152: Baleba TERMS Agreed! Goalkeeper CONFIRMED!

0:28Hello everybody, good morning and welcome to the United Stands. You might want to go for six minutes time. But in those six minutes, I've also got some big stuff for you as well. So as we know, the situation with Belieber is progressing. If you didn't catch it last night, it can be your breaking news. But we've also got some other breaking news for you as well around a goalkeeper. Manchester United will 100 % be signing a goalkeeper in the next three weeks. We'll talk about that in more detail in a moment. But that is not really what we're waiting for at 9am. What we're going to start off with, though, is Beliba, because you may have seen this last night and we sort of touched on it a little bit towards the end of the 8pm show last night.

1:06But Fabrizio Romano, about nine o 'clock last night, confirming that Manchester United representatives are speaking with the agents of Carlos Beliba yesterday. They're talking to him about contract length, salary and terms, basically, to join Manchester United. Now, as we understand, there are no issues with this. There are no issues. They cannot put it out there publicly that it's terms agreed, but basically it's done on that side. Like that is not a problem. He's on£12 ,500 a week. The agent fees from Brighton to Manchester United won't be a problem and the wages will certainly not be a problem.

1:48And his desire to go from Brighton to Manchester United won't be a problem either. The big question is, how are Manchester United doing personal terms with Belieba when he is a Brighton player? It's literally something that used to get called tapping up. Like if Real Madrid were on the phone to Yoro this morning and we had a story that Real Madrid were talking to Yoro, agreeing personal terms, we would lose our shit. We would quite rightly lose our shit. And this is why when we're talking about Belieber and we're talking about Manchester United and you know what? We've been on the right side of the fence again.

2:26We're going to sign Belieber. And I know there are major journalists out there saying it's unrealistic and it's very difficult in this, that and the other. And I completely respect that. But follow the news. It's like Sesco and Ornstein. It's like Mbemo and Ornstein. It's like this story breaking two days ago. I knew straight away this is going to go somewhere. And we're literally talking to him yesterday. On Friday, people are talking about£100 million and it can't happen. We're in talks with Belieber's representatives yesterday. He misses a Brighton game with a knock. This is more advanced than people think.

3:05Officially, this is more advanced than people think. This is down the road. This is not speculation. This is down the road. And like, how are we doing this with Brighton knowing about it? Because honestly, and Brighton fans will attest to this, Brighton don't really care. Brighton are going, agree your personal terms, agree your wages. We will sell him. We will sell Belieber. That's not a problem. Like we're not here saying, leave our player alone. If you want to sort out personal terms, you go for it. But once you've done that, you knock on our door and that's when the real work starts. So we could be talking three weeks.

3:45We could be talking Man United walking away. We could be talking Brighton saying we want 150 million. But United are going down the road of let's get Belieber's side sorted so that he wants the Man United package and then that puts them in a stronger position with Brighton. Brighton don't necessarily believe that. Whether the player wants to go to Man United or not, they're okay. They want the fee that they're going to get. So this is moving really, really in the direction of Manchester United. Hugely in the direction of Manchester United. A lot of people were moaning last night. Rival fans moaning last night.

4:22Man United are tapping up Belieber. They shouldn't be talking to Belieber. They shouldn't be doing personal terms. We're only tapping them up if Brighton make a complaint. Brighton aren't going to make a complaint because Brighton are very much of the opinion that they are a selling club at the right price. So you can talk to our players. We can't, their stance is, we're not going to say, don't talk to our player because we will sell our players. Everybody knows that. But we'll be open with the player as well. Like they don't, Brighton are a well-run club. So they're not going to say to Belieba, you can't discuss terms with Manchester United.

4:54They're just going to say, Caicedo,£100 million. If Manchester United really want you, they'll pay you what you worth. Don't get moody with us if the deal doesn't happen. So sort out your personal terms, tell us you want to go to Man United and we will tell you that you can go to Man United, but they've got to pay the price. And we don't want any strikes and we don't want any moodiness or anything like that. And if you want to waste the year of your career being in the reserves, you can, but we will, we want the price. And that's where it's going to, that's going to be interesting. And it could happen like that.

5:23It could take weeks. And I wouldn't rule out another club coming into it as well, but it'd be interesting because when you look at Sesco, the Sesco deal obviously took very little time because we had, who was involved in that? Yeah, Newcastle. Newcastle were involved in that. So I think with this one, it'll be a very interesting story how it pans out. But look, it's happening. Manchester United are in talks with Belieber again. We're agreeing personal terms. Some are saying we've already agreed personal terms because his wages will not be a problem for Manchester United and the package with the agent won't be a problem at all.

5:59So it's at what point we start moving on towards Brighton. And I think that could be happening as soon as you, you know, as soon as you're like, really. So look, I think it's going to be very, very interesting to see how it works out. But I'm very encouraged by that. I think you will end up being a Manchester United player. I don't have any reservations about it at all. And it is huge news. And it is another big development and it is a very big step in the right direction for Manchester United. And as much as we talk about who will the plan B be and people talk about Adam Wharton and Jolnan and Edison, the way Man United are acting at the moment is that there isn't a plan B.

6:46Their plan A is Belieber and they believe that they can get that deal done. Now, I want to talk about somebody. There was a rumor that something was going to happen at 9am. I'm keeping abreast of that, by the way. But it's just dropped now, actually. OK, so this is coming in from Indy Kayla News again. Now, they're saying that Belieber wants out personal terms agreed. I mean, this is literally what I said five minutes ago. So obviously it just shows you that it's true. So personal terms agreed is literally what we were talking about 10 minutes ago. Carlos Beliba has made his intentions clear. He's verbally asked Brighton to let him move to Manchester United.

7:29And it gets even more interesting because Beliba's agent has given the thumbs up on his personal terms offer if Brighton agrees to let him go this summer. Brighton at the moment have not nudged from their 100 million valuation on the player. So this is really good. This is really good because this is what we've been speaking about for the last 10 minutes. So this is coming out as part of a 9am brief. Indy Kala News has just put it out in the last minute. Obviously, we've spent the last 10 minutes sort of talking about it, really. But effectively, Belieber's terms are agreed, which completely fits in with what we were talking about.

8:05Gives you a bit of verification if you don't believe it. That's the brief that's going out at nine o 'clock. As I said, we spent 10 minutes talking about this. Belieber terms agreed. Man United, as per Romano, talking to Belieber last night. He's on£12 ,500 a week. His agent knows this is going to be a big fee. that side of things are done. And if you're talking to Belibere, he wants to come to Manchester United. So this is this, I mean, we've not done this for a long time, but in effect, there are stages of a transfer that we've sort of lost this season, if we're being honest, but the stages of a transfer really are terms agreed with the player, deal done with the club.

8:43Here we go through Fabrizio or an Ornstein bomber, an official announcement by Manchester United. So there's four major stages. There is a few in between, But the big one is personal terms agreed with the player, which is basically what we've done. We've now got to work on the toughest part, which is deal done with Brighton. Then you get here we go. Then you get the official announcement a few days after. So the big thing now is going to be and lots of people saying they're a believer and you should be a believer because I don't know what it is about this community at the moment. But in the majority, we are getting it right.

9:16We are predicting it right. and as I said I think that Man United are using people like David Ornstein and Fabrizio Romano almost as agents they're not journalists they're agents for Manchester United I don't know whether they realize it they're probably quite happy with it because nobody grows more than off Manchester United as a journalist Fabrizio figured this out a long time ago so they are actually and it started last summer they are basically agents for Manchester United Man United sort of nurtured them last year by saying, we're not going to give the MEN anything. We're not going to give Athletic anything.

9:50You're going to be the people who get Man United transfer news and we're going to earn your trust. And last summer, it was Romano and Ornstein who got everything. And this summer, they're giving it them even earlier as part of the transfer process. So David, put it out there that Sesco is our number one target and that's who we want. Okay. And it ends up signing for Man United. Fabrizio, put it out there that we're in talks with Belieber about personal terms. And it goes out there. And it just builds the momentum. It builds the movement. It makes Brighton fans go, OK, this ain't looking good, bruv.

10:24It makes Man United fans go, shit, we've got a chance of doing this. Let's get excited. And this has been a tactic of Man United, especially over the last few weeks, that's worked really well. The big question now is, now that we've agreed personal terms with the player, let's see how long it's going to take to do a deal with Brighton. because I honestly can't predict that. I think it could take a few days. It could take a few weeks. You're talking about a club that has a rich tapestry of actual evidence where they can go, Kaiseido,£100 million, we believe he's as good as Kaiseido. And there's not a lot Man United can do about that.

11:06So I think you've got to go sort of like, can you throw a player in? Maybe a collier. Can you do a installment deal? We'll have to do that. Could we do an 80 plus 30 in add-ons? I think we will have some creativity. What I do not want to see, and I'll repeat this again, and I hope it doesn't happen. I want to see respect for Brighton. I think they're a fantastically well-run club in the industry. They're so respected. We do not want to piss Brighton off. I do not want to see a player going on strike. If we see Belaba going on strike, it just turns me off straight away. I don't want to see any of that.

11:45Cesco didn't go on strike. Kunja didn't go on strike. And Bermot didn't go on strike. It's all about that. It's all about the attitude. So this might take no time. It might take a few weeks. But I don't want to see strikes because Anthony went on strike and now he's basically on strike at Man United. I don't want to see that. Let's do it the right way and bring the right attitude players in. And I think that will happen. So how long is a piece of string? We've got to negotiate with Brighton now. And I think that's going to be the next stage. There is no other club involved at the moment. Would you risk another club getting involved to speed it up?

12:19Newcastle going for Sesco sped it up. No one else being in for Mberno slowed it down. So it could take three weeks. It could take three days. Let's wait and see. But very exciting. Terms agreed with Belieber. That's your breaking news this morning. We started about 10 minutes ago. It's just been verified about six minutes ago. So we're personal terms agreed with Belieber this morning. Smash a like on the video. And the good news doesn't stop there, because from our own source this morning, goalkeeper, and it's not as big as Belieber, I mean, I'm not pretending that it is, but goalkeeper, 100%, Man United sign a goalkeeper in the next three weeks.

12:59Now, for some, you'd go, no shit, Sherlock. But for others, you'd go, well, being this playing in goal, and Arna's coming back, would I be surprised if we didn't sign a goalkeeper? So that is good news. We are going to sign a goalkeeper in the next three weeks. The identity of that goalkeeper is a big secret. It might even be a big secret from Manchester United. They do have, they do have, they do have Lemens, who is very much a push the button and you can do it. But obviously he's probably not going to be the first team goalkeeper straight away. The feeling with Lemans is that if you bring him in, he has to have a period of adjustment and he hasn't had a pre-season.

13:45So Lemans could be, they do like Lemans and they can move for Lemans, but I think they want a goalkeeper that comes in straight away. There's been a gear change at Manchester United over the last four weeks where what they were looking to do in June isn't what they've been trying to do over the last four weeks. That's official. You know, United won't announce it, but that is true. What United were trying to do in June isn't what they've been doing over the last four weeks. There's been a gear change. And I think they've done that because of Liverpool and Arsenal and Chelsea. They've seen what Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal have done.

14:22And they've gone, we can't go on the slow-mo here. We've got to go fast. And it's changed what we've done. So Le Mendes would be seen as a bit of a slow bake, like he's a player for the future. Whereas a Martinez or even dare we dream Donnarumma would go straight into the team and make you better instantly. And I think United have figured out they need to be ready instantly. This Belieber deal wasn't even on the cards a month ago. You know how we were talking about we might have been waiting to the end of the window on purpose so that everyone spent their money? No. Man United weren't even looking at doing this a month ago.

14:57they've changed course they were looking at doing this in a year and they've moved it forward basically because they're looking at the Champions League and they know there's only one potential spot which is fifth so they want an outside chance of top four if somebody drops out but they desperately need fifth they've got to be in the Champions League next year and that's why we've suddenly gone Sesco Belieber and we want a first team goalkeeper so So the question will always be, we're making good signings. We're making good moves. Why have we left it so late in the window? It's not really tactical because the players miss out on the preseason and they're probably going to be more expensive, these players, at the end of the window.

15:40It's just the general deviation in the window towards we can't be as slow as we wanted to be. Well, we can't be as slow as we thought we were going to be in relation to building the future. We've got to build the future now because that's what the new That's the new world. Liverpool have just won the league. Amazing window. Arsenal finished second. Amazing window. Chelsea scraped into top four. Amazing window. Man City are going again. So Man United's plan of slowly, slowly build, build, build. They've completely spun and gone, we need to spend them. We've got to speculate to accumulate, really.

16:14So I feel that the goalkeeper will be significant. I feel that the goalkeeper will be a goalkeeper of first team quality. But I'm happy that we're actually going for a goalkeeper. So big, big news coming in. If you're tuning in late, Carlos Beliba personal terms agreed with Manchester United. That's the breaking news this morning. Not really a surprise in the sense that we could agree personal terms because his wages aren't that big and it's a Man United move from Brighton, but a huge move in the progression of this deal that some people were starting to feel couldn't happen because it was too expensive.

16:51It's definitely on the trajectory to deal done. The huge bit of work now is working with Brighton on a fee. And Brighton don't care about us doing personal terms with Belieber because the way they run their football club is people don't leave Brighton under a cloud because Brighton are very mature with how they work with their players. They will say to the agents and Belieber, by all means, we will sell you, but this is the price. We will respect you You can go and do your personal terms But if Man United don't hit the price You've got to respect us Stay here for another year And sign the contract And that's how Brighton works So we're at that stage one We're also going to sign a goalkeeper In the next three weeks Breaking news Third bit of news Load of shit Typical Sunday morning stuff Apparently Dominic Calvert-Lewin Wants to be our third striker Second striker behind Sesco Calvert-Lewin has parted ways with his agent According to The Sun because he wants to force a move to Manchester United.

17:48All I would say is let's not ruin it by buying Calvert-Lewin. He's shit. He's injury prone. I don't want him anywhere near Man United. We're moving in the right direction and this is the wrong direction. Don't go anywhere near him. If we're going to let Rasmus go to bring Calvert-Lewin in as the support striker, what the hell are we doing? And on that, there's still talk of Rasmus and AC Milan. Has anybody actually thought that if you're an AC Milan fan, what are you waiting for? Like he doesn't want to go. He wants to stay at us. I mean, imagine if we wanted to sign, I don't know. Well, imagine if we wanted to sign Belieber, but he doesn't want to leave Brighton and Brighton are trying to sell him.

18:27It's been a weird one for AC Milan because Rasmus doesn't want to go to AC Milan. He wants to stay at Man United. So yeah, I don't want, if we're getting rid of Rasmus to bring Calvert-Lewin in, who's making that up? Who's behind that? It ain't Favell. Who's doing that? So no, let's not do that.

18:47Before you will claim it started, it started I'm a Belieber. I asked Mark if he was last week, says Peter. I'm a Belieber has been going on for weeks on this channel. I don't think anyone can claim that. Donnarumma spotted in Greggs in Manchester, says One Inch Wonder. How is a gentleman like yourself ever employed as a policeman? I hope all is good with the wife, kids and dog. God bless you all, Glazers out, says Gregory Burke. Hi Mark What do you rate the transfer market so far? Says Jacob I love Maybe a five I mean ultimately We've signed three players And we've sold nobody I think we're gradually I think we could hit an eight If we get a really top class goalkeeper We get Belieber in And we get rid of all the shit I think we could hit a seven or eight I mean you can mark it down Because of how late in the window it is But I think we've got an opportunity I love Belieber But we back to bribe players again says Bill.

19:45No, I mean, I mean, honestly, look, I think that I read an amazing thing that I sort of want to go through. I'll probably do it a little bit later, actually. But I saw an amazing tweet from Swedish Rumble this morning that is just so good as a message to the fan base. And I might do it about, you know, I've got to go and watch Seb play football now, but which was why not we're doing a 10 o 'clock show. But I might do it a little bit later. But it sort of breaks down what I was talking about last night about patience. If we get Belieber and we get this starting goalkeeper, people are going to start talking about top four and titles and stuff like that.

20:19You saw us yesterday. We've still got six or seven players that probably should have been sold that we can't sell, that aren't good enough. And Belieber, Sesko, Embermo, Cunha and a goalkeeper will be the future. And so is Dorgu and a couple of other players, but there's still huge problems in that team. You know, one summer's not going to solve problems of the last five years. we're going to have to be patient and effectively we can't be losing our shit if we're seventh at Christmas as long as we're in touching distance of fifth like this season for me is about fifth and as I said last night if you finish fifth Newcastle lost 12 games in fifth so there's going to be 12 disappointments maybe 10 disappointments for you are you going to lose your shit every single time that um that we do that so I think um I think that that's an important point definitely uh do you think the result of the arsenal game will determine whether we get believe a deal done i don't think it matters at all oliver i don't think the arsenal result matters at all i think we have a plan and we'll stick to it uh feel sorry for maynew in a way do you think he'll stick it out as a squad player i mean this is a good point from anthony maybury as well i think we'll have to wait and see what happens with that uh certainly um rooney will be better backup striker than calvert lewin says vicky i didn't get a notification notification for this says josh Yeah, apologies.

21:37I don't know what's going on with YouTube on that. But look, I'm sure a lot of you will be watching it not live because we're a bit early anyway, but we still hit 20 ,000 because that's what this channel does. Absolutely incredible stuff. I'm not on the 10 o 'clock show this morning because Seb's got a match at 10 o 'clock. So I will tell you how that goes. It's going to be a hot day in the UK today. But to be honest with you, I'd have had to go live at nine o 'clock anyway this morning because that is breaking news. Personal terms have been agreed with Carlos Beliba. absolutely nailed on verified and out there and it doesn't mean the deal's done it's just a step on the four-step system to him holding up the shirt personal terms agreed with the player deal done with Brighton here we go or Bomba and then official that's how it goes we're there we're 25 percent of the way there and what I find significant about that is that some people weren't Beliebers.

22:30Some people thought, this won't happen. It's too much money. Even The Athletic, that journalist last night was saying it's unrealistic because of the price. And it might still be. That's the big barrier now. You can agree personal terms with the player, but even Belieber can't say, sell me. He has to understand that we've got to hit a price. I'm interested to see what our price is going to be, because if we're walking in and trying to get a player and settled and get him to go on strike, that's not right. You don't do that. So we've got to go in there with a price that's fair for Brighton. And look, let me just repeat this.

23:06If you're Brighton, Man United have got to hit minimum 80. Minimum 80. Because we've just paid 65 for 25-year-old Embermo from Brighton. This is somebody that's only just 22 in the mould of a player, you know, we've got to pay at least 80. We've got to pay at least 80. Club wants to sell Rasmus. He doesn't want to go. Is that not a bad behaviour or is it only called out with some set of players as Rack City? I think you need to understand the circumstances of it, really. I don't think you understand the circumstances of it at all. Anana doesn't want to go, but there's no other goalkeeper at the moment.

23:48So why would he go? um Rasmus doesn't want to go because he wants to stay and prove himself under Amorim I think ultimately if Amorim says I don't want you I think Rasmus will go um you know these players are not on strike they're not Anthony they're not Ganacho they're not wearing Villa shirts they're not refusing to go to players when they've been told to go back in January um the full details of every story will come out um I wouldn't start stressing about it and trying to turn what is a very positive community into some sort of toxic thing because we're not like that. We have open and honest conversations.

24:22And I know it's toxic Sunday and your life's probably a bit shit, but we don't operate like that on here. So we have grown up conversations. The fullness of the story will come out in time on that one. There are still three weeks left of the window. The point is, I think Man United are trying to get certain players out for money, like we did with James Garner when there are other players that need to go first, like Ganacho. What is happening with Ganacho? What is happening with Anthony? What is happening with Sancho? But I think there will be other players who go. I think it's a great point about Maynou and like, you know, Maynou is going to sign 150 grand a week contract.

24:58We're going to put 150 grand a week player on the bench, I'll be. I mean, he's got great potential, but where does he fix in if you buy Belieber? There has to be sales. I completely agree. If you think Donnarumma and Belieber can only get as fifth what opposition what other positions need improved to get top four and who needs to go um james i mean look this is a bigger question it's probably for eight o 'clock tonight but for me i don't want to be disrespectful but it's logical you're saying if you buy good players you're going to finish in the top four but you're completely dismissing the adaption um of new players um the fact that we were bloody awful last season and we've still got players that we don't know whether we can trust you can't just put a bunch of players together with five new signings and say, well, that looks like it can finish in the top five.

25:41It's got to adapt. It's got to learn. And remember, if and when Belieber comes in, and I believe it's when, he comes into a Man United side that's already played three Premier League games. He's got to get used to people on the job. And you talk about, oh, we've got no European football so we can train in the week. Most of the Arsenal squad have been training together for three years. Same with Liverpool. Like you can't just say, well, they've had a month together so they should go and win the league. It's going to take time. There's going to be more players that need to come in. There's going to be more players that need to be sold.

26:12The one thing we can't buy in this fan base is patience, but it's probably the most important thing because it's the most logical thing in the world. It wouldn't matter if we bought the 11 best players in the world. We're not winning the league, in my opinion, because they've got to gel. And I think that's a great way of looking at it. You give Man United the 11 best players in the world in each position, I still don't think we're going to win the league because everyone's got to get used to each other. At some point, they'll win the league. depends on how quickly they adjust to the system and each other but look at PSG with Messi, Neymar and Mbappe they didn't win the Champions League three of the best players in the world because they couldn't fit football is not as simple as buy good players win the league it's about buying the right players with the right attitudes that work together in the right system with the right attitude with the right consistency and those things take time um so I don't care who we sign.

27:02We're not finishing in the top four, in my opinion. We've got to go for fifth. And then next year, you use that momentum to maybe go into the top three. And that's what we've got to look at a two or three year plan if we're going to start buying like this every summer. And I think we've always agreed that. I don't know why people are talking about top four from 15th, because we might buy five good players. I'm looking at top five, do it again next summer, top three, do it Again, the next summer after that, challenge for the title in 28. But you've got to buy like we're buying every single year.

27:34Brilliant show this morning. I could talk and talk, but we'll miss kickoff if we don't need to do that. Ashley says, why do we need to sell Rasmus? It's financial, I understand, but we've needed two strikers for so long. Well, it might be that we sell Rasmus and bring in Calvert-Lewin, which maybe we will still have another striker. Maybe we haven't realised that. Where can I find the Belieber news, says Kyle? you can just start the show again and listen to everything we've discussed and where it came from because it's all in here as normal. Make sure you subscribe, smash a like on the video. Fantastic show this morning.

28:04What a great way to start the day. Believer terms agreed. It was about 10 minutes into our show where it broke, but to be honest, we knew it anyway. Speak to you in a bit. Take care.