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16 Jul 2025 · 47m · 24 chapters

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130: Martinez & Sancho FEE Set!

In short

The episode is a Manchester United transfer-and-club-news roundup focused on fees, wage costs, and criticism of United’s transfer strategy. Topic highlights: United’s new kit is released (modeled by existing players, not new signings). Emi Martinez and Jadon Sancho are reported as nearing exits, with proposed fees: Martinez around £33m (Villa want £40m) and Sancho around £15m to Juventus. Brentford’s pursuit of a replacement for Bryan Mbeumo is discussed after Brentford rejected a £35m bid for Ipswich’s Omari Hutchinson; the host argues this doesn’t fully explain United’s lack of progress. A major claim is that United are “saving money” by delaying Mbeumo, while still paying huge wages to Rashford, Sancho, Garnacho, Antony, and Malacia (about £825k/week). Notable examples include comparisons to Chelsea/Man City’s proactive spending and a Chelsea-style “get deals done” approach. Another segment claims United compiled a list of academy players over 18 to sell this summer, with families reportedly not consulted.

Guests

No named guests appear in the transcript; it’s a solo host with audience comments/superchats and references to other journalists (e.g., David Ornstein, Fabrizio Romano, David Ornstein, Sam C).

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Chapters

0:08

Transfer News Highlights

Discussion of recent transfer news regarding players like Martinez and Sancho.

“Apparently, the fee has been set for Emi Martinez.”
0:40

New Kit Unveiled

Overview of Manchester United's new kit and its modeling by players.

“But actually, it's being modelled by Ahmad and Bruno and Maynou and every player that we already have got at the football club.”
1:36

Sancho to Juventus?

Speculation on Jadon Sancho's potential transfer to Juventus.

“that Alfredo Pedula, who was very good, according to Matt, our editor, was very good a couple of years ago around Anana and Rasmus.”
1:57

Discussion on Fees

Analysis of the transfer fees being discussed for Martinez and Sancho.

“But now it's about agreeing the deal with Manchester United with£15 million being the fee.”
2:36

Valuing Martinez

In-depth consideration of the value of Emi Martinez and his potential impact.

“I'm very much of the opinion at the moment that we just need to stop trying to rescue a transfer.”
4:52

Brentford's Position

Discussion on Brentford's situation regarding player transfers and valuations.

“get me an extra 10 to 15 points compared to the Prat I've got at the moment.”
6:10

Wage Analysis

Detailed analysis of the wages of current Manchester United players and implications for transfers.

“We're paying a week£825 ,000 to Malasia, Ganacho, Sancho, Anthony and Rashford.”
10:47

Market Dynamics in Transfers

Insight into how market pressures affect transfer negotiations for Manchester United.

“And although Rodrigo begins with an R, it doesn't have Ashford after it.”
14:00

Desperation in the Transfer Market

Explore how desperation affects Manchester United's transfer strategies.

“You cannot be at the mercy of markets like that, where everybody knows you want to buy because you're desperate, so they'll overcharge you.”
15:00

Failed Strategies and Comparisons

Analyzing Manchester United's transfer failures in comparison to rivals.

“They went, we do want you, but we've also got Jokeres lined up.”
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18:00

Player Interest and Market Dynamics

Discussion on player interest and how it affects transfer decisions.

“Malassia is just a big risk for everybody.”
19:10

Negotiation Challenges and Missed Opportunities

Understanding the challenges in negotiations and missed transfer opportunities.

“or Kunja up front, because we have to...”
21:30

Comparing Transfer Strategies

A critical look at how Manchester United's transfer strategies compare with others.

“And they've had a bid rejected of 35 million for Omari Hutchinson.”
24:00

Fan Reactions and Expectations

Analyzing fan reactions to the current transfer situation and expectations for the season.

“We probably wouldn't have a summer transfer signing if there wasn't a release clause for Cunha.”
26:50

Concluding Thoughts on the Transfer Window

Wrapping up the discussion on the transfer window and its implications for the team.

28:00

Discussion on New Kit Appearance

Exploring the design of the new kit and its resemblance to Tottenham's style.

28:35

Ruben Amorim's Future at Manchester United

Analyzing Ruben Amorim's current approach and challenges at Manchester United.

“I can't find this comment now, but it was very good.”
30:29

Hope for Improvement This Season

Discussing potential advantages for Manchester United this season amidst competition.

“And I wanted to ask you a question about that, actually.”
32:51

Transfer Window Uncertainty

Debating the implications of the current transfer window and player management.

“I mean, funnily enough, there is a story from Fabrizio Romano.”
36:35

Critique of Management Decisions

Critically assessing the decision-making regarding managerial appointments at Manchester United.

“Also, I don't think that he can say, it's Amirim's fault the window's going badly because he couldn't sell Bruno.”
39:22

Youth Academy Management Insights

Providing insights on Manchester United's academy player management and strategy.

42:05

Manchester United's Youth Strategy: A Cattle Farm?

Explore Manchester United's approach to acquiring and managing young players.

44:20

Rumors and Reactions: Rashford and Transfer Talks

Discuss the rumors surrounding Marcus Rashford and transfer market dynamics.

45:28

Relegation Fears: Pardew's Controversial Statement

Evaluate Pardew's statement about Manchester United's relegation prospects.

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0:00The latest Manchester United news and transfer news this Wednesday morning, where the big news is we've got a new kit. The big news is also actually without being sarcastic, I should just remember some people do tune in for serious news. Apparently, the fee has been set for Emi Martinez. Apparently, the fee has been set for Jadon Sancho. Apparently, Brentford have had a bid rejected for a player that they're going to replace Embermo with. apparently Liverpool are interested in Rashford uh and we've also got updates on Luckman that's not a name we've heard for a long time and there's a bit of a fallout from the United training ground about how uh how we are treating our youth players as well as a few interesting insights and how much money almost um I want to shout out Paddy from Twitter from this in a bit but let's get into it because we have got a new um uh I have flipped it so you can read David Beckham the right way yeah and I've got an overlay now think well things are just going up a level smash alike but um just get lamens just that pat um if you know you know but let's get into it let's start talking about the fact that the new kit is out today um we had hoped probably naively that that new kit would be modeled by Brian and Bermot um maybe even a main new new contract which I think would have wound a few people up.

1:19But actually, it's being modelled by Ahmad and Bruno and Maynou and every player that we already have got at the football club. So it really is a new kick for Manchester United, but it's not a new signing. What is new news this morning is that Alfredo Pedula, who was very good, according to Matt, our editor, was very good a couple of years ago around Anana and Rasmus. Wasn't so good last summer, but obviously Italian stories. He is saying that Manchester United are close to selling Jadon Sancho to Juventus, that Jadon Sancho and his agent have agreed the terms of a deal for Juventus. But now it's about agreeing the deal with Manchester United with£15 million being the fee.

2:08also more argentinian sources are saying that the emmy martinez deal is advancing so much that actually they're now talking about a fee aston villa want 40 million pounds manchester united want to pay 33 now look for me um i i don't have a massive problem with that um i don't mind 33 million pounds for martinez and i don't mind 15 million pounds for jayden sancho either because I'm very much of the opinion at the moment that we just need to stop trying to rescue a transfer. No, we need to rescue a transfer window. We need to salvage a transfer window. It's not going to be a good transfer window.

2:51So in that, you know, put your house on the market for 500 grand and then you don't get any offers. You knock it down to 450. You don't get any offers. After six months, you need to sell the house because you're emigrating to Australia. put it on for 375 take the first offer and i think with united we're not emigrating to australia but we are in a situation where we need to salvage the situation and therefore i would take 15 million for jayden sancho give five of it to him to pay him off and just get out of dodge basically so i want to move away from jayden sancho because i think it's boring but i do want to talk about emmy martinez and i think 33 million pounds for a 32 year old goalkeeper who isn't 33 until september he's probably got five years left i look at a fee and i don't know about you lot i look at a fee and i go what's the contract what's the wage and what's the fee and when we sell ganacho for imagine you've got the best ganacho right and you sell him in jang remember in january we're talking about selling ganacho for for 50 million pounds and i was like that's stupid that's absolutely stupid because you've got a player who is 20 who if you give him a five-year contract and you buy him 50 million pounds you're basically paying 10 million a year until he's 25 by which time if you look after him properly he will be worth that at least you get your money back and you get that you get ganacho for five years so i look at someone like emmy martinez who is basically 33 for this season, 34 for next season, 35 for the season after that, and then 36, at which point sometimes goalkeepers do drop off.

4:38I'm getting four good years of Emi Martinez for£33 million. Well, what's that divided by four? It doesn't work, I know, but 32 divided by four does. It's eight. So I'm paying around£8 million a year for a goalkeeper that I think is going to probably get me an extra 10 to 15 points compared to the Prat I've got at the moment. So for me, I quite like that deal. I'd quite like that deal. Obviously, the Villa are going to want 40. Even that's not, I mean, that's probably a little bit much, but I think£33 million for Emi Martinez. If we could do that deal, and let's not forget, you've got Fabrizio Romano this morning talking about anything other than Emi Martinez to Manchester United.

5:23So we are still very much in the realms of Argentinian sources. But for£33 million, I think I would do that deal. Just on Brian Mbumo, this is the Brian Mbumo couple of minutes. So David Ornstein is clearly correct, isn't he? Smasher like for David Ornstein. Well, no, just say David Ornstein's very good at his job. I think with David Ornstein, he said yesterday morning that this deal is nowhere near. it's not imminent there's a big gap between what Brentford want and what Manchester United want to pay and yet this morning we're in again with another story that gives Brentford credibility Amari Hutchinson of Ipswich is seen as a potential replacement for Brian Embermo Brentford have had a bid rejected of£35 million pounds and you go well that's what that's got to do with us if ipswich who are relegated are rejecting 35 million pounds for amari hutchinson and we're offering 55 for andermo that's a 20 million pound gap you can see why brentford are going we want 60 because the replacement we want isn't worth 35 and we've got to go higher than that so again you're sort of looking at the situation and you're going yeah i think i can see what brentford's doing but i don't think that feeds directly into why we haven't signed mbumo yet i really don't i don't think that that is the thing that is stopping us from doing that i personally think that and i saw paddy on x saying this actually earlier i will be able to let me just read this out for you because i i like to shout people out when i can um there we go how do i do it technophobe it's because i'm not in a normal setup so he said fair play to at odds on fpl he said fair play to inios in the six weeks since man united have bid for brian and burmo they have saved the club a reported 1.5 million in wages having not had to pay his 250 grand a week wages at that time um which is probably a little bit of over egging of the pudding um if we're being completely honest but what i would say is that i did a little bit of maths as well and what um what wage is um marcus rashford on probably on about 300 grand a week what wage is jayden sancho on probably on about 250 grand a week malasia is apparently on 75 ganacho is apparently on 50 and anthony's on 150k a week So that adds up to about£825 ,000 a week.

8:21We're paying a week£825 ,000 to Malasia, Ganacho, Sancho, Anthony and Rashford. £825 ,000 a week. How many weeks has it taken us on this Brian Embermo deal? Seven. If we'd bought him four weeks ago and given him£200 ,000 a week, which is what we're apparently going to do, That would have been 800 grand a week. That would have been 800 grand, 200 grand a week times four if we'd bought him a month ago. 800 grand we'd have spent on wages on Embermo. We've spent 825 grand a week on Rashford, Sancho, Malassia, Anthony, and Ganacho. Remember, we're now into week two of July. 1.6 million we've spent on Ganacho, Anthony, Sancho, Rashford, and Malassia.

9:15and at the end of next week that will become 2.4 million and by the end of July we'll have spent three million pounds on those five players wages suddenly it starts to make sense why we're not signing Embermo because United will be going but that's like a million pounds for Embermo for July and we're not even playing any games it's incredible how we think as a football club and it makes sense. I think we are looking at how much we're effectively wasting. And it's crazy to think that for the whole month, it could be three million pounds for those five players. I think we're probably looking at Nbermo and going, well, let's not bring him in because we're saving money.

10:00And that's where we're going wrong really, isn't it? Because you look at a club like Chelsea and what have Chelsea done this season already they're playing in a club world cup they go and buy Jao Pedro to get him straight in to win the world to win the club world cup and that's the mentality of a football club that's trying to achieve something comparable to a football club like ours which is just trying to save money um so I think it's it's you know whilst it's a joke i think there is a very serious um message here which is we are probably doing a lot of what we're doing to save money at the moment and uh that is a scary scary situation i think because as i said if you're just tuning in a little bit late the facts are we're paying 820 grand a week on rashford sancho ganacho malice molassia and anthony a week not a month times 825 times 2 1.65 million times it by two again 3.2 3.3 million in a month there's huge amounts of money coming out of this football club at the moment um let me just uh grab some of your comments this morning uh because some people are saying some stuff as well um did you see the rashy to liverpool spin by sky oh jacob jacob we need a bit we need a bit of a laugh this morning so this actually came out from the mail jacob so the daily mail basically saying that liverpool have considered uh signing um marcus rashford um as a replacement for luis diaz um i mean i don't know whether whether tranmier rovers have changed their name to liverpool because there's more chance of tranmier rovers being interested in rashford than them um the interesting the interesting thing is and i read it uh when i read this about liverpool um this was um i don't know where it came from because also in the mail it says as well as Ekatike, Liverpool have also made inquiries about four other attackers, Watkins, Osserman, Wizza, and Rodrigo.

12:23And although Rodrigo begins with an R, it doesn't have Ashford after it. So I don't know where that comes from. I'm sure Liverpool are probably seriously considering putting in um complaints about that but i mean marcus rashford is not going to be a target for is he um gaz says do you think other clubs are waiting to sign our players at the end of the window so they can save on wages also says gaz well i was speaking to my mate jim this morning about this and um i can't look at it because it's actually on my whatsapp oh i can i can actually let me read read what jim said to you he said where everybody's mercy they know we don't want some players so we can sell them for a good price and they know we need some players so they'll charge us the highest price um and and it's true it's um it's very very true and many of you have said the same as jim we clubs who who was who we are trying to buy from know we're desperate and they want a high price and clubs that um we're trying to sell to know that we're desperate and they want to pay a low price um and this is why although this is an 8 p.m show statement and we're going into an 8pm show tune in for that for night tonight but this is why many of us said when the glazers were looking for investment or a sale the only logical way out of all of this was to get somebody in like the guitaris or in on musk or someone like that because the only way you can get out of this situation is to grab hold of the conversation.

14:04You cannot be at the mercy of markets like that, where everybody knows you want to buy because you're desperate, so they'll overcharge you. And everyone knows that you want to sell, so they'll underpay. That's not the way to climb out of this situation because you'll have to overpay, you'll have to undersell, or you'll have to stick with what you've got. And therefore there'll be no progress. What you actually need is what Man City had when they came along. Because people always say, well, what's the way out of this? What is the way out of this? The way out of this is the way out that Man City had, the way Chelsea had it.

14:36It's where everybody knows you're rich and everyone knows you're loaded. And what you basically do is you go to, in this summer, you'd go to somebody like Napoli, you'd go to Leipzig, you'd go to Sporting, you'd go to Villa and you'd say, we want a striker we've got a fair price of 60 million for all four of them um sporting are going to let us have jokeres for 55 plus 15 in add-ons um dilla are going to let us have watkins for 45 plus 10 in add-ons um let's talk we've got this money we're going to spend it but we won't be ripped off but we're looking at three or four auctions it's basically what arsenal did with Cesco.

15:20They went, we do want you, but we've also got Jokeres lined up. They played the game, they lost. That's how you do it. But Man United's message to the world is we're really desperate. Everybody's for sale and we're really desperate to buy in Burma, but we don't want to pay your price. And we've got no backup plan. And we just come across as absolute prats. And the reality is, if you want to be successful in football, you need money. I've literally got a video going up on hot takes later on my Instagram about you need money. And we are in a really bad situation because we're desperate to sell and we're desperate to buy.

15:52And that's not a good mix for a poor football club. There's no mystique around Manchester United. There's no mystique. There's no mystery. We all know the story. We've got no money. We're really desperate and we're really desperate to sell. We've hidden nothing. When you look at someone like Liverpool, they hide everything they're doing they hide their sales they hide their purchases purchases until it's done man united live live their life through the media because they they like the media because they like the hype it helps them sell shirts but it it doesn't help them progress as a football club um do you think embermo wasn't part of the plan and a shot in the dark and they didn't really expect him to say yes it's a joy that's an interesting theory i i i would have thought I would have hoped he was part of the plan because if he wasn't part of the plan, why were we going for him ahead of a goalkeeper and a striker?

16:46Gaz Bird says, do you think clubs are waiting to sign our players? I didn't answer that, Gaz. Just in relation to sales, I haven't got anything for you around Rashford or Ganacho or Malassia or Anthony. There's a little bit about Sancho that we've spoken already. but i genuinely think and i'll probably get in trouble for saying this i genuinely think don't think there's any interest in marcus rashford i don't i really really don't i don't buy into barcelona like him and uh you know they you know they're thinking about it i've never heard such nonsense in all my life if manchester united were offered a player like i'm trying to think someone who's like Rashford imagine we've got um god who's like Rashford that could be offering themselves to us um god it's hard to think isn't it it really is hard to think um imagine Jao Felix was like I'm desperate to play for Manchester United that's about our level isn't it I'm desperate to play for Manchester United I don't want to play for anybody else and um they offered it offered us to him for like 20 million and we went yeah we we like the idea of you but we're looking for other things that basically means we're not really after you because if somebody offers themselves to you and you really really want them you go and do it i don't think darcelona really want rashford i think it's sort of like if we can't get anything better we'll take you and i don't think anyone else is interested in ganacho is just a big mystery to me i don't really understand why that's taking so long.

18:22Anthony is obviously a financial thing. Sancho's a lot of things. Malassia is just a big risk for everybody. So at the moment, I don't think there are secret talks going on. I think genuinely, there's a lot of, and they're damaged goods, a lot of them. Malassia's had a bad injury. Anthony, I would leave out of it. Sancho's damaged himself massively through bad PR and bad decisions. you could say the same about Rashford and Ganaccio. I genuinely hope that... Sorry, let me read this. I can't read your bloody name. Anish? I think I've got it. I genuinely hope not, but there is a possibility that we are signing Mbermo for the striker position.

19:03But you never know what these people on top do. Wouldn't be surprised if we put him up front. Would not be surprised if we put him up front or Kunja up front, because we have to... were desperate so they've got to spin a positive though there are always going to be people in our fan base that will fall for that nonsense there will be people going well the plan was always to put embermo or kunya up front well it wasn't because we tried to sign the lap and it wasn't because we did inquire about yokarez um we might have to make do that's what might happen we were so worried about the rats in the stadium we didn't realize one had entered the boardroom says thank you very much for that uh liking trash says if united didn't get martinez i'd go for botafogo goalkeeper john victor well under 10 million as well i think he's an option i think he's an option but i think we need to find out what's happening with this martinez story which still carries on i don't know how relevant it's going to end up being though can we sell ganacho to villa for 60 million and buy watkins for 60 million so we're all good psr villa and chelsea he did last summer says scott palmer i don't know i don't know whether that would be perceived as a as a swap deal or not would he say nowhere near over only five million would he say nowhere near over only five million uh says robert mccormack oh i think you're talking about the david ornstein story but robert as i said last night there are some people defending the glazers because they want to believe that Brentford wants 70 million pounds for Emburma, right?

20:37Have we offered 60 million? No. We've offered 55 and 45. So all these people going, Brentford wants 70, Brentford wants 70, Brentford wants 70. Have we offered 60? No. Let's see what happens when we offer 60, because we will probably have to do 60 plus 5 or 60 plus 7.5 or something like that anyway. So we need to offer the 60, Robert. And until we do that, I'm not going to defend anything that United have done. And I wouldn't defend this anyway. What? You don't need to negotiate for seven weeks. If you don't want to pay 70 million, you should have walked away a month ago. I don't think anybody's got a problem with his walking away from Mbermo if we'd done it straight away.

21:22But we know the price that Brentford wants and we're trying to spin it all the time. We haven't offered 60 and we haven't walked away. And they've had a bid rejected of 35 million for Omari Hutchinson. The market is inflating. It's like a lilo when you start blowing it up. It's hard at the start, but towards the end, it starts to fill up. And this market is starting to fill up, which means the prices will start to increase. You can't be sat. You You know what? The amazing thing is, one of the Glazers should be telling Sir Jim, yeah, I don't know whether it's any use, mate. Mate, I can't do straight.

22:02I can't do it. They're not Australian. American. I can't do American. I don't know whether this is any use to you, Sir Jim, but put the champers down. Put the champagne down and listen. I don't know whether this is any use to you, Sir Jim, but we did this with Jadon Sancho one summer. We refused to play, A, what Dortmund wanted, and it went on all summer. and they wanted 75 and we were going, we're not going to pay it. We're not going to pay it. We wait right till the end of the window. And then we realized they weren't going to take anything other than 75. And we paid it a year later and wasted that whole summer.

22:35So you'd think we might learn from the fact that we've been in this situation before. Patrick Lynch says, I understand the argument that we can't be taken as mugs in the window because of past mistakes, but you have to weigh up what's being offered. And at some point, good business people just get deals done. as I said Patrick who is the number one talker at the moment he's got the crown I think that I didn't realise we have the crown system on United stand now so yeah I think there's something you can click where there's a leaderboard for comments or something but Patrick's given a 20 pound super chat so that might be why it is King Patrick but going back to what I was saying before Patrick you can't play you can't be stubborn when you're starving you know if you haven't eaten for a week and um you know you're you're around the back of your local pub and the chef walks out and goes i've seen i've seen that you know i want to help you you look like you're hungry and i brought you a chicken burger and chips and then you go i'd rather have the i'd rather have the beef burger you know you can't you can't be picky and i don't want i don't want about all these chips are a little bit salty can you can you go and get me a salad.

23:47We're starving and we're trying to negotiate. You can't negotiate from this position. And we didn't negotiate for Cunha, by the way. I think it's really important to call out the fact that we paid for Cunha a release clause. There was no negotiations. We probably wouldn't have a summer transfer signing if there wasn't a release clause for Cunha. If we're being completely honest, we'd probably still be negotiating that deal with Wolves. The reality is we didn't have to negotiate because there wasn't a uh there was a release clause uh jacob thank you very much uh ryan fairbairn who is a chelsea fan and a windup says don't need to worry about jackson by the way credible reports coming out that villa want jackson to replace watkins chelsea want rogers for that move says ryan feel a bit sorry for villa feel a bit sorry for villa very good team to watch last season champions league football but it seems like they're getting decimated um And also, I feel sorry for them if they're getting Nicholas Jackson as a replacement for Watkins.

24:50Is there a crossover with Unai Emery and Nicholas Jackson? Villarreal, was there a crossover there at all? The only purple patch for United next season will be on the away kit, says Liam. And is Sesco viable options, says Alan? No. No, he's not. um i'll tell you the story on sesco very very quickly being as it's it's news um we have got um so basically arsenal were looking at sesco and leipzig wanted 100 million euros arsenal felt that was ridiculous so they looked at jacquez as well negotiated both deals leipzig never moved it down the agents of sesco respected leipzig uh whereas the agent for sporting didn't respect the agent the okra's didn't respect sporting and therefore arsenal got a better deal so we wouldn't get it we wouldn't be able to afford that and i don't think sesco suits the way we want to play anyway man united still think they're in a position of power says nigel what about trubbin he plays for benfica and he's only 23 he's worth 23 million he seems like a decent prospect also great content keep up the good works as rjs games thank you very much pal thank you not really heard any links to that player from being honest uh jeremy hawk says the lack of activity this transfer season is unbelievable this is the first year i've not been excited for the new season to start it's sad really says jeremy look any football club any football club deserves excitement at the start of a new season and any owner of a football club that isn't giving owners isn't giving fans excitement is failing now there may be other clubs that are hating like Manchester United this summer transfer window but football fans spend a lot of money on kits they spend a lot of money on merchandise they spend a lot of money on tickets they spend a lot of time watching their football club and it's an entertainment sport I think it's I think it's I think it's a shambles when you've had a bad season that you basically try and repackage what you had last season I mean what Man United are doing at the moment is basically they've they've they've gone out to the local sainsbury's and they've bought themselves a king a couple of cans of lynx africa they've come back and they've just sprayed it all over the shit and trying to make it smell different um ain't gonna work i haven't seen him play much is nico that bad says bounty hunter and inios spent billions on players he's back says tom yeah someone did actually say that yesterday i don't really understand that has anyone considered a swap deal rashford for martinez i know we'd like more for rashford but at this point we've got to move the deadwood i don't think rashford would go to villa even though i think it'd be a great move for him and was he not happier than he's ever been there mojo says i doubt we'll be able to move rashford or ganacho amren might be forced into using them next season nobody wants them and we don't have the financial muscle to give amren a squad overall says mojo well let me read you this again a very good comment and I don't know where it was written it was very good a very good tweet I read it this morning here it is

28:10was it this one might be this one talking about the new kit the new kit looks like a bloody Tottenham kit I've got to be honest it looks like a Tottenham kit I know it's got purple in it, but it does.

28:36I can't find this comment now, but it was very good. It looks like the Tottenham kit from the late 80s, basically. Aston Villa among the club's monitoring developments with Genaccio, blah, blah, blah. But I think it was, I remember what it was. It was something along the lines of Ineos went and recruited a coach with a very distinctive style of play that we don't play and then didn't realise they needed to spend money on him.

29:12I mean, I do wonder, just talking about that for a moment, I do wonder what Ruben Amrum's sort of thought process is with regards to his actual future at Manchester United and his reputation in football, because it was very much in tatters at the end of last season. And the way this season's going, you're basically being asked to do it again. You know, if you look at the Europa League final against Spurs or the multiple amounts of games that we played, and then you look at the team that he used, and then you look at the team he's using now, there's a lot of similarities. and I suppose when you break it down, you're asking Ruben Amorim to effectively do what he couldn't do last season with the same set of players.

30:17And there will be improvement, obviously, but will it be enough of an improvement? I think our biggest hope this season, we were talking about this last night, I think our biggest hope this season is not actually not being in Europe, being an advantage. And I wanted to ask you a question about that, actually. I know we've got two things now. This is where I forget things. We've got, am I right in saying that we've got Arsenal at home, Fulham away, Burnley at home, international break? Yeah? have we got a carabouacup game as well in one of them in one of the midweeks and the reason i ask that is because i think because we finished in the bottom half we've got four games before that haven't we um so i think we've got a carabouacup game before the international break so we've got four games which might not be a bad thing a few people saying sick bridge raspy bridge I've probably just got a bit of a...

31:25I'm not sick. I've probably just got a bit of an allergy thing going on. But, yeah. No, I don't feel ill or anything like that. So, yeah. Yanni's got allergies as well. But thanks for your concern. Yeah, the second thing I was going to say, which I've now completely forgotten, was about Revan Amarin. And, yeah, effectively, he's got to work with the same set of players that he had before. And I actually think that while some people think not playing in Europe is going to be an advantage, I was looking at it the other day. I think one of our biggest hopes has to be that everyone falls off a little bit.

32:04Like Bournemouth have sold a lot of players, so maybe they drop off. Villa haven't really had a good window and are probably going to sell players. Maybe they drop off. Fulham haven't really done anything. Can they replicate last season? Maybe they drop off. Brighton have lost a couple of players. Maybe they drop off. So I think that's probably our biggest hope is that, you know, Palace might lose a few players as well. Wolves have lost Cunha. Are a lot of the teams that beat us last year going to be at Brentford or another team as well? So maybe that's our biggest hope this season is that teams that finished above us, you could almost go through each one of them and start to go, well, they're not going to be as good.

32:45They're not going to be as good. They're not going to be as good. Maybe that's our biggest hope, really. Anything on a talk for a striker, Mark? I mean, funnily enough, there is a story from Fabrizio Romano. It's relevant to this community. It's not going to be relevant to Manchester United. There is this story I need to talk about as well about the youth. But effectively, Luckman of Atalanta was a player that we were discussing towards the end of last season. Apparently, he's heading off to Atletico Madrid. Now, that's coming in from Fabrizio Romano. The only reason I mention that is because, well, we are, hello, we are still looking for a striker.

33:24and he might not be the ideal, but we are being linked to people like Calvert-Lewin and Jamie Vardy, etc. So maybe someone like Luckman might have been of interest to United, but apparently he's heading off to Atletico Madrid, according to Fabrizio Romano. Gavin says, maybe Jim has come to the realisation that it would work out cheaper to knock back the manager, sack him and get a new manager that suits the players we have. it would cost a lot of money to sack hamram and replace him um but would it be cheaper i can't debate that uh sal says reuben amram said the good days are coming this quote might age like milk and that next season says sal i can't listen to the um comments about that you know remember at the end of the season when reuben amram did that speech there was a lot of people on social media who were glazing it in tears because of it, getting excited because of it.

34:25I mean, this was literally four days after we'd lost the Europa League final. And I like Ruben Amrim, and I know why he did it, but I knew it was a load of shit. I mean, what else are you supposed to do with the microphone after there's a shit season where you've just been schooled by Ange and lost the biggest game of our recent history? He's got to come out there and say the good times are coming. But the proof's in the pudding. The proof's in the pudding. Words are cheap. You know, how many times have we heard Ed Woodward or John Murtagh or the Glazers say, we're going to be winning the league or Oli, we're going to win the league.

34:56It's always, we're going to do this, we're going to do this. Words are cheap. And I'm sure Amerim is just doing his job, but like, they are cheap. We've gone from Cantona and Van Persie to being linked with Jackson, who finishes like Bambi on ice, and now Rashford to Liverpool. What is this window, says Chicken Curry. roscoe says do you think a rashford will go now barcelona haven't bought williams and liverpool are rejected buying's offer again for diaz says roscoe yeah but they're being linked to incongru now they might not even go anywhere near him freed rasmus i have faith praise ashwood says keel to stegan on a free why don't we go for him says liam and lots of people are saying that uh sleazy says do you give amrim some responsibility for this horrible transfer window yes it's not his job to sell the players, but he did turn down a hundred million for Bruno.

35:45Did he know we needed to sell to buy, says Slaze? I think it's really unfair to start to say Amirim's responsible for this transfer window because he didn't sell Bruno. But I understand why that's going to start to happen. I think when we have the offer from Al Halal, we should have took it. I do. But I look at it now and I go, well, if he knew this window was going to go the way it was, would you sell Bruno? Because we don't know how that money would have got spent. It might have gone towards interest on debt repayments. We might have sold Bruno and just got a goalkeeper and we'd just have a goalkeeper and Kunja.

36:24We should have sold Bruno, but Anrim knows more about what's going on than we do. And maybe he was told, if you sell Bruno, you're not getting three or four players, you get want. And he said, well, I'll keep him. Also, I don't think that he can say, it's Amirim's fault the window's going badly because he couldn't sell Bruno. Because the football club, when they brought Amirim in in November, didn't know that we were going to get a£100 million offer for Bruno in the June. So they surely would have had a plan in place when they brought Amirim in. I'm still fuming and confused as to why we gave Amirim the job in the first place when basically you're telling me we gave Amirim the job with the intention of building a squad but he didn't win the Europa League I mean that's that's that's flimsy that's flimsy at best and we also didn't know we'd lost the Europa League final when you missed out on Kenda we've we've failed Amirim every step of the way really he didn't want the job in November he wanted it in the summer we made him take it we messed up the january transfer window we messed up the kenda deal um and now we're messing up the summer i the big question for me is and i like amram and i'm glad that we have him and i like his honesty but i am really at a point now where i think a lot of united fans are where the big question and and the big media outlets should be doing this but they but they don't seem to have any interest in it i hope when gary and co return to the overlap and stuff with Scalzi and that.

37:56I hope they say this first of all. I fear they will start talking about systems again and having to deliver and the time is now and the pressure's on the manager. But the number one topic of conversation really should be, why did they give Amriem the job? If you're Man City, you give Amriem the job. You've got money, you've got ballers, you know, you give him a new era after Pep's gone, you give him the time and the backing. if you're Manchester United and you go from, oh, we're in debt, PSR, FFP, you don't go and recruit a manager that needs a whole new team when you haven't got any money. And this to me is the number one question.

38:36I feel we got fooled. I feel like we got robbed because when we sacked Sen Haag in that November and we appointed Amorim, I was like, wow, they've obviously got ambition. they're obviously going to spend a lot of money because you can't use these players in an amroom system and he's going to need six or seven players in the first summer transfer window so they've obviously got money and we all fell for it and here we are if you just said to me in november in mid-july you'd have two players and no sales i'd have gone what i'm saying now what why did we do this then i'm glad we did it but it's exposed why these owners are the bad owners that we all say they are, because really they should have got Southgate and borders to death with shit football.

39:25But they sort of went, I've said it a few times, I think their football knowledge is so bad that they thought if we get a hipster manager, we'll play like a hipster team, which is so basic because every manager from Klopp to Arteta to Pep has had hundreds of millions of of backing to create the teams that they now play with uh reba damrim said the good days are coming we did that one remember first payment for agate this year says svw selling players who wasn't here last season but not selling the players who failed last season makes no sense yes rashford it sets a need to go but still we can't we can't sell the players that we bought last season mate and none of them have failed anders i've read that right selling players who who wasn't here last season but not selling the players who failed last season makes no sense oh failed last season well i'd need tonight i need names positives no long staff story with us this year he's gone hasn't he george yes uh mark a swedish rumble says we will have less cash next summer let alone this summer what makes you think we'll finish in the top eight this is horrific says ricardo um yeah things could get definitely get worse financially definitely things can get worse and um at some point you would hope if it gets worse at some point there is like definitive action to remove them because once the once the bulldozers come in for the regeneration projects no matter how bad it gets on the pitch they're not going anywhere for a decade at least so if there was to be any action to force these owners out even if it's possible it needs to happen quickly because once those bulldozers come in they're not going anywhere should offer newcastle rashie sancho anthony molassia and ganache for isax as callum they'd probably give us jacob murphy uh ruben amram said the good days have come and did that one maybe jim has come to the realization that it would have done that one from gavin we've gone from done that one from chicken curry do you think i've done that one feed rasmus we've done that do you give amram some slazy we've done that one we paid double for anthony by dragging it out as ajax sold other players brentford are also selling other players and could up the price next month says gaz yeah they could they definitely could and i think that um that would be their prerogative to do that if they wanted to um there's no two ways about it um this was quite an interesting story actually um i have a bit of clarity from this from sam c but basically manchester united have compiled a list of academy players all above 18 who they are willing to let go this summer and have offered their names to other clubs the news has also come as a shock to some families and representatives who claim they haven't been consulted so basically man united are just running a cult of uh over 18 players that they over 18 year old players they don't think are good enough some of them uh apparently players that we pay quite a lot of money for i mean whilst i have sympathy with any player that's being got rid of um if people don't see the um the reality of what man united are trying to do then um it's a little bit naive in my opinion because basically what happens is every month it seems we buy a 16 year old from somewhere and everyone goes oh my god they're gonna be a baller but we've actually been doing this since the van hall days i remember us bringing in a guy or a kid from coventry about probably 10 years ago i can't i've never heard of him since we brought him in from coventry and he was about 16 and he was the captain of coventry youth and i think he played for england and he was going to be the next stephen gerrard and everyone got really excited and then i never heard of him again i don't know what happened to him i can't remember what his bloody name was and we've done it so many times and we're linked to a couple of 16 year olds at the moment in two years time you'll have forgot the name and we'll we'll just get rid of them and and if they're not good enough and this happens a lot so we've said this before manchester united under sir jim madcliffe have already opened the door to selling young players which is what something we don't think should happen but it becomes like a conveyor belt chelsea have been doing it for a while man city have been doing it for a while the youngster look all right in this case it sounds like they're the victim but that's just what manganite are going to do it's it's a cattle farm basically you accumulate as many young talented players as you can in the hope that one or two of them hit the first team one or two of them you sell at profit and the rest of them you just get rid of it's all it's sort of like throwing darts at a dartboard and sometimes a little triple 20 and sometimes a little two and this is what we're going to do high turnover and this is just the flip side to that that's what's going to happen and and whilst i feel sorry for some of these players man united are going to do this um because it's a very very good way to make money in the modern game and um we've seen it as i said with many other clubs like chelsea etc um sky sports two hours ago liverpool are considering a move for man united forward marcus rashford how can you call yourselves credible when you've got a guy in front of a a stand-up tv saying liverpool consider rashford i mean how much do you think rashford paid the daily mail to write that i'm joking but bloody i mean liverpool are switched on football club don't go anywhere near marcus rashford i mean if they want to go near marcus rashford and give us 50 million pounds definitely please do you know we would love that but no they're not they're not going to do that at all uh ben jacobs in the last 10 minutes it says that ipswich have rejected multiple offers from brentford um he had a 35 million relegation clause which was valid until five o 'clock brentford chose not to trigger it failed to get close to its payment terms despite matching the valuation um ipswich clear in talks um they want a significant fee up front um so yeah i mean as i said that a few minutes ago you can completely understand why um they want to um they want to do that deal um for and burmo at 60

45:56yeah crazy what do you think about pardew saying man united will get relegated i just think it's uh i don't know maybe he's been told to say it i mean it's just look i think people get he's not even a man united fan so i can't even i can't even write it off as that it's stupidity we won't get relegated um we we tried our best to get relegated last year and we were nowhere near it we finished 15th so imagine i don't think i'll ever see a season as bad as last year again so um it was incredible how many games we lost and we still finished 15th we're there yeah we're happy okay i better go and get a drink of water raspy bridge but um thank you everybody for tuning in this morning uh nice to get the david beckham picture actually the right way around we figured that one out which is always a positive um we are back at two o 'clock and i have got the eight o 'clock shows are just so good at the moment another cracker last night if you didn't see it but uh thank you everybody for tuning in as always obviously if we get any breaking news we will go live for you as well stay safe i've got the garden stream to come actually it's um it's brightening up a little bit so i might do the garden stream i've got to go down the slide at some point i was thinking about saving it till Saturday but who knows have a great day stay safe and I will speak to you in a little bit thanks for watching

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