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1:14His embargoed press conference for the Man United versus Everton game came out late last night, and he has been speaking about quite a few interesting things. how he's very frustrated with the last two Man United performances, how he will let Maynou and Xerxes go, but it's about what's best for the club. Also, we've got the latest on January transfers, what's happening with the youth, why Obi's not playing, all coming from the mouth of Ruben Amrim, but all with your reaction. That's the main thing. So lots to get into today. And we'll start off with that Maynou and Xerxes being allowed to leave.

1:48Very, very significant statement from Ruben Amrim. We'll delve into that, of course. We won't be talking about Casemiro, I don't think, because a lot of people are talking about Casemiro this morning, but we did it last night. So we will try not to talk about that. But we may go into that later in the show. I feel like it's been so long since we've done a watch along. I can't wait for tonight. Eight o 'clock, we'll be there. I'll be standing. You know, it'll be winning. We'll be into the top four or five, which is great. But it feels like a long wait, doesn't it? We've had to be patient. But today is our day and bring it on.

2:19Make sure you smash a like on the video. So, OK, let's start off then. Get your thoughts around this. So Reuben Amrim asked about Xerxi, Maynou, their futures at the football club. My interpretation is that he is basically saying they can go. But what he's saying is I need replacements before they can go. This is not a statement of these are important players to me in my interpretation. But this is what Amrim said. You tell me what you think. The club comes first. That's the priority, number one. We have to think about the club and the team. After that, anything can happen. And having been a footballer myself, I completely understand, you know, that they want game time.

3:03He says, I want to help my players in all situations. So I don't know what will happen, but I do want my players to be happy. I understand the frustration of some players, given that the World Cup is approaching, but Manchester United comes first. So if I can help the club and the players, I'll be happy. Otherwise, I have to think about the team. And I think what that basically is, is that Manchester United comes first. And what that basically means is his results focus comes first, because what's best for Manchester United is that we're in the Champions League. What's best for Manchester United is that we win games.

3:40So the individual desires of people like Xerxi and Maynou come a massive second to what Amorim believes is best for Manchester United. And what effectively he's saying is Maynou and Xerxes can go. They're clearly not part of my plans. You can see that week in, week out. They're backup players. I understand they want to play first team football. I was a player myself. I want them to be happy. So they can go. However, it's got to be right for Manchester United. And if I get injuries to Casemiro and Bruno, know, then Maynou would play. So if Maynou's going to go, they've got to give me a replacement.

4:17And I think that's the clearest indicator yet that really Amrim is putting this on the people that are responsible. Maynou, Zerksi and the club. He's just saying, look, the reason they're here, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, they're on my bench every game that they're fit. They are my backup players. They're not my first team players. They might be frustrated by that. If they want to go, then the club is to find me replacements. And I think that's where we are with this. So So I think it's really interesting to sort of establish what's going on beyond the January transfer window with these two players.

4:53But I think it comes down to two very simple things. We won't let Xerxes and Maynou go unless we get replacements in. And I think we're all in agreement with that. I agree with Amrim on that. Personally, I don't agree with letting Maynou go. I'd be giving him more game time. But Amrim is the manager. and I'm happy that we're not playing this pretense anymore that they're part of my plans because they're not. They're just not. Whether we want them to be or not, I think we need to grow up and realise they're not part of the plans. You know, Xerxes is not part of the plans and Manu is not part of the plans and it would be miraculous for that to change because Bruno never gets injured, Casemiro's in a World Cup year, so Manu's blocked off, basically, and he needs game time.

5:36Look at Amas at Sheffield Wednesday. So I now look at United and go, this is another reason you need to bring a midfielder in in January One, our midfield is weak And two, Manu needs game time that he's not going to get here And three, Amrim is basically telling the world that if I get replacements, they can go So if I'm Manu this morning or I'm Xerxi this morning And Xerxi's situation is slightly different Because we do have the AFCON and Sesko is injured So he might expect to get a bit of game time But if I'm Manu this morning, I'm waking up and I'm going, look He don't want to use me I want to play This is on the club Are they going to put their hands in their pockets or not?

6:13We'll have to wait and see Bram says I'm very excited for tonight My prediction is 3-0 Well I've gone 3-0 But I think it could be as high as 4 But look it's a big game for Manchester United tonight Now the second thing I wanted to talk about About Ruben Amrim And I You know I find this This keeps happening This keeps happening. And some of you are going to be on the opposite side of the fence. And some of you are going to be on my side of the fence here. This keeps happening, though. And it happened against Everton a year ago. We beat Everton 4-0. And people were stood outside Old Trafford doing videos, doing tweets, going, Amrin Ball is here.

6:54And I said, it's a great result against Everton. But Everton were really bad. And it wasn't Amrin Ball. That's not the way Amrin wants to play. It was a good win, but it wasn't Amrin Ball. Oh, you're negative. if you don't know what you're talking about, literally while I was doing the match reaction, Amrim came out and went, that's not Amrim ball. We will suffer. It's a good result today, but we are going to suffer. And we did suffer. And we didn't see Amrim ball. I said, after the Forest game and the Spurs game, I was very, very frustrated. To the extent that you can go and read the comments on the Spurs reaction, you're too negative, you're too much of a moaner, this, that, and the other.

7:32And I was like, no, I remember that Spurs game And I said, look, I'm not sorry for this. I'm massively frustrated with that Spurs game. I thought we played crap throughout it. We've needed a lucky late, well, not lucky, but we need a last minute equaliser to salvage a point against a crap Spurs side. I was massively frustrated with that result. And some of you were trying to tell me, no, no, it's a great point, this, that and the other. Well, look, if you don't like my opinion, this is the opinion of the manager. Staying unbeaten isn't enough. I'm very frustrated by these last two matches, especially the last one.

8:06For us, it's not sufficient. In this club, being unbeaten isn't everything. We didn't win the last two matches. That's why I think like that. I don't feel like we've been unbeaten for five matches. In my mind, we didn't win the last two matches. That's how I feel. and you know what what what what do you want me to say about that that's exactly how i feel about it so i feel like um i don't feel justified i don't feel justified in it at all that's not i don't like i told you so or anything like that but i do feel like Cap or Die says Amrim agrees with Amrim doubt, essentially. No, I just think Amrim...

8:48I feel very in tune with Ruben Amrim. I have done ever since he came in here. There's only Ralph Ranić since Sir Alex Ferguson that I felt in any way, shape or form that the mentality is similar to mine. And, you know, this is why it makes me laugh when people say, oh, you're Amrim out or anything like that. I'm Amrim doubt at times and I'm Amrim critical at times. but I am so in tune with this manager and he seems to think the same way as many of us. And I was massively frustrated with that Spurs result. So to have the manager come out and say that he was massively frustrated and it wasn't good enough and he's not happy with it, it sort of makes me go, ha, to all the people going, you're so negative.

9:29Well, have a pop at the manager then. And that makes me smile because I'm sort of like, well, I obviously feel exactly the same as the manager of this football club. I don't think that was a good performance against Spurs. I wasn't happy with it and I was massively frustrated by it. oh and hello so is Ruben Amrim so I like this manager I like him a lot I hope he's going to work at Man United but regardless of whether he gets sacked or not I'll still like him I still like Ranić you know I still like Mourinho I still like Oli I still like them whether they get sacked or not I like them as people and the way they could portray themselves but it is interesting because you get all these bloody you know cheerleaders toxic positivity telling us we shouldn't be moaning after Spurs and then our manager's moaning so I think I'll stick with my you know, with my instincts after games.

10:13And, you know, I think that's what I would advise anybody to do. There's been games where we've won and we didn't play very well. And I've said winning's all that matters. But after the Spurs game, I was a bit like, we just, and I imagine this is what Amram's talking about. The reality is against the Forest, once bitten, twice shy, you know, once is a coincidence, twice is a theme. team and you know we did we replicated forest a week later against spurs and i think that's where his um his um problem comes from so a few people talk about the volume i'm just going to say it very very very very quickly um i don't know what the volume problem is i've not changed anything so for some people it's fine and for some people it isn't so that's out of my hands i can't do anything about it apologies if you've got a volume problem we had it last night i've listened to it back.

11:04Loads of people are watching it. It's fine for them. It's not for you. So it's nothing to do with me. I can't do anything about it. So if you're putting volume in the chat, you're wasting everybody's time, maybe leave, maybe don't watch the show, but we can't do anything about it because for some people it's really good. For some people it's not. So it's clearly not anything to do with us because we haven't actually changed anything as far as I know, unless I don't know. I don't there's anything that wouldn't make a difference would it hello hello yeah i don't know i've got no idea uh actually um i've got no idea what's doing it so anyway we carry on uh bram with his uh comments says very excited for tonight but very happy about that um yeah yeah it's um it's uh it's It's very interesting that Ruben Amrim has had that to say.

12:00Also, I just want to talk very, very quickly about Semenyu. It just keeps coming up again and again and again and again. I saw something this morning about Man United offering Semenyu his number that he wears at Bournemouth. I mean, is it 24 or something like that? Fabrizio Romano this morning saying that Semenyu was on Man United's list of attacking targets last summer. And he is a player that's appreciated by Ruben Amrim. But at the moment, the club is very happy with the players they have in attacking positions. I feel like with Semenyu, it's just like... It's like Milinkovic-Savic. It's like a story that we just can't get rid of.

12:39That I wish we could flush. And not because Semenyu's a bad player. I think he's a bloody good player. But when you look at the fact or the facts, it's just not logical on the menu or anything. And we still keep getting linked to him. And there are those five strands of transfers where, you know, three of them, Man United are being used by agents, clubs, or the player themselves. And I feel that that's just what's happening with Semenu because we're not actually in for him. And it's all right Romano saying he was on Man United's list in the summer. Was he? Was he really though? You ain't heard about Moto Casino?

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13:51Take an Amex card with you for rewards wherever you go. Morning coffee run with an old friend? Earn cash back. Weekend getaway? Earn miles. Amex rewards your inner explorer. Learn more at AmericanExpress.com. Terms apply. I mean, I don't think he was on our list in the summer. He might have been on our list a year ago. Cunha was priority number one, and Emberma was priority number two. And we were only buying two, and we got them. So what's this? This Semenyu story is just an absolute waste of time and it excites some people because he's a good player. But we bought the players in that position.

14:25We got Kunja and we got Mbemo and that's it. We're not looking at spending£65 million on another player that plays in a position we've just spent£130 million on. So some new things really, really boring. And yeah, I don't really know why it keeps happening other than it's Man United. And if you can attach Man United to a player, it gives it more kudos, I suppose. But yeah, we won't be going towards him, I'm afraid. So yeah, we'll have to leave that. But Agate has been spoken about and I thought this was very interesting because obviously we've had the links, the leaks about Agathe and there was that story that Ruben Amrim had had a go at him saying you're not the player you were at sporting at the end of last season.

15:14So he's been asked directly about Agathe in his press conference in this embargoed section that came out last night and this is what Ruben Amrim had to say about Agathe. A lot of very good players come to Manchester United and sometimes they struggle. He is struggling in the moment. My job is to try and help him to feel as a player like I felt when he was a sporting player, for example. Look, I don't know. I don't have a problem with that. I don't have a problem with that. I think sometimes we sort of live in the shadows in relation to what's true and what's not and the rumours circulate. So when a manager comes out and says, look, this player is really struggling and he's not at the level I need him to be, is it a problem?

16:08I mean, you're publicly... Look, he hasn't got a British passport. If he said that about Luke Shaw or Harry Maguire, the press wouldn't like it. But it's Agathe, a foreign player so the press won't give a shit. So that's not going to cause him a problem. Also, he's not really playing, is he? And when he came on against Spurs, he was awful. So I don't think it's a bad thing when a manager comes out and says that a player is struggling when they actually are struggling. And I would imagine Amrim has tried a few things privately and it's not worked. So he's of the opinion that, look, I've got a player.

16:45Manu's different because at 20 years of age, Mainu can be loaned out. You've got time. He's come through the youth setup. He's on a low wage. So Mainu is low risk because he's on low wages. We haven't paid anything to get him and he's young. And if Mainu ends up being a flop, well, it's only the same as Kieran Richardson or James Wilson or any other young player that looked like they might be decent and then, you know, didn't. we don't lose anything financially on on mainu we just lose a really good potentially good player but with agate you've got a 60 million pound player i don't know what his wage is maybe someone in the chat knows let's say it's 150 grand a week he's only just at the start of his contract and he's got no value so it's a little bit more of an urgent problem with agate because i would say the chances of him coming back at man united are slim but that's what amrim's got to try and do He's got to try and boost the value of that player one way or another.

17:46So publicly coming out and saying that he's struggling, you hope that then the player responds to that. Agathe might not respond to that at all. He might not like it or he might, you know, he might take it as a as a as a kick up the arse. But I think he has to. I think he has to look at it. Certainly. Yeah, so that was very interesting. Let me have a quick look here as well. just working through this Amerim press conference so we spoke about the unbeaten run we spoke about Xerxi I wanted to talk about the youth a little bit as well actually because he spoke about Lacey and he said I'm very happy with him he has suffered from injuries but he's worked a lot on his body you can feel that he can handle a heavier workload in training he has a lot of talent but when they arrive here they realise that the pace is completely different so they have to spend more time with us to prepare because our training sessions are tough but Premier League matches with the pressure they involve are even tougher.

18:41So they have to be ready. So, I mean, look, he's not reinventing the wheel there. We're giving young players training sessions to get used to the intensity of what they're going to need to do. And then it's another step up to play Premier League football. So, look, Lacey's on that journey, of course. But it was interesting what he said about Obi because a lot of us felt that Obi was knocking on the door last season and then this season he's nowhere near. He's not on the bench very often, is he? Hamrim said on OB of course he is an option and he did play last year but I personally think it was too early we didn't have the team in which to integrate a 16 year old youngster without him encountering difficulties he started too early and it's sometimes difficult to manage young players because they think I've already made it no you're not you're only playing out of necessity and we also have to be careful about that with youngsters I mean look is that a bit of an indirect.

19:33Is that a bit of an indirect? Is it aimed at Obi or is it aimed at Manu or is it aimed at other Man United players that you get a bit of first team time and you think you've made it and you haven't? You're just there because we're short on numbers. I mean, you could interpret it that that's based at Obi and if it is, then you'd worry a little bit about personalities and stuff. But I actually think the real message is true. Sometimes you have to promote a younger player because you're short for options like we were last year. And Ruben Amrum is the manager and he clearly feels that Obi isn't ready.

20:07And it's definitely what happened with Ganaccio caps. Yeah, you know, Ganaccio certainly went from prospects to thinking and he was an established star very, very quickly. And obviously that didn't work out that well. But I just think with Obi, if you've got the manager in basically halfway through the season saying that he's not ready and the only reason he was used last season was because of necessity, then if I'm Obi, I'm saying, look, OK, I'm not ready. Let's have a loan. It has to be a loan. It has to be a loan in January because the manager is saying, I'm not ready. So whether I believe I'm ready or not, surely letting me go and play first team football is the way forward.

20:54Because we can have youngsters, young strikers playing at 18, 19 years of age. We've seen it with many players before. And I think Obi's 17 now, isn't he? So Simon says, Amram is killing our youth out here. Well, he goes on to say something else, but I just want to see how old he is. So he is 17, but he's 18 next week, this week. so you know you're 16 you're 18 and he's 18 this season so 19 next year I think he's as an almost 18 year old and how big he is I think he needs to be playing some football I think he needs to be playing some football definitely uh thanks for the super chat here class of 99 says players aren't getting enough minutes to determine whether they're struggling or not I don't like what Ruben is trying to pull here, give them a real chance.

21:56Well, look, as somebody said about the youth there, and you can certainly attribute it to Amenu, Xerxi, Agathe, Heaven, they're not getting enough minutes. And there is no doubt about that. But how do you solve that problem? You only get 90 minutes a week. It's going to be really interesting over the next few weeks, because we're not in Europe. We're not in the Carabao Cup. So we don't get the opportunity to double up your minutes per week, which double ups the opportunity for players. But Crystal Palace on Sunday, West Ham on Thursday, and then Wolves on the following Monday, that means we've got four games in basically two weeks, isn't it?

22:42So tonight, Sunday, Thursday, Monday yeah four games in two weeks whereas normally we'd have two so that with the midweek game against West Ham and as playing on a Monday it congests things a little bit and we know the AFCON is coming up as well and then over Christmas we play 21st Sunday then we play on the Friday then we play on the Tuesday then we play on the Sunday then we play on the Wednesday then we play on the weekend as well. So there are a couple of times in the next few weeks where we're playing midweek games. I think by the start of January, we'll be in a position to look at Maynou, Xerxe, Agate, all the bench players and go, how much does he trust them?

23:31Because there's a lot of games coming up and the AFCON. And look, honestly, you don't need to rotate. We don't play many games. He might just go, I'm going to play De Ligt as much as I can. I'm going to play Bruno and Casemiro as much as I can. He might not rotate. I think we'll learn a lot. But I do agree with class of 99. As a professional footballer, you can't operate on half an hour a month. And on average, the Agates and Menus of this world are getting less than an hour a month. That's not enough football. and that's the downside of needing to win every week and not having enough games. Amrim's Agate comments are something I appreciate about him, says Patrick Lynch.

24:21It was an honest assessment. I also like that he said he needs to help Agate and it's not all on the player. I think Agate is, as I said, it's so different to Mainu. It's so different to Xerxi. Mainu, as I say, cheap wages. We didn't spend any money on him. There's a big list of teams that want him. Xerxe will get our money back There's a big list of teams that want him Agarte, no one's going to want him No one's going to pay him that wage And no one's going to want him So it's more of a problem to solve And yeah, I agree with you Patrick It's good to see Amorim wanting to solve it Because he's going to have to solve it Otherwise, he's going to end up With another one of those players Where they're just sat around Running their contract down And we can't get rid of them Docu says, unpopular opinion I think we're going to lose today.

25:10Oh, mate. I can't go down that road. Just let's have a couple of minutes on the game today. How are we all feeling? I can't go down that road. I'm not going to sit here and say that it wouldn't surprise me after half an hour if it's 0-0 and we're playing shit. Man United are capable of that. But the most part, I think 3-0 win, maybe 4. Loads of confidence. Tomorrow morning's show, we're talking about Champions League football and getting back amongst it, you know, and I'm happy to do that. That's, you know, I'm 90 % sure that's where we're going to be. It is the Premier League, though, and a lot of people have written Everton off.

25:49But I can't be dealing with that. I think if we go back to those days, we've got problems. And I'm not saying that we're not going to lose games. I mean, Palace have only lost two games this season and they've conceded less than 10 goals. They're having a brilliant, brilliant season. And our hope against Palace is that they're playing on Thursday in France and then they've got to play against us at midday on Sunday. However, I look at it and I go, tonight has to be a win. And I was thinking about this over the international break. Like, I'm convinced there are United fans out there that want us to suffer for whatever reason, to be proven right or whatever.

26:30I don't know. And that's well and good. but can we really, even if you want Amrim out, even if you want United to suffer secretly, do you really want another season like this? Do you really want another season where it's one game a week? Like we've got to get into Europe and tonight is not about being in the top four, it's not even about being in the top five. Beating Everton at home is about putting yourself in the top six or seven. Done it again. But it's true. It is. Winning your home games against teams in the bottom half of the table doesn't even put you in the top four. They're not the results that put you in the top four.

27:11Winning away to Villa and Palace puts you in the top four. Beating Everton at home is about putting yourself in the top eight. We have to win tonight. We have to win tonight. so good point docu i like it thanks for your super chat i appreciate those um and thank you very much to patrick lynch as well appreciate that we need three points simple yeah look people will people um scott farrell says standards have crashed in the fan base people will complain about Well, sorry, people will overreact to the win tonight and people will overreact if we draw tonight. I don't mind that. I don't mind overreactions to winning because when we're in the top five tonight, when we win, it looks really good and people will start to get excited because football's for everybody.

28:09It's for the doom merchant. It's for the toxic positivity. It's for the low IQ. It's for the intelligent. It's for the experienced. It's for the new and inexperienced. So if we win tonight and people start talking about title races and top four, that's absolutely fine. Because when we drop points, they'll be talking about, you know, relegation. The reality is tonight just needs to be a win. And if it's three or four nil and we play really well, great. But if it's 1-0 and we play shit, let's just get the win. That's what tonight's all about. There's the dream win. There's the ideal win. But the bottom line is there's the win.

28:46And that's what we need to get tonight. Robert McCormack obviously feels the same as me. I'd take any win. They've got players that can hurt us. I think with Everton, and I did talk about them briefly on the preview. Everton, I don't think have got many goals in them. but they have got players like Endia who I think is a fantastic player reminds me a lot of Kunja in the sense but I think he's a little bit more direct in taking people on Endia and I mean Grealish on his day can be very very good they do tend to defend quite well as well and they'll be very tenacious but I don't think they've got the quality in the final third especially against our back three and Lemens so for us not to win this game if we score two goals we'll win the game basically and we have done that in many games but I'm like Robert I'd take any win of course tonight let's talk about some other stuff he spoke about the academy Amram he said it's me it's not me who prepares the academy it's the people in charge we give them more attention we discuss them it's very important to exchange information about the players their needs their behaviour for a young player to be called up to the first team he must have very good behaviour this link is important I spend more time with them at training, so I have more confidence in them.

30:04When we play these young players in the Premier League, they will have difficulties, but I think they will have fewer. Everyone at the academy is doing very good work currently. And look, I think there's a lot of attention on the, and he spoke about Rasmus leaving as well with regards to the academy, which I want to talk about next. But let's hit this head on first. There are a lot of you who say he's neglecting the academy. There are people out there saying, using this as an opportunity to criticise Amorim I like Amorim and I will criticise Amorim because I like Bruno and I will criticise Bruno I like Casemiro and I will criticise him Man United are not where they need to be and there's multiple reasons for that And it's open season on anybody if they don't do things right But I think on this one, I back Amorim I don't think in relation to the youth he's doing anything wrong.

30:58We don't have a standout youth player that's good enough to start for this team. And we don't have a young player really that's good enough to regularly get 20 minutes. Manu's the best player for it and Manu's established I mean I know he's a prospect but he's already had his youth player era so if Manu can't even get in the team because the minutes are limited and Amram needs to win games we haven't got that Greenwood Giggs youth player at the moment we've got a lot of good young players but we're going to need to be more patient with them I agree with Amram they're not ready for this we're still on thin ice as a season.

31:44I know we're looking at the next 10 games and going, oh, we could be in the top three by Christmas, but we're still a team that were one bad result away from, you know, everything piling on again. I mean, the Spurs result wasn't that good, to be honest with you. The result was good, but the performance wasn't, and we got a little bit lucky. So I don't feel that the criticism of Amirim around the youth setup is fair because, yes, we've got a number of potentially good young players, but none of them are ready. Hi, Uncle Lazer here. America's built on fast cars, fast food, and even faster women.

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32:59Everyone else has potential, but they're not ready to chuck into the first team. So what do you want Amram to do? You want him to give minutes to teenagers who aren't actually ready and throw them into an environment where it's not really conducive with nurturing and patience. We're in a results business. Chucking a young player into that environment might sink them, might cost us. So I don't think at the moment we're ready for that. I think if we had Europa League football, we probably would see some of these players getting minutes. But right here, right now, I don't think it's the time. And I don't think that's got anything to do with Amrim not appreciating the youth because there's a lot of young players who are training with the first team.

33:47But that's about as much as he can offer at the moment. Now, if one of those players training with the first team suddenly looks better than a Bruno or better than a De Ligt or better than a Cunha, then I think Amorim would go, wow, look at what he's doing in training. He's better than Cunha. He's better than Bruno. And if he is, I think they would be involved. But at the moment, clearly, Amorim is nurturing these players.

34:16But nobody's standing out enough to be a first team player. And if you're Arsenal, you can give Daumann 20 minutes here and there because you're in a really strong position. So I think it's OK. I think it's OK what's going on at the moment. But we have got some really talented players, but the environment's just not quite right. Morgan says let Maguire go and bring me LaCroix want Sanaka too thank you very much Morgan Robert McCormack says we definitely need two goals as had one clean sheet all season that that that look I'm going with a clean sheet tonight Robert I've gone 3-0 I think but you're right like we're conceding nearly two goals a game we're scoring two goals a game as well which is what you know 2-2 is our last two games which is quite indicative of what we're doing.

35:08But we should be getting more clean sheets. Le Mendes has been very good in goal. Our defence has been very good. And yet we're still conceding goals. And I think when you analyse the goals that we're conceding, well, you tell me, what sort of goals are we conceding? I think it's crosses into the box. I think there's a weakness on crosses into the box again.

35:34because we shouldn't be conceding as many goals as we are. And also, I think that runs with the second half where we just seem to be dropping off a little bit. Get the youth arguments, says John United, but we keep expecting them to hit the ground running. Skulls, Beckham, et cetera, came into a team with great experience and teammates. Yeah, and also, John, I mean, I'm old enough. Fortunately, I take it as a positive. I'm old enough to remember the Scholes, the Nicky Butts, the Gary Neville's, the David Beckham's. And it was a long period of time. I think some people who didn't live it think that in the 95-96 season, the class of 92 just started playing and Man United won the league.

36:14Not at all. Not at all. Beckham and Butts and Neville had been having sporadic minutes and appearances for the previous two or three years. It was just 96, 97, 95, 96, where they actually became established first team players. So, you know, there is that period of, you know, adaption and integration. I'm keen for the game. I'll be watching from Sydney, says Corby. Well, wherever you're watching, we'll be live tonight with the watch along. And I can't wait. Daniel Thompson says, hope you're well, Mark and the United Stand. Big game today. I think we can get a good result. hope a win would have been my granddad's birthday today so a big day let's go manchester united says daniel thompson thank you very much for that uh happy birthday to uh your granddad who would have been i would have been sorry well still happy birthday and and hopefully um you know it's a day to remember with a united win daniel hope you have a great day um 22 points from the next 30 is non-negotiable, says Pierre.

37:28I've done this before and I'll do it again. I mean, I think you're a bit... I agree with you. I agree with you. 22 points from the next 30 is non-negotiable. Everton is one, three. Crystal Palace, two. I would say a draw, so four. West Ham at home is game three. So that's seven. Wolves away is game four, 10 points, another win. Bournemouth at home is game five, 13 points, win. Villa away draw, 14 points, that's six. Newcastle at home as game seven, another win, 17 points. Wolves away, game eight, 20 points. That's game eight and we've got 20 points. I've gone wrong somewhere there. I've definitely gone wrong there.

38:24No, no, no. 20 points from eight games. That's fine. We've had two draws. And then game nine is Leeds away and Burnley away. So I'd say another four points there. I'm going to say... I'm going to say 24 points from 30. Three draws, seven wins.

38:4924 points from 30. So you're saying 22 points, non-negotiable. I agree, Pierre. But I think we could hit 24. I think we'll draw against Villa. I think we'll draw against Palace. I think we'll win all our home games. And I think we will draw against Leeds or Burnley away. But we could be 26. Newcastle at home. I think we'll beat them. I think we'll beat Newcastle at home It could be better than that It could be better than that It's Shannon says Where can I get the Christmas jumper please I mean can I have that one Just take it, just grab it I think there's a few left We're nearly sold out but there will be some left In some of the larger sizes United stand Shopify Or click the link in the Video description or it should Be showing up on the page anyway because it's normally pinned in the shopping section.

39:46But let me just double check. It's in the video description for you. It is. It's right the way down at the bottom. And I will pin it in the live chat as well. Very few of them left, but you might get lucky. Let me do that.

40:03There we go. Pinned for you there. Right. This is what he had to say about Rasmus. I thought this was really interesting. So Amrin was asked about Rasmus leaving. and again I've got to say we're on board because he starts off by saying we need two strikers and sometimes I prefer players who can occupy different positions it's sometimes difficult to satisfy everyone imagine telling Rasmus that he'll get playing time only in the absence of Sesco it's impossible to manage a dressing room like that and that's why we must improve the young players from the academy if we have an injured player it's an opportunity for them and then we have players who can play in different positions, which allows us to better manage the team.

40:43I actually disagree with him on this one. I actually do disagree with him on this one, but not for the reason you might think. So basically, he was asked about Rasmus leaving and he said, look, I'd like to have two strikers, but it's impossible to keep someone like Rasmus happy when I'm going to tell him that you're on the bench unless Sesco gets injured, because you're going to be on the bench a lot. But what about the last half an hour of games where Sesko wasn't playing well, which has been pretty much every game. So, and then Rasmus comes on and does well. Are you telling me that if Sesko was playing badly and Rasmus did well, you'd keep benching Rasmus?

41:18That's favouritism. So I don't really get that argument. What I do agree with him though is, you know, you might have a player on the bench who isn't happy because they're not getting game time. But you've only got one striker. And if we had another striker, whether it's Ivan Toney, Obi or whatever, they would be getting game time because Sesco in a lot of games is needed to be subbed off anyway. I don't agree with the multiple players in multiple positions. I think the Mount, Cunha and Bermo thing that we're going to see tonight may well work. But I don't agree in Amram's system that the striker, which is such a unique position, can just be dropped or left out or subbed for Mount because we've become a very different team then.

42:05I think we need two strikers. We're playing a system where the striker is very much a striker. They're meant to be occupying spaces, centre-backs, running the channels, getting on the end of things. So if you take Sesko off and you put Cunha up front, we become a very different team. Now, that's fine if you want to change the tactics, but if you're taking Sesko off because he's injured or tired or not playing well, you don't necessarily want to change your tactics. You want to just bring a different striker on. So I think we do need another striker. And I don't agree with Amrim that, you know, you can't bring in an Ivan Toni because he won't be happy to be sat on the bench.

42:42You want competition for places. So I understand that he's trying to justify Rasmus going by saying, well, you can't have a player sat on the bench. It's not right, but you can. And in this situation, I think it was right to let Rasmus go. but I do think we need another striker I don't think we can just go we don't need another striker because they might not be happy to sit on the bench you need competition for places and our only alternative when Cesc goes out at the moment is to change the way we play and go with a false nine so we do need another striker and I'm pretty sure that he would agree with that but you know I think Cesc will be a good signing for Manchester United however he's even as a good signing look even Lewandowski has a bad game and needs subbing off like Harry Kane like they've got Nicholas Jackson haven't they Erling Haaland is probably a robot and doesn't need to be subbed off but we will need another striker to compete with Sesco and also be a replacement for Sesco if he's playing badly or injured so we do need i think we do need another striker um how do you know it's going to be mount cunyre and imbermo says clive um well i don't i don't want to know i don't want to know the team and hopefully the days of the team being leaked are over but i would i'd be pretty confident that he'll play mount cunyre and imbermo because he's played it before played it against fulham and he tends to resist the idea of moving Bruno out the midfield.

44:24Also, we're at home. So you can't really play Agate and Casemiro in a midfield two against Everton at home. So I think he's got a... Oh, yeah. I think it'll be Mount, Cunha and Mbema. I'd be very, very surprised with Sesco injured. Yeah. I'm keen for the game. Watching from Sydney. Thank you very much. That was from Corby. what is our ideal midfield combination according to you says Adi

44:51what right now or with transfers I like the idea of Stilla and Anderson with what we've currently got at the moment I'd like to see Maynou in that midfield playing to the level I know he can because I think we'd keep the ball better with Maynou because he's a more technical player and he plays the shorter pass better. But as things stand at the moment, it's going to be Bruno and Casemiro, of course. And I can't massively argue with that. What about getting Troy Parrott, says AMK. The problem is that not many coaches play a two-striker formation at the moment, says Football Red Devil. Yeah, but he doesn't need to play two strikers.

45:39Like, he needs two strikers, though. The football is so intense now. And throughout my whole life, it's very rare that a striker plays 90 minutes. It's probably the number one position in the team that gets subbed off for another striker. You see it all the time. and that's what I'm saying. We need two strikers so that we can replace Sesko, sub-Sesko or play if Sesko's injured and we don't have that at the moment. Some people will say Xerxi. Xerxi to me is not a striker. I don't think he was ever a striker. I think Xerxi is a false nine. I think that's what he is. Slash 10, but I don't see him as a striker.

46:23To me, the question is not, do we have enough youth players? it's do we have enough first team to support them? And the answer is no, says Chip. Yeah, look, we were talking about this last night about Casemiro and people were saying we need to keep Casemiro for his experience. Pray tell me in the three years that Casemiro's been here, who has he nurtured? I don't agree. Just because you're experienced doesn't mean you're good at nurturing players. Is Bruno Fernandes good at nurturing young players? I don't think he is. That's not a criticism. that's not a criticism they're good players but it doesn't mean that they're nurturers of young talent i look at this manchester united side over the last few years and i am baffled especially the last two years why ganacho amad anthony rashford why they were always shooting from 30 40 yards all the time and yet and bruno fernandez was watching them and casemiro was watching them now if they were nurturing players, imagine what Roy Keane would say.

47:24Imagine what Ryan Giggs would say. They'd be saying, stop fucking shooting and pass the ball. And Bruno's never done that. And Casemiro's never done that. I don't think they are nurturers. I think they're very good players, but just because you're in your 30s doesn't mean you suddenly become a player that can nurture talent. Cantona was brilliant at nurturing talent. Schmeichel was good at it. Roy Keane was good at it. I don't think Casemiro and Bruno are good at nurturing young players. I think they're experienced players, but I don't think they're good at nurturing young players. And I think that that sort of answers that previous question from Chip.

48:03Who in that team is good at nurturing players? And I think we lack that. And we've seen that with the indiscipline of people like Garnaccio and others that young players have come into that team and they've never really learned teamwork. I mean, Garnaccio is a great example. I believe a fantastic talent that was just never nurtured properly at all, was allowed to believe his own hype and allowed to just get his head down and take people on and shoot all the time and not be much of a team player. You look at him at Chelsea in the first few weeks, he's definitely passing more. And why over two years at Man United was he not passing and not playing as a team player, and yet at Chelsea in two months he is?

48:48Probably because Maresca is a disciplinarian who works on system more than Flair. Maresca will play with Chelsea and he'll use Neto and Ganaccio rather than Esteval and Gittins because Ganaccio and Neto will work harder in the defence. So I think this is um this is something that we need to work on because and look people like martinez delit masrawi these type embermo conya these can be players that can nurture young talent but we're going to need time to have that i think uh adrian c welcome to members club thank you very much for joining and getting your manager your members badge in appreciate you for that um let me just make sure i've covered everything off from the amarin press conference because uh i would hate to not do that on this brilliant match day today.

49:40Very excited about it. Spoke about Xerxes and Mainu.

49:52Lots of stuff about Arsenal.

50:01What do you think about Pogba? Player FC, isn't it? I mean, I'm glad to see him back playing football, but I don't really follow players when they've left Man United. I like Pogba. I'm glad to see him back playing football. But most of the Man United people who are posting about Pogba is because they're player FC, isn't it? I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it's the modern world we live in, isn't it? And Pogba certainly has a very big following in this fan base. But it's good to see him back playing football. But ultimately, you know, I think at Manchester United, we, for whatever reason, didn't get the best of Pogba, which is a shame.

50:49Does Mark watch football anymore? Sancho was taken back at Bruno when he cautioned him. Casimo shouted at Ganacho, what more do you want when you keep talking and they don't listen, says Lam. Well, I mean, it's a great point, mate. You've just proved your points, haven't you? So Casemiro was shouting at Ganacho and Ganacho didn't listen. Well, he's not very good at nurturing talent, then, is he? Because people don't listen to him. You proved my point. I tell you what, if Roy Keane shouted at Ganacho, it would be a very, very different story. So you proved my point. They're not really good at nurturing talent, are they?

51:24The point was, is this team the right place to throw young players into? No, not at the moment. It isn't. So we talk about all this experience in the team with Luke Shaw, Deleuze, Bruno, Casemiro. Ultimately, I don't think it's a very good leadership team. I think all those people are very focused on themselves at the moment. Casemiro needs a contract and wants to go to the World Cup. Luke Shaw wants to go to the World Cup. Bruno Fernandes, you know, is a very, very self-centered player. And that's why he's very good, because it's all about him, which is why, you know, he can play a bad pass and it's fine.

51:59but if someone else doesn't get on the end of his pass, he throws his arms in the air. There's nothing wrong with being a self-centred player. I said it right at the start. There's nothing wrong with focusing on your own game. That's 99.9 % of the bloody Premier League. The real leaders are the players that focus on their own game but focus on everyone else's game. And they're few and far between. And we don't have enough of those players at Man United. And you need those players if you want to develop youth. And we used to have bloody loads of them. We used to have too many of them, if anything.

52:27Now we've hardly got any. But I do see positives in the likes of De Ligt and Mbremo and Cunha. Those types of players I do see as the right types of players for Man United. And it's no coincidence that we're looking to bring and promote those types of players in to create the environment to develop young players. But I agree with Amrum at the moment. We don't have the right environment. can we acknowledge MG scoring four goals and on fire well you can you can simply red I don't I don't need to acknowledge him at all because he doesn't play for Man United so there we go Bruno can play the worst five yard pass and still blame someone else on the pitch for not teleporting to it yeah but that's you know what that's Bruno it's always been Bruno

53:15I don't think Bruno's a captain really I don't think he is I think he's the best we've got but I don't think he's a captain and I think he gets criticized for that but the same guy that can throw his hands in the air and be petulant is the same guy that can produce a ball that wins us a game and Bruno's not useless Bruno can be frustrating but I still think he's our best player I don't like him in the midfield I want him at number 10. But, you know, I think if you take away that petulance, you probably lose the arrogance of Bruno and what he's good at, you know. Thank you, everybody, for watching this morning.

53:55Match day today. Very excited about it. So we are probably live at about half six. We count down to kick off with an eight o 'clock start time. So get ready for that. Thank you, everybody, for watching today. Fantastic show this morning. Great start to the week, knowing that we've got a big game coming in. And I would say that positive, like United need to go and get a midfielder so Manu can go on loan. Simple as that. Take care, everyone. Speak to you all in a bit. Thanks for watching.

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