236: SHOCK Midfield Move! Rasmus To REPLACE Sesko?

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0:32Hello, everybody. Good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United news this Monday morning. Hope you're all doing well. Tell us where you are, what you're doing. But what we're doing this morning is going through a raft of information. I did say to you that it's going to start ramping up around transfers. United certainly need to do stuff around there. Could we see a shock return of Rasmus Hoyland to Manchester United if this Cesco injury is bad? Napoli now starting to turn on him a little bit. We'll talk about that as well. Some of the press that he's getting over the last couple of games.

1:04Could that be a return option? Also, a bit of a shock midfield move for João Gomez of Wolves. Is he going to be a January option? Or are we more likely to steer to more obvious targets? Fabrizio Romano has given us an update around Stila. That's fresh this morning. We've also got updates on Conor Gallagher. Gary Neville's been talking about Manchester United's situation and what they should be doing this season. We've also had a very good message coming from one of you lot around Lissandro Martinez that I want to get time to talk about as well. So let's get straight into the show this morning.

1:36Lots to get involved in. Get your comments in as always. Let me make sure I've got the live chat going. That's perfect. Got a bit of a headache this morning. Woke up with a bloody headache and a bit of a cold. I'm fed up of them. It's that time of year, isn't it? But look, Man United aren't necessarily given as much of a headache this morning. what Manchester United need to do is get out there and start doing a bit of transfer activity in January and primarily looking at the games we've seen in recent weeks, the big frustration, the big issue, the big problem at Manchester United is the midfield.

2:03We're not scoring enough goals because we're not creating enough chances because our midfield isn't supporting the attack and we're conceding nearly two goals a game despite having a good defence and a good goalkeeper because our midfield isn't supporting the defence. So if we want to achieve what we need to achieve, which is top five and we can do that then we'd be foolish not to operate in this January transfer window now there are reports coming out this morning about Wolverhampton Wanderers and their midfielder Joe Gomez he is he is a player that we have been linked to for about two years now to be fair Wolves are having a bloody nightmare but just because you're having a nightmare doesn't mean that you're not a good signing of course Manchester United famously signed Roy Keane from relegated Nottingham Forest in the early 90s and he went on to become one of our greatest ever players.

2:46So just because of players in a relegation team, you're only as weak as your weakest link, as we know at United. He may very well be a very good option for Manchester United, 24 years of age. But, and there is a big but, he is likely to be on the move if Wolves get relegated and Wolves probably are going to get relegated. So you've got to be looking at those opportunities. It's funny on my career mode, which is back tonight at five o 'clock, Brighton got relegated and instantly the live chat was like, you've got to go and pick up a couple of Brighton players as a good fullback there. There's Belieber.

3:17And why wouldn't you do that? So maybe that is an opportunity that Manchester United might look at if he fits the profile of what Ruben Amrum's looking for. The price is probably going to be good. Most clubs have relegation clauses. They can't really bargain because they can't really keep the player. So there's probably a good option there in Jao Gomez. The problem you've got is he is not Wharton, he is not Anderson, He is not for Labour and he is not Stilla. And if we are to progress as a football club, bargains from Wolverhampton Wanderers are not going to help us progress. We've got to be going for players that Liverpool, that Chelsea want if we want to be on that level.

3:56So I think this would only work if this was a deal we could do in January. Now, probably you could do this deal for around£40 million. But it's highly unlikely that Wolves are going to do this deal in January because they're in a relegation battle. Why would you sell a player you can't replace unless they're just going to completely give up? And Wolves are a selling club and we have a good relationship with them. We bought Kunja from there and they have sold out Nori. They've sold many players, Pedro Neto, loads of players. They could sell. Of course they could. and people are telling me to sign Minter.

4:27That's not real life. That's a computer game. This is real life. So look, João Gomez as a January option, that whets my appetite. I think that's an interesting option, but the reality is that that's probably not going to be able to be done. So I don't dismiss the player. I think in many ways, I agree with the theory that if you dropped in, just give me a random midfielder, a random Premier League. If you put Jordan Henderson into our midfield, we'd be better. That sounds crazy. But that's the hot take. If you put Jordan Henderson into Manchester United's midfield, we would be better. If you put James Garner from Everton into our midfield at the moment, we would be better.

5:11Just give me random midfielders that aren't that good that would improve our midfield. They would. So you put Gio Gomez into our midfield in January, I think we'd be a lot better because we're not good there. Casemiro doesn't have the legs. He has to move the ball quickly because he gets pressed. He can't be composed anymore because he's too slow. We've noticed that. Casemiro's doing okay, but he doesn't have the legs and he has to move the ball quickly so we don't keep the ball. Bruno always moves the ball quickly and can't tackle. So our midfield is really redundant in many ways in relation to being able to control the game and support the defense and support the attack.

5:48It's sporadic. So you bring a João Gomez into there, we will be better. But my issue with it is it only works if it's January. It only works if it's the immediate midfielder that we need in January. If this is the summer target, I'm like, there's so many players better than that. And it would be an improvement, but there are bigger improvements than that. So that's where I sit on it. So Solid Blake says, what about Collier? Well, we had Collier and we let him go. I don't know whether I don't know. Robert says you're having a bit of a stretch there with Hendo, Mark. No, no, no. I genuinely don't think I am.

6:22I think that having observed the conversation we had in the summer when we spent a lot of time talking about this, and we'll probably talk about this a lot over the summer, over this international break, that midfield was a conversation topic of big, big, big debate throughout June, July and August before the season started. We need a midfielder. We need a midfielder. Constantly, we need a midfielder. Should we have sold Bruno? Can we get rid of Casemiro? We need a midfielder. We probably need two midfielders. That was a very valid conversation that we now have evidence for. The evidence is there.

6:54It's glaringly obvious in 4K. The midfield is not good enough. We were right. I think Amorim has to try and protect that.

7:05But I do not want Man United to sign Jordan Henderson. I do not want Manchester United to sign James Garner. I do not want us to go and sign, I don't know, whoever's playing in midfield for bloody Burnley. But what I'm saying is if they are midfielders by trade, they probably would improve us a little bit because they are midfielders. And I think that's the that's the positive side of things is that it won't take much to improve Man United's football side if we bring in a couple of decent midfielders. The problem with Gael Gomez is that we will not be able to get him in January. And as Rabas says, it would have to be in January.

7:44And then it's about how much he would be available for. Man United have got to buy a midfielder in January. They've got to bring a midfielder in in January, should I say. And then another one in the summer. That's what they've got to do. If they go, and I think this is a big, big, big, big thing. If the club try and manipulate it and Amirim tries to manipulate that we don't need one, then what have we been watching for the last 11 games? We do need, we need two. We definitely need one. They can't sweep that under the carpet and just hope that this sporadically inconsistent team that we've seen already this season is going to have enough quality to get us into the top five.

8:24It might do, but it's a risk not worth taking. It really isn't. So look, we'll have to wait and see what happens with Jal Gomez. I think that's interesting. Just to continue the midfield conversation before we talk about Rasmus, Sesko and all that jazz. More links this morning from Italy are involving Mainu and Napoli. I've seen something over the weekend and I thought we'd bring it in. Do we genuinely think that Mainu was injured or do you think this is just another reaction to not being in the England squad and not being picked by Amrim? I think Mainu's genuinely injured. Like, I mean, obviously I would be all over that if I had any information that that wasn't the truth.

9:04I mean, what we're getting from United at the moment around Sesco is that they aren't saying anything. And we'll talk about that in a moment. But the Maynou thing was a little bit surprising because Amarim had spoken on Thursday about how well Maynou had trained. And then on Friday, he didn't travel. So I think that sort of left us a little bit like unfulfilled because you're like, well, Amarim's literally just said Maynou deserves to start and he's training really, really well. and then he's injured. And if you look at the game on Saturday, if Maynou trained really well and you were looking at that midfield, you'd definitely bring him on.

9:42Now, whether he would have done or not, we can guess yes or no. So it's just, it's just a, I mean, look, I don't know whether anybody believes in all this sort of stuff, you know, fate and bad luck and all that lot. But I mean, it's just another kick in the teeth for people who want to see Maynou given a chance in a Man United shirt. And it's a massive kick in the teeth Firmenu isn't it you know you're not playing games then you're injured you get injured in training and that's what that's what happened apparently but I think we saw with Agate and I do have sympathy with this as well because I think Masrawi we saw it with as well these players 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.

10:34It 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. SpendQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. Who aren't getting game time are basically like players without a preseason now. They have got no momentum at all. And it's hypocrisy of the highest level when you see people in the media taking the piss out of some of our players like Agate and Masraoui and some of our fans because they're basically without a preseason now.

11:14They have not been. I don't think people understand the difference between training and competitive football. And match sharpness doesn't come from training. Lissandro Martinez will not be match sharp when he comes back, even if he trains intensively with Argentina and Man United for the next month. There's then match sharpness. And when you're throwing in the likes of Aguarte, if we throw Xerxe in, Masraoui, these players are lacking match sharpness because if you don't start for a couple of weeks, you might not actually... It's ridiculous. I mean, you might have like... how many minutes has Agate played from the last international break to this one?

11:57Can somebody do the maths on that? It might not even be 90 minutes across a whole month. So you go on international duty for Uruguay, you come back, you go back on international duty five weeks later, and in that five weeks, which is a month, you play less than 90 minutes of competitive football because we've got no Carabao Cup, we've got no European football, we've got one game a week. so these players are going to struggle with sharpness 100 % Mark, buying another midfielder, doesn't this push Maynou out further? No game time and Casemiro will get picked over him I mean it's a good point from Slow Sports News thank you very much for our first super chat of the morning it's a good point but in a way it's an irrelevant point because we can't not bring a midfielder in because of Maynou I mean Maynou sat there for three months and watched bad performances from Bruno week after week and still hasn't been given a chance.

12:54So I can't sit here anymore, Slow Sports News, and say, let's not get a midfielder in January because it'll damage Mainu. Mainu's being damaged without the midfielder. So I personally think Mainu needs to be put out on loan and another midfielder needs to come in, which is interesting because I read something this morning about Conor Gallagher and that's what I'm hearing. I don't know whether this is going to this isn't the big news I'm expecting by the way but I wouldn't be surprised if this turned into a big story from a good source because Gimme Sport is saying Man United want to sign a central midfielder in January with Conor Gallagher at the top of their list he's topped the list because he may be available on a short term basis perhaps on a loan until the end of the season when the club would be more willing to spend now if you look at the weekend results in Spain.

13:44Atletico Madrid played Levente on Saturday. They won 3-1 and the line-up did not have Conor Gallagher in it. He was a substitute again. So he's not part of the first team plans for Diego Simeone and he's certainly not part of Thomas Tuchel's World Cup plans. So much the same as Maynou, unless he can get into the Atletico Madrid side between now and January he's going to be not knocking on the door saying I want to go he is a bench player for them Eugenie is but so is Agathe and Maynou and I think that Luke says he's rubbish show some ambition Man United that's a fair point that is a fair point Luke and it's your point and you should hold on to that where I'm coming from is Agathe and Maynou are not trusted by Ruben Amrim and the two players that he trusts are not good enough.

14:44If Ruben Amrim wants Conor Gallagher and he does, then Man United should go and get him. And that's what I'm saying. Regardless of what Luke thinks or what some of you think about Conor Gallagher and regardless of what we all think about Maynou being given a chance, we've got to live in the real world. And if Amrim doesn't trust Maynou and he doesn't trust Agate, and clearly he doesn't, and if Casemiro and Bruno aren't good enough, and clearly they're not, and he does like Conor Gallagher, then go and bloody get him because that manager needs a midfielder that he can trust to take one of these two out.

15:18100%. I look at the weekend against Spurs and I think if Bruno could have been taken off for Conor Gallagher and we've got Conor Gallagher and Casemiro and it makes us better, then I'd rather have that than what we've got at the moment. he is very high on our list for January absolute fact we did try and sign him in the last few days of the transfer window absolute fact that was signed off by Wilcox, Favell and Amrim absolute fact so that deal needs to get done it needs to get done I mean I don't know do you send Maynou to Atletico Madrid. I'm not sure he's a Simeone type of signing. But what I'm trying to say is, and I think what's really important is, is that we've got to come out of January with a January transfer signing.

16:09And if it is Conor Gallagher, then it's better than nothing. But what it's got to be is what Ruben Amrim wants. Because if it's what we want, it's going to be something very, very different. Because what we want is to see Maynou given game time. And it's not going to happen. So we need to get a midfielder in because what I want to see is I want to see Man United in the top five. Cameron says, I don't get the hype with Maynou. Had a good six months max. Seems injury prone. If he wasn't an academy graduate, would fans feel so strong about him? It's interesting you say injury prone because he did have a lot of knocks last season.

16:44And I don't know what this latest one is all about. But look, I wouldn't say around Manchester United at the moment it's not a miserable time I think there are some people that are very optimistic there are some people myself who are optimistic but frustrated because I feel like Champions League football is there for the bloody taking at the moment and we are making hard work of it in many areas on the pitch, off the pitch in the boardroom but it's not over yet But the main new situation for him is a very sad one And that's a big story It's a very sad one It's the story of a United youth player Who was handed his debut at 18 As a holding midfielder Who was playing for England in the Euros final And now a couple of years later Can't get a sniff at 20 And that's a sad story and you know I don't think it's necessary if Amrim comes in and doesn't rate a player he shouldn't pick a player I mean we all rejoiced in him getting rid of Rashford and Anthony and in the summer Ganacho you can't pick and choose what a manager does with their ruthlessness it is ruthless and Amrim's got every right to do what he wants in relation to Manu as the manager of Man United what I think is sad is that is the mismanagement of the player it's almost like somebody in the club is saying we can't Salmenu, we've got to keep him.

18:19And then Amrim's going, but I don't want to use him. And there he is just sat unused. He should be off somewhere. He should have been on loan in the summer. We should have brought a midfielder in and loaned him in the summer. And we definitely have to do that in January. I personally think it's a disgrace that he's sat there all season at 20 years of age, not playing football. We forget Amrim as a football club. That is an asset. as a football club. And I don't just mean financially. That is a 20-year-old footballer who two years ago was one of England's best midfielders who is now sat on his arse not playing football for nearly a year.

18:54We as a football club should be protecting and nurturing our assets. He should be out on loan. He should be out on loan playing football. And we're basically putting him in the cupboard and letting him, you know, collect dust. It's ridiculous. Amram doesn't want to use him. We should have him out on loan and give Amram to somebody else. Simple. and somebody at the football club needs to take responsibility for that and I don't think it's Ruben Amrim because he wasn't using him last year. I think this is a failure on Man United's part, almost a fear. We can't let him go, but we're not going to use him.

19:26Loan him out. Ahmad, Ahmad went Sunderland and Rangers. People forget that. At the same age, Ahmad was out at Sunderland and Rangers and look at him now. You can't just sit somebody in the corner and say, well, your manager doesn't want to use you, but you're not going anywhere. It is ridiculous. And look, maybe it doesn't work out. Maybe what Cameron says is true. Maybe he doesn't get the hype about Manu. Maybe Cameron's right. Maybe we sell him for 30 million pounds and we bring 30 million pounds in. But at the moment, his value is just plummeting. It's a really strange way to manage it. And honestly, all that's coming out of the football club at the moment is he's a big part of our plans.

20:02He's a big part of our plans. And it's almost like they're not listening to the manager. He should be out on loan. He wants to go on loan. We're just keeping an unhappy player around at the moment. And actually, here's a bit of a topic as well. If Maynou was out on loan doing what he's doing, there'd be a very big conversation about Agathe. And Agathe doesn't get spoken about because it's always about Maynou. That's a£55 million player that I thought was going to be really transformative to this football club. Ten Hag didn't seem to want him. And Amrim doesn't want to use him. So I'm sort of looking at that and I'm going, we don't talk about Agate enough.

20:41He doesn't get picked. He cost 55 million pounds. Who signed this player? Because Ten Hag definitely didn't want him. And Amrim doesn't seem to want to use him either. Amrim didn't sign him. So Amrim can do what he likes. Ten Hag, he was bought under Ten Hag. Ten Hag didn't want him. So who at the club did that deal? And what are we actually he doing about that? Because at the moment, I thought we'd stopped doing these expensive mistakes. And that was on Ineos' watch. So I think that's another conversation that we're not having. Patrick Lynch says, I haven't checked, but did we keep hold of Manu because we need him for the homegrown quota?

21:22They might have sent him on loan because if we get Collegall Gallagher, he would have filled that quota spot. I mean, Patrick, the voice of reason might be onto something there. I mean, it'd be incredible to me if that's what we've become. But, you know, So maybe that's why we're keeping Maguire as well. I mean, we've got a real problem if we're having to keep players just because of their passport, really. But there might be something in it, Patrick. There might be. David says, if Manu was at another club, would you buy him? And do you think he would improve the team or would you bring someone else in?

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22:45I mean, look, Man City aren't going to do it. Liverpool aren't going to do it. Arsenal aren't going to do it. But I'd still remember what Manu is two years ago and go, I'll take a look at that. Thank you very much. I wouldn't probably buy him at the moment, but I'd certainly take him on loan. Marlo says he's tired of beating around the bush. This is the sort of comment we want. Thanks for the super chat. He says, I'm tired of beating around the bush from the club and the media. Bruno and Casemiro are the problem. Full stop. If they are replaced by a proper midfield, everyone will fall into place.

23:13Hallelujah, Marlo. Hallelujah. And I've got to shout Marlo out because all through the watch along on Saturday, even when we were winning, he was saying, passing shit, this isn't good enough. And a lot of people were giving him a load of stick because we were winning 1-0. And in the end, consistently through the game, your comments won. And I do agree with you. I do agree with you on this. I think there is too much beating about the bush, like you say. And there's too many people who like Bruno and Casemiro and are scared to say that they are the problem when actually they are the problem. They are the biggest problem in that team.

23:50The reason we didn't beat Forrest and the reason we didn't beat Spurs is not because Sesko missed the one-on-one, not because, you know, Deleuwe didn't clear it or Ahmad got beat in the air against Forrest. The bottom line is the midfield is a massive problem in that team. Our possession stats are disgusting. Our pass accuracy is disgusting. Conceding two goals a game nearly is disgusting. Our lack of creativity in the final third is because of the midfield. They are a joke. That midfield is a joke. And there are games where Bruno's had a 7 out of 10 and Casemiro's had a 6 and all that. But that midfield too is a massive problem.

24:27And I don't think it gets enough scrutiny. I really don't. Ben Mitchell says, swap Caicedo and Maynou plus some money. Chelsea love a young player. They might just do it. Sign Kane. Those two makers genuine title contenders as Ben. If I dropped Caicedo into Man United's midfield, I think we would be firmly top three by Christmas. If you drop Kaiseido into that midfield for Man United against Everton and he played every game until New Year's Eve, we'd be in the top three. Looking at the fixtures we've got, absolutely. And that's why Marlowe's right. The midfield is the massive problem in that team.

25:07If you dropped a really good midfielder in there, one would put us into the top three. Two, God knows what it would do. Mainer needs to go. It's best for all parties, says Seth. Amrim clearly doesn't rate him. Amrim took it to the chin with Cesco Lemens. He wanted proven players, but at some point we need players that the manager wants. Thank you very much for that, Seth. And Class of 99 says, I don't get all the way what Ruben's doing. I get managing, protecting players when they come in and hit the ground running. But with one game a week, it's not realistic, says Class of 92. Thank you very much for that.

25:38Sorry, Class of 99. Thank you very much for that. Louis says, we went down to 10 men. Oh, here we go. Lewis, we're not having this conversation. We're talking about the midfield, but let me just humour Lewis because he's done a super chat. We went down to 10 men, exclamation mark, exclamation mark. We get done by Spurs last season. We beat Liverpool and Chelsea. Don't know what more you want. We were dire last year. I think Lewis is just having his own conversation, but he did a super chat. We've read it. We can go back to what we're talking about. The midfield's not good enough and we need to sign players.

26:11Don't know what Lewis is on about. Dave the Brave says the problem with Mainu and Ganaccio is they were given too much too soon it took Foden years to break into City's team we created this says Dave the Brave and Sarves says if I remember correctly Arsenal was struggling to win games the way we are they went on and got rice before Jokeres even Sir Alex used to buy Kant and Art Van Persie when the rest of the team is ready says Sarves thank you very much for that well look you need a midfield we need a midfield apparently Lewis is speaking facts but I don't know what the context is, Asin. We went down to 10 men.

26:44Last season, we got done by Spurs. We beat Liverpool and Chelsea. Don't know what more you want. We would die last year. What's the context of a morning show where we're talking about the midfield? We're about to talk about Sesco. This show is not called... I've not mentioned anything about it. I don't know what we're talking about. Why are we talking about Saturday and 10 men? Midfield shit, Lewis. Are you saying that if we'd stayed with 11 people on the pitch, we would have been okay? What minute did Sesco go off injured, by the way? What was the score when Sesco got injured?

27:28I can't remember. Were we winning 1-0 or were we losing? Were we drawing? Does anyone in the chat know what it was? I thought we were losing. Maybe we may. I don't know. Was it 1-1? I mean, Lewis, you've changed the course of this show and we're not even talking about Saturday. We're not even talking about that anymore. We were drawing 1-1 when Sesco went off. Someone said we were losing. I think we were losing.

28:00I don't know. Drawing. Mate, I don't even know what you're talking about because we were talking about this on Saturday. I don't know what you're talking about. Did you miss last night's show where we're talking about we've still got a great opportunity of getting to top five? I don't know why we're going back to Saturday. I'm not going back to Saturday. I'm moving on. I want us to buy people in January. I want us to go and win the next few games. I want us to improve. I want us to stop fucking about in the second half and being light switch. End of conversation. I don't want to go back. I want to go back to Saturday.

28:34So I don't know what you're talking about. But what I do want to talk about is the attack. So look, in relation to Lissandra Martinez, Cesco, we are awaiting the injury update. Now, some people are getting concerned because when he was walking towards the coach, he could barely walk. But we did have the update from Sam C yesterday saying that they're thinking it probably won't be that bad. Now, apparently there was a scan yesterday. we haven't had the update as to what

29:11when that will come out obviously it's going to be a massive problem for United if he does end up injured for a longer period of time especially with the AFCON coming up in a month we're going to lose Mbermo and Ahmad for maybe two, three, four games, five games. I don't know. The January transfer window doesn't open until January, funnily enough. So if Sesco was out for two months, it could hinder us a bit. But it's interesting because some people have been saying, can we recall Rasmus from his loan with Napoli? And apparently we can't. That is not part of his loan and we would have to pay money to do it.

30:00But apparently we cannot loan him. We cannot recall him in January anyway because of the contract that we've signed with Napoli. Now, interestingly, there is a little bit of stick coming in for Rasmus at the moment. In fact, CBS Galazzo, there's a clip going around this morning of them saying he's not good enough. His hold up play is not good enough. Funnily enough, we've heard all that before. But this is not the answer anyway. To bring Rasmus back is not the answer. I think that you could make a case to say, why did we let Rasmus go for free to spend£68 million on another 22-year-old striker who is inexperienced and a work in progress?

30:44I think that's an interesting point. But that doesn't mean that we should go back and bring a player in that's like that. Hey, everybody. Lady Luck here. And we're celebrating America's 250th birthday. Now, all summer long, I'm going to be celebrating by playing on SpinQuest.com, which is an American-owned social casino. It obviously features over a thousand slot games and live blackjack, live craps, live bubble craps. Head on over to SpinQuest.com. Get yourself a$30 coin pack for just$10. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Void where prohibited. Visit SpinQuest.com for more details. and also I think there is a big difference between Rasmus and Sesco in the sense that we can't pump the ball up to Rasmus we tried it last season he can't hold it up Sesco can Sesco can flick the ball on so I think that to say that we spent 70 million pounds on another Rasmus is unfair I think their profile is very very different and as we've seen already the reason we beat Chelsea is because Sesco flicked it on for Mbamo and Mbamo got the key percent off Rasmus wouldn't have been able to win that flick on so the Sesco Rasmus thing is is silly really whether we could bring him back if Sesco had a long injury I don't think that's silly but Napoli aren't going to let that happen they've committed money for the full season they've got an obligation to buy so that's not going to be the solution and I don't think you should go back anyway so we're going to have to wait and see what happens with Sesco here and then we're going to have to make a decision that needs to be made anyway.

32:22We can't survive with one 22-year-old striker. Where I do agree with people saying, why did we replace Rasmus with Sesco is that why did we not improve the situation? For the last two years, we had a 20, 21, 22-year-old striker as our main striker with no backup. And now we've got Sesco, who's a young striker, with no backup. Why have we put ourselves in a position like this as a football club where we've got inexperienced strikers with the pressure of being a United striker, which is hard enough, with no support? So regardless of what happens with Cesco's injury, and hopefully it's not going to be bad, but even if he's fine, we still need to be looking to bring another striker in.

33:06And I think a striker of experience is needed. And it's probably why Amrind was looking at Watkins and Jochores. And United need to do that because I think that where we made a mistake with Rasmus was going, you're the striker and you can handle it all. And we're sort of doing that with Cesco again and we're walking down the same path again where he's not up to it. He's not good enough. He's not good enough for this league, this, that and the other. But it's really hard. It's really, really difficult to be the forward for Manchester United at that age with that lack of experience that he clearly doesn't have as well.

33:45So I think that hopefully we are looking in the January transfer window to bring somebody in, but it can't be bringing Rasmus back. Yeah, that would be stupid. And we can't do it anyway. As for him being sent back, I mean, look, I did see what they had to say. But football's just so funny, isn't it? Like, Wilcox did that interview a week ago and everyone was going, oh, I love Wilcox. I love Wilcox. And then we fuck up against Spurs and people are going, oh, Wilcox is an idiot. He's done some stupid things. You know, it was him who bought Agate. A few weeks ago, Rasmus is like scoring goals for Denmark.

34:25He's scoring goals for Napoli. Oh my God, this is what happens when you give a striker service. Now you've got people, pundits saying, he can't hold the ball up. He's not good enough. Football changes just so, so quickly. I mean, look, after the Brighton game, we were going to win the league. we've just dropped four points and people are going oh god here we go again so football just changes really really quickly um i actually think actually the big problem that rasmus has had in recent weeks is that kevin de bruyne has been injured and kevin de bruyne is one of the best attacking midfielders in the game but kevin de bruyne knows how to feed strikers like harland and rasmus needs the same service they are strikers that want the ball early into the right areas to run on to and kevin de bruyne has been injured for napoli and i think that's why rasmus has fell off a little bit um because if you want him to do it all hold the ball up and everything as we know he can't do that um and look sesco's probably sesco's probably feeling the same thing as well have we got creative players looking to play the early pass into our striker i don't think we ever have i don't think we've ever had that um we don't put the cross in we don't play the early ball um so we probably need a striker it's funny people say harry kane because everybody needs harry kane but harry kane would probably do okay in our system because he'd drop and get involved in the build-up um whether he'd get the service to score goals is another thing uh jack davies says during the aft con do you think lacy will come in at 10 instead of moving bruno up again not fixing the issue do you think Kone will get a chance and now he's back says Jack well I do I said this the other day didn't I I genuinely do think there is a chance that Kone could surpass Maynou this season um I think it's a it's almost an obvious PR play to utilize Kone allows Amirim to go, look at me, I'm developing youth.

36:26And also, it dilutes the frustration about Maynou not being played.

36:35Which is why I think Maynou should just be low. I think the Maynou conversation needs to stop. As many people have said, like we just need to let him go. Why are we holding him back? Let him go on loan. Seth says, next season I want Rasmus and Sesko battling it for position. I think a little rivalry might push them to be better. Bruno must lead and we need a whole new midfield. Thank you very much, Seth. Simply Red says, last week, some were saying Ruben's been vindicated about how he handled Ganacho. What is the thought this week? Man of the match last game. Funny how things happen. That's exactly what I'm talking about, Simply Red.

37:05You know, I call it the Ricky effect. Ricky, Ricky's opinions can be absolutely wild. And then they're genius. Because I think there are very few opinions you can have in football that won't be right at one weekend. like if you look at United after we beat Brighton Liverpool lost Man City lost Chelsea lost and we looked amazing and we were like oh my god oh my god two weeks later we've drawn two games I think Chelsea have won two games Man City have won two games and the league table looks very different and you're right you know Ganacho looks like a shit signing for Chelsea and now in the last two games I think he's got two assists and the goal, he suddenly looks like a decent signing for Chelsea.

37:54That's why consistency is key in football. There's a lot of inconsistency around at the moment. One week, you're great. One week, you're not. If you can grab hold of consistency, it's a big thing at the moment. Would you take Bergvall from Spurs? I mean, I would pick him up myself. I would get in my car and go and pick him up myself. Yes, 100%. He's better than everything we've got. we went down to I've done that one from Lewis weird one John United says Mainu and Agate aren't the solution it's ridiculous we didn't sign a midfielder in the summer especially with Casimir and Bruno if we make Europe we'll likely need at least three new midfielders says John United I mean it is quite interesting just to go back to the midfield conversation for a moment because we have this update from Fabrizio Romano talking about Stilla this morning and he basically had this to say Stilla is a player United appreciate but I don't see a German club selling one of their stars in the January window at all so January won't be easy it's going to be about other about opportunities in the summer which could be different and for sure Man United in 2026 will add again at least one midfielder so I sort of I like Stila and I think he could be a really interesting signing for Manchester United.

39:15But as a summer signing, I think it becomes very, very difficult because you will get the Real Madrid's, the Bayern Munich's, the Liverpool's, the Arsenal's. They will be there with their Champions League money going, well, yeah, well, let's buy him. OK, we have got McAllister, Gravenberg and Sabozlay and Wurtz, but, you know, why not buy another one? And that's where it becomes difficult. I think if you want Stille, you've got to go for him in January. But again, he's another player that I just don't think is going to happen. Stuttgart won again yesterday. They're in the top four in the Bundesliga.

39:45They're in the Europa League. He's their talisman. He is their Bruno Fernandes in the sense that he's their most important player. So still might happen in the summer, but I think it's very, very difficult. I'd love him. I'd love us to sign him. I think he's going to be a brilliant player. YouTube Fiend says, maybe controversial, but we could be second right now if you bought Mbremo only and a midfielder instead of Cunha, since we have Bruno already. Is that a take? Is that a hot take? Is it a bad take? So we don't buy Kunja and we're bringing the midfielder. Well, I've got another one for you.

40:25We don't buy Sesko. We keep Rasmussen. We buy a midfielder. I'm not saying it's right. I'm not saying it's right. I'm just saying not having a midfielder is a problem. And there was ways to do it. Yeah, you could have just got, you could have not got Cunha and bought a midfielder or you could have not got Sesco and bought a midfielder and kept Rasmus for another year personally I wouldn't not get Cunha I like Cunha but I suppose not having a midfielder is hurt us a lot this season it's not just the last two games where we've lost the midfield battle to Forest and Spurs it's also Brentford Fulham in the second half and we've been lucky in some of the games we've won as well like we have lost the midfield battle against Brighton and we still you know we won the game like they had more of the ball than us yeah but we got look we are where we are we can't play shoulda woulda coulda what we've got to play is let's do it and the January transfer window is very close and we will probably know in the next few days what we're going to do in January, because I think it is ridiculously close.

41:44If you think about the March international break, there's always loads of transfer stories in the March international break. That's the end of March. You still have all of April and all of May before the transfer window opens. The November international break is the middle of November. We've only got a little bit of November left after the international break and then December. So we're ridiculously close to this January transfer window. So if you are looking to do anything in January, you are well advanced in this international break in relation to speaking to players and agents because it's the best time to do it.

42:15That's why the March international break is so big, because players leave their clubs and their agents speak to those clubs and the clubs can't do anything about it. So it's been very interesting to see what happens over the next sort of 10 days, because I think we'll find out what we're doing. We could get a brief, United aren't going to do anything which they've done in recent years in this international break we've heard it from murder before you know that we don't like to do stuff so be interested to see what happens uh great point youtube fiend uh youtube fiend callum says if maguire goes and if we go for a cent about what do you think of bullard from sunderland he does have maguire vibes to be fair

42:55um what's going on everyone it's bluff here and we're driving through the states in the bluff And the best thing that we can do is play our favorite casino style games on SpinQuest. They have over a thousand games, including live dealer blackjack and craps with tons of slots and unlimited options. You can get a$30 coin pack for just$10 for new users. Sign up today. Go to SpinQuest.com right now. SpinQuest is a free to play social casino. Void where prohibited. Visit SpinQuest.com for more details. I personally don't have much of an opinion on the centre-back I don't think we need a centre-back is my opinion because you've got Heaven you've got Masraoui can play there obviously you've got De Ligt, Yoro Luke Shaw can play there Heaven there's so many players that can play there but I personally don't think that we do need one but actually that reminds me just on the defence let me read you this Got a message from James about this.

43:55He said that in the United States, many, many college and pro football and basketball players never come back from ACL injuries. Very few of those that do come back, come back 100%. The player trusting in the repair is extremely important in making a cut, a tackle or a sprint. Sending Martinez to his national team may be for mental health benefits rather than any physical training benefits. until he starts diving into tackles we won't know what Martinez we have back his knee forever is a target for opposing players as well and don't think that physical issues aren't buried and briefed in opponents game day preparations so I thought it was quite interesting because look for me Martinez is a massive part of our future and you know that left-footed player that can step into the midfield, we have in Lissandro Martinez.

44:50But, you know, going off and training with Argentina does seem a little bit weird when he's been out injured for so long. He's going to be 28 in the January transfer window. He cannot have another injury. He's basically lost the last two years to injury. So he cannot have another injury. And I thought what James said was quite interesting in the sense that a lot of players do not come back the same after an ACL. And he is a very combative player. So, yeah, training with the likes of Romero and Argentina is probably going to be very, very competitive. But I suppose what James is saying is, look, those of us that don't want him doing that want him to continue to recuperate and repair, etc.

45:35But if he's hit the point where he can't recuperate and repair anymore and he's got to go into that tackle, why not do it for Argentina? And I suppose it's an interesting way of looking at it because you can't protect him forever. At some point, he can make the tackle or he can't.

45:54I'm sort of like that with Martinez. I'm sort of like, we really need him. And at 28, he's experienced, not 28 yet, he's 27, he'll be 28 in a couple of months. he's the perfect age we need a bit of experience in that team the profile of how he plays is really good I'm just hoping when that first tackle hits it's all right um I mean Steve says look at Roy Keane oh mate I tell you what um if I could give you all a little bit of tit this is this is what I watched before I went to sleep last night um I was on YouTube and I was watching the end of the Paul Scholes overlap thing. And on my recommended, it had Roy Keane's last full game for Manchester United.

46:40Now, I didn't research it and see whether it was, but it was Anfield away. We played in the blue kit. And the title of the video was Roy Keane's last full game for Manchester United. I don't know whether that was his last full game. It's only about 12 minutes. Check it on YouTube. and two things struck me one what a fucking player he was and that's him with hip problems right at the end of his career going up against prime Steven Gerrard and Jami Alonso and he was bloody brilliant two oh my god the game is completely different to what we get now it's faster we know they talk about the game being faster now oh my god the game it was just I know it was Man United against Liverpool, but tackles flying in, the tempo, the movement of the ball.

47:35I had to pause it and go, have I got this on fast play? Because we get the ball and move it fast, fast, fast. Nobody's pissing about. Scholes, Keane, Van Nistelrooy, Ronaldo, Rooney, it's bang, get the ball, move it, get the ball, move it, get the ball, move it, get the ball, move it. And it was just, it was, it was, it was incredible incredible it was great to see what a midfielder could do but it was also incredible how quick we used to move the ball and how confident we used to move the ball and yeah I don't know maybe it's because I had a weekend of watching the Premier League but it was just really fast really intense considering all our options for midfield if we get two of either Gallagher, Stilla or Gomez that's a good start then build from there I genuinely think we'll see a massive improvement whoever we get in the midfield as long as they're half decent I agree with you Tom Good morning legendary community have a great day Sir Spindley thank you very much I hope you have a great day as well yeah I love these international breaks to be honest with you and I love the 8 o 'clock show so we've got those lined up for you this week can't wait for it I just think the tempo of the game it's nothing to do with Man United I suppose it is in a way, but the tempo of the game has changed.

48:55I think the tempo of the game is slower now. I think the players are quicker and fitter, but the tempo of the game has changed massively. I mean, I'm so used to watching Man United get the ball and put their foot on it and have a look. But you know what it is as well? What it really is, the reason we used to knock the ball about quicker is because we knew what we were trying to do. We had patterns of play. We had styles of play. We had, you know, plans. We've got to get the ball into Ronaldo in space or we've got to get the ball into Rooney or we've got to try and get Rude in. And that's what we were trying to do all the time.

49:33Everybody knew what their job was. Scholes, Keane, the defence. They knew their job was to get the ball into Rooney and Ronaldo quickly or try and release Rude. And to do that, you've got to get the tempo going. And throughout that 10 minutes, you can see Roy Keane shouting all the time, going, oh, fucking hell, you know, because they know what their job is. We know what the plan is and we're going to execute that plan. And they become drilled in it. And that's why you're watching it going, oh, my God, look how quick the right back's moving the ball there. And because they know what and this is what we struggled with for a long time.

50:08We just don't have an identity. we go into each game and sort of like sometimes we're a bit lost Mayno and Agante I've done that one from John, thank you very much I feel like I've missed a topic here and I just want to make sure I haven't, I've mentioned the Stilla thing haven't I oh yeah it was Gary Neville I mentioned it at the start also about the midfield, Adam Wharton Crystal Palace have opened up discussions with Wharton about a new contract however it's still very much open that he could move in the summer um i mean well we don't want that to start happening by the way we don't want to see people like elliot anderson or conor gallagher not conor gallagher adam wharton signing new contracts because that makes it very very very very difficult to um

51:04get them if they sign new contracts of course there was this comment from Gary Neville which sort of fits in with what we were talking about yesterday on the evening show very good show the evening show yesterday I really really did enjoy it sort of talking about opportunities and how we need to grab them before I do that though we've had a super chat from Hash. He says, true Mark, ACL injuries are the worst, especially what it does to the confidence. I've had two on both my knees. And even though I only played college level, haven't jogged since my surgery.

51:44Injuries are a funny thing, aren't they? I mean, I don't want to bore people, but in the summer I twisted and felt a pop in what was my intercostal muscle between my ribs and it's the worst injury I've ever had. You just want to get back and it hurts. And, you know, there was a time when I was doing shows, I couldn't laugh, I couldn't cough, I could barely talk for the first two weeks. And then the recovery after, it's a long injury to come back from because of where it is. And even now, and I did it in June, so we're November now, even now i'll have days where i'll do something and it will ache like mad for 24 hours and then in your head you think you've never done it again and you haven't done it again it's just part of the process of reparation um and it's a psychological thing and it makes you it makes you it makes your body adjust and go i'm not going to fully do that anymore because i don't want to do that again um and i think only people who've had those types of and that's you know i'm into my 40s that's the worst injury i've had i mean i've had like ankle problems and that but that is the only injury i've had where it's like you've got to leave it you've got to let it rest and there's and there is there is uh recuperation with it and i can't imagine what it's like for a footballer because you can't you can't fake it you've got to be committed um So I think James is right and you are right as well.

53:12The psychological aspect of it is you've got to trust that reparation and you've got to go into that tackle. But it's easier than saying, I'll just do it. Because, you know, if you hear that snap again, you're basically done. And it's a psychological battle. The brain remembers the injury, says Arpen. Gary Neville said this on his podcast. United should be thinking around top four. There's no one grabbing at this at the moment. It's there for the taking and it's about consistency now. Literally what we were talking about on the show last night. Absolutely. I think that's the positive thing. It's we need to park the bad results.

53:54Brentford, Man City, Man United, Forest and Spurs. They were disappointing, but they're in the past. Other people have had bad results. Chelsea lost to Sunderland at home. They're in the top four. so I think that you know that's where we are we can all predict what's going to happen there's going to be more bad results we're going to go and win six in a row your man's going to get his hair cut but what United can control in this next two weeks is what we do in January we can't walk out of this international break with we don't know what we're doing in January we need this club to be making those calls now and those things need to be ready to go.

54:36Because I tell you what, there'll be clubs in the Premier League that do stuff in January and we go, wow, 100%. Spurs are already talking about Rodrigo or Kubo for January and they are a competitor of ours. So we need to remember that the January transfer window, our rivals are going to do stuff that's going to make us go, oh shit. If we sit and do nothing, that's not a tactic. Not with that midfield. Great show this morning. I've got a great show for you lined up at 8 o 'clock tonight as well. I think you're going to really enjoy that debate. Thanks everybody for watching, and I will speak to you all later on today.

55:19Career mode's back at 5 o 'clock. Talking about signings, I'm going to struggle in Season 2. If you've watched Season 1, it was epic, but I'm definitely going to struggle on those settings. I've made a very big signing. all will be revealed at 5 o 'clock it's not Harry Kane and it's not it would never be a Liverpool or Man City player I would never do that take care everyone I'll speak to you in a bit

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