149: Sesko CHOOSES United! MORE Money to spend! More PROTESTS!

0:28Hello everybody, good morning and welcome to the United Stands. more as well. Apparently, we can spend more. Apparently, Scott McTominay's been nominated for the Ballon d 'Or. It's all going on this morning and it's the United Stand news show. Let's get into it. Very, very excited. Look, first of all, I suppose some of us could sit there and say, I told you so. I'm never a big fan of that. I think that, as I always said, when David Ornstein a week ago said that Man United were going all in for Sesco, that's when the deal was done for me. That was it. I know we've had to go through the pantomime and you know what?

1:00We've had to see another Newcastle rejection, more rejections than a vegetarian applying for a job at a butcher's. Yeah, it's not good. Let the jokes commence. I feel bad for Newcastle, actually. I do feel bad for them because they've exposed themselves more times than a pervert in a park. Does that work? But anyway, my point is they are, you know, They're a big football club, Newcastle. They're a better football club than us at the moment. They've certainly got a better midfielder than us. And I'd say they've got a better chance of finishing higher than us in the league. And they're in the Champions League as well.

1:35But you know what? I think that this is the ambition that we want to see from Manchester United. And these are the sort of signings we have to make. I've said this for years. If we want to catch up with people, we've got to buy people they want. And, you know, we spoke about that at the start of the summer. You know, if you're looking at the Newcastles and the Arsenals and the Chelseas, you've got to buy players that they want. There's no point buying players they don't want. And look, with all due respect to people like, I don't know, Joshua Zerksi, for example, AC Milan wanted him. We hijacked the deal.

2:10There was no Arsenal. There was no Chelsea. There was no Newcastle. And I like Zerksi. And Zerksi could turn into a good player for us. But Benjamin Sesko was wanted by Arsenal. Benjamin Sesko was wanted by Newcastle. They're direct rivals. So I think these sorts of signings are really, really important to us. But let me give you the news this morning because you're just going to sit back with a smile on your face as I read these. David Ornstein, about an hour ago, Man United closing in on a deal to sign Cesco. And Leipzig accepted Newcastle's bid, but 22-year-old striker wants Manchester United.

2:45No club-to-club agreement yet, but talks advancing towards a conclusion. Fabrizio Romano. Sesco has reached full agreement with Man United on personal terms. Deal until 2030. He only wants United. Talks with Leipzig. Now the focus. Florian Plettenberg. Full agreement in place for Sesco. Man United has previously revealed. He's ready to sign a contract running until at least 2030 with both Manchester United and Newcastle. Man United are pushing to close the deal in the next hour. I don't know why he's talking about Newcastle still. Forget about them. Romano, Benjamin Sesko never gave other clubs this level of indication that he wants to join them.

3:27So always Manchester United. And those of us who were calm about it, well, you know, we have been proved right in relation to that as well, haven't we? So, look, I don't I don't I don't I don't really get why Newcastle are still being mentioned here. Have they been used by Leipzig? Have they been played by Sesko and his agent? they may well feel like that um it must be a hurry i mean god we've had some bad summers but it must be horrific for newcastle i mean the list is incredible you can actually build a premier league side that would get top four that have rejected newcastle when you think about it so many players but that's their problem we're trying to build something else um the striker that we've needed is now at manchester united and i want to bring this in very very quickly because people talk about what Sesko brings to Manchester United.

4:18So I've taken last season, I've compared Sesko to Eketike, Rasmus, Isaac, Jokerez and De Lapp. So our current striker and four players that are going to be on the move this summer into the Premier League, remaining in the Premier League. So this is what Sesko is all about. Considering he was playing for a Leipzig side that underperformed, These are last season stats. Goals per 90, 0.47 for Sesko, 0.41 for Ekotike, 0.28 for Rasmus, 0.27 for De Lapp, 0.7 for Izak, 1 for goal per game for Jokerez. So Izak and Jokerez at a level above Sesko that he above everybody else. Shots per 90, Izak 4, 2.5 for Sesko, so he's getting less shots, two for De Lapp, 3.6 for Ekotike, 1.4 for Rasmus and three for Izak.

5:11So Izak and Jochores getting more shots per 90 last season than Sesco. So what about goal conversion? 18.5 % for Sesco, 11.2 % for Ekotike, 23 % for Izak, 28 % for Jochores, 13 % for De Lapp. So the running theme for me is that Cescou drops quite comfortably above Eketike, Dilap and Rasmus, below Jokeres and Izac, which is what I would expect. He's 22. He's above those potential players of Dilap, Rasmus and Eketike, but he's behind the established players of Izac and Jokeres, which is exactly what we're buying for 22 years of age. So people who want to throw him into the category of Eketike, De Laap, Rasmus are wrong.

5:58He's above that. But he's not at the level of a Jokeres or an Izak yet because it's still a bit of growth in his career. What I do like about him is, though, dribbles per 90. Eketike, 4.1. We know he's that sort of a player. Izak, 3. Sesko, 2.9. Rasmus, 1.6. So he is somebody that gets the ball and carries the ball. and I think we're going to see from him things that we haven't seen before. He doesn't get that many assists. Assists per 90 is 0.1. But then again, Izak is 0.14. Eketike 0.2. Jokeres 0.2. Dalap 0.08. So look, people saying he's the next this, he's the next that. I'll tell you exactly what Sesko is.

6:47He's the next potential European top-class striker. He could be the next Lewandowski. He could be the next Ramos at PSG. We don't know, but we needed a striker. We didn't get Jokeres. We didn't get Osman. And the minute we didn't get either of those, the striker market always became one of a chance with an element of risk. I think we've, at this stage, gone and got pretty much as good as we could get. You might have wanted Oli Watkins, but beyond that, I don't think there was anything else in the market that you were going to go, that's going to be good enough. If Poloko says he's bang average, I suspect you're not a Manchester United fan.

7:25You're probably a Newcastle fan, a Liverpool fan, an Arsenal fan, a City fan. You're not a Man United fan because a Man United fan doesn't start calling new signings average before they're even holding up a Man United shirt. A Manchester United fan gets behind its players when they sign for this football club or whether they're a young player making a debut. So, you know, I'm sure we'll get morons out there who pretend to be United fans being negative about this deal. And they'll be drowned out by the real fans who will back this player. I've seen United buy players I didn't want. I didn't want Fellaini.

7:58I didn't want Lukaku. I didn't want Matic. We were unsure about Mount, but they will get backed. And we needed to buy a striker. It is August the 6th. We have a striker coming to Manchester United. Now, what I would say is, is that it's all about timing now. When will this happen? And we spoke about this last night. And I've got to say, absolutely had quite a bit of information coming in from the club this year. Nothing about Sesco. Absolutely nothing. This has always been opinion. And sometimes opinion, balanced, can be right. And pretty much everything we've been talking about over the last few days has happened.

8:38I've always said stay calm. Many of you have agreed with me. We've stayed calm. I've always said he favours United and it is coming out now. I've always said that we'll get this deal done and we're going to get this deal done. And I've always said that Newcastle are going to have to back off and they're going to have to back off. What's interesting is I think the advantage of the Newcastle bids are that it's sped this deal up like it's on Red Bull. We saw with Embermo, Embermo wants Man United at the start of June. He doesn't sign till the middle of July. Sesco wants Man United today. He could be holding up a shirt on the pitch on Saturday.

9:15It really could move that quick. He is training individually at this moment in time. He has had a pre-season with Leipzig. He played a game last week, so he's not like Mbermo. He's training individually at the moment. He doesn't want to be doing that for long. Leipzig are having him train individually because they're anticipating a move very, very quickly. the story was that if he had chose Newcastle he'd have been a Newcastle player by the end of the week so the feeling is that he'll be a Man United player at the end of the week as well because all we have to do is finalize this deal now they've accepted Newcastle's bid which we know was 69 million plus eight Man United's was 65 plus eight so there's a slight bit of negotiation I think United might have gone a little bit higher anyway so once that deal is agreed it's here we go get on a plane, get the medical done.

10:04He should be holding the shirt up by the weekend, in which case he should be training with us all of next week, head of a game against Arsenal on the Sunday, and he should at least be on the bench. So it's moving very, very, very fast. And it's moving faster than we ever would have done this deal without Newcastle. And I'm not here to take the piss out of Newcastle and say, thank you for your help. But in a way, thank you for your help. they're not going to be grateful for that. Thank you. But we normally do deals on our own where there's no competition. This just shows that deals can get done quickly if you're on the winning side of a transfer battle.

10:45And literally, if we were just negotiating with Leipzig, I think this deal would have gone to transfer deadline day. So Newcastle's involvement has actually been a positive. Obviously not for Newcastle, but certainly for us as well. So that is where we are this morning oh god 21 000 people watching absolute legends make sure you uh are sharing the video let's see how we can go because we've actually only just hit 10 o 'clock i went live a little bit early because i was um i was just too excited there was too much coming in and people were saying go live go live go live and uh i thought you know we'll wait till 10 but we went a little bit live but like earlier i just want to grab some of your comments before i get into the rest of the news terp says man united getting sesco is a huge positive for the club and amrin we're slowly behaving like a big club this could affect izak going to liverpool i'm not bothered about that i think izak will still go to liverpool i'm not bothered that's somebody else's race we're not in that race and if he doesn't go to liverpool i still think liverpool will have got a great chance of winning the league so liverpool are not going to be anything we're concerned with for two or three years so i'm not that bothered about that i'm i'm bothered about us getting on the journey to getting near liverpool that's all i'm bothered about shabazz says i'm hyped for sesco plus Rasmus deserves one more season.

11:53Well, look, Fabrizio Romano has literally spoken about the Rasmus situation, which I'll give you an update in a moment. But thank you very much for that. What centre midfielder should we go for now, says Texas Eddie. Can we just, you know, before we start talking about midfielders, we haven't even got Sesco holding up the shirt at the moment. Can we just enjoy signing a striker? There's always the next thing. And I always say this to like Seb and my kids, like, you know, it's like opening your presents at Christmas. you get a really good present what's next and just can we just enjoy this for a moment it's not even happened yet all last season people are moaning about a striker we get a striker what's the midfielder like i'm not the glaze's biggest fan certainly not and i'm certainly not inios's biggest fan but like we're never going to be happy if we're never happy like it's always the next thing with some people like this striker is really significant and for me we do need a midfielder and we do need a goalkeeper but we've spent nearly 200 million pounds there may not be much left and you're talking about a top strike you're not getting Belieber unless something miraculous happens we're not getting Yulmland you're probably getting a loan signing of Douglas Luis or something like that uh finally someone good in the air how is his injury record mark he fits the advanced forward complete role as per FC 25 says the Senate General his uh his injury records very good he's he's barely been injured uh how good is sesco says alan we've just been through some of that one important fact is that sesco got this stats playing in a weaker team compared to ekatike and izak's a space oddy yep to all those people saying he's average why did arsenal consider him the striker to take them to the league title why have chelsea been sniffing around him for four years why did newcastle want him who are in the champions League.

13:40If he's bang average, why are those clubs going for him ahead of somebody like a Ramos or a Watkins or a Jackson? So, you know, cry me a bloody river with your bitter tears. He is a work in progress. He may not adapt to the Premier League, but you cannot dispute the fact that top clubs have been looking at him for a long time. And the reason they didn't go for him really was price. Arsenal went for the cheaper option in Jokeres. If they'd been the same price, who knows what they would have gone for. We wanted Jokeres signed for Arsenal. Sesco wanted by Arsenal signing for us. The game at Old Trafford would be fun.

14:19All top strikers in the Premier League this year is great, says Sharnock. This transfer surprised me on two fronts, says Rajaf. How fast we are and the fact that United have 75 million euros. Excited for the Arsenal game now. Storylines for both clubs. Well, the reason it's happened so quick is because of Newcastle, really. You know, we had to move quick or we miss out. Liam, thank you very much for your super chat. He says, I know you've been in a bit reserved about having Sesko as our only striker, but we are playing one game a week. Surely we want him playing every game to improve. No, I disagree with this, Liam.

14:49I disagree with this. I don't agree with selling Rasmus because we are stacked at number 10. You've got people like Mason Mount and Xerxi who won't start but can come on from the bench. We're stacked at centre-back where you've got people like Maguire, Luke Shaw, Masraoui, Heaven, who might not start but can be utilised there. We've got quite a few midfielders and we need another one. Up front, if we sell Rasmus, we've got Sesco, we've got Obi, who's 17, and we've got Zerksy, who's not really a striker. So Sesco, we have only got one game a week, but are you literally going to play him every single minute of every single game?

15:25What if he does need a break? What if he does struggle a little bit? What if he gets injured? So I don't like the fact of buying a striker and selling a striker when we've always needed to replace Martial Cavani. Rasmus needed another striker with him. We don't need to replace Rasmus. If we replace Rasmus, we need two strikers. So that's my stance on it. I'm curious about how Amrin will use him, especially against part of the bus teams. He's a simple player, but he hits the ball like it owes him money, says Slaze. Thoughts on being linked with Furman from Barcelona, says Helcú. not heard anything about it.

15:57How much of these Jocheres stats are from when while Amarin was there says Mojo. Does never showed similar indications to other clubs mean Sesco didn't consider Arsenal special despite their pursuit says Sujoy. I don't think it includes Arsenal I think it includes the recent race that he preferred as over them. Let's hope Chris Favell has got this right says Lieutenant General. Sir Graham Souness welcome to the members club afwip de game. Karen Veer welcome as well thank you for joining the members club appreciate your support get your badge in um sesko's first touch and turn will be vital for us rasmus was never good at that and would give away the ball while we tried the counter-attacks is phil flico oliver long welcome to members club as well get the champers out marks is reese thank god we haven't haven't ended up with nicholas jackson says light schofield mctomedy for ballon door champers is jacob donnarumma loading and wharton says cc and ike for life welcome to the members club as well today is my dad birthday we both love the club if we get here with today I'm calling it we're winning the league says Philip okay I wouldn't go that far but enjoy your day we should get here we go today yeah a few people are asking that we should get here we go today we should get a deal done today I'm expecting that at any time in the next few hours because it's the only thing that we're waiting for um newcastle haven't backed out yet somebody said why um because they're probably so fed up of you know backing out that they're just sort of like probably just stuck in going we don't know what to do um you know stuck in reverse cold play they um they're probably annoyed of that noise you know that lorry noise where it goes

17:47reversing apparently that's the new song for newcastle when they're coming out the dugout this year um the tunnel so jackson to newcastle then says indigio i hope newcastle do get a good striker i actually genuinely do um i've got nothing against them really but uh yeah it's uh yeah i mean we're not here to talk about that mark also said rasmus is like harlan transfer hype does not mean a player is good. He was wanted by Arsenal. City wanted Maguire. Who cares, says Chris. Nice one, Chris. Being positive about a new United signing. Love it. Well done, mate. You must feel great. I was a little hesitant about Cesco for a bit, but over time I have come to like him.

18:22And when the here we go comes, I'll welcome him with open arms, says Owen. I think what people are really not grasping here is that nobody's sat here saying we've bought the world's best striker. Nobody's sat here saying he's going to win the golden boot. No one's sat here saying he's going to be a Ballon d 'Or winner. I don't know why. Well, I do know why, because in the modern world, you're all swiping up within seconds and swiping right within seconds because you've got low attention levels and you constantly crave attention and satisfaction. It's the modern way. You've all been manipulated by these machines that have got your chemicals in your brain going, I need instant satisfaction.

19:02I need instant satisfaction. That's why some of you can't sit and watch a brilliant film like Heat because there's not enough going on for you to sit and spend two hours watching a brilliant bit of cinema. And it infects you about football as well. We signed Sesco. What's next? We signed Sesco. Oh, it's going to be a flop. Why is he flopped already? He hasn't even scored a goal yet because your brains are going, I need attention. I need attention. I need attention. I'm not sitting here that's saying that Sesco is going to be a success. I'm not sitting here saying he's going to flop. What I'm saying is we needed to buy striker we missed out on the best two and we've probably gone and bought a striker that for me is better than a lot of the shit we could have bought but not as good as jokeres or rosamon so as for a team that finished 15th and lost the europa league final and isn't in europe i'd pretty much say the player arsenal didn't go for is probably the right player for us i'm not saying this guy i mean woe betide the person who sits there and tries and yeah there will be people who sit there because they'll be thinking this makes a great TikTok or a brilliant clip to give me a bit of exposure that I think gives me exposure, but actually makes people think, look at this knobhead.

20:10I'm not going to sit here and say that Sesko is going to be better than Haaland. He's going to be better than Jokeres. He's going to be the best striker in the world. I hope he is. I'm not a bloody idiot. I'm not going to say it. He's coming into Man United, which has been a graveyard for strikers for about five years. So it's a huge job, but we needed to bring somebody in and he's probably the best we could bring in. So excuse me for being excited about that. Excuse me for being happy about that. But at no point have I or any United fan I've seen said he's the best striker in the world and he's better than Haaland.

20:41And some of you seem to want to jump on that that's not been said. All we're saying is we needed a striker. He's probably the best we could get and we're happy with it. That's it. We'll see what comes. There are challenges ahead. I'm sure there are certain journalists and media outlets out there that will have the hump with this signing because it's another foreign player coming into Manchester United that they will instantly get onto straight away. In fact, before he kicks a ball, I imagine certain radio stations and ex-players will be sharpening their swords against him. Welcome to Manchester United.

21:17But look, it doesn't mean he's going to flop and it doesn't mean he's going to be success. It's the best we could get and it's a lot better than what we could have ended up with. do we have any midfield updates I'll move on we going for Loonan goalkeeper versus Newcastle battle against as JSD okay ESPN was saying even without Sesco Man United should finish top six or Ramrim gets the sack that's what I'd say to that I mean look we respect our American cousins and you've got some really good outlets over there but ESPN I don't know what happened to it but your punditry and your ex-player panel is shite.

21:56Let's be honest. Mark, I'm happy with Sesco, says Patrick Lynch, the voice of reason. My question is this, with three signings and the budget we spent, do you feel that Anrim has been properly backed considering we all feel we still have gaps in the team? Well, I want to talk about this because there was another article that came out this morning that would have been quite interesting in its own because basically, and I want to get your thoughts on this, um let's have a look at it for you now um here we are so it's coming in from the athletic um and basically what it says is that manchester united still have room to spend if they choose to while cash flow now requires more careful management than in previous years at old Trafford, recent decisions combined with the club's ongoing borrowing power means there are still financial avenues open to them.

22:55Now, I've got a shout out. Obviously, that's from The Athletic, but if you watched the show last night, Swedish Rumble messaged me privately about this, and we mentioned this last night. Now, I'm not saying The Athletic were watching and decided to write a more in-depth article, but it's basically saying the same thing. Man United have got, as we discussed last night via Swedish Rumble on X. Man United have got wiggle room to spend more money. Probably another 50 to 60 million pounds, if we're being completely honest. Why is that not doing that? Hold on a minute. We've got to be very careful here.

23:28This is quite important. It's saying my battery is low. Now, I'm going to lose it.

23:41what that should work if you don't work we're not ending the show early yeah charging mode is on thank god for that imagine if it just ended um we've got nearly 30 000 people watching keep sharing the video we have topped out 30 000 uh on an eight o 'clock show the other night but the 10 a.m show is saying anything you can do i can do better i can do anything better than you please do keep sharing the video let's see if we can break records this mon uh wednesday morning uh here we go hopefully um but look just saying there patrick lynch makes a good point where are we going to go next i know we were talking about that last night and some people have mentioned it this morning but seriously the athletic are saying we've got more money to spend if we want to because of cash flow and borrowing etc um swedish rumble we mentioned this on the show last night so shout out to him for dropping that out their first very very good account follow them on x we do have the i would look at it like chelsea some people look at it and go how have liverpool spent nearly half a billion pounds this summer well success 300 million of it is success they've made good sales how did chelsea spend so much money um i don't really know but they do and they don't get in trouble they sell women teams for 200 million etc there are ways of doing it how have man united got another 60 million pounds to spend when they've nearly spent 200 i don't know but we can we can do it we can do it it's just whether we want to do it um and i would say you should be doing it you should be in the modern game the world has changed football has changed this summer teams that finished in the top four have spent ridiculous amounts of money because they want to stay in the champions league so if you don't respond to that you won't be in the champions league so we do need to spend more money I suppose to answer Patrick's question Do I think Amrim has been backed?

25:35I don't put a monetary value on Amrim being backed I'm pretty sure Man United will I'm pretty sure Man United will say We've backed this manager to nearly£200m I would say in a sense you are right But in reality what is backing? Is backing a manager spending£200m Or is backing a manager giving him the positions he needs? so you could say we've spent 200 million pounds on three players we should have spent it on six we should have maybe bought different players because we needed a goalkeeper we needed a midfielder so i think there's a fine line there he's certainly been backed in a sense financially because sesco and burmo and kunya do add up to about 180 200 million pounds but i would say where's the goalkeeper that's that's essential as well so we're on the journey to it patrick i would say.

26:28Alfie says, I hope you're well. I just wanted to say I even doubted Ineos, but I think they deserve some credit for pulling this off, says Alfie. Yes, yes. I mean, I'm not going to say that Newcastle deserved more credit than Ineos, but it's a difficult one. I mean, look, let me read you this. If I can read you this, why can't I read you this? So listen to this. Before you start backing Ineos my stance would be well this is not the striker that we wanted like we are in August it's the best we can get and I'm happy with it but it is August the 6th the window opened pretty much in June and you know we're only getting a striker in now and it's certainly not option A, B or C so you could say fair play they've got somebody in they've adapted to the market but it's a bit late in the window and it wasn't actually what we wanted you could be negative about that i would also say where's the goalkeeper i think that's really important i would also say where's the sales but you know we can only deal with what we've got and i'd rather we were doing stuff like this than doing nothing or or signing nicholas jackson so there's an element of credit there but i wouldn't go mad saying we've had a madness or anything like that or we've had a great window the interesting thing is this is breaking news as well and i did want to bring this in the 1958 protest group, Jim Can't Fix It.

27:53The 58 has announced a big new protest ahead of Manchester United's opening game of the season for the first time directed at part owner Sir Jim Radcliffe as well as the hated Glazers. Supporters are being rallied ahead of the Arsenal clash at Old Trafford on Sunday, August 17th with a new route planned and new banners produced including Jim Can't Fix This. Radcliffe has been branded a devil in disguise. It's a new season, but the same old ownership issues are there. 20 years of the Glazers and their debt mounting is 20 years too long. Enough is enough, confirmed a 1958 spokesman. We won't allow some natural optimism and a couple of shiny new signings to deflect from the bigger off-field picture.

28:34Jim Radcliffe chose to get in bed with the Glazers and in our opinion is helping keep them in charge. So on the 17th of August, we protest not just against the Glazers, but now also against Jim Radcliffe, a man once seen by many, including ourselves as a possible saviour a beacon of hope but now revealed as complicit in the ongoing erosion of everything that makes our club what it is this is no longer just about ownership this is about survival the survival of our identity our community and our values and they talk about that in relation to the dilution of younger supporters the austerity imposed on loyal club staff and the push to create what we fear would become a disneyland of the north with the new stadium, and that's where their priorities lie.

29:18Not with the fans, not with the community, but with shareholders, executives, and a global brand that strips the club of its roots. Let it be clear, this general vision is not for us. It's not for the fans who travel up and down the country and across Europe. It is not for those who've stood in the same spot at Old Trafford for decades. We feel it is for profit, pure and simple. The burden of this greed is being forced onto generational fans that are being priced out, pushed out, and ignored. Football is consuming itself. What's happened at Manchester United is a warning to every other club. For us, it's a calculated attempt to Americanise and franchise the game we love.

29:50If this continues, the sport will be left hollow. A commercial product with no soul. Football is nothing without the fans. So look, I mean, some people might be quite surprised by that. We'll never not serve fan conversation on the United Stand, by the way. My reaction to that is, and the reason I've read it in its entirety, is because does it miss? Does it not make valid points? But then we're just about to sign Sesco. And I've always said this, and I'll stand alone on this or people can agree with me. Glazer out movements die when you go out and sign Sesco or Pogba or Bruno. We've always seen that.

30:32If we didn't sign a striker, those protests against Arsenal would be huge. Unfortunately, this is the battle any protest or any removal of the Glazers will always face. Because you can sweep everything under the carpet with a shiny new toy. and you know this is the challenge the 58 are going to face but we won't stop putting that news out there because if everybody is entitled to make their own mind up and ultimately do i believe that the glazers are good for manchester united no do they still own the football club yes is the debt still there yes and do i think we're going to close the gap on the you know rivals of ours that are better running and moving further and further away at the moment no but you know separately to that or part of that we do have to buy players this summer and we are about to buy one as well uh normal morning show are you out of prison now says Maz Rawi oh yeah I forgot I'm normally uh eight o 'clock shows are in my studio um the only reason I'm in my studio this morning is that the builders were here very very early laying the concrete in the kitchen which now needs to set so um they can't do anything today so i've sneaked back into my morning room so there's no noise uh the new kit releases on the 12th says lee berman uh new kit out on the 12th hopefully they have sesco in it says joe well if we wait till the 12th that's um next tuesday he'll hardly train for the arsenal game i personally want here we go and and and it owned on the pitch on Saturday so we can have a week of training.

32:11Edward V has gifted five memberships. We're nearly at 30 ,000 watching. Keep sharing the video, smash a like and subscribe. Let's go, Sesco. Pam, pam, pam, says Malik. Now that Sesco has done, any concrete news on a goalkeeper or a midfielder? I tell you what, we've got concrete in the kitchen and we've got concrete for, I mean, I've just realised. We've took the piss out of the concrete stories for a long time. and you know what? We've actually got some concrete in the kitchen here. Is that a coincidence? Somebody just said, is that background fake? I know nowadays people still do use green screens and pretend they've got a background behind them, but you should ask.

32:55You should ask because... Champers! Champers! I am actually going to open that and taste it. Champers! You see, it's real. It's real At the end of the day That's Sean Dyche Posh At the end of the day You know We've still got money to spend Champers Yeah There we go I thought I even had a bottle of champers there I bet it tastes like shit But You know I don't like champagne anyway Let's be cheeky And knock on Brighton's door Says Emin Yeah If you're going to knock on someone's door To try and buy something You need their money to do it Man United getting Sesco Is a huge positive For the club And Amrin We're slowly behaving like a big club.

33:37This could affect Arsenal going to Liverpool. I don't care. Like, can we just grow up a little bit? I don't care about Liverpool and Isaac. It just sounds really beggy. Like, they're miles ahead of us. Getting Sesko has got nothing to do with stopping Liverpool getting Isaac for me. Absolutely nothing. I don't care. And let's get real. Isaac might go on strike. He might refuse to train. You know, this might be his dream move that he's not going to get. So I don't care about Izak and Liverpool. I'd rather he didn't go there. But I'm not thinking about us getting Sesko, stopping them getting that.

34:17That's their battle. Leave them to it. And I still think he'll go there. If we're not buying a midfielder, I want Donnarumis as Jace. Yeah, look, I sense that greediness is slipping into some people's mindset this morning. we've just gone head to head with Newcastle for the last few days and at times some of you lot have been moaning that we're going to lose some of us sat there and said stay calm we've now got sesco or we're very close to it being deal done and people are going i want this now i want that now can we just enjoy this it's a significant signing and we've spent nearly 200 million pounds and you're talking about beliba and and um and donnarumma we did play shit last year we're not in the champions league there will be a limit to what we can do we can't just spend spend spend Ben, Ben, Ben.

35:04And as for Donnarumma, I mean, yeah, I'd be over the moon if we did that deal. But he's the world's best goalkeeper. Why is he going to come to Man United? Like, he's got a year left on his contract. I genuinely think we're being used so that he can run his contract down or get a new contract. But look, we'll have to wait and see. Do you think Collier will be loaned down, says Panath? Not really in the mood to talk about Collier, to be honest. I think we've got bigger things to talk about, but I think he will be moved on. Yeah. Can I please get an in for my son? Can I please get a get in for my...

35:33I'm not a bloody parrot, Nick. I don't do fake get-ins. My son, Cole Lamb, who did a great goalkeeper session yesterday with Eric Steele. Awesome ex-United coach. Keep it up. Champions League says Nick. Well, shout out to Cole. No problem with that. But I'm not going to do a fake get-in. I'm sorry. People might boo me for it. But yeah. Shout out to Cole, though. And thank you very much to Nick. I'm too sesco for my shirt. Oh, here we go. thanks phrase agree on attention deficit in a way success of united stand or also reflects this rolling news not criticism i remember days of checking cfax as wg um golden divra uh welcome to the members club uh and mark it's my birthday today hoping for an ornstein or romano here we go for sesco that we've agreed a fee with leipzig and that parang via is exactly where we are at this morning, by the way.

36:27That is exactly where we're at. I am going to answer this. Do you think Sesko will be a success? Yeah, we're here to talk about the news and we're here to give opinion, of course. Do I think Sesko will be a success at Manchester United? Yes. In the context of what success is, I think he will be a success. I mean, I'm not saying he's going to be the next van Nisselrooy or the next Rooney but in in the context of where man united are now I think he will be a success because I think a success at Manchester United is scoring between 13 and 20 premier league goals each season and I think he will do that because I think that we haven't even seen the development and improvement under Amarim yet um I think what we saw last season and the season before and the season before was a striker starved of service by selfish inexplicable behavior from supposed supposed creators who spent more time shooting from distance thinking about themselves and i think with kunya and imbermo we have mature unselfish players who understand and value teamwork and winning so when you get imbermo and kunya they They understand when they get the ball in certain situations, the right move is to pass or create.

37:51It isn't to get your head down, take someone on and try and score a worldie for yourself. So I think that's going to benefit whoever plays up front. Also, I think Sesko offers things that will be conducive with goals in the Premier League. I think his height is going to be really important. But also, I think his ability to score goals will be as well. I think he will score goals. Yeah, I'm not saying he's going to tear it up and win the golden boot. I don't think a Man United striker should be thinking about winning the golden boot where we are as a football club at the moment. But I certainly think I think he will be a success.

38:30We can't afford another flop as well. Patrick Link, that's my opinion, by the way. We need to remember the context of this summer once the season starts. The media will twist it that Amarim has all he needs. when we have struggles next season. We can't let them dictate the narrative. Very, very mature. I think it was you who said it, Patrick.

38:55Rollercoaster. It will be a rollercoaster. Sesko, Kunya and Mbermo are not going to solve the fact that an honouring goal is a volleyball player. Sesko, Kunya and Mbermo are not going to solve the fact that we've got a donut in the midfield. Like, that is going to cost us goals. That's going to cost us points. So, you know, exactly as Patrick says, when you get these morons talking about Man United need to be in the top six with the signings they've made, somebody's going to say it. The script is being written. United have spent£200 million. They've got to be in the top four. That sentence is coming out of someone's mouth.

39:31And let's just remember, we've said it here now, somebody on radio, TV, X player is going to say, Amrim's had 200 million pounds he can't moan about not being backed United have got to get in the top four that is the most moronic statement I've ever heard and it will definitely come out from somebody take away the money for a moment he's had three players we finished 15th and we're not in Europe who thinks we need three players we need about seven so the financial outlay doesn't equal backing. It's a journey towards backing, but it's not enough to put us in the top four. I would say with Sesko, Mbermo and Cunha, but no goalkeeper and no midfielder, there's an outside chance of fifth.

40:19An outside chance of fifth. I still think United are going to finish somewhere between sixth and tenth. And I would say sixth is probably what I would be hoping for, but fifth would be a very good season. And anybody thinking fourth is a twat, to be blunt, really. So we have to protect the reality because it's not in the interests of certain ex-players, the media, to do that. It's in their interest. It's not in their interest to go, you know what, Simon, Simon, what are your thoughts this Monday morning about Man United a drawing to Brighton. Well, at the end of the day, they finished 15th last season.

41:03You know, they're obviously a work in progress. I can see the positives, but they're still a little bit weak here. This season is going to be about them finishing 7th or 8th. Cut that bit. Do you want to keep your job, Simon? Do you want to keep your job? Swallow a fucking dictionary and slag United off or you're out. Now we'll go again. Simon, Brighton, draw, Manchester United, the 7th in the league. It's October. What do you think? Well, he's definitely been backed. He's obviously a rubbish manager. He needs to change the system. Sack him today. That's more like it. That's what we pay you for.

41:36And that's, we're going to get that because that's the way the media works around Manchester United. They cannot tell the truth. They have to lie to get attention. And if United aren't going to win the league, then a manager needs to be sacked. Outrage that post has caused. they probably backtrack says Robert don't know what that's all about Robert need more clarity hi Mark when they say we can spend 50 to 60 million does that include sales if we can sell is there a way we go for Belieber and a goalkeeper Raffo we need to stop talking about Belieber he's a very good player that we've been talking about for about a year Rio Ferdinand decided to make out that he was the first person to realize that Belieber would be a good player for Man United And now it's in the vocabulary.

42:19We are not in for Belieber. We do not have any money for Belieber. So we need to stop talking about Belieber like it's on the menu. Amazing if it did, you know, but it's not. It's just not there. It's just not there. And people talk about it like it's actually there. It's not there. It's just not there. It's a bit like Hayden Hackney. Like people have been talking about him for eight months. It's a fan theory. It's not real. We can't bring it into the vocabulary because people then get disappointed when it doesn't happen. We're literally not in for him. Heard Donnarumma is only valued at 30 million, says Daniel Taylor.

42:58Great. New boss needs seven plus players to be considered backed, says Stampsy. The Kunja signing fell into 24-25 for accounting purposes. Therefore, it's not included in this new financial year, says Jonathan. Loan Hoyland to Newcastle, says Ghost92. And 2 Pump YouTube says, I enjoy the fact that

43:20It was a good comment till then. We could go for Jormland in sporting, says Jone. I think if we did go for somebody, we would go for him. It's amazing we haven't bought a sporting player. I'll keep saying that. Anders says,

43:41I think that's a very good comment, Anders, really. you know where I look at sesco is and why I'm happy with it is because you can only deal with the world in front of you and if jockerez and ozman are off the table you can't moan about it because it's off the table so do you storm out and go I'm not eating or do you go okay I'll go for the next best thing on the menu and that's what sesco is nobody's professing that this was our dream signing going into the window beggars can't be choosers so i think this is the best we can do at this point simple as that and also it's not desperate because favell who is obviously pushing this deal is staking his reputation on this deal because it's not necessarily what wilcox or amarin wanted from what we're hearing it's not that they're against it they've just been convinced by sesco this is the way to go favel is massively massively a fan of sesco so it's not desperation it's not like we're looking around here there and everywhere um look there's risks there's always risks of course ac milan oh hold on here we go um i wanted to talk about this so rasmus um was mentioned this morning by fabrizio romano as he may be looking to move now with the sesco coming in um there's a lot of clubs interested uh there's also a story coming out this morning that ac milan are working on a loan with an option to buy for rasmus the other option remains uh vlahovic who is leaving juventus so look i my i actually do think rasmus will go that's my feeling um but also um i i don't agree with it and it's not because it's rasmus i just would rather we kept um the striker situation more competitive i don't believe ob ob is ready and i don't think serksy is a striker so i would rather have somebody who comes on and can play as a number nine naturally um and it puts a lot more pressure onto sesko but i don't think we're going to get our way with that if you want that i i personally think that rasmus will be moved on and he may want to move on because he may say well you know what i want um i want to um i want to play football at the end of the day so yeah i think he probably will uh move on but you know i want the more options the better is what i want really that's what i would say um let's come back to the live chat uh bradley parker welcome to member this club at the end of the day champers says shibo hi mark you're getting me through my shift at work as you often do but i'm really happy with this signing and hope all fans give him the time he needs as lee look we're always going to get the elements in our fan base that are toxic uh and vocal um look and and that's not me slagging them off that's me being honest we know we know that there are fans in our fan base you can you You can check their tweets.

46:48You can look at their videos. You can look at certain people in the media. They were hammering out for the last six weeks of the season. Do you think they are not hammering out anymore? Because if they're not, they're fake. They are hammering out. They're just staying quiet. So as much as they might sit there going, oh, let's go, Sesko. They're hammering outers. And they will be waiting for a bad result. And then when you look around and say, where's the solidarity? They'll be there going, And I told you, I told you, Amrond out. So that's still going to be there. And look how quickly people turned on Agate.

47:24Look how quickly people turned on him. You know, barely any time. In fact, they were slagging him off before he'd even kicked a ball. So we do have this in the world now and we have it around Man United. But the vast majority are going to be excited about this and they're going to give him a chance. Please do subscribe to the channel, by the way. That number's wrong. We're on 137 and we're only 200 away from 138 ,000. So please do subscribe. bottom right hand corner thank everybody's tuning in uh i have a couple of other things i want to talk to you about but i'm just trying to catch up on these the amount of plastic fans we have is unreal says cryptic celt i can honestly see his fight for donar donaruma next is kenzo um caleb says third kit supposedly coming out on the 12th i mean i'm looking forward to that kit coming out because it's been rumored to be very very nice very very nice miles uh fpl yokarez down sesco up says miles i'd go jokarez over sesco on fpl i need to do my fpl team actually um i need to write that down and and get that sorted uh and i think maybe we should start a league again that was quite good um justin says resub so you can get some socks so you don't have to walk the plank barefooted.

48:35I wear, I'm barefooted most of the summer, mate. Please say happy birthday to my son Matty, who is nine today, says Daniel Green. Happy birthday to Matty. Hope you have a great day. Bathroom Renovator says, hi, Mark. Rasmus didn't receive passes through balls and crosses. What's to say? Sesco will receive better service. Yes, he's a class striker, but if he's not got service, he would struggle. I mean, it's a fair point. It's a fair point. Service is going to be the key thing to any striker we brought in, whether it was the lap, Jocares, Rasmus stays, whatever. But I genuinely think that's what we're solving.

49:10Dorgu looks very creative down the left hand side. Kunja and Mbemo look very creative. I think Ahmad still at times looks a little bit selfish, but he was nowhere near as selfish as Ganaccio or Anthony or Rashford. So I think we're changing that. And I hope we're going to change that. But, you know, the proof will be in the pudding as they say. Mohamed's just got off just off to the dentist. Good news about the striker. Hopefully this can push us up the league. We need a midfielder says Mohamed. Rasmus deserves another season with our support says Breezing Rain. Let's not forget Arsenal prefer Sesko over Jokeres.

49:46I don't know whether Arsenal did prefer Sesko over Jokeres. What Arsenal did do is value Sesko for 18 months and very nearly went for him. So I don't know whether they just went for Jokeres because he was 10 million cheaper or whether Bertha came in as the director of football and preferred Yoccares and sort of convinced Arteta. But he was definitely up there. It was one or the other. Hi there, Mark. I'm the guy meant to fix your kitchen floor. Can't find the broom. I dropped a glass, but don't know where you are. Can I still get paid by the hours as the sales? How long do you think it will take the English press to criticise Sesco when he doesn't score goals?

50:21Mate, they'll be ready for him now. We're Manchester United. Hated, adored, never ignored. Thank you, Frizz. Hi, Mark. trust you well amrim is going to make sesco the next jokeres and place for growth is beyond the imagination uh any news on a midfielder not at the moment rizik what number do you think sesco will be says reese i don't personally care get in the live chat would you prefer winning a double or a champions league spot i want the champions league for us uh hi mart i know what you said before we need to enjoy the deal with sesco but in your opinion who's the next player we get to come in well look the positive harry about getting this deal done today is we can move on to the next deal because there are still two deals most of us want, a goalkeeper and a striker.

51:02I've been told we're going for a striker next, then it'll be Lemens. But let's see because the order in which we've done things this summer isn't necessarily logical. So we'll have to wait and see. Caleb says, we absolutely won't have the funds for Belieber and a crazy goalkeeper, but I'd be over the moon with Hackney and Lemens. Glazers out. uh morning show in the studio you walk the plank okay this morning there says kazim yep if you don't know what this walking the plank thing is you need to check out at goldbridge mark on instagram we now need to get on with getting rasmus off the books as simply read hi mark didn't we have spent in installments for kunyan and burma with sesko aspen will he be 108 leaving behind good dollars left for midfield and goalkeeper ananta i don't want to be uh the prophet of doom here but you're making up the story to suit your agenda you can't just go we're buying sesco we're buying kunyarin and burma on installments but we're paying for sesco up front so we've spent that that's not how it works um we also have got to pay if you if you if you start the installments argument then you've got to use the installments for other players like agate and rasmus and anana that we and mount that we're playing this summer as well so you you're never going to figure out what we've got you're never going to figure out what we've got the reality is we could spend more we don't know how much more but we can still spend more sesko was my third choice after jokeres and ozaman he's young enough to develop into a top tier striker that was from anders right okay let me just recap here because there are uh lots of things going on as you know um effectively the big headline is the one that i mean i'm happy about it but i suppose if you're always calm then you know um it was um it wasn't a surprise i think there was some of you that genuinely did fear newcastle shame on you um even newcastle fans don't fear that fear themselves in a transfer market so i think that yeah look what we've had is the verification of what always made sense uh the story for me was when david ornstein said that we wanted sesco a week ago that meant sesco had said he wanted man united that's just how it works when a journalist like that is publicly putting out that we're all in for one player we don't do that unless we know the player wants us and as fabrizio has confirmed in the last few hours that is the case he's only ever given priority to us so it's now about here we go deal done i expect that on the pace of the story to be in the next few hours, maybe before the two o 'clock show.

53:37Certainly by eight o 'clock tonight, I expect us to have done a here we go. I think we're moving into that point now where I wouldn't say it's tiresome, but it's about how quick we can do it now. I want the here we go and I want him holding up the shirt because the quicker that happens, the more chance he's going to be involved in the first game of the season, which is going to help us. Like, you know, if you think about Arsenal, Fulham, Burnley, having another striker enhances our chances of that um he is training individually again uh sesco this morning so i mean that's just a clear sign that that's not a punishment by the way the relationship with leipzig and sesco is fantastic so he's not training individually because of um punishment he's training individually so he doesn't get injured uh you know some clubs will do that it's about protecting your assets so there's absolutely no you train on your own because you've been bad he's training on his own to maintain his fitness and to protect him because they know he's about to move so that's all you know just uh part of the process uh darwin nunez is off to el halal apparently there we go um and did he's gone to bazictas

55:11oh i have to talk about this scott mctominy's been nominated for the ballon door what are your thoughts on that well he's gonna win it so that's the first thing but But what I would say is that, is that not what the Ballon d 'Or should be all about? It shouldn't always be Messi or Ronaldo or Haaland or Rodri or Vinicius Junior or Mbappe. When you look at the season he had in the Italian league, winning the league in his debut season, he deserves it. So I think that's a good thing. The question people will ask, and Robert McCormack will jump in on this, is should we have sold Scott McTominay? And to be honest with you, Eric Ten Hag never wanted to.

55:58So I always find the Scott McTominay story just very irrelevant because would he work in the system we have? Better, yes, because he's a number 10 and we play two number 10s. would i rather have kunya and embermo yes so he'd be on the bench for me anyway um should we have sold him well amrin wasn't the manager ten hog was and ten hog didn't want to sell him it was very very very public that he didn't um mctominy from what i remember wanted to go and inios were happy to take the money because he was homegrown so So, I mean, yeah, you can say we shouldn't have done it, but ultimately we probably should.

56:48And he made the right move. Look at that. He was never going to be a Ballon d 'Or nominator at Manchester United, was he? So I think people forget that. They never think about the player once. And I think McTominay made the right move for his career. So saying we shouldn't have sold him, maybe he would have said, I want to go anyway. um rob mcormack says i'd imagine he will win it more times than messy isaac ramsey thank you very much for your super chat who do you think will be our breakout player this season marks as reese breakout player probably leon maybe i don't know whether we'll have a breakout player this year um yeah i think it's very hard to envisage a breakout player

57:37because you're either going to be a new signing or i can't see it i can't see i mean dorgu yeah i mean i would i would say dorgu if we're going to class a new signing from last year as a development you know yeah i would do that but i mean a breakout player for me is somebody who comes from nowhere really do you think we haven't bought guys from sporting because of ten hog signing Ajax players and the media rubbish about it, says Lucas. No, I think that if anyone at United is saying we're not buying players from a manager's former club, that would be stupid, especially with the distinctive system we have.

58:12I think we would have bought Joachim Rez, but he's gone to Arsenal. I think we would have gone for a Nacho or Diamande, but we're not buying a centre back. We would have gone for Kenda, but he went to Chelsea. So no, I don't believe that. I think we've answered that there uh there are rumors that yulmlin has same issues as yokarez in terms of release clause agreed with during amram's regime something to watch out for in the future i think if you gave amram the choice between belieber and yulmlin he'd go for yulmlin but you know i don't think we're going to get anybody of that quality i mean i'd be over the moon with wharton belieber or yulmlin but i don't think we're going to get anybody of the quality of that even though we probably should and the reason for it is if you go and buy someone like that they go straight into the team.

58:54What do you do with Casemiro? What do you do with Agate? What do you do with Maynou? I mean, I'm still sat here going, I don't actually understand. I mean, I'm very happy he's going to do it, but I don't understand why Man United are negotiating a contract with Maynou for 150 grand a week. And I don't know why Maynou is willing to sign it because the way I look at it, I want him to sign it. I really do want him to sign it. And I want him to be in our team, but I can't find a place for him. I just don't know where he's going to fit into this team, you know, and that, you know, it's almost like we can't sell Maynou and we can't sell Maynou, but we can't get him in the team either.

59:30And that's a strange thing. And, you know, I would say about Agate as well, he's only been here a year. Where does he get in the team if we buy a striker? He doesn't. And then you're looking at an Ineos. And remember, Ineos wanted Agate and to sell McTominay. That was an Ineos thing. Now, whether the person who wanted that is still here is another thing, but that would be a hell of a bit. That would be a huge loss on a£60 million player 12 months later. So the midfield thing is complex. Let's get him on a plane now. Contract sign, shirt on, champers. Enjoy then. What's next? Let's go. Sesko says Andre.

1:00:13I like Rasmus. He looks more grown up, but Amrim must have made his mind up on him. The Sesco transfer shows his view that Rasmus ain't his guy, says Damien. Yes and no. Yes and no.

1:00:28I think Amrim does like Rasmus. I just think it might be more of a financial decision that I can't keep two. I think we should be keeping two, but I get the feeling we won't keep two. Crazy we pay 60 for Mount, but Chelsea pay 40 for Ganaccio, says Matt Thomas. I forgot about Ganacho, which is actually quite nice. And Anthony and Sancho. And the fact that they're not getting any headlines is great as well. Let them, you know, do whatever they're doing. Right. Thank you, everybody, for watching this morning. We are obviously going to be back at some point with Here We Go. And hopefully it's going to be very, very soon.

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