt. I've had a sleep. Some of you will have had a sleep as well. My perspective has changed, but I think Man United need to sell him cheap. And some people are going, what are you talking about? What are you talking about? I'll tell you what I'm talking about. I'm talking about this football club actually behaving like a bloody football club. If we sell him cheap, it is the ultimate power play for Amrim. It is the ultimate play for Manchester United.

2:34And I'll explain that why. Because I've seen people going, oh, Dogu was training in a Roma shirt. I've got footage of Ahmad wearing an Odingra shirt for Brighton. And I feel like going, you do realise if we all go to the pub and we all have a plate of scampi and chips, we aren't eating the same food. It looks the same, but your chips and scampi are not the same as mine. They're a different cut of fish. They're a different potato. They look the same, but they're not the same. And therefore, Ahmad in a Brighton shirt, Dorgoo in a Roma shirt is not the same. You cannot just sit there and go, every player that wears a shirt that's not the club they play for needs to be treated the same.

3:22Ganacho is wearing Rashford's Villa shirt when he's demanding to leave the football club. He ain't doing it because he's on holiday and gone, oh, I'll just, you know, he's completely and utterly done on purpose. And if you don't think that, then I tell you what, you're in for a life of pain. And I'd love to see these people that think Ganaccio wearing that shirt is just an innocent move. Because I tell you what, if you're the wife, partner or husband of these people, I'd say invite your love around. Bang away as they're coming in through the door from work. And you're probably going to make your cup of tea.

3:58They'll probably go, oh, it's fine. I realise you're not doing it on purpose. He slipped again and again and again. It's completely and utterly, if you think it's fine, that's OK. But don't be so naive as to not understand why that's been done. It is still a massive up yours to every United fan, Ruben Amarim and the football club. It's been done on purpose. Whether you think it's OK or not, it's been done on purpose. And whether you think it's not that deep, well, it's as deep as you want to make it. He's put it out there to say F off. I want to leave Man United. That's what he's done. Whether you think that's deep or not, that's up to you.

4:37But what I think United need to do is sell him cheap because there is still rumours coming out this morning that Manchester United are holding out for 60 million. And that's just stupid. That is amateur. That is ridiculous because there are a few factors at play here that any intelligent business person, football person, football fan will attest to. you dropped him from the final you publicly said he was for sale and he's walking around in an Aston Villa shirt you don't get to ask for 60 million when those things happen that you it's like a player being on strike you don't get to get peak value of a player who's behaving like a spoiled brat who has been dropped by the club and has been put up for sale by the club we are responsible as a football club as well.

5:37Yeah, Ganaccio's behaved badly, but Man United cannot sit there and say, we want top dollar for Ganaccio. It's just not how football works. He's exposed himself as a petulant, bad attitude player, and Man United have told the whole world that they don't want him. You can't then say to Aston Villa, we want 60 million. You've got to get a cut price deal and we're going to have to load this up on add-ons. So my concern this morning is that there is only one power play here. Get out now. There is no point going, well, wow, you know what? We've seen you in the Villa shirt. We're not letting you go until we get the price you want.

6:21We become as petulant, as stupid as he is. You take a deep breath. You walk into the boardroom and instead of getting angry, you go, this situation's a bit shit, isn't it? Can we all agree in the boardroom this situation's really shit? We've invested in this lad. We've developed this lad. We've given him an opportunity and he's basically mugged us off. Do we get even or do we get him out? We get him out. We get him out now. How do we get him out? Well, we can probably sell him for 35 million with add-ons. do it. Do it today. Get it done. End the story. Act professionally. Cut ties. Goodbye. Don't even respond to anything about what he's done about pictures.

7:05Just go, this is a player that we wanted to get rid of. Let's get rid of him and let's move on. Unfortunately, I think what will happen is, is that because we're run by the Glazers, they will have already cashed 45 million. They will have already banked 45 million on the spreadsheet. And therefore, Barada and Wilcox will be going, we need the 45 million because if we don't get the 45 million, we can't pay the payments on Mbermo and Cunha. So we need 45 million. And this is where I think we might be in trouble because if we start trying to negotiate a better deal, it's going to go on for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks.

7:46and we cannot afford that. It stops everything. We're going to talk about Rasmus to Inter in a minute. And it's like, what we absolutely have to do as a football club is remove emotion and be efficient. So I would be saying in that boardroom, forget about the Rashford reply. Forget about the Villa shirt. Forget about him being a prat. The reality is his value is 35 million. Like, we're not going to get any more than that. The truth is only Napoli and Aston Villa are in for him. There's a story out there this morning, I forget where it was from, that there's a list of Premier League clubs after Ganaccio.

8:27The list is irrelevant. There's only Villa and Napoli that are viable options and they're not willing to pay£45 million. Premier League clubs in for Ganaccio is always used, but it's the quality of the Premier League clubs that are looking at him and what they're willing to pay. Some of these clubs are mid-table clubs who want to take him on loan. Some of these clubs he wouldn't fart on if they're on fire. The biggest club that's actually looking at him is Aston Villa. Napoli are interested from Italy, but they're not going to pay£45 million. So don't get excited about this list of Premier League clubs.

9:04It's Villa and Napoli as of this morning, and neither are going to give us the money we want. Napoli can't afford it and Villa are sort of like, well, we can't really afford it either. So I just think the power play from Amarim and Man United here is to just sell him. Sell him for£35 million and put in there another£20 in add-ons and also a sell-on clause. Somebody said last night we should put a buy-back clause. I think it's an irrelevance. I don't think he's ever coming back to Manchester United. So, I mean, you could put a buy-back clause there. I'd rather put a sell on Glaus if he goes to Villa does really well at 23 he goes to I don't know PSG or whatever for 100 million and you pick up another 20 happy days so that's what I would that's what I'd be looking to do and it might be controversial but that's what I was thinking about this morning I just thought you know what what's the outcome that you would want from how do you feel about Gannaccio this morning and Manchester United and the way I feel is if we could if he could be sold in the next hour and we can move on, I'd be happy.

10:11So that's not going to happen. But the quicker we get this deal done, the better. And I'm realistic as well. I don't like that Ganacho post and fair play to him. If you check his Instagram post, my reply, or as I would call our reply, because having a big Instagram account means that sometimes you get noticed and then people like it. I did that live on the show last night, I like the fact that that's still right up there. And I hope the fact that the people around him have read it. This is not a bullying, toxic reply. This is, we've supported you. You're bang out of order. It's a big up yours to those fans that have supported you.

10:51And Fair Play hasn't deleted it. So look, you know, he won't, he's behaved badly and it's disappointing. But Man United have behaved badly as well. We're a badly run football club. and I was thinking this morning, look, maybe Ganacho wants to go in the next week because he wants to be pre-season training with his new club and maybe Villa have said, we're not paying 45 million and maybe Man United have said, well, he's not going for less than 45 million and maybe Ganacho realises it's going to go for weeks and weeks and weeks and he wants to be playing for his new club. So he's done that to try and force a move.

11:27It's not good behaviour, but it's, you know, Man United have behaved badly as well. Not as bad, but we've put him up for sale. We can't demand top price. He's damaged goods in a sense. So there is no excuse for his behaviour as Cap says, but I think we need to go cheap on this one. by posting that picture Gannaccio believes he is taking charge and saying up yours to the club but if I was a club looking at buying him I'd be asking do I need someone with that sort of attitude well exactly Patrick and that's why when we were talking about it last night it was very much it very much devalues him just looking on Instagram actually Rasmus Hoyland's just put up five pictures funnily enough there's no picture from Rasmus who some people think should leave in an intertop.

12:25And Maynou, who was also apparently up for sale, no pictures of him in a Chelsea shirt. Surprise, surprise. And yet Maynou has been dropped from more games than Ganaccio. And yet he is not walking around in a Chelsea shirt with Sancho on the back, which would be exactly the same thing. Apparently he has deleted my comment. Well, he's now put it up as a story. oh no no no no no

12:59let's have a look no it's still there

13:06still there top reply is my brother love from Marcus Rashford and then bang out of order 7000 likes is our reply to it still there. Yeah, but look, as we're saying, the value of Granato is dropping and all I would say is, and let's move it on. All I would say is that when we look at the summer transfer window this morning, news coming out of Inter, I think it's FC Inter news, that once they've removed... What's the striker's name that everybody wanted who plays for Inter? Is he Algerian? what's his name I want to say Yemel it's definitely not Yemel what's his name name the striker who Inter have got who some of you lot want Tarimi that's it so Tarima Tarimi um once they've moved him on then they are going to move for Rasmus that's the story this morning and this is what I would say again if you're selling Rasmus do it quickly we need to move quick and going back to Ganacho just for a few seconds, he's clearly going to go.

14:24So do it quick. But what we'll do is we'll spend two months negotiating, trying to earn another million pounds, because this is what Barada was saying last week. The club would rather spend two months getting another two million out of the people that buy Ganacho than sell him now for 35. We'd take two months to get 37. and for a football club, that's wild. That's crazy. We just need to get on with it, but we've got the wrong owners for that. We've got the wrong owners. If we were owned by Qatar, then Ganaccio would be wearing a biller shirt for£35 million tomorrow, but because we're owned by mercenary bloodsuckers, they will take ages to do this deal, and I just want to see us move quick.

15:14Like, that's what I want to see. Rasmus also liked the Ganacho post. Look, mate, apparently Bruno liked it. De Ligt liked it. People who work at Man United liked it. Maud's liked it. I don't know why they've liked it. Take it up with them. I don't know why they've liked it. I mean, for me, some people see a post on X about somebody's got cancer or something like that and they like it. Not because they like the fact that they've got cancer, but they're showing support. So I don't really care about that, to be honest with you. You know, let's not deflect. Don't care about the shirt. It's the posting and posting in it.

15:58But with this club, how it's run, he's not the first and won't be the last player to do it, says John. Bring him back and make him train in a Villa top, says Ian. Riley says he has indeed deleted your comment. We're still there when I checked it, Riley. By posting that, we've done that one. Get Roy Keane and his assistant coach to put some discipline into our club, says Liam. You see, Liam, I get what you mean. But the point is, we don't need Roy Keane in the dressing room to sort these players out. Ruben Amrim has already sorted them out. This is the funny thing. We don't need Roy Keane in the dressing room.

16:33I'd like a Roy Keane as a player to sort them out. We haven't got a player who can do that. I don't think Bruno does that job particularly well. I think he's the best that we've got. But we don't need a Roy Keane as assistant coach. We've got Ruben Amrim. He doesn't fuck about. He's literally gone in there and said, you're lazy and you've got a bad attitude. Get out. And Rashford's gone. He's basically said to Ganacho, you're heading the same way. You're out the team. Oh, you're going to work hard. You're back in the team. Oh, you've done it again. Get out. That's basically what Amrim's done in the first six months.

17:03Saw Ganacho, saw Rashford. Went, I've only been here a few weeks. You've got a bad attitude. you're out the team. Ganacho reacted quite well to it. He said, okay, you're young. I'll give you another chance. By the end of the season, you've done it again. Once bitten, twice shy, get out. Rashford was get out straight away. So we've already got that. We don't need to bring Roy Keane in. We've already got a manager that's doing that. The problem is, have we got a board that will back that manager to do those things? And that is what we're waiting to see. Rory C says the ultimate power play would be benching for the year, ruining his chances of getting into the World Cup.

17:37I think 45 million in the euro is the best we can do, says Rory.

17:46Mac, McCarnacle says, you really need to, I love, can I just say, I know where this is going to go. So this is Gannaccio walking around in a villa shirt, shocking the entire fan base, but somehow pinning it back on me. So here we go. McCarnacle says, you really need to watch your shows or get a secretary. when Gnaccio slanked off Amrim after the final you said who cares why are we talking about him he's leaving um the comments after the final instantly after the final were in my opinion not that deep he'd just been left out of the final we just lost the massive final and he decided he was going to leave uh I wasn't really that bothered about it but and I don't think it was aimed at the fans I think it was aimed at the manager what he did last night was a big fuck off to you and every other fan that's why i don't think it's acceptable i don't care what he says about amrim i don't care what he says about man united football club but i do care about the thing the reason we do this is is the community this is a fan community and i think what he did yesterday with his mate rashford was and over the weekend was just a big up yours to the fans it's very different to an interview after the game i don't think that was aimed at fans divided fan base prima donna players crappy media and piss poorly run club don't know if I could stay true as you have Mark kudos to what you do says Jadip Gnacho is an immature child get rid says Rob I and a lot of others have backed the kid for too long says Greg and he's just thrown it back in our faces wishing well out of morals but see you later exactly Greg I feel exactly the same good morning Mark hope you and the family are well it's a circus around the club and it's sad they need to bring Amarin back much love solid Blake thanks very much as well there's a feature on Instagram where you can remove a comment, but it stays up for the person who's posted it, says Joseph.

19:33Oh, so maybe he has deleted it. Coward. Coward. I mean, look, I don't care because ultimately what I said wasn't toxic and it wasn't bad. I said, bang out of order. You've basically shit on all the fans. If he's deleted that, then, you know, coward. Absolute coward. Brandified coward yeah so basically you just want the world to live in your way you don't you know that's not even it's not like i'm calling you a mug i'm basically saying you're bang out of order and you're shitting on united fans and you're deleting that so censorship really fine absolutely fine it proves my point there is no excuse you know exactly what you've done thank you very much win we win again if if he had any problem with what i'd said because it's not toxic then he would have replied but the reality is he's deleted it because it's the truth so i don't i'm good another win for us then isn't it because you've got no response other than to delete a comment that you are shitting on fans and as i said last night all those fans out in asia loved ganacho miserable didn't want to be there didn't want to sign stuff i mean that's human beings who are happy to see you and you behave like a spoiled little brat again so see you later somebody in the chat said is Rashford not the same um and no I don't I think in this instance I don't think Rashford is the same um I think Rashford's a little bit clever Rashford's not 20 he's 27 Rashford's team around him is more experienced than Gannaccio's Rashford's very subtle in what he's done this weekend.

21:16You can't blame Rashford. Rashford needs to go. I hope he can get a move to Barcelona. But I mean, the only thing I would say about Rashford is what I found hilarious about this weekend was that he sat there and said that Thierry Henry has always been his role model. And I'm like, first I've ever heard of it. I mean, you've done more interviews than Alan Sugar and suddenly Thierry Henry is your biggest idol. I've never heard you say that before. I've never really said that before, but that's not as bad as wearing a Villa shirt, but it's intelligent, it's calculated. And I wouldn't say fair play, but that's a more mature brand.

21:55That's a more mature dig. He knows by saying Thierry Henry's role model, he's talking about an Arsenal icon and he's a Man United, I nearly said legend. He's not a legend, is he? I don't know what Rashford is, but he's had a decent Man United career. So to sit there at 27 and say Thierry Henry's always been a role model, you're talking about Arsenal's best ever player. So obviously that's either really thick or calculated, but it's not the same as walking around in an Aston Villa shirt. Well, if he had a Villa shirt, it'd be more understandable as well. The reality is we're talking about Gnabja, we're not talking about Rashford.

22:36The reality is Manu's been linked with being moved for a while. Manu didn't start in the Europa League final. And Manu's been out on the cold a lot more than Ganacho. And I don't even know where Manu fits into this team. But he ain't walking around in a Chelsea shirt with Sancho on the back. And you can't buy class. You can't buy professionalism and you can't buy respect.

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24:54you can you have to go and do your homework but my point is this is just a lack of class this is a lack of manners this is a lack of respect and some people have got it and some people haven't i would look at someone like mayner when i'd go again this is what it's not the reason i wouldn't sell him but i wouldn't sell him anyway because i think the way he's conducted himself over the last six months when he's been linked with moves um you know stupid wage requests which to be honest i don't think he's made left out of the team he went he was he was he was one of England's best players in the Euros can't even start in a shit United side.

25:34No pictures of him in a Chelsea shirt. Training pre-season with Yoro. That's professionalism. And you've either got it or you haven't. And Manu's 20. So I think that what we're looking at here is some of our players have sunk in the toxic environment that's been created over the last decade. There still remains one or two characters that are worth building with. Jackin says hilarious that Rashford's ego that that's big and ridiculous that he thinks he can get into that Barcelona team I hope he can Jack I think it'd be great if he can find a move do you think Gannaccio has thought of the long term effects he has caused with getting value I don't think it actually matters from Gannaccio's point of view it matters for Manchester United so what you're basically saying is has Gannaccio devalued himself does it

26:29the quickest way to explain this is it's better for ganacho if he goes for 35 million than 45 million because if he goes for 35 million more people can buy him and he's got more options man united make it harder for him the more money they want so if he devalues himself down to 35 million yes clubs might say he's got a bit of an attitude problem that there'll still be clubs that want him because they'll go he's 20 years of age he's a little prat but we can grow him and make him experienced and make him the player I believe he can be so they'll go for 35 million in the modern market it's worth it he's 20 he's got talent we'll bring him into this football club we'll instill discipline and he'll be worth double that in two years time so it's not a problem that he devalues himself it's a problem for us because we get less money but it's better for him met Garnaccio in Altrincham a few weeks ago sad it ended says Reflex D morning Mark if Garnaccio was flirting with other clubs trying to sell himself like Rashford would that be okay nope Nathan it wouldn't Rashford copying Henri to Barca total rubbish says protect do you think Garnaccio has thought of the longer term effects we've done that one United need to get some balls for once and get rid says Ginger Red my big fear at the moment and this is like bigger picture is that there's this story about Rasmus this morning to Inter.

27:54How long is that going to take? And who is the striker if we get rid of him? There's this Ganacho thing. How long is it going to take to get rid of him? There's the Rashford thing. How long is it going to take to get rid of him? There's the Sancho thing. He won't take a pay cut. How long is it going to take to get rid of him? There's Anthony, which we still haven't done because apparently he wants to go somewhere, but they can't afford him. So there's five things there, five exits that we're not even doing anything on. on June the 23rd. Still haven't got Mbamo. Goalkeeper Anana's not going anywhere and we're not even talking to another goalkeeper.

28:28Striker, who's that going to be? Like, I'm getting up to eight, nine essential things that need to happen. And on the 23rd of June, nothing's happening with any of them apart from Mbamo. And at the moment, the only word coming out of the club or any journalist is we're negotiating on Mbamo. We're not even working on anything else. And we know that. We know that for time. We're not any good at working on multiple things at once. And time is going to start to run out very quickly. I think June can drag. But I know from experience, the last week of June to the first game of the season goes like that.

29:08It does. It just starts going like that. and we're not moving quick enough and I think we all have to hope that the end of the financial year, July the 1st might change that but let's be honest, if we sign Embermo on July the 1st, you've still got interviews, photographs that are going to take a few days. That's the first week of July done on that. Okay, that's a week of July gone. We've still got eight deals to do. There's so much that needs to be done.

29:45don't care about the shirt it's the I've done that one from John as well keep one sell one Rashford or Ganacho Garfield forget it no both go absolutely did the video this morning check that out um do you actually think he wants Villa says Rory I think Villa look the situation with Ganacho is really simple um as I said there's a few stories coming out this morning about Premier League clubs being interested in him. There are Premier League clubs interested in him, but it's loan deals or clubs he'll never go to. I'm not saying one of them's Everton, but think like that. It's not Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City.

30:23It's like the best club that want Ganacho is Aston Villa. Chelsea are sort of tentatively looking, but they have other priorities and yeah, he's not a priority at the moment. Could change with Chelsea because they're so sporadic, but it's Villa. Villa are the Premier League club. Napoli are the other club. Leverkusen looked, but can't really afford it. So he's got two options this morning. If he wants to stay in the Premier League, then Aston Villa is his best option.

30:55I think Napoli is the right place to go. Neither of those clubs can pay the money that he wants. Exactly, Mark. But people telling me we're cooking and we only signed one player, says Ray. Yeah, I mean, look, with regards to where we're at, it's massively concerning because it's just the same old, same old. In fact, I would say it's worse. I've got to say, I think this is a worse summer transfer window than last year. Last year, you had the excuse of the Euros, which basically ate up most of June. We haven't had an international tournament this summer and don't talk about the Club World Cup. so last year you had the euros going on a lot of players are playing in the euros they're focused on the euros so you can't necessarily um focus in on that and and we had the copra america as well last year i think as well so you've got the copra america and the euros going on that has a big big impact also we didn't have players walking around doing interviews about how they love arsenal players or wearing Aston Villa shirts so I would say that this is the worst this is a worse summer transfer window than last year so far um and some people might not be shocked by that because they predicted it but where we are at the moment um I think we're in a worse position than we have been um Liverpool are getting 30 for Kwanzaa strange how they can offload players within a week but we take over a month to do it.

32:26Yeah, I spoke about that last night. I think it is a big, big concern how slow we are. What do you think is going to happen this week? So this week today, it's the 30th of June. So July the 1st is December. It's not December, it's Tuesday, a week tomorrow. So I wouldn't be confident of saying that we'll definitely get a here we go Embermo But it sort of makes sense that we do. And then July the 1st could be an official. Here we go. Announcement from the club. So hopefully we will get here we go on Mbamo. But as we know, with most Manchester United deals, they do take a very long time. On the striker situation, I've seen us this morning get linked to Moises Keane again.

33:14Sammy Abraham again. Mateta again. And yeah, I don't know what's happening with the striker. I don't see United moving.

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35:20any quicker than that. Interestingly, just coming out from the Manchester Evening News, and it's from that journalist who obviously speaks to Rashford's entourage, despite Marcus Rashford's My Brother comments on Gannaccio's latest Instagram post, the pair have only ever socialised during Man United team bonding dinners. One of Rashford's inner circle also once dubbed him a fucking Ronaldo wannabe. So, yeah, this fake brothers-in-arms bullshit is hilarious. And look, to be fair, that particular journalist in the Manchester Evening News has got close ties to Rashford's entourage, as we've seen over the last few months.

35:57He's been a bit of a mouthpiece for them. So he's basically saying that one of Rashford's inner circle dubbed Ganacho a Ronaldo wannabe and that they're not close. they fairly socialised in their entire time at Man United together and yet Ganacho's walking round in a Rashford shirt and Rashford's there going, my bro. So it's not even a real friendship. It's just two bitter, bitter Man United players, you know, petulantly having a moan together. It's not... So basically there's no validity behind their relationship at all. It's just two players that have been spat out by the club trying to be brothers in arms.

36:39It's hilarious. It's absolutely hilarious. But this is why you just get rid of them. Nothing would make me more happy than to see Rashford in a Barcelona shirt and Gannaccio in a Napoli shirt tomorrow. I'd love it. I'd be like, you've got what you've got. We've got what we want. Go, bye. But, you know. Still people are talking about my post on the Gannaccio thing. I'm sure it will get deleted at some point, but who cares? How do you feel about Blachowicz if we can't get the other strikers, says Imad. Well, look, going back to what I was saying before, hopefully we can get Mbermo done this week.

37:13The downside of all this, what we've just been talking about, the Ganacho, the Sancho, the Rashford, is that that could swallow up the week. And we have got to get rid of players. Absolutely, we have got to get rid of players, but it's not going to fulfil the appetite of people who want to get things done. so but it is part of it um but but i i also think that well i don't think it i know it anybody who's saying yeah i'm not really worried until july the 1st well i i think you've already lost if you're waiting till july the 1st for things to happen we've already lost there won't be enough time we we play our first premier league game six weeks after july the 1st and you're going to leave yourself with about 10 deals to do in six weeks in fact you're going to leave yourself with 10 deals to do in three weeks because we need the players for pre-season there's no point signing a player the day before the game like we so we're we're we're we're we're desperately running out of time but united the noise is out you know i mean look what will united react this morning with anything definitive um the noise i mean look we've we've asked um no no comments at the moment from the club about anything so I don't know whether they will make a comment as I said last night I think for someone like Sir Jim Radcliffe it's a real big opportunity to make yourself look popular but just another manic Monday well in a way I'm not defending what Ganaccio or Rashford have done but in a way it's given us something to talk about and it's not just about that but at least it shows that their lack of respect for the club has to come from a position of they want out and I don't respect that but at least they're trying to do something I mean you don't sit there begging for Barcelona and talking about Thierry Henry and Arsenal icon being your role model if you think you're coming back to Man United and you don't post pictures of yourself in a Villa shirt with Rashford on the back if you think you're coming back to Man United so in a way Rashford and Ganacho are doing a better job than our sporting director which we don't think we actually have at least they're trying to get out um the worry is if they're having to behave like that is that because the club is saying we will not let you go unless we get this money and those players know they're not going to get a pre-season because maybe Rashford and Ganacho were like I'm ready to start the season in July and they're not going to help me get a move because they're going to demand silly fees.

39:49I mean, if I'm Marcus Rashford, I know I'm not being sold. I know I need a loan. I know no one's going to pay the money. And I think this is a really important point. What would you do if you were the CEO or the owner of Man United? You've got Rashford saying, I want to go on loan in July because I want to play football. And then you've got the club saying, we're not doing a loan, we want a permanent sale. but everybody in the market's saying you're not going to get a permanent sale no one's going to give you 30 million for Rashford and then pay him 300 grand a week so he wants to go and play now and you won't let him because you want a permanent deal that's never going to happen so you'll loan him at the end of August it's stupid absolutely stupid yeah but we want money for him but you gave him the contract that means he can't sell him if he was on 150 grand a week you'd get your fee.

40:38You gave the contract out. Rashford didn't walk in and say, give me fucking 300 grand a week on a massive contract. You gave him the contract. So you have to take the hit. You're not going to get a permanent deal. So loan him out. I don't agree with the club saying we want a permanent deal. You can't get one. So loan him out. Get moving. I also think the same with Ganacho. You know, you can't demand ridiculous fees when you've made it very, very obvious that you don't want it. You know, you don't want the player. So I think we just need to move quicker. How do you feel about Vlachovic, says Imad?

41:21I mean, look, in relation to the striker, I think that...

41:33Sudhanva says, Chat, did you see the tweet mocking Goldbridge personally? This is horrible. What tweets this, Sudhan? You know, we all want to know what it is. Please tell us. I haven't seen the tweet. Ganacho is a vape look at last picture of his football. I don't know what that means, reflex. Look, in relation to Blahovic and in relation to the striker for Manchester United, as sad as it may be, but as honest as we have to be, when it comes to the striker, we're waiting on Arsenal's decision. That's where we are about that.

42:14yeah when Arsenal decide if they want Sesco or Jokeres I think we will move from there if they go for Jokeres then we might go for Mateta if they go for Sesco then we might go for Jokeres

42:30so I think with the striker we're just waiting on Arsenal who are in the box seat EJ says we're going to sign a player and unveil them to the fans before the first game typical commercial club. And Robert McCormack says, annoying that our only two unplayable players went on. Hey, you know what, Robert? I do agree with you on that. On a purely footballing sense, you know, Rashford should be still our best player at Man United performing week in, week out. That needs to be studied why. On a purely footballing sense, Ganacho should be the future of this football club. But did we give him too much too soon?

43:08did he get too big an ego too soon I said this two months out from the end of the season last year I said the problem with Ganacho is he's been a starter too quick and he clearly needs to be benched and a bit of a kick up the arse to get that hunger back but he can't deal with being benched now because he's played so much football and look he gets benched for the final and he can't deal with it Chuffbridge the English lads in academy products acting like Prats but the Brazilian we bought for 80 million is the only one facilitating his move with some class, says Chuff. Yeah, I mean, look, Anthony still needs to go.

43:52But at least he is trying to sort of work away out of the football club, apparently through taking a pay cut. look it's disappointing but everybody everybody is entitled to do

44:18what they want in relation to how they live their life some people will act with class dignity and respect and some people will lash out we all know that from our personal lives when you part ways with friends or colleagues or whatever. Some people want to blame the world and some people just take a deep breath and go, thank you and move on. And, you know, look at the way that Scott McTominay left the football club and now look at the way, what's going on here. Dylan says, when's TUSFC back, Mark? It will be back this week. I just need to figure out which day it's going to be. So it definitely will be back.

44:52Isn't Jokerez fighting with his club? Doesn't he have an attitude problem? So stick to the facts. Yeah, he ain't posting pictures on Instagram. In an Arsenal shirt, mate. There's many great strikers around the world. Who could they sign? Doesn't United board know that? Are they stupid? At least Amrim knows, says Lazy. And Nadim says, I think United... Sorry, get my words out. I think United will do three times incoming transfers. That's the window, Max. That's it. I don't think we can predict anything with any certainty at the moment. We could still sign six. we could still sign six players, we could sign three we could sell eight players, we could sell two I don't think we can, with any sense of conviction guess what we're going to do Do you fundamentally think this comes down to player power?

45:50I think Manchester United have cultivated player power I actually have said this a few times before I am somewhat sympathetic to what we've created at Manchester United with some of these players because we've encouraged winning Team FC. We've encouraged social media activity to grow the United brand for years. So we've encouraged players to be active on social media, but they're not mature enough for it. So we've seen instances of players liking, I mean, Canacho liked one of my tweets about Eric Ten Hag subbing him. And other players have done stuff like that before. So United have created this vacuum.

46:39As I said to you before, during COVID, some of the behavior of some of our younger players was shocking what they were doing. Like absolutely shocking that you wouldn't even believe it at the time. How many of them are out on, I don't know whether it's the case anymore, but how many of them are out in nightclubs and stuff like that on a Saturday night when there's a game? Like it's, Man United have just not been run. And it's such a contrast to the days when Sir Alex was here, where he had relationships with most landlords in and around the Manchester area. So if a player of his was in there, he was getting a phone call.

47:14Look, he famously turned up at a house party where Ryan Giggs and Lee Sharp were there and he legged it out the back door. so you go from that and success to what we've got now and i think united have had a massive part to play in it by giving too much too soon to players that weren't good enough and whether that's an age thing or whatever we have a part to play in this as a football club um we can't literally you know you can't i feel sorry for the fans but we can't necessarily feel sorry for the club in the way that some of these players behave. How many players have left Man United and slagged it off?

47:50And yet they've probably had a few million out of it over the years. The environment at United and... Look, we had a manager that said something about Rashford and wanting him to focus on the pitch and not off the pitch. The very next interview he did, he basically had to apologise to Rashford. So the club have created this player power as much as the players have created it themselves. Jonathan David is on a free. Why are we not going after him? And we give Ganacho and Sancho to sweeten the Ossiman deal. Arsenal, I can't read you the rest of it because it's homophobic. We still need Rasmus. Cirque season complete, says Kevin.

48:31And if our new striker picks up a knock, who covers? We can't risk being short on options up front. I mean, I think going back to this story about Inter, there is interest in Rasmus in Italy, of course. But why would you do that deal? Why would you do that deal when we haven't even got a striker? We need two strikers. Why would you sell Rasmus before you've got another striker in? And I think that's the big problem, isn't it? We've got Cunha. And thank God we've got Cunha, by the way. I think he's a positive in a time of real frustration and negativity. but that's what I said last night and that's what I'd say again we need to just focus on getting more players in like Kunja and Bermot, a striker and build a new Manchester United because every player we're talking about really is a winger and we don't even play with wingers anymore

49:29Jack says, I think if Inter offer 40 to 50 million for Rasmus you'd take it yeah but i don't think they're going to do that um i don't i don't think we're going to do that i don't think we're going to get the money that we want for anybody like i remember when we were talking about 70 million for rashford now we're talking about people won't pay 30 i remember in january we're talking about 60 million for ganacho his price i mean i i remember in january when that story came out about Manu and Ganaccio. And there was talk of Napoli paying 45 million. I remember going mad and saying, he's 20 years of age.

50:07Like, everybody knows he's got loads of potential. You can't sell him for 45 million. It's 60 million or nothing. We'd do well to get 35 now. In the space of six months, his value is depreciated by about 30, 40%. Legit. Like, legitimately, I can't argue with it. I can't say 60 million now. I can't say 50 million. I'd like to think maybe 40, but he has massively decreased in value over the last five months. Through our own fault as well. And obviously his as well. OK, look, we're back at two o 'clock. I'm sure there's going to be some more developments because. There'll be a lot of people scratching around trying to figure out what's happening.

50:53As I said, I don't know whether United will react to this in any way, shape or form. One positive would be that it might move the deal quicker. As I know, Napoli and Gennaccio by the end of the month was always the big story. But if he does want to stay in the Premier League, then Aston Villa is the only viable option at the moment. But you're not talking 45, 50 million. You're talking 35, 40 million pounds. So let's see what can happen with that.

51:26on incomings, let's hope that we get something on in Burmo soon because we could do with something a little bit positive. Thanks everyone for tuning in this morning. As always, absolute legends. Appreciate that. And as I would say at the end, I'm not happy with the way that Garnaccio's behaved. I'm not happy with the fact that, you know, we've got players basically flirting with other clubs, but at least they're trying to get moves. Man United need to step up and start doing something themselves as well. Take care. Speak to you all in a bit.

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