329: Carrick CAN'T Ignore This! Sangare BID?

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0:30Hello everybody, welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United news and transfer news this Tuesday morning. Hope you're all doing well. Lots to get into. Carrick can't ignore this and we're not talking about Sesco starting. I mean, he can't ignore that, but I think there's something that's been completely missed by everybody and we're not going to miss it. Also, interesting comments from Gary Neville about the manager situation and also Sesco. A really strange transfer story from yesterday linking this to Singari and Bruno's future. We'll talk about that as well.

1:01Also want to talk about some of the stuff that's come out from last night's game, Carrick's comments, and a bit of praise from David Moyes about Le Mans as well. I mean, sometimes as fans, you, what's the word? You glow up a player and you think, are we only seeing it? Well, David Moyes was full of praise for Le Mans last night. But look, I want to start off on something that's maybe not newsled, but it is newsled because I'm putting it out there. A little bit late this morning because I went to get my hair cut and I'd booked in at 10 o 'clock instead of 9 o 'clock. So we put it back. I can do that.

1:39I'm the boss. Everyone can have the day off. But no, I really do want to start off by talking about this because I think that there's a few inaccuracies in relation to why we played poor last night. And obviously we won the game. And I think, as I said in the match reaction, And that's the biggest thing. To win the game of football is absolutely fantastic. And I think that's what it's all about. However, I think when you look at the game last night, I think the glaring issue is the midfield. And this is not a surprise to you or me or anybody else. But I just think there's some lazy analysis out there that, one, we were lucky.

2:16I think that's a bit lazy. We scored. They didn't. We won the game. Yes, we scored because we counterattacked. And then people say we can't break a low block and we sue to counter-attack and Everton got naive and we beat them on the break and we were very lucky to beat them on the break because if they hadn't done that, blah, blah, blah, Le Mans was good. That's not the issue. The low block's not the issue. Not starting Sesco isn't the issue. I think they are issues, but I think the issue is that our midfield is not good enough. The last two games, our midfield's not good enough and even Spurs, I don't think it was good enough.

2:47I don't think our midfield has played well for the last three games. And I think that's the big issue. Michael Carrick is one of the best Premier League midfielders ever. Certainly, I'd put him in the top 10. Maybe not the top five, but he's in the top 10. He will know that as much as anybody. Our midfield isn't good enough. Everton midfield beat our midfield. West Ham midfield beat our midfield. And for half an hour, Spurs midfield beat our midfield as well. And I'm not blaming Carrick, and I'm not blaming you, and I'm not blaming myself, and I'm not blaming Casemiro or Maynou or Bruno. But this is exactly why we needed to buy a midfielder in the summer and we needed to buy a midfielder in January.

3:24Our midfield gives everybody a chance. You go back and watch the West Ham game and last night and we were getting dominated in the midfield. We never got hold of the game, never got hold of it at all. And you can say, well, Bruno had a bad game, Casimir had a bad game. I think it might be more than that. I think we're coming up against teams and it'll be interesting what happens against Newcastle next week. Palace, I don't know. I think they're a bit shit at the moment, but we're struggling because of the midfield. The midfield's not playing well. I don't know where this myth is coming from that the midfield's good enough.

3:55It's not. This is 10 Hogs midfield from two years ago, and it wasn't good enough then. There's huge space. There's a lack of pace. And we're not even playing good midfields. I don't think Everton and West Ham and Spurs have got the best midfields in the Premier League, and we're losing the midfield battle. Our strength is our defence, and our strength is our attack. And what we're doing is, you look at the game yesterday. We're saying to Everton, attackers will rely on our deep line. And when you leave some space, we'll counter quickly. And that's exactly how we won the game yesterday. We won the game because we countered off a strong defence.

4:31That was it. Everton made a mistake. They committed too many players forward. Kunja, brilliant pass. One-on-one, basically. We score the goal and then we defend again. The midfield provided next to nothing yesterday and next to nothing against West Ham. And that's our problem. and I agree with Carragher. I'll read what Carragher said. He said, basically, I can't see anybody else other than Manchester United getting, I'll read you his quote actually. He said, Manchester United are virtually a guarantee for Champions League football. Villa look like they're dropping points at any moment and they've got European football on a Thursday night.

5:03I agree with that. Liverpool and Chelsea are both in the Champions League and the FA Cup and will want to do one in at least one of those, a semi-final or a final. I can't see Manchester United not making it and we've said that for a long time. I think we will get there. Oh, Al Mahler. I want to talk about Almala because apparently he's going to bloody Brighton. That's stupid if United let that happen, by the way. But I think we will get Champions League football. However, next season, whoever the manager is going to be, we've got to solve. We're not in a good place. Yeah, we're not in a good place the next season by any way, any shape, way, shape or form.

5:37We have to improve that midfield because you can't bring a Garty on, like Corey says. But a lot of people talking about we can't break a low block down. Well, that's a symptom of having a bad midfield. A lot of people saying we're a bit lucky yesterday. Well, that's the symptom of having a bad midfield. A lot of people saying Sesco should have started. But when Sesco came on, we never put a cross in the box. We never put a cross in the box. And Gene says 16 points from 18. Gene, if that's your life, get a coffee from Costa and do one. We're talking about next season. We're talking about the team and how it's performing.

6:1716 points from 18. That's not going to last, Gene. If that's all you've got in life, come back in about six months' time and you're going to look an idiot. We've all got our eyes. 16 points from 18. It's not going to last. It's not going to last. Man City and Arsenal, we played brilliantly. Fulham was entertaining, but needed a last-minute winner. Spurs was 10 men. West Ham was a last-minute equaliser. and yesterday was a brilliant goalkeeping performance and a smash and grab goal. This is not going to be sustainable. So it's brilliant what we're doing and we will get Champions League football and it's not a negative.

6:54The negative is it's not low blocks. It's not Sesco. Our midfield is not performing to the level it needs to be and it's the most important area of the pitch. I'm just exposing my interpretation of what the problem has been in the last three games. our midfield has lost the midfield battle in the last three games and if it doesn't sort itself out we're going to have problems next season and for the rest of this season and Michael Carrick is one of the best midfielders I've ever seen so he'll be aware of it more than I am but what is he going to do what can he do he's got to work with what he's got but I'm just saying a lot of people talking about low blocks etc I don't think I don't think enough people are talking about the midfield.

7:38And the fullbacks are a problem as well. I mean, Huncho says fullback is just important. More bodies forward could open up space. Opponents will be stretched as they're forced to push bodies out wide. Brilliant observation. And it's funny, I tweeted it this morning and I don't care, get in the comments. Apparently Deleuze, the Deleuze redemption arc needs to be studied. What redemption arc? What Deleuze redemption arc are we having? I mean, people actually think Deleuze playing well at the moment. I just, I think the standards of some of our fans is on the fucking floor. You watch an interview with Rio Fairyland and you think he's back because he says a few passionate words.

8:16Deleuze did all right last night. He was shit against West Ham. He never puts a cross in. In the last two games, the best crosses have come from Mainou. Mainou's crossed for Casemiro against West Ham where Casemiro was offside and Mainou's crossed to Mberma last night. Oh, Bruno, our full backs are shit going forward. Absolutely shit. Luke Shaw last night put one cross in. He had all the time in the world. Didn't even beat the first man. Deleuze put a cross in where it was like a shot. I'm not happy with the full backs either. I really think that they're poor. But in fairness, Deleuze had a good game last night.

8:50Luke Shaw didn't cost us a goal. But the midfield was poor yesterday and we're not going to be able to solve it. We're not going to solve it. Who was man of the match last night? Well, the player ratings went up. Lots of people said I forgot. I didn't forget. I did forget. But it's up anyway. The player ratings is up on the show. Man of the match was Le Mans with 85%. And look, just talking about Le Mans, because I want to talk about Sesco and there's a few transfer bits as well, but there's a lot to pick up from last night. I thought Le Mans was brilliant. Everybody in the watch alone picked up and said he was brilliant.

9:22This is what David Moyes had to say. the goalkeeper was bloody brilliant for them tonight after the match he said the goalkeeper that for them was brilliant he said um um he said we didn't expect the goalkeeper to do what he did tonight oh fucking hell what's that not doing we didn't expect the goalkeeper to do what he did tonight he was bloody brilliant tonight for me he was the best player he looked like we would take he looked like he would take every corner and it made it difficult for us yeah and and look if the opposition managers talking about that, you can sense a frustration and an admiration because I genuinely think the Le Mans performance last night, I mean, we glowed it up.

9:59I'm sure every United fan and journalist has glowed it up as well, but there needs to be a rule change. There needs to be a rule change. You can't play football like that. It's disgusting. I hate the Premier League this season. I hate the fact that I watched the North London derby on Sunday and four minutes of that game were lost on drying a bloody ball, long throw-ins. Well, how long does a corner take now? It's just shit. It's so shit. And also, to be fair, all right, Everton probably deserved something, maybe, I don't know. But in a way, our goal, at least it was clean. I mean, counter-attack, okay, but it was a clean goal.

10:42If they'd scored, it was going to be some flick on from a foul or something like that. But no, I thought Le Mans was fantastic and I wanted to bring that David Moyes thing in. Your trim looks sharp as Sesco. He needs to start. Thanks for all your shows the past week, says Ben Healy. Well, I'm going to talk about Sesco, but let me just catch up on a few of your comments. Patrick Lynch says, amazing how wins change outlook. Sesco has turned a possible two points into nine in the last seven. Last night also brings the question how many more points we'd have if Le Mendes had been here at the start of the season as well, says Patrick, fair point.

11:12And also, it also poses the question that if we'd bought a midfielder, where would we be? Because I think our midfield has been poor all season. If we'd got a goalkeeper in for the start and we brought a midfielder in at the start, where would we be? Forget Carrick or Amrim, I'm just saying, where would we be if we had a decent midfielder in the summer and a decent goalkeeper at the start, Le Monde? Where would we be? Where would we be? Emily Derry says our midfield isn't good enough and Carrick won't bring on Agate even Amrin was reluctant to bring him on we need three midfielders in the summer well yeah I mean look the fact that he didn't bring Agate on yesterday is a great point by Emily and a few people have mentioned it in the chat we've just got to get these wins and I think we'll beat Palace on Sunday Newcastle will be a test away from home three days after we've played on a Sunday I think our fitness levels look shocking at the moment but to not bring Agate on yesterday when the midfield was struggling so bad I mean, Agarte's finished.

12:07Breaking news. If you want a topical news story, Agarte's finished. United can say what they're like. I've got eyes, you've got eyes. Agarte's done. It's finished. Last couple of games, he's not brought him on and our midfield has been on its arse. Didn't come on against West Ham, did he? Didn't come on against... Well, he didn't come on last night. Midfield wasn't playing well. You could have took Bruno off, Manu off or Kazimir off and he won't bring Agarte on. He won't bring Xerxes on and I agree with the Xerxes sub. Why would you bring Xerxe on? Yes, Cunha was tired. Yes, Embermo got injured.

12:39But where would you put Xerxe in that team? He's not a winger. You've got Cesco up front. You've got Bruno at 10. So these two players will be gone. So that's another... There's three players to replace before you even bring players in you want to bring. Casemiro, Agata and Xerxe are toast. They're finished. Demolished. Gone. So yeah, you're right. Great point. We haven't had an okay midfield since Herrera left, says Alex. Hey, does anybody else think... I think every team needs a shithouse, whether it's Bernardo Silva, Rudiger, Kukarela, is Kunja our shithouse? I loved that. I didn't like it was against James Garner because I like James Garner.

13:15I thought he was brilliant for Everton. I think he's been brilliant this season. I actually think we shouldn't have let him go, but we needed the money. But apart from it being against Garner, who I like, Kunja is our shithouse. And every team needs a shithouse. I can't be seeing people saying he can't behave like that. I love this. This to me is, Herrera used to do it. You need a shithouse in the team. And Kunja, Kunja's got it. I like it. I like it. Hope you're well, Marco United. Stan, nice trim, says Daniel. I hope we're all doing well this morning. Look, you know, my strong stance in 10 years of doing this and 40 years of watching football is that you don't stand still on success.

13:56There's nothing wrong with winning when you didn't play well. And there's nothing wrong when you've won to find the issues. because if you find the issues when you win, you'll keep winning. If you ignore the issues when you win, you're going to lose because of the issues. And some people in life don't seem to understand that. Some people win and go, forget the issues. Some people win and go, well, we won, but that and that could have been an issue. So I think we're right to discuss the issues because if we play like that again, and let's not forget, we've not played well against Everton and we've not played well against West Ham.

14:29Four points from six when you're not playing well, you abba-dabba do, but we haven't played well. So we need to find a way to, you know, look at the issues. Any Manchester United manager other than an interim would be criticised for playing the way we are at the moment. Not good enough and I love the contents, says Nicholas. Well, we'll talk about that in a minute because Gary Neville said something about, well, Sesko and Carrick. But Marlow says, the last two games has shown, one, Carrick isn't the man and two, the squad isn't good enough. Amrim wasn't the problem. Wilcox is getting away with it.

14:59You know the difference between Amirim and Carrick? It's that I think we'd have drawn the game last night. I don't think we would have won the game last night. I think there is a real focus on defence with Carrick that Amirim probably didn't have. and that might have been formational. But I think yesterday, we might have scored the goal, but I think Everton would have got a goal. I think it would have been 1-1, not 0-0 because we saw that so many times. I think we're sitting deep and countering. I think that's what we're doing. We did it against West Ham and we did it against Everton. I think we're doing that.

15:41And I think because we've always got a goal in us, I think Carrick and his coaches have realised that if we can keep clean sheets, we'll win games. It might not be pretty at times, but we're sitting so deep. I mean, Harry Maguire was so comfortable yesterday and their striker was quite quick. And I looked at the game in the first half and we are dropping deep. We're not pushing up high, we're dropping deep because what we want to do is we actually want to be deep. We want Everton to have the ball near the edge of our box so there's space to run into behind. We don't want to play a high line because if you play a high line, you're up against a low block.

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16:46Thank you very much for that, Marlo. Good comment. I loved what Kunja did at the end of the game because this is what we missed we don't have enough shithouses in the team says Ray Carl hope you're doing well Ray Trim looks as sure I've done that one from Ben Sarvish says prepared to forfeit next season because next manager will struggle to bring these players up to fitness after Carrick's training practices just like Amram in the first year Carrick out says Sarvish I think that's a good observation about fitness I don't think people want to have that conversation either we were really fit up until mid-January and you can see it draining from the players.

17:20I couldn't believe how washed Bruno looked at the end of the game yesterday after two weeks off. I don't agree with this reduced training time and giving them time off. It might hurt us, but ultimately, as long as we get into the Champions League, what does it matter? But yeah, you can't... I don't know who's advising them on the fitness side of things, but we've looked really lethargic the last two games. Where do you think we'd be if Amarin was still here? Class of 99, it's not worth talking about. It's irrelevant to where I walk, the things I want to talk about today. Lucky hoofball as usual.

17:52United ain't getting Champions League, says Claire. Claire, take your boring name and swivel on it. We are getting Champions League football. Get down your local bloody solicitors. Deed poll. Change your name to something more glamorous like Margot. I'm happy for the win, but I'm also more pleased that Everton didn't get any points from the way they played. It's a sad development to Slazy. Thank you very much. Okay, let's talk Sesco. There was a great comment before. This is what Michael Carrick had to say about Sesco. It's not always extreme about benching him. Sometimes I get why everyone is talking about it and making a big deal of it, but I've got a really good relationship with him.

18:28That belief he's playing with now is great to see. So you didn't really answer the question, Michael, did you? Why are you benching Sesco? Well, it's not always that extreme. I've got a good relationship with him. Not really the answer, is it? Comes on against Fulham, 2-2, wins us the game. Comes on against West Ham, we're losing, draws us the game. Comes on against Everton, we're drawing, wins is the game. Start him. Embermo is struggling up front and looks better on the wing. Sesco is a striker. You've made a mistake. Everybody makes it. Nobody can understand why you picked a shit team that started against West Ham to start against Everton.

19:03When Sesco came on, we won the game. He's starting against Crystal Palace. It's simple as that. It's really not even a stick to beat Carrick with. He made a mistake. He made a mistake. You could argue made a mistake not starting him against West Ham. He definitely made a mistake not starting him against Everton. It could have cost us. It didn't. Let's not make that mistake again. Embermo struggles as a striker. Sesco is a striker. At six foot five, he's going to be a handful. He's physical. He's quick. Sesco needs to start. It's just a matter of who gets dropped. It has to probably be Ahmad. And I like Ahmad.

19:39I'm a big fan of Ahmad, but he probably needs to be dropped. The output from Ahmad hasn't been good enough this season. And last night wasn't a particularly good game. So you put Embermo on the right, you put Kunja on the left, you put Sesko through the middle. It's easy. It's not even a debate point. It shouldn't have been a debate point last night. He should have started Sesko. Carrick, trust me, will be sat there going, we made a mistake. We made a mistake. And it might have been as simple as because Sesko's been on the bench, he stays on the bench, and you don't want to upset Ahmad or Embermo or Kunja.

20:10but that's management. He could have cost us a win last night through not being strong enough to take a decision that everybody would have taken. He should have benched one of Embermo, Ahmad and Cesco and started, and Kunja and started Cesco. Cesco is undroppable now. He has to start. It's really easy. We're a better team with him in it. Put your best players in the best positions. Put Embermo on the right. Put Cesco up front. Obviously, I think Kunja on the wing isn't his best position but you've got to start Kunja. and we don't have a left winger. I think Kunya would be helped massively if he had Dorgue at left back.

20:48We're missing Dorgue, and Luke Shaw just won't push forward. And I'm going to say this about Luke Shaw, because people say, what's your issue with Luke Shaw? Look, somebody's got to give you the other side on Luke Shaw, because Ricky gives the other side in buckets. They glow up. I mean, I started the watch along yesterday, and Ricky wasn't even on the bloody countdown to kick off, and I've got Luke Shaw as class. So somebody out of Jordan, Beth and Mauds love Luke Shaw as well. So I feel like if I don't give the bad side of Luke Shaw, this channel is just becoming Luke Shaw propaganda. I don't know what Man United are doing about...

21:25I don't know what Michael Carrick's doing with Luke Shaw. Is this a mate thing? Like, it's not our responsibility to get him fit for the World Cup. He's a left back. The way he played against West Ham was poor and he cost us a goal. and the way he played last night was cowardly. But that's got to be tactical. Like, I was looking at the first half, right? And to be fair to Deleuze, he does push forward. Luke Shaw in the first half, the amount of times he was stood on the halfway line. And I'm like, why? Why is our left back not pushing forward away to Everton? Cunha's getting isolated and he's got no support.

22:08and Luke Shaw's just stood on the halfway line. He's meant to push forward as a left back. In the modern game, you're meant to push forward. 30 years ago, left backs were pushing forward. Dennis Irwin, Stuart Pearce, he's got to push forward. And I don't know whether it's because they want him there to cover Maguire's lack of pace or they want him there because they know he can't run up and down anymore because he'll get injured. I don't know what it is. But Kunja ends up having a quiet game because the left back doesn't support him. answers on a postcard, why is Luke Shaw not pushing forward as a left back?

22:43Because he can't or because we're scared? I don't know. I don't know what it is, but it needs calling out because I'm not going to give Luke Shaw any higher than a five every game until he starts pushing forward because that's what you need. And if Kunja is going to be on the left wing, he's not a left winger. So you better provide a bit of width and we have to do that. Hopefully against Palace at the weekend, because we're at home, we will see it happen. But the last couple of games, it's been quite poor. Emily Derry says you risk more injuries if you reduce the fitness levels. Injuries like Martinez calf strain happen more because players are having to push beyond what their bodies are prepared for.

23:17Well, Emily, it's a great comment and we're not in tune. But you've just reminded me of something because we have got a couple of updates on injuries. So the Martinez one, there is hope that he's going to be back for Palace. Although Laurie Whitwell in The Athletic has said it could be a couple of weeks. If it's a couple of weeks, it's really three weeks because we're not playing after Newcastle for another week and a half. United sometimes do that. They did this with Mason Mount. They said it was a couple of weeks, knowing we weren't going to be playing for a couple of weeks after that. And he's still not back.

23:47So sometimes United say, oh, it's only a knock for a couple of weeks. But then if we're not playing, it actually ends up, well, they really know it's three or four weeks. I'm like Savage we shouldn't be rushing Martinez because we shouldn't rush Martinez because one we don't need to we've got a little bit of leeway in the fight for Champions League and we might need him in the last couple of months and two he's had two major injuries so you've got to be careful with players like that so we shouldn't be rushing Martinez another interesting update is Dorgu so I can't remember who said it about Dorgu but I have got the update here.

24:26Yeah. So, Athletic again. Dorgoo is unlikely to return from his hamstring injury until mid-April. Now, this is a little bit annoying because there are in the know people out there who keep getting things wrong in the quest for news. We were told a couple of weeks ago, well, I didn't really cover it, but there was somebody a couple of weeks ago saying that Dorgoo's recovery is going really, really well. And I said, well, I spoke to somebody who I know and they went, well, his recovery is going well. but it's not ahead of schedule. Like he won't be back before the international break. He was out at the end of June, January, and he won't be back till April.

25:05And I was like, but what about this tweet here from this person saying it's going really well? He says, yeah, but look at it. It doesn't say he's going to be back. It's just, it's optimism, but no facts. So we're not getting Dorgue back until mid-April by the sounds of it. I mean, look, you never know. He might be back after the international break, but again, you can't rush these things. He's a young player. He's had a very bad hamstring tear. And trust me, Ryan Giggs, if you fuck up your hamstrings, you lose your pace. Ryan Giggs, I think at 27, had to learn a different way to run because he was getting so many hamstring injuries and he lost a little bit of pace.

25:40So, look, again, with Dorgou, I wish he was fit. He was brilliant before the injury, but we have got to be very careful. But look, I don't know whether there's a direct correlation between the reduction in training and giving people days off, but the Premier League is very intense and you could see it in the players yesterday. They were struggling. They were struggling. And that might be because they've reduced training. It might be because they've had a bit of a holiday. It might be because they haven't played for two weeks, but they were tired. The midfield yesterday looked like they'd played on Sunday.

26:11Against the low block, drop Maynou. He doesn't have much to do. Alternate Kunyar and Bruno for centre midfield. And Cam play Seska up front with Ahmed and Brian on the wings. His ammo. And Rory says, we will need three centre midfielders in the summer with Agate looking surface to requirement. Two big ones and one cheap one. Yes, Rory. Yes, Rory. I've said this for a while, haven't I? I mean, people are saying, hopefully we'll get two. I think we do need three. I think we do need three because Casemiro's gone. Agathe's gone leaves you with Maynou and Bruno there has to be question marks about Maynou because he's still learning not in a bad way there just has to be there might be ups and downs whatever so you've got Maynou and Bruno going into a Champions League and Premier League season with a midfield three I think we need we could argue we need four Maynou and Bruno you need six yeah yeah we will need I loved what Kunja did at the end of the game thank you very much for that okay what are you talking about Almala for Mark oh I just wanted to bring this in because I think we should be all over this I will come back to what Gary Neville said about Carrick and Sesco in a moment but I saw this this morning in the Times Brighton are hoping to get a deal for Cologne's 19 year old German winger Almala over the line by also signing his older brother Malik Almala is He's an outside pick for Germany's World Cup squad and is currently unhappy with his club head coach at Cologne.

27:44Brighton have been looking at Al Mahler for about six months. I'll tell you now, and it's only because we've had the Bundesliga on That's Football, we should be looking at him. I and the That's Football community should not be the people telling Man United to sign Al Mahler. He is like... He's almost like Rooney. I mean, he's not Rooney. Rooney's like a generational talent, but he's got that. He scores goals all the time. He creates goals all the time. You could stick him on the left wing in this system at Man United and he'd do bits. We should be looking at this. We should be. If Brighton, I mean, I'm surprised.

28:24I would have thought maybe Bayern Munich, maybe Dortmund, maybe Liverpool, someone like that. But if Brighton are going for him, we should be all over that. I mean, I tell you what, if he goes to Brighton, I totally understand why we're shit at transfers, because sometimes you see a player go to Brighton and you're like, I've never heard of them, and then they end up being really good. But in this case, I've seen loads of Al Marla this season, and if he goes to Brighton and Man United let that happen, that's just shit scouting. Like, that can't happen. I'm sorry. Like, he is a really good player.

28:55He's going to go to Brighton. He's going to tear it up, and Brighton are going to cash 80 million quid. So we should be looking at that. And it's the second time I've seen this. And we've got to be looking at those types of deals, in my opinion. Oh, just because we'll talk about what Neville said about Sesco and Carrick, but there's a couple of stories that came in yesterday from Steve Bates, is it? I think he's quite an established journalist with, I can't remember who he writes for, but there was a lot of people sharing it around yesterday. And there was two things really. Man United are looking at Sangari at Forest as a replacement at Corina and Nottingham Forest.

29:33And also, if Man United get Champions League football, Bruno Fernandes is definitely going to stay. So on those two stories, all I would say is both quite strange. Bruno Fernandes is not going to make his mind up until after the World Cup. So if we qualify for the Champions League in May, he's not going to go, I'm staying so I don't know where that's coming from that must be a guess because Bruno has always said he's going to wait till after the World Cup and see what the offers are and obviously he's going to wait and see who the manager is etc so I don't think it's likely that Bruno is going to make his mind up based on Champions League football as for um some people don't want Bruno to stay by the way there's a lot of people last night saying this is why we need to Bruno to go again which I mean look you know my stance on it if Bruno's playing at number 10 you don't sell him but some people still think we should move him on and we'd be better off with Kunio there.

30:25As for Sangari, I mean, imagine we went and got him. Imagine Anderson went to Man City and we got Sangari. I mean, that would just be the absolute definition of Man United's problem. The midfielder you should be getting from Forrest goes to Manchester City and we go for Sangari. So no, no, no, this is not the level. It's a punt. It's a trust me, bro signing. It's not, we can't do these. This is why I don't want Belaber. We can't do these trust me, bro signings, risks. We need to go for high echelon players. We need to, there's always risk with transfers. Almala would be a risk. Anderson would be a risk.

31:10Stilla would be a risk, but we've got to sign those types of players. You can't go for punts. You can't go for, oh, he's doing quite well. I mean, at some point, you also have to say Forrester are in a relegation battle. So if it's not Anderson's fault and it's not Sangari's fault, why are they in a relegation battle? So no, for me, Sangari was really interesting when he was at PSV and we got Ten Hag because I thought, obviously, Ten Hag brought in some Ajax players, but he knew that Eredivisie and Sangari did really well for PSV. And we needed a midfielder. We've always needed a bloody midfielder.

31:43And I thought, you know what? There's a chance that Ten Hag knows Eredivisie. PSV, never going to be massively expensive. I wonder if we'll go for him. And throughout that summer, we spoke about it quite a lot and he never went anywhere near him. So if Ten Hag didn't want Sangari, having watched him at PSV for two years, I don't think he's up to it. I don't think he's up to it. So there's nothing about Sangari that makes me go, yeah, that's a good signing for Man United. And I watched them at the weekend against Liverpool, and I don't think he stood out as a player. So for me, both very, very strange stories.

32:22Sebi says, Martinez is injury prone. We need a new reliable left centre back, Van de Ven, who is also injury prone. Ammo says, against low block. We've done that one. Thank you very much. Thanks for all the super chats that have come in this morning, by the way. let's talk about what old Ginev's had to say because there's a couple of comments that have come in he said Konya's pass is absolutely sensational and Embermo that's when he's at his absolute best when you think of him at Brentford United are a better counter-attacking team than they are actually trying to break teams down and then you see Sesko's run it's a classic and he's got a bit to do he's got a good goalkeeper in front of him and he's just really solid in corners it was a great goal So that wasn't what I wanted to read there, but I think the Kunya past was very good.

33:10It was about Carrick and Sesco. I'm sure it was. Oh, here it is.

33:25So this is what Gary Neville had to say about Sesco. For Sesco now, I think he starts on Sunday against Palace. His confidence is high. And I think now Carrick starts him just feeling how Michael would look at that. I think it would kill the lad if he didn't start him against Palace. I haven't always been convinced about him this season. But what you have to do, I think, is move with what you see. He looks like he's growing in his game and in his body and looks like he's got more power in his sort of performance. I think you also said something about he's not the complete striker. I don't think he's ever going to be the perfect striker similar to Jokeres I mean look at the moment with Sesco he's just got to start I think it ends there I like Jokeres at Arsenal I would have liked Jokeres at Man United I like Sesco at Man United I think he'd have done alright at Arsenal are they complete strikers?

34:19No, Jokeres is not a complete striker there's issues in his game And similarly, I think Sesko's not the complete striker. But who is a complete striker? Erling Haaland's not a complete striker. He's one of the world's best strikers. He's not complete. Erling Haaland's link-up play isn't dynamite. Harry Kane's probably a complete striker, but I still think he could do with another yard apace. So you're going to find a flaw in everybody's game, aren't you? I think the complete striker that maybe we had a few years ago, they don't probably exist anymore. I mean, people like Alan Shearer probably were a bit of a complete striker.

34:54But I think in the modern game, Erling Haaland, you play to his strengths, don't you? Erling Haaland can be shut down. You can't shut Messi down because if you give the ball to feet, he'll run past you. Haaland's a world-class striker, but you can shut him down if you kill the supply lines. whereas Ronaldo Messi, they get the ball and they can create something from happening. So I don't think I'm concerned about he's not a complete striker. And I did that video about Sesco last week. Did that video about Sesco last week, didn't I? And we basically did this. Like his shot conversion rate wasn't actually good.

35:41It's probably a little bit better now because I think he had one chance, one goal. but it wasn't that good. There was a couple of things about his game that he needs to work on. Link up, play, finishing. But he's a chance magnet. I said this about Darwin Nunez and Sesco scoring more goals than he did. And there's a lot to work with with Sesco. Look, get him in the team. Bottom line is everybody agrees he's got to start games. Carrick needs to start him. He should have done it last night. It's as simple as that. James says, don't split player ratings and final word show. You need live chat engagement doing the player ratings.

36:14don't let ball of sport rejig your format says james um well we'll do what we want to do mate james and thank you very much for your feedback it'll take it'll get taken on board but um we are going to be splitting it for the next few weeks so that's what's going to happen thank you very much for your feedback though uh we'll review it at the international break martinez injury prone need new reliable left center back thank you very much sebi and uh just to go back for that on james the reason i split the player ratings is because the match reaction has so many good comments coming in, it ends up being half an hour before I do player ratings.

36:46And then people say, well, just do 15 minutes of the chat. And I'm like, we've been doing hour shows at eight o 'clock for 10 years. The match reaction, I can't do it any quicker than half an hour. I can't. So I end up doing player ratings half an hour in. So it's logical to split the shows. I agree we should probably do the player ratings live. I think that's great feedback and we can do that. But it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous to have a half an hour back and forth chat about a game and then do player ratings at the end of it. And then the fan forums waiting. So I take your point, James. I think the live thing is valid, but I am going to split it.

37:29And then we'll review it at the international break. Because I find it so hard to keep a match reaction down. In the old days, it used to be like 10 minutes of a match reaction and 10 minutes of a player ratings. And it was a 45-minute show. I didn't forget. No, I didn't forget, Troy. I wanted to try that out. Right, on Carrick, this is the last thing, potentially, I think, unless we get another good comment like that. Oh, this was it. Okay, so Gary Neville, talking about the next Manchester United manager. Manchester United have to pursue another manager right now around the fact that you don't know the results are going to go.

38:09little things like Tuchel re-signing with England does start to take away the options for Man United and they don't harm Carrick's chances of getting the job if he gets United into the Champions League there'll be a lot of fever around that he should be appointed I'm not against him being appointed I love him to bits but I think Man United should be going for the best in-class manager available they've had young and experienced managers in the last two picks Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has come in before as an ex-player and that didn't work in the end so I feel removing as much risk as possible is the right option.

38:40Very rare. It can happen, but very rare that I would agree with Neville. But I do. I actually do agree with that. I don't... Well, my opinion's been out for a few weeks, so I'm not agreeing per se, but I don't disagree with what he's saying there. My stance on the manager is that he's probably been a bit lucky in the last three games, if I'm being honest, but luck's never a bad thing. My stance on the manager is, I think we're going to get Champions League anyway. I thought we were going to get Champions League with Amrim. My stance on the manager is, we've made these mistakes in the past. Oh, he's at the wheel and all that.

39:21Manchester United should be recruiting the best in class. That's what we're meant to be doing. An interim coach with Steve Holland, Jonathan Woodgate and Johnny Evans is not best in class. It's a punt. It's a risk. And it might be an exciting risk, but it is a risk. we should be on the phone to every top manager in the world. And we're Man United, so we should be getting interest. And in the summer, we should be ready to go for one of them. If we end up with Michael Carrick, I think we've failed. I think we've failed to interview the people that we should be interviewing. That doesn't mean Michael Carrick shouldn't get the job.

39:57He should be in the equation. But if we go for Michael Carrick without talking to anybody else and who we talk to is shit. Wilcox has failed because this is Manchester United and they're going to be in the Champions League and they've got a budget to spend. And people say, well, no manager is going to want to work under the glazes. Well, they have and they will. If I'm playing championship manager or football manager or whatever it's called now, and somebody says, do you want the Man United job? They're in the Champions League and you've got a big transfer spend. It's a big job. It's a big job.

40:29You might not want to come in and be told what to do by Wilcox to take that on board, but you're not taking Man United over last summer when we're not in Europe. You've taken over a Champions League team with a budget. And it's a massive name. We should be able to get better options than De Zerbe and Glasner wanting this job. And then it gets interesting. And we should be going for best in class because Carrick's a risk. Whether I want him or not, he is a risk My stance is we shouldn't be talking about Carrick until May Because we should be taking all the evidence into account Arsenal-Man City games, brilliant, brilliant West Ham-Everton, bit lucky, lethargic Oli Ball, Ten Hag Ball Yeah, I think that's sort of where I am But we've won five of our last six games and we're in a great position in the Champions League.

41:27And all I care about is being in the Champions League. The manager conversation, to me, just needs to be done properly. And I'm not getting involved in the TikTok generation of, I need a decision now. I don't need to give a decision now. I think we just keep moving along. Luis Enrique would be the dream. I don't know how it happens. If Luis Enrique went to Man City, it's over. We should be going for the best manager available. I don't know how you make that happen. I don't know. But that's where we should be going. Beyond that, I like Nagelsmann, but I don't know whether the club will do that.

42:04I think Enrique and Nagelsmann are probably the two managers I really, really like.

42:13but you know Carrick's in a good position why wouldn't I give it Carrick because I want to wait till May and see what I want to look at the evidence because as I said the last couple of games even Spurs I don't I haven't seen a lot of great coaching I've seen a bit of individualism I've seen look Sesco got us a point against West Ham and Sesco got us a win last night and Le Mans I didn't see a lot of great football I saw a lethargic Man United against West Ham and Everton I think the reason we've won last night is because we're Man United and we've got a bigger budget than Everton, we've got players that can win games, it's player quality it's a strange thing to say but player quality won us the game last night, not tactics I think Everton were actually tactically better than us because they dominated us in the midfield but the individualism of Cunha and Embermo and Sesko and Le Mans and Harry Maguire.

43:11I think that was really important to us last night. And that's hopefully what's going to get us over the line over the next few games and weeks. But I don't want to do Carrick a disservice because I was saying this a year ago. He hasn't had a transfer window and he hasn't had a preseason. And that's a great point. Like you can't just dismiss Carrick because we're a little bit lethargic. What would he be like with a preseason and a transfer window? of course we might be shit and you've blown all that money and he ain't good enough and that's the risk um you've got to say Carrick hasn't had a pre-season and he hasn't had a transfer window the question is would you take the risk of giving him one and that and that's the thing I would defend Carrick I like Carrick um and I said a year ago we can't judge Amarin without a pre-season and a transfer window so you can't really judge Carrick without a pre-season and a transfer window.

44:07The question is, would you risk giving him one? And that's going to be the question. My bottom line is, if Man United don't run a thorough process and interview other people for the job, then they're fucking idiots. Because with Solskjaer, we interviewed no one. We jumped on the bus, we sang the song, and we gave him the job. If you're going to give it Carrick, fine. But make sure you interview other people. Don't not interview other people. That's my stance. anyway sorry for being a bit late this morning but it's been a great show we have an 8 o 'clock show tonight because there is no other football that I want to watch so we do have an 8 o 'clock show tonight and I think we've got a 2 o 'clock show this afternoon as well I don't Ladios says Maguire was low-key brilliant last night I don't think he was low-key I think we all acknowledged he played really well and Glemmons says on the basis that no manager has really worked since this abhorrent ownership, does it even matter who the manager is?

45:05Well, you probably make a good point. I mean, ultimately, we're still going to be struggling because of the ownership. I mean, we've got no midfield and we still have no midfield and that's not on Carrick. That's not on Amram. That's on the bloody Wilcox and co, isn't it? So if you don't start that out, then, you know. Okafor, Bergwijn and Anana are my third choice midfield picks, says Vincent Weasley. Okafor, he's a striker, isn't he, for Leeds?

45:35Anyway, on that bombshell, thank you very much, Vincent. Take care and I'll speak to you on the next one. Thanks for watching.