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2:00Next for Manchester United after Mbumo. Well, there's a delay on Mbumo. We'll talk about that in a moment. But Jocarez and a new keeper is in the news this morning for Manchester United. We'll give you the latest around that and what the realities are. Also, updates coming in on Douglas Luiz. We've also got an update. Well, what I would like to call crap story of the day. We had one yesterday where Man United are apparently joining the race for Isak. I think this is going to be a new feature. The worst transfer story of the day, because we've got an absolute cracker this morning that's come in around Man United, which you're all probably going to laugh at.

2:37Some of you might believe that. Yeah, yesterday's crap story of the day was that United have joined the race for EZAC, which we actually know is a load of crap. Anyway, let's hit the show Friday. How are you doing? The one good thing I would say is that there is no more full week in June. So next week we're going to hit July. Whether that's going to make any difference at all, we'll have to wait and see. but it is a new financial year. So that's certainly something we would say. We're going to talk about Jocares, but let me just update you on Mbumo. This is coming in from Fabrizio Romano. Basically came in, I think it was last night on his show because I did watch it.

3:16But this is what he's saying. Man United hope to get the deal done within the next week, not the next hour, the next week. At the moment, there is still some work to do on the structure of the deal, structure of the add-ons when to activate to pay these add-ons there are details of the total package and structure to be clarified for brian and bumo to go to man united the club is optimistic conversations will continue over the next days and over the weekend with man united and brentford remember what i said to you a few weeks ago brentford don't work weekends normally so we might have to pay them overtime here they don't normally work weekends in early june because that's, you know, they don't.

3:53So United might need to get them to work at the weekend so that they can try and get this deal done. Ben Jacobs said last night, medical next week. I think that it just depends whether Man United want to get this deal done in this financial year or next financial year. Obviously, July is the start of a new football financial year. So if you sign Mbumo, it would go into next year's allocation. I actually would like it to be done before June the 30th. I mean, I don't know what we're doing with Kunya and Mbimo. I don't know whether we're officially paying the first installment before June the 30th or afterwards.

4:27If we do it before June the 30th, that means that we had a little bit of money left that we could use in this year's allocation. And I'd see that as a positive because it leaves next year's allocation alone. Obviously, we're waiting till after June the 30th that we're eating into next year's budget. So it'd be interesting to see how that pans out. But you know what? I'm actually not that bothered. I can see some people in the chat. Frisky says they're waiting to announce him with the away kit. I want to talk about Jokeres. I think that's what's got me in a good mood this morning. But it was a great show last night as well.

4:58I loved it. I'm loving the new spoiler section. But look, genuinely, I think when you understand how Man United work, it is frustrating, but I wasn't expecting here we go by the end of the week anyway. It would have been nice. It could have happened, but it doesn't surprise me that it's gone into next week and it's a good update from Fabrizio and he's basically saying at some point in the next week there's still a lot of talks going on about the add-ons so all these people that have been saying all week deal done 63 million this that and the other it's not deal done is it it's not here we go because we they're not there yet so I think that um I'll be very happy when we sign in Bumo I'm very happy with Kunya I think they're going to make a big difference which I'll talk about in a moment but it's obviously not there yet and I think it will be I'm I'll guarantee it will happen um And the obvious thing, the only negative thing I would say is, and I've said it so many times, is that we can't work on more than one deal at once.

5:55So if we'd done Mbumo two weeks ago, we'd have been working on something else for the last two weeks. And I'm not saying that would be a striker because we're going to talk about what's happening there in a moment. But it could have been a goalkeeper. It could have been a midfielder. It could have been selling somebody. so all in all I think on Monday it's four weeks since David Ornstein dropped the bomba that we were going to sign Mbumo and we still haven't so we do it's that time isn't it we don't we don't have the luxury of time and we need to move quickly but we will get the Mbumo deal done I'm not going to stress too much about when the here we go is going to happen I'm sure it will let's talk about Jocares so this is the big story this morning what's the next deal going to be So, Ebola in Portugal and the Daily Mirror in the UK, both reporting that Manchester United are basically in pole position to sign Jocares now.

6:49I think a lot of this is coming out because of Arsenal's activity. What's the name of that centre-back that Arsenal have gone for? I had him on my career mode. I had him on my FIFA career mode. He's actually quite good. Is it Mendoza or someone like that from Sevilla? Someone like that. He's good. I mean, where's that come from? That's a good deal. They're also looking at Ezi, Rodrigo. So Arsenal look like they're getting Mosquera, that's it. Arsenal look like they're getting active, which can only be a good thing around the striker. I think we all know they prefer Cesc. So are Man United now in the box seat to sign Jocares?

7:25That's what we all want to know. And I want to say, if we are, great. Great. I feel like Tony the Tiger. They're great. Can't even buy it. Can you buy Frosties anymore? Can you still get Frosties? Remember that? Remember Tony the Tiger? They're great. He used to go like, grr, grr. They're great. You know, because he's a tiger. I don't know whether you can buy Frosties anymore anyway. I wouldn't eat them now. Frosties to me were a BTEC crunchy duck cornflakes, which will always be the winner. It's because of the nuts. You can still get them. You can still get them. so I think in relate moving on exactly uh moving on I'd be really happy with signing Jocares um I'll tell you why in a moment but is it do I believe these stories from Portugal do I believe the story in the Daily Mirror no no I don't I listened to Fabrizio last night what and and considering this is about 10 10 hours old I listened to Fabrizio Romano's last video last night about 10 hours ago and this is what he had to say about Jokeres he said he hasn't rejected Manchester United but he has told Manchester United that his priority is Arsenal mainly because of Europe and where that football club is and where he is in his career so Arsenal is his priority and he's waiting to see what they do if Arsenal go for Sesko and don't go for him then the door opens up to Manchester United.

8:59But somebody else could still swoop in and say, we've got Champions League football and he might fancy that. So that's the reality of the position. You can't dress it up any differently. You can't put makeup on it. You can't put perfume on it. It is what it is. He would rather go to Arsenal for the reasons that are very obvious to everybody. Some people are like, he's crap. He's basically a Swedish Rasmus. because that's what some people do as a defence mechanism. If he'd said he wants to come to Manchester United, people would be saying he's the best striker in Europe, he's scored more goals than anybody in Europe last year and he'd be brilliant for us because we need goals.

9:36But because he's wanting Arsenal over us, suddenly he's a load of crap. Suddenly he's the Swedish Lukaku. And it's not true. He is wanted by Arsenal because he's a very good striker. Look at it that way. He's not rejecting us for Ipswich. He's rejecting, he's not rejecting us anyway, I must just say, but he prefers somebody to us. It's like, I don't think people understand what a rejection is. You ask somebody to marry you and they say, never, you ugly prat, that's rejection. Somebody saying, I'm not sure about it at the moment, is a nice way of saying they're probably looking at what else is on the market.

10:22It doesn't mean it's a no. And I think that in this situation, I don't really understand the problem with Jokeres coming to Man United if Arsenal sign Cesco. Because it completely and utterly ignores two major factors for me. First of all, we finished 15th and we're not in Europe. We're absolutely rubbish. We're Manchester United by name. We're not Manchester United in any other way. We don't replicate or resonate or remind me of any United side I've ever seen or any United side I watched on tapes with my granddad in the 80s. I don't recognise this Man United. I don't recognise us at all. So we're trying to rebuild it.

11:05if the best goal scorer in Europe wants to come to us because Arsenal don't want him anymore thank you thank you please come here and score a lot of goals for us I you are welcome thank you very much for coming to this football club and helping us out I would still see it as a massive massive win because we ain't this man united that some people think we are where beggars can be choosers and we can go we don't want you anymore see what we end up with if we don't get Yaceres that's what I would say and the second thing I would say as well about Jocares is and this is what I did on Instagram with my hot take and I'm going to say it here now on YouTube as well because you might not have heard it I think if we get a striker in that I'm happy with I'm going to sit here and say the pathway to top five is well and truly up and running I'm not drunk I haven't had anything.

11:55The only thing I've got is black current. That's it. There's nothing in there. It's completely water and whatever Sainsbury's black current is. And it's very, very refreshing. But I think the pathway to top five strategically is en route. Embermo and Cunha scored 35 Premier League goals between them last season. Our top five Premier League goal scorers scored 30. So you bring Mbemo and Kunja in, and then you add a striker that can score 15 Premier League goals. That's 50 goals there. Now, obviously, I wouldn't expect them all to get 50 goals, but with Bruno there and Ahmad as well, Kunja, Mbemo, Bruno, Ahmad, and a striker, I can see us going from 30 goals to 50 to 60 goals.

12:43That's double the goals. That gets you massively up the league table, and that's got to be what the strategy is. So I'm not going to sit here and say, if Jokeres ends up coming to Man United, I'm going to, oh, it's a bad thing. I think suddenly you've got another 20, 30 goals coming into the team with Kunja, Embermo and a Jokeres. Maybe more. So, and that's not fantasy talk, that's factual talk. Our top five Premier League goal scorers scored 30 goals. Jokeres could nearly do that on his own. Plus Kunja, plus Embermo, plus Bruno, plus Ahmad, plus whoever else we've got. It would be a massive spike in goals.

13:21and goals win games. At the other end, if you could replace Anana with a half-decent goalkeeper, you'd probably win a lot more games as well. So look, we can talk about stats. We can talk about systems. We can talk about difficult fixtures. But the reality is, football's a very, very simple game. We didn't score enough goals last year. Let's bring three players in that can score a lot of goals. Our goalkeeper's not that good. Let's bring a goalkeeper in that's better. We'll concede less goals. We'll score more goals. We'll climb the table. And, you know, you can say it's bullshit, like Shiraz says, but football's really easy, mate.

13:59It's really simple. Really, really simple.

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15:48Tell me I'm wrong. It's simple. Get people in who can score goals in this league. Get a goalkeeper in that's not shit. It will change overnight. Chelsea, Chelsea have been making this mistake for three years. They haven't brought a world-class goalkeeper and they haven't brought a world-class striker. And they struggle because of it. Simple as that. so do I think that we're in pole position to sign Jocares I suppose is the main thing because that's what we're getting from Portugal and the Daily Mirror no I don't think we're in pole position to sign Jocares I don't think anything's changed in the last two weeks and I don't think anything's going to change in the next week either I think Jocares is locked into a very very tempestuous situation with sporting over what his release clause or fee is going to be I don't think that either party is looking to back down on that at the moment um and i think that that could run for quite a while i don't think that helps jacquez i don't think that helps arsenal i don't think it helps us i don't think we're going to have a striker on the u.s tour i would love to get proved right but i just don't see it we are somebody said to me we are now three weeks out from going on tour three and a half weeks something like that um maybe i think it's four weeks today we play our first game so on the tour so we're not even in concrete negotiations with the striker so and it's four weeks on Mbumo so we're not we're not we won't have a striker on tour um that won't happen but do i think if you're asking me who i think the most likely striker to sign is at the moment, Jokeres.

17:23But I'm not confident. I just think he's the most likely striker because we're not linked to anybody else at the moment. Tommy says, striker or goalkeeper, Mark? I don't think it can be a choice. I think it has to be both. I think if you make a choice, then we're just being what Man United have been for the last decade. Well, we have spent money. Yeah, but you haven't spent enough. You haven't done enough. And we need both, in my opinion. Hi, Mark. Love the stream says James you said you'd be happy to play for you said you'd be happy to play professional football for free would you still play for Man City and Liverpool for free yeah I would James yeah I mean not now but I would have done 20 years ago I'd love to play professional football I don't I don't think that I'm I'm never going to lie about that I you know obviously the dream would have been to play for the club I support so I'd love to play for United but to play professional football i mean that was the dream for me as a kid i'm not gonna deny it now for you know some weird sort of um oh yeah now i'd only play for man united and i mean you know i have i did do trials i did play decent football when i was like 15 16 and you can't be you know the very few players out there that can be so arrogant that they're gonna that they can say i'm only gonna play for man united it's a it's a gift to play professional football and i'd grab it with so with both hands.

18:42Don't mind the deal, but why club's not fighting for him, says Robert McCormack. I don't know who you're talking about, Robert. Who are we not? Who? Mbumo, I think. That pathway will be blocked off and dug up while we have the prat between the sticks, says Gaz. If back, do you think Amrim can win a title, says Ben Mitchell. It's very difficult. I mean, I think that has to be the strategy, but it's very difficult to say Man United are going to win a Premier League title because it's possible but Liverpool look very well run at the moment. Very well run. Buying good players. Liverpool look like they're not going to go anywhere.

19:18Arsenal look like they're not going to go anywhere. Man City, I would say, aren't going to go anywhere but there is this court case. So I can't sit here and say Man City aren't going to go anywhere because they could. But Liverpool and Arsenal don't look like they're going to go anywhere. It's very competitive. It's very hard to say we're going to win a title. Have you noticed how Ruben's former players seem to be picking or preferring other clubs like Kenda and Jokeres doesn't transmit confidence as class of 99. I think that's because United are shit though. I think we didn't get Kenda because Chelsea offered him a far better deal.

19:50And we're not getting Jochores because we're not in the Champions League. I understand why Kenda chose Chelsea and I understand why Jochores chooses Arsenal. I don't think it's a reflection on Amrim. I think it's a reflection on the club. Jochores news is not even worth it. If it happens, it happens. We are losing interest. Izzy27 says, well, you're losing interest. some people might be losing interest i think i'm not going to lose interest in a striker i will intend uh the first pre-season game of the season in sweden hopefully i'll get to see some new signings and not some greedy perhaps as casper um first pre-season game in sweden you're not going to see jokeres even if he signs for united but you you will see embermo and kunya definitely i feel like this i feel like in this instance for once united not the only ones at fault for the embermo delay brentford rightfully want the best deal for them it's still frustrating that it's one deal at a time.

20:38I think that's the big thing, Patrick, yeah? We can't work on more than one deal at a time, can we? And many clubs do. Liverpool were clearly working on Kerkers, Frimpong and Virts at the same time. Clearly, because they've all happened in a month. Jocares, says James. Frisky, welcome to the members club. Thank you very much. I'm scared for Man United. Our rivals are just operating on a different level, says Sammy. Yes and no. I mean, I want to talk about the goalkeeper next, but yes and no. I think that Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City and maybe Chelsea are operating on a different level to Manchester United at the moment.

21:14But they are on a different level to Man United. You can't go to the top of the mountain from the bottom. You've got to climb the mountain. And Villa at the moment, not having a great summer transfer window. Newcastle at the moment, not having a great summer transfer window. Brighton, Bournemouth, Forest. this is where next season I think most of us would be comfortable with being fifth or sixth anything below that I don't think we would but I think fifth or sixth next season and a good cup run back into the Europa League most people would grab that now I want Champions League football desperately I do but and I think the club do as well but I'm not putting us into the Champions League I mean that's ridiculous to go from 15th and how bad we are to being in the top four when we've just mentioned Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City.

21:58It's very difficult. To be in the Champions League, we would need England to get five spots again and we go for fifth. If it's four spots, I don't think it's possible. So I'm sort of looking at fifth. I'm looking at the dream being fifth and people say, clip him up, clip him up. It's a reality dream. The dream is to win the league but I'm not stupid so I look at next season and I go fifth you're absolutely correct we are nowhere near operating like Liverpool Man City Chelsea and Arsenal are in the on the pitch or in the transfer window we're miles off but for me I don't I do mind about that but maybe that's next year for this year this summer transfer window we've got to just go fifth that's what we've got to do and anything beyond that's great and maybe we do go beyond that because we're not playing in Europe maybe we have a really good season and we're really fit and we're really I mean I remember when Liverpool nearly won the league and that was under Brendan Rodgers because they weren't playing in Europe they were so fresh they were killing teams in the first 20 minutes hopefully that's going to happen to us but reality is we'll probably be somewhere between sixth and tenth but I look at I look beyond Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City and I go Spurs, Newcastle, Villa, us we've got a right to finish above them if everything goes well.

23:18Newcastle are in the Champions League Villa are in the Europa League Spurs are in the Champions League I don't think they've got the squads to deal with that we won't be. So I'm pitching us in at 5th and then hoping that everyone does well in Europe and we get another Champions League spot that's what I'm pitching us in we've got to go for 5th. 5th is the new 4th and that's what we've got to go for but they've got to get a striker They've got to get a striker to do that. We desperately need physicality in our midfield. I hope you don't get too hung up on a striker so they can address this position too, says Rob.

23:50Interestingly, I'm going to talk about goalkeeper, but Rob makes a good point. And I saw a story this morning about Leeds being in for Douglas Luiz. We're not Leeds stand, we're the United stand, but it does just give a little bit of information in this story that we probably didn't have yesterday. Now, remember, Man United have been linked to Douglas Luiz. Some of you wouldn't like him. I would. I think he's better than what we've got. And I think we certainly need a bit of energy and athleticism in the midfield. He's only just turned 27 as well. So I think he'd be a good signing for us. the article that's talking about Leeds interest actually gives his wages and the price that Juventus are looking for so Juventus want 21 million and his wage is 82 ,000 so both of those things I think for a 27 year old Premier League proven midfielder who ticks a lot of the boxes for us I think 21 million and 82 ,000 pounds a week is isn't bad is it so I don't know whether we're going to act upon that but i i don't think that's too bad um mark if a woman said that she doesn't reject me but prefers someone else i would be fuming says amir depends who the woman is in it uh do you know the reason why no one went for kelleher other than brentford says i so well they went for him pretty bloody quick um we can't go for him uh a liverpool player uh bailey overton thank you very much for your super chat he says i've been watching the united stand since i was five with my older brother who sadly passed away love this community mark the best community in the world well bailey i'm i'm so sad to hear that about your older brother um and i don't know the circumstances of it obviously but really sad um to hear that um and thank you for being part of the community um some people in the chat are saying that rude's been sacked by leicester all i'm going to say about that is welcome to modern football it's absolutely idiotic you throw him into a job in december and like amarin he doesn't have a pre-season he doesn't have a transfer window not only that you put him into leicester in the premier league you are definitely going to get relegated and then you sack him in at the end of june wasting half your transfer window i mean that's just how to run a club badly isn't it it's incredible if they were going to sack him They should have sacked him at the end of May.

26:12Get the new guy in for June. So Rude's been there on holiday, thinks he's coming back and gets sacked. I mean, it's just, it's crazy to me. But it's modern football. Some of these owners are thick. Like, they haven't got a bloody clue what they're on about. You had to give him a pre-season. Look at Graham Potter at West Ham. They were shit. But he needs a pre-season. I don't think people understand that giving a manager halfway, giving a job to a manager halfway through a season, unless you get someone like Emery at Villa, you need a bloody miracle for it to work. He needed a pre-season. Ridiculous.

26:46Stupid story of the day before I talk about goalkeepers. This came in from I think it was Team Talk. So Man United are in the race to sign Zaire Emery from PSG. I think he's 19. I think he's already played 100 games for PSG. He's a midfielder. Mostly on their bench to be fair but they are a great side.

27:11does it sound like nonsense to you yet it should do but this will be the icing on the cake PSG are looking for 85 million it's nonsense it's the nonsense story of the day Man United are looking at Zaire Emery for 85 million pounds what a crock of rubbish um it's nice to bring in a rubbish story of the day uh let's talk about goalkeepers though there is some nonsense floating around about the goalkeeper as well. Kanaseki of Atalanta has been linked to us again this morning. Apparently, Man United are getting ready to offer €40 million for Kanaseki of Atalanta, goalkeeper. I haven't seen that much of him, really.

27:51I know he's highly thought of, but I haven't really seen that much about him. We know that Emi Martinez, and this is a fact, you know, it's been spoken about by Ben Jacobs, Fabrizio Romano, many, many others. Emi Martinez is basically flirting with us. He wants to come to Manchester United. So whether you like Karnaseki, whether you like Emi Martinez or Costa, who with Edison staying at Man City, I thought he was going to Man City. Costa, you can't go to Man City now. I don't think there's another club he can go to. Maybe Chelsea. But Chelsea don't look like they're going to spend that amount of money on a goalkeeper.

28:29So there's three good options there and there's probably more. Costa, Martinez, Kanaseki, there's probably more than that. The goalkeeper market is strangely good. In a year's time, it might not be. So I think that Man United have got to find a way to do this this summer. There is no way on earth that Amarim wants Anana. There's just no way. It's not his goalkeeper. He didn't buy him. He doesn't want him. He wants his own goalkeeper. 100 % the same way Ten Hag wanted his own goalkeeper the same way Pep wanted his own goalkeeper and Arteta wanted his own goalkeeper he will want a goalkeeper many of you will want a goalkeeper and this goalkeeping market is the best I've seen it in a few years there are so many goalkeepers available this summer and it might not be like that next year so I think United have got to find a way to do it I'm not going to sit here and say they've got to do it before the pre-season it won't happen before pre-season anyway but I think with a goalkeeper it doesn't have to happen before pre-season but I do have some concerns if we want Martinez I think he's suspended for the start of the season and the way United work financially I wouldn't be surprised if they went well don't sign him until after his suspension's over which means you start the season with an honor which means you're jeopardizing points again but that wouldn't surprise me with the United because how many times have we bought players after the season started so Martinez could could happen later in the window but you're jeopardizing points Karnaseki we'll come back to Costa we'll come back to but I think that the big issue that we've got with the goalkeeping situation is the market's really really good but we have to sell an honor we have to sell an honor He can't be here.

30:23And this is where it's a double-edged sword because some of you, like me, would bring the goalkeeper in and force Anana out. But some people won't do it until we've got rid of Anana because they're worried that if we do bring in, say, Costa and then Anana says, well, I'm not going anywhere, he might just sit on the bench on 140 grand a week. it's a risk but I don't care I actually don't care I want Man United to be successful and that's the most important thing so I was listening to what Fabrizio Romano had to say I'll bring actually bring the news in so what he said about the goalkeeper situation last night is that Man United have had no concrete talks with Karnaseki there are no concrete talks between Monaco and Inanna and Emi Martinez would like to sign for Manchester United but as of now there is nothing advancing on the goalkeeper situation.

31:24What he said is there is interest from Saudi for Inanna but at the moment that is not progressing. So the goalkeeper situation and the striker situation are really easy. People can say there's no news but they're easy situations. we're waiting to see what Arsenal do with Jokeres and Sesko and when they decide what they're going to do we will decide what we're going to do because we're picking up the crumbs and with the goalkeeper situation we can't get a goalkeeper because Inanna won't leave and if Inanna won't leave we won't get a goalkeeper it sounds incredible because obviously we want a goalkeeper but it's incredible that that player power still exists at this football club because of the debt because of the debt that strangles us we have got no financial leeway to do what maybe a Barcelona would do or or another club would do or certainly a Man City if you've got the power you can force these players out you can buy another player in but the trouble with Man United is that everybody knows because it's public knowledge just how financially um insecure we are so i'm not saying that we can't get a goalkeeper in but it's the inana situation that's causing the problem and he is well liked at the football club that you know it's not that amram doesn't like him i mean be a very interesting carrington when rashford and sancho and ganacho roll back in a in a couple of weeks time with an honor there won't be an issue it's not it's not a personal issue it's a quality issue um city and liverpool are getting two here we goes in four days and we can't get one in three weeks is it because we finished 15th and nobody wants to join us or are the negotiators not good enough says kevin i don't know this is a very good question ken uh kevin um and it's got nothing to do with finishing 15th in the league like man city's whole existence was a poor premier league club that got relegated every now and again they then got rich owners they had no pedigree and they were buying better than we were as a team that was winning the premier league every year and what i mean by that is that man city got money and suddenly they were buying better players than liverpool and man united even though we were finishing higher in the league than them because they had money and negotiators so it's not it's never about your league position on how slow you negotiate if you've got the money and if you've got good negotiators and that we don't have good negotiators we haven't we've never had good negotiators um i'd argue it with anybody we don't have good negotiators we never have we spent six weeks negotiating with leicester on harry maguire and paid a british transfer record of 80 million we've spent four weeks negotiating with brentford and we're going to give them exactly what they want.

34:20We're not good at negotiating. We started talks with Anthony in June and Ajax wanted£50 million. We left it, came back in August and we paid£80. So we're just not good at negotiating on transfers. We're good at getting players in. I've never seen, you know, look at the players we've brought in. Pogba, Maguire, Casemiro. You know, we've brought in good signings. Embermo, Cunha. but we're not actually good at negotiating. And that's where I don't think people understand that because when I say we're not good at negotiating, they start looking at the players we buy. No issue with the players we buy, but we're not quick at negotiating and we're not good at getting prices brought down at all either.

35:01And we never have been. And it's not changed. It's not changed under Ineos at all. We're still really slow at getting deals done. And ultimately, Mbema would be a Man United player if three weeks ago we'd said, we'll give you 60 million plus five in add-ons.

35:20Because ultimately that's what we're going to do after four weeks anyway. We've not negotiated that price down. If anything, it's gone up. Our first offer was 45 million plus 10. We're now at 60 plus something else. So we are very bad at negotiating and it slows us down. Liverpool, Man City, Arsenal, they're just better negotiators than us. The factors behind that are probably better personnel, better owners. What has traditionally slowed Man United down, and I presume it's still the same, is that, and this is anybody that's been at the football club or any ex-employee of the football club or any decent journalist will tell you this.

36:00What has traditionally slowed Man United down is if you're negotiating a deal with Brentford, you don't have the power to negotiate the deal. So Brentford could be going, look, we'll do this now. but it's only for, you know, we'll do this now, but only now. That negotiator can't go, let's do it. He's then got to go out, speak to the Glazers. They've got to think about it, come back. Everything has to get sign off from the Glazers. So that's what slows us down a lot of the time is that the negotiator doesn't have the power to do the deal. They have the power to negotiate, go back to the Glazers and say, this is okay.

36:40And then they come back and it slows it all down uh what did you think about Rodrigo from Porto says LZ not a lot I don't I don't watch Porto I didn't watch Porto in the Club World Cup um I've certainly not heard as we linked to him and I don't think that in this summer transfer window as I said yesterday there's some people who mentioned Guerra and Stack as an Elliott Hackney as midfield options but we're not actually in talks with them. So it's irrelevant. We're not actually in talks with anybody beyond Mbumo at the moment. Jokeres might not end up being the striker. We might not get a goalkeeper.

37:21We might buy a midfielder that no one's talking about at the moment.

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39:26Um... I'm trying to word this in a way that's fair. He's had a bad year at Juventus for injuries, but that's not necessarily a no from me. I mean, if we had a decent medical team, I'd want them to look at it and go, and my question would be, I want this player, is he a medical risk? Because is he picking up a lot of injuries now because he's going to pick up a lot of injuries for the rest of his career? Or is it because he's gone to Italy because when he was at Villa, he wasn't picking up these injuries? bruno created 91 chances last season salah 89 salah got 18 assists bruno only 10 we need better finishes and vermo and kunya got 35 from 21 xg this is lazy i've always said this about bruno his stats on creating chances are incredible i watch every single man united game i don't know where these chances get created from i genuinely don't know where they get created from because we Don't create chances in the penalty box.

40:23So is it counted as a chance creation when he passes it on the halfway line to Ganacho and he shoots from 40 yards? Is that a chance created? Because I've always said this about Bruno. There's no doubt he's a brilliant player. But I don't remember many chances where Bruno plays it into somebody and they miss a sitter. Because we don't create that many chances like that. So what are these chances that he creates loads and loads of? And surely it's a fair statement to say some of these chances that he creates must be a five yard pass to someone like Anthony or Rashford or Ganacho who cuts inside and shoots from ridiculous places.

41:02Is that counted as a chance? Because that's not the same as the sort of chances that, you know, maybe a Mo Salah creates. And that's probably why when you say that Bruno created more chances than Salah, but Salah's chances got converted more, it might be because of the quality of the chance created. I don't know what the definition of a chance created chance is, but I've always said this about Bruno. I watch him every week and I don't see four or five chances per game that are sitters. So I've never really understood how they determine what a chance creation is.

41:41some of them will be good chances, but I don't, I don't, I think some of them must be, you know, the pass to the person who shoots from a stupid place. Should we rotate, should we rotate Kunja, Xerxi, Hoyland and Mbremo as strikers instead of signing someone? No, no Tobias, don't be a glazer. Don't come up with, don't do stuff like that. Don't come up with, why, why as a United fan would you sit there and go maybe we don't need a striker maybe we can get by with Rasmus, Serksy, Kunja and Mbamo like we have to be greedy we have to be greedy we're not accountants we have to be greedy and we have to shout what this club needs because if you give them excuses not to spend money they won't spend money like we need a striker 30 Premier League goals last year in our top five from our top five scorers is terrible we have to have a striker there can't be a let's get by.

42:36We have to get a striker. Need a traditional striker, says I. So, yeah. Thank you, Rob. Thank you, Tobias. Do you see a way back to the top with our current owners, says Siska? How's your hangover? I'm not hungover. I've got a bit of a headache, but I'm not hungover. I hope you and the family are well. Thank you, mate. And yours too. Do I see a way back to the top with our current owners? I mean, it's not impossible. It's not impossible.

43:05but I don't see us winning Premier League titles with with the Glazers and Ineos I can see us getting back into the top four just but I don't see us winning Premier League titles with them no no I don't I can't see Man United winning Premier League titles I don't think we've got the the the right sort of players to do that in the next like I think I think that I don't see many Premier League title winners in that team. And to get to that point, I think there's a hell of a lot of work that needs to be done. And I don't think United... I mean, look at Liverpool. They've just spent£120 million on Virts.

43:52I mean, and they're the Premier League title winners. I think it's the worst time in the world to be playing catch-up in the Premier League. I've seen the Premier League from its inception to today. And there has been Premier League seasons where everybody's had a bad day. And then Leicester took the title. Or the big teams, I mean. There has been Premier League titles where a Man United, there's not really a competitor for us, so we win the league. There has been Premier League seasons where, you know, one or two teams are competing with each other for three or four years. I look at the Premier League at the moment, I don't think it's ever been so competitive.

44:27the Man City domination seems to have stopped it doesn't mean they can't win the title but Liverpool and Arsenal have closed the gap and you've still got Man City there then you've got this next wave of clubs who want to be part of that whether it's Chelsea, Newcastle, Villa whatever so there's a lot of competition and I think the traditional way of Man United winning Premier Leagues doesn't exist anymore you can't just build a half-decent team and compete for a title you've got to be and they're all fighting each other as well like Liverpool won the league and then they go and buy three or four top players because they now want to win the Champions League they're building like really really super squads basically I mean look at Man City last night the bench they've got there it's a hell of a look I think the first step for United and I'm not being negative I'm being positive the first step for us is to get back in the Champions League and consistently because if you can get in the Champions League league consistently it's huge money and that's why liverpool are spending money that's why arsenal are spending money they're earning 100 million pounds last year that we're not going to get and next year two or three years they've made you know they're on the they're on the way to half a billion of revenue that we're not getting at all you can't compete against anybody that's earning half a billion of revenue every five years that you're not getting it's going to kill you so we have to get back in the Champions League first and then we would reassess whether we can win the title with this ownership but at the moment it looks very very difficult but I'm not saying we're going to get relegated I think we have to just pitch where we are and that's why I said a few minutes ago for me fifth place would be the dream this season as long as top five get Champions League football um Mark Berrada said we will go for players that want to play for United and not for Champions League football so why are we going for Jokeres we went for De Lappe as well because he's talking out his arse.

46:23Robert McCormack says, Bruno takes every set piece. That is probably a very good

46:32point. John says, it's actually insane that we can't talk to two players at the same time. It's a weird concept for Man United to multitask. We have done it. We can do it. It's just quite rare to do it. Even last summer, it was Xerxes, then it was Yoro then it was De Ligt and Masraoui but they were at the same club and it was the same deal um and then we've got um and then we did Agate didn't we so we're just very bad on incomings I've never really monitored it enough on outgoings um I don't know whether we can work on an outgoing and an incoming at the same time uh what do you think about Jadon Sancho um I think Jadon Sancho is uh um i know he said something rude i i i think in relation to jayden sancho i don't like talking about him um because when he left to go to chelsea last summer i thought that was it and it feels like it's it's like an annoying boil on your ass that's come back that you thought you got rid of um i don't mind talking about rashford i don't mind talking about ganacho don't mind talking about Anthony because all three of them need to go but it's the first time we're really trying to get rid of them Sancho feels like a player we got rid of and he's come back and I just I just find it such a this is these these are the things that frustrate me because it's like again United are now negotiating with Juventus Napoli and Fenerbahce and we talk about not being able to do deals quickly how can you do multiple deals like he should be a Chelsea player.

48:14We were told a year ago that they'd got him on a loan with an obligation to buy, and unless they finish below 12th in the Premier League, he had to sign for them. And United let that go out, and it annoys me, and it should be a real warning on how happy they are to lie to you, because that was there, and they were living off that praise. Oh, that's not a bad deal, 25 million guaranteed, he's gone to Chelsea unless they finish below 12th and then what happens in March we're oh no no no they can send him back for five million quid so I'm sort of like he was a Chelsea player he was gone and now he's here and our negotiation team which are not very good are now wasting days maybe weeks negotiating on a player when we thought he'd gone so it's wasting time basically that's what i'm saying uh it's strange we we sacked hundreds of people and have wilcox and favel both doing the job of director of football how can we not do more than one deal at a time says patrick um i don't think and also let's not forget i don't think wilcox and favel are experienced by any stretch of the imagination in negotiation of big deals um so they're they're very much learner drivers themselves favel is well thought of um but this is a big job and Wilcox is very early in his career as well and Barada is very it's his first job as a CEO he was a COO at Man City so yeah again we've got people that will hopefully get better in future years but are still learning the job is Ineos saying to Ruben you should have won the Champions League it says Sudev it should have won the Europa League um can't know anything about it now unfortunately uh kevin says we're waiting for the suspension to end might be risky on martinez because if an honor happens to perform well in the next couple of games the club might decide not to pursue a new goalkeeper i think if um i think if an honor is uh in goal for the pre-season um you know how it works pre-season perera um if he does well in pre-season people will start thinking we don't need a goalkeeper and then in october you'll realize you made a mistake.

50:33You're absolutely spot on, Kevin. I can see a scenario where in pre-season, all the PR will be there, always having a great pre-season, and then the window closes and the reality strikes. No one's telling me that that's the right goalkeeper to go into the season with, but if we do it, ultimately, who pays the price? It'll be Amrim. Amrim's the one who'll be the manager fronting up after the mistakes. Hi, Mark. Very happy with Kunya joining. Quick question. Why is it United don't send more scouts to Brazil or South America like Madrid or Barcelona. William, I think you've made a great point as well.

51:05It was something that Ten Hag was very big on because being at Ajax, they recruit a lot of players from South America. The South American League, especially the Brazilian League, is one I actually hope to, over the next year or two, start monitoring more. I've always liked that league and the Argentinian League, even if it's just watching the highlights or something like that, because there are so many. It's just an absolute pipeline of teenage talent. Obviously, Real Madrid have just took that lad from, was it Boca Juniors or River Plate? Forget that. Chelsea took that centre-back as well. Brazil, like there's always a 17, 18-year-old coming through.

51:50It was something that United were looking at under Ten Hag and I don't know where we are with it now. I really don't. But we have got Martinez, Argentinian. We have got Kunia now, who's Brazilian. And Kunia loved Manchester United as a kid. So we are still a massively popular club in that area of the world. We're just not very good at Mastantano. That was it. We're just not very good at recruiting from there. And I don't know why. I think you're right. Like, I mean, we had the Silva brothers, didn't we? Fabio and Raphael. many years ago, but it's a very good market and we're just not very good at tapping into it.

52:38But we're not great in tapping into any market at the moment, really. We're getting better in the European market, but our recruitment... I mean, there's a fantastic story there, isn't there, that we'd all read about Man United's worldwide recruitment policy because it's not as good as it can be, to be honest with you. Anyway, we're talking talk. Thanks, everybody. This morning really enjoyed the show. I hope you did as well. I am with you tonight, Friday night at eight o 'clock. Lovely stuff. And we are back at two o 'clock with you as well. Do there was a question there I will answer. Do you think we'll get any breaking news today?

53:15At some point, we will get breaking news on concrete talks with somebody. And I say that with total positivity and conviction. There will be some story breaking at some point in the next few days about concrete talks for Ganacho or Rashford or Anthony or Sancho or Jocheres or a goalkeeper. That will happen. Guaranteed. We're walking into that area now where it has to happen. do I think it'll be today? I don't know. Do I think we'll get Mbemo, here we go today? Doesn't feel like it. But at some point, it will happen. It's inevitable. We can't sit here and go, it's not going to happen. It will. We have a massive pile of players we've got to move on, and we have a massive pile of players that we need to bring in.

54:02And it can't be every day, speculation, speculation. There has to be at some point concrete talks, because we know that from concrete talks, you then start the clock between three and six weeks for it to get done. So three to six weeks time takes you to the start of the season virtually. So there has to be some progression on other deals really soon based on the knowledge that from look at David Ornstein, that Monday night was the start of concrete and Bermot and Man United. Four weeks later, he's still not here we go. So and that's not unusual for United. So we need and will get at some point in the next few days some concrete developments around something.

54:42but it doesn't mean they won't sign for another month which is why i know it will happen uh 15 hours ago uh ganache posted on facebook never got to never get too comfortable people switch up fast one day you're their priority the next you're invisible thoughts i haven't seen that reese um but

55:08it's quite a deep comment isn't it and it's not it's not wrong I don't know why Ganacho got kicked out of the team for Mount and I think that that's what's caused all this but Amorim is the manager my girlfriend's always like Ganacho because he's a diva I should have seen the red flag sooner says Hayden what happened to the main new contract extensions as Peter oh it'll happen mate it'll happen that's a fake account by the way says brandon uh it probably is because i've not heard anything about it um the main new contract will happen they might keep it back till august when the look if you're man united and you know you're going to announce a new contract for mainu and you are going to announce it it's very obvious mainu's out there training working hard with yoro he ain't going anywhere not going anywhere he's going to be at Man United next season.

55:56If you're Man United and you know you've got a new contract for Maynou to announce, do you just do it today or do you wait to a point where the fan base is getting frustrated and do it then? Perfect to announce it in August when the window's not going well. It's just about timing. Thanks everyone for watching. We'll be back later. Make sure you smash a like and subscribe and I'll speak to you all soon.

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