330: Nmecha PRICE Set! Onana WANTS Return!

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0:39We've got some really good stuff, really good topics to get into. Beth's even giving it large now, trying to back Luke Shaw. We'll talk about that. We will have time. But Enmicha Price set. Inanna wants to return. Financial reports coming out. the most suitable manager for Manchester United. I don't know whether it's AI or an article, but we'll talk about that as well. There's about four or five other things we need to talk about this morning too. But I'm going to start off with the Inanna story. As much as I don't want to, this is coming in from The Guardian. Inanna intent on reclaiming place at Manchester United team next season.

1:17Inanna wants to fight to reestablish himself as Man United's number one his season long loan and he thinks he can come back and fight for his spot. Now, look, some people are saying Man United won't bring him back. They want to sell him. That's not how it works. If Anana says, I want to come back, he's got a contract and it's not easy to remove players as we've seen with Jadon Sancho. So United going, oh, you know, I'm seeing people, I'm seeing journalists coming out and going rubbish, loads of rubbish, Man United are going to sell him. He is You have got to take on board that if a player says, I'm not leaving, I don't want to be sold.

1:55The club just can't go, well, he is. That's not how it works. So we need to have some serious conversations with Inanna because that's in the Guardian, which means it might be coming through his agents. It might be coming through him. He might genuinely think he might be getting Rocky Balboa vibes. He might be like, rising up, back on my feet. Took my chance, took my chances. I'm just the man. And, you know, he might be thinking he's, you know, he might be doing all this. He might be running in bloody Philadelphia up them steps. He might actually think he can do it. Someone needs to have a word with him.

2:32Man United can say he's not coming back, but he can just sit in and go, I'm not going anywhere. We've actually had experience of this with players. So someone needs to have a word with him. Because I'm sure Man United are feeling the same as us. Well, you can't. Seriously, Andre. You can't. I'd rather have Peter Andre and goal, right? I'd rather have Peter Andre and goal. Seriously, you can't come back. Peter, I mean, Andre, before you tell us about you want to come back, right? Because I'm sure you want to come back. Man United, you want to come back, right? Before you talk, just think a minute, right?

3:07Before you start telling us that you don't want to go and you want to stay and fight for your place. Before you, yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. Just zip it for a minute. Zip it. Before you start pleading your case and saying you've learned from your mistakes and you want to come back. Before you do all that, watch this highlights compilation from the Grimsby game a year ago, right? Just a minute. We're just going to hit play. And while we do that, we're going to play the theme tune to the original Batman. You know, the one where it goes, right? We're just going to play that and your clips. You'll understand why.

3:42Hit the play. Let him watch it. When he's jumping through the air, missing the ball. Pratt, man. Yeah, yeah. Just play it to him. And then hopefully he'll go, yeah, I'm not coming back, am I? And then you go, no, no. We wish you all the best. We're going to really help you find another club. But you're not coming back. You're not Rocky Balboa. You're not, you're not, this is not a comeback. You're not Jon Snow. You're not coming back from the dead. This is, you're not coming back from this. Sometimes in life. I know on Facebook and Instagram, there's all those little clips saying you can do anything.

4:17And these days, a lot of people, probably you, Andre, spend a lot of time swiping up. And, you know, you probably got caught in the algorithm of motivational comebacks. You know, you're probably getting that Rocky thing from Mickey saying, get up, you know. You probably watched the latest Dunkin' Egg where, get up, sir. Get up, sir. Get up, sir, Duncan. Get up, sir. Stop! That's absurd. You know, he's probably watched that. He's in the algorithm. He thinks he's coming back, playing the Grimsby game. And he'll go, yeah, sometimes you don't come back, do you? And you go, no, you don't. You don't.

4:55And I'll tell you what we'll do, though. Now that you've agreed to go, we will burn every copy of the Grimsby game because now we've got to try and sell you. Yeah? Yeah. He's not coming back. He's not coming back. The club won't want him back. I'm not blaming the club. Not blaming the club. He might want to come back. He might want to come back. So all these people saying there's no chance of him coming back. Let's not just say there's no chance, right? If I've got two years left on my contract and I want to come back to Man United, I can come back. They can't do anything about it. I've got a contract.

5:33So he can come back and he might be getting those comeback vibes, you know? Yeah, he might be one of them boxers, you know. Mike Tyson, he's coming back, you know. He might have that in his head, that he wants to come back to Man United. He might, to be fair to him, be one of them people in life who are just really determined. And Man United can say, you're not coming back, but they can't really stop it. And Man United can put it out there that it's a load of nonsense and we're going to sell him this summer. But someone's got to buy him. So don't listen to United. They'll be panicking. Man United need to sit him down in a room and say, you're not coming back.

6:06He can't. You know what? But you know what else they could say as well? They could say, even if we wanted you back, even if you... Imagine if Jason Wilcox said, look, seriously, I'd like you back. But do you really think I can bring you back? I've messed everything up at this club. I'm not... You know, people say people are on thin ice. The ice ain't the... You know, you couldn't even explain how thin the ice is I'm on, Andre. I'll love to bring you back. But if I bring you back, I'm done. I'm finished. I can't even bring you back if I want to bring you back. Because I've told you why. The fans are going to go mad.

6:43The protests won't be as bad as the Glazers, but there will be protests. You cannot come back. So, look, he ain't coming back. Someone needs to have a word with him. He ain't coming back. Fair play to the guy. I applaud fair play that he has got that amount of self-belief and determination that he thinks he can. but he ain't going to be coming back. No way. He's coming back for a tasty 25 % wage increase. Well, Rory, boom. I applaud you, sir. Boom. I don't know what his wage is, but when we're in the Champions League, everybody's wage goes up by 25%. So this is what I mean. You'll get these journalists, you know, before they've even thought about it.

7:28No way is he coming back. Rang United want to sell him. And they don't think it through. And this is why this community is so good because you get people like Rory dropping absolute bombs like that where why would he want to come back to Man United? Ooh, self-belief, yeah. Also, I ain't going. I ain't going. I've got a 25 % pay increase and you can't stop me having it. So I ain't going. Who's going to buy me? I ain't going. I think we ain't going to pay his contract off. I think he'll be loaned again. I don't think anyone's going to buy him. It's like, you know, in many ways, we've got a few of these problems.

8:06The financial reports are out today. It's going to be very interesting. I think they're out lunchtime. I think our financials are going to be shit, but I don't know what period it's for. So this season, our financials are going to be shit because we're not been in Europe, etc. I think they're going to balance it off with wages that they're cutting. As I said last night, this is not a good thing. If our financials look good because we're cutting wages, you're going to pay the price. I'm going to pay the price because if you keep cutting wages, we're going to get bad again. We're going to get bad again.

8:37But even for every Marcus Rashford and for every Casemiro, you've got to replace Casemiro. You've got to replace Rashford. And also for every Casemiro and Rashford that's going to bring the wage bill down, you've got an Andre Inanna who can sit there and a Mason Mount who can sit there on good money for the next few years. And they're no use to us. Mason Mount's no use to us. He's on 250 grand a week. He's on a million pounds a month. He's no use. Might be back at the weekend, might be injured for another month. Who knows? So, and you've also got an honor who can sit there and go, no one, no one's going to buy me.

9:11You gave me a contract. I've just had a 25 % pay increase because you're in Champions League. Deal with it. So, you know, it'd be interesting to see, but I don't think it'd be easy to get rid of, but there's no way we're going to use him. Cyber says, we need to get rid of Maguire, I completely agree, Cyber. Thank you very much.

9:41I want to talk about this Enmika story because it's coming in from Germany. And I think he's an interesting profile of midfielder. But we're having a bit of a laugh this morning. It is a news show. And it is news. So let me read this to you. Beth sent me this this morning in our group chat and I thought, you know what? I've already replied to it anyway, so I don't mind. Just before we go to that, Transfer Room has analysed its data to find the best fit for the current United squad, ranking the managers by best fit in order. I want to go through this because it's really interesting who they've got in their top five as the best suitable manager for Manchester United.

10:22but we'll come back to that in a moment. Let me just cover this off for you. So Beth sent me this. Joshua Zerkesy on which Manchester United teammate has surprised him the most on the pitch? Maybe Luke Shaw. Obviously, he's had many injuries last season. Like I really didn't play with him or see him day in, day out. I knew he was good though. But when I saw him every day and I was like, the Shaw Berto and stuff, you know what I mean? It's true. Right. I like Zerkesy, but this is probably why you're on the bench, mate. This is probably why Carrick won't pick you. And well done to Carrick. Because if that's his IQ, I ain't picking him either.

11:03That's imprinted in my head about Xerxe now. So that's his judgment. Last 10 minutes of a game and it's only 1-0 against Everton. Do I bring Xerxe on? Steve Olland says to me, remember what he said about Luke Shaw? Yes, sit him down. Absolutely no. No, no, no. I mean, I like Xerxes, but that take is horrific. Horrific. He's called him Shaw Berto. He hadn't been called Shaw Berto for about four years, mate. He ain't bloody Shaw Berto now. He ain't Shaw Berto. Absolutely not. He's Shawshank Redemption. He's in prison. He's absolutely bloody crap as far as I'm concerned. And I have to go a little bit hard on Luke Shaw because there's so much propaganda on this channel from Ricky and Beth.

11:45I feel I have to go the other way. yeah he is Shawshank Redemption he should be in bloody prison and he ends escaping watch the wall yeah Shaw Berto I mean come on the reality is Xerxes and Shaw get on really well they're very close they're good mates so look he's probably just bigging up his mate at the end of the day but look I don't know look maybe maybe in training he's really good but we've got the great thing about football is a footballer can say somebody's really good but we've got eyes we watch games so Schorberto Carlos when Luke Shaw was good and I liked him it was because he bombed back and forward and put crosses in I don't I don't I don't think if Luke Shaw was a car you'd take it to your local Helford's repair centre and you'd say I can't get it into first gear it won't go forward I can only reverse it won't go forward I don't know why I'm pressing the accelerator and put it into first gear and it won't go forward because Luke Shaw won't go forward he just stands on the halfway line defending, he won't go forward.

12:47So he was good about four years ago, but he ain't that player anymore. So yeah, we've probably just figured, I like Xerxes, but we've probably just figured out why he won't get picked. Because if that's what comes out of his mouth, then what he does with his feet is secondary, isn't it? Anyway, a bit of banter this morning. Beth sent it to me. So fair play. She's in the Luke Shaw fan club. You know why she's in the Luke Shaw fan club? Because she got an interview with him in the summer. That's what it is. Let's call it out, Beth. He gave you an interview and now you've fallen for it. You've fallen for Luke Shaw's little smile.

13:22And Ricky. Actually, I don't know why Ricky. I don't know why Ricky. Ricky's apparently got pictures of Luke Shaw on his wall at home. This is true. This is apparently true. When we were in Dublin, his family were there, his wife were there. We were all having a Guinness and she said, don't tell anybody. I've just realised they have. He actually got a picture of Luke Shaw on his wall.

13:47True story. Right. Let's talk about Enmicha because this is transfer stories and we have got a lot to get into. By the way, as I said, we have got a few more bits to get into on the show today. A couple of funny things, actually. It's been quite a funny start. I've actually enjoyed this show from a bit like a bloody cooking with Goldbridge. It's comedy. Well, some people think it is. I've got another one to talk about in a minute. But let's get back to some transfer stuff because we obviously were talking last night about Gibbs-White and other bits. But interesting story coming out this morning.

14:21Please do smash a like on the video if you're enjoying the video, by the way. So this has come out from Bild and they're basically saying, which is Germany, Dortmund will demand a fee of around 70 million euros, which is about 61 million pounds, for 25-year-old Germany midfielder Felix Enmica. he is wanted by Manchester United and Chelsea he was released by Man City at the end of his contract in 2021 having played one League Cup and one Champions League game I can I just shock you I like him I do watch a lot of Bundesliga this season been very fortunate to have that link up with the Bundesliga and that's football so you know I get sent emails all the time so it's not just the game we do on a Friday it's you get access to like profile clips, highlights.

15:13So when I'm working in the day, I've just got this screen here and I'm just constantly playing stuff through. I like him. I do like him. And I don't know whether United will go for him, but I really do like him because he just reminds me of a Premier League midfielder. He reminds me of Graven Birch in a sense, not in the way that he plays, although there are similarities, but I would have loved Graven Birch at Manchester United. I think he's the quintessential modern midfielder. He's big, he's quick, he's good on the ball, he's athletic. I think that's what I would say about Enmica. He is an all-round midfielder.

15:49And when you watch Dortmund, and they're having a really good season this season, he is their best midfielder. Sibica doesn't really start anymore. And Jude Bellingham's in and out of the team, but Enmica's on a different level to Bellingham. In my opinion, he's their best midfielder. box to box, can get goals, physical, good in the air, good in the air. I think it's an intelligent signing. My only issue is I'm liking a lot of German things. Like I want Nagelsmann, I want Stille, I want Enmica and I wouldn't mind Diamande as well. But the good thing about that is one's Stuttgart's best player, one's arguably Leipzig's best player and Enmica's at Dortmund and he's doing really well.

16:29So look, there's nothing wrong with going for players like that. Nothing wrong with it at all 60 million pounds is probably my big issue uh not jude joe not jude bellingham i mean i'll take jude bellingham uh joe bellingham um the issue is the is going to be the fee because if they want 60 million pounds we've dealt with dortmund before and it is a lot of money but i mean look his age profile is really good he's not like 28 like i take rierson ryerson from dortmund brilliant player, but he's like 28. At 25, he's perfect. And for that price, we could get Elliot Anderson. Well, we don't know the price of Elliot Anderson Vig.

17:06But what I wanted to say about this is that there is this... I've been told this and I've seen other journalists write about it as well. There is this Fivell plan and there is a Wilcox plan. And it's well known. A lot of people know about it and it has been written about by other people. So I'm not putting the exclusive out there, but I've been told it and other people have written about it. So look, it's not an exclusive, but there is the Favell way and there is the Wilcox way. And I think the Favell way is the path I want to walk. The Wilcox way is the Labour. It's the Lab. The Favell way is Sesco.

17:51It's Diamande. It's Stilla. It's Nogelsmann. It's Enmica. It's people like that. I want to walk that way. I don't know how we do it because Wilcox is basically his boss, but I want to walk that way. I think when I look at Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp, that's the sort of path I want to walk. And I think there was similarities between Klopp and the way Sir Alex walked. so we're not copying Liverpool really because I think Klopp was influenced by Sir Alex as well so I want to walk that way because you can see every time there's a player that we're interested in you can tell whether it's Favelle or Wilcox and I want to walk that pathway because I think the Bundesliga everybody buys from Europe Brighton do it, Man City do it, everybody does it but the Bundesliga is definitely the league closest to the Premier League in relation to intensity and style.

18:52So we saw a lot of people coming in from the Bundesliga last year. We brought Sesko. So I think it's an intelligent pathway. Every Bundesliga team has two or three young players that they really do in their starting 11. It's just something they do. So there's some really talented players there. But he's 25. So I like this. I like this deal. Obviously, it's one of many options. And ideally, I think you want Elliott Anderson and I want Stille. United want Balaba. We've got to acknowledge that. I think what will happen, in my opinion, is we won't get Anderson and Balaba. I don't think we're going to do two 70 million signings.

19:33I think we will go for the Anderson or Belaber as the main deal or the Tonali. And then I think we'll go for the second deal, which could be a Giao Gomez and then Meechia, hopefully a Stila, because I don't think his price is going to be that high. so I think there's a 70 million pound signing and a 50 million pound signing I think that's the way they're going to do it I don't think they're going to do two 70s I don't so in that case I think Enmica becomes quite interesting because if you can drive that price down a little bit he's quite close to the 50 million pounds but I don't think we'd get Stiller and Enmica either I don't I don't so I would acknowledge that we're not going to get Stiller and Enmica so it'd be one or the other and then one of the other out of Belaber Anderson, Wharton, I think.

20:19And I mean, look, nobody mentions Wharton, but he's definitely, he just does, I don't know what it is. What do you think it is about Wharton? Because Wharton is definitely on United's radar. I just think probably a little bit, you know what? I think probably KFC says the comedy's back with Belaber. The Belaber for 70 million bit wasn't meant to be comedy. I'm doing serious transfer talk here but yeah, it is comedy but I didn't mean to be but Wharton is definitely a player for Manchester United, he's a target for Manchester United, interestingly another audition for him on Sunday, I'm expecting us to beat Palace quite comfortably but realistically the same Palace team without Gehi, I mean he's their captain isn't he So look, Wharton's definitely there.

21:13My issue with Wharton is that I just don't think, I mean, I don't rate Belayba, so I'd probably take Wharton over Belayba. Wharton strikes me as a jack of all trades and a master of none. He's a good all-rounder, but he's not really a holding player. He's not really a creative player. He's a box to box. so I'm interested to watch him again on Sunday I think you've always got to get look it's like the manager keep your options open let's not dismiss Wharton I just don't think he's the most glamorous of the options that we've got at the moment as Greg says is he a bit overhyped well I think on Sunday it's a really big opportunity for him because we saw Belayber come to Old Trafford he was absolute shit we've seen Anderson this season he's played really really well I've not seen a lot of Palace and I've not seen a lot of Wharton So I'm quite looking forward to seeing him.

22:06But he's a consideration as well. But look, I want to say it. The club really like Enmica. We've got good relationships with Dortmund. We've done deals with them previously buying players and we've loaned players like Subetzer and we've given them Sancho. So we've got a good relationship there. He's definitely a Premier League player. you know what I'd say about Nietzsche before I move on? I think if we signed him he could be low-key signing of the season for Man United not that he's going to become player of the year, I think he's one of those players that could come in and everyone would go because remember we need two or three midfielders, we're not looking for superstars we're looking for players that come in and improve our midfield and I think he would improve our midfield and the way Dortmund play football as well they play football, they're a football team they move the ball they have possession So I think he's an interesting profiler player.

22:57I'd certainly have him on my list of opportunities. And there's a lot of opportunities. Seth said it's been a while. I'll tell you what, can I just say I'm loving the show this morning. I don't know why. You know, sometimes you just get a cracker. I think this is a cracking show this morning. Seth says, been a while, Mark. How are you? How are you? I mentioned Enmica months ago. I love his style. Still are Enmica. Combo sounds good. At least there is a brain in Favell. Well, Seth, personally, I think we're in the minority. I wouldn't be bothered about signing Stilla and Enmieter as our midfield two.

23:30But I think they'd be an apt... Can you imagine the British press? They'd go mad. They'd go absolutely mad. They would not like that at all. And there is a risk to that. I think it'll be one of the two if we bring either of them in. Patrick Lynch says, would you be... This is a good point. He says, would you be concerned with how Verts has been this season? when looking for players from the Bundesliga, considering Liverpool have a better midfield and his reputation. Anyone we can't, anyone we can get, we get can't have as long an adjustment period. Look, this is a great point as well, Patrick.

24:03I mentioned Gravenberch. He went from Ajax to Bayern for a year or two and then he came to the Prem and his first few months he adjusted and then he became really good.

24:17I think midfielders from any league have a better chance of adjusting quicker than a striker or a number 10 or a winger because in those positions the speed and intensity of the Premier League can get lost you don't get as many touches in the midfield you either sink or swim we've seen Graven Birch come in from the Bundesliga and do really really well there are other players even like Michael Ballack all those years ago years ago. I thought he was a good signing for Chelsea. So I'll try to think of other Bundesliga signings from the midfield that have come in and done really well. Obviously, Sesko is a striker.

24:54Frimpong was a winger.

24:58I'm struggling. I'm really, I'm struggling to think of midfielders that have come in from Germany and done really well. But I think it's a fair point, Patrick. And I think as well, what you immediately made me think of is even if you sign Elliot Anderson or Carlos Belaiba or Adam Wharton, just because they've done well for Forest Palace and Brighton doesn't mean that they're going to adjust straight away to Manchester United. So I think there's always going to be De Bruyne playing in the Bundesliga. I think this is, I'm not going down this road but next season worries me anyway whether it's Carrick or who we're about to talk about in a moment whether we buy eight players or we buy four players I think next season look at the way we're playing at the moment we could win our next six games and if we played like we've played I'd still be worried about next season I'm not worried about this season I think we're going to get Champions League football but I think some United fans want to live in the now.

26:04Oh, Deleuze, Ark, you know, they just want to be positive. That's great, right? Some United fans, like me, are going, what's going to happen next season? Because this club, I as a fan, shouldn't know that next season is going to be hard. The board should know it. But I know next season is going to be hard, really hard, because Champions League football, we're going to play another, we're going to play twice a week. Our output's going to go, through the roof. We haven't got a squad for it. So your new players, whether they're from the Bundesliga or the Premier League, they've got to come in and hit the ground running.

26:40That's a lot of pressure on new signings. I don't think people realise next season, new manager or Carrick, huge pressure. The players that are already here, can they deal with it? And the new players have got to hit the ground running. It's a perfect storm of problems next year. Because I think if you sign any player they shouldn't be thrown into a man united team and sink or swim you've got to have an adjustment period but we won't have any time to adjust next season anana probably sees coming back as the perfect situation pay bump and not playing will improve his reputation more than actually being on the pitch i think i think rory's right he's i don't know what he's uh actually instead of saying i don't know what it is um anana man united wage

27:36apparently he's on a hundred grand a week at man united so as a goalkeeper you're going to really struggle to get that anywhere else so you come back to man united there's a champions league bonus on top. Even if you don't play games, you know, that's going to go up by 225 grand a week, isn't it? An honest story is bad timing. Le Mans aura is so high, says Raj. It's not. It's not. I don't think this impacts Le Mans at all. We know who we want in goal. Marlowe says, shout out to Bodo Glimp for showing us that success in football is all about club structure and mentality. All that United lacks, says Marlowe.

28:17I tell you what, Marlowe, I've got to be completely honest i do and i have found those champions league um qualifiers absolute shit this this time around i watched real madrid against man city last year um and it was um it was interesting but um oh yeah so they knocked they beat into milan in milan 2-1 um atletico madrid one and obviously newcastle one yeah i found it quite um

28:54yeah quite dull if i'm being honest uh i might do benfica real madrid tonight i'm sort of tempted to do it as a watch along just because i think it might be quite i'm sure should i do that later actually i might do benfica real madrid just because it's controversial um maybe maybe uh Thank you very much for that, Marlo. OK, let me move on. So, yeah, interesting story about Enmica there. Please do smash a like on the video and subscribe. Thank you, everybody, this morning. A few more bits to get into. But before I do, I did just... There is an update from Fabrizio Romano as well about Rashford that I need to talk about.

29:29So I said we've been for a bumpy ride this morning. But I want to talk about this manager thing next. So basically, Sky have put this out there as well, that there is um based i don't know how they've done it i mean if anybody in the chat knows let me know because i don't know how they've done it but basically they've they've done a graph of suitability who's the most suitable manager for manchester united um which is uh pretty pretty interesting so we're going to go through that in a moment but talking about managers i mentioned this and a lot of people commented on this um not live but well probably live but i saw it in the normal comments.

30:08I've had it up to here, which is six foot. I've had it up to six foot, not five foot eight. I've had it up to six foot about, you know, when you go online, I don't mind a short clip. I prefer long form content. I'm watching Inception at the moment. I just love film. I love long form content. I love thinking. And, you know, I'm an intelligent person with a high IQ. I can do long form content. A lot of people are low IQ and they just love short form content, but I can watch short form content and I like short form content if it's edited well and it's a real person. I cannot stand AI. I can't stand it.

30:47It's shit. YouTube should kick it off the platform and everybody else should. It's rubbish. So what I'm talking about, and this is football related, yeah, is you'll get, well, let me give you an example of a film first, yeah? So I saw one the other day and it was, what film was it? Oh yeah, it's Patrick Swayze, yeah? So it's Ghost, yeah? The film Ghost, yeah? So Demi Moore sits down next to Demi Moore from the film and now, yeah? And then the camera pans and it'll go to Whoopi Goldberg then and now. And then it will go to Patrick Swayze then and now and he's got angel wings. Well, this is just an endless AI source of content because how many films are there?

31:37Absolute shit. Total fucking rubbish and gets millions of views probably. There's a football one now. There's a football one, right? You have a bench and basically on that bench, you can put De Bruyne, Lampard, Scholes, Rodri and, I don't know, Xabi Alonso. Yeah? And Steven Gerrard will be stood up and they'll AI generate the picture and go, who's standing up to let Steven Gerrard sit down? Fucking rubbish. Most of them don't look like the player and it's AI, right? I saw one the other day. I saw one the other day. Sir Alex Ferguson's standing up and it's who's standing up to let Sir Alex Ferguson sit down, right?

32:24I'm looking at the bench and it's everybody, but the hilarious thing is, listen, right? There was Carlo Ancelotti, fine. Pep Guardiola, fine. Jose Mourinho, fine. Arsene Wenger, okay. Mikel Arteta, are you having a fucking laugh? Mikel Arteta, you may as well sit me there. Mikel Arteta and you're asking a serious question about who needs to stand up to let Sir Alex Ferguson sit down. Mikel Arteta doesn't need to stand up. There needs to be an ejector button to bloody shoot him into space. Mikel Arteta sat down and I just think this is AI for you. Fucking rubbish. Absolute rubbish. um i mean sir alix ferguson sits down above all of those this is true some people in the chat have even seen it it's true it definitely is true um i've seen it but yeah i thought i'd just bring that in for a little bit of a break there um oh loads of people loving the ai mate you're melting your brain you're probably melting your brain watching this to be fair but you're definitely watch melting your brain watching content generated by a fucking computer oh dear oh dear oh dear um anyway let's move on so i want to talk about this next um here we go uh not for brici romano um this was this was it okay so sky sports premier league uh this was on their app i think uh transfer room have analysed its data to find the best fit for the current United squad as manager.

34:07Top 10 are this. In 10th place, Xabi Alonso with an 80.7 suitability. In 9th place, De Zerbe with an 80.9 suitability. In 8th place, Herzl at Brighton, 81.1%. I mean, I think he's shit. How he's ahead of Dezerbi, I don't know. In seventh place, Kovac at Dortmund, 82 % suitability. In sixth place, Arna Slott, 83.3 % suitability. I know, I know. In fifth place, Eddie Howe, 83.5 % suitability. Roy Kina-Biapi. In fourth place, Gasparini at Roma, 83.6 % suitability. In third place, Maresca, 84.3 % suitability. In second place, Conte, 84.6 % suitability. And the number one most suitable manager, according to whatever algorithm they've ran, is Unai Emery with an 85.2 % suitability.

35:20which I actually would say there are some weird ones in there, but I actually think Unai Emery is probably the most suitable manager for Manchester United. We've just got absolutely no chance of getting him. I like the fact that Conte's in there second,

35:40but I mean, look, I ain't going to dwell on it for too long. I thought it was quite interesting, but

35:49just on the manager chat I don't know I don't know why Nagelsmann's not there I don't know why Luis Enrique's not there I don't know I don't know I don't know how they've done it to be honest but I'm with Red Sparrow I think when I look at it Unai Emery is best in class like why are we not linked to Unai Emery I'll tell you why money it's as simple as that Man United sacked Amirim and it cost us loads of money. They then said they're going to do a best-in-class managerial recruitment with no stone left unturned. Tuchel signed a new contract to England. Ancelotti is going to stay in Brazil. Enrique doesn't want to come.

36:30Emery, we're not even talking to him. So how are we doing a best-in-class, no stone left unturned recruitment process when the best candidates aren't even bloody being spoken to? So I don't want to disrespect Villa because I don't think Emery is coming to Manchester United, but I don't understand why we're not making a play. Because his record at Villa since he's come back to the Premier League and what he learned from Arsenal is incredible. Absolutely incredible. And he picked up a club that was a mess in October. Like he didn't have a pre-season. He didn't have a transfer window. So he picked up a club that was a mess and got them winning games, played decent football and has never stopped on a limited budget as well.

37:14So what's not to like about that? I'm not saying we should go for Unai Emery. I don't think we are. But I don't know why he's not high. Journalists don't talk about him. Fans don't talk about him. And the club haven't let anything come out about him. And he should be interviewed for the job. Like he should be interviewed for the job. We should push for that interview. Hard to do, but he should be, in my opinion. Mike Royce says,

37:49I agree, Marlowe, which is why I've said multiple times, I don't agree with this under-26 Premier League proven parameter that we seem to be obsessed with at Manchester United because I don't actually think we need to be that sort of stringent on what we're doing. I think, you know, as you say, there's players that have come in from South America. There's players that have come in from the Netherlands, you know, players that come in from all over the place. So definitely we should be looking at that.

38:38Bournemouth are growing increasingly confident that they can persuade Areola to commit this future to the club with a new contract. Okay, well, I wouldn't actually

38:53be that concerned about that.

38:59God, Manchester United have actually posted at five past ten this morning the clip of Xerxes saying Schauberto is real. Our club is just pure propaganda, isn't it?

39:16And you read the replies and you understand why this club never goes anywhere. I mean, all the replies are like, oh, yeah, love you, Luke. We have got some morons in our fan base, haven't we? Unbelievable.

39:32Look, we've got millions of followers, haven't we, Man United? There's bound to be a few million prats. They've actually posted that this morning, Xerxes' post saying Shaw Berto is real. You know, just to be very serious about that, when was the last time Luke Shaw had a good game? Man City? Arsenal? Shit against West Ham? shit against Everton how can you do such propaganda maybe they are bots maybe they are bots but you know what annoys me propaganda I don't mind if a player's playing well and I don't rate them I'd say fair play you've had a good game I've given Luke Shaw a 7 this season but he has actually been shit the last two games and they put out that post is pure propaganda like he's playing shit he was shit against Everton and he was shit against West Ham It nearly cost us the game.

40:22Schauberto is real. Come on. One assist in the Premier League all season as well. Absolute shit. Averages 1.2 crosses per game when Anthony Robinson's putting in five. Come on. Have a look at it. Have a look at what we're talking about, at least. Respect yourself. It's been funny this morning. So I want to just talk about this from Fabrizio Romano.

40:59does anyone else do that put zero instead of a no um where was it i've got to find it now here it was here it was so fabrizio romano has said this about marcus rashford Barcelona have made progress in talks over personal terms with Marcus Rashford for a potential permanent move this summer. Barca want Rashford to stay, but Man United are insisting there'll be no discount on the 30 million euros by option clause. Look, again, just be wary of United playing Billy Big Bollocks. Yeah, because Anana's not coming back. We're selling him. I ain't going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. please, please do Barcelona are definitely paying 30 million euros Rashford and Barcelona well I want to go to Barcelona we're not paying 30 million euros what are you going to do?

41:59well we'll sell you somewhere else Rashford says I don't want to go anywhere else I want to go to Barcelona well you just have to sit and rot in the reserves okay, fine let's see how that plays out I'm going to the World Cup until the end of July by the time I've had a rest It's the end of the transfer window. You're going to really keep paying me 300 grand a week sitting in the reserves? All right, we'll do a reduction. So look, it's going to be very interesting how that pans out because if Rashford wants to go to Barcelona and Barcelona want Rashford, look at what happened last summer. We're selling Rashford.

42:30We're selling Rashford. We're selling Rashford. We're loaning Rashford. We're getting a transfer fee. We're getting a loan fee for Rashford. We're not getting a loan fee for Rashford and they're just going to cover off his wages. so I hope we can get the 25 million I mean it's not very much for a player of Rashford's quality but as we know with Barcelona they like to pull levers and they're always in financial trouble so I wouldn't be I wouldn't I wouldn't definitely say that we're going to get that 25 million pounds because if Barcelona are broke but Rashford wants to go there and the only way they can do it maybe they're saying to Rashford look we can sort you out a good wage and we can sort you out a good contract but to do that we can't give Man United 25 million and Rashford goes well I want to come here and the club Barcelona say well the only way you're going to come here is if we get that price down with Man United well Rashford's going to be with Barcelona isn't he he's not going to be on Man United's side so it you know maybe there's a swap as Cristiano Ronaldo says maybe there's something like that but i do think um with all these things the club just can't come out and say billy big bollocks this is happening this is happening i mean ultimately as well we don't have a great track record when it comes to um negotiating so yeah we'll have to wait and see how that pans out but i'm not that worried about that i mean marcus rashford going to barcelona is should be happening I'm more interested in and how many players we're going to sign and who else we're going to remove from the club this summer because I don't I've got to be honest I go into next season and just talking about someone like Luke Shaw that doesn't fill me with confidence that he's part of the squad next year Mason Mount doesn't fill me with confidence that he's part of the squad next year then you've still got Harry Maguire Deleu there's a lot of players next season that I think we need to be trying to move on from that we're not going to be able to move on from.

44:34So for me, the big thing is, can we bring in, if we're keeping those players, can we bring a lot more players in so that we don't have to pick them, you know? Thank you. Anyway, right, let's have a look at the chat. Rashford may have to contribute and buy out some of his contracts as Simon. I don't think he will. Why would he? Why would Rashford have to do that? Man United are the ones that are going to be stuck in a position where he's still got 300 grand a week contract for two years. He might be, look, what I was going to say is it might be another loan. Barcelona might say, can we have another loan?

45:12That's the worst case scenario. It's just another loan. Could be. As Mr. Miracle says, it's Barcelona trying to pull a fast one. If we loan him out for one more season, they will send him back because he will be too old and they won't win it, want him anyway. Exactly. And I think that's a great point. They might be angling for another loan, in which case does it get to a point where you reduce the transfer fee and just clear him off the books. But Barcelona will win. They will win. We won't win on this, I don't think. I don't think we'll win. I think Barcelona will win one way or another. They'll get a reduction or they'll get a loan and I don't think that will help.

45:53PC Master says, imagine Anana, Sancho and Rashford all come back. Well, Sancho won't be coming back because he's out of contract, isn't he? uh thank you have you seen the delo propaganda yet yeah yeah look it's in that look the way the way manchester united football club works is it's a it's a well-oiled machine and when they notice that players aren't doing well but they're going to be here for years to come they'll put a lot of work into pr um when luke shaw wasn't fit and went to the World Euros they've never stopped on the PR Luke Shaw machine they're always tweeting about him so that's the way it's going to be that's the way the club's going to work new horror film out on Friday I know who you didn't sign last summer says Hel Badger thanks for the super chat Mark the priority is going into next season with a new midfield says Ladios yeah and hopefully three Shane Shane Martin says, hilarious the Favell stuff.

46:56Wilcox knows Enmica better than Favell from the Manchester City Academy. Well, it's not hilarious, is it, Shane? Favell is... Shane, are you a simpleton? So you found out that Enmica came through the youth system, so therefore you think it's a Wilcox signing. Favell would know about him anyway. Do you know anything about Favell? He doesn't just buy Bundesliga players, mate. His whole thing is knowing everything about the best young talent in football. So he would have known about Enmetra anyway. I admit it might be an angle that Wilcox agrees with him on Enmetra, and I hope that does. But come on.

47:39Do you want to go through the list of Wilcox fuck-ups? Guy's clueless, mate. Thanks everyone for watching. Stay safe. Brilliant show today. Really enjoyed it, especially the Anana bit. That was a nice little one. We should start every show with something like that. rising up um thank you very much for uh watching uh Le Mans was probably Vavelle as well um well Tony Coton had a lot to do I don't know I don't know I don't know the background of Le Mans it would feel like more Vavelle young goalkeeper in the Belgian league would feel more Vavelle than Wilcox but Tony Coton did have a say in that as well definitely um the goalkeeping coach who should be listened to.

48:20Like, we never should have done what we did with De Gea and Anana, and that was on Ten Hag. And when you're going to buy a goalkeeper, you should refer to your goalkeeping coach. Of course, it's a very, very specialist position. Take care, everyone. Stay safe. I'll speak to you on the next one.