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0:38There's nothing like Platinum. Learn more at AmericanExpress.com slash explore dash Platinum. Enrollment requirements, monthly and other limits in terms apply. Hello, everybody. Welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge and this is your latest Manchester United news and transfer news. We've got a new deal that's just been announced in the last few minutes. Harry Maguire. I think it's a big mistake. I think it lacks ambition. I like Maguire, but I'll tell you why in a minute. We've got a wild take from Patrice Evra about why Michael Carrick should get the job. It's not quite as bad as licking a chicken, but it's wild in my opinion.

1:11Also, we've got, well, Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes on who they keep and sell. They're getting rid of Dorgoo and they're getting rid of Yoro. I mean, we'll talk about that and we won't wait till tomorrow. And also, we're going to be talking about a big story coming out about Elliot Anderson this morning where the price is basically agreed. is it a price that you would agree with? We're talking£100 million. I've seen some people saying, don't spend£100 million on Anderson. You could get a couple of players for 50. Is that not part of the problem sometimes? I know we need quantity, but surely we go with quality as well.

1:44And a load of other bits to get into this morning as well. Thank you very much. Thanks for all the birthday messages, by the way. Appreciate that. And thanks everybody who watched Baller League last night. I'm exhausted. I don't know how Mourinho does it every week. That style of football isn't really my style. It's one we had to do. I'm thinking Inter Barcelona vibes from all those years. We absolutely were brilliant the way we organised it out to shut a team out to zero in Borla League. Six aside for half an hour. Game changes is incredible. So thanks, everyone who's following our journey. I told you it would be a journey.

2:15Get jump on it. The real life career mode. Brilliant. Yeah. Thank you very much. OK, let's get into the show. So look, some breaking news coming out from Manchester United this morning. They did drop a picture of a contract on a sunny day in Manchester. And I think we knew straight away it was going to be Maynou or Maguire. I think Maynou probably will happen this week. I think United are doing what they normally do, which is instead of interviewing managers or getting players to sign for us, they start dropping new contracts like a new signing. So this morning, the first day back to work after four days off and an international break, United aren't interviewing a coach.

2:54They're not signing a player. They're giving out a new contract to a 34-year-old who probably should be being moved on this summer. Now, I love Harry Maguire. That's not a statement you would have heard from me a few years ago, but I like what he represents. I like the fact that he's a steady defender. I do like Maguire. But you know what? In the aspirations of trying to be a team that's going to challenge the top clubs in Europe and England, I don't actually believe that keeping Harry Maguire at this football club shows any sign of ambition at all. I think it's a stopgap. I think it's papering the cracks.

3:28If you know anything about Harry, he will want to play. He will want to play. He will not want to sit on the bench and I respect that. So you're telling me that next season in a back four, Maguire's starting for Manchester United. We've already seen against Bournemouth where he got sent off. We've already seen it in the last few weeks that those vulnerabilities around pace and age are there and Man Utd are there dropping a year contract with the option of another year. So this could be two years of Maguire at 33 playing in a back four. I'm sorry, this doesn't show me ambition. This shows me Ineos going, let's give Harry a pay cut and keep him for a year instead of letting him go and buying another centre-back.

4:13And that's what it is. And I want to be very, very clear here because it's a great day for Harry Maguire and his family and his fans. And it's got nothing to do with Harry Maguire. He deserves to go to the World Cup with England. But this should have been his swan song. I'm not saying drop Maguire-y shit. I agree. De Ligt's injured. Martinez has been injured. He's the number one centre-back at the moment. But next season's a new season. Next season, we're going to be in the Champions League. We're going to be trying to finish in the top five, and we're going to be playing with a back four. And we're going to be using Harry Maguire going into his 34th year after a World Cup.

4:48And I'm sort of like, on the one hand, we're building a new stadium and we're going to be great. And on the other hand, they're doing exactly what the Glazers have done for years, which is not move players on. Pep Guardiola, Manchester City, they moved De Bruyne on. They moved Kyle Walker on. They move on. Bernardo Silva's going this year. They've moved David Silva on. They get rid of players at the right time. Man United just keep them like in a bloody museum. And I'm sorry, I'm not going to cheer and shout at Man United for this deal. I'm happy for Maguire. I am happy for him. You know, his comments about Man United and he only wanted to stay here.

5:22Absolutely get that. There's two separate sides here. I'm really happy for Harry Maguire. It's nothing against him. But from a club perspective, we're not a bloody charity. We should be building a team capable of building towards winning Premier League titles in the Champions League. For me, this is just a stopgap. Nobody can convince me this is for the future. This is just a stopgap. This is like, let's keep him here for another year and solve the problem in the future. And that's why we fail, because we've got idiots in charge who just don't get what we're trying to do. And you've got Man City who would have moved him on.

5:55They'd have moved him on. And I've said it before, if Casemiro wasn't out of contract, we'd keep him. We'd be keeping Casemiro, and that's a mistake as well. An experience of what? What is the experience that we're keeping at the football club? The experience of what? Winning the occasional Carabao Cup? Getting into the Champions League once every two years? what experience of what so no I'm happy for Harry but from a club point of view I think it lacks ambition again um let's move on um lots to talk about this morning lots of people getting chats in as well uh let's talk about this Elliot Anderson story because this came out last night from Pletigold who is Florian Plettenberger who I believe is if you've got your tier ones of Ornstein and Romano I would put Pletigold into tier two um which is not a bad place to be um I personally think, you know, that, you know, he's pretty good around transfers.

6:48He says Nottingham Forest expect Manchester United to remain serious contenders for Elliot Anderson. Manchester City are interested too, but all currently focusing on extending Rodri's contract. No direct contact yet. Forest value Anderson at£100 to£120 million. pounds. Now, this has sparked, well, look, basically what Forrest are doing is they're drawing a line in the sand saying that a hundred million pounds is the fee that they want. Let's talk. And they know that they're in a very strong position with both Manchester clubs wanting this player. It was very interesting, actually. Actually, I'll bring that in a minute.

7:31I think this just comes down to what we were talking about the other day. And I'm happy to run the poll again, would you pay£100 million? Well, I will run it again because I genuinely want to know what you think. Would you pay£100 million? Basically, if Elliot Anderson said, I want to sign for you, but Manchester City have offered£100 million. If you offer£100 million, I will sign for Manchester United. So there's no negotiations. Man City have offered£100 million pounds, which they might do. They might do that. And what people do not realise is that we have heard talk about the Anderson price being less.

8:12We have heard that it might be 80. We've heard that it might be 70, right? And I think there's a few people, maybe Man United included, going, well, it won't be 100 million. Manchester City in January gave Crystal Palace 20 million, was it 20 million or 25 million for a player that's free in the summer. Liverpool and Arsenal and Chelsea were waiting until the summer to get him for free and then give him big wages. Man City gave him 300 grand a week and then gave Palace 20 million or 25 million for a player that's got four months left on his contract. So even if there is something in there that can get the Anderson price down to 80, I still think Man City might just go, sod it, there's 100.

8:55So we might have to give£100 million for Elliot Anderson. So the question is, if Man City have offered£100 million, which they may well do, do Man United offer£100 if it gets Anderson? And the answer to that question to me is quite simply yes. I don't know why the answer would be no because again if you go back to the Maguire contract does that show ambition or are we treading water if we don't spend£100 million and he goes to Manchester City are we showing ambition or are we just treading water Manchester City gave West Ham £100 million for Declan Rice Chelsea gave Benfica £100 million for Enzo Fernandes and Brighton£100 million for Caicedo We can no longer, we don't have to like it, but we can no longer sit there and go, well, he's not worth it.

9:47We shouldn't pay it. We shouldn't bow down to these silly demands. This is the going rate for a top class midfielder. And if you haven't watched the video I put up last night, which dispels every myth about Elliot Anderson, this player is worth it. you don't have to pay it. You don't have to go for him. But the drop off from Elliot, and you need to watch that video last night because basically I was going through every area, forward passing, tackling, attacking, interceptions. He is above people that we're looking at if we don't get him. People like Adam Wharton don't even figure in the top 10 and he's in it.

10:25He's in the top five. Sometimes he's the top. So if you want the best prospects, best available player in the midfield this summer, then you have to make a statement. Remedon says£80 million max. I'm glad you're not in charge of the finances, mate, because when they say 85 and you say that's it and you walk away, who are you going to buy us? And that's the thing. There are too many accountants in our fan base. And I understand if you're paying£100 million for bloody Branthwaite, but you're paying£100 million for somebody that Man City will pay£100 million for. I completely agree. sometimes you've got to say don't pay that when you're the only horse in the race and they're doubling the value but if Man City are willing to bid£100 million and we just go no it's too much it says exactly what it says on the tin we lack ambition so for me you've got to if that's the fee to get him you've got to get him because we're not Man City we're not Arsenal we're not really Liverpool we are a team that has an amazing name and an amazing history but factually if we weren't called Manchester United, we may as well be called Tottenham because we are not a team that is challenging for big trophies and we are not a team that's consistently in the Champions League.

11:38And last season, we were in the bottom half and we lost the Europa League final and we have finished outside of the top four a lot. So if we want to be there, there's a direct correlation, in my opinion, to buying good players. And some of our fans still want to be accountants and go, we shouldn't pay it. Well, we won't be there then, will we? And then you'll be moaning about sacking the next manager and you'll be saying glazes out for a few weeks a year and you'll be saying oh my god we've got a crap director of football i think sometimes you've got to you've got to look at the player you're going for and go how important is that who else is looking for him we need to go and get him and the price for me 100 million pounds is a lot of money but i think if i'm being fair if there unless there's a release clause in there which we've not heard about or there's something in there if they get relegated which i don't think they will are Nottingham Forest wrong to ask for£100 million for Elliot Anderson considering the season he's had, the fact that he's a starter for England, the fact that he's in the top two or three for every key indicator for a midfielder this season and the fact that Manchester City would happily pay north of£90 million for him.

12:43You either write that cheque or you don't. And if we're not going to... I'll tell you what, if we're not willing to write that cheque, what have we been doing for eight months telling the world that he's our top priority? I mean, from basically the transfer window closing in August last year to today, we've never heard anything else other than Elliot Anderson is Man United's priority. Are you going to tell me they're suddenly going to go, well, we didn't realise it was that much. We're leaving. You know, it's very, very obvious that it's going to be a lot of money, isn't it? So I would pay it.

13:12Definitely, definitely, definitely. Ben Jacobs said it wouldn't be higher than 65 million as can. He did say something about that. You're absolutely right. But we'll have to wait and see. We'll have to wait and see. Lee Cape Down says, honest truth for Anderson, I'd pay 110. JSD says, I'd walk away. We need quantity. Our squad is in thin, would rather get Stiller and Gomez. Instead, we could get three players for that price. I think this is an interesting conversation. Do you spend£100 million on Elliot Anderson or do you spend£100 million on Giao Gomez and Scott or Belaber and Giao Gomez? If they're both not good enough, you've just wasted£100 million.

13:55that's the balancing act. But Man United should be buying quantity anyway. If they've not factored in the price of Elliot Anderson, they can't just suddenly... As I said a couple of minutes ago, if they go, oh, we really want him, but we didn't realise he was going to be that much, that's a cop-out to me. Syndicate says, I still believe Stilla could be our main target for the midfield. We should already have that deal done, to be honest, says Syndicate. Well, look, I think with regards to Stilla, it sort of does come down to what and how powerful Favelle is this summer. Because Stilla will be massive on Favelle's transfer list.

14:35And I also think that if we could get Nagelsmann, then I think he would probably look at him as well, having had him in the England squad. I'm not so sure that's going to happen, though, because, I mean, look, I'll bring this in here. I've got to bring this in maybe it's more of an 8 o 'clock show thing but we've got plenty for the 8 o 'clock show tonight so Patrice Evra it's not as bad as licking a raw chicken but this to me is let me just say this we're going to talk about what Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt have said about who they'd sell and keep and maybe I should do a video on that this week but it's wild some of the stuff, they'd sell Yoro right okay, we'll get into that in a minute but we've spoken about what Rooney wants, Carrick Ryan Giggs wants Carrick Nicky Book wants Scott Carrick Scholes I think wants Carrick Roy Keane to be fair doesn't want Carrick under any circumstances which I think is too far the other way I think Neville at the moment is not quite Carrick but I think any minute that he's going to say Carrick he's probably just waiting for football to come back on Sky we've got Everett I'm about to tell you about let me just say this because I don't know where you are, right?

15:50I do respect our ex-players I do respect our ex-players They've earned that respect for what they did on the pitch And God we could do with the likes of Evra and Neville and Scholes And Giggs and Rooney now On the pitch Off the pitch I think their opinion is No better than Marvin In our chat who I respect But disagree with a lot I genuinely think The ex-player problem Is they are stuck and look what a place to live you know your success of your career was being one of the greats at Man United winning things but I actually think that that's their weakness because I think they're so obsessed with what they did and what they think should happen at Man United that they continually come up with these terrible takes about I'd give it to Carrick.

16:48He's winning games, so I'd give it to Carrick. He knows what Magnunay is all about. He knows about the players. I'd give it to Carrick. And I just think that you don't get any substance to it. So you're giving it, can I just ask you, you're giving it to Carrick today? Yeah. You're not interviewing anybody else? No. So you're actually just going to give an interim manager the job without running a recruitment process? Yeah, because he gets it. he knows what United's all about. Yeah, this is why Sir Alex Ferguson gave it to David Moyes, isn't it? You know, you're great people with great history, but I don't think you're tapped into what the club needs and what the club is today because it's not that club anymore.

17:30Giving it to an ex-player who is a United great, I don't think that's the right thing to do in 2026. And I think so many of our players, our ex-players, are locked into that world that doesn't exist anymore. I think they're like, we need to go back and do what we used to do. I don't agree with that. I don't agree with that. I really do not think you can go back anymore. I want us to go back, but I don't. I don't think you can go, let's get a guy in who knows what Man United's all about from the good old days. Liverpool wasted 30 years doing this in different ways. Liverpool got back because they brought a guy in from the Bundesliga who'd never played for Liverpool, who'd never managed in the Premier League, who they profiled as being the right character with the right morals and the right brand of football to rebuild Liverpool Football Club.

18:22And now he's a Liverpool great and his name is Jurgen Klopp. Man United, our ex-players community, are just obsessed with what they did and let's try and do it again. And it won't work. The models we need to look at are Man City who looked at our model and brought it into the modern times. The model we need to look at is Liverpool under Klopp, who looked at under our model, and instead of getting Sir Alex Ferguson out of Scotland, who'd never played for Man United either, they got Jurgen Klopp out of Dortmund. If we want to go back and follow our model, we never used a current player to make Man United great.

19:02We used Sir Alex Ferguson, who was managing Aberdeen in Scotland. and we character profiled him and said, that's the guy that's going to rebuild Man United. He had no connection to Man United at all. But we shouldn't be going back to the past anyway. We should be looking at what Liverpool did with Klopp and I think that is the model Man United need to follow. We need to find the guy with the right style of football, the right mentality, the right morals that fit with what we want to do, bring them in from outside and let them build the club. And that is not, let's get a player from the past who knows the United way that's not what we need to do in my opinion but look that was a bit of a long winded precursor to what I think is a wild statement by Patrice Evra some of you will like it, he says I'm living in the present Carrick needs to qualify for the Champions League some people say he doesn't have the experience but we did that in the past we bring Jose, we bring Van Gaal, we bring Amorim and it did not work.

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20:38Wow. So you're saying that we don't need experience because it didn't work in the past. We brought Jose Van Gaal Amrim and it didn't work. Now it is working within experience. I think this is wild. I think this is absolutely wild because what he's basically saying is, in my interpretation is we've brought experience and in the past that doesn't work it is working at the moment so let's go with this I mean we're playing one game a week Patrice everyone else is falling apart around us because they're playing a lot of football you've had some good results and it's an interim and we've got a squad full of light switch players who will turn the light on when it's an interim it will go straight off next season and then you're stuck with an inexperienced coach playing twice a week and the club's wasted a load of money on the summer on him right?

21:31In my opinion, that could happen. But Jose Mourinho didn't work. Jose Mourinho won us the Europa League, the Carabao Cup, took us to second place and got sacked because the board and the players stabbed him in the back. I think Jose Mourinho's period at Man United is the best we've had since Alex Ferguson retired. So I wouldn't say Mourinho didn't work, it worked to a point where he got stabbed in the back by the problems that the Glazers created in creating player power. With regards to Van Gaal, I mean, it didn't work, but he won an FA Cup. You could say with Ten Hag it didn't work, but he won a Carabao Cup and an FA Cup.

22:15I wouldn't say it didn't work with Ten Hag, Mourinho and Van Gaal. In the context of the last 13 years they're they're the most successful periods of our last 13 years um i don't know why he brings amram into it because amram wasn't experienced so you know he says we bring we carry doesn't have experience but we've done that in the past amram didn't have experience so i don't know what that's all about but he also doesn't mention oligone solskjaer who had no experience and was um a complete waste of time so this is what i mean about ex-players like they have a loyalty to their previous teammates.

22:52I think with Oli, you had Keane and Neville who played with Oli and they loved Oli and they wouldn't say a bad word about Oli. We're now getting the next wave. We're now with the 08 team. You've got Evra, you've got Rooney. You know, we love Carrick because it's their mate. And we're just, in my opinion, we're walking straight into the same mistake we did with Oli. We have the ex-players of Oli, Oli, Oli, Oli. and now we've got Ever and Rooney who are his mates going, Carrick, Carrick, Carrick, Carrick. He doesn't need experience. He knows the club. Oh my God. I'm more than happy to have a debate with anyone in this chat or anybody outside.

23:29He doesn't need experience because he played for the club. Well, let's talk about experience about the club. Tell me an ex-player at Man United that's come in and done well at Man United. Tell me an ex-player at Liverpool that came in and did well. Because it does experience the United way. Our history is not bringing in an ex-player as an interim And taking over the world We've never done that Never done that So I think that what we need to do Is stop listening to these ex-players And their sentimentality And start thinking about What clubs in the modern day have been successful From a low bar And are now succeeding And the number one for me Is what Liverpool did with Klopp And there is somebody out there that we could go and try and do that with, but I'm not here to push that.

24:18Okay, right. Let me get into some of your comments because a lot of people putting stuff in this morning and I feel I'm neglecting you. And I want to get into this incredible... I mean, look, it's a great format. I think we started it, actually. Oh, no, no, no. We're not going to claim that. Sell or keep. I will do a video on it, but Skulls and Butt have done it. And, I mean, the X-Player community, welcome to the world of influencers. You can't make everybody happy. But Goldbridge, Harren Ball on a Monday night. Lovely stuff, says Mordu. I mean, I feel like I need to do a video on last night.

24:53I mean, I've got to be honest. If you haven't watched it, I mean, it goes against everything Goldbridge Ball is meant to be. But it does show my tactical flexibility to go and win a game. You know, and there was only one way we were going to win that game last night and we needed to basically lock it down. And we did. and ultimately I think that's the sign of a good coach because Sir Alex Ferguson used to do that away in the Champions League. He'd lock it down, take a draw and then win the home games. And, you know, it was David against Goliath as well. I mean, if Southampton are playing Arsenal at the weekend, should they open up and play open like they do in the Championship or should they be compact and organised, you know?

25:34It doesn't sit right with me morally in relation to I know how I want football to be played. but if I'd tried to do that last night I think we'd have got beat so you know you've got to be adaptable sometimes haven't you happy birthday Mark wishing you a day filled with happiness and may all your birthday wishes come true also up the gold devils says Max thank you very much for your super chat and your message Brian McDonald has gifted a membership thank you very much Brian Jem says happy birthday hope you have a great day what a way to start off with a gold devils win over Prime Seb was brilliant too says Jem's yeah he's knackered now he loved it though thank you Jem's James Maz Rawawi says Does KSI hate you now after you Southgate-ed him?

26:12I mean, mate, I don't know what went wrong at full time. You know, I gave the gong. I celebrated for a few seconds and then respect kicked in. I'm walking around shaking everyone's hands. And the next thing, you're in the middle of a bloody fight. I don't even know what it was about. Forza gifted five memberships. Thank you very much. Ross has gifted a membership as well. People are gifting memberships this morning. Ray Carl, legends, says happy birthday, mate. Many more. Thank you, Ray. hope you're doing well Sam says happy birthday what a win last night now for Cobby to sign his deal says Sam I think he will I think he will sign it this week I think that will be probably in the next 48 hours Vib says happy birthday you are one of the most entertaining people online also please put your name in the hat for the United manager job after last night says Vib and Daniel Thompson says hi Mark and United stand hope you're well happy birthday thank you for everything you've done and do we're proud to be fans of you Seb and all your family are proud most of all your grandad he's most proud have a great day and enjoy yourself thank you dan your lovely message i appreciate that one of the nicest messages i've had today so thank you um tubby says do you back our chances to secure anderson over city from what you've heard and feel uh well 62 of you would um sign anderson for 100 million pounds i'm with you on that answering the question um i've always felt that there is a chance of anderson coming to manchester united and it mainly comes from ben Jacobs updates I just feel that if we hadn't had what Ben Jacobs had said I'd say why would he sign for Man United I mean Man United next season could be a shit show I mean if we get the manager wrong we get the transfers wrong we're doubling up on games you're keeping people like Maguire around who's going to be playing at centre-back a lot and with respect to Harry that to me is not moving forward I think next season could be a right shit show if you're Elliot Anderson you've got to have an agent that's going to predict that and why would you sign yourself into that when you can go to Man City where I think they'll win the league next year so I would say he's going to Man City because it's the logical intelligent thing to do but I just have this feeling from some of the updates that Ben Jacobs has given that we've got a chance um Harry says can you please put your name forward to be the new United manager of class last night thank you pal I still believe Angelo Stiller done that one from Syndicate okay I'm catching up now this is good Bailey Darley thanks for your stupid chat happy birthday hope you have a great day thank you I will be on the 8 o 'clock show tonight because I'm not it's a Tuesday I was busy last night so a little bit of things happening today but mainly I've got some stuff going on towards the end of the week so yeah when you get to my age it's not an event it's just a it's just a number which is what you should treat your age as anyway I think when you're younger you hit the big ones the 18th the 21st maybe your 30th but I think you get to a certain age where, you know, every year is a gift.

29:06And when you get to that mentality, it becomes less of an event and more of a, um, a smile really, because I, there's, there's so many people who I care about that, that, that aren't here anymore at my age, you know, and that's quite, uh, I know this is a football show, but that's quite, um, that's quite humbling, I suppose. Well, it is in the sense that nobody, sometimes I think you think about, oh, will I live till 80 or 90? I think, you know, you get to a point where you sort of like, you never know what tomorrow is going to bring and you should just not stress about hitting 40 or 30 or 25 or whatever.

29:43Don't stress about it. It's, you never know how long you've got. Can we get a video comparing Anderson and the other 100 million centre midfielders in the Premier League like Rice and Enzo, for example, says Dinham? Well, we sort of have Dinham. It's on the show from last night because what I did on the Elliot Anderson video last night was basically tell you where he is this season comparable to every other midfielder on six really key areas, interceptions, defensive actions, attacking actions, passing, forward passing, interceptions. And he's above Declan Rice and he's above Enzo Fernandes and he's above Caicedo.

30:22So he ranks above them all. Happy birthday. Hope you have a great day, says Bailey. thank you very much also Kizale says happy birthday as well appreciate that Rob always united with a very generous super chat says have a birthday pint on me thank you pal and the nooch says the closest the former player has won anything significant wasn't even at our club it was De Matteo winning the Champions League with Chelsea I think this is a great point I think that ex-players are very vocal I like that they are legends for a reason but I just don't think being an ex-footballer necessarily makes your opinion better than fans.

31:00I mean, look at what Rio Ferdinand said about Anderson. Bruno Gomérez and Tonali wouldn't be my first choice midfield signings this summer. It's Elliot Anderson. He's 23. Gomérez is 28. Tonali's 25, soon to be 26. So that counts a lot for me. I want a young, hungry players in my squad. That terrifies me from Ferdinand. I am starting to call this out. the club and Ferdinand, I reckon Marlowe said it, so I'll give him credit, I reckon it's almost PR now a lot of the stuff he says it's almost like, but that's a parameter for Man United so this is an ex-player again, getting involved in stupidity around it's important to me that he's 23 and Tenali's 26 I want a young hungry I want young hungry players in my squad and yet this is a guy that played in a team that was very successful that had experienced players to help him when Rio Ferdinand came to Manchester United there was gigs there was Keane there was Scholes there was experience and he who is an ex-player of Man United is going I don't want a 25 year old I don't want a 28 year old I want a 23 year old because I want young hungry players who don't have any experience which is the Chelsea problem so again an ex-player completely and utterly letting their mouth run away without thinking.

32:23And this is the thing. Legends as players, but their opinions don't matter more than yours, in my opinion. He said, but I do agree with him about Anderson, but not on the age thing. I think that's just wild. He says, I think Anderson would compliment Maynou because I think Maynou is going to be one of the main players in the team now and we're going to build around him. And I think Anderson compliments him. I think Anderson's better than Maynou, Rio. And I think by saying that we're going to build a team around Maynou, you're just going to get people's backup. I like Maynou, but there is no justification that we're building a team around a player that's not actually playing amazing at the moment.

32:59I think Anderson becomes the main player and Maynou compliments him, is where I would say. He says, Anderson's got mobility and energy to get around the park. We need those legs and he wins the ball. He's more competitive than Tonali and Camares. And again, he doesn't watch football, does he? Elliot Anderson is more competitive and has more legs than Bruno Gimérez and Tonali I mean I'm not saying he doesn't technically maybe have a little bit more but Bruno Gimérez and Tonali are two of the most competitive midfielders in Europe and it's again I just I just think like does he get a phone call from Man United saying Rio do you want an interview with Sesco yeah right we need you to say buying young players is good.

33:47We don't want people over 25. And also, we need you to kill the Tonali and Brimino Gamera story. So basically say there are a couple of snails and Anderson's much better than them and he's more aggressive. I'm on it. I'm on it. I'm on it. I mean, I'm on it. It just feels like, I don't know. Elliot Anderson over Tonali, okay, fine. But the justification behind it is just, again, wild, wild. I want to get into this I don't know who it is but we thought about Aberdeen's manager says Bradley and I've watched one press conference since Carrick took charge boring his football is counter-attack as well says Dazzo the United Way is a philosophy not a methodological framework we need to change with the times also happy birthday says Paul hi congratulations on Baller League says Bailey hope we get a new manager and we get some transfer players in the summer Luke says Should we be concerned that there doesn't seem to be a solid profile of midfielder we're looking for?

34:44We seem to be linked to any midfielder that wants to leave their club. 85 % of them feel like spin from agents, love from Australia. You know what? I think that is a clever point. I mean, are we profiling midfielders or are we just throwing names out there? Because Tenali is different to Wharton. Still is different to Anderson. But Labour is very different to Giao Gomez. like we're meant to be we're meant to be building a midfield we're meant to be replacing Casemiro I think what is the profile of midfielder that we're actually looking for because if you wanted to replace Rodri at Manchester City you wouldn't go for Beléber you wouldn't go for João Gomez and you probably wouldn't go for Stila but you might go for Anderson and Wharton and see something in them but United seems to be throwing loads of names in and sometimes like you're right what profile are we actually looking for Kizile says with Edison going to Atletico Madrid he would have been a decent buy we need Fernandes or Gomez and one of Tonali Gamera's Anderson should be a must says Kizile I thought Scholes and Butt was AI at first they're dinosaurs says Andron I'd rather have our ex-Brazilian Anderson than Elliot Anderson bloke is living off one clip of him dribbling in an England club says matey boy I mean he's he definitely not uh we're Manchester United we should do it realistically we don't have ambitious owners I don't see them spending more than 80 on a single player the owners have systematically lowered the standards as Dayan do you think player power is coming back at Man United I mean that that's a that's wild from me do you think player power is coming back to Man United I thought under Amerim we were removing player power I don't think Rashford leaving Man United has ever been discussed properly I mean I think that was huge I don't think I never thought Rashford would go Ganacho gone um Sancho got rid of like I think we were really doing good work in removing player power um do you think it's coming back now under Carrick I don't have the answer I don't have the answer I just I think I might I think I might have read it somewhere last night um and and player power isn't just like a negative thing it's like you become very reliant on certain players instead of actually building a system and i think the way we've played i think on the pitch player power has come back i think we're very reliant on casemiro i think we're very reliant on harry mcguire and i think we're very reliant on bruno Fernandez and whilst other players have done quite well, Le Mans, Cunha, I think we've gone back to being very reliant on certain players again who are all over 30.

37:30That screams of short-termism to me. I don't know about player power in the dressing room, that's not really what I'm talking about but I think we've become very reliant on player power on the pitch again. For saying they were in close proximity to the greatest manager the game has ever seen, our ex-players are oddly blind to what would make a great manager for man united it's ironic really says emily thank you emily um thanks for your super chat uh patrick lynch says how do you feel anderson will do if we get him given how it will be a huge price tag probably karik as manager and likely that it'll be him mainly and probably belabor just like managers we set players up to struggle it would concern me patrick that setup if i'm being completely honest uh tech empire says enrique or nagalsman uh wouldn't agree with contract extension of players like maguire it's worrying guys the club do not seem to progress carrick is yeah i mean i mean i think they're going to give it to carrick which is why i'm so vocal against doing it and saying they've got to interview other people but i think everything they're doing at the moment screams of carrick carrick would 100 give mcguire a contract um yeah i i think it's i think it's inevitable really but i don't have to be on board with it um and i think it's wrong to give an interim a manager again without interviewing top class candidates but you're right um i don't think um i don't i mean if you're the new manager well hypothetically if you're the new manager of man united and you're not even in post and you're seeing them renew contracts of players i'd be sort of like moto casino america's social casino welcome to moto casino where the excitement never ends with thousands of the hottest free-to-play social casino games fastest payouts and the best promotions in the industry no tricks or gimmicks owned and operated in the usa moto casino is a free-to-play social casino no purchase necessary 21 plus to play void or prohibited sign up today for a generous welcome bonus download the moto casino app today well i wouldn't have done that you know um congratulations on your victory against checkbook fc mark it was a victory for david against goliath your keeper Fasane is MVP.

39:37Insane performance is Rajaf. Thank you very much, pal. Henry says, since Anderson is 100 million and Tonali is probably going to be the same price, who would you like for Man United to buy and who do you think you would buy? 100 million for Tonali, probably going to be the same price. Who would you buy? I would get Tonali. Happy birthday, says Mojo. You're a legend, mate. I would go Tonali over Anderson. But that's because I think Anderson is, I think I would like both. but I think Tonali's more of a dead cert he's played in the Champions League he's 26 he's ran that midfield for Newcastle I think for what Man United need it's close it's very very close but Tonali is the player I would spend the money on and the reason United won't spend that money and they will spend it on Anderson is a three year age gap and a British passport if we're being honest Tonali is the right player to go for absolutely but we're Manchester United we don't do the right things do we Emily Derry says Anderson is the best available he's in demand so Forrest can demand what they want our midfield needs quality Gio Gomez makes more sense now Balaba and Carrick is quite clearly Wilcox's man says Marlowe he won't accept to lose the internal battle on both so who do you choose I do not want Balaba I don't want Balaba I mean I actually think Balaba will do okay if we sign him because he'll get his dream move and he can't be as shit as he is at Brighton but ultimately I don't think he's good enough Hitton says things like keeping carry can get in four players every summer lets the owners get another two years to survive major backlash stupid to hope for more from them Hitton the owners aren't going anywhere I mean the minute that stadium starts being built it's over they're never gone Mojo has gifted 10 memberships thank you very much pal legend as always Cameron says happy birthday enjoy your day love from Northern Ireland says Cameron.

41:35Anderson's shirt sales would fly off the shelves, says John. And Danuch has gifted 10 memberships. What a legend. Lee Capetown says, honest truth for Anderson. I'd pay 110. Done that. Right. Okay. I think I've nearly caught up now. I want to talk about this buy and sell stuff that Nicky Butt and Paul Scholes have done. Happy birthday, King says, Doug. Thank you so much. Let me just get this up on the screen because seeing is believing and I can't believe some of the stuff they've said.

42:03please do smash a like on the video by the way 7000 nearly watching this morning we're building back to football it's been a long break first game of next season we could have maguire shaw starting and carrick in the in the dugout if we do this we're not serious as daso and delo at right back happy birthday i've done that one uh i think a resurgence of player power is a risk says emily derry when you bring in an interim due to the nature of the remit it's why I have concerns about giving Carrick the job and part of why Ollie failed. Fair point. Raj says, hi, Sir Alex Bridge. Any return news on Martinez?

42:40He's back training this week. Martinez. Yeah, he's back training this week. Andy Atherton says, happy birthday. Like you, my granddad introduced me to this great club. Obviously, I can't take you for a pipe. I happily donate£100 to a charity of your choice. You're a legend. Thank you, Andy. You're absolutely fantastic. Keep the money in your pocket with regards to charity, because I do that once a year and everyone puts their money in their pocket for that. So let's wait till November on that one. But a lovely gesture. Thank you, sir. If Gomez was at a bigger club, he would be 60 million plus, says MK.

43:10And DM says, have a pint on me. Thank you very much. You should be United Sporting Director. I think you do a better job than the Pratt. Well, as in, I think my cat would do a better job than that. And he's a right lazy shit. Happy birthday. Have a great day, sir Stewart. Thank you very much. Okay, I'm all caught up on those lovely messages. If you do want to say happy birthday, just smash a like on the video. It will save us reading any more out and we can get on with this. So. I mean, look, this is as good as your opinion. To me, there's nothing in here that that.

43:54Okay, so basically Paul Scroles, Nicky Butt have got a podcast and they've done keep or sell for Man United players. I'm going to whiz through some of them. But again, I would say this about ex-players. Their opinion is no better than yours. Some of them wouldn't like me saying that. It's not being disrespectful. full they are the respect comes from what you did in a man united shirt and i'd love to sit and talk to them about what it was like and you know the stories and everything like that but modern day football apart from knowing what it's like to be a professional footballer i think their judgment is is is tainted by their obsession from the world that they lived in and i just i think some of these are just strange to me but they'd probably say mine my opinions are strange or your opinions are strange so they were asked about delo both said definitely keep but then when they're asked about masrawi they said sell um doesn't fit the system not seriously not been playing much i mean i just i just i don't know look i've said this before i think delo's delo is mentality-wise, you know, I think, I don't know Deleu, but I imagine he's a really nice guy.

45:16I've listened to some of his interviews. I think he gets what Man United's all about. In a way, he's Michael Carrick. You know, I think Michael Carrick knows what Man United's all about. He's a nice guy, this, that, and the other. But is he a top manager? No, not in my opinion. He's not been proven, right? And with Deleu, I think he's a nice guy. and he's just not good enough. Deleu is 27 and Masraoui is 28. They're basically the same age. So we're definitely keeping Deleu but we're selling Masraoui. And we're selling Masraoui, why? Because Carrick doesn't pick him. Well, I don't trust Carrick's judgment.

45:53I think if we had a proper, proper experienced coach, Masraoui plays ahead of Deleu. So I'm not keeping Deleu and selling Masraoui but apparently Skolls and Butt are doing that. And I'm like, under what justification? You're saying you'd sell Masraoui because he's not playing much. That's because the manager keeps picking Deleuze, not good enough. So I think that for me, that one is, you know, easily wrong. But let me know your thoughts. De Ligt, they both said they'd keep and they wouldn't get rid of him. Maguire, they've said keep. Martinez, keep. When he's playing, he's good. I'd keep him. Lenny Yoroh, loan, not keep long term.

46:38I'd be putting him out on loan, needs a bit of time. They say if a choice has to be made, he's not ready to stay. That one's mad to me, Lenny Yoroh, because, I mean, we're giving Harry Maguire a contract at 33 and we're loaning out Lenny Yoroh. That is just wrong. That's my explanation straight away. Like, we bought Lenny Oro to be a generational future centre-back and we're keeping Harry Maguire at 33. So we're keeping Harry Maguire and we're getting rid of Lenny Oro. I mean, what are we planning then? What are we trying to do? I mean, Paul Scrooge said himself, I don't think Harry Maguire is the sort of player you should be keeping if you're going to try and win a Premier League.

47:22But then we're loaning out Lenny Oro. I'm like, this is where we go wrong. We don't need to buy a load of players on the 23. We need a bit of experience and we need to develop youth better. Lenny Yoroh is a developmental player. If we loan him out for somebody else to do it, why did we buy him in the first place? This needs calling out. If you buy Dorgoo and Yoroh, you have a responsibility to develop them. You don't buy them and go, I hope they're going to be good. You don't buy a plant and then stick it in your cellar and don't feed it and don't give it any light. you actually have to nurture and feed them.

48:00So Lenny Oro is our responsibility. Can't loan him or sell him. We spent a lot of money on a player that Real Madrid wanted who would be developing him far better than us. The pathway to the first team for Lenny Oro needs to be made. That is Michael Carrick's job. That is the next manager's job. That was Ruben Amrim's job. You have to have a pathway to the first team for Lenny Oro. And if we're going to say, he's not playing much, let's loan him. Who's responsible for that? if you're loaning Lenny Oro you're sacking Jason Wilcox in my mind because he is the guy who has signed a cheque for£50 million for a player that's not playing that has to be part of your overall job as a director of football you can't just buy a player and go well I thought they were going to be good it's your job to make sure your manager is picking them and what have you done?

48:48you've just gone and given a contract to a 33 year old that will want to play next week next year so where's Lenny Oro getting any game time? Where does Lenny Oro get game time next season? The mad thing is, Scoles and Butt are probably right. He probably is better off going on loan, but that's a failure on the club. Why did we buy Lenny Oro? When Amrind was here, when you're playing with three centre-backs, he's got more chance of playing. You've now decided you want to go to a back four, Wilcox's idea apparently. Where's Lenny Oro's future at Man United? We have, at this moment in time, Lenny Oro has been absolutely screwed over by Wilcox.

49:24come to Man United, come to Man United, don't go to Real Madrid, we're going to build you out, can't get in the fucking team. And people say, well, you're not good enough. I'm sorry, that's not how it works. Of course, he's going to not be good enough, but you don't buy a player on false promises. You've got to let him play to get good enough. And I don't know what the pathway is for Jorre, but it'd be an absolute laugh if we get rid of him. Dorgu, they both said sell. At best, uncertain, not a long-term keep. Both acknowledge he's done great and scored, but question his position. Not really played wing-back, unsure what he is.

50:02I mean, this is probably the worst one of the lot for me, because I'm Team Dorgou. A lot of fans were against Dorgou at the start, then they've come round. He's had a bad injury. He was arguably our best player in the Arsenal Man City games. Then he got injured. He was playing on the wing. That's probably his best position. I'm not convinced at left-back, but I think Dorgu off the left-hand side in a more attacking position. That's where he needs to be. And he's only 21. So, again, we're selling a player because we're uncertain about him. What are we doing? What are we saying about Dorgu? Move them on, long-term not good enough.

50:41They're kids. They're bloody kids. If we'd have done that to Scholes and Butt at 20, it wouldn't be very nice, would it? They're literally kids who've shown potential. and Man United, I mean, if this was Manu, I bet they wouldn't be getting rid of Manu. Oh no, it's all about Man United. So I don't get that. Let's sell and loan Lenny Oro and Dorgu. But they're literally the same as Manu. They're kids. We're meant to be developing them. And Dorgu, to me, goes straight into the team over Kunia when he's fit. That's how good he was playing. So if you want to know where Dorgu plays in this system, his best two games in a Man United shirt are under Carrick on the left wing.

51:19so that's where Dorgue plays and I want to see more of it and I want to see patience with it because he's also a kid oh no oh god I can't breathe somebody my arm shooting pains I need a help help I can't believe I hadn't even read this one oh my god the fall off of ex-players they're dead they're dead no one's ever going to listen to an ex-player again. This is the worst of the lot. Luke Shaw, keep. When Luke Shaw's fit, he's the best left back in Europe. In what year? In what year? 2020? Keep Luke Shaw. He's the best left back in Europe when he's fit. Mate, he's averaging one cross every 90 minutes.

52:11He barely goes past the halfway line. He's not even a left back. He's somebody who stands in a left back position and acts like a centre-back. He's slower than a turd in concrete. Oh my God. And this is, don't listen to these people on who the Man United manager should be. Don't listen to ex-players on who the Man United manager should be. They're lost. They're lost in a world that we don't know the rules to. They're legends of the game. Appreciate them. Respect them. They are legends, but do not listen to them about the future of Man United because there's just some weird, there's just some weird logic that we mere mortals cannot understand.

52:55Keep Luke Shaw. He's the best left back in Europe when he's fit. He's been fit all season. He's not even in the top 10 left backs in the Premier League. Fact. He's not good. Ricky's dancing around the garden at the moment. I've always, I've told you, pick a card. I told you, Mark. Skulls and butt. They know what they're on about. Pick a card. I mean, that to me is just the worst. The worst. I cannot. I cannot. Casemiro Sell. Well, he's already gone. There's no one told him that. I probably, Mason Mount. I probably sell him. Great footballer, but he's never going to play in front of Bruno Fernandes.

53:40doesn't play enough games. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's some bad ones in there, but keeping the low, keeping Luke Shaw, keeping Maguire, getting rid of Dorgoo and Yoro. I just think Evra wanting Carrick, Rooney wanting Carrick, Ferdinand wanting Carrick. It's just... There are certain things about ex-players I like to listen about, but the modern game and where football needs to go and where Man United needs to go I just think it's too and we don't know what the relationships with these players are it's probably easy to say get rid of Dorgue and Yaro because they don't know them but they probably know Luke Shaw and we have to remember that there's mates rates going on in here as well Brands, welcome to Members Club thank you very much really appreciate that with Chelsea being on fire says Rabel what's stopping us from getting Caicedo?

54:38assuming we spend big on a midfielder. I mean, I would take Kaiseido, but I don't think it would ever, ever, ever happen. Congratulations on the win, says Karim, and happy birthday. Thank you, pal. Plantman says, happy birthday, Mark. Legendary performance last night from the Gold Devils. The other manager was a prat and deserved to eat crow. Cheers, mate, says Plant. Would Sene do better than Anana, says Mas Raui. I think he probably would. My lad, Caelan, is five today. Always shares birthday with the legend, says Michael. Happy birthday to Caelan. and Jonathan says unfortunately regardless of who gets the job the beginning of the season is going to be a rough start due to the World Cup I believe this pushes the board to keep Carrick because of comfortability and incompetence happy birthday says Doug thank you very much Tristan's been a member for 46 months don't forget to get your badge in if you're not a member at the moment thank you very much for that we've got some exciting stuff coming up with the memberships at the end of the month so getting ahead of everybody else what a show this morning absolutely fantastic Really enjoyed it.

55:36Lots to discuss. But I'm back with you on the eight o 'clock show and I feel like some of this needs to be revisited. I mean, wow. I just think always, always the message of the day is listen, but don't be persuaded. Have the courage of conviction to make your own mind up based on what's important to you and all the information available. too many people listen to an ex-player and go they're a legend they must be right and i think today we've disproved that like they don't know anything more than you they're just people who like football um who happen to be legends who played the game i don't think playing the game makes you have a better and a better opinion than you and i think some of them are just wild they're wild opinions um but it creates interesting conversation um yeah thanks everyone for watching great show make sure you smash the like and subscribe tonight actually just very very quickly I talk about the 8 o 'clock show this is tiredness kicking in obviously it's a 7 o 'clock show tonight because it's Champions League night tonight and one of the best games of the season I'm looking forward to this Bayern against Real Madrid oh just can't wait can't wait so I will be on That's Football at 8 o 'clock for Bayern Real Madrid Arsenal Sporting so we'll be on at 7 o 'clock here tonight tune in for that 2 o 'clock back with Beth speak to you in a bit

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