224: Not HAPPENING! Amorim's HUGE Ask! Transfer BOOST!

0:03Hello, everybody. Good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United news. As Ruben Amrim is given an impossible ask, I think. That's the news this morning. They're demanding European football. Is that too much too soon? We're talking, not even talking Champions League, we're talking six or above. This is coming in from Sky. also encouraging news around a midfielder. Petty Goal is retweeting a tweet. Conor Gallagher's being linked to us in January. Some encouraging things about Shea Lacey. And I also want to just start off, you know, this is going to be like getting some petrol and tipping it on a bonfire.

0:41So I don't know why this is a thing, but it ain't happening, right? I know you can twist stats however you want them to, but this is complete and utter nonsense. And my theory is it's coming from Amrim outers trying to justify how they can come back, having been so vocal about being Amrim out. So you know what I'm about to say, and I'm absolutely against this, but this is a community and you can get your comments in. But apparently Amrim outers are now doing articles and videos explaining why they're now Amrim in, because he's listened to them and changed the system. He hasn't changed the bloody system.

1:17He hasn't changed the system. If you're looking for tweaks, oh my God, just own up. You're back supporting Man United. You're back supporting Amirim. Stop trying to justify that you are some tactical mastermind and Amirim has seen your bloody tweet from three months ago and changed his system. He hasn't changed his bloody system. He's been tweaking his system for years. He's been tweaking his system at Sporting. He's been tweaking his system at Man United. The problem he's got is that he now has players that can play his system better. Like Inanna wants to play out from the back, Lemans will boot it long.

1:51Sesco can hold the ball up. Rasmus couldn't. Ganacho and Rashford and Anthony and Cunha and Mbamo. These are the tweaks that matter. He's always tweaked his system. You know, when I look at it, I just, I just, look, let the debate run in the background. We'll come to it. But I don't know about you, but I just find it hilarious that people are trying to make out that since the international break, since we've played bloody Liverpool and Brighton, there's some, you know, massive change in the way that Amarim is approaching games. Their bloody isn't. Their factually isn't. Their tactically isn't.

2:25Their really isn't. What's happening is confidence is growing and players are becoming more familiar with each other. And we have a goalkeeper that's giving more confidence to the team and everybody is getting more used to each other. And we're winning games where we were losing games. You know, maybe Liverpool, we might have lost. If Gakpo hadn't hit the post twice and not missed and we'd lost that game, do you think people will be going, you know what? I know we've lost 3-2 to Liverpool but I'm back amroom in now because he's tweaked the system the only reason people are talking about tweaks of system is because we're winning games and because we're winning games some people feel shit this might be the start of something I need to be amroom in how do I be amroom in when I've been so vocally amroom out I know I'll say he's tweaked the system he hasn't tweaked the bloody system at all I mean if you want a bit of facts I was doing some research here on Yscout this morning.

3:13So let me start off with, well, let's do average pass length over the last few games. So against Brighton, I mean, the reason you do average pass length is because, you know, are you playing small little ticky-tack of passes or are you going longer? So against Brighton, our average pass length was 18.5. Against Arsenal on the opening day of the season it was 19.5 so those passes are slightly longer granted against Liverpool it was 21 meters because obviously we were going a lot longer than that um uh long passes per 90 average 10 against Brighton so 10 about you know for 90 were long passes Liverpool it was 16 obviously we're away from home um against Arsenal it was 12 on the opening day so we were going more long we were playing more longer passes against Arsenal on the opening day than we were against Brighton last week.

4:10What about passes per possession? Four, Arsenal. Four, Brighton. 2.7, Liverpool. Again, Liverpool away. We're going more direct. We're not keeping the ball. We're going more direct because it's Liverpool away. Sunderland, four. What about possession? What about our possession across the season? Well, we had less possession against Arsenal at home than we did against Brighton. We've had low possession all season. I think there's only Burnley and Grimsby and Brentford where we've been over 50 % possession all season. So these themes have been there all season. It's like people are going, we're going more direct now.

4:49We're going more direct now. The last couple of games, over the international break, he's listened to all his amy-mounters and he's gone more direct. You know, he's definitely going more direct. You know, he's listened to the feedback and he's tweaked his system and he's gone more direct. And now, because we're playing long ball, I like it. Can I just shock you? I'm a tactical TikToker who loves brilliant football, but I just know Amarin's listening to me. He's listening to me and he's going long ball now, which I've always liked. Can I just shock you there? I really like long ball. We've been doing it all bloody season.

5:20We've been going more direct all season. You know the reason we're going more direct? Because Bruno's in the fucking midfield. But Casemiro's in the midfield. Casemiro never takes a touch. He moves the ball really quickly. I said this last season because we did it last season. Casemiro in the midfield, he doesn't take a touch anymore. He moves the ball first time. He was doing it in the Europa League last year. And the reason he does that is because he's slow now. And if he's slow, people get on him. Watch Casemiro against Forrest at the weekend. He moves the ball quickly. We're moving the ball quickly and we were doing it last season.

5:53Bruno wants to hit a bloody Hollywood pass. We are going more direct. We were going more direct the minute we put Bruno in the midfield. Did Bruno start in midfield against Anfield? Yes. Against Liverpool? Yes. Was that his first game in the midfield? No. What's happening is we haven't done a tweak. We're just getting more used to each other. And he's got better players for his system. The big change in Amorim was the pre-season and the transfer window. And his new signings are getting more used to his system. And his old signings are getting more used to his new signings. there's no bloody tactical tweak in the October transfer window in the October international break it's a nonsense there will always be game-to-game tweaks you will always be able to go well look at this is what we did against Brighton that we didn't do against Arsenal on the opening day I don't think Sesco played on the opening day for a start so Sesco gives you the option to go really long um so it's not tactical tweaks it's summer signings but there's multiple things going on here.

6:53I'll tell you what a bloody tactical tweak is, is when Solskjaer is shitting himself because he's about to lose his job and he plays a back five against Spurs away. That's a tactical tweak. Amman's not changing his system. Amman's not changing anything. Players are just getting more used to his system. And in certain games, we'll play certain ways. And against Liverpool, we hardly had the ball. We went massively long ball, but why not? But this is against Brighton. We played very similarly to the way that we played against Arsenal on the opening day and the stats show that if you compare possession long balls against Arsenal on the open day and Brighton very very similar so what's the tactical tweak if we were doing it on the opening game of the season apart from players becoming more familiar with it um but open the debate up because you know the reason is the reason I mention it is because there's just so many people talking about it at the moment and I just don't get it there's an obsession to say is tweak something is tweak something and it's just so obvious that the people saying this are The people that were going, he's rubbish.

7:51His system's rubbish. Anyway, let's get into the topical stuff. We can come back to that. I just wanted to set it up as a starter for 10. So let's start off with a couple of things coming in this morning in relation to, I think it's coming in from Rob Dorsett, who works for Sky. Manchester United have set their sights firmly on bolstering the engine ring with the new defensive midfielder topping the to-do list. Elliot Anderson, Adam Wharton and Carlos Balaba are among the names being weighed up as potential anchors. The club is expected to make its move in the summer rather than in January. I don't like that.

8:26I don't like that as a piece of news on a Wednesday morning because waiting till the summer is a very easy thing to say when the club's on the up. But the last time I checked, we weren't in the top four, we weren't in the top five. We still have to make improvements. And Manchester United ignoring a January transfer window is a major red flag as far as i'm concerned especially when the second part of this report says that um uh where was it um that was the

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9:11Ruben Amarin is aiming for European qualification next season with Chief Executive Omar Barada and Director of Football Jason Wilcox One minute

9:37sorry i was getting interrupted there when i stream every morning at 10 o 'clock it's it's a weird thing isn't it um reuben amram is aiming for european qualifier this is also from the same article Ruben Amirim is aiming for European qualification next season with chief executive Omar Barada and director of football Jason Wilcox likely content with a top six finish um I think that um well what are your thoughts on that I mean first of all it's a double report one of it's saying that we are going to go for a holding midfielder but it will be in the summer transfer window and the second part of it says that Amirim's aiming for European qualification next season with chief executive Barada and director of football Jason Wilcox likely content with a top six finish um you know you know i i think it's i think those two things go um high hand in hand uh to be honest with you um i i i really do i think that with regards to um how you how how you can how you can say we'll be content with a top six finish if you don't give him a midfielder in January I don't know um Ruben Amrim has to aim for European football I completely agree but if you don't give him a midfielder until the summer how can you say we'll be content with top six I mean there's there's so many if buts and maybes attached to that in the sense that if we finish sixth and we don't get in the Champions League because we didn't buy a midfielder in January how can Omar Barada and Jason Wilcox sit there and be content um if if we if we finish seventh and we haven't bought a midfield and we don't get into Europe are they going to sack him because they won't be content and I think all these things for me are you know totally you know go hand in hand and I think this is what I was talking about it last night it's just so dangerous in a period of positivity to be um you know looking at it and saying um that i'm sorry i'm multitasking here

11:48basically it's a kitchen project i'm being asked about a mirror as a splashback behind the kitchen What do you think? What's your general thoughts on that? So the kitchen's coming towards the end of it. And behind the cooker, there's a mirror as a splashback thing. Now, I'd normally go with tiles or maybe a stainless steel panel. But in the design, it's a mirror. And I'm like, I mean, I am very vain. And I could practice my shows whilst making a spag bowl. But I don't know. I don't know about a mirror as a splashback. I mean, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. We should run a poll. Yeah, it's a mirror as a splashback behind your cooker.

12:24I mean, some of you bloody peasants probably don't do cooking. You know, you should be cooking. It's not hard. Watch Cooking with Goldbridge. But yeah, the mirror would get dirty. Savage says tiles. Clear glass, not a mirror. Clear glass. Yes, that could work. Mirror is terrible. I have it. Not as a splashback. Nice piece of granite. That would be a nightmare to keep clean. Tiles, defo. Yeah, tiles. Actually, I'm going to change.

13:02Chat saying nightmare. Yeah.

13:11Yeah, loads of people saying no. Okay, we'll try and make a change on that. Okay, so yeah, anyway, as I was saying there, I need a sip of tea. Calm down. project manager bridge um mirrors are for ceilings as pat bot not for cookers chat says no computer says no um please share the video and smash a like so yeah i think with regards to the top four and the champions league or the europe league or the top six which would make the club content i actually do agree that this has to be ruben amram's aim for the season um i think now that we're living it i mean i want to pose that question if amarin finishes seventh i i don't think he gets sacked but i think there's a lot of people very unhappy and we must remember that on saturday night we were fourth by the end of sunday we were down to sixth and that's because chelsea and liverpool lost like we could have been back down to eighth again it's really competitive and you can be fourth and going we're back we're back we're back and then you can be like oh shit We're not back.

14:16We're down to eighth. So it's, I mean, it might be very different in the latter half of the season, but right here, right now, there's probably not going to be that much of a difference between fourth and seventh. So if we miss out on European football and finish seventh, I don't think Amrim gets the sack, but I don't think you can say we're going to buy a midfielder in the summer and we want European football this year. I don't think that works. I think you've got to go, we want European football this summer. We're going to give you a midfielder in January because we didn't get you one in the summer.

14:49So I don't like that update because it's saying United in the summer are going to go for the big midfielder they want. But this season, they're content with a top six finish. Well, no bloody man United football club should be content with a top six finish. Just because we finished 15th last year doesn't mean we're content with six. There's an opportunity to go and get in the top four. massively opened up over the last few weeks but we have to be building to do that and experiencing what we're experiencing at the moment is quite a novelty you know i definitely think that one of the other tactical tweaks that nobody will bloody talk about and it's so obvious to me and the hipsters ain't going to talk about this how's about we're doing i mean nobody's mentioning this one you know brain you know i'll take the credit for this all these bloody tweets about tactical tweaks and you know analyzing stats to make them work do you know on Yscout by the way there's about a hundred different stats team stats before you even going to players so if I want to try and pretend that Man United made some big tactical switch I'm bound to found two or three things that'll prove it um it's a load of bollocks but also if we're talking about tactical tweaks and all this nonsense what about this one what about this one what did we say and I said it but I'm going to say we say what did we say at the start of the season for Manchester United it will be around game week 10 before we really click because on game week 10 you've had a couple of months for the new signings to get used to the Premier League to get used to Amrim you've had a couple of months for the older players from last season to get used to the new players you've also got European football is on game week three or four.

16:37And therefore, we've had three or four weeks where we're not playing midweek football. Add into that, we've had a couple of Carabao Cup rounds as well where we're not playing. We've had over a month now of not playing midweek when everyone else has. So by now, your players are getting used to it, your systems, etc. But you're also a lot fresher than everybody else. And that's going to continue between now and Christmas. That's not a tactical tweak, that's being fresher than everybody else. And is that not a thing? Are we not going to acknowledge that that's a thing? Because I think it is a thing.

17:11I really, really do. And I think it's a big thing. So when I look at what's happening at the moment, it's a novelty because we have that freshness. But I don't think I could put up with it next year. I don't think I could put up with this every year. Oh, we're not in Europe. We need to be in Europe next year. We We can't be like this every season. Financially, it will kill us, but we can't be like this every season anyway. We can't just sit here and go, oh, it's great playing one game a week. The whole point of it is that Brendan Rodgers slippy G season. You go from nowhere to a title race because you're not playing midweek.

17:46We absolutely evidentially have to turn not playing midweek football into European football, especially when we've got multiple players on over 150 grand a week. I'm not buying into this bollocks that we're overachieving. We're not overachieving. We've massively underachieved for a very long time. Amrin must be given patience and time and resources to build what he's trying to build. But when you deep it and you look at Manchester United, am I wrong to say that what we pay in wages and who we are, we should be in Europe next season? But I still think, you know, you can bake a cake and not buy eggs and the cake will be horrible.

18:26Someone's going to give me a recipe for cakes without eggs. And I still think in January, I think what I'm trying to say is European football and recruiting a midfielder in January go hand in hand. European football and not recruiting a midfielder till the summer jeopardizes European football. So I'm very wary of those messages, especially when they're in the same article that United are going to wait until the summer to bring their midfielder in. And Amirim and Barada and everybody will be content with a top six finish. I think you jeopardise and danger a top six finish by not bringing a midfielder in.

19:00However, moving the story on a little bit, what I am encouraged to say is that Spanish reports this morning are talking about Conor Gallagher leaving Atletico Madrid and Manchester United are referenced again. So I'm hoping, and I know I'm holding back the tide a little bit here against you lot because you don't necessarily want it to happen, but I'm not saying Conor Gallagher is going to answer Manchester United's prayers. what I'm saying is if you give me Conor Gallagher today, I'll thank you and I'll give him back at the end of the season if he's no good. We are struggling in the midfield. We're doing okay at the moment.

19:36Casemiro and Bruno were doing very, very well, but it wasn't that long ago where people were very concerned about that and it probably won't be that long in the future until we're very concerned about it again. The backup isn't really delivering. Agarte for a£50 million pounds midfielder isn't delivering and mainu isn't delivering either now maybe that's to do with amram maybe it's to do with them but i would welcome you know i'd love an 18 year old from the youth team to come through and be the next roy keen tomorrow that would be amazing or the next paul skulls but it's probably not going to happen so if we could get conor gallagher in january i would say that's it you know if somebody said to me now what do you want to do in january i'd say conor gallagher and that's it that's it do what you like with zirksy and mainu keep them loan them whatever give me conor gallagher i reckon we've got a chance because he'll come in ridiculously hungry and what i've seen this season and we're seeing it with luke shaw and we're seeing it with harry maguire they've got an outside chance of getting into the england squad for the world cup and we're seeing it all over europe and all over the premier league players are desperate to get into world cup squads and that is so stupid of manchester united if they aren't i mean it's It's almost like you need to recruit someone for your business and there's somebody who has got the most motivation you're ever going to see.

20:56They're so motivated. They'll literally work more hours than they need to because they're desperate for money or whatever like that and they're good at their job. Get them in. It's a no-brainer. This won't be the same next year. We could literally bring a midfielder in in January and say to them, if you do well, we might sign you permanently in the summer. and if you do well, you might get an England squad. I mean, it's just a no-brainer, and United need to be looking at it. So I really do hope that there is some truth in it, because I just want us to not mess this up. I've seen it before where we don't do enough in the January transfer.

21:34The most annoying update from Manchester United normally drops around November, December, where they go, we as a football club don't value the January transfer window. We work really hard on our summer transfer window, and that's where we focus. And then the summer transfer window comes around and we absolutely fuck it up. And you go, liars, you're bloody liars. Let's talk about what's your obsession on proving Amrim out as wrong, says Tabby. No, I don't have one, mate. What's your obsession with taking it personally? I don't have one. I just, my obsession is not an obsession. This is the community of conversation and debate.

22:12And anybody who's got their ear to the ground knows that a lot of people at the moment are talking or debating about a tactical tweak from Amarin that's never happened. What I'm doing is saying it hasn't happened. You can always find little things that are different, but he hasn't changed his formation and he hasn't changed anything from the start of the season because he was doing everything the same at the start. What's clearly happening is certain players are getting more used to his system and the team is getting used to each other and confidence is inspiring that as well. I mean, Morgan Gibbs-White was literally talking about it.

22:45I know we're playing them at the weekends, but I'm sure I can find it. Gibbs White was talking about it. I don't know why Gibbs White's been talking about it, but he said this. Man United in the last four or five games are really starting to click. The grit and determination to want to play for the badge is incredible to see. And I feel like it's something that the league has missed. I mean, we're playing Gibbs White on. I mean, you don't normally see that sort of stuff, but yeah, we're playing Forest on Saturday and Gibbs White's glowing us up. So, you know, I think that people are starting to see that.

23:23Certainly. So it's not an obsession at all. I tell you what, I can't understand people who can't hold a conversation. Like, we literally do an 8 o 'clock show every night, and my hair's a bit jelly to them. We literally do an 8 o 'clock show every night. and for the last few nights, I've been saying, have we got any Amory Mouters that dare to tell us why they're still Amory Mout? You're very welcome. Don't try and turn this community into we hate Amory Mouters because you're in the wrong place, mate. Go and watch the bloody Disney channel and the other shite that turn all this bloody, I'm Amory Mout and I hate him.

23:58Oh, I'm back now. I'm cooking. I'll get a pair of sunglasses on. Fuck off. Child's play. We don't do that over here. We have a grown up conversation. If you're Amory Mout, I actually respect you. If you can tell us why you're still Amrimal. All I want is for you to come back. Come back. You're welcome. But don't try and make lies up about Amrim's changed the system and he's listened to you because he hasn't. Or at the very least, nobody agrees with you that he has. Certainly Amrim, the people that wanted the manager to do well are not going to acknowledge that he's changed the system and you can come back off that because he hasn't.

24:34He just hasn't. Factually, he hasn't changed it. He's been trying to do this all along. I saw somebody the other day say, watch Casemiro closely. He doesn't take a touch on the ball now. He moves the ball so quickly. I'm like, please go back to last season. We were talking about this in March in the Europa League. He was doing it then. I specifically remember doing shows talking about Casemiro in the Europa League. He may not be able to do it in the Premier League anymore, but look at him in the Europa League. He gets the ball and he moves it really quickly. Apparently, it's a new tactical tweet now.

25:04um as lazy says glass or metal backsplash is the most practical tiles are nice but cleaning tomato sauce from the ground is a motherfucker um yes okay well maybe a mirror is a good idea then i need some help on this um constantine says how important is the fa cup for us in the grand scheme of things i think it's very important constantine i do uh i think it's very important because we're you know it's the pathway into the Europa League I think I think I think the FA Cup is the Europa League so uh yeah it is because Crystal Palace are in the Conference League because they got demoted down from it so the FA Cup is really important because um and nobody wants to talk about the FA Cup in October but like we're not in the Europe we're not in the Carabao Cup we have got loads of capacity in the second half of the season and we've got loads of players so the fa cup is massively important so we must take it very very seriously um also if the competition for places between fifth and seventh are really big and you finish seventh and you're not in europe or you're in the bloody conference league which i don't want to be in then the fa cup does give you an opportunity to finish in and get a europa league spot and also it's nice i'd rather win the fa cup and finish sixth you know so yeah um i think the club's trying to lower expectations for the season says elfie in what context um i don't know i think you're at may be answering something from a few minutes ago but i think the club's trying to lower expectations for this season in what way because i think top six would probably be in fairness i think if if if we'd said top six at the start of the season i think a lot of people would have said that's a good season um i pitched this between fifth and tenth so i think um i think if we get top six hammering survives i just think that there's a big correlation between buying a midfielder in january and getting european football i also don't think that i'd i'd be very surprised if fifth place is champions league football and sixth place is europa league football i guarantee you the difference in points is going to be really different really really close really really close like fine margin um emily derry says the article gives the impression of complacency at executive level why should we be content with sixth not saying we need to win the league but aim as high as possible yes absolutely hey and contextually emily emily as well let's not forget that um we don't know the context of that article um we don't know the context of that conversation um i would say that a top six finish keeps amram comfortably in a job european football keeps him in a job i would say anything below that puts pressure on him so the club saying that they'd be content with a top six finish you can understand but if i was jason wilcox or omar barada or sir jim radcliffe or reuben amrin today and somebody said you know we'd be content with sixth place i'd say why would we be content with that at the moment the door is opened up to such a big opportunity um i sit here after nine games and say there's actually absolutely no reason we couldn't finish fourth there's no reason with the right consistency and additions in January, there's no reason we can't.

28:39You know, we've already beaten Chelsea. We've already beaten Liverpool. Our next game against Liverpool is at Old Trafford. Why would you not fancy us there? So, you know, Chelsea, Stamford Bridge, Sunderland have just been there. Newcastle aren't even near us at the moment. I think that you've got to, you've always got to be adaptable in life and in football. And I think at the start of the season, I would have said, fifth place will be very difficult. Right here, right now, I would say Fort Place isn't impossible, you know, because the way the season's playing out, it's pretty... I mean, look, I...

29:15I'm living game to game, and I think Cameron's living every game to game, and I think you are as well. And I look at Forest at the weekend, and we will win. I mean, if we don't win that game, I'll be very disappointed. Now, I don't know what's going to happen, and nearly said COVID. VAR, you know, hit the post 60 times. You can't guarantee we're going to win, but I'd be disappointed if we don't. They're in the bottom three and they're playing crap. Villa are playing well and are playing Liverpool. Then Man City are playing Liverpool. So I'm looking at... And Chelsea are playing Spurs on Saturday.

29:48So I'm looking at Saturday and I'm going, three o 'clock game against Forest. We win, which I expect us to do. Spurs and Chelsea can't both win. So that's an opportunity to either go past Spurs or open up a bigger gap on Chelsea. Villa and Liverpool can't both win. Again, it's an opportunity to move ahead of both if they draw or one if one of them loses. So here's what happened when one journalist reported on DEI programs. I decided to just focus on the University of Michigan. I obtained internal documents that showed that the school had spent about a quarter of a billion dollars on DEI programs.

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31:07That's fact-based reporting. Seek it out if you don't already. I'm sort of looking at this position that we're in, which is a good position, and I'm looking at the weekend and I'm going, there's another great opportunity there presenting itself. Slazy said, the biggest tweak is starting a goalkeeper that does the job. it's trusted by the defense keeps the team calm and able to focus on what they're supposed to do well did you not to be fair as lazy like that's not a tactical tweak is it that's a summer signing um and that's sort of what i was talking about and i do agree with you i think that the summer signings are not tactical tweaks um and you know the point i'm making i think a lot of people are making is is that there's this there's this myth going around that amarin has done something um to in the international break in October, Amrim sat there going, I'm getting absolute cultists here.

32:02What are all the hipsters saying I need to do? And I've done it. He hasn't done that. But changes are happening because in every game you change things. And the changes that are clearly happening are signings. Like Lemens has made a massive difference in goal. Sesko, when he plays up front. I mean, look, the tactical, if you can find things that are different from Fulham, Arsenal, Burnley compared to Sunderland and Liverpool and Brighton. Well, one thing that's very, very clear is that against Sunderland and Brighton, Cesco started and against Liverpool and Arsenal and Fulham, and I don't think he started against Burnley, Cesco didn't.

32:46So there's one thing straight away that makes a big difference to how you play, having a six foot four striker. also our anana sort of had a did an interview this week where he had a a thinly veiled pop at man united players because he basically was talking about how pep guardiola has always shouted him out and he was basically saying words to the effect um i analyzed the game um i don't know i've got the exact quote here i might have it if i have it just makes it a lot easier but basically anana was saying when i get the ball i analyze the game and i'm looking at options on how to pass it but you need the players to be able to do it for you um as i always say most of the time it's my teammates who give me the option when i'm building up the game if they help me the work looks much better um so basically anana's saying that you know i'm analyzing everything and i know what i want to do but the players need to be there helping me um is that a dig at man united or isn't it i mean lomenzo just blast it along to sesco he won't go you know and also that's such a simplistic point as well isn't it you know i need the players there so i can play out from the back etc the problem with anana was not the playing out from the back i very rarely saw people moaning about anana playing out from the back um it was your inability to get down on low shots it was your volleyball palming it back into play um it was your inability to you know collect crosses um it was the total and utter panic on the face of your defense every time they look behind them um it was like it's you know it's like lying on a lilo on holiday and you look behind you and there's a bloody finn coming towards you It was terrifying.

34:34So look, as I say, I agree with Slazy on that. Tobiso says, I'm seven minutes behind you. I told you the Amory Mouters were doing this. They are snakes in the grass. No, look, there are people doing it. Some people just can't accept that they're wrong in life. It's the I told you so FC. I mean, look, as I said yesterday, there are people in the Arsenal fan base who are Arteta out. I mean, because basically, I was talking to Terry about this at the end of last season, and he was showing me some clips of Arsenal fans, and they didn't win the league, so they were Arteta out. He's an idiot. You know, he's the wrong man.

35:17I mean, there are Arsenal fans who are Arteta out. I can't believe it. And some of that will be because they can't accept that they need to change their mind or whatever. But please understand, I haven't got a problem with people who are Amrim out. I just don't hear much from them anymore because I see some of them trying to clamber back by pretending that Amrim's listened to them and he hasn't. He hasn't changed anything. A lot of the changes he's making were here in the summer already and he was trying them at the start of the season. People are just getting more used to them. I mean, you know what?

35:53Let me just put it like this. Compare the Arsenal game to the Brighton game. Nothing is different. nothing is different apart from lemans and sesco we're doing exactly the same things the pass the pass the amount of long balls are exactly the same the amount of passes per player exactly the same liverpool was a standalone game because you're at anfield it was ridiculous no game compares to liverpool we hardly had the ball we boot it long that's what we did but sunderland brighton arsenal they're all very similar in the way that we set up and the way the stats play out And you know what? It's only because we've beaten Liverpool and Brighton since the international break that people think there's been a tactical switch.

36:35We should have beaten Arsenal. We should have beaten Fulham. We'd have had three wins in a row. So why is these two wins in a row any different to what is basically a team that's more confident and more used to each other? It's what we said at the start of the season. It will be game week 10 before this team starts moving. And it's actually happened a couple of weeks before, which encourages me that we might get better and better. Familiarity breeds confidence, but you've got to have the patterns and familiarity and that takes time. But I don't see any difference between Manchester United in the opening few games and the last three games, apart from we've won the last three games and we only won one of the first three.

37:21There was a drop off in the middle. You know, the Brentford game wasn't great. The Man City game wasn't great. The Chelsea game was a bit weird. But Arsenal, Fulham, Burnley are very similar to Sunderland, Liverpool and Brighton. Brighton would be Fulham, Arsenal would be Liverpool and Burnley would be Sunderland. but because it was the opening few games of the season and we were a bit rusty we just did we should have won them first three and we should have won the last three um but we weren't ready to win the first three because we didn't have a goalkeeper sesko wasn't ready when you're in our band weren't really used to each other you know sorry um and burmo and i'm at so i just think it's natural um and if there are people that are amram out there maybe they'll get proved right and maybe you can tell us why you still are because the reason should still be the same really because nothing's actually changed apart from the players are starting to get used to playing with each other um derek says that amarin has said in a previous press conference a while back he said the players would have to first understand the system then it would start altering alternating in game exactly uh marlo says amarin system requires consistency in good relationships that's probably why we see a big drop off with the subs and it makes amarin system them a bit vulnerable in case of injuries i mean i think that's probably comment of the day to be honest with you um i think you're absolutely spot on with that because i do think that there is a um you know that there was a drop off at the weekend but i think i'm correct in saying that we've had that drop off for quite a while in relation to um substitutions uh yeah um just on scott mctominy by the way um saw this morning that spurs are looking at mctominy uh we were talking about him a couple of days ago coming back to the premier league and whether we'd bring him back um but apparently spurs are looking at him i mean look i said that i said there'd be a lot of clubs if mctominy's looking to come back from naples there'll be a lot of clubs looking at scott mctominy i don't think he suits us i really don't think he suits us and i don't think we should go back but he is a good player and it wouldn't surprise me if it happened um the squad players are a lot lower quality than the main teams of neon i think we can learn a lot from arsenal um you know it's interesting because i think i had it here actually this this'll i've got it up here anyway so if anybody wants any in the last minute few minutes of the show i can give it you but i've got all the white scout stuff up here but you know what it makes me laugh that um people scrutinize that man united are being really direct so um

40:08yeah possession possession against arsenal we had 62 and arsenal had 38 which is not massively dissimilar to what happened when we played against um arsenal uh sorry uh liverpool but let me just show you this as well let me read you this out as well because i do think that there are similarities between manchester united and arsenal in relation to how we need to build as well maybe not stylistically but i think that when i look at this manchester united side um it's a lot better than it was last season we can all see that but we can't run before we can walk and Arsenal I could see what Arteta was trying to do at Arsenal before Arsenal fans could not all Arsenal fans but you know like the Arteta out print the t-shirts crew they couldn't really seem to see what Arteta was trying to do he was trying to take a club that was in ruins and rebuild it and at the start he sort of did things to try and survive like they played quite defensive he's always kept that defensive element to his game throughout his whole time Arsenal have been a very good defensive side but he built out to a team that can score goals and dominate possession um and it took him time and i think it's only i personally think the arsenal arteta build is only this season complete and he'll he'll keep adding things to it but up until the summer he didn't have a striker um up until this summer he didn't really have depth that if saka gets injured you can play madawake if odegaard gets injured you can play ezi if saliba gets injured you can play Mascara and they've got Incape and they've got Kepa in goal they've got an amazing squad and he's built it gradually whilst being able to be competitive so when we look at the drop-off when Man United make subs well that shouldn't be surprising when you look at the first team I don't like the midfield of Bruno and Casemiro it can do a job but it's not a good midfield the lower left wing back I do not like that so our first team isn't complete so we can't moan about the bench like the bench isn't i think there's some good players on our bench who they suit the system you know you look at the bench on sunday saturday a question mark over menu question mark over xerxi um masrawi being back from injury is a good thing and i like masrawi there's a few youngsters on there that we we can build with but we're a long way off from being that finished article i mean i still look at liverpool man city chelsea and aster and i go wow you know the expenditure the squad is incredible i don't think we've even got a first 11 yet and we need to build the bench so you know there has to it has to be i do look at aster and i go what can we achieve over the next three years that makes it really exciting and competitive whilst also understanding that we're building but along but but you can't miss opportunities either You can't miss a January transfer window and say, we're building.

43:14You have to build. You can't say, I'm working on this project, but I'm taking Monday off. We've got to build in January. But there is a lot of work to be done at Manchester United where patience will be key. But you know what funds patience, performance and results? Anala couldn't catch the ball or command his area or stop shots. nothing to do with your teammates or analysing, just bad goalkeeping. Ray, Carl, Brown Amore, it's Amore. He's a legend and he's absolutely spot on. I agree on the opinion that we shouldn't be content to selfie Jordan. Dave the Brave says we need a Sabitzer type deal, different outcome, but same intention.

43:52For the record, I would take Gibbs White. Or for the record, looking at what Gibbs White's been saying about us this morning, I think Gibbs White would take Manchester United. you know i'm not even joking there i'm not um uh but yeah no i think you're right about the subits the thing we need to bring in somebody that can uh make a difference to manchester united um in this window and somebody with a bit of hunger a bit of experience i like the camera go on i don't really care if i'm you know alone on that one i do like the idea of that one a lot um great show this morning by the way i love the debates and contrary to that pratt saying that you know we're trying to out amory mouters absolutely not it's never been like that you know we can we can disagree and stuff but i i actually i think a year ago i said something i apologized for and i was wrong you see you see i do apologize and i do say i'm wrong um there's a couple of times it's happened i mean the worst show ever was when Marcus Rashford went out in Belfast and we were live and it came out and I was like absolutely not this is false information it's not true and everyone was saying it's true it's true and I was like shut up shut up you're wrong and I was wrong um and also a year ago I basically said if you attend Haag out you're not a real United fan and um I was wrong about that and I had to apologize so I will apologize when I'm wrong and I'm more than happy to accept and i think sometimes it's a bit like you know fasting from sugar for a week um it cleanses the soul and i um i think sometimes apologizing and accepting you wrong could be a real positive for you because it makes you you know it cleanses the soul and um but with amory mouters i don't feel like that anyway i don't feel like amory mouters are um not real fans or anything like that i just i don't think we hear much from them at the moment but you are very welcome here and you know i don't think to be honest with you i think i think people would enjoy the conversation with you because i think that we're really positive at the moment but we're also probably very wary that in a month's time it wouldn't surprise us if we were back saying you know this ain't gonna work yeah it just feels like united we're still very balanced i i'm quite positive i think i think we are moving in the right direction but i still feel like you know um what was being said three weeks ago can't be completely wrong uh there is still there is still you know you felt it at 3-2 against Brighton were they going to get an equalizer and that game was going to get blown away he felt it with Gatpo on the back post uh when he missed that sitter um you know it would have been a draw so what I'm hoping is is that these wins we're getting where there are those moments where you go oh maybe they'll become less and less the more games we win um but yeah no I I mean, I think that it would also, I think it would also be weird if we had this huge Amarim's not the guy movement and then we win a couple of games and everybody's like, Amarim is the guy.

46:57I mean, that's the definition of pancake FC flip-flop. Should we not think in terms of a midfield pair? Says Hush. Yes, but I don't think we'll get two in January. So what I want to see happen is I'd like to see a Conor Gallagher coming in in January on a loan to buy. And then in the summer, if he does well, you buy him and then you buy your main midfielder um so yeah two midfielders definitely wouldn't last results uh season matter if southgate was hired instead of hunting down amory mountains you respect all opinions at i don't know what are you talking about what what who is this person wouldn't last results season matter mate you need to learn to type make that there is there are so many things you could cut that into and say please make this make sense rather than typing that i don't know what you're talking about and as i said nobody's targeting anybody um i agree on the opinion that we shouldn't be content um also seth with the stupid chat says yes for real gallagher but in the summer the worry is bruno if he remains do you see the idiots above going for those shortlisted names also dog you're not getting ahead of the low with the worst player is worrying says seth ah there's a weird thing about dogoo that there is a forget amory mouters i've got a problem with them but i have got a problem with these people there is a weird set of people in our fan base that never liked Dorgue.

48:14Like they never liked him. They were calling him shit in February. Like, and I don't care what anybody says. I will sit on the hill and say this. There are people in our fan base that do not like Dorgue and I do not get it. Explain it, what it is about Dorgue that people look at him and go, I don't like him. It's weird. It's really weird. It's well known before he even got linked to Manchester United that he was one of those up-and-coming players that had the potential to be really really good you know football manager fc25 bloody hipster articles dorgu was 100 a player that was one to watch before man united even started talking to him comes to manchester united and instantly some people are like he's a bag of shit he's a load of rubbish and i don't get it i i really can see the power he has he's only just turned 21 you can see how powerful he is you can see he's still quite raw but he's only just 21 he's only been in the premier league for what seven eight months and it's been very demanding but i can already see from the end of last season to the start of this season huge improvement and he is on a graph moving up so why are people trying to knock him down i don't get it not the finished article is going to be in and out of the team but amarin signs this signing off as well he's not some inherited bag of shit from ten hog this is an amirim signing that some people in our fan base just seem to want to you know ridicule and write off like he's 21 just and he's an amirim signing and he will get developed the same as leon i i think dorgu will be a really important player for us but i just do i don't get what people's issue is with him it's a bit like Agate at the start.

50:02I understand why people are questioning Agate now, a year down the line. It's, you know, we spent a lot of money on you. You're in your mid-twenties. You need to step up. But Dorgue's not even been here a year. He's an Amarim signing. He's a young player. And people want to write him off. And I just don't get that mentality. I think I'll get pre-bright on Dorgue. I think he's a good player. I really do. I think I will. Similar to Luke Shaw, a lot of people were slagging him off. He ended up being a really good player for a couple of years.

50:32thank you very much uh dog who suffers from what the licks suffers hate wise is jacob it is weird uh emily derry says it would be weird if we went from diabolical last season to current form without a few fine margin moments which makes it more important to get a midfielder in january like gallagher says emily berry thank you very much emily um phil housby says would take gallagher in january and get a left footer in the summer belabor or warts and for me says phil thanks very much phil uh appreciate that uh another fantastic show this morning i think the 10 a.m show is starting to compete with the 8 p.m show uh which has been brilliant this week as well so second good 10 a.m show in a row thanks everyone for tuning in as always make sure you smash the like and subscribe i'm actually on terry's show at 11 o 'clock this morning was meant to go on yesterday but project manager kitchen bridge has been busy but i am going to pop on there for half an hour at 11 a.m.

51:23It's a pretty spot take show.

51:27It's Carabao Cup what a long night tonight on That's Football. So I will be live at seven o 'clock tonight on United Stand instead of eight o 'clock. Just letting you know. But back tomorrow at eight o 'clock as well for the live preview of Forrest. The weeks fly by, don't they? Everyone said the weeks are going to go really slow. They fly by. Absolutely fly by. You're all a bunch of legends. Thanks, everybody, this morning. Back in the studio tonight as well. um got to go and sort out this kick i think i'm just gonna get three different splashbacks and throw spaghetti bolognese at it and test it out take care everyone stay safe put a smile on your face i'll speak to you in a bit