341: United CAN'T Be Serious! Tonali, De Zerbi, Sangare!

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0:39I feel I should have a, what do you call it, a sweatband on my head. Call me John McEnroe because I can't believe it. You can't be serious. Some of the stuff that's coming out this morning, you just can't be serious Manchester United. We had a great show last night talking about how what should be the best Man United transfer window in many years could easily be the worst. And some of the stuff we're working at this morning, looking at this morning, I mean, would be a major setback. De Zerbi getting closer to the Man United job. A very interesting article in The Athletic about our summer plans around Carrick and him being cheap and how he's improved training and all this sort of stuff.

1:19Is it a PR piece? We've also got Senghari, a forest being linked to United, Barkola, Tonali, Beleba, an update on Mason Mount. So quite a lot to get into this morning. Some of it positive, some of it a little bit, a little bit of what I would say is unbelievable, really, I suppose. But look, first things first, it was a very, very good show last night on the eight o 'clock show. We went through a lot of reasons how Man United can slip up this summer. If you don't get the decent manager, if you don't get the right players, if you don't remove the right players, if other clubs around us buy better than us, there's a multitude of things.

1:54If you lose Bruno Fernandes, there's a load of things that could go wrong, but we have to focus on trying to make it right. And part of that is making the right calls. And I read the athletic piece this morning and there was just some bits in it that just sort of jumped out to me that they sound like they're coming from the club and they don't sound great. still talking about a centre-back over a left-back, still talking about Belaber, still talking about how cheap it would be to bring in a manager that's free and then it's cheaper to remove them. I mean, these are not things that as a United fan, I mean, I don't read things like Carrick and Deserby would be cheap because they're free, which means if they need to sack them, it'll be cheaper as well.

2:36I'm like, do you not realise that going cheap runs a very high risk that it won't work anyway. But look, we'll start off with that because I think that I want to start, actually, I want to start off with Tonali. I'm going to start off with the midfield this morning because there's a few stories that sort of, rather than going from one to the other, we'll just lump them in all together here. So a little bit coming in from that Athletic article, talking about the midfield, basically saying that Manchester United are looking to sign a defensive midfielder who can complement Maynou, as well as a young midfielder capable of sharing playing time with him.

3:12For the defensive-minded players, the club has identified players like Agume and Baleba as key targets. And this is in The Athletic. I mean, this terrifies me. Because at first when I read it, I thought when it said they're looking for a young midfielder capable of sharing playing time with Meynou, they were talking about Agume and Baleba. But when you read it back, they're looking to sign a defensive-minded midfielder who can complement Meynou, as well as a young midfielder capable of sharing time with him. For the defensive-minded player who would play with Meynou, the club have identified Agume and Balaba as key targets.

3:49I mean, this terrifies the shit out of me that next season we could have Meynou and Balaba as our starting midfield too. I mean, both under 22, I think, maybe not with Balaba, but huge question marks. Like that is not a midfield to go into Premier League next season with. And I'm not saying that Balaba wouldn't turn into a signing. And, you know, I'm a big fan of Maynou, but that would, I mean, as Savage says, it reeks of Wilcox and it reeks of a mistake. Like I don't mind Man United signing Tenali to play with Maynou and then buying Agume or Belaber as the backup. I don't mind that per se, but Maynou and Belaber or Agume as a starting midfield next season.

4:36I mean, I'm sorry, that is terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. And we spoke about this, well, we spoke about it last night, but we spoke about it a little bit as well. It feels like we're moving further and further away from the Tenales and the Andersons and the Stillers by the day. By the day, it feels like we're moving away. I mean, at the start of last week, you could still find stories saying that Anderson is the top priority for Man United. A week later, we're not even realistically talking about him. We're sort of going, well, it's felt that United won't be able to afford his wages and he wants to go to Man City.

5:18I feel that sometimes when the story changes like that publicly, What's changed privately? Have United literally been told, I don't want to come to Man United, I want to go to Man City? Because it just feels like we're moving away from those conversations, aren't we? And only this morning as well. I saw a story this morning, actually. I'll give you that as well. I mean, look, I don't know whether I should tell you the Sangari story. To be fair, the source isn't particularly amazing, I don't think. But where was it? It was about Tonali. Where's Tonali? There he is. Real Madrid scouts watched the Italian midfielder Sandro Tonali as his Newcastle team were knocked out of the FA Cup by Man City on Saturday.

6:07Madrid's spies were there to try and plot the downfall of Guardiola's side ahead of their upcoming Champions League last 16 showdown. That was in Sunsport, so you could say, yeah, loads of crap. But there will be no, I mean, I wish I'd said it last week because I'm sure many of you have thought about it. When we talk about Tonali, we talk about Manchester United, we talk about Manchester City, we talk about Arsenal. He's that level of a player. But realistically, Real Madrid do need to build their midfield again. And I think Tonali would be absolutely incredible. And if Tonali is looking to leave England to go back to Italy, I'm sure he'd be looking to leave England to go to Real Madrid.

6:44So look, again, these signings that we desperately need, it's very much like the manager, isn't it? We all know we need an Enrique or an Agarlesman or a Tuchel. And we'll probably end up with a Carrick or a Glasner or a Zerbe. In the midfield, we all know we need an Elliott Anderson or a Tonali. and we all know we're going to end up with a Belaba or a Gio Gomez. And that's why we will fail because we all know what we need. As fans, we all know we're miles behind Arsenal and we're miles behind Man City. I mean, Man City have just gone and bought the best winger and the best centre-back in the league that's available halfway through the season.

7:25They're relentless. They're not going to stop and neither are Arsenal. We're already behind. Even if we got the top manager in the top signings, we'd still be behind. we'd just be a little bit closer. But we don't even go and get the best. We just go and get things that everybody knows isn't going to work. But it does feel like over the last few days that we are... You need to refresh your video, William Doyle. He's saying, are we waiting or live? Been live for quite a while, mate. Yeah, I think it's just starting to move towards reality instead of what we need because we, yeah, I just don't get excited about Agume or Balaba.

8:09I'm sorry. I don't mind them coming in as second or third signing, but as the first signing, it would be ridiculous. It also goes on to say in the Athletic article that Elliot Anderson would still be a first choice target for Manchester United, but the availability of but Labour has been discussed as well. United also are believed to have preliminary shortlists for a centre-back signing while bringing in a left-back to provide cover for Luke Shaw and add more width on the flank is also being considered. I mean, the problem is, I mean, look, The Athletic is a paid subscription outlet in the UK and as part of that athletic movement into the UK sports scene, they earned a lot of money off that subscription and they built relationships with clubs that feels like very much what Romano was saying at the weekend about a centre-back again over a left-back and even though Romano didn't mention a left-back the Athletic does mention a left-back but are doing it in a sense that it's um it would be even if they go for a left-back it would be cover for Luke Shaw.

9:22I mean, cover for Luke Shaw. The guy's crap at left back. I'm sorry. Cover for Luke Shaw. I do look at it and go, I want the positive. I want the first choice left back, the two top midfielders, a good left winger and a really good manager in the summer. I want those five things. Obviously, we'll need to do other things, but I want a first choice left back, two first choice midfielders, a first choice winger and a top class manager. Is it too much to ask for a club that isn't anywhere it needs to be? Of course it's not. But you read that athletic article and you're sort of like, I can feel that this is well briefed from the club.

10:03Don't shoot the messenger. I can feel that it's well briefed from the club and that they actually probably think we might get a left back next season as an understudy to Luke Shaw. And you sort of like go, do you use your eyes? Do you actually look at the situation? Because it's scary. It's scary that they think Maynou will just start next season and do well. I'm a massive fan of Maynou, but the fact that they think we need to buy somebody to start with Maynou next year, like Maynou's pulling up trees. Maynou's a 50-50 at the moment. I would even admit that. I think he's a fantastic player, but is he showing it?

10:44Hopefully he will get better and better and we can build that midfield around him. But at the moment, I wouldn't be sat there if I was the director of football going, we just need a player to play next to Maynou. I think we need someone to compete with Maynou and we need a bloody top class holding midfielder. And I don't think that's belabour if I'm being completely honest. So yeah, it's drifting. It does feel like it's drifting a little bit. And then this morning, again, again, we get linked to Sangari of Forest. This was coming in from court offside, Man United have added Nottingham Forest's Ivory Coast midfielder Ibrahim Sangari to their transfer list for this summer.

11:19Forest, who signed him in 2023 for 30 million, intend to open negotiations at a higher figure. Talks are expected to begin at 45 million. I'm sorry, he's just not that. He's not all that. He isn't all that. I'm sorry. Chau Gomez is probably better and I don't think he's the solution. So Sangari, and we keep getting linked to him as well. And you sort of like go, are we trying to be Manchester United or are we trying to be Everton with all due respect? Because these types of signings are not the types of signings that take United closer to the likes of Arsenal and Man City. I don't think in a million years, Arsenal or Man City have ever considered Sangari as a midfield option.

12:01And yet United, look, maybe we're not in for him. Maybe we're not going to sign him. But if I was Jason Wilcox, I'd be phoning up Romano and saying, can you just put a tweet out to say United have got no interest in Sangari? I'm not ringing up court offside or anybody else because I'll be here all day. Just put out a tweet saying United have got no intention of going for Sangari. He's not on our list because ultimately, Fabrizio, we're not in for him. And it just damages our reputation that we get linked to players like that. And we have a reputation to uphold. But they won't do that because they probably bloody are looking at Sangari, aren't they?

12:36So, yeah, I think with the whole point of the show last night, and as I said, go and watch it, read the comments, was that we have this opportunity to have this amazing summer transfer window where we get a top class manager, a top class couple of midfielders, a top class winger and a top class left back. All those things should be bare minimum for Man United. And if you do that, I think we can move forward. There is also the reality with this ownership and this board that they don't get as a top class manager. They don't get as two top class midfielders. They don't even get as a left back. And we end up in 12 to 18 months back where we were three months ago.

13:15and that to me I think is a very big reality that people need to talk about because what some of our fan base have done for the last six months is scream positivity about Elliot Anderson whilst the majority of the fan base have gone I think you're being spun and they've gone no, no, no Elliot Anderson and now they're doing Tonali and most people are going yeah, love Elliot Anderson love Tonali but let's get real the club won't do it and if we don't do it we'll continue to fail Champions League football is not the exit from failure, by the way. I think some people think qualifying for the Champions League is like the greatest thing ever.

13:55I want to be in the Champions League because I like the format. I want to play eight games. I want to get to the knockout stage. I want to play Real Madrid and all these teams. I want Man United to be in Europe and I want us to play in the Champions League. And I am excited about it. But there's a cold, harsh reality to it that if we go into next season without major renovation, then in a year's time, we will be Newcastle. We will be mid-table, probably in the knockouts of the Champions League, waiting to get knocked out by a better team and then facing another year of no Europe. And Newcastle have got a good team, but they can't deal with that.

14:32Newcastle's first 11 is good, but they haven't got the squad for it. and the biggest mistake we will make is going, we've qualified for the Champions League, we're back and we won't be back. We literally won't be back. It will be a very good season because of the volume of games and who we're playing, but we are not prepared for what is going to happen next season and if we do not buy quality players, then we are going to struggle. If Spurs go down, would you go for their players, says Dan. I would go for quality players. So Pedro Porro is better than our right backs. You could argue that Adoghi is better than our left backs.

15:17I think Bergvall is better than a lot of our midfielders. So I would look at quality players wherever they are. but not mediocre players. I don't want players that might be better than what we've got. We've got to go for those players because some of them would flop anyway. Chris says, I'm so tired of these Monday games. I'm from Sweden and me and my father were going for this as Brentford, but they just moved it from Saturday to Monday. I don't know that we're playing Brentford on a Monday. I thought we were playing... I thought we were playing Leeds. Oh, maybe it is Brentford. It's definitely Leeds.

15:50There's two in April, definitely, Chris. This is what happens when you don't finish in Europe, though. You get the piss taken out of you. With rumours of Klopp going to Atleti, would you take Simeone if he was available? He has proven he can get a team to compete with the top teams, says Patrick Lynch. I want to come back to that because I want to talk about this Deserby story. Hi, Mark. It's been a while since my last super chat and a bit off topic, says Shazwaj. But I'm unsure about Nogelsman as I think he's a hipster. I'd prefer Enrique, who's more proven. Keen to hear your thoughts. I totally agree with you, mate.

16:17I mean, I would take Nogelsman over every other manager we've been linked to. Carrick, Deserby, Glasner, because he's a better coach. But if it's Nogelsman or Enrique, I would take Enrique, yeah. Daniel Thompson, hope you're well. Wishing you all the very best tonight at Ballers League. We're all behind you in the team of the Gold Devils. Every dating app swap is another loss. Jim bros, big CEOs, straight up losers. So now the only app I open is Moto Casino. Because at least there, I'm surrounded by winners. real winners thousands of them while everyone else is in the single swamp I'm at home relaxing while stacking bonuses hitting wins and playing all my favourite Vegas style games Moto Casino the only app worth your time Moto Casino the social casino or prohibited no purchase necessary visit moto.us for more details download the Moto Casino app today must be 21 plus Moto Casino American Social Casino yeah it's not on the telly tonight Daniel it's just the draft tonight so I don't think it's even on Sky or YouTube this week I think there will be some shows recorded from it.

17:17But thank you very much. It starts in a week. And Jason says, it baffles how anyone could think these idiots would do what's best for United come the summer regarding players or managers required to take us forward. Thank you very much, Jason. Well, it's interesting also in relation to what Jason said, but what Patrick said as well about Simeone, because there is a story this morning that I don't really... Coming in from Sam Wallace in The Telegraph, who is a good journalist. He used to be on Sunday Supplement when it was good. And he basically said, it's understood that Roberto De Zerbe is keen on the Old Trafford job.

17:58So that's sort of a step closer because we know that Man United interviewed De Zerbe when they were thinking about getting rid of Ten Hag after the FA Cup final. We know that he is, for whatever reason, by Wilcox or Barada or Sir Jim, I don't think De Zerbi had anything to do with Man City. Has De Zerbi been a coach at Man City? Sometimes that's the key. I don't know why De Zerbi features highly on Man United's list, but he does. So the fact that he's keen on the job, that pushes us closer to him. This is not good enough. I'm sorry. I think that while some people will disagree with me, I think we're more than entitled after 13 years of failure when it comes to league titles to have an opinion on something and not just go, trust me, bro.

18:47I don't think United, I think all the trust me, bro points are gone. I think there has been times where you might go, trust them. Let's just see what happens. I agree with that. Sometimes you've just got to go, I'm not sure about that, but I'll back it and I'll trust it. I agree. But United used up those points years ago. So I'm sorry, but Deserby, as Man United manager, no. No, absolutely not. What I did see, though, is, and I'll shout them out, it's Swedish Rumble on Twitter again. They were talking about Deserby and they did make a good point. And I think it can't just be no without a reason.

19:27They said, what they basically said was, when Newcastle went down to 10 men and we had to try to adjust from sitting deep and counter to carrying the ball, we saw how poorly drilled we are as a team which is true you know against Newcastle in that first half we basically played counter-attacking football the reason we nearly scored I think we nearly scored with I can't remember I don't think it was the Mbermo chance I don't think it was 11 versus 11 then but Newcastle were way better than us but we were always a threat on the break think back to before the red card against Newcastle they were way better than us and the live chat and the watch along was going, they're so much better than us.

20:05But I kept saying, I can see us winning this because it's all about the first goal. And all we did is what we did against Arsenal and what we did against Man City and what we do against the big teams is we sit deep on the edge of the box with Maguire and whoever's playing with him and Luke Shaw and Deleuwe. We sit deep, we let them have the ball and then when we get it, we try and exploit the space that they leave because they've attacked. We were doing exactly that against Newcastle And then when they had a man sent off, we suddenly had a situation where we needed to take the game to them and, you know, tactically we couldn't do it.

20:41So basically what Swedish Rumble was saying is as much as Deserby isn't going to be the guy and Mareska isn't going to be the guy, they're not vibes managers. They are coaches. So in finding a positive on De Zerbi or Maresca, if they were given the Man United job, they are coaches. So if they played Newcastle and they were playing counterattacking football and Newcastle went down to 10 men, they would know what to do because they are coaches. And I would concede that. I think what we've seen with Solskjaer and Carrick and even Amrim to a certain extent is that certain situations they couldn't deal with.

21:21They set a team up and then if it changes, they can't deal with it. I think, to be fair to a Deserbi or a Mareska, they probably are more coaches. But they're not good enough, in my opinion. Deserbi is not the level that Man United need to go at. I think you've got a line in the sand here. I really do. I think you've got a line in the sand. And the line is so much failure behind you. If you walk over that line, let's do something that makes a statement. Let's do something that everybody in the majority agrees with. And as I said to you yesterday, if you look at the last 13 years, the one managerial appointment that caught the imagination of the fan base and the media and our rivals was Mourinho.

22:13It's the only appointment that everybody universally agreed with and went, that's an incredible appointment. And it only went wrong because the board and the players stabbed him in the back. So if you want to learn anything from the last 13 years, Mourinho was the appointment that, as I said to you, the share price rocketed just on giving Mourinho the job. So what the hell are we doing messing around, thinking about De Zerbi, Glasner, Iriola, Carrick? What are we doing? These are not going to move mountains. They're not going to move rocks. They're just not big signings, whether they work or not, they're huge question marks.

22:55And it worries me that apparently United are going to run this patient, all-inclusive, best-in-class managerial recruitment process. And that sounds great, but they're already running it. And we're not being linked to managers that are decent. We're being linked to managers that are concerning. Lev says, you could say that we play a three at the back with Shaw. I think we do. I think we do play three at the back with Shaw because he doesn't go forward. Keel Robinson says, get in Nagalsman. Carrick goes to Spurs. If Nagalsman fails, we go to Carrick with more top flight experience. Michael says, shame on United to let go of Alvaro Carreras.

23:44Now he is the second most valuable left back in the market next to nino mendez need luke shaw replacements as michael we have done that before michael i mean it is frustrating of course it is and you know united making bad decisions is um you know a frequent occurrence as we know gerard pique was at man united went to barcelona and became one of the best center-backs in the world and um alvaro should have been given a chance at man united but you know we messed up and and and that was a different era as well wasn't it i mean i don't think in eos we've been here for that uh gold fridge says i wish these brilliant businessmen would realize that spending 30 million on enrique and his coaching staff is long-term cheaper than getting deservey on a free sacking him after eight months and starting all over again.

24:34Look, my honest, I suppose honesty is the best policy. My honest assessment of the situation is that if you gave Luis Enrique the job, he probably still would be here in two years because his reputation dictates it. Like you can't not respect somebody like that. He's won PSG's first Champions League. he's done very well at Barcelona I can't see a situation after six months where anybody would listen to a journalist or a fan saying get this fraud out of our club I just don't I don't think you do that I just don't think you do but I think if you have a Deserby or a Carrick or a Glasner and it's not going well after six months I think people just go this was a mistake I think United need it's a great point I think United need to bring somebody in with the reputation to last that first 18 months.

25:33I think United aren't going to win every game in the next 18 months. We're going to lose games. We're a long way behind a lot of teams, so we will lose games, and that will frustrate fans and the media. So you need somebody who's big enough to deal with that. Because sometimes the criticism's not fair. You could give the job to De Zerbi, you could lose three games in a row in November, and people would be going, he's not the guy. But he might lose those three games because we've got injuries and everybody's better than us. but reputationally, you know, I'd need a reputational coach. It amazes me that they're not considering that.

26:06Like they're putting a guy in place, if they give it to Zerbi or Carrick or Glasner, who hasn't got any money in the bank and it will go wrong. And when it goes wrong, the pressure will mount and people will start saying, get him out. Whereas if you bring a reputational coach, imagine if you gave the job to Ancelotti, he's just not going to get the sack stuff in the first 12 months. He won't. Even if we lose games, he'll have the experience to front it up, but he'll also have the respect. United need a manager that's going to be here for the next two or three years. Sir Jim Radcliffe tried to do it with Amrim.

26:41He tried to say it's a three-year project because he knows he needs a manager for three years. The problem with that is it was massively naive because Amrim was never going to be the guy that could hold off the press and the fans for three years. He couldn't do it for three months. So I think United know they need a manager for three years, but their stupidity is that they think they can just say this manager is going to be here for three years. But if you haven't got the reputation and you're not getting the results or the style of play, you won't hold up. You can't stop the callings. You can't stop the social media.

27:11You can't stop people going, this is not the guy. But you can stop that if you bring somebody in with reputation. you know controversial but i don't care about it being excited exciting as long as it works and sorry i've got something stuck in my throat

27:33so super chat from mr saunders says controversial but i don't care about being exciting my signings as long as it works and i would bank the league stage champion league games and concentrate on league next year to get back into the top five okay thank you very much

27:53and also we probably have better conversations about the future of this club on the United stand than they do in their strategic meetings keep up the great work Marx's Ena oh mate I mean I take that as a compliment and you all should but we are a few thousand people talking about something we're passionate about and we're educated on you go into that Man United boardroom you've got Omar Barada not a Man United fan doesn't even come across as much of a football person Wilcox not a Man United fan Sir Jim Radcliffe debatable Man United fan who clearly doesn't know anything about football I mean it's not even it's not even a prediction the conversation we're having here will be on a completely different level knowledge level than what you get in the boardroom and people will go oh what a load of rubbish they're just rich people doesn't mean they know what they're on about they're just money they've just got he's a billionaire from something nothing to do with football that's allowed him to get hold of our football club.

28:49Doesn't mean he knows more than the guy down the pub. He really and won't do. Miss Dark One says Enrique would be the dream manager. How about Xavi? I mean, I enjoyed Xavi's interview, what he was talking about, about Barcelona. I don't know why Xavi hasn't been linked to Manchester United. I think there's a very good coach there. His interview was fantastic, but he's not on the shortlist for Man United. Definitely not. Anyway, let's move on with some more news this morning because there is quite a bit to get into. One thing I did want to just discuss, I suppose while we're on the manager thing, because there's something about Bacola and there's something about Mason Mount I want to talk about as well.

29:29And also Wes Brown, interestingly, talking about the midfield. But it was, and I think I probably am better off going to the United Stand Twitter page.

29:43Yeah, I mean, this is where it sort of descends into a bit of PR from The Athletic because it says, Man United feel their faith in Carrick has been justified with Old Trafford's key decision makers pleased with the job he's done so far. However, despite being satisfied with him leading the team until the end of the season, the club insists it will not rush into naming a permanent successor to Amorim. I mean, that's all well and good. That just feels like it's a little bit like, yeah, we were right to go for Carrick. but you took two weeks to go for Carrick. So he clearly wasn't your first choice.

30:16So, you know, stepping out there and going, yeah, we made the right decision. If you knew what you were doing and you trusted it, he'd have been in for the Brighton game and we'd still be in the FA Cup. You took two weeks on Carrick because you were going to give it to Solskjaer. Own it. Second thing, people close to the dressing room have praised Carrick's approach on the training ground with players believed to be benefiting from shorter, more focused and higher intensity sessions. The quality of his coaching staff has also drawn praise, particularly Steve Holland, the former England assistant manager.

30:47By contrast, there were times when Amram's reliance on a group of coaches who were relatively inexperienced was questioned, although his loyalty to people he had worked with throughout his journey in Portuguese football was commendable. I mean, that, to me, is just pure PR bullshit, because I don't know what, like... Here's golf legend John Daly. Hell yeah, these wins are piling up faster than my divorces. I only spent on Moto, America's social casino. You know I've won a couple of majors. And on Moto, I've won majors, grands and epic jackpots on their classic Vegas slots with huge, huge bonus rounds.

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31:56We look like a team that's played 90 games, not 30. And tactically, it was bloody embarrassing. So it's a bit of a bad timed article, really. because you're basically saying that the shorter focused training is really bearing dividends and Steve Holland's coaching is great. But that Newcastle game was a culmination of a month of crap football with crap intensity, where we finally got what we deserved. And actually, in the last four games, we've won two, drawn one, lost one. The good performances were the first month where we seemed to have a lot of intensity and a lot of drive, and that has completely and utterly disappeared.

32:37So I think we need to, I think these journalists need to just say to the club next time they try and put that out, hold on, I know we are clients of yours, but we can't write shit. You can't keep telling us to put out there that the training's great and the coaching's great when actually we've all watched the last four games and the intensity is absolutely abysmal. I would hazard a guess that against Villa on Sunday we will see a Man United more akin to Manchester City and Arsenal. I would hazard a guess that this week Carrick will increase the training and increase the intensity because it's not working.

33:15the reduced training is not working the pampering of the players letting them go off on holiday and all that is not working they need a big short sharp kick up the arse and they need to start running again because this reduction in training is madness we're not playing enough games as it is to keep the match sharpness up and then we're reducing the training as well so let's not champion something that regardless of what you want in the future there's absolutely no doubt that anybody can see that the intensity that we had in the first two or three games has fallen off a cliff in the last month.

33:50So it's not going well. It's not going well at all. And tactically, we didn't have a bloody clue how to deal with playing against 10 men in a game we really should have won against Newcastle, but didn't deserve to win. So there's a hell of a... You can't glaze coaching and training when the reality isn't there. It's a PR piece if we're going to do that. It needs to improve. and look, the good positive thing is we've seen the intensity and we've seen what we can be with it. And Villa will be very, very tired next Sunday because they're playing on Thursday. So I expect to see a very different Manchester United side on Sunday and they need to get back to playing with more intensity, definitely, because it has dropped.

34:35De Zerbi is an underrated manager. He improved Brighton and Marseille massively. His press-baiting play style would suit Man United like a glove. He is the one, says Dark Angel. Mate I respect what you're saying but you sort of you sort of proved the point in the statement he wasn't brilliant at Brighton I'm sorry he wasn't brilliant at Brighton it was very hit and miss and at Marseille he did okay but Brighton and Marseille is not Man United and AC Milan is it it's a very different level and I think it's a huge I think even you, Dark Angel, would have to concede. It's not the most exciting managerial appointment and it's a huge, huge risk.

35:23What he is, is a coach that will kiss Wilcox's arse. The same as Carrick, the same as Glasner, the same as Iriola. They're all coaches. I personally think we need a manager, but we're not going to get a manager. Hi, Mark. Ria knew Bruno contract. Now that he's in his 30s, are you concerned he may decline rapidly over the next year or so and we get stuck with 400 grand a week problem, says Sweet Cheeks. No, because I don't think Bruno's ever really been about pace. He's always had a great fitness record. You look at people like Modric, who, OK, he's not playing in the Premier League, but he's still, you know, tearing it up in a Milan derby at, you know, 92.

36:03I know he's not 92, but look, yeah, I've got no concerns about Bruno Fernandes dropping off in the next three years. And what I do have concerns about is Bruno Fernandes jogging off in the summer and not coming back, because I think we will absolutely fall off a cliff. Jid says that the board should use that three week break to lock in next season's manager. But I doubt we have the capacity and brains to be that proactive. 100%, 100%. I think that we play Villa on Sunday and then we play Bournemouth on the Friday. and then it's the international break, I think. I think that's right. I think I'm sort of losing my...

36:51March seems long and then really short. So I think that's right. I think we've got two games left in March. Yes, we have. So we've got Villa on Sunday and then we've got Bournemouth on the Friday and then we play Leeds after the international break. So there is a three-week period there. Now, any club that hasn't got a manager is using that three-week period to interview coaches. Absolutely. And we shouldn't get overexcited about that. Like, if they interviewed Zerbi, it doesn't mean he's getting the job. Remember, United actually did do this with... When Ranjik was Interim, we interviewed in that international break Pochettino and Ten Hag.

37:41And I think we interviewed somebody else as well. I reckon we interviewed three people. So we can't take a backward step. United's never been particularly well run in the last 10 years, if we're being completely honest. But that was a clever idea. We had that international break and we interviewed Pochettino and Ten Hag. Ten Hag was at Ajax at the time so you're absolutely spot on we should use that period we should also use that period to be getting close to signing some players as well because I was told yesterday that Chelsea and Man City are close to signing a couple of players

38:25Leipzig have just signed that Rocco Rees from Mönchengladbach as well it's basically nearly done for the summer so you can get deals done as well and I just hope United aren't going to go, let's dither to the end of the season and see what happens because if they do that, it means they're waiting to give it to Carrick. If we're not interviewing people in this international break, we're trying to give it to Carrick and I said that yesterday, I got told that Wilcox wants to give it to Carrick anyway. So if we don't interview people between now and the end of May, we're trying to give it to Carrick.

38:55We're trying to wait for him to get the Champions League football and give it to him and that would be shocking because you should interview other people. And some people aren't, you know, you could interview Pochettino, you could interview Deserby, you can actually interview some people quite legally. Patrick Lynch says, reputation insulates any manager from the media who are the main culprits for creating the pressure cooker. Ten Hag and Amrim had to start the last two seasons almost perfectly because the media had the pressure on from the start. That's exactly what I'm talking about, Patrick.

39:26If you give the job to De Zerbi or Glasner or Carrick, they will be under scrutiny from day one because they have no reputation. If you give the job to Ancelotti or Enrique, then the media will respect them and give them time. It's an absolute open goal for Man United. Why put your manager under pressure from day one? Bring in a manager that is not only good, but has the reputation that shields them for a bit as well and gives you time. The thing is, if you're Jason Wilcox, it gives you time as well. If I employ Luis Enrique, I get time as Jason Wilcox. Because Luis Enrique will be given time by the media and the fans because of his reputation, which gives me time as a director of football.

40:09If I give the job to De Zerbi, they're going to be on him straight away, which means they're going to be on me. It's an open goal, but I don't know whether they're intelligent enough to do it at times. I really don't. Luis Enrique won Champions League at Barcelona and PSG. deserve became sixth that's the difference says daso exactly just don't take risks don't take risks um a couple of other bits i want to talk to you about this morning so um one about mason mount one about barcola i just first and foremost we're gonna obviously have to accept that united will get linked to a lot of players that were not actually signing so um yeah i would certainly I'd be aware of that.

40:57And...

41:05I'm losing my way. There's so much this morning. Okay, Mason Mount has no plans to leave Manchester United this summer. The midfielder believes he still has more to prove at Old Trafford and is focused on staying fit and available for the rest of the season. The source is not the best. It's Pete O 'Rourke, Sports P, Football Footy Insider. Sometimes I'll do this, right? I don't think that that's well-sourced information or a brilliant bit of journalism, but it's true. And I'll give it credit because it is true. Because Mason Mount has got no plans to leave Manchester United this summer. I think we need to just kill that story dead.

41:40Like Mason Mount to Villa or Mason Mount to Fulham or Mason Mount wants to leave to play football or United are going to sell Mason Mount. I don't even feel like this is an update but it is an update Mason Mount has a very good contract at Manchester United that has got years to run he's on 250 grand a week that's a million pounds a month that's 12 million pounds a year and he's about to get a pay increase because of the Champions League he's never going to get even half of that anywhere else if you're Mason Mount and you've got two or three years on 12 million a year and you say to yourself I want to leave to play football, but you know if you go to Fulham or Villa, you'll half your age and you still won't play.

42:26Why would you do it? Understand the situation. Mason Mount has a contract at Man United on huge money. And the reason he's not playing is because he's broken. He's injured. Going to Fulham will not change the fact that he will keep getting injured. and he'll be sat at Fulham for half of the season on the treatment table on half the money. Think about you. Would you do that? Would you go, oh, fed up at Man United not being fit on a 250 grand a week and he will be fed up. Why don't I go to Fulham and not be fit there on half the money? He's not, the only reason he's not playing is because he's injured.

43:09He's not fit and not being picked like Xerxes. He's not fit. he's injured. So Mason Mount is not going to go, the only reason he'd be doing that is moral. Morally, this is wrong that I'm being paid loads of money by Man United, but they gave me the contract. So he's not going anywhere. Absolutely not. Because he'd still be injured everywhere else. So you may as well sit and take your money here in the situation that I'm sure is crap for him because he's never fit. And of course, from Man United's point of view, even if Mount wanted to go, and even if they wanted to sell, there ain't a club stupid enough out there to give him the money he's on and give us a transfer fee.

43:50So Mason Mount's, I think Mason Mount's almost becoming Phil Jones. You've just got to run the contract down. You can't remove a player like that. You just can't remove a player like that. It's pointless. I'm terrified because Marlowe's done a super chat. I'm almost going to hide here. He's going for the hat trick, everybody. If you know, you know. So Marlowe is a legend of the chat and he does talk sense most of the time. But the last two days, he's had a couple of stinkers. We think he's been hacked. Here we go. The leadership proclaims their admiration for the Chelsea model, but they act like Spurs were overachieving with this squad.

44:31And with a couple of bad decisions, we could find ourselves in Spurs' shoes. He's back. He's back. who knows what happened at the weekend but Marlowe's back that's actually that's more like it mate that's what we expect from you Marlowe's back with a good take no you're right I think first and foremost let's get Champions League football and then this season becomes something that we can take from it have we overachieved this season? I don't know that you could describe this season as overachieving but I get what you mean the midfield we're lucky to be where we are I think is the best thing I would say a lot of teams that I thought would be better than us have failed Newcastle, Liverpool, Chelsea and they've allowed us to be in a position where with two or three months to go they're tired we're playing one game a week we should be able to accumulate the points as I've said we can technically win one lose win one lose one for the rest of the season and I still think we get top four I mean, that might be an absolutely terrible take, but I feel like I'm right.

45:45Yeah, so we've got 51 points and we've got nine games to go. So win five, lose four, 66 points. I think 66 points gets you top five. Yeah. So yeah, 66 will get us top five. so we could win for we could lose four win five and we won't lose four so we will get off we will get it we definitely will uh amit says typical mercenary fc settings for less than standards thank you very much pal uh the right manager is also uh a gateway to better players uh says you know exactly um uh just as well uh bakola i mean i'll throw this in but um it's really not that But, I mean, Ekrem Kuna says that Barcola has been added to Man United's FC shortlist for the left wing position.

46:39The PSG winger is viewed as a standout option, with United considering him as a potential replacement if Rashford completes a move to Barcelona. I mean, I think, I don't know. I don't know. We will get linked to a lot of players. He is a decent player. I feel like PSG might cash in on him but he would be very expensive and I think it's very unrealistic if I'm being completely honest but I thought I'd bring that one in for you as well as I said a lot of people are saying no chance I said on the show last night if you didn't watch it I'd take a left back over a left winger anyway because Kunya and Dorgue can play left wing but Luke Shaw can't play left back so if I've got £70 million to spend on a winger I'd spend it on a left back I think a left back is more important than a winger and also people say well Dorgou can play left back but Dorgou's best football has been on the wing I don't know that defensively he's ready to be our left back yet so I'd sign a left back We should be getting Bruno Gimérez and Edison says Ajith Well Bruno G has been recommended by Casemiro spoke about that over the weekend I don't think United will go for a 29 year old I'd be very surprised and Robinson, Anthony Robinson's a good player Sheehan but he's 28.

47:57United have got to break that 26. That is there. That is there. Like since Ineos have come in, they've drawn that line in the sand and said we're not buying players over 26. So until that changes, we as fans, unfortunately, can't really get that excited about players who are over 26 because they won't do it. I think Ryerson from Dortmund would be a very good right back as well, but we won't do it because he's over 26. Thanks everyone for watching. stay safe take care I will speak to you on the next one there was a little morning show for you this morning as well as a bonus if you haven't seen it a little 7am drop check out last night's show as well if you haven't seen that it was very very good brilliant show this morning thanks everyone for watching enjoy the start to your week and I'll speak to you on in a bit take care

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