141: Sesko TRANSFER Snub? INEOS won't RUSH!

0:07Hello everybody, good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United transfer news and news this Monday morning. Ignore the 24th. It's not the 24th. I've done it again. It's the 28th, actually. So we're four days further into this transfer window. And the question has to be, are Manchester United moving quick enough? Well, we've got a story coming in from Laurie Whitwell, journalist, athletic, saying that Manchester United are willing to wait and do nothing for the next two weeks and leave it till the rest of the transfer window. We'll give you the exact story about that in a moment.

0:43But does that mean we're snubbing a deal for Sesco? Because Newcastle are looking to do a deal for Sesco today. And if we're going to sit on tour, Wilcox, Barada are out on tour. They're not doing business. So are Manchester United going to be doing business in the next two weeks? Or is it true that they're comfortable just sitting back and waiting to the last few weeks of the window? We'll give you that. Also, maybe it's not true because out in Italy, they're saying that Manchester United, could start a transfer domino effect by moving for Kolo Mouane. We'll talk about that. He's back on the agenda for United as well.

1:19Is Luke Shaw heading out of Manchester United? Is Donnarumma heading to Manchester United? Who is the 18-year-old striker that we're about to sign at Manchester United as well? And some good news around Calvert-Lewin too. So lots to get into on the show this morning, but I think the big thing to talk about here is the impact yesterday of sesco potentially being an option for manchester united very much led by fabrizio romano well this is what the athletic are saying laurie whitwell specifically and i quote you've got the executive structure of omar barrada and jason wilcox out here in the u.s they're aware that this tour they've got the two big players that they wanted they're aware that they can ramp up negotiations and what they do in the final weeks of the window when they get back obviously they have got people in the UK and on the content of Europe working on talks so basically what that is saying is that Omar Barada and Jason Wilcox are out in the States they're very happy with their two big signings in Mbuno and Cunha and they're aware that if they want to they can ramp up negotiations when they get back in the final weeks of the transfer window now look that could be completely and utterly dispelled by Manchester United making a move for Sesco or Lemens in the next few days.

2:36But we have to go based on experience and how many times have we said we don't do business when we're on tour and how many times over the last few years have Manchester United left it late in the window. I've never been a fan of Ed Woodward. I've seen it before out on the Asia tour, out on the US tour. We've got our director of football and our CEO out in the US. So look, are we going to get business done on this transfer on this US tour? I don't know. I don't know. But what I would say is, if it is true, I think it's a mistake. I don't need to sit here and rant and rave about it. You can put your opinions in, of course.

3:19I think it's a mistake. I think it's a mistake we've been making for years, whereby what we do is we go out on tour, we don't do any business, we haven't done enough business. And then we sit there going, oh we'll act in the last few weeks if we want to I mean there's this there's almost a double strand of hypocrisy if this is true and obviously not every journalist is correct and Laurie Whitwell is certainly not David Ornstein or Fabrizio Romano far from it in fact he's probably a journalist that gets most of his information from the club if we're being completely honest and sometimes it's very accurate which is why we're starting off with it this morning but ramping up negotiations in the last few weeks of the window leans towards we think we're going to get bargains but then we've had Amorim and the club saying anybody who's thinking about leaving it till late in the window for Ganaccio or Anthony they can forget it because there won't be any bargains and then we're doing exactly the same and it's almost like sometimes you know it's difficult because you as I say you're assuming the story is true but we're almost treated like fools because on the one hand well you know these clubs waiting for our players to buy and they're under the window looking for a bargain.

4:29They're not going to get one. And then we're putting it out that we're ready in the last few weeks to ramp up negotiations if we need to, as if we're looking for a bargain as well, which doesn't make much sense. But the biggest issue I have with it is that we have done this year after year after year. We have apparated at the end of the market spending big money year after year after year. And look, simply, let's just talk about Agato. So that was a very, very, very important signing last summer. A midfielder was really important. It happened at the end of August when we'd already played three Premier League games.

5:04That player then didn't get a pre-season. United were happy to operate doing that. And it cost us. And, you know, I don't want to talk about Liverpool or Arsenal. We are playing them in the first eight games. I don't want to talk about Chelsea and Man City. We are playing them in the first five games. but the harsh reality is they're better than us and they've done business quicker than us and I always think in life as much as you want to make your own path you can learn a lot from people who are more successful than you you can take little bits I mean if I was starting out wanting to be a footballer or something like that and I was 15 I mean look at what you can learn from you've got Ronaldo's dedication you've got you know David Beckham's you know right behind me there, he's, you know, practicing free kicks, etc.

5:53There's so much you can learn from. You'd be an idiot to say, I'm not going to watch any videos about Ronaldo. I'm not going to watch any videos about Beckham or Rooney. I'm just going to go in the garden and teach myself. You know, you draw from experience and it just feels to me like United are only drawing from their own experience of what has effectively been, to be blunt, failure. When you operate late in a transfer window, you're not prepared for the season. And when you're not prepared for the season, it has a knock-on effect on performance so i've got to say that look i hope the aspects of this story are just not true but we'll talk about the impact it potentially has on sasco and other deals but if you're tuning in late this is the words of laurie whitwell from the athletic the executive team is out in the united states and they're aware that if they need to they can ramp up negotiations later in the window when they get back they're very happy with the two signings have made already.

6:46That to me reads like, I mean, to be honest, you can read it how you bloody well like, and I'll read it like this. It reads to me like, we're really happy with the transfer window we've done. And if there's any opportunities late in the window, we might act. And I'm sat there going, okay, so if you're happy with the window we've had, and you're looking for opportunities late in the window, that's scary. Because I'm looking at the window we've got, and I'm going, we've spent 127 million pounds on two number 10s and I really do like them but neither were priorities the striker and the goalkeeper and the midfielder was and you're sat there going you're happy with your business and you'll look for opportunities we need those three players I've just said there and on top of that as we move on I want to get into some of your comments because there's lots coming in make sure you smash the like on the video um what impact does this have on Sesco because it could effectively be a transfer snub.

7:39If Newcastle, as we understand, are in deep conversation with Sesco, personal terms are basically agreed and they just need to negotiate a fee. If we don't walk into that deal in the next 48 hours, we won't make that deal and he will be holding up a Newcastle shirt. And if he's holding up a Newcastle shirt, that is a potential rival, if we were good enough, for this. That is the last spot in the Champions League we can get. And if Newcastle gets Esco and he scores 20 Premier League goals, they're going to be there or thereabouts. So a rival is being strengthened with a player that would strengthen us that we're just going to sit back and let go to them.

8:18And that confused me. That confuses me. So look, let's see what happens in the next 48 hours. But if we're sitting on our arse in the US tour, you know, lapping up people buying shirts and, you know, investment chats and missing out on signings that are actually priorities when they're going to go to rivals, that's very, very disappointing because I'm still labouring under this statement of we've been planning this transfer window for ages. And I don't see that at the moment. And that's all I'm asking. When are we going to see the planning for this transfer window? And what I would say about Sesko is, I saw a very good tweet this morning from Swedish Rumble talking about the changing landscape of football and effectively you're seeing people like thets kaisido uh there are others who are going for ridiculous money like 100 million pounds plus and maybe 10 years ago you would see a 26 27 year old going for 100 million pounds plus but the football landscape has changed it's weird because football players are playing longer like levendofsky's into his mid-30s.

9:27So why is it people aren't paying£100 million for somebody who's 27 who could play for eight years? And the simple answer is, if you buy a player like Virts at 22, he's going to play for at least a decade. So it works out cheap at£120 million for a top-class player to play for you for a decade. But even if he doesn't play for you for a decade and he goes to Real Madrid at 26, you're going to make money on him as well. And that is why players in their early 20s that have established themselves as top talents are going for a lot of money. And you can see that someone like Sesco actually is a potential bargain because at what, 22, 23, you buy him for 60, he does really well.

10:10You could have him for a decade or you could sell him at 26 and get your money back. So there's a huge value in the market here. And if you're Newcastle and they get Sesco, I know they're going to be disappointed with Izak going, but you sell Izak for 140, you bring sesco in for 60 and then you sell him again in three years i mean it's just it's just you're printing money i don't know why we're not over this deal from a financial point of view i mean fair play to swedish rumble it sort of opened my eyes the reason liverpool is spending that british transfer record on verts the reason chelsea were buying people for 100 million and the reason it's going to keep happening for people in their early 20s is that you've got a sell on value or you've got a decade with them it's value for money and united are sat there going well we don't know whether we fancy this i personally you know let's see as i said i'm not sitting here stating that what lorry whitwell saying is the truth but he does get a lot of information from the club and if we are sat there going we're really happy with these two signings and we might do stuff when we get back from the tour when we get back from the tour we're basically 10 days out from arsenal that ain't that ain't good enough in my opinion uh get your comments in as always um i want to talk about moani but i just want to grab some of your comments because there's lots of people coming in that's not the right thing to click there we go here we go um all right um john united says uh fans and the media will say it's amram's fault that he can't improve the shit that's been here for a while as always we are delayed united says john united yeah and I think look I would just add what I think to that and look I don't I think that completely honestly and you you you will all know this as as people who watch the United Stand we can sometimes after a game or after something that frustrates us say something that realistically when we calm down we go maybe I overreacted there which is why I sit here this morning on a Monday morning quite calm just had a cup of tea I had my breakfast I'm not hungry I'm not hangry I'm not stressed I know what Liverpool and Arsenal have done they're better than us they've had a better window than us I don't want to talk about that what I do want to talk about is we had not an opportunity because an opportunity suggests that we had some role in it we had a potential for the Glazers to sell the club a new owner to come in clear the debt fund the stadium themselves and start pumping money in like Todd Bowley.

12:41And that would have been the dream. And for me, I think that was the only way back. We didn't get that. We got a 28 % shareholder in Jim Radcliffe, who came in as a very, very vocal person who has somehow managed to place himself as the owner of Manchester United when he's not. I mean, all anybody talks about is Ineos Sir Jim. I'm in charge of the football side of things. I'm in charge of sacking people. And yet he only owns 28 so that's been remarkable in itself but if you go along with that story and I think there's a problem with that because he's not the owner um he also came in with a load of bluster around changing the football club mistakes of the past turning things around and on transfers specifically I'm massively disappointed I thought last summer was disappointing how late we did the deals for ten hog considering delit masrawi and agate haven't been done at this point of the season they haven't been done at all um they weren't so that they did it very late then but i thought well you know maybe first summer transfer window they're organizing things you know ashworth and barada are only just coming in give them the benefit of the doubt i like the signings even though they're late obviously they've been sat ten hog which made very little sense having spent that much money money on him this summer i really was going to be the summer where you judge them And I look at the summer transfer window and I go, well, it's worse than last year, which is incredible.

14:06It's also Amram's first year, their guy, which is incredible. So effectively, we sit here late July. This is their guy. Ten Hag wasn't. They've given him less than Ten Hag got and they haven't given any of the priorities. And we're again operating late in the window. We've just come back off an Embermo deal that took about two months. and we paid Brentford exactly what they wanted, which is very reminiscent of Sancho, Maguire, Wan-Bissaka and every other deal we've done in the last decade. And also like the last decade, we're sat here going into a very important season, looking at it going, I bloody hope and pray that we do some deals in the last few weeks of the window, but that's not how to operate.

14:49So forgive me, I'm not ranting and raving, but I'm very frustrated again because I don't know at what point we're going to learn that proper football clubs don't operate like this and what concerns me is that coming out of the football club again is this belief uh that they are right and we are wrong that we're happy with what we've done we'll look at the market in the last few weeks when we get back from the tour uh there's there's no sense of panic it's almost like they think they're doing the right thing and yet every other competent football club isn't doing that and look i don't count Spurs or Villa or Newcastle as competent I think they're better than us and they haven't done a lot of business I'll agree but the four clubs we're meant to be competing with is Chelsea Man City Liverpool and Arsenal and they have all done business way before us and they are all way better than us I think the reason we do business late is a financial one I think the reason that we don't get this business done quickly is a financial one I don't think we want to be paying wages and fees early in the window because every week you don't you're saving money because that's the only logical reason I can think because in a footballing sense you know fight me on it if you want but on a footballing sense I mean I'd love to have this conversation conversation with Sir Jim or Jason Wilcox or Omar Barada we just won't get it and it would be a grown-up conversation I would just say in a footballing sense you can't explain to me or please do explain to me why doing business after the start of the season and after pre-season helps the football team.

16:24I don't think there is a justification for it. So therefore, it has to be a business decision, doesn't it? Make do United, says Kiel Robinson. Emily Derry's in the house. She says, not in my house. She says, it's a mistake and it's arrogance. We've known we've needed a striker and a goalkeeper since April, May. And now we're going to wait till the last minute again, says Emily. Well, the question is, Emily. Emily. Emily. I'd like to ask Emily a question. I've actually got an interesting update on Villa. We'll bring that in a minute. The question is, Emily, will we get a striker and a goalkeeper?

16:56And what quality will they be this late in the window? Magno is a new member of the club. Thank you very much, Magno. Hope you're doing well. Brian says we all hate leads. And Dave the Brave says, wake up, Mark. We can't sell. That's why we don't buy. Wake up, Dave. That's not my problem. That's not my problem, Dave. Dave, that's like going down to your local restaurant that does a really nice curry. You look at the menu and it says no curry. And you ask the waiter and they go, we didn't get any chicken in because the supplier didn't give us any chicken. So we can't put curry on there. Yeah. Well, it's an excuse, but it ain't my bloody problem.

17:33I like your curry. What am I supposed to do? Well, we couldn't get any from the supplier. But that's your problem. That's your mistake that you haven't solved. So Dave's saying we can't buy because we can't sell. why is that my problem as a man united fan i think too many fans act like accountants chelsea seem to have found money they've sold the women's team they've sold a bloody hotel um other clubs seem to try to find ways ways of doing it i think you're falling into the trap dave of we're a business we can't do it and some fans go i mean there are literally man united fans out there that you know will sit there and go well we can't do it what are they supposed to do we can't do it we haven't got any money we can't do it i'll tell you what i mean i can't believe i've got to tell you this on a monday morning do i need to tell you what they could have done so that we could have spent money are you are you serious are you absolutely serious that you want to sit there and say what are they supposed to do well there's there'll be people out there screaming lists out now one of the major things they could have done is pissed off and sold the football club that they've destroyed to somebody that wants to run it properly like a football club.

18:40I mean, that would be numero uno. Another option would be to move into that bank account of yours that's got billions in it of personal wealth and get it into the club like Todd Bowling. So I don't buy the excuse of that. That's just, you know, crap billionaires running a football club like a business. The manager they wanted and they won't back him, says Rico. Weston says, I saw a Romano video stating Izak wants United and it's an imminent, here we go. was that real or ai wishful thinking come on united says western um definitely wasn't real western i don't know whether you were asleep or whatever but ai is dangerous i mean i've seen ai picture i'm not you know this is something for remind me on the eight o 'clock show tonight about ai i think there are positives to it but i actually think people are going to start rebelling against ai because i saw pictures the other day of hulk hogan in his casket with his dog and people thought it was real because apparently his dog's really upset that he's died.

19:42And I was like, it's very clearly AI, but this is the thing. AI will. You've got to have your head switched on, basically. There's a load of rubbish out there. The Moose one says, I think this season will be magic. A new mindset is being displayed. Garter, Maynou, Casemiro, Collier and Gore. Chelsea's the real threat this season, but we do need goalkeeper very desperately. I'm not falling for it. um roosh says they're playing us like toddlers we can buy in december as we will have a great window in the summer now they spend one month on a player and making excuses so they only have to spend on three players this year i mean look i don't remember whether it's been said by the current regime but it certainly used to get said by united that we don't care about the january transfer window because we were interested in the summer transfer window um look i think brian Mbemo and Cunha are going to be transformative for Manchester United, but I think there's a limitation to what they can achieve.

20:39We are going to go from 15th to somewhere. With Cunha and Mbemo, we're going to go up, but we will hit a ceiling of, let's say, sixth at best. The goalkeeper and the striker and the midfielder take you into fifth and get you Champions League football that we needed yesterday. I thought Amrim wanted a Premier League proven striker. I honestly think Watkins is number one if it's not true uh mitrovich on loan so sean we're going to move on to the striker next uh thank you very much for that and hi marks is ram i completely agree that we need a striker and a goalkeeper but last year our strike has failed because the chance creation was abysmal our signings will significantly improve as in that front says ram yeah but the problem with that ram is the conversation is not about whether we need a striker or not because i actually agree with you that if you give people like Rasmus and Obi and maybe Xerxi better chance creation, they'll score more goals.

21:31I agree with that. It's logical. The question would be, if you give them 20 chances, how many goals will they score? Because a Watkins might score you 15 and a Rasmus might score you eight. So that's why you would go for a striker. But the big question, Ram, is if you're justifying we don't need a striker because the strikers haven't been given chances, we're just following the facts. United have said they want a striker. Publicly, they want a striker. And why have they said that? Because they tried to side the lap. They tried to side Jokeres. They tried to side Eketike. They have held talks with Watkins.

22:05So if they walk out of this summer transfer window without a striker, you can try and spin it. Well, we've got people here who can score goals and maybe they will. But we publicly know they wanted a striker and they haven't given the manager one. And if they want a striker, that means that Amarin wants a striker. And that's the point. It's not about whether we could get by without one. Maybe we could. Maybe we couldn't. But the club went for a striker and haven't got a striker. And that's a public failure. And that's not backing your manager. And that's concerning. At this point, we might as well get the guitar out because you can't.

22:36You've got to have faith. I'm scared for the season. Says monoxide poisoning. Thank you very much for that. OK, let me come back to the news because it is a news show. So we're going to go striker. maybe maybe that update we had there about United being happy with the window so far and not doing anything on the tour and maybe looking at things when they get back maybe that's a snub to Sesco that we're not going to get involved maybe we're not going to get involved in the Sesco deal maybe goes to Newcastle I think that's a huge error but where would that leave us in relation to strikers if we don't move in on Sesco well there's a story this morning Corriella de la Sport talking about Mouane again saying that Manchester United are very interested in Mouane who is currently a PSG player who was on loan at Juventus and effectively what they're saying is that this could start a transfer domino effect that could benefit Manchester United in the sense that if Mouane goes to PSG, Juventus who want Mouane could then move for Rasmus and with Mouane at Manchester United that could be a pathway to move Rasmus out and also it could lead to Douglas Luiz coming in on loan as well.

23:45So effectively what they're saying is the domino effect could be a positive, could be a negative for Manchester United, depending on how you look at it. But Mawani comes to Man United, Juventus can't get Mawani, so they go for Rasmus and we also get Douglas Luiz from Juventus on loan. I think that fits perfectly in with what the story was just there. That to me sort of looks like the sort of deal that you do late in the window that's riddled with if, buts and maybes. It maybe could be a really good deal, but it is possible. It's a deal you look at and you go, that was desperate in the last few weeks of the window and it didn't work out.

24:26I like Douglas Luiz. He's the midfielder we should be going for. I would like to keep Rasmus, but if we bring a striker in, I understand he might go. He might want to go. And I like Mawani, but does he tick the boxes of being in our top five candidates at the start of the summer? No. Does he tick the box of being Premier League proven? No. Does he tick the box of being a decent talent? Yes. Is he a risk? I would say probably so. So look, Mawani is going to be a consideration, but I agree with the comment there. I, you know, we broke it on Thursday. The priority for Man United is Oli Watkins. i i think he still is the priority i i you know i felt different yesterday but this story coming out if it's true that we're relaxed we're happy with embermo and we're happy with um kenya and you know we're gonna look at business when we get back when we can ramp it up when we get back from the states that to me doesn't that doesn't feel like we're going for sesco i don't think if you're going for sesco you're going to sit back for a week and a half and say well look at it when we get back from the states i think that leans more towards watkins i think that leans more towards villa on tour we're on tour they want 60 million watkins wants to leave emory wants to sell him we want to buy him let's look at this when we get back and give everybody a couple of weeks to think about it i still think watkins is the priority if we're gonna go for sesco that needs to happen now because Newcastle are looking to do a deal now so it may well be that we're not going to do a deal for Sesco and we are going to look at Watkins when we get back from the tour um he is the priority until that changes um whether Villa are going to lower the price or not it's interesting with Villa I always forget that they did sign Mallon and I think that's something to remember because I look at Villa and I go they've only got Watkins up front but they have actually been linked to Calvert-Lewin this morning.

26:31Leave it. That's up to them. They've been linked to Calvert-Lewin this morning, and they have got Mallon, who they bought in January. So they do have, if they bring somebody in, they do have two strikers. They can let Watkins go if they bring a striker in. I was thinking if they let Watkins go, they need to bring two in, but they do have Mallon who can play up front as well. So look, there's still an exit strategy for Watkins, but I think it's, Watkins ain't going anywhere until Villa get a replacement in. And that's what makes me think that this Laurie Whitwell story could well have legs because.

27:05Anon is going to be back for the Arsenal game, so there'll be no rush on a goalkeeper. Villa won't let us have Watkins unless they've got a striker in, and that's not happened yet. So I would say there's no urgency on transfers on the 28th of July. I would say there's no there's no urgency on transfers. Apparently, there's just been a tweet from... Let me have a look. Florian Plettenberg. So we will get that up. Let me have a quick look at what he's saying. Yeah, so I still think Watkins is the priority. It's typical transfer news, isn't it? It's typical, you know. You get positive about something and then reality kicks in and you can only follow the news.

27:50And I think that in a way they've probably cut it down. Although, although this is this is positive. So Pletigold, I've been waiting for an update from him, actually, because Florian Plettenberg is based in Germany. Pletigold on X slash Twitter. So this has come out very much in the last few minutes. And look, this is exactly what it's all about. You follow the stories. So the story we have this morning from Laurie Whitwell is that United are sort of happy with what they've got and they're going to sit back and not do anything till they get back from the US tour. but that can change if an opportunity comes up and this is what Florian Plettenberg has put out in the last minute.

28:30Manchester United and Newcastle, so horse off the press, Manchester United and Newcastle are currently in talks with Sesco's management. Both teams have presented their projects and financial offers. The decision now lies mainly with the player in his camp offers are expected to be formally submitted to leipzig following the verbal agreement however newcastle are pushing a lot now i just want to say this i just want to say this unless fabrizio romano or david ornstein says that manchester united have pretend have presented a financial offer i don't believe it i don't believe it now platy goal's good but he can miss and he can score um but i have to always say there are five strands to a transfer one it's totally true one is totally bollocks one it's the agent pushing it two it's the club selling club pushing it and three five it's the um it's the agent and the using it to get a new contract where they are well leaves he's not looking for a new contract but we've got to be very aware that it could be the agents or Leipzig using Man United to push Newcastle up and you've got to you have to consider that you have to consider that it's a good update it's encouraging and I think United as I said before they've got to have a go because Sesco at 60 70 million pounds at his age is going to be good value for money.

30:11But, and he's a good player and he's a striker. But if he doesn't come to Manchester United and goes to Newcastle, he's a good signing for Newcastle and we'll probably say we were never in. Now, Pletigol saying that United have presented their project and financial offer, that doesn't fit in with somebody like a Fabrizio Romano who would be very well briefed on this and has been very well briefed on sesco for quite a while so i would just i would just warn caution on that one because we could be being used to push newcastle up i mean look even romano hasn't said that we've presented an offer so that reads like we're both in talks with sesco's management and both teams have presented their projects and financial offers that's not with leipzig by the way that's not with leipzig that's with the player so yeah i think you've got to be a little bit wary of that but we might get a drop from romano or ornstein in the next hour in which case you might say it's true but we just need to be very very careful with that because um that reads like we've put we've presented a project and a financial offer to the player now that's the way a transfer should work um 100 % that's how a transfer works you know there is another flow for a transfer you speak to the player personal terms agreed you go to the club deal done here we go official so the first the first path is to speak to the player and agree personal terms absolutely but if we're in personal conversations with sesco that's significant from anchester united because what you do then is as somebody in the chat just said, you end up with an Mbermo situation where he only wants Manchester United and then you've won the race.

32:09You've just got to negotiate with Leipzig for the next two years or however long it takes. So look, Man United have got an opportunity here. That is why I said about the story we broke this month, not we didn't break it, the story we started off with is I'm not going to scream and shout about it because although it reads like United aren't going to do anything until the last few weeks of the window, and we're very happy with what we've done and we're not going to do anything while we're on the tour. It only takes a minute to fall in love. It only takes a minute for a story to break that changes all of that.

32:42So, you know, and with Sesco, I don't think you can wait till the end of the tour. So I think we're going to find out in the next 48 hours whether we're in for Sesco or not. If we're not in for Sesco, I think Watkins' long deal could be in the play. If we are in for Sesco, then I would expect us to find out in the next 48 hours or so. So let's wait and see. Sanjig says Sesko wants to join United. Who said that? I know it was coming out yesterday. It was from Leipzig resources, wasn't it? You've got to be very careful. There's Leipzig sources saying he wants Man United. There's Pletigal saying that we've been in talks with Sesko.

33:21But remember, these are local German journalists and Italian journalists do do the work for the Italian clubs our journalists are client journalists as well look at how many of our Man United journalists just feed stuff out from the club so a Leipzig journalist or Pletigold saying that we're in talks with Sesco you know that he might just be doing it to bump up Newcastle offer so we just got to wait and see um i hope it's true i really do um the moose one says they'll do the man united tax every time we knock on doors the price is jagged up because of our stature but my opinion i think we should give our current strikers a chance but a new face is always welcome thank you very much um lawrence berry says leipzig dropped sesco price 20 million euros don't forget and newcastle we're always going to sell isak for him uh there we go thank you very much for that um a couple other bits i want to get in uh into this morning um the show is absolutely flying by so i need to just catch up on a couple of things here um we are looking at a young striker from um i believe it's mets um his name is idris again he's not the midfielder from everton uh although you'd never put it past man united signing an old midfielder from everton and sticking up him up front um might do a better job than calvert luin actually but his name's Idriss again he's 18 he plays for Mets in France Brentford have been looking at him Man United are going to move for him apparently could be spending up to 15 million pounds on him which is quite significant I don't know anything about him it does sort of fit in with United as we've seen with Heaven and Obi we are looking at a lot of these types of players he's not a player that would go into the team he's a player that they'd look to probably loan straight away that's the story but again, if you've got Obi and you bring this lad in who's got loads of potential, at some point in the next two years, they become 20 and 19.

35:17And at that age, you can play first team football. So if you were to spend on Sesco and in two years time, you've got Gay and Obi, Sesco's not even mid-20s yet. So maybe that sort of fits in more with a more experienced Premier League striker like a Watkins. So, you know, keep an eye on that one, certainly. We have been linked to Donnarumma again. As I said yesterday, Chevalier of Lille is apparently going to PSG and it's a real possibility that Donnarumma could leave PSG, which I find incredible. He's one of the best goalkeepers in the world. He's playing for the best team in the world. And, you know, this is why football never amazes me because footballers become brands themselves.

35:59Why would you want to leave PSG. I don't get that at all, but apparently it's a possibility. Man City have been mentioned, Man United have been mentioned. How on earth are we going to do a deal for Donald Rumer? I do not know, and I do not believe, to be honest with you, but just as it's news, we'll throw that in there as well. I did mention before about Calvert-Lewin, just to put some people at ease, apparently Villa and Newcastle are looking at Calvert-Lewin on a free. Let them look. Don't want him anywhere near man united but apparently villa and newcastle do so that's uh interesting and that could be positive for us obviously we were a little bit worried about nicholas jackson that doesn't look like it's going to happen as well not going to happen as well but this one caught many of your eye over the weekend and you were saying why aren't you talking about it why aren't you talking about it so i will bring it in towards the end of this show just to say i was aware of it but i didn't want to bring it in so reports over the weekend predominantly from the sun that luke luke shaw is ready to leave manchester united this summer and has been looking at saudi now the source is terrible but it did get me thinking if you were luke shaw why well look luke shaw is very comfortable to sit on his ass and earn 200 grand a week isn't he because he's been injured for the last two years so he's well used to it but if you were luke shaw and he actually was going to stay fit which is a big hit um he's not actually part of amaranth's plans like i was thinking about this i know he played in the final again i mean he's he's like a bloody magnet when it comes to finals isn't he he's a boomerang he's always there always comes back but i don't think luke sure is part of amaranth's plans so it's a little bit like mason mount really if you're mason mount unfortunately for him he's had a lot of injury problems and so is luke sure but even when they're fit they're not in United's best 11.

37:52I don't think anybody's putting Luke Shaw or Mason Mount in our best 11 for the start of the season. And remember our best 11s, many of us are looking at, well, we haven't made two or three signings that should be in there. So they're not in United's best 11. And many of us don't think United are ready. We need more signings. So what, again, it's sort of a contradiction for Mason Mount or Luke Shaw to get in the United side. They actually need players to get injured. But they're the players that get injured. So talking about Luke Shaw, I don't think he wants to leave Man United. He's got a very good contract on a very good wage and no one's going to go anywhere near him.

38:31The only option would be Saudi. But if he's got any ambitions of going to the World Cup, and he has played for England in the last two tournaments, of course. He played... Did he play the World Cup in Qatar? He definitely played the Euros, both Euros finals, because he scored in one of them at Wembley. But if he wants to go to the World Cup, he needs to play football. Now, what are the chances that Luke Shaw stays fit long enough for other players to get injured for him to become a first team player at Man United? I mean, that's one hell of a path, isn't it? You know, that's like a sausage sandwich, you know, making it across the field full of lions.

39:09It's not going to make it. So if Luke Shaw wants to go to the World Cup, I think he's got to play first team football. And I don't see he's not ahead of heaven. He's not ahead of Yoro. He's not ahead of Masraoui. he's not ahead of um the lit and he's not ahead of maguire at center back martinez is coming back soon as well so he's as the left-sided center back i would say martinez maguire and heaven are ahead of him at left back dorgue is ahead of him and maybe leon so i don't see when you think about it i think the source is a load of shit and i don't think luke shaw will leave but if i was luke shaw i'd be looking at it going maybe i do need to leave because where do i fit into this team yes i'm earning good money but you know it's not like england have got um and this is a good point as well it's not like england i've got loads of good left-sided defenders they haven't i don't even know who plays at left back for england anymore um so you know and he likes he likes turning up for england doesn't he so if he wants to go then now's the time to do it the problem he has is that he's on a reported 190k a week and nobody's going to pay that um would we loan him out he's probably not a loan player to be honest because Luke Shaw on our bench is still a decent option if he's fit it would have to be a sale and therefore the only option would be Saudi but does going to Saudi get you into an England squad I don't know um but look I mean that would be a dream um i like luke sure i think he's a good player but i don't think he's going to be that player anymore and we gave a stupid contract up so yeah i think it'd be great if we could move him on but i'm not so sure it'd be possible to be honest uh liberamento lewis hall are all good options yeah uh lewis skelly as well yeah he's probably not getting in anyway is it uh let me just catch up on some of your comments here let's have a lot of what people are saying thanks everybody's tuning in this morning make sure you subscribe if you didn't check out um um beth and ryan are out in the states another fantastic video uh they're doing them at about 2 a.m at the moment they're going up so if you are out on different sides of the world we are uh occasionally doing some live streams from the u.s and brilliant um they keep getting some really good backgrounds as well so check that out as well um marcus says anana costa's point always we need a number one goalkeeper i think on the goalkeeper we're just slow um i think lamens could happen the question is why not you know he's not that expensive i don't know why we're not doing that is it because we're still thinking about any martinez i don't know but we seem to be i think actually talking about late business in the window like we have done for the last 10 years and how bad planning has impacted seasons um i think the goalkeeper situation is the most um is the best analogy or best example should i say yes we need a striker yes we need a midfielder Yes, we should have got Mbamo done earlier, but the goalkeeper is the biggest one.

42:13The goalkeeper is the one that really exemplifies what we're talking about here. You need your signings in for pre-season so they get used to the system and used to their teammates and they're fit for the start of the season and you're raring to go. If you don't do that, you're playing with points. You're playing with fire. Look at the goalkeeper. Amrind wants a new goalkeeper. He's going to pick an honour for the first few games of the season. Now, I don't know when it became a thing that the first three games of the season don't matter. I don't know when it became a thing that the first three games of the season are just a doll up for all of the dice.

42:48There's nine points up for grabs there. Nine points. At the end of the season, if you finish behind somebody by nine points, and that's significant, and we're just playing with fire again. Mark, you forgot the vote from yesterday. Should you keep answering the same questions repeatedly like changing the formation we'll do that later kevin can you remind me about that um hoyland deserves another chance playing alongside an experienced striker can help him develop it's tough for both new managers and players to fully adapt to changes from previous systems and tactics that's from kevin uh mibbs is a new member thank you very much mibbs uh for getting your badge in we really appreciate that thank you very much um pete phillips says i still believe costa would be worth more points per pound over a striker we should focus on best in class keeper rather than seventh choice strikers is pete we should be getting both pete look at what liverpool have done you know as as premier league winners and look at what they've done we should be getting both we shouldn't be accepting for anything more anything less uh vk says are we forgetting delit masraoui yarrow agati zerkz he had first season and three managers whilst dorgut heaven and ob less than a season that's a lot of playing staff and we need belief they'd be better much this season uh thank you vk out and about with joe says a couple of months ago i was saying buying the lap was a brilliant opportunity referred to sell on price you didn't agree what's different with sesco because i don't rate the lap i think you're being very literal there joke like the lap is the same age as sesco and has future sale value but i don't rate the lap i've never rated the lap i don't i don't think the lap's that good um sesco comes with a much bigger reputation arsenal weren't in the race for the lap but they were looking at sesco for 18 months so that will do me is a is a higher quality player with a higher potential um hi mark watching the show from the start now please can you leave a message for future sam to read in 25 minutes there you go sam future sam thank you very much for your message vincent says the plan was always Mitrovic and Ndidi.

44:56I did see a story from a crap source this morning linking us to Mitrovic, but I just don't want to upset people. Do you think it would be Erasmus alone to Juventus, says Jacob? I mean, we do struggle to sell. Inanna has cost us over 100 million with mistakes, says Jeff. I haven't looked. I mean, look, that's journalism, isn't it? He won't get it from the modern journalists, they're too bloody lazy. But there is an article you would have got maybe 15 years ago about that. Somebody would have wrote an article about it. United desperately need a goalkeeper and the current goalkeeper isn't good enough.

45:35We paid£50 million for him. He wasn't£50 million worth. He cost us Champions League football in the first year, literally made massive mistakes and probably made a lot of mistakes last year. If you analyse the games where he's made mistakes and you could probably put a value on it. I don't know whether it's as much as£100 billion. All I know is he's not good enough for where we want to go. Yuv says, besides new signings, the fitness and medical team must also improve to reduce injuries inflicted on players. I think this is a great point, Yuv. It's a boring point to many, but Mas Raui's already got a knock.

46:10Zirks, he's missed the first two games of pre-season with a knock. Anana's had a hamstring. So we've had three injuries in pre-season already. That's pre-season. other clubs might be picking up injuries I'm not saying they're not but Injury FC hasn't gone anywhere get ready for a season of injuries because we haven't changed a lot in the fitness department at all done that from Ram Monoxide Poison done that as well thank you very much okay let me have a quick look at something here because you never know until you've had a look yeah Aston Villa want calvert lewin we've seen that man united let's see what happens with this sesco story um i think fabrizio certainly has his finger on the pulse and uh i always know that when certain journalists put something out he will know about it so fabrizio will have seen that plenty goal update about man united presenting financial offers to sesco expect an update from romano next i suspect we haven't done that yet i suspect we're still deciding whether we're going to go for it or not.

47:18I think it's in the balance. As I say, Watkins was the priority on Thursday. How are we going to drop that priority to compete with Newcastle? Can we afford to do that? Or are you just going to stay out of it and let them have a free run? I think, as I said last night, with Sesko, the reason people are spending, and I'll shout out Swedish Rumble for this on Twitter, the reason people are spending£120 million on Virts in his early 20s is because he could play for the next 15 years, which makes him cheap. You could resell him at 26, which gets most of your money back. So buying players like this, it's worth it.

47:53And it's only going to increase. That's why Brighton would want £100 million for Belieber, which is why when Rio says we should get Belieber, you also have to have the intelligence to understand the market. Have we got£100 million? No, not for a midfielder. So this is a reason to maybe go for Sesco beyond the talent, is that these players are worth their weight in gold. Um, we'll have to wait and see. We'll have to wait and see. Is it Watkins? Is it Sesco? I'm sure we'll find out in the next few hours or so. Um, thanks for watching. Make sure you smash the like and subscribe. We're back at two o 'clock.

48:27I've got the eight o 'clock show, of course, and anything that goes on between. Take care. Have a great day. I'll speak on the next one.