


18 Apr 2026 · 34m · 8 chapters

Manchester United’s 1-0 Champions League qualification win over Chelsea (match reaction, “smash and grab” tactics, and debate over Michael Carrick’s managerial future).
No named guests appear; the episode is a solo host United Stand Manchester United reaction with live chat comments.
The host credits Alejandro Garnacho as Man of the Match after he came on injured Estêvão/Estabelle and helped create the winning goal; Bruno Fernandes’ decision-making vs Garnacho is pivotal. Chelsea couldn’t score (no home goal since February; woodwork hit multiple times). Despite Chelsea dominating possession/shots, United’s clean sheet and one shot on target secured qualification.
Garnacho’s “tackle” incident on Bruno leading to the goal; Chelsea hitting the post/bar; stats cited: Chelsea 60% possession, 21 shots, United 4 shots, 1 on target. Carrick debate: host says results aren’t enough; wants a vision/performance-based decision, not “give him the job” just for qualifying.
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Discussing the significance of the win and praising key player Ganacho.
“he had a massive part to play in the first goal, that crap tackle on Bruno that let him in.”
Analyzing the team's performance and discussing managerial concerns.
“We go through loads of shit with this football club and we deserve that.”
Engaging with fan comments and critiquing players’ performances in the match.
“I don't want to be sat here going, we've lost to Chelsea.”
Analyzing players' performances and contributions in the match.
“I'm more than happy to give Maynou an eight if that's what people want.”
In-depth player ratings and assessments after the match.
“didn't really have to make that many saves really because most of their big chances were wide.”
Analyzing standout players in the match and discussing their contributions.
Debating whether Michael Carrick should be appointed as the permanent manager.
“about the positives of performance, the positives of the result, the positives of the Champions League.”
Discussing worries about the team's future performance and management decisions.
“I think we've had a lot of similar performances where we're getting results.”

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1:37And then for the rest of the game, he just basically did nothing. It was like playing against 10 men. So look, I think big shout out to Ganacho. He was fantastic for Manchester United today. And also the fact that we got paid£40 million to get rid of him as well. Incredible. So, you know, fair play to Amarim, fair play to Wilcox. And, you know, they've not had a lot of praise this season, but I think that was a masterstroke. And, you know, some people thought was 40 million pounds a little bit cheap? Well, we've just made 100 million pounds today because of Ganaccio, because we're 10 points clear going into the Champions League.
2:09So, look, we were a little bit lucky. We were a little bit lucky today. But what I want to say, first of all, because people are going to talk about whether Carrick should get the job. They're going to talk about the summer transfer window. And these things are all relevant. But always take the time to celebrate the result that matters to you. You know, I look at the fans at Stamford Bridge tonight. They're absolutely loving it. And they were a credit to the club as they always are. I look at some of the reaction in the chat and people are absolutely loving it. I am so excited at the prospect of Man United being in the Champions League.
2:40I like and love this new Champions League format. The fact that we might get to play Bayern Munich or Real Madrid or Barcelona or PSG next season. I mean, if that's not enough to make you excited this Saturday night, I don't know what is. So absolutely made up. And I know it's not done yet, but it is. 10 points. Chelsea can't score. We're 10 points off sixth. We might not finish third. We might finish third. We might finish fourth. We might finish fifth. But we have done Villa. I mean, I've got Villa mates messaging me saying, thank you very much. I'm over the moon of the fact that next season we'll be in the Champions League.
3:15I mean, no more week waits to play a game of football. We're going to be playing in Europe in the Champions League. And you deserve that. I deserve that. We deserve that. We go through loads of shit with this football club and we deserve that. So I think, look, there's always going to be a lot of moaning and a lot of analysis and everything like that. But we do, you know, it's our club. It's not the players club. It's not Wilcox's club. It's not Sir Jim's club. It's not the Glazers club. It's our club. And our fans were fantastic tonight. And remember, we are fans. You know, Manchester United is what we support.
3:50Don't support players. Don't support managers. It's Manchester United. and it's a long season this season with hardly any games and next season we're going to get to play in Europe so I think that's worth just saying straight away Champions League football secured tonight with that win I also want to say that look we were we will delve into it we're going to do the player ratings mark every player out of 10 six being the average links in the description but you know I'm going to mention something here because it is relevant like on a Monday night Gold Devils supporters, baller league on Sky Sports, six aside football.
4:26I got a team given to me a week before it started. I didn't get a transfer window. I just got a team. I had to get players in. It was very, very late. And a couple of weeks ago, we played the best team in the league, Prime. They've got the best players. They pay the best money. Everyone said they were going to win the league and beat everybody. We went into that game and we parked the bus. We were compact. We got a lot of shit for it and we scored a late goal and we won 1-0. And I don't like that style of football. I hate it. And I don't like the way we play tonight. But I'd be an absolute hypocrite if I sat here and said, I've got a massive problem with it because I know what it's like when you win a game like that.
5:06And you know the players at the end where they're fist pumping and hugging and everything like that. I witnessed that two weeks ago with the Gold Devils in Baller League. it's a great feeling when you lock a team out like that and you keep a clean sheet even if the football was shit so I understand why the players are like that and we can't knock them for winning the game of football and I did say I did say this morning and I did say during the game tonight didn't need to be about performance and vision it didn't that's a bigger picture qualifying for the Champions League doesn't mean you have to give it to Carrick.
5:46And tonight doesn't mean, you know, you want performance and you do want vision. But when you're seven points clear of the team in sixth, you just don't lose the game. You know, I didn't want us to open up tonight and try and play like we did against Arsenal and Man City. All I wanted tonight was for us to not get beat. I'd have took a draw. So a win is fantastic. So again, what I would say is we can't be hypocrites. I just wanted the result tonight. I didn't care how we got it. So I'm not going to sit here and say, fucking shit, it's embarrassing to win like that. We were really lucky. They should be ashamed of themselves.
6:25I'm not going to do that because we needed to win this game to be in the Champions League. And look, there's a lot of people that don't want Carrick and I am one of them people, but I didn't want to lose tonight to be proven right. And I think that's what I want to say. I'm over the moon with the result. I'm over the moon with being in the Champions League. I don't want Carrick, but I don't want to lose games like tonight to prove it. I think he's already proven it with Bournemouth and Newcastle and West Ham and Leeds. And the lack of intensity, the lack of ideas, the part of the bus football.
6:58I think he's already proven he shouldn't get the job. If the club want to give him the job, that's up to them. If the club want to be blinded by nights like tonight, that's up to them. But first and foremost, I'm happy with the win because I want to be in the Champions League because I don't want to be sat there next autumn going, I told you we shouldn't have given it to Carrick and now we're not in Europe. I don't want that. I want to be, we're in Europe and we haven't got Carrick. That's what I want. I don't want to be sat here going, we've lost to Chelsea. I told you so. Look, there's another year out of Europe.
7:27I want to be in Europe. I want to be in Europe. And that's what tonight's all about. It's just about the result tonight. and I'm very, very happy with that. So yeah. JT17 says, you're blinded by hate. I don't know whether you've been for the last five minutes, mate. I've said, I'm over the moon with the result. I'm ecstatic with our fans. The players have put a shift in tonight and they'll be over the moon and it's not really a game to be analysing whether you wanted to give it to Carrick or not. So I don't know where your hate's coming from. You might want to read the chats. People are typing Carrick out.
8:04But, look, there was... I don't think Chelsea have scored a home goal since February. They've lost five of their last six Premier League games. I think they could play till Christmas and not score a goal. That wasn't a great Chelsea side, especially in the attacking sense. But in fairness, they did it the woodwork three times. They had 60 % possession. They had 21 shots. We had four. We had one on target. That was the goal. So look, on a different day, we were probably lucky. We probably were lucky. But results are what matter. And I'd say it again and again and again and again. Where would this football club be without Bruno Fernandes?
8:48Like, if it's not Bruno, it's nobody, is it? It's Bruno, Bruno, Bruno all the bloody time. and they've got to pin him down. And he looked very happy at the end of the game. So I'm hoping that that's an indication of his desire to stay at the football club because you've just got to keep Bruno Fernandes at this football club. It's incredible the numbers that he keeps coming in. And it'll be interesting when we go through the player ratings because I actually thought there were some poor performances tonight. I don't think Kunja played very well. I don't think Luke Shaw played very well. I don't think Mbwermo played very well.
9:18I don't think Sesco played very well. I don't think Casemiro played very well, but we got the job done. And look, it was a smash and grab. It was a smash and grab, wasn't it? It was lucky, but we didn't concede a goal. They didn't put the ball in the back of the net. So, you know, you take it for what it is. I remember doing this a couple of years ago when we beat Brentford. I think McTominay scored two goals. And I said, ultimately, Man United winning, you know, is the thing that should dictate your weekend as a fan. So there's a bigger picture. There's definitely a bigger picture. But we're not in control of that picture.
10:01I got the impression that after the Leeds lost they want to give it Carrick anyway and after winning tonight they'll definitely, you know we're going to get a load of PR now about Carrick because he's actually won a game and we don't play Brentford for a week so this next week I wouldn't expect us to be interviewing managers the next week, you know Rio's going to be coming out they'll all be coming out saying give it to Carrick he's done a great job the club will be leaking stuff out so we know what we're in for what I want the club to do now is pick up the blower and start talking to players about coming to Man United because we know we've got Champions League football.
10:36There's no excuse now to go, we're waiting to see if we've got Champions League football before we make any decisions. You are 10 points clear of sixth place and Liverpool have got to play Chelsea. So do the maths. We're 10 points clear of sixth. There's only five games to go, 15 points. And Chelsea got to play Liverpool. you know 10 points 15 to play for are we gonna lose five and Chelsea win five you know so it's we've now got to start picking up the phone to players whether it's Elliot Anderson Tonali still uh you know all these big players we've now got to be going right we've got Champions League football what's it gonna take that's that's what we've got to do what what how How do we get those sort of things done?
11:26Hopefully we still need to, you know, hopefully we still will interview other managers. Hopefully that will still be part of the process. But let's start bringing in some players now. Somebody just said, can we focus in on the game? We can. I want to go through some of your comments first, though. Marcus, welcome to Members Club. Idris as well. Was that match Brighton versus Sunderland? We need better, says Alex. Heaven's class. I thought he's looked better than Yaro since he came in. Not to demean Yaro, but it looks like we've got an excellent duo, says J.Dot. I don't know why he's not been using Heaven, to be honest with you.
12:00I don't know, because I thought Heaven was looking quite good under Amrim as well. Big three points towards Champions League football. Manu, class, what was Amrim thinking? Big up gold Devils, says Lee. We'll talk about Manu in a bit, because I don't actually agree he was class. I don't think he was bad, but I don't agree with the he was class. Manu looked like his old self. Thanks for the content, Mark, says D. Bad performance, but got the win. Manu superb, says United. Goal only shot on target. Crazy, says Marleau. United. Manu man of the match 100%. Maybe I've got this wrong. Maybe I just haven't noticed it.
12:33I thought Manu was okay. I didn't think he was class. So look, I'll put my hands up. There's a lot of people saying Manu was class. I'll have to watch it back. I thought he was okay, but they did dominate the midfield. So I'm sort of of the opinion when your midfield gets dominated, how can one of your midfielders be class? because I thought Casemiro was crap. I thought Bruno was in and out of the game and I thought Manu was our best midfielder. But I wouldn't say he was superb when we got dominated in the midfield. But look, I'll bow down to you lot. I'm not going to get into an argument. And you know, I'm a big fan of Manu.
13:06So, and I certainly don't think he was crap. I thought he was our best midfielder. I just didn't feel like he was superb in a midfield that got dominated. As the great Sir Alex used to say, as a win's a win, doesn't have to be pretty, says Mr Saunders. Congratulations, says Little Sam. Sam, hope you're doing well, Sam. It might be a bit deep, but I'd love to know what football games do for your mental health. I love football, Sam. So it does great for my mental health. I think without football, I'm a pain in the arse when United aren't playing. I need two more wins before I feel confident. The team does have a Leeds kind of performance in them, says Suraj.
13:40Highlight was how unbelievably crap the game was, says Marleau. Marleau's not happy tonight. If Shaw don't get a good rating today, never will. Oh, he was shit, mate. Are you having a laugh, Robert? You're having a laugh. I'll take Maynou being superb, but I'm not having... Oh, you're Ricky in disguise. Luke Shaw was good. Fucking hell. I'm not having that. I'm more than happy to give Maynou an eight if that's what people want. But Luke Shaw, God, the guy is useless. He doesn't... He passes back every time. Neto and Gusto were getting loads of crosses in. And in the first 10 minutes, Esteval was rinsing him.
14:16I thought he was crap. Sorry. I don't know what that's all about. I'm not having that. Chelsea showed Amidfield needs serious upgrading, even though I would say Maynou made Amidfield better. He's and he is maturing, says Schor. Chelsea, hate to imagine things, but imagine if we had a slightly better squad and we didn't lose to Leeds, Newcastle and Everton, we'd have 67 points. We're not a title racing team, Alex. New signing Marcus Rashford incoming if Carrick gets the job. Maynou is miles ahead of Agate. Oh, you can see the difference. I said that after Leeds, though. Maynou, what Maynou does do really well is he gets the ball and he looks after the ball.
14:51And we said that after Leeds, our ball retention against Leeds was shit. I don't know whether we would have beat Leeds with Maynou. I think that's a big step, but we would have controlled the ball better. Today we enjoy the win. Tomorrow we analyse, says Atom. UQ says, not the best game, but we got the job done. Maynou was outstanding. Kaystone says, fans said the players are not good enough under Amrim, so why should we expect world-class performances under Carrick? Three full-backs at the back by the way, says Kay Stone. Mate, if you want to give the job to Carrick, stop comparing Amram and just come out and say you'll give the job to Carrick, but you won't do it.
15:27So, you know, what you're basically saying is you want to give the job to Carrick, but you haven't said it. Just say that and see what the reaction is. Don't start bringing Amram into it. If you want Carrick, have the courage of your convictions to tell us why. You know, no one's going to bite your head off. Heaven deserves more time, says Cole. Welcome back to European night. Shaw pocketing Elise and Douay on a Tuesday night. I'll be there, says Pengers. Midfield wasn't dominated. We just don't set up a position team. You could see we actually passed the ball very well. Mate, the midfield got absolutely dominated, in my opinion.
15:59If you don't, Manu can still have a good game because he's one player with three. But we did get dominated in the midfield. Like, watch the game back. We had 40 % possession. We had one shot on target. And we conceded 21 shots. Like, we did get dominated in possession today, mate. where they didn't dominate was the final third because even though they had 21 shots I don't think they had that many clear chances apart from the two that they hit the bar but they definitely dominated the ball definitely Maynou was fantastic left side totally a non-factor we need a left winger and left back says Syke my highlight was Ganacho being crap not the games says Marlow United thank you very much okay lots of people talking about players I also want to talk about Carrick very quickly but I want to do that towards the end because I want to keep the focus on the result, the Champions League and the result.
16:50So let's do the player ratings. Make sure you smash the like on the video, by the way, bottom right hand corner to do that. Okay, I've not done player ratings for a while because this is not how it should be. Let me move that across. There we are and refresh.
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17:52Kaiseido hit a bloody good shot, didn't he? That was just wide. Enzo hit the post and two on the bar. So 6.5 is fine. I thought the low was okay tonight, actually. I'd probably give him a 6.5. I thought the low was okay. I don't think he did. I mean, look, I could probably mark Ganacho, to be honest with you, but you can't deduct points off him for that. Again, I thought Masraoui played quite well for a centre-back 6.5. You know, it's not his position. He was aggressive. He was experienced. I liked Masraoui's performance. I thought it was good. I did. I thought it was good. And I thought Heaven's performance was very good.
18:30And because he's not played for so long and he's a teenager, I'd give him a seven. I don't think there was much between Masraoui and Heaven, actually. And I think it's criminal, actually, that Heaven hasn't been given more game time because watching Heaven tonight, it reminded me of him under Amrim. I thought under Amrim he was playing well. I don't know why he's not been given more game time, really, because I don't want to get into the who's better, Yarrow or Heaven argument, but I like Heaven. He's physical. He's quick. He's a good player. And the only reason I'd give him a higher score than Masraoui is because he hasn't really played any football and he's a teenager and he's been thrown in at Stamford Bridge.
19:10I thought he was very good and you could almost give him man of the match if you wanted to. Luke Shaw, I thought, was a 5.5. I mean, I don't think he played very well at all. I don't know where that's coming from. I don't know whether we're getting bottered by Ricky. I mean, he doesn't know how to do that, so it can't be. But my issue with Luke Shaw is he never wants to pass forward. He's slow. And Esteval had him on toast and then Esteval comes off and then Neto and Gusto are constantly whipping crosses in from that side. And I'm like, the job of a left back is actually to stop crosses as well.
19:42The job of a left back is actually to support the attack. And the job of the left back is to actually lock that side down. And, you know, he's got to get Kunja back. Like, Kunja wasn't there a lot of the time. The left back's job is also to make the left winger do stuff as well. So it's communication as well. So I don't think he played particularly well. It wasn't dreadful. Maybe you could give him a six. but I certainly don't think he was up there with Deleu and Masraoui and Heaven. Casemiro, probably a six for me today. I think he looked off the pace. I don't know whether Casemiro... It's not two games in a week, really, but Monday, Saturday...
20:22I know it's not quite two games in a week, but he felt very leggy, Casemiro, today. It wasn't one of his better games for whatever reason, so I'd give him a six. Maynou I think I better give him at least a seven I would give him a seven um I think uh out of our midfield he he gave some composure he made some good tackles I mean we were up against the very good midfield in Enzo and Caicedo and he did do well but obviously I do think that Chelsea obviously clearly dominated the midfielder because they dominated the second half and all we really had was the counter. But, you know, you can't run a midfield on your own anyway.
21:02You can't. You need support. Mbwemo was probably a 5.5 for me. Yeah, I just think it was, he had that one good bit of play in the first half where Kunja should have hit it first time. And to this day, I will never understand why Kunja didn't hit that one first time. It was a lovely cross. It was right in front of him. He took the touch and he got booked. Some people joked that he got booked for the first touch. But where I would give Mbuomo some compliment is that down that right-hand side, he did fucking work. And down the left-hand side, you don't get that. The right-hand side, Cucurella is a very, very good player going forward.
21:45And Deleu and Mbuomo did work very hard down that side. Now, of course, they've got Ganacho there, so that makes it a bit easier. But they did, he did put a shift in, Mbwemo. It's just, I don't know what it is. And tonight's not the night, but Kunya, Ahmad, and Mbwemo are getting worse under Carrick. They're just, they were all good under Amrim, and they're getting worse under Carrick. And I don't really understand why. Because now Mbwemo's on the wing, he should be doing better. I don't know. I don't even have an answer to it. I just don't know. Bruno, I mean, look, at the end of the day, seven for me.
22:29You could give him a 7.5 if you wanted to. And he's probably a man of the match contender. I mean, TNT gave him man of the match. Where would we be without Bruno?
22:42That's sort of all I can say. Where would we be without Bruno? because sorry I'm being called a Carrick hater again in the chat and yet I haven't spoken about Carrick yet so it's it's incredible to me and I don't hate anybody and as I've said if you watch this channel I know some people do come to the channel just for the match reaction and if you watch the channel I've been massively complimentary about Carrick and his career at Man United all along I just think that well I'll talk about it in a minute Bruno look where would we be without Bruno. He's got us another big assist today. I think the great thing about the goal is that Bruno doesn't take people on, but when he sees it's Ganacho, he'll know Ganacho's weaknesses, having worked with him for years.
23:25He knows that Ganacho doesn't like to defend. Now, Bruno's not a player. And I think this is probably why I would give him man of the match, because we don't win the game without what happens here. So Bruno's on the right wing. Now, if that's Cucurella or that's Neto, he probably turns back and gives it to Deleuze. But because he sees Garnaccio and he knows Garnaccio from his time at United, he will have gone, this guy don't want to defend and he won't put a tackle in. So Bruno's done something he very rarely does. He's got the ball on the right-hand side and he's took somebody on. He's took him on and he's gone past him.
24:00And then that's where the goal comes from. Bruno doesn't take people on. Bruno's not that. If Bruno could take people on. Bloody hell, he'd be like Messi. So he doesn't take people on, but he sees it's Ganaccio and he goes, I know what you're all about. You ain't up for this. You ain't going to put a tackle in. And it's brilliant. And it probably won't get analysed by anybody other than as the fans, but we know that story. We know Bruno on the wing is not taking anybody on, but we know when he sees Ganaccio, he goes, yeah, I know what you're all about. You ain't up for a tackle here and away we go.
24:34And that moment really gets us the win. Because other than that, we've done nothing. That's our only shot on target. So that moment by Bruno takes this game from a draw to a win. So for me, I think he probably does have to get man of the match because he is not somebody who takes people on. And that's knowing the game. That's mentality to go, I can take him on. I can do that. Kunja, goal good, performance not great, 6.5. I don't think Konya's playing very well at the moment thankfully he's contributing with goals but I don't think he's playing very well at the moment on that left hand side he seems confused in defence of Luke Shaw he does get doubled up quite a lot because Konya's not there but we're having to shoehorn Konya in because he has to start I agree but his overall game he puts the effort in Konya will put the effort in You can see that with the yellow cards.
25:36He puts the effort in. You can see the threat when he gets on the ball. He's just in a little bit of an unfortunate position at the moment that he doesn't get to play in the position he is. But look, he scored the goal. Sesco. I can't remember who it was. The name, was it Lee Galdart? Put a super chat in, in the watch along before the game started. And he said, Sesco won't work. He should have been on the bench. Cesco's going to have a bad game because he's an impact player. And I think it's never going to work. And as Eugene says, graveyard shift, it's never going to work if you don't service the striker.
26:20Now, Liam Dallat was getting crosses into the box. He doesn't get crosses into the box. Luke Shaw doesn't go forward and Dallot won't put a cross in. so um i don't know how i don't know what sesco's supposed to mean look it's a 5.5 performance there's no doubt about that um and he did look a little bit lost today but but let me just say 40 possession
26:54question. Chelsea have 21 shots. We have four. You're not going to be busy as a striker, are you? You're not going to be busy. Maybe he could have ran the channels a little bit more. Maybe he could have held the ball up a little bit more. But you'd still be saying not a very good performance, wouldn't you? So look, 5.5 maybe. Ahmad not on the pitch long enough, just give him a six. Mason Mount not on the pitch long enough, give him a six. Xerxes give him a six Carrick tonight I would give Carrick tonight A I mean I Don't think I think I'd get laughed at if I gave him an eight
27:36Look we were lucky You know analysing the game They've hit the post three times Caicedo nearly scored we've scored with our one Good attack
27:47you know it wasn't a tactical masterclass it was a part of the bus encounter we've kept a clean sheet and we've won I'll give him a 7 I'll give him a 7 I'll be generous and I'll give him a 7 Bruno, man of the match with 60 % of the vote as I said, on my analysis alone for me it would have been Aiden Heaven Aiden Heaven did get 22 % of the vote I was nearly going to give it to Aidan Heaven I really really was but I just think that moment against Ganacho is genius because he doesn't take people on and then he sees Ganacho and goes here we go breakfast you could have given it to Maynou some of you wanted to give it to Maynou but I think those three would be the ones but I just think that that was so fitting today because we want Bruno to break the assist record that goal basically gets us champions league football and it's it's so poetic that it's against ganacho who technically was our man of the match anyway but he doesn't play for us anymore um and what a bargain you know we criticize amirim we criticize barrada uh we criticize wilcox but 40 million pounds for ganacho you've got to argue you've got to say and you know what people are very very quick to criticize uh and say you know look at what we've wasted our money on look at what we've wasted our money on but that that that ganacho 40 million pound deal that that looks better by by the second it really really does okay uh we have got the fan forum but i will be fair uh and i hope people will realize that i've just spent the last half an hour talking about the positives of performance, the positives of the result, the positives of the Champions League.
29:37So we've had half an hour of really good positive stuff. So I haven't done this at the start. I've left it right to the end. Should Carrick get the job? I'm going to run a quick poll here. Should Carrick get the job? Yes or no? You can vote.
30:00And what I'm going to say, before I give you my opinion, is that losing to Leeds shouldn't be a reason for him not to get the job. And beating Chelsea and getting the Champions League football shouldn't be a reason for him to get the job either. United need to act like a big football club and we shouldn't be results driven. Like, as I said, on Tuesday morning, where is Rio Ferdinand about Michael Carrick? Says nothing because we've lost the game. He'd be there tonight. He'll have tweeted already. I haven't even looked. He'll be there tonight saying, give him the job, give him the job. We as a football club should not be changing our opinions based on results.
30:41We should be looking at a big picture with a proper vision and proper performance for the next three to five years. That's what we should be doing. now when I look at United Arsenal and Man City were very good results but ever since then it's been getting worse and worse and worse and look we've already spoken about Ahmad, Mbamo, Kunya, Luke Shaw so results are good but how much do you trust these results? if you trust these results and you think things are going to get better then you've got every right to say let's give it to Carrick if you don't trust these results and you think you know the league's crap we've been a bit lucky some of these players won't be able to play twice a week and things are going to get worse next season you're probably going to go don't give it to Carrick so for me where I'm at is what I've seen of Carrick and his coaching staff over the last two months I don't think they're up to it I don't think they're up to it I think that they are you know I just don't think they're up to the big job that Manchester United is and today's performance reminded me of somebody like Nottingham Forest going and winning 1-0 at Stamford Bridge or Sunderland going and winning 1-0 at Stamford Bridge or maybe Leeds going and winning 1-0 at Stamford Bridge it wasn't a performance that makes me go this is exciting so it was a great result but it wasn't an exciting performance and the same against Leeds and the same against Villa and the same against Newcastle and the same against West Ham and the same against Palace.
32:22I think we've had a lot of similar performances where we're getting results. Because of people like Casemiro and Harry Maguire and Bruno Fernandes and Cunha, we're getting results off moments and we're not getting results off performance or vision. So for me, huge credit to Carrick and his team for getting the win tonight. It's hard work to do what they did tonight and you need a little bit of luck. but I think it's a huge risk to give them the job I would rather we we we had a really top class manager right lined up and we went thank you so much for all you've done hopefully you're going to get yourself a job at Palace or Fulham or something like that and who knows what will happen in the future but I would rather I would say thank you for everything you've done go and go off and build your career with your inexperienced team we're going to go with this and we move on And I just think it's a big risk to give him the job.
33:19But I think they will. I think they will for numerous reasons. Cheap, you know, won't argue. The players like him. I think they will give him the job. But for me, it's still a no because I'm not seeing anything beyond the results. and I'm very worried about next season because I think that obviously I wouldn't expect us to be in a Champions League quarterfinal next year but if we'd just played a Champions League quarterfinal and we were playing Chelsea today I think we'd have got beat so look it's fantastic the result's great the Champions League is so exciting the players did well tonight and it's a very good result for Carrick and his team but I'm not going to sit here tonight and say because we've got Champions League football give him the job.
34:07I can't believe the club think that. I can't believe the club think if you get Champions League football, you get the job. It's got to be way bigger than that. With Manchester United, we've got to be way bigger than that. But as I said, after Leeds, losing to Leeds shouldn't be a reason for him not to get the job anyway. What I want to see is a thorough interview process that Carrick is part of and some other people are part of. And then we know, you know, you take your picks out of that, don't you? Right. they are ready to go on the fan forum so let's get over to there but look whatever whatever look the Carrick conversation is going to continue next week it's going to continue the week after that until they give it him the Champions League conversation is virtually over and that's the thing to be excited about so thanks everybody for watching make sure you smash a like on the video I'm back with you on the morning show tomorrow and I will speak to you all later take care
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