281: Gallagher BID! Amorim WANTS Diomande NEXT?

0:00Hey everybody, Lady Luck here, and we're celebrating America's 250th birthday. Now all summer long, I'm going to be celebrating by playing on SpinQuest.com, which is an American-owned social casino. It obviously features over a thousand slot games and live blackjack, live craps, live bubble craps. Head on over to SpinQuest.com. Get yourself a$30 coin pack for just$10. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Void where prohibited. Visit SpinQuest.com for more details. With everything going on, I don't know how people do it. Groceries are so expensive and I never know what to make. Have you ever tried Wild Fork?

0:36Wild what? Wild Fork. They blast freeze their meat at the peak of freshness, which keeps prices low. Their selection is amazing, so you never get bored with your meals. Meal planning is super easy. Wild Fork also has tons of sides, desserts, and ready meals. I stock my freezer, so I always have something great for my family. You will be amazed with convenience and affordability. Great. I can't wait to visit a store and go to wildforkfoods.com. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge. It's Christmas Eve.

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1:16everybody, and welcome to Christmas on the United Stand. I hope you're all doing well. Forget the fact that Man United are trying to ruin your Christmas with losses to Aston Villa and missing out on Semenyu. This is your Christmas Eve morning show. I hope you're all doing very well. We've got lots to talk about on the show this morning. Manchester United bidding for Conor Gallagher. Diamande from RB Leipzig. We've got Bruno Fernandes. Xerxe updates as well. Injury and transfer. Also a little bit about Amenu as well. And I want to know. I want to know. Well, probably we've got a little eight o 'clock show live tonight as well.

1:48So sort of. I've got myself. I've got myself. I'm so excited. We've got a little bit. Welcome to the fucking show. We've got a little bit of a show tonight, well, live, where we're going to talk about where we think Man United are from a year ago, what you're thinking about Man United, but how are you feeling more specifically on the news show about what happened last night with Semenya? I want to get your thoughts on that. Also, a world exclusive, I've never told this story before, my worst ever Christmas present was not a tape recorder, there is something more sinister and dark, a story to tell you.

2:21I can only tell you it when And I know a certain family member will not be watching the show. And I know she's not watching. So I will tell you that story in a few minutes. But before we get into all of that, we are sponsored by Hewell on the show today. Absolutely brilliant because I didn't get my breakfast. I've been so busy this morning wrapping presents and doing stuff. I haven't had my breakfast. But Hewell, if you don't know what it's all about, if you're flat out with work, football, or just setting up streams and wrapping presents, you don't have time to eat properly. That's where Hewell has been a bit of a game changer for me.

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3:55Honestly, if you want something quick into the new year, healthy and genuinely tasty option that fits into your day, Huel is a brilliant shout. Thank you very much to Huel for their support. Now on with the show, but I hadn't had time to even do that, to be honest with you. so they also do these they do these that are ready mixed up um and i love the vanilla one so i am going to be cheating here and i'm not even going to mix up my black edition i'm just going to use the vanilla that i had and drink that throughout the show because it's lovely

4:35i'll be back for you later um anyway let's get on with the show i'm feeling festive um you're a fantastic bunch you you don't know what an influence you have on me and my life um i want to say thank you very much this christmas eve every day of the year we've got a great team you're part of that team we're live you know we're reacting to good and bad mainly bad um but you don't know what an impact you make you make to each other and you don't know what an impact you make on me. And you know what? I was lying in bed this morning, was watching Snowman and the Snow Dog with Seb. And I thought, you know what?

5:08This is the good old days. And it's that saying, isn't it? I wish somebody could just tap you on the shoulder and tell you it's the good old days, because in a few years, you're going to look back and go, that was the good old days. So enjoy your days. Enjoy your good days. And if you're having bad days, think back to your good days and know that good days will come. Thank you, everybody, for being part of this amazing community. right onto business i will tell you my worst ever christmas but i don't want to bring the mood down um let's get into it uh so lots to discuss this morning obviously last night we didn't do an eight o 'clock show we were live at eight o 'clock but we went live at about quarter past seven because we had the news the breaking news that um sounds like someone died um that was chris a couple of days ago um sad um but the breaking news was that some menu would be signing for Manchester City and Manchester United will not be signing him.

5:59Lots of people gifting memberships. I'll read those out in a moment. Daniel Thompson, thank you very much. But I feel like we're sort of in this situation this Christmas again, wondering what we're going to do next. I feel last Christmas was not a great start for Amrim, but we hoped for a better 2025. Two years ago to the day, In the Osweiler announced as new owners. That depressed a lot of us, but we thought, you know what give them a chance we've given them a chance and then two years later you know it's not going great on the pitch let's be honest and we've just missed out on a big signing to Manchester City you couldn't get more of a symbolic kick in the nuts last night than where we are we're not the great Manchester United we're not even the biggest club in Manchester anymore Manchester City are we have the biggest fan base but what does that count for when you don't have the best team and you're not winning trophies so we're in a bad situation I don't really know what the vision is but what we're getting this morning is potentially spin potentially truth i'm going to start on this off on that look i'm doing a video with ben jacobs straight after this actually i don't know when we're going to pop it up but uh i'm going to ask him about midfield and signings and mainu and everything like that it's going to be a very good video it might not go up until tomorrow we've got our best of bits tomorrow i don't know when i'm going to put this ben jacobs video on depending how good it is we've got a press conference at just after half one i've got to be live for that.

7:16We've also got an eight o 'clock show because I want to be live with you at eight o 'clock. I've got to do a Newcastle preview. But depending on how good this Ben Jacobs video is, I might put it up a little bit earlier. But I do want to talk to him about the Maynou situation because obviously he's had a bit of stick coming back. I want to talk to him about what went wrong with Semenu because he was one of the first on that. But what we're getting this morning is what we gave you two weeks ago from our source is that Man United did make contact with Connor Gallagher two weeks ago through intermediaries.

7:42They also tried to sign him in the summer. So where are we with that? The Semenyu noise, is Man United going to now desperately go after a midfielder or was something in play before that? And I've got to be fair, as much as I don't like Ineos or the Glazers, and as much as I'm worried about our vision, I have to be honest, the Gallagher story wasn't dead because we went for Semenyu. We were already talking through intermediaries about that deal. So I think that what we're hearing about Conor Gallagher this morning and United may be pivoting towards that deal. I don't think that's because we didn't get to the menu.

8:16I still think that was on the menu anyway. So just keep an eye on Conor Gallagher because he in January needs to go and is likely to go. Atletico Madrid want money. We have got money. And I think there's a lot of people going, well, we don't want short-term options. We don't want long-term options. You know, we don't want short-term options. He's not a short-term option. He's 25. I think that the midfield needs completely rebuilding. There is a very big chance that Casemiro is gone. Hopefully, Bruno will be gone out of the midfield at the very least and maybe out of the club if we don't use him as a 10.

8:52Agate is clearly gone. That's three midfielders. And Maynou, God knows what's going to happen there. We need three midfielders. Even if you bring a young player through, they're not ready to play every week. So you can have four midfielders and a young player. So Conor Gallagher would be perfect for me you know if next season we still have two decent signings and conor gallagher is still you know we're in europe it's absolutely fine so i think that's one to keep an eye on based on what we were talking about a couple of weeks ago and i don't think it's anything to be with some menu all i would say is if we got some menu then maybe we wouldn't have had any money for anybody else but we definitely have got money now um so it's going to be very interesting to see where manchester united pivot i think after some menu and after a night's sleep i've sort of woken up this morning probably a little bit dis - I don't know about you lot let me know but I'm probably a little bit more disappointed this morning than I was last night because I think last night I was like I'm not surprised we're a really badly run football club this morning I'm sort of looking at it and going what I always said fundamentally he is a very good player he would have been a good signing for Liverpool he would have been a good signing for for Chelsea and he's a very good signing for Man City so to know that we were after him to know that he was 20 he's 25 to know that he's Premier League proven and to not get him is very disappointing.

10:08Obviously, I'd want a midfielder as well, but I'm disappointed we didn't get him. I'm disappointed that we've gone public. I don't like what I'm hearing about Man United weren't willing to break the wage structure to buy him. I think that's bollocks. I think that's spin. I think that's what I predicted would happen. It's insulting to Semenyu, actually, what Man United are putting out there about the wage, because I'm hearing people saying Man United weren't willing to break their wage structure to get Semenu. And yet every credible journalist is saying he chose Man City because of European football and trophies.

10:41So what are United trying to do? Save face by saying he's a mercenary and went to Man City for wages. I think it's wrong. I think he chose them because they're a better team. And we're just desperately, again, trying to spin a positive as to why he didn't do it. So I think that ultimately, Manchester United, what are we going to do next?

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12:01Great. I can't wait to visit a store and go to wildforkfoods.com. And a lot of people this morning are talking about Diamande from Leipzig. But there's two things about that. Well, there's three things about that. One, it can't happen in January because they only signed him in the summer. And it's even being said in the reports we won't sign him in January. So instantly you go from Semenyu coming in tomorrow or in a week to Diamande's a kid and won't come in until the summer. So there's a delay there. He's also a kid, as I just said, 0.2. So he's a kid. So he's not Semenyu, he's a kid. He's another prospect.

12:38So if we'd bought Semenyu, he goes straight into the team, he's ready to go. If you buy Diamande, you wait six months to get another Dorgou who's a prospect and you've got a nurture and we're shit at that. So that's a negative. And then the third point is he probably is going to cost a lot of money. Leipzig aren't stupid and he's only had one year in the Bundesliga and would probably pay roughly what we paid for Cunha. So I think that the Diamande thing is nothing more than a smokescreen, which you would expect from this football club. They've just, you know, they've just exposed themselves massively in front of the world of football as losing to Man City and they're going to need to spin a positive.

13:14I would not be surprised if we got linked to Michael Alisse. It's the sort of bullshit story that morons will fall for. but Diamande is a very exciting player obviously I watched the Bundesliga on that's football but it's you know it's like going from I mean I nearly said something inappropriate there but you know Semenyu would be a Ferrari on the drive on Christmas day morning take it out for a drive and everyone goes wow Diamande would be a build your own kit car that you're not going to get the summer and it's going to take you about two years to build it and and that is a very good analogy the one I was going to use was highly inappropriate but that's it you know Semenyu is a Ferrari ready to drive you might you might wrap it around a lamppost and not be able to drive it very well and it might not do very well but it's ready to go Christmas day morning um Diamande is not coming in till the summer and when he does you're gonna have to build it for two years so you know if that's the solution for Manchester United as I've said to you many times before I don't really understand what the plan is at this football club, you know, because we can't nurture players, you know.

14:23But that's sort of where we are. Merry Christmas, Mark. I can see United going for NDIA in this summer over Diamonde, but once again, they will be better teams than is after him, says James. He's a good player. Carlo has gifted a membership. Thank you very much, Carlo. I've got an update on Bruno's injury as well. Have a Merry Christmas, everyone in our United Stand family, says Carlo. So Merry Christmas all on the channel, says Chris Jackson. Thanks for your super chat, Chris. He says you go a long way to making a United supporter bearable. Here's to us kicking on for the push to top five. United, says Chris.

14:51Thank you very much, Chris. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Xray is a new member. Welcome to the club. Thank you very much for getting your badge in, mate. Merry Christmas, Mark. It feels positive Ruben is talking about not panic and making panic signings in January. Feels like we are learning from past mistakes, says Almond. uh it's you know what Amano it's a great point actually it's very topical um it's interesting that you find it positive that Amrim's talking about not panicking and make and not making panic signings in January feels like we're learning from past mistakes um I have a completely different view on that I think a manager of Manchester United saying that we're not going to make signings in January and we're not going to panic is something I've heard for 15 years I've heard Sir Alex Ferguson say there's no value in the market I've heard Oli Gunnar Solskjaer say we're not going to panic in the January transfer window.

15:39I've heard Ten Haag say it. I've heard Van Gaal say it. I don't think that... I actually think we're not learning from the past. I think we're doing what we always do. Manager comes out and spews Glazer-nomics shite. I don't think that's anything new. I think... Look at how many deals we've done in the January transfer market over the last 10 years. It's not many. I mean, John Murtagh literally was saying this three years ago. We don't want to panic in the January market. We like to do stuff in the summer. I mean, that's basically what Amrim's saying. You know, it's nothing new. It's just Glazenomics.

16:12In my view, Daniel Thompson's gifted a membership. You're a legend. Merry Christmas. Would you take Eniesta? Eniesta is playing in China. This is undefeated. Nope. Merry Christmas to the Gold Bridges and everyone. Sending lots of love to you all, says Mike. Hi everyone. A happy Christmas wherever you are in the world. Martinez has given our cheap option into the midfield. The power of balance has shifted. Players choosing other clubs over United. It's very sad, says Lee. Well, maybe that's a topic for later. Has this power finally shifted? Our man United finally not a big club when it comes to being a player anymore.

16:46Member of the United stand for a year, says Bran. Thank you, Mark, and all providing us with content all year long. Merry Christmas, everyone. Thank you, Bran. And Garfield's in the house. He says, just want to wish you and all the chat Merry Christmas and a healthy new year. Just started my live streaming on Mixcloud. DJ Patagee, get involved. There you go. DJ in over Christmas. thank you very much and James Cave says Merry Christmas we've done that one look I want to talk to you about a couple of other transfer bits around Manu and Xerxi also on Bruno but I did say at the start I was going to tell you Jordan says I genuinely believe not getting her Semenu is a blessing in disguise Mark if you could pick two midfielders and 100 million who would you get um stiller and anderson but i don't think 100 million pounds would be enough they would be my dream too i think stiller has to come in as the bruno replacement and i would spend um i mean you know honestly i'm a little bit concerned that the labour wharton and anderson are the obsession i'm convinced there must be another kante another rodri that you know there must be another player like that in Europe or the world who's ready to go like I just can't believe that we have to just go Wharton Anderson or Belayver really depressing how they didn't back Oli with signings is totally healthy thank you very much for that but you know what Jordan you've just put I genuinely genuinely believe not getting home is a blessing in disguise I think you've spelt home instead of him I can just imagine you on the M1 driving home for Christmas rest in peace chris ria and going i'm not going and turning around sometimes a family christmas can be a depressing affair um talking of which very very quickly my worst ever christmas present i've never told anybody this story before so effectively um my sister's about four or five years younger than me um so i was about 15 so she lived in about 10 and um i've always said that the worst christmas present i ever had was a tape recorder it was nine o 'clock on christmas day morning and the phone rang and you know everyone was busy so I picked it up in those days you used to have a phone in the house so I picked it up I picked up the phone I went hello and they went meow meow and I was like hello and it just kept going meow meow and I put the phone down and I walked into that garden and I was like I don't know I don't know what to do here like this is the worst thing ever.

19:20Do I tell everybody or do I just keep it to myself? And as you know, I like to share the news. So I went and told everybody. Now the backstory to this is that about four days before that Christmas, um, our cat went missing George. Um, and he, you know, we really loved that cat. And obviously on the lead up to Christmas, we were really like worried. He had gone away for a couple of weeks before, not to Ibiza or anything like that. He'd just gone missing for a couple of weeks. So we'd been putting up posters and stuff about, you know, if anyone sees George ring this number, which is what a lot of people do.

19:59So Christmas Day morning, there's a lot of people laughing in the chat here. This is not funny. So Christmas Day morning, somebody obviously thought it was really funny to ring up and meow at nine o 'clock. so anyway i i i obviously told the story and um the the real sad thing is you know i was i was holding back the tears when i was saying i've got you know everyone's tucking into their selection boxes you know my younger brother's just setting up the uh um super nintendo and um you know stepdad's watching sound of music mum's stuffing the turkey and uh my sister's playing with her bloody dolls or something.

20:40And I said, look, I've got to tell you everything. And I think they thought I was going to say something else because I was 15 and I had a funny haircut. But I said, no, I don't know. Nothing like that. The phone rang and they were like, oh, I thought it was your gran. I went, no. I don't know what it was, but it went meow. Well, my sister instantly went, it's the cat. And even at 15, I thought she's got problems. I was like, how can it be the cat? cats don't meow like a boy they don't even make a meow that's just humans interpretation how would it how would it ring the number you know where would it get the money from how's it got access to her phone and she still said but maybe maybe the person's got the cat and have held the phone up i said it was a person they started laughing after the third meow so look she won't be watching because um on christmas eve she goes to local cat sanctuary but i've never told that story before and it haunts me to this day.

21:36So if your cat does go missing, always be wary about putting a phone number up because some arsehole on Christmas Day might ring you up and go meow. Tragic. The good news is the cat came back New Year's Eve. So, you know, it only ruined Christmas Day and the next few days after it. I mean, every time the phone rang, we were on tenderhooks. I mean, it got to the point that, you know, we just decided to unplug the phone but then we were a bit worried about you know um a family relative who you know let's be honest was it was in their last few days and we were their emergency contact so it was every time the phone rang you didn't know whether you're going to get a cat whether it's slots or live dealers spinquest.com has the fun and action you're looking for with spinquest exclusives blackjack roulette baccarat and even live dice with craps and bubble craps.

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23:04I stock my freezer, so I always have something great for my family. You will be amazed with convenience and affordability. Great. I can't wait to visit a store and go to wildforkfoods.com. Anyway, John says, Merry Christmas, everyone. Thank you for all you do. Thank you very much, John. And let me just get rid of this idiot. Thank you very much. It's Christmas Eve. I don't need idiots like you. I'm glad we aren't getting some NU. It's okay signing shiny new toys, but with no midfield to feed them, it's like buying a car with no wheels, says Tom. And Mike JW says, what are the owners and Ineos going to do when we cannot sign the players they want?

23:41It's going to keep happening and it's totally a reflection on their failures, says Mike. Well, look, the big happy news this morning coming out of Manchester United is that they're talking about Bruno Fernandes being back from the Manchester derby. Like, you've probably seen it yourself, but there's multiple reports this morning that Man United are quite encouraged that Bruno Fernandes will be back from the Manchester derby. And with all due respect, John's just gifted five memberships, by the way, legend. Merry Christmas, John. With all due respect, why is that good news that Bruno Fernandes is going to be back for the Manchester derby?

24:18He's going to play him in the midfield anyway. And I'm like, this is, I, you know, obviously Bruno being back in a month is better than Bruno being back in two months. And I wish he was back for the game against Newcastle. However, I just, it just sort of reminds me of what I said about eight months ago. This football club behaves like Everton. With all due respect, we behave like Everton. And if Everton were missing Jordan Pickford for a month, I think you'd be counting the days down for him to come back because he's such a big player for Everton, right? But at Manchester United, losing a player like Bruno Fernandes is obviously disappointing.

24:55But you know, when you're a big club, you're meant to just roll your sleeves up and get on with it and other players step into the void. Like I remember the 97-98 season. That was the year when Roy Keane did his cruciate ligaments against Leeds. Basically missed the whole season. We didn't all start crying and, you know, rubbing Roy Keane's knee, thinking we're done. You know, we nearly won the league with Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes in the midfield. So, you know, it's almost like with Bruno Fernandes, oh, hopefully he's going to be back for the Manchester derby like it's bloody David Beckham in the World Cup 2002.

25:27Let's rub his fucking toe. Like, he's playing out of position. Some of us don't even rate Bruno in the midfield. So I'm sort of like the club has just become so it's that lowering of the standards. And like you can lose a game and people celebrate it now. You know, you can concede four goals at home and only have two points from the last nine and people go, I'm OK with that. The standards have been lowered so low that it's like, oh, we just we just need Bruno back and everything. It doesn't matter if we get beat in the next five games as long as Bruno's back for the derby. And I'm like, fucking hell, we're celebrating a cat taking a shit in the garden, not cats.

26:02Don't want to talk. Think about cats. Yeah, but we are. We're celebrating a fucking bird landing on our garden. Oh, it's a bird! You know, we've just lost what we are. And I think everything sort of feeds into that, whether it's Semenu snubbing us, you know, not doing the midfield. And then look, people talk about Martinez in the midfield, by the way. He's coming back from, is it two or three major injuries? so even if Amram decides to use Martinez as a midfielder and that's a big if because he's got Casemiro back now and he could use Maynou um even if he does that how long can Martinez actually last in that role considering he's coming back from two major surgeries in the last two years um Lloyd says thanks for everything you do my grand passed away last night so Christmas is very different this year your channels genuinely make a difference and help me to be more than you know merry christmas well look thoughts with everybody who's lost a close one this year um and uh um hopefully you can um you know have a nice family christmas and remember uh whilst you know having a good time as well

27:11sorry i'm starving um rafael sent five guest memberships thank you very much rafael you're an absolute legend merry christmas merry christmas everyone thanks for all your deuses john thank you John. Appreciate you. And Tom McBrive, we've done that one as well. Okay. I want to talk about, um, what do you think about the story that Solskjaer had Rice, Bellingham and Harland on his top three short list is why they're still, why they were still cheap and available, says Alex, um, and was vetoed by the owners on all three of them. It's a load of bollocks, mate. You know what? I'm absolutely tired of this.

27:43I'm tired of this. What does he actually do? You know, if you're down If you're down the pub on Christmas Eve tonight with some of your mates and one of your mates says, you'll never guess what. Four years ago, I was in a nightclub with Margot Robbie. I always use her. And she smiled at me. I could have been married with kids now. You sort of like go, well, you're not. And you didn't do anything about it. And she might have just been polite. You know, coulda, woulda, shoulda. Get the pints in and stop fucking moaning. And that's how I feel about these types of stories, Alex I'm sort of like Bellingham wasn't vetoed Bellingham came to Carrington And Sir Alex Ferguson tried to persuade him And he went to Dortmund So that's a load of bollocks Erling Haaland, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer got on a plane Just before Christmas To sign him Sat in a press conference with a big smile on his face Thinking he'd got him And he snubbed us for, was it Dortmund again?

28:41And who was the other one? Who was the other one? Rice chose Arsenal. So we didn't get vetoed. We just didn't get them. We went for all three. We just didn't get them. So look, in three years' time, are people going to say Amren wanted Semenyo, but the club wouldn't buy him for him? That's not what happened. We just missed out. And we can't keep looking back to the past. And also, if you gave Bellingham to Solskjaer, he probably would have ended up like McTominay. Bellingham made the right choice Rice made the right choice Haaland made the right choice Every one of their careers In snubbing Man United Has gone to another level Haaland's the best striker in the world Bellingham's one of the best midfielders in the world And Rice is one of the best midfielders in the world If they'd come to Man United I guarantee you they would not have replicated what they've done Because we don't nurture We don't develop And we ruin players Rob Alls United's gifted five memberships You're a legend Rob And Duchess says Highmark in January get Gallagher and Ramos.

29:49No, not Sergio Ramos, Dutchess. No way. Merry Christmas to all and all have great Christmas, Mr. Goldbridge, says Ray. And to you as well, Ray. Thank you very much. Andy Atherton's gifted five memberships as well. Thank you very much, sir. He says, what happens if we make Europa and Bruno stays? Says Andy. Well, if Bruno stays, then, you know, I think people need to, I think people need to sort of realise that that may well happen. because Bruno Fernandes, if we're being completely honest, is a very powerful player at Manchester United. Semenu chose what's best for him, says Seth. Should be a wake-up call.

30:25We don't have We Are Man United pull. How do you improve a team when you have no team idiots above, says Seth. Well, somebody sort of touched on this, Seth, and I think that, look, I want to talk to you about Manu. I want to talk to you about Xerxi because I think it's very important. But in a way, what we're going to do with Manu and Xerxi fits in with some menu, fits in with Bruno, fits in with what a lot of you were talking about this morning in the sense that how do you build a football club when you can't buy the bricks you want? You know, if I want to build a house and, you know, it's red bricks at the bottom and then I go and buy some more red bricks, but I can't get them or someone else has bought them.

31:03So I have to get, you know, yellow bricks and then they run out and then, you know, the house just doesn't look the way I wanted to build it. So if you want to build something to succeed that everyone's going to look at and admire, you've got to get the best. You've got to get what you want. And United aren't going to be able to do that because they already haven't. Look, I like the goalkeeper. He's young, but I like him. It's not the goalkeeper that Amrind wanted. It's just not. It isn't the goalkeeper he wanted. He wanted Martinez. He wanted a goalkeeper to come in and be ready. So he didn't get what he wanted in goal, whether we like the men's or not.

31:39He didn't get the striker he wanted. In fact, he ended up with fifth choice. He now hasn't got Semenyu and he didn't get Belieber in the summer. That's four players in six months in key positions he's not got. He didn't get the striker he wanted. He didn't get the goalkeeper he wanted. He didn't get a midfielder and now he hasn't got Semenyu. So the job is incredibly difficult, incredibly difficult already. Even if you give him what he wants, it might not be the right choice. But we're not even giving him what he wants. And that is the big issue here. It's that how do we rebuild a football club that's on its arse and compete with everybody else when we can't even get the things we want?

32:22because they and most of the time they're going to rivals as well you know Declan Rice went to Arsenal, Jocares went to Arsenal, Kenda's going to Chelsea, De Lapp went to Chelsea, Eketike went to Liverpool, Semenyu's going to Man City, Anderson will go to somebody in the Premier League as well they're not even going abroad they're going to teams in our league who then strengthen themselves as well so I think it's a you know it's I've said it so many times it's Christmas Eve and I'm not going to waste any more than this. But when we had the Glazer story that they were looking for investment or to sell, I remember distinctly one of the shows saying, I genuinely believe, and this was about three years ago, I genuinely believe the club is so broken, it's shattered, nobody can put it back together again.

33:11I genuinely believe the only way this club gets back is a total reset where the debt is gone, new owners come in, pump the money in, and over the next three years, we try to get back with a total reset. We haven't done that. We haven't done that. What we've had is somebody that's come in, lubed up the debt, shoved it up their arse, and then sacked off half the fan base. Well, not half the fan base, sacked off of the

33:44workforce. And what I mean by lubed and shoved it up the arse is that Sir Jim's basically come and sat on the debt. That big pile of debt, he's basically just come in willingly and sat on it.

33:56So look, I might not be right and it's got nothing to do with missing out on Semenyu or losing to Villa or losing to Brentford or losing to Spurs in the Europa League or finishing 15th. Many of us said this six months, a year before Ineos were even announced that the only way back for the football club is a complete and utter reset, brand new owners who come in, clear the debt and try and build the club again, a bit like Todd Bowley's doing at Chelsea. The worst thing that could happen is someone gets into bed with the Glazers. And unfortunately, that's what's happened and no change and also I just want to say as well I really do think that you know sometimes a wolf wears sheep's clothing they're running around a field with a load of sheep but you keep losing sheep and you're like something in that field isn't right and then you find out one of the sheep is actually a wolf because they're dressed as a sheep and then when you're not looking they're eating the sheep.

34:54I feel like that's what's going on at Manchester United because actually, I think the Glazers are the wolf and Ineos are the sheep. And the sheep walks around going, but it's not really Ineos, it's a wolf. I genuinely think that not a lot has changed from the Glazers being here. I genuinely think that the Glazers, well, they own the club, to be fair. It's not breaking news, still sports news. But I think INEOS come out as if they're running things. I don't think they are. I genuinely think nothing's really changed. You know, as somebody was saying yesterday, the protests and everything have stopped because Sir Jim runs the football club.

35:37I think Sir Jim's just a front. I think Sir Jim's play here is the money he's going to make from the stadium. I think this is a business transaction where the Glazers have said look we've got these plans in place we need you to get them through because you're a knight of the realm and you're british um you're going to make double your money on your two billion we just need you to front up pretend you're in charge and get the deal through with the government um and we'll double your money i think that's what it's all about hi mark uh thank you for everything you do says lloyd might have done that one about your gran rest in peace to your gran merry christmas mark to you and the community we have to understand we have to rise again.

36:14We might have to rely on kids and some cheap discoveries, says Andy Cheaton. Thank you very much. Mark, would you do strictly if asked, given that it begins at the start of the Premier League season? No, I wouldn't, Rhys. I mean, I'd like to do strictly because I would win.

36:30I've got hips like a bloody waltzer. They twist and everything. But, no, my schedule would be... I'd be doing the stream and some bloody dancer would be coming in, a female one. I wouldn't... You get to choose. I would choose female. Hanging out at the pool is great. Relaxing and playing Vegas-style games on my phone at the same time. Drinking one hand and a blackjack in the other. It's all at SpinQuest. Over 1 ,000 games, including your favorite slots and table games. Be cool with this summer special. New players get$30 coin packs for$10 at SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino.

37:11Avoid where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. But there's nothing wrong with that. But she'll be there coming in going, come on, it's time to dance. Whilst, you know, doing the bloody samba behind me. I'll be like, get out. I wouldn't, obviously there were no hands unless we were dancing, but I'd be like, just go away. It's not about you. Got a show to do. Manu's injured again, you know? Get out. Strictly, get out. Happy Life has gifted five memberships. Streets will never has gifted five memberships. Tell you what, this was the show to tune into if you wanted memberships. I'm gifting some tonight.

37:48Levi says, happy Christmas. Are we playing to Cesco's strengths or will he be another Rasmus, a striker without service who was thrown under the bus? Oh, just very, very quickly on that. Did you see what Simon Jordan said about Rasmus? He'd seen the post about Rasmus saying what a great decision looks like holding up a trophy. Now, I know Rasmus. what he meant by that it wasn't a dig at man united simon jordan basically said in reaction to the post where um hoyland is holding up the trophy saying what a good decision looks like jordan has took it in a really vindictive bad way like he's mocking man united he's not mocking man united he's a man united fan he's been a man united fan since he was a kid he loves manchester united the reason he held the trophy up saying what a good decision looks like is he didn't want to leave Manchester United.

38:39He wanted to stay and fight for the shirt. But Amrim said, no, I don't want you here. So he made the decision for his career to go to Napoli, even though he didn't want to. So what he's basically saying is, even though I didn't want to do it, this is what a good decision looks like. It's not mocking Man United. But old Simon Jordan goes, oh, he was useless at Man United. With respect to Napoli, the Italian league is not the Premier League. Well, you know what? With respect to talk sport, talk sport is not the Premier League either. Belongs in the fucking National League because that sort of analysis is shite.

39:13He wasn't useless at Manchester United. He was operating on, was it like 1.1 chance per game? And I don't know what the stats are with Sesco because it leads nicely into it. But it's a fact that at the end of his Manchester United career, Rasmus was really struggling. Like, he was really struggling. He was not doing very, very well. But for the first 18 months, I thought he did reasonably well. He had that really good run. But the main problem was lack of service. You know, he was kicking the post in frustration more than kicking the ball in the box. So when we talk about Cesco, we talk about Rasmus, we talk about Cavani, we talk about Ronaldo, we talk about Martial.

39:52Well, it's proven that over the last five years, the chance creation for our striker is crap. Now, I look at the game against Aston Villa and in fairness to Cesc, he had two very good chances in the first half. Now, if you're Xerxes or you're Rasmus last year, you might not get that in a month. Those two chances, seriously, in a month. I reckon there would have been months where you'd go Rasmus didn't get two chances like Sesco got in the first half against Villa so I think that in relation to Sesco are we servicing him? Honestly, I think against Villa he's not really in the graveyard shift he's had two bloody good chances there and I think it's just rustiness that he didn't take them we need to do that more though because I think in his first few weeks he wasn't getting that.

40:47So, but the graveyard shift is very much a real thing at Manchester United. Let me talk to you about Maynews. So look, bit of a rumour. I'm speaking to Ben Jacobs straight after this show and I'm going to ask him about this.

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41:09Vanilla for the win. But I've just got a super chat here. Wrong says, I'm about 10 minutes behind, but why not do a deal with Roma for Xerxes and Kone? And Mark, being completely honest, we won't buy a midfielder this summer. we we manu kone was a player that we were looking at in the summer i keep mentioning that name no one else mentions him i keep mentioning it you make a good point but i don't know whether united have just ruled that out now or not uh mark the ramos thing won't go away don't you think he will bring any value short term and help the european push says rafael look honestly i don't know whether it's christmas eve it's not april fools right if we go and sign ramos i'll be laughing all christmas I think it would be hilarious if we sign Ramos because this is a guy that's never played in the Premier League, who is closer to my age than Bruno.

42:19Figure that one out. Bruno's 31, right? I'm 46. Ramos is closer to my age than Bruno. And this guy is going to come into our midfield, into our defence and make a difference. And also, even if he did quite well, how long is it going to work? Three months? No, absolutely not. um mark this ram i've done that one from raphael um andy cheaton says mark merry christmas to you in the community we have to understand we have to rise again we might have to rely on kids and some cheap discoveries you can't rely on kids mate if you can't develop them that's that's the big problem you you you you just can't you just can't uh we do have an eight o 'clock show live tonight it's going to be a shortened one i never normally do an eight o 'clock show on christmas eve but circumstances mean that um between eight and half eight i've actually got a little window so i thought you know what i love christmas eve i might spend it with you lot see what you're up to i'll have watched home alone by then i'll have had loads to eat i'll have had loads to drink so should be some good stuff um i have got a preview for newcastle coming up but i'm going to record with ben jacobs in about 20 minutes so i'm just going to figure out how to get that and there is a press conference with Amrim coming up.

43:32Now, interestingly, I wanted to talk about this. Maynu, right. Let's see what happens with Maynu. We might get the answer in a couple of hours. Now, what we're hearing is, and it's not from the best source, but it is in the club. What we're hearing is, it's not Luke Shaw. I've heard loads of jokes about Luke Shaw and I think they're bang out of order. You know, I heard one, like, I don't even know if I can repeat it. You know, like, let's just say, I don't want to even use the word. You know, Santa is... How would you describe Santa's physique, right? A three-letter word beginning with pho, right?

44:10So a lot of people are using that three-letter word and saying the three-letter word man who wears red is coming tonight. And then people are going, no, Luke Shaw's not coming tonight. Disgusting, absolutely disgusting. He's, you know, I don't think Luke Shaw's drinking this. maybe he is but I'll have a pint of what he's drinking because he's doing really well

44:35in fact I need to go back over an old stream because I think I owe money for charity people are doing meow in the chat now my sister was here she'd be crying it's not funny traumatic that is imagine that right you put posters out about your cat you're missing your cat and then someone brings the hotline and meows at you i like i like comedy you know i like rickety bass i quite like the comedy that's a little bit close to the bone that's not close to the bone that's a bloody chainsaw through the bone that's that's that's um that's that's that's disgusting okay you know what you're all bloody laughing but all i can hear now you know you know when you think about voices from the past my granddad's passed away i remember his voice and my nan and everything like that i can hear that meow clear as day and the third meow had a bit of a laugh in it and it breaks my heart that my sister said maybe it is the cat I mean she wasn't the brightest tool in the box and she was 10 but she genuinely thought it might be the cat then again she convinced us that when she was seven the elves came and took her to North Pole for a night we we we phoned the police we were like she was very convincing she was like no they came into my room they were elves they took me out I remember going down the road I was like what do you mean they took you out oh yeah they had a little car did you get abducted but anyway ultimately she did tell us she was lying but yeah would you look anyway I'm losing points here with Maynu how do we go from source in the club to elves anyway do some magic elves at Man United Maynu Very tentative, but there is an indication that Manu will play against Newcastle on Friday.

46:31Now, if that's true, that Manu is going to play on Friday, the club looked like a right bunch of prats. Because there is no way in a million years he had a calf injury that meant he couldn't play on Sunday, but then he can start on Friday. That's not how injuries work. That's not how fitness departments work, right? We know our fitness department. If a player's had an injury, the laptop says, can't play for a week or two, like training, half an hour, an hour. It doesn't work like that. This would be a Christmas miracle. You can't have a calf strain that keeps you completely out of the game on Sunday and then you start on a Friday.

47:13Now, I hope that he's playing on Friday and I hope that this story is true. But as we know around Maynou, you never know. You think something's going to happen, then it doesn't. So I think the Amarin press conference at lunchtime is going to be very interesting because if he comes out and says there's a chance Maynou plays on Friday, then there's something else going on. There's no way you can have a calf strain on a Sunday and miss the game completely and then start a game on a Friday. That's just not how a calf strain works. So it'll be very interesting to see. And what might be the theory is, is that there's been a fallout So Meynou's been dropped completely or pulled out completely.

47:53And then there's been talks this week because of the Bruno injury where United have had to go, we like you, we'll play you. So I think Meynou might be in a very good position now because of the Bruno injury, but we'll have to wait and see. The alternative is you play Martinez on the left-hand side of the midfield, Casemiro on the right side of the midfield, and you have Agate as a sub. The question is, would you rather have Martinez and Casemiro or Meynou and Casemiro? and I've got to be honest, if Casemiro was just disciplined and didn't go running forward and hitting long balls, Casemiro and Martinez against that Newcastle midfield might be quite a disciplined thing.

48:29But look, we'll have to wait and see what he says at lunchtime. Anyway, thank you so much everybody for watching. This is not the last time I'm live with you. It's a very weird Christmas Eve this year because I'm live with you at lunchtime for the press conference and I'm live with at eight o 'clock. So it's not over yet, but you might be dipping out, doing stuff. I know what it's all about. So if I'm going to see you again, great. If I'm not going to see you again, and you're dipping out for the day or whatever, I hope you have a fantastic Christmas or whatever you're doing. I know some of you don't celebrate Christmas.

48:56If you're not celebrating Christmas, you know, just watch some good films, chill out. That's what it's all about. I mean, let's be honest. Most people, I was playing a bit of pool yesterday, listening to King's Carols, you know, Silent Night, Old Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark the Herald. That's proper christmas music for me uh some people think it's about the birth of santa so christmas is what it is to everybody uh whatever your beliefs whatever your religion whatever your sis you know situation um christmas is what you make of it so you know even if you don't like it it can still be a time just to enjoy some downtime read a book you know watch a film um and i tell you what is real this community it's very very real real and uh whether you celebrate christmas or not um um thank you for being part of it robert says what time are you going life for algeria sudan look if you're interested in the african fair play i've never watched it i probably never will i'm not interested i just hope our players do well um and come back unscathed in fact can i be really honest i don't want to offend anyone from morocco or ivory coast um or cameroon but i really hope you get knocked out in the group stage because I want my plan.

50:10But I put Man United before England, so I'm not being unfair on the AFCON. If it was England, I'd want them out as well. Take care. Merry Christmas. It feels like, say Merry Christmas, having just said, I hope the Ivory Coast, Morocco and Cameroon get knocked out. It feels very unseasonal. But Merry Christmas to everyone in Cameroon, Ivory Coast or who is Moroccan around the world. I just hope you get knocked out of the AFCON very quickly. But Merry Christmas. Thanks, everyone. I'll see you for the Ameren Press Conference at about half one. And we'll see what comes out of this interview with Ben Jacobs in a few minutes as well.

50:46That's not going up in a few minutes. We're just going to have a chat in a few minutes. But I might be able to give you a few spoilers as to when it's coming out. Thanks everyone for watching. Take care. Speak to you in a bit.

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