160: Amorim's BIG Transfer Message!

0:01I'm choking on a bit of toast. Hello everybody, good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge, it's the start of a new week and we're here to talk about Manchester United and transfer news. And also I want to digress a little bit about what happened yesterday as well. So welcome to the show on the United Stands, live every morning at 10 o 'clock.

0:285G. that is not acceptable this is really weird why do uh there we go um a bit of a bit of a bad start that but

0:44yeah oh hello i am live sorry about that so i was on i was on dialogue um we should be back now hello everybody welcome to the united stands i'm art goldbridge and this is your latest manchester united transfer news now i want to start off on the transfer news i want to talk about Ruben Amrim's big demand because I think it might be a little bit different to what you were going to think but we have got a lot to talk about in relation to yesterday as well I don't think we were unlucky I think there's some really interesting things to delve into in a positive sense as well as a potential negative sense as well I do want to talk about Maynou a little bit a little bit later in the show I want to talk about Mbema I want to talk about Punya but let's start off with Ruben Amrim's big transfer demand now look you look at that game yesterday and I think everybody is going to say goalkeeper and I still think you're wrong.

1:31I really, really do. I think the demand from Amorim came before this game, in the two weeks before it and on the US tour. He wants intensity and discipline in his midfield and he does not have it. I put a tweet out this morning of Bruno Fernandes' heat map. He covered more distance than anybody else apart from Dorgu in that game yesterday. You look at that heat map, check it out on at Mark Goldbridge on X. It's ridiculous for a midfielder. It's crazy. It's here, there and everywhere. It's all over the pitch. It's right back, left backs, left wing, right wing. He's bloody everywhere. Now, in a way, that's brilliant if you're playing a free role, but if you're going to play in the midfield too, you can't be here, there and everywhere.

2:17Amazing player if you play him as a number 10, but in the midfield too, if he's going to do that, you need somebody with legs who's going to cover him off. And Casemiro hasn't got the legs. He can't even play 90 minutes. Mane didn't get a minute and Agate wasn't good when he came on. So we can all talk about goalkeepers. And we'll talk about what Ruben Hamring had to say about that in a moment because it's quite concerning. But the big transfer message is get me a midfielder. That's the big thing because we do not have the discipline and we do not have the legs. Yesterday, that would not have stopped us winning the game.

2:49Against Aston Villa in the last game at Old Trafford of last season, it didn't stop us winning the game. What stopped us winning the game yesterday was Bionda, and we did beat Villa with Casemiro and Bruno in midfield. But across a 38-game season, you look at what Belaba did on Saturday, and you look at his heat map, it's down that right-hand side, and it's very central. You look at what Bruno did, it's bloody everywhere. So we still need that midfielder, which I want to come back to on who that could be in the next two weeks because I think that's the priority for Amorim. I don't think he's particularly bothered about the goalkeeper.

3:24If you listen to what he said after the game yesterday, if United would sign a new goalkeeper in this window, he said, it is hard to say what is going to happen, but I don't see that happening in an easy way. So Amorim talking about a goalkeeper saying, I don't think it's going to happen. It's not easy. That is incredible. And I've got to say, big shout out to all of you who've been saying it all summer. We've been talking about it since the March international break. We definitely do want a goalkeeper. You've got people like, you know, Gary Neville again after the game yesterday saying a goalkeeper is so important.

4:01So even the mainstream are, you know, jumping on this and saying it's an essential part of the game. But we weren't unlucky yesterday, by the way. Let's make it very, very clear. Behinder made some good distribution with his feet. Reuben Amrim after the game got very angry with the Manchester Evening News journalist and he hadn't even seen the stupid player rate. I mean, those player ratings, that guy should be sacked this morning. I mean, yeah, ridiculous. The worst player ratings I've ever seen. Tell me you want Amrim to get the sack without telling me you want Amarim to get the sack. I mean, Mason Mount a five, De Litt a six.

4:37It was abysmal. But it actually was Amarim having a go at that journalist because he was basically saying, why didn't you put Tomaheaton in goal? And Amarim basically lost it because ultimately you're saying, I got it wrong. I shouldn't be picking Diinder. And the reality is, Fabrizio has said this morning that Inanna feels that he wasn't dropped. He just wasn't fit. So he thinks he'll be back. in which case you go to your second goalkeeper don't you and look is Tom Heaton better than Binder I think there's a bit of a myth around that to be honest because Tom Heaton has never been a goalkeeper for Man United he's never been a top goalkeeper he's a top bloke he's a really popular guy in the dressing room but the Heaton stuff you put him in goal he costs you three goals and everyone goes why do we do that I think Heaton's just a convenient sort of well you know we should be better off with Tom Heaton when actually I don't think there's any evidence that we would.

5:30But the game yesterday was because of a goalkeeping error. That's not bad luck. That's bad planning. Piss-poor preparation leads to piss-poor performance. And that's what we did. We put the enduring goal and Raya was man of the match. So it just shows you we were better than Arsenal, but they defended better than us and they got to clean sheet. We didn't. We made a stupid error on a stupid goal that we knew would be a weakness at. And that's where the problem is. So we do need to bring a goalkeeper in, but basically Amrim saying probably not. And I think that's sort of in a transfer sense. I mean, I don't know when the transfer window closes, actually.

6:08I agree with you, Adi. He says Mount was one of our best players. Yor says we need a goalkeeper now. I think the transfer window closes, is it two weeks today? We're two weeks today, 12, 13 days left of August. And I think it closes on September 1st. So I think it closes two weeks today. on a Monday. I think that's when it closes, September the 1st. But I mean, it's basically two weeks. It's two weeks to get players in. And I think Amrum's correct. I don't think you get two players in in two weeks. I think that who knows what Manchester United are going to do, but God, we need to do something.

6:45And I sort of like, I want to, I think I'm very positive about what we did yesterday. And I think we need to hold on to that. But I also think we need to, we can't just sit here and go, oh, we don't need to do a lot, you know, because we're still Manchester United and we're still lost to Arsenal. And I think that everything I said yesterday still stands, but, and all the positive stuff still stands. And can I just say, if you want a positive soundbite, Mbermo and Cunha, the upgrade on Rashford, Ganacho, Anthony and Sancho is levels. It's a bloody skyscraper it's like grounds one to ground 30 it's just an even after 90 minutes it's an unbelievable upgrade in footballing iq you know how suitable they are to modern football how they're going to take us to a different level and burmo and kunya are just on a whole new level to watching rashford ganapcho sancho anthony get their head downs run into traffic or shoot from distance they are incredible upgrades and we are going to be better for it and if you look at United especially over the last two years in the final third it's lackluster it's disappointing it's futile it's you know hard to watch you look at Kunia with the ball at his feet he's unpredictable but he but he understands what he's doing he knows what he's doing the defense don't and things happen and Burmo a little bit more direct but very effective those two players are huge upgrades and you can see that 90 minutes yesterday that we're going to be a better team for those two players in our in our team and we've not even seen what Shesko can do yet so I genuinely do think if you put Xerxi or Rasmus or Obi up front behind those in front of those two they're going to find it a lot easier than they did last season so that to me is a huge huge positive and that will stay the same no matter what happens but against Arsenal where was the clear-cut chance where was the clear-cut chance really so I think that we need to get more ball into Embermo and Cunha and you get more ball into Embermo and Cunha by controlling the midfield and that is something we're going to need to do and then in the tight games like that you need a goalkeeper that you can rely on so if I'm Manchester United and I'm Sir Jim Radcliffe and I'm Joel Glazer and I'm in charge of the football club i'm looking at it this morning and i'm saying hello we need to look at this and go what can we do in the next two weeks to guarantee champions league football and i think it's very hard to predict champions league football after 90 minutes but i would be looking at two glaring glaring obviously um areas of the pitch that we need to improve on that they could improve us on and you know what when i look at the goalkeeper before we talk about what midfielders we might go for.

9:35When I look at the goalkeeper, there was a great comment on the watch along yesterday. I mean, record numbers on the watch along yesterday. Again, absolutely brilliant. Get involved with the United Stand. What a community. But somebody on the watch along yesterday said, it's not even that we need Donnarumma or Emi Martinez. We do, but we'd have a massive upgrade with Jordan Pickford in goal. And I thought, you know what? That's how bad we are in goal. People want Donnarumma. They want Emi Martinez. They want Le Mens. But the bottom line is our goalkeeping is so shit that we literally would be a better team if you put, I mean, Nick Pope.

10:11Only place for Newcastle, to be fair. That would be an improvement. I'm trying to think of goalkeepers lower down the league. What's the Forest goalkeeper's name? Definitely would be better than what we've got. Everton Pickford, don't even rate him. He'd be better than what we've got. Dean Henderson, 100 % would be better than what we've got. So, you know, Bernd Leno at Fulham, better than what we've got. And that's the problem with the goalkeeper. We're going into a season where Jordan Pickford would be our best goalkeeper and we're going into a season without doing anything about it. That is criminal.

10:40That is absolutely criminal. And I tell you what, the positive side to this is that you're talking about it and that's always the best thing because you're the lifeblood of the fan base. But Gary Nebbels talking about it. Roy Keane's talking about it. They're on the mainstream, you know, for whatever reason, Sir Jim and that lot will be more interested in what they've got to say than actual fans. So I think it's a massive area that Man United have to improve on. Surely we have to improve on, but it is worrying when effectively Ribbon Amrim is saying it's difficult to do. And what David Ornstein has said on transfers, by the way, let me just read you this because it's a very important thing to say.

11:20Direct quote from David Ornstein on what's left for Man United this summer transfer window so this is an orny drop manchester united are not planning to proceed with the labor largely because he's not for sale the price would be too high even if they were to consider his sale this summer it doesn't mean united's interest would go away in the future i mean yet again you ask the question why was this particular journalist briefed two weeks ago to put it out there that we were going for the labor and then two weeks later on the pitch old Trafford, he's saying, no, United aren't going to go for him because he's not for sale and the price would be too high.

11:57What were we doing for two weeks telling the world we want Balaba, telling Balaba we want to sign him in talks with him? And we're putting it out there through David Ornstein that we're doing all of that. And two weeks later, David Ornstein say, United aren't doing it because he's not for sale and he's too expensive. I mean, the person who said spin, I'm starting to think, well, there's no other logical explanation why we did that. anyway they have been linked this is David Ornstein United have been linked to Jumland and Adam Wharton I'm not sure those are likely to come to fruition they want to get players out of here Inanna is an interesting situation they would be looking for a keeper but there's no sign of Inanna going Gannaccio good chance he goes to Chelsea Sancho Roma in talks but he hasn't decided also Rasmus could be going and Molassia as well so that is hot off the press David Ornstein basically saying the label was a big waste of time goalkeeper not likely because anana is not going to go and doesn't really think that yunlan or wharton will come to fruition that's not the best update when you've just played arson and lost a game you could have won if you had those two players in and that's where we are this morning isn't it do you want to sit there and take the positives like i do or do you want to take the reality as well that the reason we didn't win yesterday is because our board hasn't done what needed to be done.

13:20And that's basically the positive I'm taking, is that we should have beat one of the best teams in the world yesterday. We should have beat one of the favorites to win the league yesterday. And we didn't because we didn't do the business that they did. We didn't do the business that other clubs have did. We decided to go into the season with a glaringly obvious mistake and look what happened. It's like being on holiday in Australia, here, right? And you've got a big cut on your knee. And somebody says, don't go swimming in the sea. There's sharks in there and they love blood. And you go, don't worry about it.

13:52I am going to go swimming. And then somebody says, don't do it. It's a major issue. Why don't you use these plasters, clean it up and put a big plaster on and then you'll be fine. It's fine. And guess what? I'm going to swim really deep. And then you never get seen again because you get eaten. Who's fault is that? And that's the way I look at my, you know, yesterday, we sort of swam out into the ocean with a big gaping wound and we swam towards this bloody big fin and now you know you know you get eaten you get beat and that's what happened so I'm very much confused is the word I think we're going to have a good season I think those of us that are behind the manager and behind the team I think we're going to have a good season I stand by what I said before the game that for me the season doesn't really get going until about 10 games in and it's about being in touch with fifth.

14:44But beyond that, I still think the weaknesses are going to be there. And it's whether you can get fifth place without a midfielder and without a goalkeeper. And that's going to be the big question. And there was talk last night about Wharton and there was talk yesterday about Yulmland. But in relation to what David Ornstein's saying is that he's not sure that's going to come to fruition. And there is only two weeks left of the window. And I'll tell you this, this is pure opinion. This is not Ben Jacobs. It's not Romano. It's not David Ornstein. This is Mark Goldbridge saying to this, in my experience of transfers, which goes back many years and even over the last 10 years of the United, in my experience, we don't do deals like Ullman from Sporting or Wharton from Palace in two weeks.

15:30We just don't. We don't do that because it's not a two-week deal. Not unless the only way those deals happen is if you walk into those clubs and you make an offer they can't refuse. and when do we do that if we're going to negotiate we're going to run out of time because you've got to do two weeks is not long enough for man united not when you do a deal in two weeks you've basically got to give the club what they want that's why we got casemiro that's why we got anthony we looked at anthony in june and we didn't want to negotiate we went back for anthony in the last two weeks of august and we paid 80 million quid and that's why ajax did it and that's what happened really quick.

16:09So I don't think we can do those deals unless we're going to pay big money. And are we going to pay big money? I don't know. I really don't. But you know what? I think that what I will say is that what we saw yesterday is that, as I've already said, Kunjan and Bermot and the upgrade, I also thought the intensity was really good. I also thought the mentality was really good. When we went 1-0 down, the heads didn't drop. And a lot of those players are heads droppers. Luke Shaw played in the 7-0. Bruno played in the 7-0 a lot of these players played last season in the bad results so the mentality was a lot better and the intensity when you think about one game a week the intensity should be able to I mean look in short I'm looking at Fulham next week and I'm slightly concerned but very excited because I'm like I've seen Man United so many times I mean I always use this example because it's the best example you're 2-0 down at the Etihad and Man City are going to win the league.

17:08You come out of second half, you beat them 3-2 and you blow them away. Pogba inspired, brilliant performance. The following week, you're at Old Trafford against West Bram who are going to get relegated and you lose 1-0. That's what terrifies me about Man United. Inconsistency. So next week against Fulham, I want to see that performance and I want to see a 3-1 win. What worries me is that we don't replicate it. We play absolutely shit and we draw 1-1. So I think that's the challenge for United next week is to take what we saw yesterday, bring that intensity, bring that mentality and beat them and be better than we were against Arsenal and not make the mistakes at the back.

17:48And that's the exciting and challenging thing. And I think it's just this is why I'm glad football's back, because there's just so many things that we can talk about now. But we have to solve the transfers in two weeks time. the transfer window's shut and I'm probably starting the show talking about Bruno needs to be more disciplined is everywhere and nowhere but honestly we have got time and we should be utilizing that time and it's scary to me that we've got people in charge who are going to walk on thin ice when they could you know just bungee jump over not bungee jump just swing over it and get to the other side and that to me is a midfielder and a goalkeeper so um what do you think is going to happen i mean i genuinely look i assure you the same as me and obviously doing these shows especially a new show you do a lot of research for the hour or two before i'm looking around and apart from the speculative people who don't know anything the people who do know things aren't saying anything david ornstein saying wharton and yulman are very difficult to do fabrizio saying we don't know yet what man united are going to do um and a goalkeeper you've got amarin saying and everybody's saying if an honor doesn't go they won't get a goalkeeper so look we're back where we've always been whether you like it or not the reason we're not getting a goalkeeper is because an honor and behinder won't go so you end up with behindering goal making a mistake and then an honor comes back and he makes mistakes united for whatever reason have spent 200 million pounds but have backed themselves into a corner where one of the most important players on the pitch we can't improve on and when you look at the game yesterday i was talking to robbie about this on dr sports this morning when we were doing the premier league review he said i saw your video last night on that sport ball saying man united uh arsenal were unlucky so Arsenal were lucky and I said to him were you worth and he and I went but before you go off on one listening to what I said on the video Arsenal were lucky you were lucky you played a team that wasn't ready for the start of the season and he said what do you mean I said you're ready you've got a very good team Zubimendi's been there for weeks Jokeres has been there longer than Seshko and you were ready to go we you played a Man United side that hasn't got a goalkeeper and hasn't got a midfielder.

20:14And why did you win the game? Because of the goalkeeper. So that's what I mean. You were lucky. If you had played Spurs, they would have been more ready. I don't think you'd have beat them. If you'd played, if he'd played bloody Crystal Palace, I don't think you'd have beat them. But you played a team that wasn't ready for the start of the season and the goalkeeper cost us the game. And that's why you were lucky. The performance itself, look, our weakness cost as the result. As for the penalty on Saliba on Kunia, probably was. But for everybody moaning about that, it's 2025. If you're moaning about bad VAR in 2025, well, I've been moaning about it for five years and nothing changes.

20:53So I'm not going to sit here going, it's a disgrace. VAR's a disgrace. We all know it's a bloody disgrace. It's inconsistent. It's a joke. You know, look at the Bournemouth player should have been sent off on Friday. Should Crystal Palace have had a goal yesterday as well. Newcastle should have had a penalty against Villa in the first 10 minutes as well. I ain't going to sit here saying we're unlucky because of VAR. That's what VAR is, inconsistently crap. It's not bad luck. It's just crap. Sometimes you get them, sometimes you don't. But we weren't unlucky yesterday. We went into that season with our eyes wide open.

21:27Every one of you for months has been saying we need a goalkeeper. And the people in charge at Man United decided we don't and we lost the game because of it. So we weren't unlucky. We went in with what we went in with and the weakness got exposed. You're only as strong as your weakest link and our weakest link cost us the game. So that's what happened yesterday. But there are positives. There are positives. And I would expect if United can find anything like consistency, then we should be able to steamroll quite a lot of teams in this league, which we didn't do last year. Onto the midfield. let me just go through some of the topical stuff so this is what fabrizio is saying manchester united have not yet decided on the midfielder the club is aware of hump youngland's situation it was open to join him then but no talks as of yet as i said uh ruben amram saying uh he doesn't see a goalkeeper happening in happening in an easy way um fabrizio talking about a goalkeeper says the feeling among those close to anana is that amram made the decision because he's returning from injury.

22:29Anana accepts the decision and does not think it is related to his future. Lemans could be a possibility if Man United decides to invest in a goalkeeper. He is one they like and have been monitoring for some time. I got told after Szczesko, which was what, two weeks ago, we would go for Lemans. But then the story came out about a Labour. So I don't know what is going to happen, but I think Lemans might be as good as it gets. What I am hoping for, and I still don't know if Martinez is back for Villa on Saturday. But I'm hoping that if he is back for Villa on Saturday, he doesn't get picked and that sparks a big fallout that Man United might be able to do something with.

23:11It's a conspiracy theory, but if we can end up with a goalkeeper, it would be a huge help. Do you think Balaba is still a possibility? I think Balaba, I mean, look, I don't know about you, just talking about the midfield for a moment. I think Balaba is the loser in this. And I don't want to offend Brighton, but I think he, I don't, to this day, I don't understand what Man United were doing. I'll publicly talk to Balaba. David were publicly wanting him. And then two weeks later, he wasn't for staying and we couldn't afford him anyway. I think Balaba is the big loser in this because he got subbed off for Brighton at the weekend.

23:48I don't know why. But he is in talks with Man United. he's got an opportunity to come to man united i would imagine he's quite pissed off i would imagine he's very pissed off that he hasn't had to got that move but if i was pissed off with anyone i'd be pissed off with united really because i don't really understand what our gameplay was my point is somebody in the chat said do you think the labor could still happen logically he it should um logically we should be able to still go in and do that deal he is Amrim's, and if you're tuning in late, Amrim's big transfer message is not about a goalkeeper.

24:24He defended Biender, and I'll tell you about that in a moment. But Amrim's big transfer message is, get me a midfielder. He said it three weeks ago. We went for Belaber. He wants a midfielder. That's the big message. It's whether Man United can deliver one. And really, it should be Belaber because that's his plan A, and that's the player that he thinks can transform United. and I will sit here and say this and I'm sure you will all agree with me if we end up finishing eighth and our midfield is shit all season I will say hold on a minute he wanted Balaba they had talked with him and then they walked away so they didn't get him the player that he wanted whose problem is that you know so do I think we could go for him in the next couple of weeks you never say never you never say never but it doesn't sound great um in relation to Wharton had a very good game for Palace yesterday different type of midfielder but as I said check out my Twitter check out the heat map of Bruno I said Bruno's heat map is crazy and a lot of people thought I was being positive in a way I was because he's you know his energy and intensity is amazing and his stamina is amazing but it's scary it's really scary in fact if I just get it up on my screen let me have a look at it again I don't like because I don't want to lie I want to know what it is so bruno's heat map right okay you look at mark goldbridge now considering bruno was playing as a man you wouldn't know hang it in the louvre like you would not know what position bruno is when you look at his heat map i mean he's all the way down the left wing to the point of the corner flag in both areas he's in center back positions left and right quite a bit his biggest heat areas are probably the right side of number 10 position.

26:14He's more on the right-hand side of the midfield, extreme than the left, and then he's in the centre as well. It is a crazy heat map for a midfield two midfielder. He's everywhere. And obviously, we made substitutions late in the game, so that probably... But it's a free, basically it's a free roll. It's a free roll. That's what he's doing. He's doing a free roll. And I think that if you're going to do that, you definitely need somebody next to him who's more disciplined. Casemiro can't play long enough. So what did Amarim say about Bionda? I'm going to get into some of your comments very quickly.

27:03What did he say about Bionda? Basically just said that he's to cover him. He defended him because he said that, you know, he played very well last season against Arsenal. I want to see Amorim defending his players. That's not, his job is not to join the United stand or sit next to Gary Neville and slag off his own players. That's our job to do that. And we're not slagging them off. We're just saying that they're weak. And weaknesses cost you goals and weaknesses cost you points. And points mean that you don't finish where Man United should be. So I wouldn't expect Amorim to do anything else other than do that.

27:35um he made an interesting comment um i mean just on outgoings i mean the outgoings has been an absolute disaster nobody has been sold and it's august the 18th i i i dread to think what would happen if i could tell the future and at the and after the europa league final if i said wait a minute this is fact it's not speculation on august the 18th we still won't have sold anybody i think people would be going crazy if after that urepa league final when we've lost the spurs if i'd said we won't have sold anybody by august the 18th you'd be going what well here we are august the 18th we haven't sold anybody um ganacho will probably go at some point but chelsea are trying to push the price down anthony will go at some point but he wants to go on loan to bettis because they don't want to pay for him and sancho will go at some point but it will probably be for a loan so you know malasio will probably go as well what he did say and this was about rasmus uh amrim after the game he said uh limited playing time for hoyland if everyone is fit at united if you don't do what's required a teammate will take your place i've made a lot of mistakes but i've shown that if you deserve it you play so i still think they're trying to push players out but as i said i think we're going to get to the james garner situation very soon where we start selling players we don't really want to sell because we can get money for them and and that's the scary thing is that you know who could who else could be going that you don't really want to go just because to just because we need to get some money in um some people think that we can't afford to do any business at the moment which again would defy logic why we started talking to a hundred million pound player but i mean yeah i don't know what's going to happen on sales there is a story about sancho i'm almost then Varga-ing it and banning it.

29:22This is the waste of time to mention him, I really do think. But I think, look, in relation to Maynou, I do want to just say, in relation to Maynou, a lot of people were talking about Maynou yesterday. I think Maynou is an absolute irrelevance in the sense that I would have started him yesterday, but I'm not the manager. I would have brought Maynou on yesterday, but I'm not the manager. But this is what we mean. Playing one game a week, because we're not in Europe, is a fact. Playing one game a week means that in some seven-day period, you'll only play 90 minutes. And when you're 1-0 down to Arsenal, you're not 4-0 up against Burnley and you can give Maynou 20 minutes.

30:03Like, he has to go with what he wants to do. I would have started Maynou instead of Casemiro. I would have brought Maynou on instead of Agathe. But I'm not the manager. And the thing is, if you do start Maynou, Agathe doesn't get a minute or Casemiro doesn't get a minute. Somebody is going to be in a situation this season where they don't get many minutes. Xerxes didn't get off the bench, did he? When Masraoui's back, one of the centre-backs is not going to get any minutes. Ahmad was on the bench. So we have got a very big squad. Whether it's deep in quality or not, we've got a very big squad and some of these players are not going to get minutes.

30:42Rasmus wasn't even on the bench. We've still got Lissandro Martinez to come back. Leon wasn't on the bench. You know, we have got a lot of players that are not going to get minutes. In a way, it's a positive. We played well yesterday. Mane didn't get on the bench, didn't get on the pitch. Rasmus is still here and he's a striker and he didn't get on the bench. Martinez is still injured. Leon didn't get on the bench. There is a, you know, in a way I flip it as a positive. You can't get everybody on pitch and the manager will make mistakes. But the positive is, because I'm terrified of injuries at this football club over the last two years.

31:16So the positive for me is people see it as a negative that Mane didn't get on the pitch. I'd be quite happy to keep this squad and add a goalkeeper and a midfielder to it because we want to be intense. And to be intense, you've got to run a lot. And to run a lot, you've got to want to run a lot. And to want to run a lot, you've got to feel jeopardy. And to feel jeopardy, you've got to have a squad. And to have a squad, you've got to have people who don't even make the bench. and when I look at United yesterday, there's people that I think want to be in the first team who can't even get on the bench and there's people on the bench who can't get minutes in the first team.

31:50So I don't see the main new thing as a negative because he's about to sign a new contract. I think there's a long season ahead of us and we might pick up injuries, but I want to see that intensity every single game and to get that intensity, we will remove the inconsistency and to get that intensity, you need players to run and you look at Mason Mount yesterday and he must have been looking at it over the summer going, where am I going to play? Ahmad's a starter and Bermot and Kunja have just cost£130 million. Where am I going to get into this team? And what you've seen from Mount is when the minutes he's been given, he's playing the best football he's ever played at Man United.

32:28I don't see him as a Chelsea player anymore because I'm actually seeing him in a Man United shirt and I know some people thought he was shit yesterday. What I thought about Mason Mount that impressed me yesterday was that he was a player playing out of position who put a shift in. And I think Mason Mount's a very valuable player to have at Manchester United if he can stay fit. But he's playing like that because he's got jeopardy. He knows he's not starting every week. And that's what we need to do. So I think that those people moaning about Manu, I agree. I wanted him to start. I wanted him to play.

33:04but at the end of the day to get in that team he's got to be better and i'm sure he will get in the team when he does get in the team he's got to grab his opportunity so intensity will only come from having a bigger squad so i don't see it as a massive problem as long as we don't think let's cash in and i'm hoping in the last two weeks we don't do anything stupid like that to get some money in because we can't get rid of the players that we want to get rid of um but it's a crucial next couple of weeks for manchester united and i suppose the big concern i would have this morning is are we actually going to do anything um Hitton says system more important than individuality this season you know what I did enjoy this morning Hitton um what I really enjoyed is that um looking around at all the analysis last night whether it be match the day or whatever nobody was doing what they normally do about the system won't work in the Premier League You can't play with three centre-backs in the Premier League.

34:02The system won't work. But what we didn't see was anybody going, I'm sorry, I got it wrong. This system can work in the Premier League because nobody wants to talk about Amrim's system when it swallows teams up like that and spits them out. But they want to talk about it when you're getting run through and losing games last year. And the reality is I've got a huge amount of respect for Arsenal. I think Jokeres will be a success. I think they've got a brilliant team and they've got a strong bench and they could go and win the title. and winning games like that when you're playing not as well as you should is how you win titles.

34:33But nobody, and I've spoke to loads of Arsenal fans today, no Arsenal fan can say that they were the best team. Statistically, they weren't. We were better than them. They're very happy with the result. Some of them are bantering us. That's fine. But our system dominated our tattoo yesterday. Possession, the lot. That's a system thing. So it's amazing, isn't it, how all these pundits can rip the system apart, but when it dominates one of the best teams in England, none of them want to say, oh, I'm sorry, I got that wrong. Anyone who wasn't impressed with Mounds is a hater, says Robert McCormack.

35:07System more important than individuality this season, says Hitten. If we have the loot for a keeper, do it and honor out, says Rico. Our golden boot winner might return rumours, nor wait, says Frederick. Mark, did you see the Sunderland goalkeeper's performance? Our keeper needs to watch that, says D. I mean, the reality is, I don't know whether there's a worse starting goalkeeper in the Premier League than what we've got. we played two in the league and dominated the game yet the agenda towards bruno yesterday was crazy says ryan no no no ryan i mean i'm happy to have a bruno conversation because i think the way i come at it is probably the way most people feel and i keep saying this i'd have sold him to saudy for 100 million pounds because i don't like him in the midfield bruno as a number 10 i start him every week but amram doesn't want to do it bruno should be a number 10 that's his position i'm old enough to remember Ryan Giggs playing in midfield and I'm old enough to remember Rooney playing in the midfield and I always said the same thing about Rooney not a midfielder he's not a midfielder he's one of the best attacking attackers the Premier League's ever had he's not a midfielder and it didn't work in the midfield and with Bruno as a number 10 he's one of the best number 10s in Europe but as a number eight it doesn't work in my opinion we can still get results it has to work but I don't like it it can work it worked against Villa and it worked yesterday but I think there are deficiencies with it I think there is a lack of discipline with it I think Odegaard picked the ball up behind him multiple times yesterday and was a bit wasteful with it I don't know whether you noticed that Odegaard purposely was moving behind Bruno to pick up the ball because he knows Bruno is weak in that defensive area.

36:46So I don't think people understand it. I really do. I really do like Bruno. He's my favorite player. It has been for years when he's a number 10. But if I said to you, we're going to play Shefskow as a center back, people wouldn't like it. Now, that's an extremity, but it's the example. Like Bruno is a 10. Love him. Bruno is an 8. look at his heat map it's not that of a number eight martinez is back on saturdays is ron mccormack for emmy martinez yeah not not lissandro yeah well that'd be interesting whether he starts then i think united's business is done now says john this is the concern with two weeks left and no talks happening that's not much time for a negotiation team says john pete jones says do you think anyone at united watches this like the higher-ups the world knows we need a goalkeeper apart from them uh i don't know mate but like they'll know that everybody thinks we need a goalkeeper your high nightstand army sorry if you know you know have to get a goalkeeper and cm says alexander sean turnus is anyone else worried about amad and imbermo on the same side dorgi plays wing back perfect amad runs into imbermo spaces sean amad's learning a new position i'm a massive fan of amad um i understand i understood why we didn't start him yesterday in fact i'm Loving the fact that we're talking transfers and we're talking football.

38:06Football is my favorite thing to talk. So, you know, let's do it. I think with Ahmad yesterday, there was one moment in the game I hated where he cut inside, beat his man and shot. And you've got Sesko in the box, Kunja in the box. He can put a cross in on his left foot and he shoots. I don't like that. Ahmad was part of the culture of that. And we need to stop that. If he's going to play right wing back, he can't put a natural cross in. He's got to come onto his left foot. I don't like that. I think as a wingback, I want a natural cross. He can't do anything about that. But he is also learning a new position too.

38:41And I think that there needs to be some patience with that. He's also playing with a new player. I think we'll see Ahmad against Fulham at right wingback. And that really excites me because I want to see that. I want to see Ahmad playing at right wingback as much as possible. I hated seeing him on the bench yesterday. I think Ahmad, for me, it's a bit like benching Cole Palmer. And I'm not saying Ahmad's as good as Cole Palmer, but it's like benching Saka. it's like Ben Keane's benching Salah I think Ahmad for me is a player that should be on the team sheet I understood it yesterday it's early days in that position and hopefully we'll get to a point that when we play Arsenal at the Etihad at the Emirates that he will play put a picture of Gnaccio on the ball in training to teach our goalkeepers to punch crosses says one inch wonder Vitek should play and Arna and Binder out it's corrosive I think Vitek's gone on loan there hasn't he Marlo FC says City get Rinders from Milan 30 million and he looks like prime De Bruyne are in his debut i don't understand what our scouts are doing you don't need scouts to get the players we are getting says marlow we need a goalkeeper and a defensive midfielder says martin will don a rumor sit around with no football for a year or will he improperly been frozen out psg lowering wage demands going to city mate going to city edison's gonna leave and he's going to city that's that's nailed on finally thanks to that one inch wonder most clubs second keeper is better than our number wants as pete phillips we cannot go for a young keeper we need experience as sean i'm just hoping i'm hoping my conspiracy theory of a late late sweep for emmy martinez will happen i just have a feeling it will i just have a feeling it will like the way amram dealt with the questions from prathurst amram doing eye roll on another question i think they're going to turn on amram says shawn the press will come for Amarin.

40:22It's their only angle. The media and the mainstream can't do patience. They want extremities. They want success or failure. They can't sell patience. It doesn't work for them because they're not fans. We can sell patience because we can be constructive. We can be positive. We can be nuanced. The media can't. They're like the bloody Sith in Star Wars. They have to deal in absolutes. That's what the media does. That's why it's so shit there has to be you know you either build somebody up or you knock them down especially the uk press they cannot do nuance they cannot do patience we must do nuance and we must do patience we must be able to watch a game like yesterday and go these were the positives but we lost this is what we need to improve to win they can't do that hi mark i am writing waiting for our next game i never had this feeling in the last two years we must get midfield and goalkeeper but unlucky we lost as Rovett.

41:18I don't think we were unlucky. Don't think we were unlucky. I think we walked into a track that we set. Mark Punya has changed my life. He's a joy to watch. I said it on the watch along, didn't I, Shohab? He is an absolute joy to watch. Have you... Someone in the chat just said, have you changed your opinion on United getting fit? Well, look, I was an early adopter to that in my Premier League predictions, and I'm happy to say that I'm still saying fit. when the Labour deal fell through I was sort of you know reassessing things but look honestly playing devil's advocate to all the positivity that I've expressed and you've expressed playing devil's advocate is one game I've seen Man United play so well against City Arsenal and Liverpool over the years under Ten Hag, Oli, Jose and then the next few weeks not win a game against teams you'd expect to win.

42:16So I am fearful of that. I think Fulham's the perfect game. It's away from home at Craven Cottage. I always call them the quintessential Premier League side because they can beat anyone and lose to anyone. So first home game of the season for Fulham, first away game for us, half past four next Sunday. We've got to win that game. It's a must-win game because if we don't win it, everything we lost, everything we did yesterday will mean nothing if we don't be Fulham. So that's the pressure. But I have a confidence that we can. And I think that I've predicted this season that Chelsea blew it against Palace yesterday.

42:53But look, Man City have won, Liverpool won, Arsenal won. I think the top four are really strong. And I think we're going to see more teams get turned over than last year. So we've got to be in that area where, all right, Newcastle lost 12 games and finished fifth. We're going to lose games, but we've got to win a lot of games as well. and that starts next week. And I think, as I said, Kunia and Mbremo enhance our chances of winning games hugely. We had people like Ganacho, Anthony, rashed for a bit last year who just don't play for the team. They play for themselves. And we've now got two players that whether they play for themselves or play for the teams, they score goals and they create goals.

43:35So Gary says, Arsenal lucky, only threat from corners if you're not able to play with that intensity and add a top keeper in a mid fielder top five is on but i completely agree gary completely agree um how many goals on this list do you think and burmo and can you get this season still and i wouldn't want to predict i think it's early days and i mean look i don't think it's a negative because you're playing against the best defense in the league for the last two years but um i think um you know arsenal we didn't really create any clear-cut chances yesterday but as i said yesterday as well you look at what um If you look at Arsenal's defence yesterday, they weren't lucky.

44:17They're a brilliant defence. You do what we did to Arsenal yesterday. If we can do what we did yesterday for 90 % of our games this season, because there will be bad games, then we win every one of those games, apart from maybe Liverpool, Newcastle and Man City. Because nobody else is going to have a defence like that. that's the best defense in the league for the last two years. And, you know, they were making the blocks, they were making the tackles, they were making the clearances. Every other defense is going to be worse than that. So I would expect the clear-cut chances to come. And that to me is very, very exciting.

44:54Look, I am conflicted this morning, like many Man United fans, because it was a really good performance, arguably our best performance under Amory. but flip side as I said it's the opening game of the season Arsenal scored quite early probably thought let's sit back and rely on our defense United didn't have a striker the goalkeeper cost us the game we've always been struggling with inconsistency honestly I just want to kick the game off against Fulham yeah I just want to play Fulham and I want to play for them and I want to find out that's that's that's all I want to do because I think that is where we're going to really find out what we're all about.

45:38Because that result against Arsenal, if we go and beat Burnley and Fulham, that result against Arsenal stays the same. We go, we could have had seven points. We've had a really good start to the season. And that's what I feel we have to do. I mean, we've got to beat Burnley in two weeks and we've got to go and beat Fulham on Sunday. And if we do that, I think we've had a good start to the season and I guarantee we'll be in touching distance a fifth well we will be because we'll have six from nine and even the person who's top will only be three points ahead of us and that's the thing at this stage of the season you can't fall behind as long as you keep playing well and you go and win your other games and that's the great thing we've got to do i mean i want to beat grimsby as well garfield but you know the premier league's your bread and butter isn't it uh make sure you smash the like on the video everybody great show this morning i feel like i could just talk and talk and talk but this is the great thing now this is the brilliant thing now we've got the two o 'clock show we've got the eight o 'clock show and there are so many footballing things that we can talk about I mean we've not even touched on when do we think sesco is going to be sharp I think and Bermot yesterday as well and look you can say this about arsenal but you know that ball where Bruno plays and Bermot through in two weeks I think and Bermot beats Gabriel to that I just don't think he's up where he needs to be fitness wise because he didn't have a preseason.

46:54I think he gets that. I think he's quick enough to get that. And I think he knew it, but it was just sharpness. And I think that those things are all going to come. Stefano's going to get sharper as well. We've still got Martinez to come back. We've got Mas Raui to come back. We're a tough team to score against as well. We are a tough, I mean, we're a very tough team to score against when you've got Dalit playing like that with Yaro. but even Luke Shaw did quite well but we do play with three centre-backs we are a tough team to score against and Joff Kureš saw that as well so if we're a tough team to score against and we've got potency up front put a goalkeeper in that doesn't make mistakes and then a midfield that can you know, that's got legs and we become a very different Manchester United side and I think that's the that's what left me frustrated yesterday was that and it's very relevant to transfers is that the attack was good the centre backs were good the wing backs were good especially Dorgou we ran out of legs a little bit in the midfield and the goalkeeper made the mistake and I just think you know put Emi Martinez in goal and Beliba in the midfield and you know bloody Chelsea drew yesterday I'm saying fifth Chelsea drew yesterday I mean say it quietly fourth place might be up for grabs you just don't know you just don't know do you you don't know uh what do you think went wrong with the guard taste is dylan he looks a little bit like rasmus last season actually he looks to me like a bit bit like rasmus last season he looks like he's lacking confidence yeah uh i still like agate and i don't think he was as bad as people think and i think you know the myth is that he's terrible i don't think he is but i think he's lacking confidence and you know Amorim obviously agrees with that Jabby welcome to the members club Delo at centre mid with Bruno why not says Nick I just love putting centre backs and right backs into midfield how many goals assists on that one Edward V has gifted five memberships I'm Amorim in 100 % in thank you very much to Edward V YT says I'm Amorim in but we really cannot excuse leaving Xerxi on the bench for Mount Mount played well Mark speak on Agate disaster class you know the Agate disaster class by the way the reason I haven't spoken about it is because what's it got to do with the game he came on late being the cost is the game and Arsenal defended well I mean I don't I know he didn't play well but it's for me it's just not a major topic we're trying to buy a midfielder and a midfielder that came on didn't do well and we all know we're trying to buy a midfielder and he wasn't the reason we lost the game so like Ricky was messaging me last night people going on about Beinder it was Bruno who gave the corner up and no one wants to talk about it so yeah Agathe didn't play well but I think it's a bit of a stretch to say that he had anything to do with his not getting the game you know I think we're trying to buy a midfielder Edward V there's do you think players we want out will leave or if they don't move will they be put back into the first team

50:02i'm not convinced rasmus is gonna go i'm not convinced he's gonna go i think they're trying to get him to go to raise money but i'm not convinced he's gonna go um and i'm i'm absolutely adamant we won't sell menu um i think we've just got to get the five out molassia anthony sancho ganacho and obviously rashford's already gone i'd love to get one of the goalkeepers out i don't they're gonna go um and bumo play right wing back so bruno to cam and main new player eight says the i'd like to see that but i think bruno's gonna play at eight you think amarin will start shesko and amad against fulham i hope so i hope so uh i really hope so okay um right lovely long show this morning we love that football on a monday love it we're back at two o 'clock thanks everybody for watching we need to see some movement this week on transfers because if we don't there's one week left and I'm telling you now we're up against doing it anyway with the time left in the window make sure you subscribe to the channel smash the like on the video and subscribe I'll speak to you on the next one how do I close this?

51:08oh there it is I've only got 4 % left 4 % left on my bloody phone that's timing for you good timing better than bloody that Pratt and goalkeeper Punch don't slap