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1:16We will start off about Fernandes though because I think there is just, there's a lot been said about Fernandes and I did the video this morning, but I also think there is a responsibility as a community as well and as presenter of this community to present the facts and to try and stop the scaremongering. There is talk this morning, and I don't really understand why people are reporting it, that PSG are leading the race for Fernandes and we need to move on to another option. And I'm like, hold on a minute. I get the idea that people need to get views and tweets and people clicking on their journalistic output but this is not the case i mean i didn't get up until 10 o 'clock today i've just took seb to football and as i said i'd come live afterwards uh go live um and i've got a big announcement to make actually i mean actually agony i've got an injury from the world cup but that's for later um but there's nothing about psg like we are definitively the favorites to sign Fernandes as of now.

2:15We are actively talking to West Ham. We are actively progressed to the Fernandes side of things with his agent and him to a point where he'd be happy to sign for us. So it's really just about United getting the deal over the line. Now, I will always concede that Real Madrid, Arsenal, PSG can swoop in. And even Fabrizio Romano and other journalists have said with credibility that at the moment, Man United are leading the race. But be very careful if people putting out lies and bullshit for clicks that you know man united need to move on from fernandez because of psg if psg come in with a big bid let's talk but at the moment we are leading that race and um the interesting things to me the only thing i would add to fernandez that i didn't mention on the morning show um was that um there is talk chris wheeler was talking about it in the daily mail that west ham are under pressure to sell by june the 30th it has sort of been mentioned a little bit.

3:10He sort of bullet pointed the point. He said, 80 million Fernandes is United's number one target at the moment. Reds leading the race from Arsenal, PSG and Madrid. West Ham under pressure to sell by the end of this month. Personal terms, not a problem. And they want him United, which we knew a lot of. But I do think the 30th of January is something just to mention for a moment. Obviously, that means that West Ham needs to make sales before the end of this financial year, which helps us. West Ham are in a strong position in the sense that there's a lot of interest. But if that interest is we're not interested at that price or we're not interested now and West Ham need to do a deal by the end of June and we're the only ones willing to do a deal, it might shift back into United's favour.

3:55Obviously, we're doing very well at the moment, but if there's competition, you're always wary of that. However, it's a little bit like when we got Bruno. We knew there was going to be competition for Bruno in the summer, but because we got him in the January, no one else could really move. They weren't ready to move. They didn't have the finances. We're in a position where we have put the Edison deal into the next financial year in July. We know we've got the money left from the Cemenu and West Ham might need to sell. So that could go into our hands as well. I'm only guessing here, but I feel like we could get some finality on this deal in the next few days.

4:30It feels like for once, United trying to move this quickly. They won't pay£85 million, by the way, but I think they'll do something with add-ons, etc. David says, it's slightly annoying that we're fixated only on a few players when there are plenty out there. Do you think we will sign players we have not been linked with? Well, look, interestingly, I want to delve into different positions, really. There was an interesting piece in the Manchester Evening News this morning talking about left-backs, talking about strikers. But before I did talk about that, a couple of days ago, You might have seen it on the show that Beth did.

5:03There was talk of Torre from Hoffenheim, who I think is 20, 21. He will be at the World Cup with Ivory Coast. Of course, Ahmad makes his World Cup bow tomorrow night at midnight. We'll be live for that on That's Football. But Torre plays for them. He has been linked to United and he is available for around 40 million pounds. He's had a very good season for Hoffenheim. They just missed out on Champions League football. I think they finished fifth, if my memory recalls correctly. But Liverpool have made a move for him as well as Aston Villa, Newcastle, Brighton and Brentford. But we are linked to him.

5:37So look, talking about players that we might not be talking about at the moment that United could go for, I think that's a prime example of the multitude of players that are out there that aren't Fernandes, Scott, Belaber, Hall. You know, those four players seem to get rotated a lot. But there is loads of players out there, absolutely loads. I'm just glad I'm live with you this morning and people aren't saying let's buy Balogun of USA or Tyler Adams of USA. It was, look, I thought it was a fantastic game. And thank you, everybody who tuned in live on That's Football last night at 2 a.m. It was a brilliant game of football, but we've got to be very careful of World Cup.

6:17I don't mind having a look at players we're already looking at in the World Cup and seeing how they do. But also it is international football. It is a little bit slower. I certainly wouldn't be scouting players just on World Cup performances. There's got to be a supplementary there in relation to what they're doing in domestic football. But of interest is the striker situation. So let's start on that. Then we'll talk about Lewis Hall. So basically, it's the Manchester News, Ty Marshall saying, United do want an experienced backup for Sesco, sesco but someone of a lower profile than levandowski who would still command huge wages and this huge wages and is such a big name he would probably expect to start ahead of sesco as well um 37 there's no way he fits into united structure or the style of play and i think you know what it's quite encouraging

7:11it's quite encouraging that you know that is in the vocabulary that we are looking at an experienced striker that can supplement sesco because open the doors on who that could be i mean i think we've got igor tiago on the on the thumbnail and i mean i've never really been impressed with him but i think he represents something we won't do to be honest i think he'd be very good to come to manchester united and work with sesco as a premier league proven uh striker um and and ideally i think that would be the dream for a lot of people to have someone like Igor Thiago, who is not old, who is Premier League proven, who probably is behind Sesco, but can compete with Sesco.

7:51And I think that's the dream. I also think that that is out of reach for Man United in relation to the price that Brentford would demand. They would literally say again, you paid 65 for Mbremo last year. He scored more goals than Mbremo. We want 75 or 80. So we won't do a deal like that, but that's the sort of deal I think we should do. Somebody who is experienced, who is slightly behind Sesko, but can compete with him. I don't know who that would be, but, you know, Rio Ferdinand, sit down with your Lewandowski bollocks. I'm just very happy that he's in America talking about MLS. And I think he's been linked to Qatar as well.

8:24We were never doing that deal. We never should have done that deal. It was ridiculously expensive and he's 38 next. So Lewandowski is just stupidity on a different level. And, you know, typically it came from the hype merchant who hasn't got a bloody clue and probably had an interview with him. So we shouldn't go anywhere near Lewandowski. I'll applaud the club on that. Where they do go, it's interesting because like Sour Muffin says, Thiago is rapid, strong, creates chances out of very little. A lot of the time, he's a good player. Look, I personally don't rate Thiago that highly because every time I watch him, he doesn't play well, but he must score a shitload of goals when I don't watch him.

9:04But I think, as I said, He would represent the perfection of what the backup striker should be because I take Igor Thiago as the competitor to Sesko who's slightly behind him but more experienced. I would take that, definitely. I'm not saying I think he's total shit. I think I would go for that. But we're not in the market for that. I think if we had a really good team and we'd just won the league but we need a backup to Sesko, you'd probably splash 70-80 on Thiago. We can't do that. We can't do that. So where we go, I don't know. But it's encouraging that we are looking at that situation. I just don't know.

9:39I don't want Vlahovic. Osman would bench Sesco and be very expensive. So I don't know. I don't know where I'd go. Was it Amrabat, everyone, was on about the last World Cup to Zeno Connell? Thanks for your super chat, Ian. I think there's loads of players out there that... Hi, Uncle Lazer here. America's built on fast cars, fast food, and even faster women. Moto Casino is built in America. You know what? They're fast out. Fast cash rise. Redemption. You see, only Moto is U.S. owned and operated. Moto. It's American made. That's who we are. And that's who we care about. Play for free at Moto.us.

10:17Moto Casino is a social casino. Avoid were prohibited. No purchase necessary. Visit Moto.us for more details. Must be 21 plus. Moto Casino. America's social casino. I like that. What's wrong with you, Mark? I'll tell you now because I want to talk about left backs. Basically, I don't even know how I've done it and it's jeopardizing my Scotland watch along and my Brazil watch along. I'm not lying. It is getting a little bit better at the moment. If anyone's ever done this, please tell me how I've done it. So I've tweaked a muscle in my back that's radiated down to my shoulder. And when I turn my neck it absolutely kills i'm in absolute agony all on my upper back i've tweaked something i've got dp on the go i've got um paracetamol on the go and every time i turn my leg that that way or get a jolt it is absolutely killing me um so i don't i don't know i mean i enjoyed the watch alongs last night but i had a full bill of health the pain i'm in at the moment and it could be a possible trap nerve.

11:25Yeah, it could be. How do I get rid of that? How do I let it free, Porter? How do you get rid of a trap nerve? I have got some heating pads. Yeah. Yeah. People are saying it could be a trap nerve.

11:39How do I get rid of it then? Loads of people are saying it. Get a massage. It'll last a couple of days. Yeah. Well, I'll be all right. I will do it. I want to do Scooby-Doo tonight. Scooby-Doo at 2am. I don't mean I like, I don't mean the dog. That sounds sinister. I mean like Scott McTominay, Scooby-Doo, 2am Haiti. I want to see some goals. And I want to watch Brazil-Morocco. I will be there. I will be there. Probably won't come, but maybe someone like Mateta, says Alan. I mean, Mateta is a good shout, to be fair. But look, we'll keep an eye on what we're going to do with the striker situation.

12:14But I am encouraged by the fact that we are getting a bit of information about that. Louis Skelly, someone just said about what about Louis Skelly? Well, we're moving on to left back. So the updates on left back is this. Also in the Manchester Evening News, at the moment, the focus is on a left back rather than a left winger. United do like Lewis Hall and a deal could be done, with the ideal aim being to find a long term successor to Shaw. Patrick Dorgue is being considered more of a winger at the moment. And I think that means it's unlikely a left winger will join. There is interest in Morgan Rodgers and NJ, but the deal would have to work financially and it isn't a priority at the moment.

12:57Quite an in-depth update there. And one I would suggest that doesn't necessarily help us in relation to putting meat on the bones, but probably gives a bit of a direction of travel. As we know with Lewis Hall, he isn't putting in a transfer request at Newcastle. He's just not happy that he missed out on the World Cup and he was getting left out of the Newcastle team at the end of the season. So it could be, you know, a pat on the back. Sorry about that. Your future's here. And he's like, OK. But remember, Newcastle don't have European football. And this is somebody that was playing very, very well at the Nou Camp against Jamal only a couple of months ago.

13:36Manchester United, that left back spot is there. And if we're on a trajectory up, Luke Shaw is not a left back anymore. So there's a left back position at Man United for the next few years, which will get you in the England team. It'll also get you playing regularly in the Champions League, fingers crossed. So I think Lewis Hall is definitely somebody to monitor. The danger with Lewis Hall, and again, the bullshitters are out. They're starting to talk about it like it's really likely. You speak to people at United and they will tell you, look, we're not going to deny or say we're not in for Lewis Hall like we did with Romero.

14:12But it's not active at the moment. And it's not active at the moment because Lewis Hall would need to push that exit. And he isn't at the moment. Also, Newcastle will ask for probably 70 million for a left back, which is a lot of money, which United won't want to pay. So there's a lot of work to do on Lewis Hall. And then supplementary to that, it looks like left back's more of a priority than a winger. Morgan Rodgers keeps getting mentioned with Man United. I think he's a very good player, but I don't think he's suitable for us. But as we know, Carrick knows him from Middlesbrough. Wilcox knows him from Man City.

14:50And Wilcox seems to be the sort of guy that just looks at who he's worked with before and tries and gets them. So maybe we would go for Morgan Rodgers. He would be expensive and there is competition from Arsenal. As for NJ at Everton, he's another player that could have a good World Cup. And he's already priced at£70 million by Everton. So I think Hall, N 'Jai and Rodgers, very interesting players, but every single one of them is 70 million or above and they're not in a priority position. So I was very, a lot of people saying Anthony Robinson, he did play very well for USA last night, but forget that he plays like that every week for Fulham.

15:27The issue with Anthony Robinson is, would, and I pose the question to you, would Manchester United spend£20-30 million on a player that's 29? And I don't think we will. And he did pick up a lot of injuries last season. So I don't think United would do that deal. so it looks like United have got a lot of plans beyond the midfield and let's not forget the midfield three if it is a three might not be as pleasing to the ears or eyes as we thought it was going to be I think many of us assumed it would be you know maybe a Chiumini a Fernandez and an Edison it could be a Fernandez an Edison and a Tyler Adams or a Balaba so you might not get the dream midfield that you want.

16:17And then after that, I think that it almost gets more difficult. United are looking to make big moves. And I think some of these deals aren't even necessarily that we don't want to buy the players. It's just that the prices might go to stupid levels. I mean, look, Newcastle might say you can have Lewis Hall, but the deal is 70 million. United will walk away from that. Aston Villa might say you can have Morgan Rodgers, but it's 85 million and Man United might walk away from that. So we might have the right intentions, but some of these prices are getting stupid. And just going back to Mateus Fernandes, there is nobody else that's pushing us out of this race at the moment.

16:56We are leading this race and I think we will get the deal done, but we are going to spend a lot of money. We are going to spend a lot of money. It's going to be overpriced. As I said, overpriced is not normally, well, it can be, but it's not necessarily a negative thing if it's the player that you really, really want. And it's funny because somebody in the comments last night said, yeah, but you said Belaber at 70 million is overpriced and we shouldn't do it. Yeah. Listen to yourselves, right? I also said last summer, Belaber at 80 million pounds, go and do it if that's the player that you want.

17:33I don't have to agree with what the club are doing, but if you want the player, go and spend it. And then, you know, you will pay the price of getting it wrong or you will get criticized if you get it wrong. A lot of people don't want to pay 80 million pounds for Fernandes. I don't have a problem with it. But I can't see as overpaying for everybody. I can't see if it's giving 70 million pounds for Hall. I can't see if it's giving 85 million pounds for Rodgers. I think Fernandes will probably be the biggest signing we make this summer. So you've got to look at where the alternatives are to someone like Lewis Hall.

18:04where would you go beyond Lewis Hall? And the issue that you've got, and I hate to say this because we've already bought Edison, but United have sort of walked into their own trap. They've made a big deal about Premier League proven. They've almost patted themselves on the back and told the world because United are a PR machine and they tell the world about stuff for clicks and kicks. So they won't shut up about Embermo and Kunia and how great they are because they were Premier League proven, right? And they've told us this multiple times, but they've also backed themselves into a corner because they've gone, look at what we did.

18:44We got Embermo and Cunha from the Premier League. We are so good at our job. Look at what we did. We brought two Premier League proven players in and it's helped us to get third place. We're so good and we're going to do it again. The problem is the Premier League is really expensive and we've backed ourselves into the corner of we need to buy more Premier League players. but they're all bloody overpriced. Actually, you look at teams like Brighton, even Man City, Arsenal to a certain extent, Liverpool, they do buy quite regularly outside the Premier League. And I feel like if you're going to overpay for Fernandes, it might not be a bad idea to underpay for a French player or a La Liga player or a Bundesliga player.

19:30But we sort of backed ourselves into the corner with look at what we did with kunya and embermo and it worked and we're going to stick to that but it will be difficult because lewis hall enjai rogers tiago every premier league um belaba scott garner everybody is going to be expensive krupy someone just said in the chat whereas if you go for tory at hoffenheim or noosa at leipzig or stiller at Stuttgart and there will be other players in the French League and in La Liga and other leagues, they will be a lot cheaper because that's how those leagues survive now. They feed, they create talent and they feed it into the Premier League.

20:16So we have got to be realistic as to how we're going to navigate this window. I genuinely do think Man United want to sign three midfielders, a left back, a backup striker, and maybe another couple. I think we do want to sign six, seven, eight players, but the hindrance will be we've sort of backed ourselves into a corner that we're going to buy Premier League. Put it this way, if you get Edison for 40, Fernandes for 60 you spend 100 you still got 50 60 70 left if you spend 80 on Fernandes you know that's well over 100 million pounds when you add Edison in it you've got less to spend so the market is rich the options are plentiful and United do have a budget but it's not an infinite budget Martin says do you think any centre-backs are going to come in?

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21:44I... a Moto Casino app today. I don't. And I don't think we need to because I think if you give Harry Maguire a contract and he's not gone to the World Cup, so he'll be fresh. Martinez is back and playing very, you know, you know what? I do want to say this actually. It prompted a very good point. To all the people who were saying get rid of Martinez, he's injury prone. He's absolutely not injury prone. He might have been working towards a big World Cup for Argentina, but he is not injury prone. I mean, he is on it. He is absolutely on it at the moment. So, you know, you've got Harry Maguire, Martinez, Yoro, Heaven.

22:27We've got to figure out what we're doing with those two players, by the way. I mean, buying another centre-back, to me, seems very odd when Heaven and Yoro, their futures are very much still in the balance and they're our players. We've got a responsibility. And then you've got Dalit. So we've got five centre-backs for two positions and Masraoui can play there and Luke Shaw can play there. So I don't think this is the summer to do it. Chris says, the Litt's injury prone. He's not injury prone, mate. He's had a bad injury. It's a bit like my neck injury. He's had a bad injury. So I think we need to learn about our centre-backs before we go and buy another one.

23:03Alshamari says, next season we will hate football, all of us. I come to the point that it's okay for me that United get relegated if that will get the bad owners out. Okay, a bit of negativity there. uh try needling by a physical therapist for your medical issues as al president it's a saturday afternoon man i'm not doing anything like that i'm just wondering if you know a bit of deep heat um would you scout a coach in the world cups is just pasty um i don't know whether you're trying to be clever there by saying we shouldn't scout players and then you're gonna go well you would scout a coach but pochettino coaching is very different to playing um because you can see the style of play that they're trying to implement i mean i thought the usa played very well last night and I thought Pochettino showed what a good coach he is, but I'd be looking at the full picture.

23:49And I said this last night, you know, United could have looked at Pochettino, we could have looked at Nagalsman, but so could have Chelsea, so could have Liverpool, so could have Man City. It just seems that every club decided they weren't going to wait until after the World Cup, probably because they want to get on with transfers before. But I tell you what, there are two or three decent coaches in that World Cup that will be available at some point in the next 12 months. But we can't think like that. We can't think like that. You know, we've got to back Carrick and give him the players that he needs.

24:23It won't ever happen, but Endrick would be perfect, says CSRR. No, I can't see that happening at all. And Rude says, I pulled a nerve like that, sneezing while standing up. You need a sauna and a massage. Thank you, pal. Ross McRae, magician. hope you're doing well says who would you buy to replace an honor and beinda ross i'm not going to be rude but i don't care um i said this in the week um there are three stories in this transfer window that made me want to go to bed and sleep one of them is what's going to happen with agate the second one is what's going to happen with xerxi i have no excitement about these at all i said this about sancho last year i had no interest in sancho updates at all it boy it bored their shit out of me and um i'm bored about agate and zerk see hopefully they both go and we replace them the third most boring story is who's the backup goalkeeper gonna be i have never been excited about signing a backup goalkeeper and i'm not about to get excited now we have lemans in goal which has solved our degea problem and whoever the backup goalkeeper is i don't care it's like when we bought bloody um grant mitchell or no what was his name yeah i mean I just don't care.

25:39You certainly won't get me doing videos about peristal terms. Agreed. Oh, deal close. Here we go. It's Darlow. I don't, I genuinely don't care. Highly recommend a chiropractor long term, says Paul. That sounds great to me. Ice first to bring down the inflammation, says Goldilocks. Sorry, Gold. The Gold Bix, thank you. And we've done that from Alan Meher about Mateta as well. Mr. Connor Nine says, Would you agree that Man United gave Fernandes Ferguson too much power, which meant United's success would always have a time limit because of the lack of structure under him and reliance on personality?

26:15I would completely disagree with that. I think I don't know whether you're trolling, but Sir Alex Ferguson built Manchester United from the ashes. He built structure into the club so that there was a continuous, you know, what's the word? methodology from youth to the first team he rebuilt five different teams he changed his assistant coach regularly style of play and consistently won titles and went out occasionally and bought the best players for big prices so i i don't think it's almost like you're hinting that sir alex ferguson set us up to fail when he built us to succeed um jürgen klopp at liverpool followed a very similar pathway that Sir Alex Ferguson followed at Liverpool, at Man United.

27:08Pep Guardiola did at Man City. Arteta has at Arsenal. It's crazy that we don't follow the blueprint of our own success, but other clubs are being successful following our blueprint. If you look at Arsenal, Arteta has rebuilt that club entirely and occasionally makes expensive top-class signings. That's what we did. Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp rebuilt that club entirely and occasionally made very expensive world-class signings. So I think the model of Sir Alex Ferguson is exactly what we should be doing. Could Martinez not fill in at CDM, spend big on a midfielder? This is Marcus.

27:49You know, Lissandro Martinez could play in the midfield, but it's quite sickening that people think that's a good idea. You may as well put glazers in on your T-shirt because you're just basically making it okay not to spend money and let's use somebody who can do a job in the team. It's like using Mason Mountner. Daniel Thompson, hope you're doing well, says, hope everyone's well, having a good day, and hope Seb's football went well if he played. Hope your back neck is better soon and great watch-along last night. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm really enjoying the watch-alongs, and I just need to rest up a little bit.

28:21The plan for the rest of the day, by the way, just to let you know if you're World Cup interested, etc., that I am not doing Switzerland against Qatar at 8 o 'clock. I'll have it on the telly, but I'm doing a live United Stand show at 8 o 'clock. The one thing I want to make very clear is I'm loving the World Cup, but United Stand comes first. So we will have an 8 o 'clock show tonight, Saturday night live at 8. Then it's Masraoui time. It's Morocco against Brazil. It's Masraoui against Cunha. 11 o 'clock on That's Football. We'll be live for that. And then I'm doing Scotland at 2 a.m. So that's the plan for the rest of the day.

28:55I hope you have a great day. Thank you, everybody, for tuning in on this one. And I did say I would do a live show, but obviously I wasn't able to do one at 10 a.m. Tomorrow morning, we were back in the 10 a.m. slot as well. So it was because I had to go to Seb's football this morning that I couldn't do it. Riley says, do you think Aidan Heaven can play in the centre midfield? Why don't we just put Tom Heaton in there as well? That'd be a good idea. Stay safe, everyone. I'll catch you all later. Take care and make sure you subscribe, smash a like on the video and all that jazz. And have a great day.

29:25As I say, don't fall for the bullshit. PSG have not gesumped Man United. Real Madrid have not swooped in and took Fernandes. We don't need to go to plan C, D or F yet. We're in the driving seat. As of this minute, we're in the driving seat. Of course, PSG, Real Madrid could swoop in. I don't feel it's going to happen. Beware of the scaremongering. I think Fernandes to Man United is looking very good at this moment in time. Take care, everyone. Speak to you in a bit.

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