217: Semenyo BID? Amorim's BIG Contract Decision!

0:28You know what? It sucks to be bored. Welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United news and transfer news this Wednesday, the 22nd of October already. The week's flying by and I tell you what, I think that's a really good thing because the win against Liverpool was so positive that we want that Brighton game. So to have it moving quickly this week, I think is a real positive for us. So I can't believe it's Wednesday already. So, yeah, lovely stuff. Let me just make sure I'm live here because I think I am live. That's good. Welcome this morning. Hope you're feeling well.

1:02I've got a headache. I don't know why I woke up with that. You know, I don't know whether you ever wake up with a headache. And yeah, the wife in the ear. No, I'm joking. She'll kill me. No, I just got a headache this morning. I don't know whether it's driving in the car with the air con on the sinuses or something. Just, yeah, just a horrible headache. But I tell you what, it's not a headache. all the news we've got to get into this morning. We've got an update from Elliot, not from Elliot Anderson. That'd be great. Yeah, Mark, I'm thinking of coming in this summer. Don't tell Forrest. We've got an update on Elliot Anderson.

1:33We've got an update on Xerxi. But we're going to start off with some new. We've also got Maguire. We've also got Amrim making a big contract decision as well. What's the future for him? And a few other bits as well. A little bit about the sale of Manchester United too and the interest from the UAE. and obviously your normal interactions. But I want to start off with Semenyu because Lug says Semenyu is so average. I like Semenyu. I mean, in a general sense, I was on That's Football last night. You can join me tonight for the Champions League. It was a brilliant night last night, which means it's a seven o 'clock show here tonight again.

2:08You know, I like general football. I don't think Semenyu at Bournemouth has done a great job. What they're saying in the iPaper this morning is that Liverpool are considering a move for Bournemouth at Semenyu in the January transfer window. champions believe the Ghana forward could be a perfect long-term replacement for Salah and a release clause inserted into his new cherries contract make a move easier Tottenham and Manchester United are also interested in the 75 million winger and this would be as I say a January transfer move also don't forget to get me to remind you about a midfielder that I hinted at in the summer who has actually been linked to us again that hasn't really been mentioned so I think in relation to Semenyu, look, I disagree with Lug.

2:48I think he's a good player. I think Bournemouth are a very good side. And I think that he's, I don't know whether he's a replacement for Salah. I think if Liverpool wants a replacement for Salah, there's one player in Europe that's a replacement for Salah and he's younger than Semenyu. And he's absolutely the player that I think everybody should be trying to sign. And funnily enough, it's a player that we tried to sign. And in fact, in fairness to Ineos, and I am always fair to Sir Jim and Ineos, I think they've made a lot of bad decisions, but there has been things that I think have nearly worked or could have worked or maybe they should have made work.

3:22There's one player that's going to replace Salah, and I wish he was coming to Manchester United, and his name's Michael Alisa. He is the real deal. I think he is the best right winger in Europe beyond the obvious people. I think he is absolutely the player that Liverpool should be going for, and I wish Man Utd would go for. But Semenyu's an interesting player. He's still a good player. All I would say is that I think it was Talkshit who were talking about it back in April that Man United were in advanced talks with Semenyu. We were never in advanced talks with Semenyu. He might have been on the menu, but we were never in advanced talks.

4:00We went for Kunja and we went for Invermo. End of, close the door. So Semenyu to Man United, um i don't i don't i don't know whether i'd say no if it was an opportunity but you speak to anybody at man united and they look at you confused like they're like why would we go and sign a player that can only play in the two positions where we've got embermo kunya mount amad xerxi and bruno can play there as well and we've also got a couple of youngsters that we want to start developing into the team like lacy etc so why would we go and spend 75 million pounds and get into a transfer race with Liverpool and Spurs for a player we don't actually need.

4:43And it would be like going and signing, I don't know, well, it would be like going and signing Semenu, because I was going to say it would be like going and signing Harry Kane, but I probably would sign Harry Kane, even though we've got Sesko. The one area of the pitch that we are absolutely stacked in is number 10. We just don't need one. Why so serious? What about left wing? no no no no no Semenyu plays off the right anyway doesn't he I'm pretty sure he plays off the right for Bournemouth um no I mean you I think people misinterpret what Amrim's system is if you think we're going to play Ahmad and Semenyu as what as wingbacks I don't think that's his his plan to do that I think he likes to have a winger that can convert to that position but I don't think he'd have him on both sides i think it will be more of a dogoo uh hopefully a leon maybe a new signing at some point but i think he's he's he's not going to go with two wingers on the wide and also most important thing as well i like cemenyu he's a good player but we're not in for him and we haven't got loads of money either so again even if you agree that he could play on the wing um as anurug says um even if you think he could play on the wing would you spend 75 million pounds on Semenyu at the moment.

5:58I mean, come on. It's just not where the money needs to be spent. It needs to be spent on the midfield. So I sense that what we're having with this story, because I don't want it to turn into something it's not. I've had it from a very good source that United are not in for Semenyu for the last six months, and it's still the same today. We have those five strands of transfers. I think at the moment, the reason we're starting to get an increase in transfer stories is because it's nearly the end of October. There's a lot of teams that didn't do stuff in the summer that need to do stuff in January.

6:33There's a lot of teams that have had a bad start to the season and need to do stuff in January. And we're basically hitting what would be the equivalent of the end of March. End of March is the same as October. You've got April and May and then the windows open. End of October, you've got November and January and the windows open. And what happens at the end of March? We start to get stories. So we will be used in the Five strands of transfer in relation to let's throw Man United's name in there to bump up the price and bump up the interest. But we're not going to get into this. We're not going to get into this.

7:05And we shouldn't, actually. Let's put it that way. We should not be getting into this transfer at that price for that position. But he's a good player. He's a good player. And look, imagine if Michael Alise said, I want to go to Man United at the end of the season. everything in my body would say do that bloody deal he's amazing but i'd still look at it and go where does he actually fit like where does he actually fit in the man united side at the moment so you've got to go for um what's needed and jason says what about the labor well look it's interesting about the midfield situation as well there's so much to get into these last couple of days it's great it's almost like man united get a positive result and there's loads of stuff around man united it's almost like positivity breeds stories as well isn't it but But people talk about negativity being the thing that's the thing.

7:55OK, so this has just come in in the last few minutes around the midfield. I've got loads of pictures of Man United in training. That's good. They've turned up. They're all on time. So the Mirror are saying that Manchester United are ready to join the race for Nottingham Forest midfielder Elliot Anderson after previously failing in their pursuit of Brighton's Carlos for labour. Man City and Chelsea are also monitoring the 22-year-old. uh forrester keen to hold on to their prized asset and have no intention of selling despite mining interest and evaluation has now reached 75 million pounds it's interesting you know because i mentioned the name of a player in this summer that um i couldn't really tell you the name because no one was talking about it but if anybody was watching in the summer and i know a lot of you were um there was a manchester united that there was interest in a midfielder that um nobody was linking us to and i didn't mention the name because all i said was that um um that they were playing in serie r and they were french actually i don't think i said they were french um anyway i'm gonna give you the name anyway now because i've seen a couple of people talking about it this morning so we got told sort of the end of august that man united had been looking at this midfielder and we'd never been linked to him at all throughout the summer and that it was concrete like it was a serious consideration and that they may well go back there there's a couple of stories this morning talking about it so i'm okay to put this out there now um his name is manu kone so all i'm going to say is that's the player we were told about in the final two weeks of august if you were watching the transfer shows you'll know there was a player i wouldn't say who it was apart from them playing in cdr and there's a lot of people um sort of predicting who it was but a couple of stories this morning around uh manu kone um and um he is somebody that united were looking at in august so you know keep an eye on that one it may well develop because it's interesting that the name has come out today uh from certain people but that was the name we were told about at the end of august but when it comes to the midfield i think that what's going on everyone it's bluff here and we're driving through the states in the bluff mobile and the best thing that we can do is play our favorite casino style games on spin quest they have over a thousand games including live dealer blackjack and craps with tons of slots and unlimited options you can get a 30 coin pack for just 10 for new users sign up today go to spinquest.com right now spin quest is a free to play social casino void where prohibited visit spinquest.com for more details

10:41I think we need two. I think we need two midfielders. I liked the story about Angelo Stille yesterday. I do like Elliot Anderson. Just to react to the Elliot Anderson thing, I watched Chelsea play Forest on Saturday lunchtime on Mats Football. Elliot Anderson didn't play that well. And you get a load of people in the chat saying, I don't want him anywhere near Man United. And you go, sometimes our expectations are ridiculous. Like not Not everybody's going to have a good game every week. But look, the reality is, as long as Man United land on Anderson, Wharton or Belaber, I'll be happy as long as we go and get someone else.

11:22I think for me, more and more, we need two midfielders. And I'm not going to fall for the bullshit from the club. Like, we should have got a midfielder last August and then another one this summer. So if they go next summer and they buy one, we've been mugged off. It's cost-cutting, isn't it? Because what we need next summer is two midfielders. It's absolutely obvious that we need two midfielders next summer. And for me, it's not really about who the one we get. I want to see Man United signing two. And as I said, we definitely should have bought one in the summer, and we definitely should be going one next summer.

12:00So I want to see two coming in. So it's not really about whether it's Wharton, Anderson, and Baleba, Stilla, whoever, it's about who the two are going to be because I don't feel like we're going to get... If you look at Agate and Mainu, there's a big chance that they will be here next season. But what's the chance that they're both going to turn it around? I mean, if you're Agate or Mainu at the moment, right, you are rock bottom. You are sitting on the bench. The Casemiro, who's walking in the summer, and Bruno, who's not a midfielder. Like, it's embarrassing. It's humiliating. you know you can't do anything about it you probably believe you're better than them and many of the fans think you're better than them but you still sat on the bench so the chance of Agate and Mainu turning it around that's we're hoping for two players to turn it around I think that's you know some might say that's quite optimistic so let's say one of them turn it around right in the summer that leaves you with Mainu or Agate that are capable of doing the business.

13:01The other one has flopped or gone, whatever. Casemiro has gone and Bruno's still not a midfielder and might have gone anyway. So best case scenario next season, I think one of Mainou and Agate have shown their worth and maybe a young player's coming through. You still need to sign two. In fact, you still need to sign two if Mainou and Agate work because a young player is not going to be ready for the start of next season because we're not even blooding a young player at the moment so we need two midfielders next summer not one so when i see people talking about anderson or wharton or belieber or stiller i'm sort of like going we should be talking about two don't fall for what man united's plan always is to kick the problem down the road they'll definitely get one next summer but will they get two we need two we 100 need two i mean i know we beat liverpool at the weekend but their midfield options compared to us and other clubs is scary, really.

13:53So we need to. We need to. What about Mocchio? He's only 17, says Harrison. I mean, seriously. I mean, take a look at him at IAC. He's a good player.

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14:14That's actually the right temperature. I'm always a bit worried because I think it's a bit hot. Thanks for everyone who's tuning in this morning, by the way. Please do share the video and get involved. um lots to get into i'm probably going to be freestyling here but um and obviously the midfield is going to generate a bit of conversation just something that dropped into my head when i thought when i heard of the police i immediately thought of uh this person i don't know why um rio fernand um he because i think it's because some of his takes are criminal um but seriously though this this this just reminded me of something to come in because we need it's about tired we gave we gave lamens some credit you know i don't know about you but no one's talking about lamens so you know i'm gonna make a regular morning lamens 10 minute section uh it's gonna be one minute but i did see a quote from rio ferdinand this morning about um how when he played the game uh having a goalkeeper like van der Sar behind him made things a lot better and it may it reminded me of what we were talking about um a few weeks ago and obviously it's going to resonate more when an ex-player says it because they've played the game at the highest level but to me it doesn't really matter we were literally having this conversation about a month ago two weeks three weeks ago um and i used this story and i said look basically i used to play for my school team and then i used to play for a sunday team and they were both good my school team i I played with a different goalkeeper and different centre-back to what I played on a Sunday.

15:47And it was the same with the centre-back. It wasn't just the goalkeeper. Both goalkeepers I had different confidences in. One of them was very good at, you know, again, a lot of people hitting long balls back in the mid-90s. You have a quick striker. You want a goalkeeper that's quick out of his box to get on the end of it. One goalkeeper wasn't, one was. so in different games you felt different confidences when it was a corner one was really aggressive at coming and punching it and one would just stay on their line so it doesn't matter whether you've played your Rio Ferdinand with Andersar or you know your John Smith playing with Gary in the goal you know on a Sunday morning pub team we all know that this improvement under Lamens because people are mocking us for it that's what I'm trying to say but it's very very logical it's so logical because that story Rio story your story might even be playing bloody five aside at lunchtime at school and you know daft Darren's in goal and you're like oh for god's sake if they shoot from anywhere on target it's a goal or you might have terrific Tony in goal who's you know it's like a cat he'll stop anything it's the same at any level like if you've got a goalkeeper that's decent, you feel better as a defender.

17:02And that is something that I think some critics are sort of not understanding about what United fans are waxing lyrical about the men's for. It's that, of course, the save against Liverpool was good. He's not really pulled off an out-and-out worldie yet, but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about the general improvement in our defence because we've got a goalkeeper that instills confidence in the defence. And I think, you know, it's good to hear that. Daft Darren was not a good goalkeeper prior. He was more interested in playing computer games. He was daft and he was rubbish.

17:39OK, let me come back to some more relevant news than Daft Darren. Oh, just very, very quickly. I did see this from Simon Stone. And, you know, if it's been a good week for Manchester United, stuff like this just adds to it. if you were watching that football last night you'll know this already it's our second Champions League night tonight very good night for England a very good night for the Premier League Man City winning Newcastle winning Arsenal winning none of them conceding goals it's the turn of Chelsea and Liverpool and Spurs tonight Villa are looking good again and I think Crystal Palace will do well in the Conference League and Forest might do better now with Daichi.

18:22So what's the point in that? This is the United stand, I hear you say, and you'd be right. But the point I'm making is big place. Like we might not like the fact that we're not in Europe and we might not like the fact that, you know, other rivals could be doing quite well in Europe, but sometimes you've got to look at the bigger picture, right? And the bigger picture is if we finish fifth and it's not a Champions League spot, that's very, very annoying. So we do need the Premier League clubs to perform well in Europe. And as we know now, your performance in the group games, the league stage does matter.

19:05So, all right, most of the six Champions League English sides might get knocked out before the quarterfinals, but if they all did really well in the league stage, you still get a lot of points for that. So this is something that could directly impact us massively. I don't know whether we can infiltrate the top four, but I definitely think we can do fifth place. If everything goes well, I always said, this season we're going to finish somewhere between... Well, no, let me rephrase that. I've always said I think that we'll finish somewhere between fifth and tenth this season. And I've seen nothing to change that.

19:42If everything goes well, we'll get fifth. so we have to work on that every single week every single week but also we need things to go our way elsewhere and that at the moment look is looking very good because as we know the top two coalitions in Europe get an extra two spots if they perform well and we did last year and that's why fifth place was the Champions League and this year it could be looking good again so it is good um do you think we can get top five mark honestly um hey everybody lady luck here and we're celebrating america's 250th birthday now all summer long i'm going to be celebrating by playing on spinquest.com which is an american-owned social casino it obviously features over a thousand slot games and live blackjack live craps live bubble craps head on over to spinquest.com get yourself a$30 coin pack for just$10.

20:42SpendQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit SpendQuest.com for more details. It's still really early days. We need to keep winning. We need to go on a good run. But from the position we're in at the moment, I probably would have took this at the start of the season. If somebody said to me on the opening game of the season, you'd be here after eight games and you're two points off. Is it second or third? and I said yeah I'll take that I'll take that from this point because I genuinely do believe it'll be game 10 to 30 where we understand the most about this side so we're in a good position obviously it can change very very quickly Man United are not about Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man City those games just don't worry me anymore they take care of themselves all right you lose to Man City but you beat Chelsea you beat you beat Liverpool and you lose to Arsenal you know that's in the top six games, I think the traditional top four games, I think we do quite well.

21:38They're not the games that worry me. It's the Bournemouths, it's the Villas, it's the Spurs, it's the Palace, it's the Everton. They're the games that define it for me. So they're the games I'm more interested in, which is funny enough, our next three games are sort of like that, aren't they? Just also coming in this morning about Joshua Zerkesy, iPaper as well, who were talking about Semenu say that West Ham are preparing a January loan move for Xerxi despite United being reluctant to let him go Xerxi's unhappy about his lack of game time he's not agitating for a move per se but is understood to be exploring his options come January um yeah I mean look join the club with uh Kabi Menu I think it's it's not it's not beyond the realms of possibility but I think United would find themselves in the same situation again.

22:33I don't know whether... I agree with Cap or Die. Is West Ham the right place for Xerxes to go to as well?

22:42You could debate that. The point is, and I do sympathise with a footballer like Xerxes and Mainu, who are good lads, who behave really, really well, who just want to play and ideally want to play for Man United, but there's not a place for them i understand that request to go and play but we're not a charity you know we're massively in debt we aren't in europe and we're not in a position like you know man city can probably do that they can probably go we're in a title race we're in the champions league um we've got a lot of quality off your pop please go and enjoy yourself um we're not in that position it's a bit like Arsenal bringing on Max Dowman at 15 years of age at Anfield you know they can do it because they're a good team and they're in a good position we can't really do that at the moment because we're just not in that position and we're not in a position where we can say to Xerxi or Maynou yeah I'll be pop on loan we just can't do that at the moment so I think it will be difficult for someone like Xerxi or Maynou to get out the club on on loan in in January quite simply because what's the cover you know especially in January when Ahmad and Mbamo will still be at the AFCON Mount will still be massively injury prone that's three number 10s gone so it could be the worst time possible for Xerxi to try and leave he might find he gets a bit of game time in January and decides to stay and then February the 1st comes the transfer window closes and Ahmad's back, Xerxes back and Mount's back, fit, you know, or maybe still fit, pushing for a World Cup spot.

24:23So I think it might be a very difficult season for Xerxes because I can't see us letting him go in January and I can't see him finding a way into the first team. So, you know, could you have predicted that at the start of the season?

24:40I don't know. I don't know. But I think it's, yeah, I feel a bit sorry for him. But that's football. And ultimately, if you let Xerxes go or you let Maynou go, you have to replace them. And we probably won't be looking to replace either of those players in January. Although I did watch the Atletico Madrid game last night against Arsenal. Conor Gallagher on the bench again. He's a player that's going to want the World Cup. I mean, I just think United might. Well, you know, we talk about two midfielders. I'd be very happy with Adam Wharton and Carla Gallagher or Elliot Anderson and Manu Kone. You know, I'm not saying we need to get Anderson and Wharton.

25:21I think that's too expensive, but I would go get Wharton and Gallagher or get Belieber and Kone or whatever. You know, go for a cheaper one and a more expensive one. I think that makes a lot of sense in my mind. What's the big Amarim contract decision? Well, obviously, well, there's two parts to this as well, because this came in from Chris Wheeler and Nathan Salt in the mail. They're basically saying that a firm decision over Harry Maguire's contract is yet to be made. Although United are in regular contact with his camp, formal talks have yet to take place and there is no offer on the table.

25:55Also, any prospect of Maguire taking a pay cut would entirely depend on the length of a new contract being offered to him. so what we're getting is is that Maguire obviously in a very strong position after his brilliant heroic win at performance in our win on Sunday um Amrim wants him to stay that's that's the line Amrim wants him to stay um that doesn't mean he'll get listened to um Amrim doesn't actually have a veto to say this happens uh he will be listened to but he doesn't mean that they have to follow through on that so amrin wants maguire to stay amrin wanted bruno to stay um and amrin at the moment obviously what we can read about that is that amrin clearly values these experienced players now i think harry maguire offers a very different type of experience to bruno fernandez um and i think that's more of a motivational experience that you can hit the lows and still bounce back and i think that's something that amram very much values so those negotiations now clearly lie with the club and the player because amram wants him to stay now whether you agree with that or not that's amram's big decision um he wants maguire to stay the issue is going to be harry maguire's out of contract in the summer and he might well based on performance have a few offers on the table at home and abroad.

27:28For example, you may well get a Sean Dyche at Forest or a David Moyes at Everton who come along and say, look, we value you. I like the way you play. You suit my style of football. You're very good in the air and everything like that. We will bring you to Everton. We will give you a three-year contract and we will give you 120 grand a year man united might go we want you to stay that should be something that makes you very happy we'll give you a two-year deal on 100 grand a week and then you've got harry mcguire going first team football at everton 120 grand a week three-year deal stay at man united two-year deal probably not first team 100 grand a week so that and they're hypotheticals like they're not you know set in stone but what i'm saying is his stock is very high at the moment there will certainly be some clubs in the premier league from the you know mid to bottom area who will say we want you at the club we want you to start we still think you're a starter and we're not playing in europe so it's one game a week so it's not as physically demanding whereas at united i think hammering wants him to stay but we probably won't want to pay him 190 grand a week for a player that really is going to be not starting as much as maybe he would have done three years ago so that's the decision to make i can understand i can understand amram stance i can understand the club stance um we really need we as i cameoed on beth's show in the studio yesterday would i keep harry mcguire now i understand why we want to keep him i i i I haven't got a problem with it, but he's got to halve his wages.

29:15So it's got to be nothing more than 100 grand a week. But if he can get a better offer elsewhere, why would you not take it? So I think that's very interesting. In relation to Ruben Amrim's contract, because I did say I'd mentioned that. So I think this season is very important for Amrim. We've already heard Sir Jim Radcliffe talk about three years. I find that quite interesting because he doesn't have a three-year contract. I don't think anybody picked up on that last week when Sir Jim Radcliffe said that he wants Amrim here for three years. He hasn't even got a three year contract. His contract actually expires in May 27, which is only 18 months away.

29:55So I think it's definitely something to sort of think about because he can't be here for three years without a new contract. But that leads you to feel that I think Sir Jim McCliffe's intention is to give him a new contract. But they have got that little gateway that if this season went really, really bad, there's only a year left on his contract in May. So the feeling is around Amrim, and I think I mentioned this a few weeks ago in relation to his contract, is that if things start to go really well, then they would look to renew his contract sort of April time next year. What they don't want to do is what they did with Solskjaer.

30:35whereas you renew it a little bit early and then something goes wrong. So Amrim, I think, is comfortable with that. I mean, look, you're dealing with a manager there that's not necessarily been, you know, totally happy in his first 12 months here. So I think there's a lot of focus at United at the moment on the short term. Like what are we going to achieve next week? What are we going to achieve next month? There's not really any thought beyond the end of the season, which I think makes a lot of sense, if I'm being honest. a couple of more things I want to talk to you about, but let me just catch up on yours.

31:08Mark, will you take Semenya over Mount as a left 10? No, no, I wouldn't because I mean.

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31:49Do I think Semenu's better than Mount? Yes. Well, no. Would I prefer Semenu to Mount as a player? Yes. would i sign some menu for 75 million pounds to replace mount no because i've really why am i spending 75 million pounds on a player that i don't actually need i don't need some menu at the moment i need two midfielders i probably need another striker i probably need another right wing back i don't need some menu um if i've baked the cake and i've got money for the icing go and get me some NU. I haven't baked a cake yet. I don't need any more icing. So for me, it's a no, wouldn't go anywhere near it.

32:31And they won't go anywhere near it. We're just being used. There's something about some NU that might be agent, might be Bournemouth, might be somebody in the press, but somebody keeps linking us to some NU all the time. And we've never been advanced. You know, I heard somebody in the summer say, man, you're not ever in advanced talks with some NU. I was like, absolute bollocks. At what point were we in advanced talks with some NU? Kunja we were working on in February and Mbremo we were working on in May so when were we working on Semenya we haven't worked on Semenya he's not an option for Man United he might have been an option if we didn't get Mbremo but we got what we wanted and they don't anybody ever think that Mbremo and Kunja weren't priority signings like they were you can tell they were anyway by how how we bought them as the first two signings and we got them in quite early but they were the priorities no one else um liam vernon says what about ninth or eighth and an fa cup win no no i i don't i mean obviously i think it's better than 15th but that's not something if you're saying to me will i shake your hand and take that now eighth or ninth in the fa cup I would say, God, no, that's not it for me.

33:49I'm not about that this season. I want Champions League football. I don't actually agree that we are good enough to get Champions League football, but I think that we have to aspire to that and maybe we can become good enough. I mean, what I mean by that is I've seen some people say, I mean, it was attributed to Sir Jim Radcliffe, wasn't it, that he believes that that's a top four squad. Absolutely not. It's not a top four squad, but it's a long season and we could become that. And I think that's what Liverpool, that's what the Liverpool result sort of hinted at, is that maybe we can do it. Brentford results hints that we can't.

34:34So I don't know whether we can get top five, but that's what I want for the season. I want Man United back in the Champions League. I want us back in the Champions League because it's the elite tournament in football. but I also want us backing it because we need the finances from it as well so that's that's it for me I don't want another FA Cup and you know eighth in the league uh all good all our good play so far has been when Mount is on says Robert McCormack um what has Bruno's match heat pattern improved says Kiel I haven't actually looked at um his heat plan actually we'll have to take a look at that bring it in on the seven o 'clock show it's a good point the club is crying out for Bruno to miss four games it's brian i sort of brian i sort of do know what you mean there you know like a three match ban for a bad red card or you know a slight hamstring strain i know what you mean we we'd never wish it but maybe you would brian i don't know bad brian but i know what you mean i know what you mean i'm never gonna say yeah i want that to happen because i don't want any player to get injured whether they play for Man United or not but I know what you mean I think if if Bruno wasn't there for a month it would be very interesting to see how this team did I think you know there's a very big chance it could sink very big chance but yeah it's not gonna happen many managers nowadays love left and right footed balance especially in midfield and defense still at Belaber and Wharton are all left-footed I doubt we'll buy two of those as chip no I think I think you're absolutely spot on um but you're absolutely spot on so yeah um your other one is that is anderson not left footed as well i might be mixing him up with wharton but um no you're absolutely right chip who's doing your new kitchen sanso anthony and galacho no wonder it's taking forever to deliver says michael tushler says this is laughable we need at least three midfielders two wingbacks and a center back what's up with these some menu rumors and paul thompson says morning mark rannick said we would sign 10 20 million than four expensive ones surely 50 million stiller plus one is a better idea than 70 million plus anderson or wharton i again i think it's a good point paul because would you rather go and spend 70 80 million pounds on wharton or believer or would you rather go and spend 70 80 million on stiller and uh another maybe a cone etc like that it's a tough one isn't it because you could almost so flip it and go well would you rather spend 65 million pounds on embermo or would you rather buy a 40 million pound player and a 25 million pound player well from what i've seen about embermo you get what you pay for we probably did pay a lot of money for him but you do get what you pay for um love the positivity and positivity and praise around Kunya says Ranjaf thank you very much and he says listen we're back 21st is coming this season but one thing that is positive again I mean there's a lot there's a lot to be positive about at the moment but one thing that's positive again at the moment is that I mean never say never it's ridiculously early but I'm allowed to say it because it is my opinion I don't think Liverpool are winning the league this year um i i don't i don't and why does that matter because we're both on 20 times so it's that race to 21 isn't it and we're nowhere near winning 21 and we're not going to win 21 but if liverpool can be stopped from winning 21 i think that's always a positive i i went with arsenal at the start of the season a lot of people laughed at me i don't think they're laughing at the moment but look liverpool can bounce back i mean they've got an incredible squad and if they if they do start firing but i don't think they'll win the league this year um yeah i don't um knee drop says your display says wednesday instead of wednesday yeah okay um right let me go back because a couple of other things i want to talk about oh yeah you know yesterday morning really interesting this um well i say it really interesting it's definitely a latter part of the show story um you know yesterday we're talking about ivan tony in the studio and maybe uh his uh desire to leave saudi in january um and we also spoke about endrick apparently alonso was very not very happy about that javi alonso about the rumors linking anybody to um endrick but around Ivan Toney it's quite funny what's come out here so Al-Halal sorry Al-Ali striker Ivan Toney wants to return to the Premier League in January to make a late push for Thomas Tuchel's World Cup squad West Ham are already working on a deal to sign him he scored 39 goals in 55 games in the Saudi League again I don't really understand whether that's amazing or not because it's the Saudi league but he has got a very good record in the Premier League look January transfer window and Man United is like pushing together two magnets that won't go together sometimes it makes sense but it doesn't work I'm not saying United should go and sign Ivan Tony but what I am saying is that look at where we are at the moment look at where we might be at Christmas.

40:03If we're in and around fifth place and the board go, let's stick with what we've got. That is always going to worry me because I do think that we are short in certain areas. And surely it already looks like people like Ivan Toney and Connor Gallagher are there. And there's going to be more as well. I mean, look, we know about these players because they're English. They're not playing in the Premier League. They're not in the England squad. God, it's the same as what we've got with Maynouk. There's going to be a few players like that. And I look at it and I go, well, Conor Gallagher's a midfielder and Ivan Toney's a striker.

40:38If you could add those two players on loan till the end of the season and they're hungry players, imagine what they could do. What I don't want to see is someone else do those deals. You know, like Crystal Palace go and get Conor Gallagher and then they finish fifth. I think there are opportunities unique to this World Cup in January that Man United need to wake the fuck up and be alive to. We can't just do what John Murtagh used to do and say, we don't like doing business in January. We're more of a summer deal. We've got to have our eyes open because we might just land on something that really helps us.

41:17And look, I'm not saying we're going to go for Ivan Toni. We probably won't. But imagine Cesco gets injured or he's struggling and Ivan Toni comes in and scores his 10 Premier League goals between January and the end of the season. It could put us in the Champions League. Same with Conor Gallagher. You know, Bruno continues to struggle. Casemiro continues to struggle. Conor Gallagher comes in and gives us that boost in the midfield to push us over. I think there's going to be those types of deals, certainly. And also interesting as well, this is how quickly things can change if you copy Manu. Because remember, we've been talking about Jobe Bellingham quite a lot.

41:54He's not been happy at Dortmund, pushing for a move. man you know i need a midfielder you know i'd like young players he's also english lo and behold he played for he played for Dortmund last night in the win in the champions league and he started and he's got a smile on his face and that's how quickly things can change because suddenly he's going to be happy at Dortmund what's going on everyone it's bluff here and you know what's more american than america's 250th birthday supporting american-owned companies like SpinQuest, America's number one social casino with over a thousand games like Live Dealer Blackjack and Craps.

42:30They're offering new users a$30 coin package for just$10. Go to SpinQuest.com and sign up today. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit SpinQuest.com for more details. Suddenly, he's not going to be angling for a move and this is how quickly football can change and I think this is probably what Manu's hoping for.

42:56that support, belief and opportunity from the manager in a big game to go and perform. Unfortunately, I just don't think Maynou gets those opportunities. I don't really know enough about Dortmund to know why Bellingham started last night, but obviously they won and they played well. It's a big game for Dortmund. They're away in the Champions League in Denmark. Copenhagen are not a terrible side. So, you know, it's not like they're picking their reserves, but things can change around very quickly. And if there is any sliver of hope for Maynou, it's that, look, you can be out of the team and then back in the team.

43:30Apparently he got two assists as well, says King Walker as well. Fine dashes, what about Ruben Neves? He could be a loan deal as well. I think there are going to be opportunities and I think there will be people like maybe Ruben Neves saying, look, I like it here in Saudi. It's World Cup year. I wouldn't mind having a loan just to get up to speed for the... You just don't know. There might be some really good opportunities, like I say, and you just don't know. And Man United need to be alive to those as well. But just going back to the Bellingham thing there, imagine if Manu started against Brighton in the midfield and played really, really well.

44:04That's the equivalent of what happened to Joe Bellingham last night. And we know that won't happen on Saturday. And that's the problem that Manu's got, that sudden verification and support and belief to start a game should be available to anybody. And I just don't think it's going to be available to Maynou. But it could be available, and then it changes things instantly, doesn't it?

44:29Going from United's most humiliated flop in modern times to its strongest leader with crucial output and a win at Anfield is the full circle moment, says Andreas. Talking about Harry Maguire. Thank you very much. Right, OK, let's just get through everything so that I hate it when I miss stuff. um simon stone did say harry mcguire is willing to take a pay cut to sign a new contract at the club yeah it's it's not about that though is it it's about the severity of the pay cut because he's rumored to be on 190 grand a week now you know technically 175 grand a week is a pay cut isn't it so it's the it's the it's the amount of the of it

45:17manchester united manager ruben amarin is interested in signing levandowski the club has already made a fresh as uh sorry let me read this the club has received fresh encouragement a deal can be done and the player has already said yes he's a free agent in the summer the daily star i mean he's 37 lewandowski making his premier league debut at 37 is not a good idea um i'd say lewandowski will be off to the mlf or or saudi won't he let's be let's be real on that one um the daily star um isn't jude bellingham at real madrid mark why do you keep saying he plays for dortmund joe bellingham um when menu gets his chance he will unleash the beast says Sesco lover.

46:03And imagine Maynew's dad starts crying and moaning to Amram and Jimmy every day, just like Job's dad. The possibilities are endless. Jim says, do you stick with the winning team?

46:16Amram doesn't. Amram doesn't always stick with the winning team, does he? I mean, the team he picked, he didn't stick with the team that beat Sunderland, did he? He made a couple of changes. I think Yoro and Sesco were the two, weren't they? So, yeah, I think... Ikshan says, I would swap Bruno and Kunya out, bring in Kone from the youth and pair him with either Agate or Meynou, says Ikshan. Okay. I don't know that I agree with you on that one, but there we go. It's all good. It's all good. I just can't... I tell you what, I just can't believe how quick this week is going. Sorry, I've lost my live chat here.

47:02whizzing around looking at stuff i just can't i can't believe how quick this week's going i think it's great um i think i really expected it to drag because i just can't wait to play brighton because it's just going to be you know it's going to tell us a lot about this team and i can't believe it's wednesday already and then tomorrow we're doing the preview live at eight o 'clock tomorrow night and bang jacobs at two o 'clock i just can't believe it's thursday tomorrow so yeah it's flying by um and long may the positivity continue but i suppose i suppose i do acknowledge the i acknowledge the transfer stuff now oh yeah you know i do it's it is nearly the end of october that is the same as the end of march when it's moving towards the summer transfer window the january transfer window will be big it just depends where the man united want to put their toe in the pool i think we should i think we have to and if we're going to do that we can't just be sat there with her arms folded right now you've got to be looking and surveying the scene about what's going on and i i just think that i remember this happening with ollie once when we were top of the league in january and it did happen it wasn't a dream i remember standing there going we are top of the league say we are top of the league and we were in the january transfer window and it was like we need to go and get two players to push on and we didn't and we ended up about a million points behind Man City.

48:23And we're not going to be doing that this season. But imagine like January the 1st, we're 4th. What knobhead owner goes, let's stick with what we've got. Like, I'd be like, this is, we're way ahead of schedule. Let's move now to stay ahead of schedule. Whereas I think United would go, well, we're 4th. So we're probably going to finish 4th. The big warning about the Premier League at the moment is it's really competitive and Nottingham Forest were in the top four from September till May. and then finished, what, sixth or seventh. So I just think we've got to be looking for opportunities. And we know the midfield's week, and there are opportunities there.

49:02Great show this morning. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in. As always, really appreciate you. I think I'm on Terry's channel at 11 o 'clock because we didn't do hot takes yesterday, so we're doing that today. You can join me there at 11. Beth's with you at 2. I'm with you at 7. And I did have something to say about the sale of Man United, but I'll bring that in on the seven o 'clock show because it's about 10 minutes and I haven't got that time now um thank you very much everybody have a great day whatever you're doing or evening wherever you are in the world let us know uh make sure you smash the like and subscribe on your way out I'll speak to you later take care

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