148: Sesko DECIDES! Watkins DEAL Back On?

0:05Hello everybody, good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United transfer news. And we're going to start off where we have to start off. Lots to get into, but we're talking Benjamin Sesco. Is it going to be deal day on Sesco? We actually had our first late night show of the summer, which is incredible, considering the transfer window has been open for, what, two and a half months now. But we had that late, well, massive, huge bid from Newcastle of 80 million euros plus add-ons, which is 69 million pounds. but the bottom line is sesco decides now what he decides we'll hopefully find out today but sesco decides and i my personal feeling is in the next 24 hours newcastle are going to pull out just like they did with ecotique just like they did with jal pedro just like they did with the lap i think they will i think that is is going to happen i think that um newcastle you know have pulled out more times than a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat and i think they will be pulling out again and you can clip me on that i do i think they will pull out because i think that to their credit they're trying everything to get this deal done they're trying to you know price man united out of the market they're trying to show to sesco that they really want him but look i'll read you some of the headlines this morning james ducker in the telegraph benjamin sesco is waiting to see what manchester united do before making a final decision on his future it doesn't they're more definitive than that and I think the most important thing is the only person the only people with the actual power in this is Sesko now we're gonna it is a news show we've got some stuff on the goalkeeper on the midfielder also on Rasmus leaving and a couple of other bits as well but we'll focus in on Sesko this morning because the belief is that something's going to happen today that Newcastle have set that deadline but everything you read and we'll read what Fabrizio Romano's got to say next.

2:01But Sesco is waiting for Manchester United. Now, I'm sorry, as I said on the show late last night, some of you might not have seen it. If I'm Newcastle and I'm putting this money in and I'm having chats and I'm saying, come to us, come to us, come to us. And all I'm getting back is, oh, I really do like you. I really do like you. I think you've got a great personality. Can we just be friends because I fancy Man United. And I think Newcastle are in danger of being friend zoned here. They're doing absolutely everything. They're whining, they're dining they're taking them to the cinema they're offering him holidays they're doing everything they can and he's still going yeah I just want to see what Man United are going to do come on I mean how naive do you need to be on life and lessons to understand that if you go for somebody and you're offering them everything and they're still going I do like you but I'm just waiting to see if I get a better offer come on you know how what how you know and even the most staunch Newcastle fan has to admit that that ain't good why why would you not take the Newcastle offer it's there even Leipzig apparently haven't accepted the Newcastle offer because they've got a good relationship with Sesco and he's saying basically don't accept it because I don't know what I want to do so even that even though even these offers from Newcastle even the huge super duper 90 million euros package hasn't actually been accepted because they know at Leipzig they've got a relationship with Sesko and if they accept that they could be unsettling their player that they've got a good relationship with so effectively the headline this morning is Sesko decides what he decides we don't know yet but he decides so all the bidding to Leipzig all the bidding from Newcastle United staying quiet it's Benjamin Sesko who decides here and hopefully we're going to get that decision today but he's the one with the power he is the power play person here he he controls what's going to happen and if he just suddenly goes you know what i do fancy newcastle i don't think man united can afford me then that will happen very very quickly but if he's going to say i'm waiting on man united then then it won't happen very quickly now the update from farizio this morning is this as of tonight monday benjamin sesco still has not decided what he wants to do, taking his time and assessing all of the options with Newcastle and Man United.

4:17Newcastle will give the salary that Sesco wants. They're prepared to pay whatever it takes. Newcastle are showing that to Leipzig with facts now, with the money on the table. However, Newcastle don't want another situation like Eketike or Dal Pedro, where they miss out on a player in the race. They want a decision soon and will not wait many days. As of tonight, Leipzig have not accepted the bid from Newcastle because it will be Benjamin Sesco that dictates the story there you go I hadn't read this bit so basically Leipzig had not accepted the big package from Newcastle because it's Sesco that would dictate the story story Sesco decides um Newcastle are playing hard um I'm I'm struck I don't do you think do you think Fabrizio's turning into um you know what's her name he used to do the cooking program what was her name not Cruella Deville Nigella Lawson you know she likes to do cooking and then she'd throw in sexual innuendos because I'm reading this update here Leipzig have not accepted the big package from Newcastle but Newcastle are playing hard Manchester United reacted by telling Leipzig again in verbal contact that they are aware of the bid from Newcastle but will also bid for Sesko if he decides to come to us so look I remain calm I'm like the ocean on a lovely sunny evening I am calm you know put me on a lilo don't put me in the ocean I won't be calm I'll be thinking about sharks but put me on a lilo on a pool on a nice sunny day with one of those drinks can hold us and I'm lying there just relaxing I'm calm I'm calm you know I'm absolutely calm um I feel that my opinion time and you can get yours in as well I feel that nothing is changing here.

6:04All the noise, all the panic, all the desperation is Newcastle, to their credit, trying to get a deal done that nobody really thinks they will get done. And Man United are just sat there calmly in the background, not saying anything, working on Sesco. And I think we've already worked on Sesco because I don't think David Ornstein drops that story last week if we haven't worked on Sesco. So I think we're going to get him it's incredible to me that people are saying walk away interestingly i was looking at the odds the betting odds on strikers watkins to newcastle is far better odds than you'll get that's far lower odds far more likely than the man united game watkins um so i don't think we're going back into that race um and i think that the most important update we have this morning is that as the headline said sesco decides and some people go what's his decision no no read English language can be read in different ways.

7:03Sesco decides is the headline. Leipzig have not accepted Newcastle's bid because they won't do that without knowing what Sesco wants. Sesco has not made his decision and Man United are believed to be the club he's waiting for and United won't make a bid until Sesco decides. So every angle points to the fact that Sesco's got to decide and when he does, the decision will be done and the deal will happen. And I think everybody has to just wait for that. And some people are panicking and saying walk away. I mean, I don't even, you know what I find hilarious about the walk away thing? Walk away, walk away.

7:3990 million euros is too much. It's not 90 million euros, but it's too much. 90 million pounds. Why are you adding pounds on? You're like Sky Sports. It's 90 million euros for a start. Well, it's too much. Euros aren't pounds. Have you ever been on holiday to Benidorm? It ain't, pounds ain't euros. Well, 90 million pounds is too much. you don't work for sky you're doing it again basically you're making man united euros into pounds and or and vice versa to make it like sound really good 90 it's not 90 million euros it's 80 million euros and 80 million euros is 69 million pounds who's who didn't think we were going to pay 69 million pounds for sesco like use your bloody breath it's almost like it's been a shock to people that were paying 70 million for sesco let's round it up let you know let's do a sky sports.

8:27Let's round it up. So it's£70 million. And people are saying walk away. And I'm like, but it was£70 million for Arsenal. It's been£70 million all summer. It was£70 million when you're getting really excited about Ornstein's update. It's always been£70 million. Look, we paid£65 million for Mbremo. And Mbremo is a good signing. But Tesco is going to be the striker for the next 10 years or we sell him in five years so 70 million pounds with add-ons is the going rate um it really is it's not 78 million oh my god can the chat sort this out i've got people in the chat going it's not 70 million pounds mate uh we've got noz saying it's 78 million pounds look i'm getting into an argument with you because this isn't me against you This is facts against you being wrong.

9:18The bid from Newcastle is 80 million euros. That is 70 million pounds rounded up. You don't do add-ons. Add-ons are not part of the price. You don't work for Sky Sports News. Add-ons aren't on the price because add-ons don't get paid unless the player does well, in which case you'll happily play the add-ons. It's£70 million, which is€80 million. And if you're turning it into any other number, you're wrong. You're basically wrong. You don't pay add-ons. That's why they're called add-ons. You pay them later if the player is successful. So we don't care about that. It's not that. Lorenzo says it's still 78 with add-ons.

10:07No, it's not mate right we're moving on there are idiots who are live out there who do low iq content like can we direct them to them because yeah we're just ignoring these rage baiters there is content out there it's not the united stand which is on a higher level but there is stuff for you um you can scream and shout about things that aren't true on there um so look yeah look where we are with sesco hopefully we get the decision today we're not going to walk away man united are not going to walk into this deal not knowing those prices because it's always been around 70. Yeah, look, Arsenal got Jocares for 55 plus 5, but it's 55 or 57.

10:46Well, it was more about 60, wasn't it? Because the agent waived their fees. So Arsenal effectively paid about 60 for Jocares, but he forced his way out of sporting. You know, Sesco's always been 70 and I think we'll pay it. I think we will pay it and I think we should get it done I understand that Newcastle are trying to push the price high but you can't push it super you can't they can't push it any higher I think Newcastle have pushed it to the limit of what you can do because there is a release clause and there is a special relationship so Newcastle have pushed it up and they want to pay the money up front but again people are panicking about that because this broke last night but Newcastle want to pay the 69 million up front and man united will want to do it in installments irrelevant absolutely irrelevant you know why that's irrelevant because people think well if we can only pay in installments and newcastle can pay up front leipzig will pick newcastle well done well done if someone wants to buy my house and they're going to give me all the money up front and someone wants to buy my house and they're going to give it me over five years i'm going to choose the person that's going to give me the money up front however I'm not in control Sesco decides not Leipzig if Sesco says I want Manchester United Leipzig can't go you're going to Newcastle because they're going to pay the money to us up front as Sesco you'd go I'll stay here for a year then but I want to go Newcastle I want to go Man United so it's irrelevant that is absolutely irrelevant it's a better it's a better package for Leipzig but they've got to persuade a player to go somewhere that he might not want to go so that won't be happening um but look there's a lot of newcastle fans who've been tuning into the united stand i don't know whether you have your own content but in fairness i don't i don't have a problem with newcastle on this let's play devil's advocate if this deal was to happen fair play they've they've they've embarrassed us they've tried their best they've had a horrific transfer window i don't really understand why but if they got this deal over the line it would be a fantastic deal for them and they must be applauded for it but i think ultimately you know man united have a play and i think it will come very very clear and as i said i have got no information on this at all but my feeling is one that he will sign for us i'm very confident about that but two newcastle are going to pull out because once you've made your big offer and they have and you don't get a decision from the player why would you hang about like if you go to the bar and again we're back at the bar again but you go to the bar and there's someone you fancy there and you go up to them saying do you want a drink and they say i might do i'm just waiting to see if this person i like comes back and offers me a drink as well and then i'm going to make my mind up you might think it's worthwhile hanging down around there for a little bit but then when you're waiting too long and you go do you want to drink last chance and they go i'm going to wait you're going to leave and i think at some point newcastle will just go you know what we've laid our cards on the table we're still waiting we've offered so many times we need to back off you know we look like mugs here um and i think i think that will happen i think that will happen um let me just have a quick chat at what you lot are saying because we've got quite a lot to get through on this show this morning convert 80 million to yen and watch the idiot minds explode says josh sir alex ferguson walked away from lucas mora we should too says tillak right mate i understand that you want to walk away.

14:15Absolutely fine. But give me the grounds for Manchester United to walk away. This is what I don't understand. It's too much. We must walk away. It was£69 or£70 million last week when we hadn't bid. And we haven't bid now. It was£70 million last week when David Ornstein said, we're all in for Sesco. We've walked into this knowing the price. And you're saying walk away when we knew the price. He's always been 70 million because that's the package that Leipzig threw at Arsenal. And it was the package that Newcastle were going to pay. You might not like the price. Man United have walked in knowing that.

14:52So we don't walk away. We lose or we win. And I think we will win. If it was 90 million pounds, and I cannot express this enough it's not 90 million pounds it's not 90 million euros it's 80 million euros plus 10 in add-ons so he has to do well for it to go to 90 million euros it's 80 million euros base which is 70 million pounds fact so we don't need to walk away from it we don't need to walk away at all if it was 80 or 90 million pounds i'd probably say to you the same do we really want to do this It's got Anthony, Sancho, Pogba vibes about it. But at£70 million, Man United have walked into this.

15:36So I understand people say, let's walk away. But we've known for about nearly a week that United know this. And we've all been celebrating it. So what's changed to make you walk away? Nothing. Fear is making you walk away. Fear is making you go, I don't want to lose to Newcastle. So let's pretend we don't want him anymore. But you may as well. Look, everybody's different. But the way I look at it is we've walked into this fight. We've got into the ring. And we've you're effectively say throw the towel in because you think we've been hurt. I say don't throw the towel in. I don't think we're hurt.

16:15Carry on with the fight that we wanted. And if we lose, put our arms up and say we lost. But I ain't giving in when there's nothing to give in for at the moment. Watkins should never be more than 40 plus 10. Newcastle offer for Sesko is at 69 plus 6. It's not a crazy price. We just want player commitment and no bidding wars, says Daric. I wouldn't be surprised if he stays at Leipzig, says Malik. I don't think Leipzig would mind him staying. And, you know, maybe he would stay. But I think the trouble with no news is it becomes a vacuum for noise. and experience. Look, I was thinking about this this morning and I'm quite proud of the fact that there's a lot of people not really doing this.

17:00I think that despite the horrific things the Glazers have done and despite the last 18 months under Ineos not being great, what I do quite like among the fan base at the moment is that people aren't really going mad. They're not really going, oh, look at us again, embarrassing ourselves. I think that will come, but I think there's an incredible amount of sort of patience around this and trust and and you know maybe we shouldn't trust this negotiation team maybe we shouldn't trust the Glazers and Ineos but I actually think they're going to get it right and a lot of people said to me well why aren't you ranting and raving because I think that would I think that would end up I think we'll end up looking stupid I mean I don't think it's the most amazing deal in the world by the way I think if it does happen i'm not going to sit here going oh myrta madness not myrta madness you know berada bonanza or wonderful wilcox i don't actually think it's the world's best deal i think it's the best deal we can do at the moment but it's still late in the window it's still option e i believe we'll get it done um if they don't get it done then they will obviously get scrutinized frank says if that's any way of trying to bargain the price down by saying sesco wants us before they bid that's actually embarrassing just get it done says frank no i disagree frank you're basically saying let's bid when we don't know whether he wants to come and then you have a bidding war for leipzig and it gets silly i think we're playing a power play ourselves sesco will decide this and we're just saying look we only want players to come to man united that want to come that's been a policy for 12 months now we're not going to bid if we don't know whether you want to come we really want you we've played you know when it's not that we're saying we don't want you we do want you we really want you but for us to bid as we did with Embermo as we did with Kunja as we did with De Ligt as we did with other players as we did with Yoro you've got to decide that you want to come to us and then we'll go and get you but we're not bidding blindly because that's not what we do which I think is the right thing to do um Slotsports News how you doing he says if Sesco is waiting for us to make a decision says a lot about his choice of club Newcastle know they're losing Isaac and are acting out of pure desperation.

19:07Could this be a hat trick for United? Morning, Mark. Seeing Newcastle panicking because they've been so public about their bidding and United being quiet is quite entertaining, says Horn. This is why you're the GOAT. Amazing comedy, says Jacob. It was unintentional comedy, if I have been. They won't want... You should have seen my cocktails last night.

19:29They won't want to upset Sesco in case he stays, says Lee Berman. uh je says it is my belief that man united have been working on personal terms to get sesco to make his choice if they're passively waiting for sesco to simply choose them over newcastle it's a huge error and i don't think we're doing that je mark how do you feel about embermo and cuny playing off xerxi then we could all go in on a goalkeeper the american gangster i don't want to dismiss your comment because it's a super chat but it's a news show we're living in reality and we're trying to sign sesco so you're asking me a hypothetical question that probably suits better for an eight o 'clock show we're in for sesco we're buying a striker we need a striker i'm not going to talk about xerxes and playing off kunyarore and burmo because i don't want to see that i suppose is the answer newcastle's pull out game is lame says uh juju um i'm trying to think of the punch line here newcastle pull out so much they'd never get anyone pregnant

20:27leave that i don't know whether that's good or not i personally like my favorite one was from the show last night and it just came into my head because i'm always up for having a go at ollie merz in a banter way and um i said that newcastle have been turned down more than a radio knob when an ollie watkins song comes on which i quite liked not an ollie watkins song ollie Murs ruined it uh Goldbridge is back we are saved sister shirt uh and and oh thank you very much for uh joining the members club there right okay there is other news to get into but of interest we have started off with Sesco there's some interesting stuff coming out from the tour by the way that I want to talk about also Lenny Yoro with an interesting comment saying there are a lot of people that want us to fail and we know that I mean mate welcome to Manchester United hated adored but never ignored we'll get into that there's also something about the midfield which i'm actually going to discuss now because i think this is the second most interesting topic of the morning um somebody just said then when do you think we'll get the sesco converse confirmation um honestly i think that look i'm i we're not we're not led by info here but i genuinely don't think anybody is at the moment.

21:42I think there is evidence out there. And my belief is Newcastle are going to pull out and Sesco is going to choose us. And I think that's going to happen. When it's going to happen is just pure time and guesswork. People think it's today. It could be tomorrow. I don't think we'll get to Thursday. I don't. But what I think people need to remember is that if he did choose Newcastle, I think he'd be a Newcastle player by the end of the week. if he chooses Man United, then negotiations start. So I would say with total confidence, do not think Sesko's playing against Jokeres a week on Sunday. Absolutely do not think we're doing a quick deal.

22:21When he chooses us, what's different about Mbemo choosing us on the start of June and not signing until the middle of July? I mean, this could run till August the 31st if he decides us. And that might be a part of his decision-making. I mean, he might be like saying to United, I'll choose you, but how long are you going to take? Because I'm ready to play football. If I go to Newcastle, I'll play opening day. If I choose you, I might not play till the middle of September. So, you know, that is something that no one's talking about as well. I would be saying if I was Sesco, like, if I choose you, I want you to get this deal done quickly.

22:59And let's be honest, if I choose you, you're going to use that against Leipzig and drive the price down. So I think that's a consideration as well. Interesting here coming in from The Athletic. I think it's The Athletic. Let me just double check on that journalist. It is The Athletic. It's Critchley. So he's saying Man United have been assessing their midfield options this summer. Amrum is keen to add more dynamism into the midfield. Well, absolutely correct. You're absolutely right. Manchester United have been assessing their midfield options for longer than the summer. Man United were assessing their midfield options from January because Ruben Amrim wants to bring in a midfielder.

23:38Absa bloody exactly. The problem is that he doesn't actually have the ability to bring a midfielder in, as we said last night, because the quality of player he would want to bring in is going to cost you in excess of£40 million, maybe even double that. And he doesn't actually have a position in his midfield at the moment to do it. So I feel like it's Tuesday today, Prazak. I feel like the midfield solutions, whilst very obvious, we're Manchester United and not in a Gary Neville way. We're Manchester United in a way that we can only do one deal at a time. That's still a thing. We don't do business on tour and we can only do one deal at a time.

24:26The only reason we did Manzraoui and Dalit at the same time was because they played for the same bloody club. So we can only do one deal at a time. Kunja took us from April till June and then Mbumo took us from June till July and now we're working on Sesco. So we still need a goalkeeper, still need a midfielder. We're going to run out of time and we haven't actually got rid of anybody. So the midfield situation I completely agree with but I think it's going to be problematic to do now there's a story this morning coming in I don't know where it's come from I think it's French reports just very quickly because someone in the chat just mentioned it involving Donnarumma so Donnarumma is um basically apparently open to a move to Manchester United can I just say please do share the video we've got nearly 20 ,000 watching this morning which is incredible um and thank you everyone who tuned in for the late night show last night i like doing them just don't have any bloody news normally so donnarumma is apparently open to a move to manchester united um what we know about donnarumma is is that he is arguably one of the top three goalkeepers in the world if not the best he's also got one year left on his contract the question has to be why would he choose manchester United or anybody with one year left on his contract especially when Man United are trying to adhere to a wage bill so Donnarumma wants in excess of£200 ,000 which for a goalkeeper is like£300 ,000 of it I mean it's ridiculous that we paid David De Gea£350 ,000 a goalkeeper is well paid if they're on£150 ,000 a week which is what basically Anan is on I think so donnarumma would want over 200k a week we haven't got champions league football um i just call bullshit i don't i don't think man united are in for donnarumma at all i think i think man united are being used by donnarumma's team to try and you know convey a position of strength because ultimately i think what donnarumma wants to do is stay at psg and run his contract down um or get a new contracts so i i don't think the donnarumma deal is worth anybody's time if we sign donnarumma by the way i would go technically surely surely that's our signing of the summer i like embumo and i like tunya but and you know signing someone like donnarumma who's one of the world's best in his position would be absolutely sensational so i don't believe we're in for donnarumma but the story keeps circulating because i think it has to because his his position is quite precarious uh and in that sense using manchester united helps him so i don't think we're in for donnarum at all if i'm being completely honest um there is something uh around strikers to bring you as well uh three interesting stories here first of all um nicholas jackson's been offered to man united newcastle and ac milan we've heard this story so many times but it's circulating again david Jornstein's been talking about it this morning, that the likelihood of him leaving Chelsea is very, very high.

27:40Chelsea obviously wants to move him on. Again, I think Chelsea are using Manchester United to generate more interest. AC Milan, I think, are interested. I don't think Newcastle are going to get... I mean, look, if you're a Newcastle fan, imagine this. You go João Pedro, Eketike, Cesco. I'm sure they've been linked to another decent striker as well. and there you go, Nicholas Jackson, and then you give Chelsea 80 million pounds. I mean, you'd be depressed. Chelsea want 80 million pounds for Nicholas Jackson, but could be open to a loan with an obligation to buy. For Manchester United, that would be a tragedy and I don't think we're involved in that one at all.

28:22Ben Jacobs says that Al Nzia have made a recent inquiry for Marseille striker Mason Greenwood. What's that got to do with us? Well, there's a sell-on clause for us and we get 50 % of anything with that is over and above what Marseille paid us so I think we got 25 million so if he went for 60 we'd get half of 35 which is what about you know 18 million isn't it Marseille don't want to sell and it's now unclear if Al Nazeer will persist or whether Greenwood is even open to going to Saudi any sale now or in the future Hans Man United 50 % sell on so that's interesting as well And then also on strikers, report coming in this morning from Kortoff side.

29:05So, you know, I don't know about this one. Leverkusen want United's Rasmus but face competition from AC Milan, Inter and Juventus. The interesting thing about Rasmus is, and we're not, well, I suppose we are here to cast opinion, is that despite I and many others not wanting him to go because I think we need a second striker, And that's presuming we get Sesko. The market for him is big and has always been big. Like very big Italian clubs, Inter Milan, Napoli, AC Milan, Juventus, all very interested in him. Leipzig, Leverkusen. Like there's a market for Rasmus there. And ultimately, I think that we probably will push him out the door.

29:55I don't think he wants to go. I think he wants to stay. obviously he's a Man United fan, but also I think he feels like the club is actually now, for the first time in his career, actually building creativity behind him. And it would piss you off if you've been playing ahead of people like Ganaccio and Anthony who don't pass. And then suddenly you've got people like Cunha and Mbermo. But I think United are going to look at it and go, there's an opportunity to bring some money in here. Although, to be fair, it's not pure profits is it so keep your eyes on that there is a lot of interest in rasmus and just back on sesco interesting story coming in from build sesco is playing newcastle and manchester united off against each other in a game of transfer poker well look that doesn't surprise me because the reality is there seems to be something with sesco and his agent that they want to deliver a good price for Leipzig which is not normal but you know fair play but let's be clear if you've got two clubs in for you you really don't give a shit about Leipzig it's about going what wages are you off I mean it's just perfect it's absolutely perfect you can go Newcastle are going to give me 200 grand a week and Man United are going to give me 180 grand a week so you go to Man United and you go they're going to give me 200 grand a week and keep pushing it up and you Here's a bit of an exclusive for you.

31:20And again, nobody's really talking about this. People keep going, well, Newcastle, Newcastle, Newcastle are willing to pay the money. They're showing that they want the player. They're willing to pay the money up front. They're really pushing for Leipzig and they're really pushing for Sesko. Nobody's really talking about the fact that the best paid player at Newcastle is, I think it's Bruno G on 160 grand a week. might be 170 he's their top paid player newcastle do have a wage structure they're gonna have to smash that for sesco because we can easily give sesco 225 grand a week and people go what hold on a minute this is a striker that we are investing in hugely for the next decade this is the guy that's going to score the goals and i can see people in the chat going don't give him more than 150k look if you can do that that's great but if there's one position in the team where you can justify paying them a big wage it's the striker it's a very important position and we don't even need to get look i think you'll be on 200 grand a week at man united easy that smashes newcastle's transfer uh wages that wages system so again i repeat newcastle's top earner is on 160 170 a week we can easily offer sesco 200 grand a week um can newcastle do that easily you know they've got to break a wage structure that's you know disrupt some of their senior pros whereas you know bruno's on 300k awake isn't he so wages could be very important involving this and um i wouldn't i wouldn't dismiss that i really wouldn't we got xerxi because we were willing to pay a bigger agent fee which was apparently massive so it's not disappeared under inios people seem to think under inios yeah we don't pay silly wages anymore we do we definitely still do and we also pay very good agent fees as well which is uh all there in the united's accounts if you want to go and check them we pay very i mean i think euro i think the euro one was quite big as well so we have ways that are that probably won't get reported um where we can spend money and i think we will uh any news on players out says miles i did expect to see some movement uh on outgoings as maybe part of the sesco deal to raise some funds but to be honest with you it's quiet Anthony, as we spoke about yesterday, seems to think it's justifiable to sit on his arse to try and get a loan move to Betis, which I think is a joke.

34:09Ganaccio seems to think it's justifiable in a World Cup year at 21 to sit on his arse playing FIFA waiting for Chelsea. Sancho, well, we know he thinks it's justifiable to sit on your arse and earn money. Rashford's already in Barcelona. I think he scored yesterday. And Malassia haven't got a bloody clue. So we've basically got four players and maybe sit down for this one. It's better because Rashford's gone, but we're still paying about 600 grand a week, maybe more. Sancho's on about 250, 300, I think. Anthony's on about 190. So, yeah, it's about 600 grand a week we're paying to those players, Malassia, Ganacho, Sancho and Anthony.

34:56which every two weeks is what over a million isn't it so it's a considerable amount of money that we're paying for those players to sit on their ass yeah um sal delit says juice world i think delit's massively underrated i don't really get it uh anyway just a couple of bits from the tour this came in from the athletic this morning two weeks in the u.s gave amirim time to drill players on precise positions during games with multiple sessions in Chicago have been a case of him walking through the exact spots to occupy when the ball is in different areas um it's interesting that because I didn't like the goal we conceded against West Ham where we had no midfield at all um and uh I didn't like our positioning on crosses again even with the back five so hopefully we can position ourselves better on those because I still think that there are areas where in the midfield sometimes we get overwhelmed and crosses especially against Everton really I mean it's amazing to me how we've got a back five and we can't deal with crosses I mean we've literally got an extra player in there and we look really shaky on crosses again so hopefully that's something we can work on this week having said that it also goes on to say that the players are resting today before returning to Carrington tomorrow to discover the new facilities ahead of the official opening on Friday.

36:18I mean, it's like a new signing. It's like a new signing. Yeah, it's like a new signing. We've got Carrington opening up this week, so we've got a new signing coming in on Friday, which is Carrington opening up there. Let's just grab some of your comments because I realise I've been talking for a moment and I want to get what you're saying. Thanks for tuning in, by the way. Well over 20 ,000. Absolute legends. And make sure you subscribe. Jack says, if we could only get two, I'd drop striker. I think we've bought goals and assists who will help Rasmus Hoyland. Midfield is the main priority I would spend on with a keeper.

36:56Look, Jack, so many people were talking about this last night. So many people are talking about it again today. I don't disagree with you. I think the midfield is an intelligent fan analysis point. and it's something that United certainly acknowledge, but it ain't their priority. Their priority is the striker and then we'll see what's next. But I don't disagree with you, Jack. But what I do sort of take issue is, is that we're going to sign a striker. We're not going to abandon Sesco to go for a midfield. Whether that's right or wrong, I'd put it in the category of, if we start the season with Inanna and we've had three months of a transfer window to sign a goalkeeper, that's ridiculous.

37:38or if Bruno fails in midfield, we're going to look stupid for not taking 100 million. So again, I think this is something you put in your back pocket and you go, look, I said it. We should have gone for a midfielder over a striker. So we just have to wait and see. Sal Zerksi over Rasmus, as I think he's now surplus as Thomas. Zerksi's biggest problem is he's massively popular, but he's just not fit that much. I wonder if I can... I don't know whether we did this last week. Maybe we did. Maybe we didn't. I think we did do it because I don't know whether it's particularly accurate, but Zerksi had a thigh problem from the middle of April until the end of the season.

38:26And that apparently was his only injury last season. So he's only had one injury at Manchester United. He missed 10 games. So I wouldn't say he's necessarily an injury-prone player. I just feel like he's had two big injuries in recent history and they're sort of stuck in our head. But he did miss April and May with an injury and now he's missed the start of the season. He's missed four games, Leeds. He's missed the whole tour. Apparently it was a knock. Look, very, very quickly, and then we move back on to what you're talking about. I've mentioned it a few times and I think sometimes you have to drill it down so that people really do remember it.

39:09Injury FC has not gone anywhere. We are still utilising the same people in our fitness and conditioning department and I don't know why. And yes, we've got new facilities at Carrington, but we're still going to get injuries. And look, again, the club are very, very secretive. We were told that Xerxi was missing the Leeds game with a knock. he then goes and misses the whole tour it's not a knock like it can't be a knock when you're when you're basically missing nearly a month now it's not a knock is it it's some sort of tear or grade one ankle injury there's some it's not a knock a knock is oh in training i felt you know there was a bit of an impact on my thigh and it's just a bit of bruising like this it's not a knock he's been he's missed all of pre-season so but we're not being told that and Masraou has missed a few weeks now as well so injuries aren't going anywhere um Sesco will choose United will pay less than Newcastle have offered like Liverpool did with Eka TK let's keep the faith says up the Reds Tom Baines says when Amrim came in he said uh he sees everything dress hair etc then Ahmad comes in this season with a uh standout haircut which for some reason just gave me worrying vibes, haircut curses, reals is Tom.

40:27I think Armand played really well against Everton for the first 25 minutes and then we just didn't get him on the ball enough. I think Sesco has chosen United. He's just waiting to see if United can do a deal. If he wanted to go to Newcastle, he would have gone. They are already willing to give what it takes, says Paul. Klopp behind the scenes, he will go to Newcastle, says Ronan. Sesco, yeah, but we've got Favell. We've got Favell behind the scenes. So, yeah. And also, as I said, if I'm Benjamin Sesko and Jurgen Klopp says to me, go to Newcastle, I'm going to say to him, I'd understand, mate, if you were telling me to go to Liverpool because you are a legend there, but you want me to go to Newcastle.

41:05So you're popular with Liverpool fans and I end up going to Newcastle. Now, unless you're going to tell me that Liverpool want me, then I'm going to listen to you because you just want me to do something to benefit Liverpool. Now, if it's me going to Liverpool I'll listen but I ain't going to New why should I go to Newcastle so you can look good for Liverpool fans um Sesco has chosen United however which United is unclear says Terp there's only one United could waiting around now put Watkins deal at risk says Joe we're not in for Watkins at the moment so I don't think we need to worry about like like that at the moment Newcastle is a step down from Leipzig in my opinion I think we've got Sesco in the bag says trey i believe man united power power play on sesco is lessons learned from de jong says andy mack the good news is that and diddy is off the table now because he's gone to bazit as his rocket top four sweeping up all the big transfers makes it way harder to get top four but it can also make it easier to get fit as our rivals can't replace sales says slays i think fifth's up for grabs it's just whether you believe that manchester united are good enough to get there and i agree with Patrick Lynch last night when he said we're in for a rollercoaster season you can see it against Everton we're not going to play the reason it'll be a rollercoaster season even if it's good is that we aren't ready yet to play well week in week out we'll have games where we do really really well and then we'll go Everton away and we'll be shit um and we're going to have that up and down but that you can finish fifth with that I mean Chelsea had a you look at last season like I think people go we've got no chance we've got no chance of it because we're going to definitely lose games and I agree that, but Chelsea had a really bad time in the second half of the season and still got fourth.

42:45Newcastle at times had a bad season and they still got fear. Thanks for speaking the truth on the price mark. Most people are panicking. Never wanted Cesc and are just using the fear as an excuse. Stay the course as to be so. Thank you very much for your super chat. It's so simple. Cesc wants Man United. He's waiting for Man United. I don't get the meat meltdown. So Sadiq, I have a feel it's going to be Anthony Rasmus all over again. So it's not like that. We can't walk away. We need a number nine. come on United's feds. And as someone said last night, if you walk away, there's less than four weeks left in the window.

43:15So you've just wasted a week. And then you've got to start again. Four weeks are going to go like that. So you walk away and you start on somebody else. Forget goalkeeper or midfielder. You might not even get the bloody striker. Chris says, I still think Klopp has a big say. I understand that, Chris. But then, And as I said before, why does he have a big say? He's telling you to go to another club to help his old club. He's not telling you to go to his old club. So I'd tell him to jog on, really. Price is why Arsenal chose Jochores. Even£75 million is cheap if he's a success this season. And even£20 million is too much if he doesn't.

43:52Gamble we have to take. And I think this is a great point, Andres. I said this about Mbermo. Some people said£65 million for Mbermo is too much. and i said but even if he paid 50 it's still an expensive amount if he flops 65 might be slightly too much for imbermo but at the end of the day if he flops at 55 he flops so you know i don't think it's um that that relevant well so i just done that one okay let me come back to this yoro comment because I know we are sort of running out of time. So this was Yoro speaking on the tour. There are a lot of people that want us to fail, and we know that, but there are also a lot of people that want us to do great things.

44:37We just focus on the fans. We don't care about what they say outside. Everyone said bullshit about us last year. I understand because we didn't do really well, but this season will be different. I mean, that's just a good mentality from Yoro at the end of the day. He's a young kid as well. so he might not know what we know in the sense that when you're Manchester United people will talk shit about you I mean literally there's a radio station called that that does it every single day they wake up in the morning and say what can we say about Amarim or Man United today it's a constant so that will keep happening and it's good for a young player at Man United who's only been here a year to figure that out um there will be people in our fan base that are negative though so it's saying you know we'll focus on the fans but there are people in the fans that are quite vocal there's armory mountains in the fans they were there last year so i think that um you know we've got to realistically um my god i've just a story somebody's just sent me a screenshot here of basically i mean i'm not going to give them a shout out but yeah there there are content creators and people on Twitter basically saying walk away the fee is ridiculous I think they've got low IQ I really do think they've got low IQ I'm sorry like we've been through this three times now they must be really really low IQ walk away now the fee is ridiculous I'm sorry with all due respects three days ago they were all going sesco oh what a great deal nothing has changed like literally nothing has changed the price was 69 million three days ago and people are going walk away now it's almost like the brain doesn't kick in on add-ons and currency 90 million euros walk away they think it's 90 million pounds it's 80 million euros plus 10 million euros in add-ons You don't pay the add-ons unless they're a success.

46:43You'd be happy to pay those add-ons because he'd be a success. So 90 million euros is the full package, but 10 million of euros of that would mean he's been a bloody success. You'd happily pay it. So it's basically 80 million euros, euros, pounds, 70 million. It's a 70 million pound deal. And that's what it was last week. He's always been 70 million. And we've got people out there going, walk away. Walk away. It's ridiculous. And if he's successful, it's 77 million because that's 90 million euro package. So if we end up paying 77 million pounds for Sesco, that means he's come in. He's probably scored a shitload of goals.

47:27We've probably qualified for the Champions League. And he's probably scored a load of goals in that because that's what those add-ons all be about. And you've got people going, walk away. It's ridiculous. you're ridiculous for not using your brain you're outing yourselves it's really sad god i'd respect those people if they wanted us to walk away from the start but they didn't they were celebrating it last week yeah we need to just people need to figure it out we don't need to walk away it's the same fear as it was last week and we haven't even decided nobody even knows what our game is and our game is simple we want sesco i think he wants us patience is what's the problem here people have seen newcastle making but people are even saying why haven't we bid have you ever have you ever negotiated for anything in your life like if somebody wants the car that you want and they're going i'll bid you this i'll bid you this i'll bid you this you don't have to jump in and start going this this it's going to cost you more money you wait for the right time a man united waiting on sesco and sesco decides simple as that um i don't know what beth said if she has says walk away she needs to get herself back to school and understand currency conversion rates but to be fair beth did very very well at university and i'd say she's more intelligent than me on that sort of thing so i very much doubt she hasn't understood that so be fair to beth hi mark loving the channel do you prefer anana for the season opener without game time in pre-season or be in the benjamin you had to ruin it didn't you you've had to ruin it we've had a really positive pragmatic show and you go and throw that in just to ruin everyone's morning i mean that is um yeah that is a very very big worry uh concern to be honest right i'm on terry's channel it's 11 o 'clock it's one of my favorite shows of the week that i do off this channel it's hot takes so we basically react to some stupid opinions live uh we'll be doing that in 10 minutes i'm just going to go and grab myself a coffee hopefully we will be back with you at some point today reacting to something significant around sesco if not we're back live at two o 'clock as always and the eight o 'clock shows have been brilliant the last few weeks so we'll be live then thank you very much for that um yeah i think you know what it is i think with maturity and working with you lot on a daily basis it provides intelligence and rationality and i think some people have seen the 90 million and completely had a head loss um and as somebody that has a tendency to have head losses on very limited information i'm trying my best to be rational and 90 million euros is not 90 million pounds and 80 million euros is not 80 million pounds it's 70 and people just need to figure that one out and then they'll calm down great show everybody take care stay safe i'll see you in a few minutes on terry's channel thanks for watching