218: Amorim VINDICATED! New BALEBA TRANSFER Talks! Garnacho SALE Justified!

0:00Hey 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. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Void where prohibited. Visit SpinQuest.com for more details. Hello everybody, good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United news.

0:36The weekend is almost upon us. It's Thursday. We've got Ben Jacobs at two. We've got the live preview for Brighton at eight o 'clock. And talking about Brighton, we've actually got some breaking news coming in around Belayba and transfer talks he's going to have with Brighton and hopefully Manchester United right ahead this big game. I bet Brighton fans are happy. We've also got an update on Conor Gallagher, on Vlahovic, on the sale. We're also going to be talking a little bit about Ruben Amrim and the importance of these next three games. Also an update on Endrik, Lament. De Litt has done an interview as well.

1:12And I will find time for this because I think it's really important. Oh, two more things as well. I think this is probably the busiest show of the week. A player who's 100 % leaving Manchester United this week, not this week, this summer, 100 % leaving, despite stories to the contrary, he will be leaving. And also, I mentioned the takeover, Ganaccio. Amrim vindicated on Ganaccio. I mean, is anyone here prepared to say just what we mean or is it too late? You know, come on. I'll break the news this morning. Ruben Amrim has been justified on Ganaccio. It's true. Didn't even play one minute last night when their bloody 6-1 up against Ajax.

1:54absolutely whatever ganacho becomes in the future amram absolutely spot on to get rid of him and look i didn't necessarily i'd be said you know i was a big fan of ganacho you know i really really was but um i think he was i think he has been justified and we'll talk about the contrast between him and rashford and why amram deserves a lot of credit um also a little bit of a tweet of mine that's gone out this morning which is causing the mathematicians a real big headache we'll talk about that in a moment yeah i don't believe it what he's studying and we'll talk about that in a bit but let's get into it uh i feel like um i feel very excited i think the weekend is this week has gone so quick i can't wait for the brighton game and normally it's a little bit like waiting for christmas but it's coming around really really quick very excited about it um and can't wait for the preview live with you good people later on but let's start off with a bit of the topical stuff because it is a new show so this is coming in from the manchester evening news literally in the last few hours, really.

2:52Manchester United transfer target Carlos Belaiba will hold private talks with Brighton. This is basically what it's saying. Belaiba is said to already have held private discussions with Fabian Herzl, as Manchester United continue to be linked with the Brighton midfielder. The 21-year-old was the talk of the town this summer with the Reds holding talks with them, and has obviously impressed in his time at them. And as a result, we obviously moved and Brighton apparently put on a£100 million price tag, which proved too much for Man United, as we already know. Brighton's camp are unsappled... Sorry, the Labour's camp is unsettled and it is now being reported that he has been subbed off...

3:38Well, he's been subbed off multiple times, trying to get to the part of this. United are closely monitoring the situation and the Labour's camp are looking to establish what the future is for him in relation to can he move away from the club this season, summer or January and what that price will be because£100 million could well price him out. So look, is that helpful to Brighton ahead of Manchester United's game? Is it really something that we need to be concerned about? Well, I think that on the morning that there is more talks of Conor Gallagher being desperate to get out of Atletico Madrid this January, I think, look, I've said it before, like, look, we can paint a positive picture.

4:24We can paint a negative picture. I don't think we should paint a negative picture when there's positivity out there. And I think that it's funny. I was having a chat with Robbie of AFTV yesterday because we have to record Premier League predictions early, which will be out tomorrow on That's Football. And we were talking about negativity around Arsenal and Manchester United. And I said, people can talk about negativity all they like. If you're 7-0 down to Liverpool, you probably get a lot of people watching your match reaction. But we beat Liverpool and we had a lot of people watching the watch-along and a lot of people watching the match reaction.

4:58And positivity sells. And when positive things happen, then a lot of other positive things start to happen as well. And I think that, you know, United, with that result against Liverpool at the weekend, it will just make people have even more of an itchy feet. Because I think there are people like Kunja and Nbermo and others who've got part of this Amerim Man United journey early. And I think people like Balaba will want to be part of that. And I think other people will as well. Now, whether we end up with Balaba or not, you can understand why his representatives will be speaking to Brighton saying, look, with all due respect, you are a selling club.

5:34you know you sell players whether it's kaiseido alexi mccallister you that's what you do you're well known for it so what is the plan with me and what is it you're looking to achieve with me now whether that's the summer or january what is it you're looking to achieve because to be honest with you i'm not a hundred million pound player i'm not playing like a hundred million pound player so you know these are conversations that the labor needs to have and i'm sure manchester united will monitoring that situation very very closely because as we know Ruben Amrim wants that player I'm not particularly bothered who we go for I've as I've said before I have a little bit of concern around Belaber's performance drop off in the first two months of the season it'll be very interesting to see how he performs on Saturday but up until the summer I would have been over the moon with that signing and he is still very young so look he can't write a player off just because they react badly to not get in a transfer it can just be a little bit of a red flag to is he mature enough for what is going to be a very very big task at Manchester United which leads us on to Conor Gallagher because Conor Gallagher has been linked to Manchester United again this morning he is desperate to be playing football ahead of the World Cup we've heard that story before and January is an opportunity for him to get out Manchester United looking at that again as I'm sure many other clubs will do because he is the quintessential January transfer signing.

6:58And I think if you can construct a deal whereby you bring him in, but it's a loan to buy. And I think as much as I don't want to look at the chat at the moment while I say this, I actually think Conor Gallagher at Man United would be a very quick, instant hit. I mean, I'm not saying he's going to come in and be Brian Robson or Roy Keane but I certainly think he could come in and be an under Herrera and those types of players are really important and I'm not saying we bring Conor Gallagher in as a player that's going to be the guy that's going to take us into the top four and hopefully get us into title races but our midfield is really bare it's threadbare really and I don't rate Casemiro anymore I don't think Bruno's a midfielder and Neyna Inagate are struggling under Amorim So if you bring somebody in like Conor Gallagher, you're going to need four midfielders in the modern game anyway, especially if you want to play European football, injury, amount of games, subs, etc.

7:55I actually think that this is a not not everybody's good. We probably need two, maybe three midfielders in the next in the next two seasons. We need two midfielders in the next 12 months. And if one of those is Conor Gallagher, then he's still in his mid 20s. he is Premier League proven, he is hungry, he is consistent. I thought Chelsea were weird to get rid of him, but in hindsight, you look at the players they brought in, Caicedo, Enzo Fernandes, et cetera. If it's somebody Ruben Amren wants, I think it makes a lot of sense. And I'd certainly want Man United to be at the front of that queue ahead of a Crystal Palace.

8:33Because sometimes when you're going for Angelo Stille or Leibur or Wharton or Anderson, they're at the top of the mountain. So you're going to pay the top price and you're going to compete. When you go for someone like Conor Gallagher, he's gone to Atletico Madrid. It hasn't worked out. He's not going to be the sort of player that Chelsea, Arsenal, Man City or Liverpool want. So you're going to be competing against the Newcastles, the Aston Villas, the Crystal Palaces. And his price is not going to be 60, 70 million. It's going to be 30, 40 million. As I say, this could be like an Ander Herrera type signing, loan to buy.

9:07I think we need to be all over it. And again, we'll talk about the Ganacho thing in a moment. but I think this vindicates Ruben Amrum again. I think Amrum's in such a strong position at the moment because he's obviously beaten Liverpool. He's having a bit of a glow up at last and he's being vindicated on a lot of things this week, like Belaber. Like, I think we all know we should have done that deal. But even Conor Gallagher, like we've tried to do that deal towards the end of the window and we didn't do it. Vindication again, that we probably should be going back in in January, that we should be going back in for Belaber in the summer.

9:39So I think Cameron's having a good time of it at the moment. And I really do feel that in the January transfer window, I would love to see Connor Gallagher come in on a loan to buy. And then in the summer, go for somebody else as well. Because if also the positive is if we try and go, we're not doing anything in January, we're not doing anything in January. we're not doing it it reminds me of when i was a kid and we used to go like to the american adventure in the old and old and towers and i'd be really excited with the map and i'd go are we going on niagara falls which was like those round boat things that go down no we're not going on that because it's uh it'll be too busy uh we'll avoid that area and i'm like but it's one of the best rides at alton towers yeah we're not gonna go there and it's a bit like united january transfer window we're gonna do anything that no no no but we're there we we need to do that we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna avoid that what we need to get it we need to get into those rapids and and do a couple of deals because we need two midfielders in the summer and if we wait till the summer to do two midfielders it makes it more difficult it's a world cup year i think you're an idiot if you need if you're a club like man united that needs to sign players we still do need to sign players and we and we ignore january then we're idiots because last summer no major tournament you know players are on holiday agents are willing to talk next summer massive world cup happy birthday america it's time to celebrate and play your favorite las vegas casino games by american-owned spinquest.com what's better than fireworks and american pie hitting a blackjack in the palm of your hand and you won't lose your fingers Over a thousand games, including slots and live dealers.

11:21And$30 coin packs are on sale for$10. SpinQuest.com. Buy American players for American players. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit SpinQuest.com for more details. You know, teams will be finishing the World Cup and going straight into preseason. Teams will be finishing the... Players will be finishing the season and going straight into World Cup preps. It's going to be a really challenging summer next summer to do deals. and therefore you've got to use January. And I know people talk about protests. I actually genuinely think we should start a movement about transfers in January because I don't know how good this football club is.

12:00They seem to make a lot of mistakes. Have they realised that the summer is going to be really difficult to do deals? Use the January window. Get one midfielder in in January and one in the summer. Bada bing, bada boom. You know, you've done it. And that's what I would be looking to do there. Just I wasn't going to bring this in now because there's so many so much to go through, but I will just bring it in as well. Basically, I had a couple of conversations with people yesterday, one of which is, you know, our info person that's been very good at United. And I'm just reading what was said. I mean, it basically comes down to this.

12:35Casemiro is 100 percent gone in the summer. There has been talks with Harry Maguire, obviously Bruno Fernandes. I don't think anybody could say Bruno's 100 % gone in the summer because if United get into the Champions League, he may fancy another year at United. Obviously, the Saudis will come back for him, but it's not 100 % with Bruno. Harry Maguire's in conversation at the moment, but Casemiro is described as 100 % gone in the summer. I put it to that person that we've obviously got him starting big games like Liverpool at the weekend. and there's been a little bit of rumour that he's happy in Manchester and he might stay, to which I was told Man United have been trying to get rid of him for two years because he's on 350 grand a week.

13:18If Man United were going to get Casemiro to stay, he'd have to go down to about 100 grand a week. Casemiro can halve his wage and still be on nearly 200 grand a week, which he will easily get in Saudi, the MLS and other places. So Casemiro is not going to reduce his wage to what Man United would pay. and he also knows they've been trying to get rid of him for two years and casemiro is a model professional who will turn up and do his job but when the summer hits he is going to go because united are not going to give him the money that he's on now so 100 gone in the summer i was told we can play the game we can pretend that this talks and in some ways you understand why man united are doing that because you don't want to be in a situation whereby um you know a player is basically definitely leaving in october but he will 100 be gone in the summer which is fine you know we can still support the player he does give his you know whether his best is good enough at times that's up for debate but he's always been very professional which i think we would would all agree with but it just opens up the conversation we were having there that casemiro is definitely gone in the summer who knows what's going to happen with bruno but he's not a midfielder anyway so we're two down we're two down anyway we're playing that game now and As I said yesterday, I'm not so sure Agate and Mainu are going to, both of them, are going to have a redemption.

14:40I really don't. Alex says, how's your day so far, Mark? I don't get asked that a lot. I hope you're all having a great day as well. Yeah, good, good. I'm really pleased that the week is going really quickly. I always enjoy the Ben Jacobs chat at two o 'clock on a Thursday, because we can ask about sales and transfers and sales and extra. And Thursday night, preview night, live. Love it. Can't wait. Can't wait. I think there's going to be a few arguments about my predicted 11 tonight. I was working on it this morning. Anyway, I am going to be selfish here because I've still got about another six topical stories to talk about.

15:15But I just feel like glowing Amrim up a little bit here because I put this out today. Now, look, it's gone off a little bit. I stand by it because it's what AI told me. So remember the other day that some basically this is going to be called the Amrim arse licking. section i suppose some people will call it that because i'm going to glow amrim up a lot here but um basically um a couple of days ago or a few days ago somebody said that ruben amrim has got to win his next um 14 games to get a win ratio the same as oligone solskjaer so i went i went on wikipedia and i know these aren't accurate but wikipedia says that amrim's got a 39 win ratio from 51 games um oligunna solskjaer had a 54 win ratio when he was sacked so i put it into ai how many games in a row does he need to win to go from 39 win ratio in 51 games to um a 54 win ratio now i don't know whether it's messed up i don't i don't know how it can basically it's saying he needs to win 17 games in a row now some people are saying 14 some people are saying 17 um there'll be mathematicians who are going to look at this straight away and go um you know that's not possible etc but that does include like all these games so he has got an absolutely huge job huge job i don't know whether he'll ever get a 54 win ratio but if he gets 17 games in a row and gets up to 54 we're winning title number 21 so i'm here for it so but but the reason i put it out there is because we've been talking about it in this community but i think it's really important to understand the enormity of the job that the importance of what i've just said there is his win ratio is going to be used against him by amory malters and the media every time he loses a game so even if he wins five games in a row his win ratio is still going to be very very low when he loses the next game and they'll go well look at his win ratio so just keep that in your head he's coming from a very very very far way behind but here comes the glow up the vindication on some of the things he's done he deserves huge credit for and i'm gonna talk about ganacho because ganacho basically was well there was rumors coming around about ganacho that he was willing to sit on the bench if man united wouldn't let him go to Chelsea and run his contract out.

17:49I specifically remember that. Obviously, we all saw the Aston Villa shirt and, you know, his behaviour was not great through the summer. So Man United sold him for£40 million. Ruben Amrim told him he wanted him out of the club. And here we are in the end of October and he's been at Chelsea for like, you know, a couple of months now. And whatever the future is going to be, Reben Amrim has been vindicated 100 % on that decision because I expected Gennaccio to go to Chelsea with all the motivation to prove Amrim wrong because that's what young, petulant people can do sometimes. They blame others and use it as a motivation and it can work.

18:38He's not even been able to do that. He got hooked at halftime last weekend, even though Chelsea won because he was shit. And he didn't even get a minute in a game where they're cruising all the way through the game against 10 men. What does that say? It says Maresca already is running out of patience with him. You know, he's hooking him at halftime. He's not giving him an opportunity against 10 men to go out there and boost his confidence. He's sat on the bench. He's sat on the bench, not getting on the pitch or being subbed off very, very quickly, which is exactly what he said he was going to do if we didn't let him go to Chelsea.

19:13So look, maybe at some point he's going to grow up. Hopefully he will. But I sit and look at this now and I go, whatever happens, even if he scores Attrick at the weekend and becomes player of the season, that's only going to be because he sits down and goes, what am I doing here? Like his first initial two months at Chelsea in reaction to United giving him the boot has been shite. and you know i think amram's been vindicated 100 on that and who's to say he won't actually end up being a decent player maybe he will but it's not he's not going to be a decent player because he's got a point to prove against amram it's going to be because something else clicks because it's certainly not working out for him in his dream move to chelsea at the moment and i know a few chelsea fans and they're happy with him you know they're looking at people like gittins neto esteba and saying they are better players.

20:08It's not our problem anymore. But I think it's really important because you don't get a lot of this in life. People don't actually ask you how you are very often. And in football, people don't do the whole, well, he was right about that. And he was, he was absolutely right about it. And he should be applauded for it, Ruben Amrim. He's got his own problems. And when you look at it, if we'd kept Ganacho, would we be in a better situation or a worse situation, worse. 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.

20:52They'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 spendquest.com for more details. Say what you like about Embermo, Mount, Konya, Ahmad, but they're giving their all. They're working hard for the team. They're not egotistical. I think, you know, I said this before, like sometimes the house is crumbling and you have to knock it down further to have a rebuild. And I still think Amrim is going through that and the next manager will have to do it as well. So when he gets these small wins, I think we should shout them out because he has been vindicated with that.

21:34And look, you could contrast Ganacho to Rashford and say, look at how well Rashford's doing. But Rashford's got a CV. Like, say what you like about Rashford. And Rashford was never going to do that at Man United. I mean, these people who go, you know, bloody player FC idiots going, oh, we shouldn't have let him go. He's cooking. Mate, he wasn't cooking for the last year at United, was he? He was never going to pull in that form at Man United. He was given numerous opportunities by Ten Hag and Amrim, and he was never going to do that. He wasn't motivated. It wasn't the right environment, whatever.

22:06He goes to a new environment. He's happy again. He's working hard again. It's like, it's like, it's like Ken have a toxic relationship, isn't it? Like he's gone off and built his life somewhere else and good luck to him, but he has a CV as well. Like Rashford does, you can look through Rashford's Wikipedia page and go, that year was amazing. That year was amazing him rediscovering that or being on the pathway to that you know is probably not the biggest shock in the world what's ganacho going back to like what i scored an overhead cut i was a really talented player with potential and i scored an overhead kick against everton chelsea bought him because they saw a player that was cheap young that they might be able to flip into profit and if they can't do it they won't lose any sleep over it so leave them to that Barcelona saw Rashford and went that's really cheap for a black for a player that has a brand and is like ready to go like you know if we if we can get him going he's ready to go and with Ganacho I think Chelsea looked at it and went 40 million pounds for a player that was 60 65 million pounds maybe six months a year ago let's have a look at this if it doesn't work you know his wages aren't that big it doesn't really matter anyway so i i think i think amram deserves a lot of credit for that uh let me just whiz into some of your comments as well because um marlow says why are we not talking about passing accuracy surely this is vital to amram system this season we're 15th place with an average of 80 percent versus liverpool only 68 percent the lowest in the league is it a concern be careful what you're talking about marlo because last night there was a lot of comments calling me negative even though i wasn't negative by saying is amarin brave or desperate because marlo i i detailed this last night um i saw even lorry whitwell in his article this morning was saying maybe reuben amarin should play the same way he did against liverpool against brighton i.e go direct and play deep and compact um and even he acknowledge that you know the home crowd might not be happy with that but if we try and play through Brighton and play on the front foot they might be better than us the best way to beat Brighton might be to do what we did against Liverpool which is um you know go more on the front foot uh go more direct more long ball uh as I said yesterday we're second in the league for long balls um so you know that's what I mean do you think he's going to change the way he's playing against Brighton or do you think we'll see this long ball direct football um it's results over performance isn't it a lot of people would say go for result I think that's very short term at some point you're going to have to change you can't play like Stoke every week so um you know it's certainly that's why the Brighton game is so important I don't think it's just about beating Brighton I think it's also about how you play against Brighton because that will that will always be analyzed look at bloody look at arsenal they're top of the league and people are calling them stoked so you know i don't think you're making a bad point uh marlo at all but um i i yeah we can talk about that on the eight o 'clock show but i didn't think i didn't realize our passing was so we're quite a direct team we move quick at the moment um i like the link up between amad and imbermo that was a concern for some of you at the start of the season i think now it's strength hope we have a good morale from the liverpool game and go on a five game winning streak come on united says paul columbus welcome to the members club thank you very much for getting your bag in did you do a bruno's heat map i've not looked at it maybe you could do it keel remind me at eight o 'clock and i'll do it because i can't really look at it in this setup um would you sell zerksey and bring in obi next year says jb where things are at the moment i'd cash in on zerksey if the money was right yeah um rajaf says i know it should not stand but thoughts on the first two assists in Germany and what does it mean for Salah to be dropped and Liverpool win big yeah I'm not talking about that Rajaf it's the United stand you're completely out of order on the wrong channel I'm not here to talk about Liverpool like that I feel like we're going you've upset me that no no I'm not doing that not on the United stand Alex says I feel like we're going against United traditions we're buying more young talents and starting to ignore academy ones manager also doesn't look like the one to promote youth hope I'm wrong um I don't think that's a problem for now.

26:27I mean, we're talking about a manager that two weeks ago was, you know, desperately trying to save his job. He's had a massive win against Liverpool. We've got to walk before we can run. I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm not saying that there might not be a concern around Ruben Amarin's, you know, developments of youth. But at the moment, as that person who broke it down into five, you know, parts of the puzzle, development of players has to take a backseat to results and consistency and tactics, etc. Hi, Mark. What's your thoughts on why any midfielder would come in when Bruno and Casemiro will always play?

27:05Well, Casemiro is 100 % gone in a year, Stephen, as I said. I would say Belieber and Stiller and Anderson, Mark, and I hope the players turn up on Saturday. Thanks very much to Stuart. Solid Blake's been a member for 32 months as well. You're an absolute legend, mate. Thank you very much for your support. Seth's a member as well. he says get rid of toxic water becomes clear in one transfer window and him should show his progress with his goalkeeper and the attack means needs time not saying he's right all the time yeah i completely agree with you mate and did you see that um if we've got time i want to talk about delitz comments as well but we've got quite a few bits to get through did you see that training exercise from lamens um i was watching it last night i mean i'm not saying that anana wasn't doing that the india wasn't doing that but it's like everything i hear like the person i was talking to about casemiro is you know in and around stuff and everything i hear about sesco is his work rate is absolutely incredible he's so hungry for the game he's what you describe as a footballer he's not a brand player you know he's not you know living off the you know the vibes of being a footballer and there are players who do that you know that they're out and about you know brands and get-togethers and everything like that sesco is described as dedicated footballer who wants to be one of the best strikers in the world lemenz the same and burmo and kunya more experienced but they're hungry players as well you've got yoro they're lit there's some really good characters and obviously there's people you know there's other players as well but when these are new players like sesco and lemenz i think it's really exciting team um and you know lemenz is in a really good position he's got a dream move to man united he knows man united are probably going to look to buy another goalkeeper in the summer and he's on trial he's either going to be the young second goalkeeper or he's going to be the first team keeper and they're going to have to bring another young goalkeeper in so he's got this six seven months to really just it's on him and in football and in life you don't always get that opportunity It's completely on him.

29:11Bienda's out of the equation. Anana's gone. He's the goalkeeper. And he's grasping the opportunity at the moment. And long may that continue. I'm very, very excited about what can happen with Sesko and with Levens. And they look like they're both really driven players, which is important. Just on strikers very quickly, we've been linked by Gazeta della Sport to Vlahovic. And there's a bit of an update on Endric, who was also doing a bit of a ganacoli yesterday. he was on the bench and not used again. Now, Xavi Alonso has said that Endric is part of his plan at Real Madrid, but there is a big chance that he could be loaned out in January.

29:51Villa, West Ham and Man United have been linked to him. I don't know. I don't know. I mean, look, over nothing, yes, but you've got to be a bit wary of what Spurs did with Tell. I still think that was a good deal by Spurs because they did win the Europa League and having another option is better than having no option, especially in the final few months of the season that's important. So if you're saying to me, Endric on loan until the summer in January or nothing, 100 % I'm going to do it. But then you flip it and you go, Real Madrid are probably not going to do a deal with us. So do we want to take a Real Madrid player for four months, then send them back and just know that we're just a loan team as a pathway?

30:36um he's still better than nothing um i don't know that united will do anything around a striker in january because as i said yesterday embermo amad will be away um mason mount could be injured so i think zerkzy will probably get used so i don't think we'll do anything with a striker and i don't think zerkzy will get out in january either um with vlahovic i mean i'm sure vlahovic should be about 36. It feels like he's been around forever and he's still only in his mid-20s. We've been linked to him forever. And it's a bit like Sesco, actually. I feel like Sesco's been around for a long time, but maybe it's just been a long four years.

31:16But Blahavich is out of contract in the summer. He's done quite well at Juventus. I think he's got four goals in 10 games across the Champions League and the Italian League. He's out of contract in the summer, like I said, I think he's on big wages. Oh, I have had no luck lately. Wait, lady luck? Breski, I got you. I've had so much luck on spinquest.com. They have all of my favorite games, slot games, live blackjack craps and bubble craps. You can even get a$30 coin pack for just$10. $10 for$30? I'm headed over to spinquest.com right now. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited.

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32:26So for me, I think the striker that we need to look at has to be somebody that's in it for the long run, who can compete with Cesco, but not somebody who comes in with the ego that they're ahead of him. And I just don't think United would spend the money required for Vlahovic as well. He's certainly not going to happen in January. Why would Man United pay money to Juventus in January when he'd be free in the summer? And also, there'll be a lot of people looking at Vlahovic in the summer because you haven't got to play a transfer fee. So I just think, I think with Vlahovic, as I've said many, many, many times before, it feels to me like that's just Manchester United being used, as we do get used quite a lot.

33:07And as Cap or Die says, he'd rather go with Tony anyway. So there we go on that one. I have got a little bit to bring you, just for those who are interested, on a sale. Um, so let me just get this for you as I move across.

33:38So wasn't there a lot quicker when I don't do it like this. Um, my God, it's on a particular website, which I won't shout out to our absolutely terrible for pop-up ads they must be really desperate for money because you really are ruining the viewer experience it's really hard to read anything because it's just like full of pop-ups all the time it's really really not a very pleasant experience and now i can't find it

34:23there it is so um this is from football insider and it's from a football finance finance expert expert called dan plumley who i think works at sheffield university and is a football finance expert he was asked about uh his belief about the glazers looking to sell manchester united and i thought it was quite an interesting take because you you know when it comes to the sale you get you know you don't necessarily want to listen to Simon Stone or someone like that he's a football journalist so this is what he said he said I think a takeover is unlikely um um because of how it played out before when Sir Jim Radcliffe came in we saw how that played out big bid from Qatar were led to believe that there was going to be a full takeover and it wasn't at the price that the Glazers wanted and I've always suggested that they are after a higher price for their exit which is certainly more than five billion there's been rumors that they actually want around 10 billion in the future to exit uh with football clubs though we say all the time they're really for sale if the right offer comes in and then people will listen and i i draw your attention to that because although i don't really know a lot about that person who's saying it i actually have said this myself and i've heard a lot of you say it as well i feel like the the glazes won't sell I feel like the only way they'll sell is if the club falls on its arse on the pitch or the regeneration project falls on its arse off the pitch.

35:53And the chances of both of those happening are probably slim. I think whatever happens with Amarim, Man United will be in and around Europa League, which is an improvement from this year. And I think whatever happens off the pitch, that regeneration project will get done. So the Glazers will see that regeneration project as a, when it's done, Man United's going to be worth more than 5 billion and it will be on the road to 10. So no one's going to pay more than 5 billion at the moment because the club's not there. And that's what the Glazers want. And I think that's just sort of where we are. So as much as I'd love somebody to step forward and buy the club and save us, because I still think the way the club's being run, regardless of the win against Anfield, we've got this weird Sir Jim Ladcliffe-Glazer thing going on.

36:48They're not mates. They don't know each other. They didn't grow up together. They're just business people running a football club together, which is never a good thing when you've got two separate entities. um neither of them want to put their own money in really to the extent that we need to clear debt etc um and ultimately both of them are treating it as um as an asset to make money out of so of course i would love a sale love a sale and you know people can come in here and argue with what i've just said there but everything we've seen from sir jim radcliffe is that he's a businessman 100 this is a business transaction but i don't think the end game is in the next few months i think the end game is in you know maybe 10 years when they potentially could flip it and sell it for a lot but yeah i don't i'd love to be wrong on that maybe ben jacobs will say something different at two o 'clock but um yeah that's sort of where i am with that one um just on the next three games um i've spoken about galaga we've spoken about casemiro we've spoken about that we've spoken about laments i want i want to try and get into the delete comments as well um ivan tony to spurs looks like it could be a good move said someone in the chat there out of all our targets who would you partner stilla with says incognito well i presume you're talking about signing two players i think if i was

38:19if i was going to buy stiller um

38:27warton i could i can see a case for all of them belaber anderson uh conor gallagher i think stiller would work well with a warts and or a gallagher i think from what i've seen um but in the midfield too you don't need a sitter you know you can you can you can be symmetrical and go you do one you do that job on that side and i'll do this side job on this side you go forward i'll stay back this time you know so i'd be very happy um rajaf says apologies i will not let it happen again just do it on that football just do it on that football mate um but look i'm going to find these the lit comments because they were really interesting but i do just want to go back to what we were talking about about amarin very briefly said it in the international break how are you feeling about these next three games because i think there's such an opportunity they're not easy but they are such an opportunity we've got brighton at home which we'll talk about later and you know all that sort of stuff but brighton at home on saturday then it's Forrest away who okay Ange is gone I wish we were playing Ange but you know it's another new manager who is going to need time to get his tactics going we've seen what Potter did at West Ham and what Amram did at Man United when you step into a club in the season so they could be you know first home game as well for Deitch in the Premier League they could be vulnerable and Spurs at the moment look really vulnerable.

39:59So we arguably should go into all three of these games as the favourites, which sounds ridiculous. What an opportunity. What an opportunity for a haircut if we win all three. But on a real level, these are three big games. These are the games that some people naively think that the Liverpool game or the Arsenal game or the Chelsea game or the Man City game defines a Man United manager. when the history and evidence shows that it doesn't the results that define a manager are losing to West Ham and losing your job losing to Watford and losing your job these are the games that are unacceptable you know when you get beaten by teams that really you should be beating so I think these next three games for Amarin are and the next three games after that I mean it's Everton Palace and maybe Gawnmouth.

40:50So we've got the top four out of the way. We knew the first eight games we had to play the top four. They're out the way. We don't play Newcastle and Villa until around Christmas. Obviously, we've got Spurs coming up. They're a top six club. But these next three games are just so big for Manchester United. And you can set targets on what you think we need to achieve. but I'd be disappointed if we didn't win two I think we've got to win two of the next three um that's all I'm going to say I mean if I can win three great but what an opportunity for the team what an opportunity for the manager I think there's huge positives and you could go into it and go we're going to win all three a little bit like Marlow said though if you scratch the surface there may well still be issues so I think that I've seen so many teams win a game that may be they might not have won, but it becomes a catalyst to get really good.

41:47I mean, look at Liverpool. They won five games in a row at the start of the season. They were playing as bad as they are now. So I think that, you know, it is such a big opportunity for Manchester United over these next three games. And I would say we've got to win too. 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.

42:22Get yourself a$30 coin pack for just$10. SpendQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Void where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. And one of those definitely, definitely should be at the weekend. Right, I'm just going to find these, the lit comments because I saw them yesterday and I really wanted to bring them in. So he said, look, on his form, yeah, for sure. I feel that I'm coming to my prime age now. I think as a defender, normally around 29, 30, 31, you're at your best. I'm now 26 and I think I've experienced a lot in my career and I can use this experience to my advantage and hopefully I can keep continuing that route.

43:02He said, my first three months at Juventus when I was 19, when I just left Ajax as captain, the ball touched my hand about five times in three months. I got punished three times for a penalty and stuff like that. Since then, I'm really conscious about this movement. Last season, I think I had a really unlucky one against Liverpool when the ball just went from maybe half a metre to my hand. That's something I'm really conscious about. Also with blocking shots and stuff like that, keeping my body big, but keeping my hands behind my back so it's not going to be a penalty for a handball. I find all this sort of stuff really fascinating because I think, for me, De Ligt has been our best player.

43:37this season um there are other candidates but i think he's i think he's been really really good but i also think he's massively underrated um i don't know why um there is a movement against the lit in the media um and maybe in the fan base as well there's a reluctance to acknowledge just how good he is and i don't know why i really don't know why i think he's a very uh inoffensive player um he's a very dedicated player and he's a very consistent player my only concern with was actually injury like um i think his injury record before coming to man united was a little bit you know concerning but he's our best center back he's our best player this season in my opinion and he speaks with such authority and and at 26 he has a he has an incredible career behind him um i think in in a different world we champion him far more as a player it's almost like he just does his job and and and you know there's an acknowledgement of how good he does his job but he just for whatever reason doesn't have the recipe to get the credit he deserves and maybe that's a good thing because when you look at his career i remember him at ajax when we got linked to him and i remember that speech in front of thousands of people when he was an ajax player and he must have been 19 and he was the captain and it was like my god at 19 he's doing that Juventus and Bayern Munich I think people try and paint that in a more negative light and having had him at Man United I don't trust that light because I think we have the same with the media here um I think both teams struggled the season after he left actually if I remember correctly and at United in his debut season under 10 hog he bought him although we were shit I thought we had a decent season i think he's been brilliant this year so i think he's a very very important player that i wouldn't miss um i wouldn't uh wouldn't sleep on and you know a lot of people a lot of you have said you know he is captain material for manchester united i i do agree with that but i'm actually quite glad that he's not the captain because we've seen what that captaincy can do to play as harry mcguire bruno fernandez it can be a very very heavy armband but he's i really enjoyed his interview and um i really enjoy the way he speaks i think the encouraging thing for me is that i don't necessarily know well i wouldn't know when his birthday is because i feel it's only just gone so he um yeah so he was only 26 in august so he's a brand new 26 year old so basically he won't be 27 till the start of next season so this season's going to be 26 27 28 29 by the time he hits 30s he'll be going into his fifth season at united so fingers crossed because we've seen what's happened with martinez but fingers crossed we've got a guy that's ridiculously consistent performing really really well who will be in that defense of manchester united for his prime years for the next four or five years and people talk about the signings of imbermo and but i do think the lit and masrawi masrawi can get back fit i do think that those two players are you know really good and i'm not saying by munich made a mistake because you know by munich are a little bit like man city aren't they man city have let people like cole palmer go they're not they're not necessarily pleading poverty um but it was definitely to our benefit and um as i said sure on monday you know you look at this manchester united side and it's not that difficult to find positives, whether it be Le Mendes, whether it be Le Litt, Yoram, Azraoui, Ahmad, Kunyar Mbemo, Sesko, Dorgou.

47:29There are a lot of positives in that Man United side. I think what it's about is you're only as strong as your weakest link. And I think United midfield might let everything else down at the moment. And that's the survival point. And that does piss me off. It does piss me off because I think we can't do anything about it the you know the transfer window is closed but it does piss me off because I see so many positives in that United team that team is the word and you're only as strong as your weakest element in the team and the weakest element in that team is for me the midfield which is a very important area and in many ways I feel like it is about I sort of understand what Laurie Whitwell saying about maybe we should play direct against Brighton because whilst we've not got a midfield, how are we going to play the way we want to play?

48:18Maybe it is about getting the best out of what you've got until you get what you need. Dilic is the only player I've seen you give a 10 to, says Paul. I think I gave Ronaldo a 10, Paul. I think there was a game where I gave Ronaldo a 10. I think I have given a 10. I don't know. I don't know. Been doing this for a very long time, but I do think I have given a 10 out on a couple of occasions. Maybe Bruno. You know, funnily enough, I do like Bruno. fernandez um i just don't like him in the midfield i think some people struggle with that but you know i mean i i've said it to so many people i'll say to you again that assist on the harry mcguire goal and i know harry mcguire gets all the credit and quite rightly he does because he scores the winner and it's a you know only he can do that but i do think that that the assist by Bruno Fernandes was out of this world.

49:11And I think that is, you know, that's a life lesson as well. I'm not here to preach life lessons. I couldn't give a toss about what your, you know, politics are or anything like that. It's not, we're here to talk about football. But I do also think, you know, one thing I would always advise people is that not everything's black and white, not everything's red and green. There's always everything else in between. And I can confidently sit here and say, Bruno played shit against Liverpool. not for the first time this season, and it's because he's a midfielder. He's playing in the midfield when he's an attacking midfielder.

49:46And some people would go, well, why are you saying he... If he's lagging him off, why are you saying it's such a world-class assist? Sit down, you hater. And I'll go, no, you sit down, you idiot, because you're not actually listening, are you? Bruno, with that assist, is justifying exactly what me and many other people are saying. He is a number 10. He is not a midfielder. He loses Phil Foden in a game at the Etihad in a Manchester derby, and we lose the momentum of the game. At Anfield, in the last minute, he puts in a world-class cross that not many people can do, and we win the game. Break that down.

50:23Analyse that. Well, OK, putting him in the midfield causes us problems at the back. Getting him near the goal at the other end wins his games. and I don't think Bruno in the midfield can really get into the areas he needs to be in because if he goes into those areas he leaves a hole but when he can go into those areas because we've got a corner because that broke down from a corner you see what he can do somebody said to me well it just shows you that Bruno can do the midfield role and the number 10 role if he got the assist against Liverpool and I was like hold on a minute mate that whole thing came from Bruno being on the wing from the result of, I think, taking a corner.

51:06And it came back to him. I think I'm right in that. But anyway, we were on the attack from a set piece because that's why Harry Maguire was up. He certainly wasn't open play. Bruno and Harry Maguire didn't go, it's 1-1 at Anfield. They've just equalised and were under pressure. Let's go on a wander forward. I think we had a set piece. That's why Maguire was up there. So, no, yeah. Bruno Fernandes' assist on Sunday was, very few players can do that. It was absolutely unbelievable. it was on the volley it was controlled it was perfect it was side of the foot it you know that is bruno fernandez that's what he can do but you've got to get him in and around the goal and i don't think we're doing that in by putting him in the midfield um keith says it's a bit like what we did with mctominy proven attacking midfielder playing as a box to box we used to play mctominy as a six this profiling of players has happened at man united for a long time it's not on Ruben Amrit we've misprofiled players for well take me back in time to the earliest point you can think of misprofiling players I mean Juan Mata we spent a lot Juan Mata was about 45 million quid which today would be close to 80 million quid and we put him on the wing miss totally i remember watching man one matter play for spain in a tournament in i don't know 2011 2012 a summer tournament i watched him and i thought oh my god this guy is one of the best number 10s in the world man united bought him and put him on the fucking wing so we've been missed we've been misprofiling players for a long time i don't know why i don't know why we do it um square pegs in round holes we've been talking about that on this channel for about 10 years um but it's on amrin putting bruno in the midfield yes 100 yeah but i don't even think bruno's happy there but hopefully it will work out the important thing to remember is we have beaten teams and we have played well with bruno in the midfield villa at the end last season Arsenal at the start of this season Chelsea Liverpool um are you doing career mode today says Tom I'm hoping to do career mode around five o 'clock and just get three or four games in quickly again so yeah hopefully I am we've got Ben Jacobs at two I'm live with you back at eight o 'clock tonight for a live Brighton preview do not miss that I love the live previews it really starts kicking off with opinions and etc um but thanks everyone for tuning in this morning love the show.

53:42Loads and loads of stuff in there for a Thursday. And I think I did cover everything off as well. So have a great day, everyone. Don't forget two o 'clock with Ben Jacobs. Always a good show. I'll speak to you in a bit. Thanks for watching.

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