138: Watkins TRANSFER Request? Antony SAUDI Offer!

0:01Hello, everybody. Good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldberg. It's Friday. What do you think of the week so far? Has it been a good one for Manchester United in the transfer window? Give us your thoughts because I've got all the latest Manchester United transfer news. And I'll tell you what we're talking about this morning. We're talking about huge deals. We're talking about transfer requests. We're talking about big money. We're talking about Manchester United. So, look, I think that we've got a bit more on the Oli Watkins story. Obviously, we broke this ahead of everybody else two days ago.

0:32We've got a little bit more coming in about that. We've also got Saudi interest in Anthony. Douglas Luiz to Manchester United. He's not gone back training for Juventus. So that looks like it's going to happen. Could it be a Manchester United deal? We've just been linked to another 18 year old. Romano has confirmed that we did. We did approach Aston Villa to loan Emi Martinez. I've got to say that has to go down as one of the worst bits of negotiations I've ever heard. I mean, who goes up to a Premier League club that's finished in the top six and says, can we loan your best player, one of the best goalkeepers in the world?

1:13I mean, I actually thought that story was a big load of rubbish. And Fabrizio Romano has confirmed it is true. Absolutely incredible. Absolutely madness. But let's start off by talking about Oli Watkins and what is going on with him. So we said a couple of days ago that this is now Manchester United's number one. I feel like I'm speaking like Fabrizio. Manchester United is in love with Oli Watkins and he would love to play for Manchester United. But Aston Villa, no, I'm not going to do it. I can do Italian. I can do Fabrizio, but I won't do it. Not out. I mean, it's not disrespectful. He's go over the game.

1:49We love Fabrizio, but I will do it in our tone. So Manchester United have prioritised the signing of Oli Watkins. Aston Villa have said he's not for sale. What is the next step? What I can tell you is Manchester United are waiting for, and it'll be very interesting to see if we get it from a Romano or an Ornstein. Manchester United have now basically said to Oli Watkins and his camp, we've done all we can do. We've approached Aston Villa. we want you they've said that you're not for sale they want a big fee we can't do that so over to you ollie are you going to make it obvious that you want to leave aston miller and you want to come to manchester united that has to be the next step and that is the next step that manchester united are waiting for enko says do you not think we could move from mateta or sesco So we could do, mate.

2:46We could do. But at what point does it become catastrophic? At what point does it become, I mean, some of you might say it already is, but at what point does it become chaotic in the sense that we've gone from De Lapp to Jocares to Eketike to Watkins, then we go Mateta, we've been, you know, Sesco. At some point, you've got to land. There's only six weeks left of this window. It could take us six weeks to do a deal. at some point you've got to land on a target and go for it and if you don't get that target you stick with what you've got I don't think we can keep we're effectively we've effectively knocked on the door of Ipswich Sporting Eintracht Frankfurt and Aston Villa we've made four big plays to get players now look on some of them you knock on the door and the player wants Arsenal it doesn't happen on some of them you knock on the door and the player's already going to Liverpool it doesn't happen we put a lot of effort into the lap we have made a play for Watkins if we abandon that and go towards Mateta you weaken your hand every time and I think what what Manchester United have to do is stick on a target and go for it and if it doesn't come off and you walk away and you go into a season with Rasmus and Obi and maybe Xerxes as a striker option then Amirim has been let down but ultimately I think Amirim has been let down anyway because I don't think for one second Ollie Watkins was his priority at all.

4:06We are where we are at the end of July. So what Man United need, and this is hot off the press, Manchester United next need Ollie Watkins to put it out there that he wants to come to Manchester United. Now that doesn't mean Ollie Watkins needs to go to Instagram and do a story or a TikTok. That just means we need what we got with Kunya and what we got with Mbumo. And I think it was Ornstein who said, well, he did, Mbumo only wants Manchester United. So that's what we need. And people say, Why do you need that? You need the player, like Isaac's done with Newcastle, you need the player to make it known publicly that they feel their journey at that particular club is over and that they want to move on.

4:44And it will annoy the Villa fans, as it has annoyed Newcastle fans with Isaac, but we had it with Ronaldo. We've actually had it at United. We need that because it weakens Villa's position. It's a game. We're not here to make enemies of Aston Villa or Brentford or any other club. It's a game. And all we can do is land on a target and say Watkins is our priority, which we have. Speak to Villa, which we have. And then Villa have said he's not for sale. And if he was, we want massive money. That's where we're at. So what do you do? Do you move on to another target? I think that looks amateur. You need to say to Watkins' people, look, we've approached Villa.

5:27You're not for sale. they want stupid money for you. We want you. You're the player we want. If you want us, you need to speak to Villa. And that's what we're waiting for with that. So let's see what happens in the next 24 to 48 hours. Because, look, it took weeks for Krizak to do it to Newcastle. But we haven't got weeks. Villa need a replacement for Watkins as well, which I totally respect. perfect he no we'll have to wait and see I've always said with this we can bring you the news on it and we've been very well sourced on it but I can't sit here and somebody made a great point in the comments last night the thing about United Stand is they're clearly getting information but Goldbridge ruins it by saying it will definitely happen yeah well I'm not going to do that with this one I'm going to ruin it we'll just go off the source Watkins is the priority let's see what happens clearly we need Watkins to just say to Villa that he wants to go and that will start to negotiate the price but it's going to take a while anyway because Villa will need to get a replacement in but just on that by the way legends of the chat last night loads of you sending me the link to the original video of the pineapple seller if you know you know anyway we can come back to Watkins but I do want to talk about the why are people talking about Osman says J-Mac yeah don't talk about oz i'm an absolute waste of time um but there is a story this morning and i will get i'll get it out of the way very very quickly so it's coming from a journalist can you call them that works for sky basically i will read it to you rather than um actually um freestyle it so two of saudi arabia's top clubs are interested in signing anthony a move to bettis is unlikely at this stage Anthony could be open to Saudi but prefers to stay in Europe and this is coming from somebody though I have heard that Sky Sports Lyle Lyle Thomas never heard about him before this summer obviously trying to build a reputation for a play to the guy um never heard about him being a credible man united journalist or source before and not about to shout him out as one now um I could write that they could get me on Sky Sports I could I could do this um six Saudi clubs would love to sign Kobe Maynou and have inquired with Manchester United.

7:52At this stage, Kobe Maynou is wanting to sign a new contract at Manchester United or stay in the Premier League. Boom, you've got a headline. He ain't going to bloody Saudi, is he? Someone in the chat says he's just... No, he ain't going to Saudi. Look, this is just a Friday morning story. You can do this with any player. Who's... Oli Watkins. Oli Watkins. Saudi clubs are interested. every Saudi clubs are interested in any transfer like it's not breaking news and the trouble is I think some people get um excited about it quite rightly because if you could sell if Anthony wanted to go to Saudi we'd get 50 million we'd get 50 million quid so yeah um yeah Anthony and Saudi is not going to happen he's not going to want to go to Saudi he's proved himself in La Liga he's still relatively young he's got back onto the fringes of the Brazil first team if he goes to Saudi now he probably can say goodbye to the World Cup and effectively it's just a cash grab when you know he's gone and I'm a bit disappointed in Anthony I've said this before I'm a bit disappointed in Anthony because his loan to Betis is the blueprint of what you want players to do when they're not part of the manager's plans.

9:09You put him out on loan in January and he goes and absolutely rocks it up. So I think Anthony done really, really well. And I'm surprised that that momentum he had from Bettis at the end of May when he played that final against Chelsea in the Conference League. I'm really surprised that we're at the end of July, two months later, and he's basically not kicked the ball for anybody. I'm disappointed. I mean, is that just bad advice, a bad representation, lack of options? I don't know. it's just a strange one but he yeah i mean look i'd love and i'd love any of our players that would try i'd love sancho to say it's my dream to play in saudi um which i'm surprised it not it's not because he does love big wages but yeah of course you're going to want one of these players that we want out of the club to go to saudi but if you think i'm getting excited about the prospects of anthony going to saudi just because sky sports said so you'd be damn right no no i'm not really i'm not really um yeah i can't see it happening um i don't really my theory on anthony is the same as sancho i think both players would like to be out of manchester united but i think we're digging our heels in on what we actually want to get so i do not believe that story at all what i would add in and just just while we're talking about players that might be leaving Manchester United, there was also a story on Sky this morning that Ganacho wants to stay in the Premier League and play in the Champions League next season with Manchester United looking to sell him.

10:41That, to me, is in... Well, look, that would rule out Aston Villa, if that is true. I mean, look, I'm sure Bolva in the chat would love a date with Margot Robbie tonight and her to say, come back to my place for a coffee and then opens the doors like Wolf of Wall Street and she's in a birthday suit um doesn't mean he's gonna get that probably gonna be a pot noodle in a you know whatever but yeah I mean look Gennacher wants to stay in the Premier League and play for a Champions League club wow you're not asking for too much are you mate yeah um whether he can get that basically I think that starts and ends at Chelsea um there was a story yesterday I think it might have been ben jacobs it was ben jacobs saying to terry on the united stand uh that the feeling is with ganacho that clubs that are interested in him are waiting till august when the price comes down uh the belief being that manchester united will take 40 to 45 million instead of what they're demanding at the moment which is 60 um that's that's more honors to be honest with you um that's more as uh cole give yourself a pat on the back you've just realized we haven't changed the overlay from the 24th to the 25th it is the 25th today well done cole uh ocd but look i think with regards to ganacho um he will be leaving manchester united there is no comeback um i think one of the positives and you might say there's not many positives in manchester united's transfer window so far this year but one of the positives is and i'm a firm believer in this there's a lot to worry about at manchester united but that doesn't mean you champion and you know shout out the positives i'm really really pleased that reuben amrim didn't bring rashford sancho anthony malasia ganacho back for pre-season that was a big big call which has made things a lot lot better um look winning team photos and all that stuff might be a little bit miserable of me but i don't like it but ultimately you can't argue with the fact that the atmosphere on the training ground is good.

12:52Whether that's going to translate to results, we'll have to start seeing tomorrow when we play West Ham. But, and obviously in real life, Arsenal in three weeks. Three weeks. But yeah, I mean, it's good that these players are not there. They're not there and Amorim has been backed. And I think that's what Jose Mourinho was saying, that look, at least they are trying to back Amorim. It'll be interesting to see how long they do that. I hope they can keep doing that. But my bigger point is that Ganacho isn't coming back. The sale will happen. It's going to happen. We can argue about why we've set the price at 60.

13:28I would say that that's stupid. We should be negotiating closer to 40. And if we want 60, we should be loaning him. He's still got a lot of years left on his contract, but we want money. We want that money because it's pure profit. and ultimately we've all been reading this for a very long time ganacho is not gonna go for anything more than 45 million and if we're asking for 60 we're completely unfounded but this is the same club that bid 45 for embumo and ended up paying 65 we're a walking contradiction on our values of players we want to value ganacho at 60 but then we valued embumo at 45 um he will go he's not coming back where he's going to go I don't know does he need to lower his expectations himself I like Gannaccio I don't know whether I'm one of the few or one of the many I like Gannaccio I think there's a good player there I will always shout him out the fact that he never really got injured and was always available from a from a very young age from 18 years of age he's always been available he always plays does he play well sometimes is he ridiculously selfish yes is that his fault well he's a kid learning from people who are selfish um does his attitude off the pitch leave something to be desired massively can you forgive him for that probably not because you know in many ways he's took the piss out of man united and that's a dangerous thing to do can he grow up and still become a really really good player yes i always said i think he's got the highest ceiling in the man united squad i don't think that now um but i still think that he could have a very very good future in football but that's that's a path elsewhere if he wants premier league football and champions league football it's not going to be liverpool it's not going to be arsenal it's not going to be manchester city so you're sort of saying it's spurs chelsea or newcastle and i don't know whether he fancies newcastle and i don't know whether newcastle fancy him chelsea have always been interested in him but would they be would that be a good move for him who gives a shit spurs might be a good fit if son goes and i said this yesterday so maybe it will be son maybe that's where he's going to end up but look i'm quite relaxed i've seen a lot of people today going arrogant twat you know just about me not even about ganacho but no they've been a little bit like you know he's arrogant this that and the other thinking he can get champions league football in a premier league club i think there will be one i just don't think it will be uh liverpool uh Steve, I'm afraid, Steve, you are a racist and you are gone.

16:12Sorry if anybody saw that from Steve. Sometimes they do slip through. Fair play to the mods. Weatherfield County have... I don't know. I don't know what that's all about. Leia Cake says if he was a top player inside the field, no one would care about his outside behaviour. That's the issue we can actually show. He's laughable both inside and outside the field. Well, look, I think there's a good player there. as I say it's um it's um it's time to go it's time to go as the great Claude used to say um right let's talk I'm going to come back to Ali Watkins because a lot of people are talking about it but this is a news show and I want to get through the news uh before we do that so interesting story this morning coming out of Italy I think it was Corriella della Sport or Gazetta della it was GDS or CDS effectively Douglas Luiz apparently hasn't turned up for pre-season training with Juve he only joined them a year ago so is this the sort of player that Man United want to bring in so I think that we are linked we're linked to him we have been linked to him numerous trials this summer I think Douglas Luiz for me is very similar to Oli Watkins you're either going to be in fact I'm going to run a poll on this uh would you be happy would you be happy with Douglas

17:35louise um start the poll yeah yeah i i feel like he's very very similar to ollie watkins so there is a chance that this could be the midfielder that we go for now i would put it in the same area as esther banan i think esther banan was a player that man united were interested in but it was going to be based on sales and later in the window and obviously that has not been possible because ac milan have come in and done a deal now and i think it would be the same with douglas Louise. I think if he's still available later in the window, we would probably look at doing a deal for him. Gara, I can't even remember what Ben Jacobs said about Gara yesterday.

18:13I can't remember what he said about him, but that just feels to me like it's a dream being led by agent talk and not reality talk. So I don't know whether Gara is even possible. Douglas Louise seems a little bit more possible to me what I like about Douglas Luiz is I do just need to check this because I'm not 100 % sure myself but I think I'm right in saying somebody I tell you what let's be interactive instead of just moving off and looking at something instead of you lot how old is Douglas Luiz because I think he's about 27 he's definitely played in the Premier League before and he's exactly the sort of player that we would want um i quite like it he is 27 says isaac i quite like the deal but i think he's just very similar to ollie watkins you're either on board with that type of deal or you're not on board with that type of deal and i i understand that but look if we if we get ollie watkins a goalkeeper and douglas luis from this point I would say we've got the chance of a decent season now what is a decent season for Man United fifth place two good cup runs that's all we can hope for there is no Europe I have to demand that we do well in the Carabao Cup I have to demand that we take the FA Cup seriously we have no European football this time next year I want to be taught I mean I'm dreaming I mean I might as well put my bloody pajamas on if I wore any but this time next year I want to be talking about Manchester United back in Europe, preferably in the Champions League.

19:47We'd have to take the domestic cups seriously and we have to do well in them because I tell you what, it'll be like a sledgehammer to the nuts if we go into Europe next year having only played 38 Premier League games. We've got to keep ourselves busy. We've got to be looking to be well in both domestic cups, whether we respect them or not. They're important to us for a multitude of reasons, not only financials as well so i think if you could bring douglas luis lemans and um i want to talk about the goalkeeper in a moment and um ollie watkins in from this point with cunyre and mbumo that's five players it's not everybody we need and it's certainly not plan a in some positions but it is five players that i'd be reasonably happy with um so i would take douglas luis i absolutely would i think the biggest problem with the midfield is bruno being in it It's not Douglas Luiz being brought in.

20:38I think if Bruno wasn't in the midfield, I'd go, well, you've got Luiz and Maynou. You've got Agate and Luiz. You've got Maynou and Agate. You've got Casemiro as a bit of a backup. You've got Collier. I'd be quite happy with that. My biggest problem with the midfield is Bruno in it. That's the one I need to get sat down on. That's the one Amrim needs to prove me on, right about. So I would take Douglas Luiz. I mean, going back to Watkins for a moment, this fan base is not where it should be. Our aspirations and standards are not where they need to be. But there is a reality to where we are. I want Manchester United to win Premier League titles.

21:16I want Manchester United to compete for the Champions League. I want Manchester... I find it bloody embarrassing that for the last 10 years, most of the time, we're not even in the Champions League. It's disgusting. thing we're a world-renowned football club that can't even play in the elite European competition so it's embarrassing where we are it's not we should be in that tournament on reputation but on ability we don't deserve to be there so we reputationally we should be signing players like Isaac, Jochenes, Osserman you know Bellingham these are the sort of players Man United should be buying based on reputation because we are the Real Madrid of the Premier League but in reality we're no better than West Ham in reality we're no better than bloody Roma we're no better than Valencia that's the level we're operating at now Roma would bloody love Ollie Watkins and Douglas Luiz and so would Valencia so I get the point when people say oh I don't want Ollie Watkins and I don't want Douglas Luiz because you're living off the reputation as is your right as a Man United fan but the reality of Man United is that we should be bloody grateful to get people like Douglas Lewis and Ollie Watkins because they will massively improve the shower of shit we saw last year.

22:30And that's sort of where I'm at. I'm looking at it and going, this has to be a project. I don't want it to be a project, and I certainly don't want it to be a fucking five-year project, but it definitely has to be a project done in steps. I'm not looking at 2028. I'm not looking at 2030. I'm looking at fifth place and then we go again next summer with champions league football and the revenue from that you give me douglas luis a goalkeeper and ollie watkins i think we have an outside chance of getting into the champions league in fifth place it's a big big ask but i think we can i think that's what we've got to go for you give me jokeres or ozerman and you know costa in goal and a midfielder like Adam Wharton or Edison, and I'd be pretty much demanding fifth place.

23:21But we can't get those players. So whilst I understand people not being happy with certain players that we're looking at, the reality of the situation is that is what we are. And we mustn't lose sight of the fact that reputationally, I want Man United like this guy. I remember these days. I remember that haircut. I remember that shirt. I remember those days and nobody could hold a torch to us. We were the best, simply the best. That was a great time. And that's not like glory. That's just where we should be. That was, you know, for all those years, it felt like that's where we should be. That's the reputation of Manchester United.

24:00Where we are at the moment, we shouldn't be here. We shouldn't be here. It's disgusting. It's embarrassing. It's a stain on the history of this football club, what the Glazers have done. But there is a reality to it. And if you fall in the sewers and you stink of crap, you can't just climb out and go to, you know, the bloody BAFTAs. You're going to stink of shit. You've got to get out, wash yourself down, get in the shower, shampoo, conditioner, you know, soap your balls, whatever, whatever takes your fancy. Get out, dry, have a shave, brush your teeth get some nice clothes on splash a brute get yourself to the baftas some of our fans want to climb out the sewers and go to the baftas or the or the oscars or whatever else tuxedo thing you want to do there has to be a period of showering yourself down grooming yourself tidying yourselves up and getting ready for that and i think that's what this season has to be And look, there's no part of me that wouldn't want to have Jokers up front and a top class goalkeeper and a top class midfielder to go with Konya and Mbumo.

25:15But we've not managed to do that. And we can digest that once the season starts. And we bloody well will if things go bad. But right here, right now, things can get worse. That's what I'm saying. If you're moaning about Le Mens, Watkins, Douglas Luiz. by the end of August, we might have Nicholas Jackson, no goalkeeper and no midfielder. And that's what I mean. Things could get worse. I'm not sat here saying this is ideal. What I'm doing is saying from this point, let's not make it get any worse. It's not like we can get Jokeres now or Osman or anybody else. The Sun says we're in for Callum Wilson.

25:55Yeah, well, you know, not the best source. Not the best source. I've got some chats from you to go through, but just on the poll, would you be happy with Douglas Luiz? 71 % of you, yes. And remember last night, 74 % of you went for Watkins over Mateta. So look, I think the vast majority maybe are sort of feeling how I'm feeling. It has been a bad transfer window, but we might be able to salvage something from it. Don't know whether you checked out the 2am stream this morning. Obviously, we're out in the States at the moment. 2 a.m for people in the states is actually about eight o 'clock if you're at east coast and a little bit earlier if you're west coast so first press conference today with Ruben Amarim don't know the time we'll find out but we'll be reacting to that for sure at some point but Beth was live from Chicago again again just loving the fact that when we're doing that it starts off with the city behind light and transitions to dark i just love when we're out about doing stuff like that like when i was in new york it's great so check out the video but on that video there's some other stuff about lamens and and other other bits now in relation to lamens um he wants manchester united so romano confirmed last night that lamens the royal answorth goalkeeper and this would be the goalkeeper that is a little bit more younger potential but could force an honor out quite quickly uh a bit like de Gea when we brought i i think it's really easy to uh summarize what lemenz and martinez emmy martinez are lemenz would be de Gea back in 2011 was it you know young goalkeeper with potential whereas emmy martinez is going to be like van der Sar coming in towards the end of his career with the cv um i'll be happy with either if i'm being completely honest but apparently he does want manchester united so let's wait and see what happens with that one because he'd be the cheaper option as well what i would say is fabrizio also confirmed and i have to say i'm absolutely stunned by this if anybody can explain this please do um so effectively fabrizio confirming a story that had come out earlier in the week that manchester united did approach um aston villa to loan amy martinez um that that is that is absolutely incredible that is tell you what i smell good today bloody hell what is that it's not my normal one you know what that is it doesn't even smell like it smells you know what i smell like i like victory no it's um it's it's links africa roll-on um which is you know i've surprised myself with that i think i think i don't even know where i got it from um anyway um yeah yeah i mean look if somebody can uh explain to me why um why what and i and i mean this why why really why did we approach Aston Villa to loan Emi Martinez I mean was that just the um I don't know unless I'm missing something here I I have I've got absolutely no idea why we asked Villa for a loan of Emi Martinez I mean it's like it's like knocking on the door of um I'm trying to think not not not Liverpool obviously because we wouldn't do that but it's like knocking on the door of spurs and saying do you want to loan as kulisovsky um it's mad or west ham do you want to loan as jared bowie um or brighton do you want to loan as belieber it's it's incredible it's that as as gt54 says it it is actually laughable and some people might say well fair play for asking i just think you're just gonna irritate them like a loan deal i mean well look i don't know i don't i don't know about that but for richie confirming that right let me just catch up on some of your comments here um so given how uh we are dealing with transfers and the time left in the window says mojo it's fed course to gala time no no no no no no no no we want to do better than that this is why this is why i think we've got to go all in for watkins if you're tuning in a little bit late just to summarize um a few stories we've been talking about um douglas luis to manchester united has been circulating again uh saudi clubs in for anthony according to sky load of crap um i mean saudi would buy anthony but he won't want to go there um and of course with ollie watkins we've been pretty much ahead of the game on this one from day one and um man united do want ollie watkins villa are saying not for sale manchester united are now putting the ball into ollie watkins court to say look this is where we need you to do what Mbumo did.

30:54This is why we need you to do what Izak's just done. You need to make it obvious you want to go because Villa are saying you're not for sale and they're asking for£60 million. We can't do anything at that level. So they need Oli Watkins to sort of start pushing for the move. Whether he will or not, we'll have to wait and see. But I would expect that to be the next big update from maybe Nordenstein or Romano because United are still all in on this deal and they want it to happen. not that they won't walk away but they they do want it to happen um i just wonder actually what well i'll come back to that one oh there's a question i want to ask you lot as well uh make sure you smash the like and subscribe by the way but on right hand corner we're really really close to 125 000 uh so thank you everybody and don't forget tomorrow i mean we've got plenty of content eight o 'clock show tonight i've got the bottle of melbeck um two o 'clock show this afternoon of course and we'll have content for you tomorrow but don't forget tomorrow night it's a watch along It's a midnight kickoff on a Saturday night.

31:54I don't normally like Saturday night football, but this is pre-season and I don't mind it. I mean, next Thursday, it's half past two in the morning. I'm very excited about that. But midnight kickoff tomorrow night, Saturday night at midnight, UK time, we're playing West Ham. Looking forward to that. So don't forget to subscribe and get your notifications on. Slazy says, people need to stop thinking we're a few transfers away from fighting for the title. I hope we can be this season's Villa or Forest fighting for fifth. Yeah. Look, some people laugh at me when I say that fifth place is possible.

32:27And they do that because they think we're shit. Some people think we should just be getting top four. We finished fifth. We finished 15th. And I think we were lucky to get 15th. If we hadn't beaten Villa, we would have been lower than that. We lost the Europa League final to Spurs. We are crap. That's not up for debate. No United fan can sit there and go, we're not crap, Mark. We are crap. We're really crap. What we're trying to do this season is go from 15th to as high as we can. And it's actually quite funny that if we start the season badly, people will blame Amarin. But we're the worst we've ever been, and that's not just because of him.

33:08So we need to remember what the reality is and stop over-egging the pudding. There's a bit of ground foundation work that needs to be done, and you could argue we haven't started digging yet. In the early 2000s, Real Madrid spent big on stars but struggled to deliver consistently. Manchester United are in a similar spot now. Heavy investment but underwhelming results. It'll take time to fix, says Sal. Thank you very much for that, Sal. Hope you're doing well. Number one on the top fans today as well. No more loans. Anthony wasn't involved and Rashford was the first to act. Now he should go to Saudi and United needs to be ruthless, says Dennis.

33:43David Luiz will take Manu's spot. David Luiz is like box-to-box and not CDM. We need a better version of a Garte, says Nicholas. Would you take a seventh or eighth place finish if we qualified for the Europa League through a domestic cup win? Would that be considered a successful season? It's not ideal, but probably more realistic. Patrick, if we're in the Europa League next season, I think it's a good season. If we're in the Champions League next season, I think it's a great season. That's where we are. can't believe i'm saying those words but that's where we are that's my point reputationally we're manchester united and we should be in the bloody champions league fighting for the title that's where we should be reputationally where the glazers and inios have taken us the reality is urepa league football would be a success don't blame the game blame the reason it's not amrim's fault that's that would be a success so i actually do think i don't know whether it will keep him in a job though because there is no patience in football and at Manchester United but reality I think seventh and Europa League football would would probably be a good season it's scary to say but I tell you what mate we'll fall further behind next summer if that's the case because it'll be Liverpool and Arsenal and Chelsea and Man City spending hundreds of millions next year as well and we'll just get further and further behind we've got to try and find a way to get in the Champions League and that's fifth place.

35:07Douglas Luiz will go to West Ham. We can't afford him. Man United can't afford a player. West Ham can. That's why we are where we are. We'll get Ndidi, says Sean Turner.

35:18Tom Grant says, Morning Mark and Legends. As the end of the window approaches, there will be a lot down the garden paths from agents with hipsters, ex-players. Now we wait and watch. Have a good weekend all, says Tam. Thank you very much for your super chat, Tom. Mojo's been a member for 70 months, by the way. Wow, that's a long time. How long? 70 months. It's definitely. It's nearly six years. Bloody hell. If we got both, they would be short term signings to help younger players. So I'm not bothered about their age as long as price and wage are OK, says Dan. Giles says, have you primed Beth with a question for the presser?

35:54Well, why don't you if somebody comes up with a good question for the press conference, then I will certainly be happy if you get in the comments after the show. I'll come back in about an hour and I'll have a look. So, yeah, put some in there and we'll have a look. And the one that gets the most likes will do that. I'm happy to do that. That's how it should work.

36:15Manchester United are just very against, like, working with, well, we're bigger than most media outlets and they're just very against it. It's really, really odd. I know why. I know why. It's because we say it how it is. And most of the journalists are just client journalists. They may as well be paid by the club, most of them. They never say anything of notes. I mean, they will say stuff about tactics and systems, but they don't call the club out. they don't come out and say it's disgraceful to charge 4 000 license fees because they know that them you know that they're basically fed by man united they've got no job these are these journalists for the manchester evening news and the athletic they've got no job if man if they don't write for manchester united they're they're client journalists that's what they are and that you know it's all one big you know dictatorship really it's not proper journalism in my opinion but But probably won't get a question in the press conference now.

37:17My prediction, but I don't really care about that because the world's going to change anyway. It's the old media. It's going to change. People want real conversation. They don't want fake. And it's all bloody fake. You know, you sit down and have an interview with Omar Barada and you're asking nothing. You know, we are in huge debt. We've had our worst ever Premier League season. the club is on its absolute arse it's sacking half its workforce it's ripping off its fans you get an interview with the ceo or sir jim radcliffe and people are like how you doing you know how do you think it's gone like there's real question if this was a government they'd be gone in in government you get a four-year term and then you get voted out the glazes would have been gone 16 years ago but no they have a hold on this football club and people don't want to talk about it in the media because they don't want to bite the ham that feeds them matty says my prediction is we will sell nobody and only loan out rashford sancho anthony ganacho we're so poor at getting any sort of fee for our players says matty it worries me people aren't worried about wingbacks does anybody well i'll come back to that in a minute um that was from ad hoc raking news mark says as bunny sancho would love to join saudi clubs apart from salary prospects he thinks his uh thinks his love for freedom and speech can help raise the morale of the Saudi women and their rights has he i think he's taking the piss there um tony marcial says mark how well will embermo and ahmad as wing back on the right work together i don't know tony i'm very interested by this i don't know how it's going to work uh we'll have to wait and see maybe we'll see a glimpse of it tomorrow i don't think we will though i heard a few people talking about oh it'd be interesting and see what the team is tomorrow.

38:59It will be what it was against Leeds. It will be two teams playing 45 minutes. I don't think we will start to have a clue about what our best 11 is until maybe Fiorentina or the last US game, because he will mix the teams up. He won't put his best team out. Talk shit saying we could have got Isaac if we sold Bruno. He would never join us, says Maykul. Look, idiots need somewhere to go and talk about football. and that's the place to go uh yeah i mean i i just i got nothing to say they've got absolutely no yeah it's just it's done for effect isn't it we were never gonna we were never signing izak we did we don't we haven't got izak we haven't not got izak because we sold didn't bruno i mean you know i just have to waste time do you think sesco uh do you think kone would help could step up this season?

39:54I hope so, Preben, but he's a young lad and the expectations must be of a young lad. He can't be coming sabers at, what, 17, 18. If Swatnam come in for Ganacho, sell him, says Liam. I said that yesterday. What are the chances that Son goes to LA and then they go for Ganacho? Do you think we'll complete all our transfers before we face Arsenal, says Sanil? I think we've completed the transfers that we're going to have for Arsenal and the names of Ryan and Bumo and Kunja. we're not going to get anybody else in for arsenal it's three weeks to three weeks on sunday no way not not a chance that's going to happen um unfortunately um ghost 90 i mean look i'd love to get proved wrong on that but i'm not expecting it um man united aren't we're not even in i sort of said last night we should probably start the clock on the watkins deal but actually i don't think we should not until you know villa are saying he's not for sale at the moment i think until we get this Watkins I want to go thing I don't think the clock starts we need to try and lock in a price for Watkins as soon as possible and finalize the deal before it gets too complex and Cesco ends up in Newcastle says Ghost92 we are rushing I prefer we get the goalkeeper and use Xerxes as Keel is Ivan Tony available no no no prospect knitting of him wanting to leave Mojo says it took six weeks on Bumo and now being on tour we usually don't make any signings this is now going to get to squeaky bum time i would love a question on maynew's role in the squad i like that one jacob i do like that one we will write that down i mean if i was speaking to amrim i don't know whether it'd be a wasted question but i would say it's very clear that you're not getting your top options up front um the season starts in three weeks you've had two signings many fans feel that there are priority positions that haven't been infield.

41:44How do you feel about whether Man United are ready for the start of the season? Mic drop. Bang. Give me another one. Give me another one. Look where Chelsea was a couple of years ago. They built slow two years later. They're looking great. United need to follow that pan. Won't turn around in one window. Luke, Luke, I don't know where you've been, but if you describe spending£2 billion in two years as moving slowly and we should replicate Chelsea, you're crazy. They haven't built slowly, mate. They've spent billions. I'd love to have have done that one do you think there will be a big gap between top four and the rest or will it end up like normal i think there'll be a huge clap glenn i really do i really think there's going to be a big gap i think top four is done it's just what order chelsea liverpool man city arsenal i'm dreading seeing ruben change and turn like eric ten haggs then may take that i'm really looking forward to this um actually this this interview today um how come we never went for mike menon says our kid i don't know why you're not in your normal rooms as mufc um i will be tonight evening shows i'm in my own room just in the morning shows for the next couple of weeks i'm in this room because building work right next to my studio room so yeah it's better it's better although there was some drilling yesterday and somebody in the chat said i had to pull over because i thought i had a flatty um watkins in at 30 at the end of the year could be an injury away to being a terrible signing i really don't think this is the answer but you didn't give us a solution brian i don't like people who moan about something and then don't give us a solution um what are the chances of any significant moves to happen from united next week or do you expect to be waiting longer i would hope we can start doing something next week but realistically what's different about this week to next week i mean at some point things will happen but i wouldn't start saying it definitely will uh the pineapple seller went on to win an oscar says parker right i want to ask a question here two questions because we're coming towards the end of the show first of all it's an easy one does anybody know what time amram's press conference is because i would say if it's two o 'clock their time that would be eight o 'clock our time um if it's midday it'll be six o 'clock our time if it's five o 'clock it's going to be eleven o 'clock at night our time so i don't know what time the amram press conference is but i definitely do want to react to it um how can it be 2 p.m no it won't be at 2 p.m 2 p.m is eight o 'clock in the morning for them i don't know i don't know i don't think it'll be at 2 a.m our time 2 p.m our time i can't imagine it is some a lot of people saying it's 2 p.m here i can't imagine it is but um maybe maybe it is maybe it is then um yeah maybe it's also i want to ask you as well what time not well not what time i want to ask you as well what price do you think is a good price for um not reuben amarin um what ollie watkins because a lot of people have said you know you want ollie watkins but what at what price does it become a good deal and what price does it become a bad deal james trafford's gone to Man City, by the way.

45:02And Anana's back in training.

45:10I just... I don't even want to say that. He's back in training. This guy is an absolute joke. Like, he meant to play in the AFCON. He misses the first game. He pulls his hamstring. He's back in a week. he just he just won't he just won't take the hint will he he will not take the hint um stewart says 40 to 50 million josh says 40 to 50 million alex says 40 million max um paul dandos is 45 to 50 million no more uh footy edits is 55 million max uh netty red says 40 million simon says 35 um sports and league leaks tv says what do you want him to do not train mate don't be a pedantic twat i'm just saying i'm disappointed that he's back in training because every time i see a picture of anana my heart sinks of course if he's fit he should train i'm not saying you're fit don't train i'm just some people just so literal you should go and listen to talk shit i think that'd be your level mate i'm disappointed that i've seen a picture of Andre Inanna back in training for Manchester United because I think he's absolutely shit and I don't want him in goal for Manchester United and I made that decision at the end of last season so seeing him back in training at the start of a new season fills me with dread I am not saying he I hope he's injured I'm not saying I wish he was injured and I'm not saying he shouldn't be training when he returns from injury what I'm saying is I think he's shit and seeing him back and training depresses me because it makes me realize that's our starting goalkeeper it ain't that deep when are we about to sign a goalkeeper he's back says make it well i just don't know i just i just don't know i really just don't know um my price for ollie watkins is sounds like riverdance

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47:35um i my price for ollie watkins is 50 million pounds max max is not the ceo of uh aston villa that's my maximum price 50 million pounds no add-ons nothing 50 million max um i like 45 i like 40 even better but considering the market considering we're desperate considering it's august basically I think we're probably going to have to pay a little bit more. And I don't know why we keep doing this. It's almost like United think if you do business in August, you get cheaper deals. Every bit of business we've done in August, you pay more. Anthony, Casamero, Agate. Prices go up. It's crazy how we're again talking about doing key business late in the window when statistically prices go up.

48:37later in the window um but there we go um anyway thanks everyone for watching uh we apparently the press conference is at two o 'clock so we'll be live at two o 'clock reacting to that very excited about that certainly we'll be watching about it um and we'll go even more in depth at eight o 'clock but all i'm going to say is keep an eye out maybe today maybe tomorrow but soon for watkins wants man united that's got to be the next step i expect that to be the next step that's what we're hearing speak to you in a bit take care