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1:04Hi everybody, good morning and welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United news and transfer news. The last day from the bedroom. There'll be no more morning shows from here. We're back to normal from next week. That's something to celebrate. Also, it's charity stream weekend. Pop it in your diary. It's the biggest news of the day. All day stream on That's Football tomorrow. loads going on interactive quizzes raising money for charity with people terminal illness links in the live chat if you want to contribute early some of you already have but it's a big belabor boost this morning also the adiame talks develop we were talking about it yesterday a lot of people talking about it today we talk about what that is schlatterbeck as well ivan tony update too what's going on with the sale we've got an update on that lots and lots to talk about this morning but we're not going to talk about Ronaldo getting sent off.

1:56What relevance has that got? What relevance has Ronaldo getting sent off for Portugal got other than to say, well done to Ireland, very good result for them. Okay, so we're going to start off with Baleba. The Baleba transfer moves closer this morning, thanks to Inanna. I mean, do we congratulate him on this one? He's not costing us points, but effectively Baleba is moving closer to a deal to Manchester United because they will not be operating in the World Cup this summer transfer window. So apparently Anana made a mistake last night. Don't know about the, I haven't seen it. But the bad thing is Mbermo's not going to play in the World Cup.

2:32I suppose it's a positive because he gets the summer off, etc. But looking at Mbermo walking off the pitch last night, you know, this is a World Cup that everybody wants to play in. And I think the year he's had, not just at Manchester United, but at Brentford as well, I've got to say, I did feel very sorry for Mbermo last night. But look, it's competitive. It's very competitive in the African nations for World Cup places. And Cameroon just fell short. Whether they'd have won the final playoff place against Nigeria anyway is up for debate. But there is a cloud and there is a silver lining to that cloud because the Labour will not be competing in the World Cup.

3:09So this strengthens Manchester United's hand because we have an opportunity in the summer whereby we can go for a player like Balaba and not have to worry about the World Cup. Now, we know we spoke to Balaba and his agent in the last summer transfer window. We've effectively got a whole summer to negotiate the Balaba deal now. We don't have to worry about World Cup camps. We don't have to worry about Cameroon getting to the quarterfinals of the World Cup. effectively when the Premier League season ends this could be another Kunya basically we could start working on this deal way before the summer transfer window get it done before June the 30th get it in this financial year get a midfielder in and I think look we've spoken about we've spoken about preferences and and what we prefer to see and I do think that I would like to see Manchester United operating well in the summer transfer window but for me at the moment the Belaber isn't actually my priority midfielder.

4:12He isn't. I still think Elliot Anderson, Angelo Stiller are ahead of Belaber in my mind. Maybe even a Jao Gomez or a Conor Gallagher, as bad as that sounds, because Belaber's playing badly. But as Ben Jacobs said yesterday, Belaber is still Man United's priority. He's still very much at the top. They're not bothered about his drop in form. And they still, you know, very much like the player and possibly is our priority, possibly is our number one based on the fact that we did try to get him in the summer. So a clear run at him in the summer, this summer coming up. I think you've got to start going.

4:48The Labour probably is the odds on favourite to be Man United's midfield signing. I don't know what your thoughts are on that, but we know what Man United are like. They're stubborn. They also don't like deals that are difficult. They like to negotiate for a long time. We saw that with Embermo and we've seen it in previous years. We like to long negotiate and they'll be rubbing their hands together at the Labour because as long as the Labour keeps saying he wants to come to Manchester United, which he will because no one else is going to go for him at the moment before he's in, then United can spend May, June, July just negotiating, not having to worry about the World Cup.

5:21So I think it's a boost if you want the Labour this morning because we will not be impacted by a World Cup summer and we can take our time negotiating on a player that wants to come to us. Would that be the player that you would want? Well, look, it's not what we want. It's what Manchester United want, isn't it? So interesting on that one. Belaber isn't that good right now, says Sean Gardner. His price has to drop first, says Anshaman. Belaber is a must, says Everything Carpe. Maybe we get Stilla and Belaber, says Rocket Games. Talk about the Nico deal, says King Walker. We will talk about Schvaterbeck in a moment.

5:54Isn't Gomez last in the league, says Tishwan? Yeah, I mean, again, apologies about the ability to understand, you know, context. But Roy Keane got relegated with Nottingham Forest. Was that a mistake? Just because you get relegated doesn't mean that you're not a good player. I mean, you're telling me that if, I don't know, Fulham got relegated, you wouldn't want Anthony Robinson. Come on, grow up. Use your brain. What charity is it for, Mark? it's for the Marie Curie we do it every year it's the eighth year we've raised over 200 ,000 pounds over eight years um much more than that when you put charity aid in um probably closer to a quarter of a million so we get get involved tomorrow looking forward to it and we've got interactive stuff going on throughout the day plus we're doing Eubank Ben boxing watch along at 10 o 'clock tomorrow night so looking forward to it um always nice to spend the day with you lots doing the charity work how is Gallagher better than Belaber when he's not playing at the moment make that makes sense as Matt.

6:53Mate, it's called personal opinion. You've expressed yours, I've expressed mine, ridicule it, agree with it, but I'm not changing it. I would rather go for Conor Gamaga because he can come in in January. I actually think, I think it'd be a decent signing for us. I can't be proven wrong or right on that because it's not happened or it might not happen, but my preference is to get a player in in January and not wait until the summer. So for me, you've got to go for a Gallagher or a Jao Gomez in January and I would go for Gallagher so I've said that before um let's talk about Nico Schlotterbeck I think this is a very interesting story this morning um I um I um I think that it's a very interesting story and I can't bloody find it here it is it's always easier when I'm in the other room okay so essentially Schlotterbeck is a really interesting player but I think a lot of people seem to get him mixed up with the what was the Dortmund centre-back that went to Bayern Munich and I don't know where he is now is it Sully Sully someone like that I don't know why people seem to get him mixed up with him because people are he's too old and he's too slow and that's who they're talking about they're not talking about Schlatterbeck they're talking about Sully because he went from Dortmund to Munich I don't even know if he's still at Munich actually so a lot of people seem to get him mixed up with him because I couldn't figure it out for ages when they were like, oh, he's way too slow.

8:18He's this, that and the other. But no, this is a different player. This is Slotterbeck, Nico Slotterbeck. He's 25. He's left footed. Obviously, he's pretty mobile, but he's also decent on the ball. And I think that there might be an aspect of two plus two is four, but he is a very interesting profile of player. If Manchester United are looking at moving for a centre back in the summer. Now, much depends here on whether we do move Harry Maguire on. If we don't move Harry Maguire on, I don't think we'll even go for a centre-back in the summer unless something happens with Lissandro Martinez. And I think those are the two factors here.

8:56If you want Man United to go and buy someone like Schlatterbeck, and we'll talk about that story in a moment, I think it's important and rational to say that a deal like this won't happen unless we do move Harry Maguire on and possibly something goes wrong with Lissandro. because if Martinez breaks down again this season, that's three injuries in a very short period of time and he's 28 and you've got to look at it and go, is he ever going to week in, week out deal with the Premier League? Also, next season, ideally, we're playing two games a week again. So we've got a few players next season. I read a brilliant tweet two nights ago.

9:36I was in the bath just flicking through the timeline and somebody said if we qualify for Europe next season and Amrim risks a lot of these players again we he could lose his job next season and you might go well slow sports news but I interpreted it and maybe I take it to the next level and maybe my point's better my eye what I read from that is that if next season we're in the Champions League and we don't recruit well in the summer Obviously, I think we'll recruit well in the midfield, but I think we could be very vulnerable in other areas. For example, Luke Shaw, Martinez, Harry Maguire, Casemiro, Mason Mount.

10:22That's five players that all could be here next season. I don't think they can play two games a week. You can't play them one game a week. So you try and play them two games a week and you get a raft of injuries. I don't think Luke Shaw Mason Mount Harry Maguire Casemiro could do Premier League weekend Champions League midweek I don't think they could do it I don't think they could do it and you can say well you could pick them at the weekend and leave them in Europe that's not how it works you've seen how competitive the Champions League is you can't go oh we've got we've got Bournemouth away at the weekend and then we're playing Real Madrid at home on Wednesday so we'll just use you lot for that and you lot for that nobody does that that's not how it works it's so competitive in the Champions League now so I do Hey guys, Lady Luck here.

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12:05I do think that next season we've got to be open-minded. We can't just be like, oh, it's the midfield, it's the midfield. I think there are other areas where we'll find this season with one game a week. I mean, look, we joke about World Cup year, but the reason Luke Shaw is fit is because he's playing one game a week and he's managing himself. I don't know whether the name Ledley King means anything to you. or Paul McGrath but these were two very very good centre-backs whose knees were absolutely knackered and what they used to do is they used to play one game a week and after the game their knees would be basically screwed they wouldn't even train for the week they'd do a little bit of bike work but they wouldn't do any football work and basically all they really did was play on a Saturday afternoon once a week so I think with Luke Shaw and others at the moment I mean they're not as bad as that they can train but it's just one game a week and they're able to their body's able to deal with it I reckon next season we go to two games a week and there'll be a few players at Man United who can't deal with it so I think when I see stories like this Schlotterbeck story and basically the story is this Manchester United are now leading the race for Nico Schlotterbeck it's coming in from Football Fancast and a few others.

13:28It's a German, actually, it's a Spanish report, sorry. Spanish report, I'll tell you where in a minute. They're leading the race with Barcelona and Liverpool in the race to sign Schlotterbeck, with it being revealed why the Dortmund player could be ideal for Amrim. Amrim's made it abundantly clear he's unwilling to compromise on his principles and to change the three-at-the-back system. Luke Shaw's predominantly been moved, used this season, although the 30-year-old has struggled at times. and it goes on to say that the Englishman, according to reports from Spain, Man United have now moved into pole position in the race to sign Dortmund star Schlotterbeck, having overtaken Liverpool and Barcelona, given their good relationships with the German club.

14:08The German has now been identified as a priority target for United, as there is a feeling he could be ideal, given that he's 25, left-footed, physical, and has real quality in possession of the ball. Contract due to expire in 2027, Dortmund are willing to sanction a departure in the summer should they receive a fair offer, putting the United Red Devils in a strong position. So look, you know, contract, age, profile, interesting. A lot of people are going to get excited about that. For me, I like Schlotterbeck, but I think there's a lot of ifs, buts and maybes in the November international break for us to be talking about that.

14:50But what I do completely agree with is that we've got to be looking, we've got to solve the midfield problem, but we have got to look beyond the midfield problem. I think, as I say, one game a week, the squad looks great. But any decent football club focuses on the now primarily, but also has an eye on the future. And if this season goes well, and I think many of us think it can, next season will be harder. and what I don't want to see, I do not want to see this, is that we have a really positive season, we get into the top five, we're into the Champions League, everyone's singing we're back, and then the following season we sack Amrim.

15:30For example, Jose Mourinho wins two trophies, takes us into Champions League, finishes second, and then we sack him the following Christmas. Oli Gunnar Solskjaer takes us to Europa League final, gets us to second place, and we sack him before Christmas. Eric Ten Hag takes us to two cups and then we sack him. We've had positives with Solskjaer, Ten Hag and Mourinho where we thought we were heading towards something and within a year we've sacked them. So I think next season, and I know it's not for now, but I just want to say we need to be looking at things beyond the midfield because things could go very wrong very quickly when we basically double our workload hopefully next season.

16:12So yeah, keep an eye on Schlotterbeck, interesting in that one. Also, I'm not going to leave this story dry because we did talk about it yesterday. Some of you liked it, some of you didn't. There's a question I need to answer in relation to your comments because I do read your comments. I just don't really bother getting involved in them unless it's a live show. So this is from Pletigold, who works in Germany. So Bild yesterday had the report about George Mendes representing Adeyemi, having talks with Manchester United, separate entity, separate story. We then get Pletigold, who works for Sky Germany in Germany, reputable German transfer journalist.

16:52He says Man United have inquired about Adeyemi and obtained information from George Mendes. The situation continues to be monitored. Dortmund is still pushing to extend Adeyemi's contract, but no agreement has been reached. It remains unclear whether Dortmund will actually include a release clause in the new deal. However, Adeyemi slash Mendes want to have one included. So the Adi Amy story does take a twist in the sense that it's becoming more vocal than Man United and Adi Amy links. Now, I said to you yesterday, I would like to see Adi Amy signing for Manchester United. I would. And I've had a lot of comments with a lot of likes on the video yesterday morning.

17:36And I was having a little laugh with my coffee because people were saying, oh, this is the guy who said in the summer, we don't need some menu. we've got Cunha and Embermo. So why does he now want Adie Ami? Yeah, good one, bro. Yeah, another comment. Yeah, this is from the guy who said he doesn't need another, no number 10, because we've got Cunha and Embermo. Literal thinkers, red or green thinkers, nothing in between thinkers, not amber thinkers, no context thinkers. I'll explain it to you. Apologies to those who already understood, but I'll explain it to you. With some NU, certain outlets talk shit um kept linking us to some menu that we were in talks with him when we never were we were never in talks with some menu oh man united are in for some menu man united are in talks for some menu we were never in talks with some menu kunya was priority number one we had that deal done in march we just finalized it in was it may or june and then embermo was option two and we got him done we started talking to him in may and we got the deal done in july We never had advanced talks with Semenyu.

18:43So Semenyu talks I've always been dismissive of because I know we weren't in advanced talks with him. In the summer, I probably have said we don't need Semenyu because we've got Kunia and Mbremo in the summer. Do we need another 10 at the moment? No. We need midfielders. Absolutely. We need midfielders. We need a backup striker. you could argue we need a wing back we need all those people before we need another number 10 but we're talking about next summer we're not talking about the January transfer window we're not talking about last summer we're talking about next summer and what I've just spoken about there is that if Mason Mount can't deal with two games a week and Xerxes is gone and Bruno is gone then you're basically down to Konya and Bermot Ahmad and you'd start all three of them because Ahmad would play right wing back.

19:37So looking at someone like Adyemi, then could make sense. Looking at someone like Semenyu, then could make sense. So next summer, which is when this deal would happen, it could make sense. But not now, not last summer, and not in the January transfer window. So I hope that makes sense to you. We don't need a 10 at the moment. To put the cherry on the top of that I like Adi Emi so I'm not a massive I think Semenu is a very good player but he's not a player that makes me go oh I think he could be generational you know I think Adi Emi could go to Liverpool and be the next Mo Salah I've said that before I think he can go to Barcelona and be a fantastic player I like Adi Emi you might really like a player that we don't need like you might really like I don't know might be a goalkeeper that you really like you like you might like the Barcelona keeper we don't need them because we've got the men's but you might like them so I like Adi Amy do I think we're in for him honestly I think it is time to bring it out because it is the last international break before a transfer window and there's a lot going on we do need to remember the five principles of a transfer that we we basically invented this Maybe we should trademark it.

20:54Don't get me started on that. Somebody on the watch along for England last night said that Cole Palmer wants to trademark the words Cold Palmer and the celebration. And got a massive problem with trademarking the words Cold Palmer, because why would you ever say that unless you are talking about Cold Palmer? But he can't trademark I'm fucking cold. I mean, he didn't come up with that. that as i said people on the titanic were waiting to sink going like that what was cold palmer going to do get in the bloody delorean go back to the future and say that'll be 10 grand each yeah we're freezing cold and we're about to you know sink to our frozen debt no you're using my thing it's ridiculous ridiculous but anyway we probably should trademark the five principles we're not going to trademark the five principles of a transfer but when i look at this adi amy story I go five things.

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23:03Trying to get a contract at Dortmund using his agent. Or five, it's the player using Man United to get interest from other people. I think it could fall into either of those categories uh it could be totally true but I think it's one of the three we either genuinely are interested in Adiemi or we're being used as a you know negotiation tool for the contract he wants at Dortmund or three we're being used to generate interest from other clubs for a transfer um take your pick I think at the moment I wouldn't like to say what it is I'd like to think it's true at some point but it could also actually you know what let me be honest I think this ends in him signing a new contract at Dortmund if I'm being completely fair um because yeah I just feel that that's probably the way it's gonna go but I do I do like them I do like them I do like him um okay let me have a quick look at some of your comments coming in this morning thanks everybody for tuning in this Friday don't forget the all day charity stream tomorrow what's this thing about the labour we should have been here for 10 o 'clock the thing about the labour is that I think quite clearly from what Ben Jacobs said yesterday he probably is one of the number one midfield targets for United based on the fact that we did try to sign him in the summer and United have a very big history of not moving on from targets Sancho Lindelof there's a few others as well so he probably is top of the list we can't do it in January we're going to try and do it in we're going to try and go for somebody big in the summer and it probably is going to be Belaber over Anderson because Anderson will be playing in the world cup for england and the labor will be completely summer off because cameroon didn't qualify for the world cup um watchers spend 100 million for belabor says hyans uh embermo cost cameroon not hammer not an honor's fault says peace love okay the labor was hooked at half time in a crucial world cup qualifier for his nation i think we should pass on him unless it's a loan for him previous worth plus an honor did not make any mistake last night says z is boss I don't know.

25:03I was just going off what people were saying on the live chat. I don't know. I also don't know whether Balaba got subbed at halftime for Cameroon, but I'm going to be surprised if he was getting subbed off for Cameroon at halftime. But you know what? Some people think it's the solution. I'm taking a nacho from Sporting over Nico's. Is Malik. I think that's a very interesting name, mate. It's a very interesting name. I'd be interested to know what... Look, if you're asking me whether I want Schlotterbeck, Bramthwaite or Anacho, I'd avoid Bramthwaite because of the price. If I want Anacho or Schlotterbeck, I'd leave it down to Amrim.

25:39Amrim's obviously played with Anacho. He's played in the system. But, you know, again, there are interesting profiles of defenders available in a position that we might want to strengthen in. I don't think you can go into next. The interesting thing is, I would argue, out of all the left-sided centre-backs we've got at the moment, Aidan Heaven might be the most reliable, simply because I just don't think Luke Shaw is going to be able to stay fit for that long. And Martinez is a bit of an unknown quantity after a bad injury. I like Gallagher, but he's definitely not a six-slash-pivot, says Nick.

26:13He definitely is. I don't know whether he ever watched him play for Chelsea, but he definitely played in a midfield too. Personally, I think United need to sign Stiller, says Rajaf. I like Stiller. Emily Derry says, and we still have multiple players who down tools on managers when the going got tough, i.e. games in Europe and demanding styles of play. Thank you very much, Emily, for your comment this morning. The difference is Amrim's start was shit, says Rajaf. And also Seth with the Super Chat says, I think he will be a good signing left-footed. We can move short a left wing back to have squad depth.

26:48Our left side is really poor. Cognier is struggling because of it, says Seth. I mean, to be honest with you, Seth, you're not the first person to mention putting Luke Shaw at left wing back. And I really don't mind us doing that. But I don't think it's possible. I mean, fight me on it verbally. Like, I genuinely do not think that Luke Shaw can play left back or left wing back anymore. You know, you look at O 'Reilly at Manchester City or Mendes at PSG or, you know, even people like Lewis Hall when they're playing for Newcastle or Anthony Robinson when he's fit or Kirk as at Bournemouth last year or even Andy Robertson now.

27:30It's probably one of the most demanding roles on the pitch, apart from midfield. I think midfield is probably the most demanding position because you're running back and forth and back and forth. In a United shirt, it's a lot of running because it's basketball, back, four, back, forth, back, forth. There is no possession. And I also think it's the same if you're the wingers. In an Amrim system, it's back, it's forward, it's back, it's forward. When I see the opposition with the ball, I can clearly see a back five. When we're on the attack, I'm like, where's Ahmad? Where's Dorgou or Deleu? And they are there.

28:03So it's back and forward. It's back and forward. Luke Shaw can't do that. You know, the running Luke Shaw would do at left wing back compared to left centre back. I don't have the stats, but I would say could be, I wouldn't say it's double. But if Luke Shaw does 100 % of running at left centre back, put him at left wing back, I think he'd probably have to do another 30 % of running, which obviously with a body like that is going to struggle, isn't it? So I don't think Luke Shaw can go back there, even though he's a very good left back. I don't think he can do it anymore. Hi, Mark. With Forrest reportedly facing PSR issues, I think United will try to sign Anderson in June before the end of the financial year.

28:46The 65 or 75 million is Andy. Well, if you didn't watch the show last night, Andy, I can add a little bit more to that. Ben Jacobs again on the afternoon show yesterday confirming that the price for Anderson will be considerably lower than 100 million pounds. and that's from people close to anderson so there are clearly parameters where a deal can be done for around 65 to 75 million pounds anyway without forest's psr issues that will be in his contract with nothing to do with psr so um by the sounds of it anderson can be got for 65 75 anyway is boadi linked with us huge potential says somnath i've not heard anything about that Slazy says playing one game a week is a double-edged sword it's good for the rice cake knee players but our bench players don't get any minutes Kagawa the Katarian Sancho stay clear of the Bundesliga says we've already seen well there you go uh stay clear of the Bundesliga um and yet we can all probably name lots and lots and lots and lots of players from the Bundesliga that have done very very well um off the top of my head straight away I would say Gravenberge I would say Haaland there's bloody loads why am I having a brain fart on this Eketike looks good Mamouche looks very good I'm trying to go with recent ones I mean obviously Versesco the jury's out

30:14I actually think that the Bundesliga suits the Premier League style of play very well so I disagree with that one and there's also plenty of players that have been Premier League proven that are not

30:36that haven't worked as well so yeah I don't necessarily agree with that one I'm just talking about midfield by the way I don't know whether you saw it yesterday I can't remember the source a few people were talking about it online last night and I didn't have time because we did a seven o 'clock show instead of an eight o 'clock show we have got an eight o 'clock show tonight um de Bruyne came in from the Bundesliga as well um that's not the United Road says it's because you have a contract with the Bundesliga I don't have a contract with the Bundesliga don't get paid by the Bundesliga we get we're the United stands got nothing to do with it we don't get anything from Bundesliga that's football is a completely different entity um we're not we can say what bloody well like about the Bundesliga on here doesn't matter um the point is I would like to sign Adiemi I would like to sign Stiller um I would like to sign Noosa I quite like the look of Diamonde at Leipzig as well I think he's going to be a very interesting player Uzan at Frankfurt I think he's a good player so I think there's a few there's a few player a few players I would like to take from there but look talk about Kone for a moment uh there was an interesting story yesterday I don't know the validity of the story and where it was coming from maybe some of you can tell me but there was talk of manchester united loaning kone out in january um and it was met with some consternation um and also you know some people agreed with it um i think that if we're not using kone and we're not using ob they should be loaned out asap um amas is a very similar profile to them and he is doing fantastically well in the championship at sheffield wednesday if you could give me kone to a championship club for the rest of the season i'd take it now if you could put obey ob in a championship club for the rest of the season i'd take it now i want these players to play for manchester united but in all reality what are we smoking what are we smoking because is Kone going to start in the midfield for Man United and play every week no no he's not he has you know misplaces one pass and everyone will go he's shit what's up everybody it's Bretzky and America is turning 250 and I can't think of a better way to celebrate that than playing on an American owned social casino spinquest.com with all of your favorite games live crap bubble craps live blackjack there's no better place to play for free and win real cash prizes spinquest.com spinquest is a free to play social casino void where prohibited visit spinquest.com for more details i think this is a very intelligent move and i hope it does happen and i hope obi happens with obi as well and also hope it happens with Manchester United so I'm not the manager get them out on loan of course I want them to be Man United players but they're not and Kone's had a bad head injury hasn't he to be fair but they need to play football I just don't believe I was watching the podcast with Gary Neville not Gary Neville Robbie Fowler Scholes and Butt and I haven't watched it all I was just listening to um about 10 minutes of it and they were talking about training and i've heard i remember paul saying this on the united stand i've spoken to a few players like this ben foster a couple of other man united x players and you know you listen and i've heard it so many times and and they talk about training and i think nicky but said mark hughes and brian mclair who were good players at man united when they were coming through he said they were shit in training basically they didn't they couldn't care they didn't give a shit about training they weren't bothered about training they weren't very good in training and then on a saturday they'd be two of the best players on the pitch and then robbie fowler was saying look yeah exactly the same and he said to be honest with you it wasn't like i didn't try in training it's just at the start of the week i'd just go through the motions and then in the towards the end of the week i'd step it up a little bit towards the game but i wasn't putting it in and then scolz he was saying well you know like roy keen's Roy Keane's theory was that you should train as hard as you're going to play on a Saturday.

35:01And some people do and some people don't. The point is, when we're talking about Kony and we're talking about Obi and we're talking about Manu and we're talking about Xerxes and all these players that aren't getting any game time, and then you hear people saying, yeah, but they are training all week. Oh, God, there ain't no way. And I've had so many anecdotes and logically it makes sense as well. I've never heard somebody say in my whole time watching football, listening to interviews, I've never heard anybody say training is the same as playing a game on a Saturday afternoon. I've never heard that.

35:36And what I have heard is there are some players that are brilliant in training and shit in a match. And there are some people who are training a crap and then brilliant on a Saturday. So, you know, these young players, when they're training with the first team, Some people get really excited and it is a positive that they're getting a look, but they're not getting what you get playing in the championship like Harry Amas is this season. That is the golden ticket. And you're either going to get picked for Man United like Rashford did when he was young or Rooney when he was young. Obviously, we bought him.

36:09Training with the first team, I just think other than the first month or two where you're just getting used to it, the next step is to play. and if Kone's not going to play and he can have five months in a championship club for the rest of the season, absolutely. I did feel that there might be a chance that Amrim might use him, but if Amrim is looking at him and going, he ain't ready. And let's not forget, we're playing one game a week. We've got to get Champions League football. He ain't using Maino and Agate. So what chances that Amrim goes, ooh, got a really important game at home's Crystal Palace today.

36:40Let's start Kone in the midfield. I just don't think he's going to do it. I don't think he's going to take risks. He drops Yoro for Maguire. in big games. Not because he doesn't break Yoro, but I think he brings Maguire in for experience and he needs the points. So I don't think Kone looks like he's going to get much of a look in. So a loan deal probably does make sense, to be fair. Do you think we'll see Kukanki next season, says Daniel? I don't know. I mean, this is the whole point, isn't it? Maybe we do need to start looking at loaning some of these players out because I'll tell you what, as I say, I don't want to keep talking about it, but the Harry Amas loan deal has been fantastic.

37:13we should only loan players to teams with a three at the back says Malik and Silent Bishop says really feel we're dropping the ball on Xerxi suits the system perfectly can create chance channels for the number 10s Ahmad's running behind Betty flourishes wherever he goes to Silent Bishop um well it's interesting because you bring us on to the striker conversation and uh I saw this today that um uh where was it where was it where was it it was about Ivan Tony uh yeah um Al Ali director Rui Pedrez Braz says Ivan Tony is a top player a top striker the rumors around his possible exit in January are not based on reality it's just not true we're counting on him it makes zero sense to address this subject in November so obviously we'd heard from Ben Jacobs that Ivan Tony, World Cup year, might fancy a loan back to the Premier League for four months to put himself in the line for an England call-up.

38:11I think that makes a lot of sense for Ivan Tony, by the way. I think if you can go on loan to a Premier League club, score a few goals, you probably go to the World Cup. So I can understand why you want to do that. And to be honest with you, Harry Kane's playing a lot of football. Harry Kane gets injured and suddenly it's not necessarily Ollie Watkins, is it it could be Ivan Tony so you can understand why Tony might be pushing for it but he is under contract and he is on ridiculous wages and the Saudi club basically saying that that's you know not going to happen so why am I mentioning that because I think it fits perfectly into what Silent Bishop was saying about Xerxi he's going to want to go for the same reasons maybe Ivan Tony does but where would Man United get a replacement from um so you know you've got to keep an eye on that we can only really let Xerxes go if we get a replacement in and we can only really let Manu go if we get a replacement in and if Man United don't go for replacements then those players are going to end up sat down but I do agree with you as well I think I think with regards to Xerxes we spend a lot of time talking about is he going isn't he going and I can't remember a player actually in their first 18 months who's been linked to leaving as much as he has I mean even in the first month he was here we had the whole for the first We signed him in the June, all the way till Christmas, virtually every week he was going to an Italian club.

39:33Then in January, I'm staying, did quite well, got injured, and then we are where we are now. But he's been linked to leaving this club ever since he signed for us. It's weird. I do think that when you look at the accusations laid at Sesco, his inability to hold the ball up and play others in, that's literally what Xerxes would be all about. but you've got to respect the manager haven't you as much as I look at it and sort of think you know it probably would be worth a go especially in games where what was the game where we needed to take Sesko off Forrest I think in that game it felt like Xerxes for 20 minutes couldn't have done any worse but he didn't do it um to me for whatever reason it looks like Amrim doesn't rate Xerxes whether that changes between now and the end of the season I don't know but if we can't find a replacement I think he'll end up staying for the season I'd bring back Rasmus in January top four is seriously up for grabs as Viking Crypto Warrior I don't think we can I don't think we can bring him back I don't think it's contractually possible I'm fed up not getting super chats read out as Viking Crypto Warrior and yet I've just read yours.

40:56I mean, the timing of that's incredible, but there you go. Ahmad is the perfect example for these young players. Several champs. What you're basically saying is you're fed up of not being, having your super chaps read out instantly, aren't you? Well, and I can't promise you that, mate. I can't because we're in a conversation and we talk about it and then we move on to the next one, which is exactly what we did. Chip says, Ahmad is the perfect example for these young players. Several championship loans, struggling to get minutes in the first team. now is one of our best players it's a well-used topic chip and it's a fair point you know you look at Ahmad you look at the loans to Rangers and Sunderland and you look at how well that went for him not necessarily Rangers but Sunderland and then you look at how well things are going for him at Manchester United and you go that's the way to do it however I think that what's really important to consider is that manchester united were actively looking to loan amas and on multiple occasions sunderland then rangers then sunderland um at the moment and and that worked well and we actively look to loan amas but at the moment we're not actively looking to loan menu we're not actively looking to loan obi and i think that's that's where i would jump in and say well come on if we're not using them Viking Crypto Warrior says apologies it's absolutely fine mate don't worry um I think that's really important uh Nelly says personally Mark I don't mind about the Labour dropping form um who is to say he's copying uh Yoccares, Isaac I hope you read this one if Yoccares and Isaac were on strike in the summer transfer window they weren't doing in a bloody sporting shirt or a Newcastle shirt.

42:45It's completely different. I do have a problem with a player that's contractually stuck at Brighton. He can't leave. He can't leave until January and he's put it in stinkers. I don't think that's a trait I want at Man United. So I absolutely do not want a player that's purposely playing badly. And I don't think he is purposely playing badly, but that's what you're saying. I don't want a player that's downing tools at Brighton to get a move to Man United. Because when he's 25 and Real Madrid come along, he'll do the same to us. It's the same what Anthony did. Anthony went on strike at Ajax. We were all going, oh, yeah, he really wants Man United.

43:20Basically did the same thing here to get a move to Betis. So, you know, I don't want players with those traits anymore. I want players that, you know, get their head down and go, I'm at Brighton at the moment. There's nothing I can do about it. So I'm just going to get my head down and work hard. imagine if it came to light that Belaber's purposely playing badly so he can get the price down for Man United I mean god that would be I would hate that and that's not what's happening by the way but I would absolutely hate that um Felix sat around the pool in Spain watching I don't want to get I don't want to get played but Felix I'm looking out my window it's definitely not sunny it is absolute torrential rain um it's a horrible horrible day here So cheers, have a sangria and enjoy it because the weather here is rubbish.

44:12Somebody just mentioned Sesco. I've not heard anything about Sesco at all, other than the injury is not bad and the timeline for his return is probably going to be...

44:39sort of post-Crystal Palace. I don't think he's back for the Everton game, but...

44:48Yeah, he should be back soon. A few people talking about Adeyemi. We have been linked to a goalkeeper. We've been linked to Yabby Guerra again as well. Didn't he sign a new contract at Valencia?

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45:43I saw this from Solskjaer this is quite good the 3-4-3 or whatever you want to call it it's horrible to play against when it's done well if you try to press it high it's really difficult the first team I remember doing it properly in our era was Basel against Liverpool you almost have to go man to man follow every run track everything and even then it's tough when it works it's brilliant but you need teams to press you for it to really click you see what United now they tend to win more games when they've got 45 to 50 percent possession rather than 60 to 65 percent possession I spoke about this yesterday but I haven't didn't delve into it as much depth

46:23I don't think Solskjaer's reinventing the wheel there I just think it's more mainstream so people understand it a little bit more like this is exactly what we've been talking about for weeks our system works really well when teams want to attack us Liverpool etc um it does and that's why we've got 50 % possession 45 % possession if you sit back against us it doesn't work so well it's more of a it's more of a battle so I think that the evolution of the Amrim system over the next 12 months is going to be very interesting he's got to keep being given players that make the team better and therefore make the system better.

47:04I still think he's got four and I'm thinking of a fit player. Let's say four, possibly five first team players that don't suit his system that would instant. I mean, look, I don't know whether Sid Jim Radcliffe understands football enough to know this, but as a Manchester United fan, you will. When I look at that Manchester United side and I look at Amrim's system and I look at the results we've had this season and the potential that's there to kick on, I can go take you out, put you in, take you out, put you in, take you out, put you in, take you out, put you in, and possibly take you out and put you in.

47:38And I'm not using players from the squad, I'm signing players. And every signing I make makes us better. And obviously two of them are midfielders. Like, if I take Bruno and Casemiro out and bring in two midfielders, we're a much better team tomorrow. But there are other positions we can do that with. And I think that's, you know, we can overrun. I I mean, look, it wasn't that long ago where everywhere, every radio station, every news article was talking about he needs to change his formation. It literally feels like yesterday and for the previous year, everybody's been saying he needs to change his formation.

48:12And now for the last couple of weeks, it's like, oh, that formation is really hard to play against. And yet we've had 12 months of it's really easy to play against and it doesn't work in the Premier League. So excuse me for being a little bit reticent to go, oh, yeah, because everyone's been slagging it off for so long. What I think about Amram's system and Amram's formation is that it's a redundant conversation because until he's got the players for it, it was always going to have its problems. Even though it's doing quite well at the moment, I still think it can do better. I think that's why for me the system and formation conversation was always ridiculous because it hasn't necessarily got the players to make it work and even though it's working to a certain extent we've been to Anfield and won I still look at the team that played against Liverpool and go it could be better there's four players I would move and four players I would sign to make it better and that's where I look at the board and I go I hope you're looking at that I hope you're not looking at it and going oh we're getting good results you know let's keep going like there literally has to be four or five signings for the first team and another four for the bench um and as that happens we will get better yeah um i use it in fifa i can't i can't do it mate i can't do a three four three i'm gonna do it on the charity stream tomorrow on the draft just for a laugh but i can't i can't play a three four three i've never been able to play it i'm too ingrained in a back four um even when i used to play sabuti i was a kid it was a back four four four two i can't three yeah just just the trouble with the three four three for me is that it too easily becomes a five five a back five and the the problem i have with it hypothetically look I back Amorim this is what we do let's hope it works but I'm a back four guy at heart I don't want to sack Amorim I wouldn't replace him now people don't understand this I can't change my life in the fact that I prefer a back four but I do support Amorim and I want him to do well and maybe we'll play three four three for the next hundred years at Man United and it will become to the next generation what back four was to me but the problem I have with it is that when it becomes a back five i'm losing an attacker if i play a back four i'm basically removing one of you know i'm basically removing i'm losing luke short basically i have the litten's euro at center backs which i'm happy with and then i've got my full backs luke short doesn't take me down to 10 men though i put him in the midfield or i put him in the attack so i get an extra attacker that's why i don't like a three four three or a five because it's like when you're defending, you basically lose an attacker.

51:03So, yeah. But if your wide players are wingers, technically you gain an attacker. And that's how it's meant to work. Yeah, Sabutio is an elite nostalgia reference. Brian C, thank you very much for that. Okay, fantastic show this morning. We've nearly hit 8 000 viewers i just want to say we are back at two o 'clock as usual and the eight o 'clock show tonight is in its eight o 'clock slot after last night seven o 'clock slot even though i scheduled it for eight and then went live at seven so apologies that was on me um just a bit a few shout outs so tomorrow i will be on the morning show at 10 o 'clock and then straight after we'll be going over to bats football for our all day charity stream we do this every year on the middle saturday of the international break in november we're raising money for uh people with serious illness it's the married cheery charity um and uh we will be going from 11 a.m uk time until at least midnight so because we've got the boxing watch along to do we've got some really interactive quizzes seb's going to be getting involved he wants to play simpsons fortnight whatever that is and um he reckons he's going to beat me at fc 26 but he won't um so that'll be good and yeah ultimately we are raising money that's what it's all about um the one day of the year where we do focus on something and try and achieve it collectively for good um if you want to if slow sports news has already done it a couple of people already done it the link is on the live chat now the just giving page is there uh preferably do it through the just giving page because all of it goes through to charity and you can do gift aid um if you can't do it through that and tomorrow you can do super chats on that football but uh youtube do take a percentage of that um but yeah let's see if we can hit a thousand pounds before we even start i've done that before that'd be great take care everybody stay safe i will see you on the eight o 'clock show tonight live and uh just popping it in your head for tomorrow the weather's going to be crap anyway spend the day with us raising money for charity take care stay safe i'll speak to you in a bit

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