124: GONE! Garnacho EXIT Close! Amorim TOLD To Make Do!

0:01Hello everybody, good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge. I hope you're doing very well. This is your latest Manchester United transfer news this Thursday, the 10th of July. We're fast approaching halfway through this transfer window, but we're slowly approaching transfers. Or could it be about to change? We've got big updates around Ganacho, which could bring in pure profit, which could allow us to sign Mbemo and maybe look at a striker. And we'll be looking at that striker situation because although there is sensational headlines coming out of Portugal that Arsenal might retract from a Jocares deal.

0:35I don't think Man United are looking at that. There is links to Eketike again, which we can talk about too. Also, we've got quotes coming out from heaven and not God or Jesus, like, I mean, Aiden heaven. And we've got quotes coming in from Cunha as well, as Amorim basically is told to make do with what he's got for now. The plan is to continue and do that. and we've got a few, well, I don't like talking about this player. Can you guess who it is? We will talk about them. There is an update about them. I don't want to talk about them. It's, of course, Jadon Sancho. So thanks, everyone. Chris says he'd love to get some quotes from heaven.

1:17Yeah, I mean, we're not going to do that. Imagine that. I mean, Goldbridge Live with quotes from heaven. John wants to hear from his dog. I'm all right. It's great here. I miss the walks and the heavy petting, but that sounds sexual. But I'm having a great time up here and I'm being treated really well. Can't wait to see you later in the afterlife. Also, we've got Steve who is missing. No, it was actually missing. But is it? No, no, we won't do that. OK, let's get into the show. Hope you're all doing very well. Where shall we start? Well, I think where we should start is, and I'm live at two o 'clock with Ben Jacobs, so I'm looking forward to that because Beth normally does it, but she's on holiday.

2:01So I really want to get a grasp of where we are with things. But late last night, it came in from the mirror that Napoli were ready to come back in for Ganaccio for£45 million. pounds. And it sort of prompted a tweet that I put out at the start of June where I said something like, morning all, Ganaccio to Napoli nailed on by the end of the month. Now, quite rightly, I live in this world of social media. A few people at the start of July had waited and said, man, Goldbridge knows nothing. He said Ganaccio to Napoli by the end of the month is nailed on and it didn't happen. He knows nothing. His sources are terrible.

2:40Well, look, I'll hold that. But the transfer window is still open and it is still what I was told at the start of June from people close to that particular transfer. It's his best option. Napoli really, really do like him. And he was very close to going there in January. Now, I'd say there's two reasons he hasn't signed for Napoli yet. One, it's Manchester United and we're absolutely snail shit when it comes to transfers. and two, I think Ganaccio was on some crusade that he was going to stay in the Premier League and prove everybody wrong. That's proving harder than he thought. So I think that the Napoli deal is still very, very likely in my opinion and stand by what I was told.

3:23What the Napoli director, sporting director said about this back in June. Oh, I've got a great quote, by the way. Remind me about this. Spin, spin. Just say that at some point. I'll come back to it. But Napoli sporting director Gianni Marner actually spoke about Gannaccio in February. And this is what he had to say. So Gannaccio is a player that we like. We've always liked. We were looking at him even before Karech Schellier left. We made a very important offer to United and we came very close to their demands. Very close. However, a deal in January was always difficult because in order to leave the Premier League in January, the player probably wanted to be satisfied financially it's something we we couldn't really do at that stage of the season when you bring in a young player on a high salary and you're trying to achieve things with players that have done stuff for the team obviously they went on to win the league so it was the right decision but look they're interested they do like him people talk about the player that they've brought in um quite recently but this is the definite this is definitely the most this is the easiest deal for manchester united to do when you look at the players that they're trying to sell and the situation is this marcus rashford has got no options and he's desperately trying to train with a club that he's been saying he wants to leave for seven months he's had his number 10 shirt taken away he's flirted with barcelona he said villa was the best place he's ever played um he definitely wants to leave but now he's realized no one wants him so he's desperately trying to get back uh jayden sancho just is greedy and will not lower his wage demands.

4:58Malassia, I mean, look, if he can find a club, that's great. Anthony wants to go to Betis and Betis wants Anthony, but they can't afford him. And Ganacho, to be fair, is the one that is probably going to get some interest, is pure profit and needs to play. So I am absolutely convinced at this stage that the reason Mbermo hasn't signed and we're in this ridiculous situation where Kudos and Alanga are having medicals today in half the time that we've been dealing with the Mbamo deal. I think we've seen this movie before, as I said last night. I think that we're just not saying it publicly, but we should all have figured it out.

5:36Like the Lytton-Masraoui, we wouldn't do it till Wan-Bissaka had gone. Like Agate, we wouldn't do it till McTominay's gone. And I feel with Mbamo, we're not doing it until we've got somebody out the door. And that's why it's taking so long. So Ganacho could be the most likely player that we can get out the door. And let's hope that something's in that. What I would say is people are reporting this morning a£45 million deal. I do wish people would actually do proper research if they're going to put themselves out there as aggregators or content creators. The deal is£45 million package. It's not£45 million to Manchester United because this causes problems.

6:15It causes problems for Manchester United. It causes problems for you in the fan base because people start going, I thought it was 45 million. It's not. It's a 45 million pound package. So it could be 35 plus 10. It could be 30 plus 15, but it's not 45 million pounds up front. Some people are talking like it's 45 million plus add-ons. It's not. It's a 45 million pound package. We would have to put in salon clauses. We would have to put in maybe a buyback clause, but it won't be 45 million up front it will be maybe 35 we're lucky um which isn't good enough when you think about pedro gittins embermo cunha alanga all going for north of 50 we can't get anywhere near that with ganacho but we're that's our own fault so i'm hopeful that this is going to start moving because napoli are still interested it's his best option beyond that i thought chelsea in the premier league but doing the Chelsea watch along the other night with Chelsea fans, they were saying, we don't want Gannaccio.

7:14We don't even want him. So I think this is the best option. From what I understand from Gannaccio's camp, there's rumours that he is individually training at Carrington. I don't know whether that's true. He's definitely individually training, but he obviously is a little bit younger than Rashford and doesn't really have the clout of Rashford in the British media to back him. So Garnaccio isn't liked by the British media, if we're being completely honest. So he's not really up for playing the game that Rashford's doing, where you try and, you know, have a bit of a player power battle with the manager and play on the heartstrings of, oh, should we pick him?

7:55Garnaccio knows he's got to get out and every day he's not out is a problem for him. So hopefully we get some movement on that. I get the feeling that if Garnaccio just commits to Napoli, that deal can happen very, very quickly. But I say quickly, it's Man United negotiating, isn't it? And United have got some very weird ideas. On the one hand, they want£60 million for Ganaccio. And on the other hand, they don't think Mbermo's worth£60 million. On the one hand, they want£40 million for Rashford. But on the other hand, they didn't think that they can't bid for Jochores. So it would be interesting how that develops.

8:32But certainly, we've spoken about this for about six weeks now. Gagnaccio Napoli is there to be done. I just think that United are slow and Gagnaccio probably was thinking about a Premier League club, which is not going to happen. There's not a lot of clubs that have got the money to go and do deals at the moment. I think Villa would like him, but they don't have the funds. We could definitely love a Lego building channel, says J-Law. I'd love to do that. I'd love to do that. Let me talk to you about Embermo. I just want to talk to you about this one very, very quickly. So I was doing a watch along last night, PSG Real Madrid, what a game that was actually.

9:10And there was something in the chat saying that there'd been an update from somewhere that the reason this deal hasn't been done is because Brentford keep moving the goalposts on the price. And I'll say now what I said last night. This is not the case. It doesn't matter who you talk to or who you read. Anybody of credibility will tell you, and you know yourselves, Brentford haven't moved any goalposts. They want 60 million. They've always wanted 60 million and we've never offered 60 million. We've offered 45 and 55. Add-ons are irrelevant. They want 60 million upfront. It's the same thing that sporting want from Arsenal.

9:53They don't want 55, they want 60. And you know, when you look at it, that's always been the case. So anybody who's putting it out there that Brentford keep moving the goalposts and Man United, the reason Man United have taken seven weeks is because Brentford keep moving the goalposts. They're just Glazer sympathisers. They're just Ineos sympathisers. Like I want to back Man United on this and we have had our pants pulled down over the years, no doubt about it. But it's always been 60 million. And the market dictates its 60 million based on other transfers that we've made and others have made. And if we offer 60 million and Brentford reject it, then I think we could all say, right, Brentford are taking the piss.

10:34But until we offer the 60 million, we've not completed the deal. And I think the truth of the matter is, in my opinion, the reason this deal is taking so long is because we haven't sold anybody. I think we want to sell someone before we buy someone else. And I think with Cunha, we had the 20 million to pay in year one because that's all we've got to pay. And I think that's our only, and people forget this, we've only paid 20 million in this transfer window. You count up what other clubs have spent. It's incredible. We've spent 20 million. Cunha's a 62 million pound player, but we're only paying 20 million pounds in year one.

11:09So after spending 20 million, we're already in a position where we're going, we're not buying anyone else until we sell someone. And that's what's happening with Embermo. We are not willing to commit to their fee until we sell somebody. And I think that's where we are with it. So look, there are people out there who strangely still pretend that they've got information or strangely back in the oss and the glazes in what is just not a backable situation at the moment. They can turn things around, but let's not put the blame onto Brentford. Let's not put the blame onto Brentford. Let's not put, you know, Brentford are not the big bad wolf.

11:46If anything, we're the big club. We're the ones that have taken the piss and we haven't offered the 60 million. And I guarantee as soon as we do, we'll be in a position where that deal either gets done or we can walk away because Brentford are taking the piss, but offer the money first, offer the money. We're moving slower than a snail, says Boic. Thank you very much for that. Just a little bit of something coming in. I don't really want to dwell on this too much, but it's coming in from Portuguese sources, Ebola. You might remember Ebola from the Bruno De's record, Ebola. There's a few, there's a few.

12:23But anyway, they have said in the last few minutes, Arsenal are about to give up on a deal for Victor Jochores due to the demands of Sporting's president, Frederico Fernandes I am not interested in this story I saw it I've seen a few people talking about it I've seen a few people talking about it in the live chat before we went live I'm not interested in this story because he wants to go to Arsenal Arsenal want him and it's a bit like Mbermo that deal will happen and Arsenal will do that deal and Jokeres will get that deal done and Sporting will allow that deal to get done. This is just bartering to get the deal done.

13:05It's a bit of pressure on sporting. We're going to walk away. You've got a player that's on strike. You're arguing over 55 million. You're arguing over 5 million. Just take the offer that we're putting on the table. But Arsenal can't walk away from that deal. And I'll tell you why. They can't walk away from that deal because they're not going to get a better deal for Sesco. And they can't walk away from that deal because they've let it publicly be known that Jokeres was the player that they want. So if they go for Sesco, Sesco knows, Arsenal fans know, everybody knows that that's their second best option.

13:36That puts huge pressure onto Arteta straight away. They'll get this deal done. So I'm not getting involved in it. And we couldn't hijack it because, I mean, we couldn't hijack this deal at all. We're not in a position to hijack it anyway. We haven't got the money to do it. Nicholas says, do you think that Hospital FC can buy Luke Shaw for 30 million. I mean, he is on rehab all the time, says Nicholas. Thank you very much. A man can dream they bottled it before, says Robbie G. Thank you very much for that. Just on the striker situation, though, I think we are very lax at the moment in relation to what this football club is doing about a striker.

14:15Correct me if I'm wrong, but striker is the number one priority for Manchester United. And I think it's bloody disgusting where we are at the moment. I'm seeing people talking about Xerxi being the striker Rasmus is still here Obi's 17 We needed a striker two years ago We needed a striker a year ago And we need a striker now And pre-season Perlo mentality Where people just get lost in the fantasy of pre-season Needs to stop We need a bloody striker And I tell you what Being linked to Jamie Vardy Calvert-Lewin And players of that quality Is depressing it's amazing how low the Glazers and Sir Jim Radcliffe can take the mentality of this fan base where people are saying I think Jamie Vardy could do a job at Manchester United or I think Calvert-Lewin could do a job at Manchester United.

15:03Calvert-Lewin couldn't do a job at Everton he's bloody injured all the time and he's not that good he doesn't score many goals. Vardy was decent five years ago not now I don't know whether anybody watched the Premier League last year, but he didn't tear it up. He's not the same player. He's approaching retirement. Where do people get these opinions from? Poundland, they're absolutely terrible opinions, but that's the situation the club have put us into. Desperate street. We are so desperate that people are talking about Vardy doing a job for a year. Since when do we want an old pastic Premier League striker up front for Manchester United?

15:41I mean, at least with Ronaldo, Cavani and Zlatan, you're talking about iconic European strikers coming towards the end of their career. Jamie Vardy is about pace and he's approaching 40. And I don't mean 40 miles an hour. It's not the deal for Manchester United. Jamie Vardy's been a very good Premier League striker for Leicester, respect, but he's not the answer for Manchester United. And why would you want a striker for one year? What's happened to this fan base? I want an old past it Premier League striker for one year. Why? What are you going to do next year? Get another one in. It's a farce.

16:13The striker situation is an absolute farce. We've gone from Jocheres, De Lapp, Osserman to Calvert-Lewin and Jamie Vardy and Callum Wilson. It's incredible. Like, this is a really important position. A really important position. It's like saying, I'm going to take a boat across the English Channel and someone's saying there's a big hole in it. And so it just passes the sellotape. It'll be fine. Never to be seen again. We can't keep putting plasters on open wounds. And it amazes me the players that we're being linked to and the amount of prats in the mainstream saying, I think it'd be a good idea for them to get Calvert-Lewin.

16:54I don't think there's much difference between Calvert-Lewin and Jokered. I mean, it's just crazy. It's almost like they want us to fail. but we should be signing a striker. And I like Xerxi, I like Rasmus, I like Obi, but we need a striker. Like we need somebody to bear the heavy load of being a Man United striker. And that means experience and quality. And that was something we needed before the summer transfer window, and we need it now. And the fact that it's not even a conversation is incredible, because we're still messing about on the Mbermo deal. We aren't even talking to a striker. So I think you're in a position now, on the 10th of July, where I would say pretty high chance we won't have a new striker for the Arsenal game.

17:38I know that's still four and a half weeks away, but seven weeks on an Embermo deal, not even talking to a striker at the moment. Well, I tell a lie, it's very quick to do a free transfer, isn't it? Maybe we will have Calvert-Lewin for Arsenal, but I mean, that is as scary as it's incredible to me. So it's a shocking state of affairs. It's not a surprising state of affairs, but it's a shocking state of affairs in relation to what we're doing with the striker at the moment. And I don't think it's being discussed enough because I'll tell you what's happening. It's the drip, drip, drip effect of the Glazer management where you just basically drown this fan base on piss.

18:15We're just swallowing it and we're just going, actually, it doesn't taste that bad. Coming into this season, coming into this summer transfer season, worst ever Premier League side, lose to Spurs in a final, can't score goals. In the middle of July, I've got people saying, I reckon Zerksi could do a job. It's amazing the mentality that they inflict on us. I think Zerksi could do a job. We might be okay with Rasmus and Obi. We need a fucking striker. We need a striker. Come on. On that, the reason I wanted to talk about a striker is build a saying that Manchester United remain interested in a move for Eintracht Frankfurt frontman Hugo Eketike, with the strikers asking price set at £86 million.

19:05Well, what was I worried about? It's only£86 million for one of the best up-and-coming young strikers in Europe. I mean, what I've been worried about, it's clearly going to happen. I mean, just put your feet up. In fact, have a holiday. I tell you what, everyone have a holiday. We'll all piss off to Mallorca, Ibiza, wherever for a week. We'll leave our phones at home, And I guarantee when we come back a week on Saturday, Eketike will be holding up the shirt. We don't need to worry. We don't need to worry. I mean, God, all I want is a bit of realism. I don't want fantasy. I want real. Yeah, 86 million for Eketike.

19:40Having said that, I will say this. Under 100 % Glazer ownership, I wouldn't rule it out. I wouldn't rule it out. I think we've seen them before in desperate throws of a transfer window that they've messed up, they'll suddenly find 80 million quid. But not in an INEOS ownership partnership, no chance. Kiel Robinson, oh, I need to tell you this. I need to say this, Kiel, just before I read your super chat. You know, I should have said this near the start, apologies. You know, like we do this show every day. And we've been doing it for quite a long time. Over the years, things have been said that are repetitive spin.

20:29And some of us, myself included, forget those things and fall for the same trap again and again and again, which is why I've said, Omar Barada said, at the end of May, we've been planning this summer transfer window for ages. And that's the line of the summer. for me because we clearly haven't. But there are other Perlers out there. And if anybody can remember any, please bring them in. For example, a certain journalist in the Manchester Evening News, every time the summer transfer window closes and it's not a very good one, puts an article out saying it might not have been a good transfer window, but Man United are planning on massive signings next summer.

21:11It happens every year and we never get the massive signings. But David Ornstein is somebody of credibility. And this is what he had to say on relation to sources coming out of the club in early February. This transfer window has been seen as a transfer window to get the house in order in preparation for the summer transfer window. so basically Ornstein put it out there having been told by the club I presume that the reason the January transfer window hadn't been as expansive as people wanted it to be was because the January transfer window was about getting everything in order and planned for the summer transfer window and that's coming in from David Ornstein arguably the best transfer expert out there doing his job as a journalist, being told from Manchester United that the January transfer window was really about getting everything in order for the summer transfer window.

22:21And you look at that and you go, OK, what did we do in the January transfer window that's helped us for the summer transfer window? Rashford, Anthony on loan are back here right now. We needed a striker, we needed a midfielder, we needed a goalkeeper we haven't got any of them so what bullshit basically again and it's hard to remember and you don't always remember them but across every 12 months how often do we get fed stuff from the athletic david ornstein for brittier romano manchester evening news the daily Mail, The Telegraph, BBC, from stuff that comes from Man United that ultimately ends up being an absolute crock of spin.

23:12And that's a classic example. And I'm glad that I want to shout out the person who sent me this because it came in from Devil's Info via United Red Report, via an article from David Ornstein via The Athletic. On February the 3rd, this window was more about getting the house in order for the summer um yeah just complete and utter shite basically complete and utter nonsense um yeah god somebody else is i'm not even reading this talks continue between brentford and uh united excited i i it it it makes you want to throw up it really really does make sure you want to throw up anyway let's move on to something a little bit more positive i mean i say something positive um there is positive and there is also why is this coming out this morning so we've had a couple of drops interview-wise this morning from heaven and from Kunya.

24:24I like both of these players. I'm very excited about Kunya, but I would say why, when we've only signed Kunya and he signed in the start of June, why are we putting out interviews through Manchester United about Kunya on July the 10th. We've already had a few quotes from him. I appreciate it's the first week back, but you are aware that there is a transfer window open. And I like Kunja and I like some of the stuff he's said, but there's a time and a place. And I don't think this is going to go down as well as it could do if you waited a few weeks. But it's a clear indication to me that nothing's going to happen today.

25:17I think you can read United quite well. And if they're putting out an interview with Cunyar on Thursday today, they're definitely not preparing for an Embermo because you wouldn't, you know, that interview drops at eight. This is how it works, right? The interview drops at eight o 'clock. And then for the rest of the day, you've got tweets, TikToks, Instagram reels, quotes all day about that Cunha interview scheduled by Man United. So they're not going to put out an interview on a Thursday morning and then have Mbermo deal happen on a Thursday afternoon. I hope I'm wrong about that, but I think we can write off another day.

25:58I mean, some people would say you can write off the whole week again, but yeah, I wouldn't. As soon as I saw that, I thought, oh, I'm interested to see what he's got to say, but forget an Embermo deal today. So what did he have to say? Not did he. He's probably got nothing to say at the moment. He's probably legally told to keep his gob shut. But what did he, couldn't you have to say? He said, I'm so happy to be here, of course, after everything I dreamt about, I was very excited to start. To me, a couple of the guys already, I feel a little bit more adapted. He said, I think always like an opponent, you know, it's different.

26:32We're joking when I go to the locker room we're talking about games especially with Masraoui I think it's always with him of course we're talking about the games we're talking about the season and yeah I think everyone was lovely with me a very warm welcome he said I'm wearing the number 10 shirt yeah it's something that you always dream about I can mention many players that use this shirt it's so easy for me of course I think the one that I always think about when I see this number in this shirt for me was Wayne Rooney he was someone that I grew up to watch him play and I've watched many games now and I think look you know what there's not a lot there but we're very fortunate with Mbemo and Cunha that they still remember Man United being successful as 25 year old men I suppose as 10 year old kids 15 years ago we were still very very good um 2010 we were still a very good team we were playing in Champions League finals we were winning Premier League so we're very lucky that there are still footballers in their prime that remember as being a big club uh and obviously their pull of that a number 10 shirt and Wayne Rini is a big thing.

27:34And you can sense from Kunja that he's really excited to be here because he has a real affection and love for Manchester United. As we've said, the clock is ticking. That won't be the case in five years' time. You're not going to get people who are 25 in five years' time, who when they were 10, look back on United and go, oh, I just loved watching Fellaini run around the midfield. It's just not going to happen. It's going to be a very niche person who feels like that. But we certainly do have that with Kunia and it's a positive and it sounds like we've got it with Mbermo. But those days are going to run out very, very quickly.

28:09And as I said before, my biggest concern is not that. My biggest concern is people are getting richer and richer by being in the Champions League and we're not. Let me just read some of your comments. But we have also got some quotes coming in from Aidan Heaven. He did an interview with The Athletic. He said that on moving to defence at 15, he says, I only moved into defence when I was 15, quite late. I started playing centre-back when I was 16. I was a left-back before I went to centre-half. I played everywhere, really. The coaches thought I was more suited as a centre-back and that's how it worked out.

28:40He said that effectively he made his mind up to come to Manchester United when he watched the Rangers game. And I can't remember that Rangers game. God, I don't remember. I think my brain's trying to deny last season, basically. I can't remember the Rangers game. It was an Amrim game, wasn't it? It was an Amrim game because heaven said, I watched the Rangers game and that was when I made my decision to sign for Manchester United because I fancied myself playing in a back three. So it must have been Amrim. I think it was January time, wasn't it? Bruno, last minute winner at home, says Patrick. 2-1, says Linda.

29:23Yeah, you've got... I know it was a Europa League game. Yeah, it was January, wasn't it? I just can't remember the game. I can't remember the game at all. Yeah, so look, Kevin's... Hopefully, he's going to be a really good signing, actually. Kevin says, Sporting director seems to have a strong mindset and after Jocares publicly criticised them, I think without getting what they want, they will not let Jocares go, says Kevin. Look, if Jocares ended up at Man United, I'd be ecstatic but even if I was saying this to somebody the other day if Arsenal had signed Sesco a week ago we wouldn't be signing Jokeres because we haven't even signed Mbumo we're not even in a position to go and sign him anyway but Sporting are a very difficult deal very very very difficult club to deal with we we witnessed this ourselves didn't we with Bruno they don't mess about they're one of those clubs that when you've dealt with them you realize they're not a football club to mess around with um in the sense that they they won't get manipulated they won't change their mind on things and um i think it will be very very interesting to see what happens with that but i don't see i don't see it interest impacting on manchester united if i'm being completely honest with you um i think it will be uh i think he will end up being an arsenal player it just might take them a bit of time.

30:51Could Kunja do the striker role, says Mustafa? I mean, he could do. He could do. He definitely could do, but that would be... It's like playing Bruno as a holding midfielder, isn't it? It's like putting Casemiro at centre-back. He can do a job there, but if you've ever watched Kunja play, the genius... Well, genius is a big word. the brilliance of Kunja is his ability to hold people off dribble and and create and if you play as a striker it's not the same um it's not the same so yes he could do a job there but as soon as somebody says could they do a job there it's not the most positive thing in the world is it can they do a job there spend 62 million pounds on a player to play him in not in his best position he's got to play behind the striker yeah yeah um let me just catch up on these stuff i mean just very quickly jayden sancho i don't like talking about jayden sancho i find it really boring obviously but an update did come out about jayden sancho overnight um fabrizio romano basically saying and again this sits down so many so-called itk people i can't believe people sit there doing streams and websites talking about inside knowledge of transfers that they clearly don't have and they constantly get exposed as not having what these people do is they basically spend an hour scraping everybody's bit of information from that paper that journalist that video they put it all together they reword it and pretend it's their information and i've seen people saying Sancho to Juventus is going really well like the talks are really really close they're really really close um for Britser Romano last night despite everything there's no concrete talks between Sancho and Juventus there's no the deal is not close by any means and you think it's just people are just getting sat down all over the place we're gonna run out of chairs but uh give me sport are saying that Man United are considering selling Sancho for a significantly lower transfer fee of 15 million as they struggle to find a buyer to reach their 25 million valuation i mean i'm i'm all i'm going to say about sancho is this um i am i have been very consistent about this and i am very confused about this and 99 of the time 99.9 of the time to be honest we're just fans talking every now and again you let get a little a bit of info, but 99 % of the time, it's just pure opinion.

33:34And I've said this about Sancho, I don't understand what we are doing thinking we're going to get a fee. He's on massive wages and he's out of contract in a year. The most logical thing for Sancho to do is to run that contract down and earn a shitload of money next year. Why would you agree to going anywhere on a pay cut so man united can make money it just never made any sense to me so all these people talking about swap deals and 25 million i'm like i don't unless there's something on going on there that we just not we're not aware of it actually makes no sense so what makes sense is that we're nowhere near selling sancho um there is no deal out there and people keep saying well won't lower his wage demands.

34:24I'm not Sancho's biggest fan, but would you lower your wage demands? If you run 250K a week at a club you don't like, and that club is saying, we've got a deal lined up for 20 million, but you've got to take a 50 % pay cut. And you know, in a year's time, you're out of contract and you know, for the next year, you can earn 250K a week. Why would you go? Yeah, that sounds great. I'd go, so you're telling me I can halve my wages and go somewhere where you can earn 20 million, or I can stay here, earn double my wages of what I'd get there. And in a year's time, keep earning that and a big sign on fee.

35:04Yeah. You can have that and you can have that. And that's the thing I've always thought about the Sancho deal. It's not logical that he would take a pay cut to help us get a transfer fee. It's never been logical and nobody can afford his wages. So I don't see how this works. I don't see how this works. At best, You sell him for 15 million and then part of that 15 million goes to him to cover his wages for the next year. But I just think we're wasting our time. Would we be in a different position in the transfer window if we sold Bruno to El Hallel? This is going to keep coming back, XO. And it's unfair because you can't put Bruno in the same category as a Rashford or a Ganacho or a Sancho who are making this club's life very difficult.

35:49but somebody said this to me the other day and and and and i wanted to bring it in actually so thank you very much for reminding me somebody said this to me the other day everybody who said we should have sold bruno for 100 million pounds and this person actually did agree with that they said look i would have done it because he's 31 he's being played out of position it's a risk and£100 million is just ridiculous money. But what they then said was, if we took that£100 million, we'd have had money to spend and we'd have gone off spending, but we wouldn't be selling. So you'd be bringing these players in, but you'd still have Rashford, Ganacho, Sancho, and you probably wouldn't be working on him because you'd be working on buys.

36:32And their point was, the big problem with this transfer window is the planning. It's like it's all over the place. if we'd sold Bruno we'd have had money but we wouldn't have had the resources to sell the other players that need to go and by not selling Bruno we still haven't been able to sell those players and we've not got the money to buy other players so what they were basically saying is yeah look selling Bruno would have given you money but you still would have had a pile of shit that they wouldn't have been working on selling either I think what they were basically saying is we would have been in shit either way with a little bit more money in our pocket um Ineos should have made 25 million off of Sancho to Chelsea, but they decided to put a 5 million clause to send him back to his mind-blowing stuff, says Trey.

37:13If the players we're trying to sell were from other clubs, would you want these players? These players tarnished their names, now they're risky buys. This is a great question, Jay. I've never really thought about it like that. I'd take Ganacho. Let's pretend I'm the chairman of Aston Villa. I would take Ganacho, 100%. 20 years of age, um okay there's an attitude problem there there's some bad advice there but you would you would have a chat with him and if he gives you any indication that he's focused which he does you know he's never injured he always wants to play it's just a really there's an attitude issue there i would take that risk on him for 40 million 45 million package i would 100 take that risk because I think the rewards outweigh the negatives.

38:02Marcus Rashford, I would take him if he would lower his wages and it was a reasonable price with Manchester United. I'd give Man United 30 million and I'd give Rashford 200 grand a week. That would be it. I still think there's a good player there. I definitely, definitely would do it.

38:22Sancho, he'd be my least. Anthony, I'd look at. Sancho would be the least I would look at um don't think he's suitable for the Premier League huge huge huge wages um yeah I don't think so um um I don't know how relevant this is but it sort of backs up what I was saying at the start so I just want to say thank you very much I don't know I've just been sent something and I don't know when the quote's from.

38:57But Napoli president, Auriello Dallarentils on Ganaccio. Ganaccio's got pace, flair and potential, but that's not even why we want him. We want him because he's at United.

39:11Get him out and he becomes twice the player. There's a fault at United that I can't explain. I don't know where this quote's come from. It's all over socials, but I don't know how recent it is. I mean, it might not help them in their quest to sign him by slagging off Manchester United, but yeah, I mean, it sounds a bit of a strange quote, but it's definitely all over.

39:48don't know whether it's true

39:55I'm just trying to see if I can source it for you while we're here

40:08Vlahovic yeah I think this might be a fake quote it doesn't sound right does it

40:18no no no no no let me go

40:28okay i think i found it here it looks like there's an article from alessandro ganaccio here we go found it uh napoli president has reaffirmed the italian club's interest in Manchester United winger Ganache believing he will become twice the player if he leaves Old Trafford

40:51we want him because he's at United get him out and he becomes twice the player

40:58I mean look I didn't even know about that and we spent the first 10 minutes talking about Napoli wanting Ganache and it being the best option for him and it was the best option for him at the start of June um it's well known that that Napoli want him and there's the president half an hour later we're getting a quote like that um it's an interesting it's an interesting quote you know because dissecting that live they're saying they want him and he'll be twice the player there I mean if United you're sort of rubbing your hands together and going well you're not helping yourselves in negotiations here are you you mean you are i that to me fits in exactly with what we were told at the start of june and again last night ganacho napoli nailed on if ganacho wants it um he wanted it in january he wanted it at the end of the season but something's happened with premier league clubs that's made him think that might be option that might be a possibility but that sounds like a play for the player from the napoli president that that sounds to me like we don't care about man united we want the player it makes sense in in in some sense you sort of like go it's not a very clever thing to say publicly that you want the player and you'll make him twice the player because man united will be thinking oh we'll get him but actually united are not in a strong position what that is all about from the president is we really want you.

42:33Look at what we're saying about you publicly. Is anyone else saying that about you publicly? We've just won the Italian league. We're going to be in the champions league. We're ambitious. We want you. We'll make you twice the player that you are at the moment. We want you here at this football club. That is a public backing of a player to massage his ego and make him think they really want me. And Conte will be the making of him. If Canaccio went to Napoli, not in the Premier League, I hope he does really well. I don't like the Villa shirt thing, but as long as he doesn't play for another Premier League club, I really hope he does go and fulfil the talent I really think he's got.

43:09But it's in Ganacho's shoes now because that's a play. That's a play from them. I don't think they'll be worried about what Man United say because Man United won't be able to get what they want. But yeah. Andy Weatherall says, can we not just play three 10s and no striker? Well, we can, Andy, but I don't think the Amarim system works that well like that. I think you need a striker that's chasing down and playing on the last man in an Amrum system. Will we put in a salon clause for Garnaccio? Yes, 100%, Rob. I would have thought so, yeah. Would we be in a different position? I've done that from Bruno.

43:45Would it be there? Ineos should have made 25 million off the sand. Done that from Trey. Breaking news, Man United are getting ready for January via Athletic. Be prepared for a story like this, end of summer, says Harvey. Well, they do it all the time. Is it all the time? at the end of every crap transfer window. It's always the next one that's going to be the best. Getting Jochrez now would remind me of Di Maria's as Jacob. Could Kunja do the striker role? We've done that from Mustafa. What do you think about Alan Pardew saying Dominic Calvert-Lewin is as good as Jochrez, which is why United should sign him?

44:14You've just got to think about what type of a manager Pardew was. I can't remember his Pratt dance in the final against us in 2016. um also you got to remember the station he's talking on talk shit um and now you get your answer hi mark does the current striker crisis at united now give you a different perspective on the potential the lap signing at the start of the window uh would you take him uh would you now take him in a heartbeat says cowboy no no i think this is a good question would i take liam de la at this point yes because we're desperate do i think liam de la was the signing when i heard it was the priority in April.

44:52No. Just because we're desperate doesn't mean you should change your morals. My morals were that United need the best striker they can get who's 25 or over. We don't need a learner driver. And you look at Chelsea, the chances are De Lapp's going to be the backup striker as well. So I would take De Lapp now because we're desperate, but I still don't think it was the striker we needed. We needed a more experienced one. Did you see Alan Pardew on Talk Sport say Calvin Lewin is the same level as Jokeres on his day um you've spelt that wrong HW you said Talk Sport it's actually talk shit um but no I spoke about it on Terry's channel the other day I mean it's just total nonsense um I really hope we go for Ramos of PSG 40 million should do it he's experienced and better than the options we're linked to I don't think that's a bad shout Daniel I don't think Ramos from PSG is what I would want but in relation to what's out there I'd take him over Vlahovic I'd take him over um Calvert-Lewin Vardy Wilson yeah I'd agree with you on that one I mean it's not the striker I want but on what's available I would um

46:09we don't need a striker we need a great a great a striker and not one on a par with what we already have says matthew many players have great potential and with amram in pre-season will bring strong just two or three more signings needed for a solid squad says fazel uh but i would rather zerksey up front than by vadi oh yeah i agree with that dazzo um keel says it's because we all still have big contracts at the moment we're looking for quick fixes in one window rebuild when big contracts are gone they won't be gone keel we've we've spoken about this this before there's this myth that this will hit a point where all these big contracts will be gone but they won't casimero's contract will be gone in a year maguire's big wage will be gone in a year but luke shaw's big wage is here for another two years um rashford's big wage is here for another three years um mason mount's big wage is here for another four years uh anana's big wage is here for another three years um the stadium might be built before we get some of rid of some of these big wages people talk about like there's a there's a time coming really soon when all these bad contracts will be gone but they're not who's had the best window so far out of the traditional top six in order would be great says jay but not on here i'll do it on that's football this morning I'll write that down I don't want to depress his lot what do you think of Edson Alvarez for CDM he's a player that gives plays for the badge not under Amrimi won't be coming stick you'd be better off getting Richard Rios how does insurance work for the Premier League clubs regarding salaries when a player is unavailable do they cover anything don't know Slazy don't know have you seen the bowler tweet about Jokeres yes spoke about that and if Spurs get whizzer will we still get in Bermos says Liam yep knowing Berta what if this getting sporting to get to certain prices away to get Leipzig finally budge Arteta wants Sesko over Jokeres as well says Sujoy um what's he's you're basically saying that Arsenal have played Jokeres to get Sesko I mean that'd be very harsh I don't know about that uh Lee Berman says Joey Barton's shitty board podcast using your video with Terry from Tuesday doing it for clout the big question is Lee what are you doing watching that podcast I mean I've got nothing to say about that bloke there is there is literally nothing about him or that that you know just would pardew talk shit people like that i can have a conversation about people like him you just wouldn't go anywhere near like he's just no he's just yeah there's nothing don't ever bring that we should block the word um who's the young striker we signed says liam vernon uh don't You know, just another 18 year old that's going to go on loan somewhere, I think, which is good.

48:52Might be great in a few years time. But, you know, we can't keep talking about that sort of stuff, really, can we? Let me just double check on stuff that's coming in. Getting quite a lot of stuff coming around here.

49:11Yeah, that's loads of shit. So I've got Ben Jacobs on at two o 'clock today. so any questions just whack them into the comments section and i'll come back in about an hour and we can come back and have a look at those um because i want to ask him quite a few things about quite a few things um but look as i said the the general sense is that uh at the moment and for the foreseeable future ruben amarin has been told to make do with what he's got you've got kunya crack on um not getting a goalkeeper not getting a midfielder not getting the striker hopefully going to get in bimo at some point in the future but we need to sell to buy and and that's that's where it is uh janu says united posting videos of xerxi as a striker is that a sign i like xerxi maybe he is going to be the striker uh maybe the plan was to use xerxi as a striker all along and sell rasmus and bring another striker in um if we're keeping rasmus maybe we're not getting a striker maybe we're going to go with xerxi and rasmus that might work but is this not why we struggled last year um also it's taking away the fact that i like and i like rasmus even though a lot of people don't rate them taking that away and not criticizing them to at all because it's not their fault how does a football club that's had a season like it has last year say we don't need a striker when they definitely did because they tried to buy three and didn't get any of them.

50:47If they'd said at the start of May, we're not looking for a striker, we could all sit here and moan we should be getting a striker. A lot of people think we should be getting a right wing back, but we're not even going to get one. But the club let it be known we wanted a striker. So if they don't go and get one and pretend that they're happy with what they've got, they've bantered themselves because we know, we know that they've been in talks with at least three already so if they don't get one by their own admission they failed um oh it came up on your x feed says lee berman thank you very much about that um thoughts on christopher favel very good at recruiting young players cameron don't think he's got much experience like wilcox when it comes to the top level of the game but both are very good around young talent as we've seen already.

51:40We've recruited some really good young talent as Aiden Heaven is one but they're very inexperienced when it comes to the older players and they need to learn quickly. We will put in salon clauses for Sennett Ganacho. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, thanks everyone for watching. Absolute legends. Loads of you tuning in. We are live at eight o 'clock tonight but don't miss the two o 'clock show. It's me with Ben Jacobs and I've got loads of questions I'm going to ask him. Let's see what we can get out of him this afternoon at two. Take care, everyone. Have a great day. Stay safe. And I will speak to you all very soon.

52:13Thank you.