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1:47Hello, everybody. Welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge. This is your latest Manchester United news, and we've got big injury updates this morning, but also something a little bit different on a morning show. That is not a glitch. This is, well, I want to build Man United's best 11, and I want you to get in the comments if you're not watching live, because I think this is a painful truth. I think there is a huge problem with Man United. And if you've played FC 27 this year or football manager or just sat there and looked at our team, you come to a very, very painful conclusion. What is our best 11?

2:22And is it actually good enough? Is Belaber actually in the best 11? He's fit again. Is Dilett in it? He's fit again. We have no Sesco. What is our best 11? What is the painful truth of Manchester United? Because ultimately, I just think we're just a mess. It's chaos. Absolute chaos. Also got some very interesting things about the fullbacks around. We know they're not good enough, but what Carrick is trying to do that probably won't work if we're being completely honest as well. So we'll delve into that as well. But let's hit the news. They're just the players, by the way, that I think are in a best 11.

2:54They're not mine. I just think we have no other left back, Luke Shaw. We have no other left centre back, Martinez. Obviously, Le Mendes in goal. Bruno starts, Maynou. they're the only definitive players I would put definitely in without debate that's why they're on the pitch at the moment but look let's get into the news first of all make sure you smash a like and subscribe and also get your comments in today because it's going to be one of those sort of shows so Manchester Evening News are talking about Sesco this morning and what they're basically saying is is that Sesco is facing well what I'm saying is facing a long period on the sidelines again.

3:32So effectively, we don't even have a bloody striker. So Man United have carried out further tests and scans on Cesco's recurring shin injury last week and are now finalising a treatment plan. He had two months to rest during the summer, followed by a tailored return to first team training and matches. But the issue has flared up again. So I think conservatively, I would say he's out for another month. Worst case scenario, he could be out till Christmas. it's a problem and it's a problem that is emphasized by bringing the focus back onto the red side of Manchester and ignoring the light blue for a bit because I think what what that light blue story is doing is distracting from the realities of how bad the situation is for Man United worst Premier League start terrible football chaos what's our best 11 terrible transfer window there's a lot of things that are an issue for Manchester United and maybe, maybe not Man City get a points deduction but that shouldn't be.

4:30I see United fans who are saying things like we need this points deduction for Man City because that's our biggest hope of top four. How embarrassingly crap is that? How shameful is that? We need this Man City points deduction to guarantee top four. I mean, pure luck and escapism through the glazes again, isn't it? Man United need a points deduction for Man City so that we can get into the Champions League. That's how scary the reality could be. But with Cesco, it's looking like a long period on the sidelines. I've actually got a couple of other things for you as well. Now, these are rumours at the moment, but let me just finish with Cesco.

5:08I like Cesco. My issue, my only potential positive with Cesco is that even when he was fit, Carrick wasn't using him. I don't think Sesco's in Carrick's best 11 that we're going to build in a minute. I don't think Sesco's in it. So I don't think Michael Carrick can really come out and go, oh no, Sesco's injured. What am I going to do? Because he didn't pick him anyway. I would have picked him. I think some of you would have picked him. But I don't actually think Sesco was a starter for Carrick anyway. So whatever the plan was going to be, I don't think it was going to be Sesco. But I think it's a big loss.

5:41This is why we needed to buy a striker in the summer. and I also think with Sesco, this is a rumour, but I also think with Sesco, second time, same injury in six months. Sometimes people get an injury that becomes a major problem. This is not a separate injury. It's the same injury and he had a lot of rest in the summer and it's come back and both times those injuries, really nothing happened. It's just an issue. So this could be a long, it's not like he's back at Christmas or he's back in October and everything's okay. This could be a long-term issue with Sesco at£68 million. So hopefully, he can sort it out.

6:20Dorgou's going to be out for a while as well. Again, Man United will not confirm anything. I was trying to find out about Rashford yesterday. You can't find anything out. You can't find anything out about Maynou and you can't find anything out about Dorgou. But Dorgou's issue is rumoured to be a reoccurrence of his hamstring issue that he had in January as well. So you've got Sesco with a recurrence of the injury had in May, and we've now got Dorgoo with a recurrence of the injury that he had in January, which is massively disappointing because we've spent close to£100 million on these two players and we bought them both in their early 20s and they're both getting recurring injury problems that are keeping them out for quite a considerable period of time.

7:00Hamstrings are strange. We saw Bruno with a hamstring injury at Christmas and he was back within a week. I mean, he is robotic, but that's incredible. We've seen other people with hamstring injuries and they're out for five weeks. So with Dorgoo, I would say somewhere between the Spurs game and the next international break, we will see him back, hopefully. But it's a bad injury. Yoro is a separate matter. This I would keep an eye on. This is starting to circulate, not public yet, but in and around the area I call public, private and then journalists and agents. So Jorow has basically, I don't know how many years Jorow's got left on his contract actually, maybe somebody can answer that to me, but essentially when we do this, Jorow's not in it.

7:47When is he in it? It's year three. Jorow has been part of the French squad, but you've got Zinedine Zidane talking about how amazing Jacquet is, who's just signed for Liverpool and gone straight into the team. This is not lost on Joros' inner circle. Now, I'm not saying it's the same as JJ, but you have got a player here who is sort of looking at it and going, I've been here for three years. You spent£50 million on me. I'm nowhere near the starting line-up. Liverpool bought a player in a similar situation. They're starting him next to Van Dijk. And now Zidane Zidane, the French manager, is saying what a great player he is.

8:23This is not lost on the people around Yoro in relation to his development. This is something to monitor this season because that pathway isn't there and it's year three. And some people would say, well, that's on him. Some people would say, no, it's Carrick picking people to get short-term results. He's not looking long-term in anything that he's doing. Lacey scored a goal, didn't get involved afterwards. Obviously, JJ has not had any minutes. And defensively, Heaven and Yoro have been moved out so that he can keep picking Maguire and Martinez and the defense hasn't been very good. There's not a lot of long-term planning beyond Maynou.

9:01Even Rashford's back in the team straight away. So he's going with inexperienced, sorry, he's going with inexperienced, sorry, he's going with the experienced proven players. So keep your eye on the Oro situation, keep your eye on the heaven situation because both those players have a case that they should be getting more minutes and they're not getting them. So just keep an eye on that one. Carrick has no faith in our youth. says Yuri, Sir Alex put his faith and trust in the class of 92 and look at his history. Thank you very much for that, Yuri. Look, I think, look, the painful truth, which is what we're going to get into now after a bit of topical stuff there, is that when you look at Man United's best 11, and I'm going to build mine in a minute and we can check the comments later.

9:42Give us your best 11 and why. I'm very interested to read those later and we can bring some into the eight o 'clock show tonight, if we have time. I'm doing a Man United FC 27 career mode at the moment, and I turned off summer transfer window. So I have to get through to January with the squad that Carrick's got. And although it's a computer game, I think if you're playing FC 27, footy manager, or just sat with a pen and paper, the big problem you find is that, and I would summarise Man United's squad in one word as mediocre. It's really difficult to build patterns. It's really difficult to build styles of play.

10:23It's really difficult to look at longevity because you've got two options, really. You either go, right, the future is Lenny Yorow, Aidan Heaven, Manu, Belayba, Ahmad, people like that. And I know Ahmad's injured, Sesko, when he's fit. But Carrick hasn't done that. Carrick's chosen Martinez, Maguire, Luke Shaw, Deleu, Tillemans, Cunha, Embermo. He goes for more experienced players. And I think that, to me, is always the sign of a manager that's chasing results. Now, there's nothing wrong with that. but it's like that car when you keep ignoring the petrol station. So you're driving down the road and you're trying to catch up with Arsenal, right?

11:09But Arsenal won't stop and you're looking at your petrol gauge and you're going, it's coming down but if I pull into the petrol station and fill up, they keep going and the gap gets bigger. But if you keep trying to close the gap and you're not, eventually you'll run out of petrol and then the gap will get bigger anyway. Carrick needs to start pulling in for petrol and hoping that Arsenal pull in at some point and you'll catch them up. But we're not. We're just going with what we've got game after game. And the reality is Luke Shaw, Deleuze, Maguire and others, to be fair, there are other names you could use.

11:46Some people would even say people like Rashford and Bruno. There is a limit to what they can do and there is a any PRV. Performance has never been there. Results have been there, but aren't now. And vision has never been there as well. We're lacking all that. It's a painful truth. That team, look, when I get to the January transfer window in my career mode, watch what I do. I'm not going to give any spoilers, but watch what I do. It's a computer game, but I'm allowed to do it because it's a computer game. I know what I want to do. I want two fullbacks. I want a centre-back. I want another midfielder.

12:21I definitely want another striker and I want a winger and in reality computer game or not that's what I think Man United need we need two fullbacks we need another centre back we need another midfielder we need a winger and we need a striker and people would say well why do we need another midfielder because I don't think the midfield that he's got is actually very good you know I want something to eat tonight well there's a bag of crisps well it's food and that's what I feel about the midfield I don't think that midfield's I don't think Tillemans, Balaba and Santos was anybody's idea of a good midfield three back in April.

12:57And it's not my idea of one in September either or October. So I do think we need another midfield. But my big problem is, my big problem is, is that in October, which is now when the games come back, we're not in a good position. We're out the Carabao Cup. We've had a crap start to the season. We've had one easy game in the Champions League. we've got the likes of Como, Atletico Madrid, Roma we've got the likes of Chelsea, Brentford, Spurs we've got some very big games coming up now there will be an upturn in results at some point because Man United aren't totally shit but we're not totally good either and the scary truth is is that regardless of how captivated and distracted you are by the blue side of Manchester the red side of Manchester is very, very, very foggy like the future is not clear.

13:48It's survival ball already. The painful truth is that we're playing survival ball with players that we've been relying on for years. I mean, how many years has Bruno been here? Rashford, I know, but he's been here a long time. Maguire's been here a long time. Luke Shaw's been here a long time. There's nothing massively new about that team. and I don't see him trying to build anything new either. I don't see January being what it will be on FC 27 for me either. I don't see next summer being that exciting. I think United are driving with the handbrake on is the painful truth. And whilst we can get, if we go and beat Spurs next Saturday, there will be a lot of excitement and I will be there.

14:33But beyond the excitement of beating Spurs, tell me the vision of Man United because it's crap. It's really crap. And that's the harsh truth, in my opinion. Now, when it comes to United's best 11, this is what I think Carrick's best 11 is at the moment. So obviously, you've got Le Mendes in goal. I personally do think that at right back, it is still him. Now, I want to focus on this because this is really interesting, right? So So I've got a little bit of information for you here. So I've whacked. This is really interesting, right? Man United's fullbacks. I've chucked in the first five games of the Premier League to compare Man United's fullbacks to everybody else, right?

15:18And I've got the top 50 here. So really interesting. Crosses per 90 this season so far. We've got Hull City's left wing back. I don't know how he's doing seven crosses per 90. That's incredible. Frimpong, who's been on the bench a lot, is doing five. But they're both attacking fullbacks, aren't they? Lewis Potter at Brentford, four crosses per 90 is incredible. Andy Robertson at Spurs, four crosses per 90. You've then got Anthony Robinson up there at four crosses per 90. You would expect him. And then you've got Munez and Luke Shaw and Truffaut at just over three crosses per 90. Now, people are going to be spitting out their breakfast saying, Luke Shaw, three crosses per 90.

16:03Are you sure about that? Yes, I am. But when you go back to last season, Luke Shaw was averaging about 1.3 crosses per 90. So this is what I mean about analysing football. Luke Shaw this season is averaging around three crosses per 90, whereas last season it was about 1.2. That is a huge increase in Luke Shaw getting forward to put crosses in.

16:33unfortunately he is not he can't do it anymore and this is what I mean about the board Delo's still not doing many of them by the way but Luke Shaw is doing more of them now is that because Marcus Rashford's there and Marcus Rashford benefits from an overlapping fullback probably you know I think if you're playing Rashford on the left you have to have a winger that's going to run past him because what you want with Marcus Rashford when he gets the ball is everybody knows he's not got a left foot. So if I'm a right back marking Marcus Rashford, I know he's not going to go down the left-hand side.

17:03So I'm showing him in onto his right foot and I'm closing that door. So what you do as a coach is you say to your left back, whether you like it or not, I need you bombing past Marcus Rashford to make that fullback think the ball's going to go to him, which gives Rashford the opportunity to come inside on his right foot. So absolutely, tactically, Michael Carrick is correct. The problem is we've got an ancient fullback who isn't very good anymore, now running more than he was last season. Hence, last season, he didn't get many injuries and this season he's already had one. This is preposterous.

17:38This is a tactical no-no. This is absolutely ridiculous. Now, some people like Ricky probably left when I said he's doing three crosses per 90 and got on Instagram doing a video. Pick a card. But he hasn't stayed for the big, he hasn't stayed for the mic drop, has he? We have increased Luke Shaw's workload at a point where he can't do it. He can't do it. So Luke Shaw is putting more crosses in, way more crosses than last season. Because when you've got Rashford on the wing, you need an overlapping fullback. But we're making Luke Shaw run more at 31 with an injury prone career. I mean, there's two big takeaways today.

18:20There's a basic takeaway and then there's a higher level takeaway. The higher level takeaway is Sesco's injured for a long period of time and we didn't buy a striker in the summer. The higher level takeaway is we didn't buy a left back when everybody said we needed a left back. But the hilarity around it is that we actually now use a left winger that absolutely needs an overlapping left back. So you need an energetic young left back who can go back and forward and back and forward. We've got Marcus Rashford on the wing who needs that overlapping fullback. We've got Luke Shaw doing it at 31. It's ridiculous.

18:52But for anybody who thinks that's bullshit, why is Luke Shaw's attacking crossing output nearly more than doubled? He's gone from 1.3 crosses per 90 to three because he's having to do a load of running to overlap Rashford and he's going to get fucking injured. And also he's not very good at it. So again, the painful truth for Carrick is he's having to use people that shouldn't be doing the job because the club haven't backed him really. But look, it still will be Luke Shaw. Deleuze, I would say it right back as well. Just in relation to our fullbacks, by the way, just some other interesting things.

19:31So Deleuze doesn't even feature in the top 30 for crosses per 90. Successful attacking actions per 90. We're not really anywhere there in the top 20 either. I can't even find Luke Shaw or Deleu there. Let's have a look at what else, what else, what else. Passes per 90. Luke Shaw is in the top five with 50 passes per 90. Deleu's way down with below 40. I mean, I don't know. Passes per 90 could be passing it around the back. Cool, can't it though, really? Successful defensive actions per 90. Wan-Bissaka is the best in the league with 15, which is an incredible number. Lewis Hall is second with 13.

20:18Mookie Elliott Sunderland is third with 12 successful defensive actions per 90. You've got Nico Williams, Truffaut, Dedic, Mikalenko. Dorgu's actually there with 10, but obviously he doesn't play much. Nunez, Porro, Mitchell, Weaver, Hato, Nunez, Cash, Einer, Bogle, Mattson, Keode, Loopshaw, But yeah, so our fullbacks aren't very good, are they? We need two fullbacks, in my opinion. Right-sided centre-back. I actually think De Litt... I actually think De Litt's better than Maguire. If we can get him back fit. Remember, we're doing Man United's best 11 here. Carrick's best 11. I think De Litt over Maguire.

21:01I might be wrong about that. Carrick might still stick with Maguire, but I personally think it is still De Litt. Into the midfield, I still think it's Tillemans. I still think Carrick wants Tillemans in that midfield. Now, I might get proven wrong. I'll give you my 11 in a minute, but I still think Tillemans is in his best 11 with Maynou and Bruno. I've said this at the start of the season. I'll say it again now. I do not think you buy 29-year-old Tillemans to stick him on the bench. So I still think he will go with Tillemans and Maynou in his best 11. I do. but Labour's a very important player but I just don't think he'll bench Manu or Tillemans I don't I might be wrong on that I think I need to be wrong on that but I don't think he will obviously Rashford is his winger we know that 100 % 100 % it's Rashford on the left hand side there's no debate about that I think Embermo's his striker to be honest with you and I think Ahmad's his winger I think that's Carrick's best 11 when everyone's fit.

22:13I'm absolutely convinced Embermo's his striker. I think the only reason Embermo's not playing up front is because Ahmad's injured. I think when Ahmad's back, it'll be Ahmad and Rashford as the wide players. I think it's Tillemans and Maynou, and I think that's his back four. I think that's Carrick's best 11. Now, however many times you get to put your best 11 out is debatable because you're always going to have suspensions and injuries. But I think if everyone's fit, that's his best team. Now, do you think that is a good Man United XI? To be honest with you, that's the sort of team that could beat Liverpool at home, but get beat by Brighton away.

22:46That's how I'd describe that team. It's capable of getting a result, but it's also capable of getting beaten. It's not comparable to Arsenal, City. And I'd argue it's no better than what Chelsea, Liverpool, Brighton can put out. I don't think it's good enough. It's not horrific, but I don't think it's good enough. Cunha should be on the left, says Warren. Look, my best 11 at the moment would be to put Cunha here.

23:23I would also...

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25:14I mean, if Sesco was fit, I'd put Sesco there. To be honest, if Sesco's not going to be fit for the next while, I probably would go with M. Boomer, if I'm being honest.

25:25I would probably go Santos or Belaba in there and I can't stand our full backs and look, it's Santos or Belaba I haven't got a Belaba shield I don't think so I can't put Belaba in there but it's Santos or Belaba you've got to put some legs in there I would put Seska up front if Mbemo was fit but I think Kunja and Ahmad are so important when you've got fullbacks like we have. We saw this last season. I think it was a hidden secret that Ahmad and Kunya work incredibly hard and they help the fullbacks. And Bermot and Rashford are different type of wingers. They're more attacking wingers. They're not to their, you know, it's not their problem, but they're not as hardworking defensively as Kunya and Ahmad.

26:14So I think that that's how I would do it. But in reality, that's a painful truth. That team needs two fullbacks, another midfielder, another winger, another striker, and another centre-back for me. I don't think De Litton-Martinez is long-term. Certainly Maguire and Martinez is not long-term. I genuinely think we need a really good centre-back, two fullbacks, another midfielder, a winger, and a striker. and that's for the first team. That's what I think we need for the first team. Moose One says, I know predictions are possibly of favourite outcomes, but confidence is very low. Wonder regardless of what instructions a coach gives, the players and situations determine the playing style adjustments.

27:00Whose fault? Says Moose One. I mean, look, I think that there are players that are running things at that football club and I've thought that for a long time. I don't think, I don't know Michael Carrick, but I don't think he's a strong enough manager. Well, he's not a manager anyway. I don't think Michael Carrick commands that dressing room the way a manager or a coach needs to demand it. I don't. I think he's another Oli. I think he's somebody that can do well at United but needs to do well by keeping everybody on side. Whereas I think other managers demand respect. I don't think he can do that at this stage of his career because I think it's too much too soon.

27:39I think yet again, we've over-promoted somewhat. We did it with Oli. We've done it with Carrick. Oli's not been a Man United manager for a while and he's never had a big job since because he was over-promoted. Michael Carrick got sacked by Middlesbrough. If he loses the job at United, he won't get a big job again because we've over-promoted these players. What we do is we kid ourselves that having played for the football club means that you don't need to have a CV. You can't give the job to Oli or Carrick and expect them to rejuvenate and run a dressing room in a way that it needs to be run. That dressing room has always needed a kick up the arse and I don't think we're going to get that, to be honest.

28:17Constantine says, we've conceded seven goals in our last four games, which is way too much for a top four club. Our wing play consistently leaves too much space on the flanks and our centre box are slow to react to the ball. Yeah, I mean, look, a back four with those four players is a problem with Manu and Tillemans in front of it. There's a lack of pace. We're stuck in limbo. this dilemma of configuration and small changes won't fix it, says the Moose one, who was also a new member as well. Thank you very much for that. I saw rumours that Yarrow is in Arsenal's radar because he's looking to lead because of lack of game time.

28:51Do you see it happening next summer, if it's true, says Dino. Look, what I can tell you is, is that Lenny Yarrow is very happy at Manchester United. But what I can also tell you is, it's not lost on the people around him, that it's year three at Man United and there's no pathway to the first team. and going on French international duty and watching Jacquet go from the French League to Liverpool in the space of two months and being called brilliant by Zinedine Zidane is not lost on them either. It doesn't matter about how happy you are at a football club, his career is on standstill. This is not what he would have wanted from his first two and a bit years at Man United.

29:30So does he have a pathway to the team? I don't think Michael Carrick's that type of manager. I don't think Carrick has the time to develop players if Lenny Oro started against Spurs and made a mistake in the last minute and we drew people would be saying he's shit but this is how you develop a player you've got to give them game time to develop them so are we that club to do that? probably not Marnig Mark do you think this means we do business in January? says Kobe I'm not convinced that we're going to do much business in January because we're Manchester United and that's not something we normally do Mark Smith says Morning, Mark.

30:08Hope you're well. Birthday morning spent with the United Stan family. No better way to start the day. Can we get a happy birthday for Mark this morning? Hope you're doing very well, pal. Lovely stuff. Yeah, I'll tell you what. I'm doing England against Croatia at five o 'clock today, but I'll tell you what, I'm starting to feel the fatigue of the international break now.

30:27I don't know. I don't know whether I'd like to go back to the three two-week international breaks or keep this for next year. I'm sort of debating it in my head. because I think a three-week international break is too long. It is a very long time. And I did think England playing four games would make it more palatable. It's too long. I think they need to look at it. I don't know what your thoughts are. Get in the comments, let me know. I think a three-week international break is too long. I think it's too long for the players as well. It's almost like a mini pre-season, isn't it, without it? So I quite liked the fact of only having two international breaks.

31:03I'm sort of thinking I'd rather go back to the three because three weeks is too long. It's too long. It's ridiculous now. Yeah. Didn't you say at one point that Spurs are bad and not too much to worry about? I say a lot of things, mate. I don't know. I mean, look, I think Spurs have started the season incredibly badly and I think losing at home to Villa when you've got no wins is really bad. I think coming to Old Trafford with the lack of confidence they've got, we should be beating them. The problem is, at some point, people think Spurs might click. And when you look at their squad, it's very, very good.

31:44We have to win next Saturday. We have to win. I mean, I can't walk around being worried about Spurs. The madness is we sign developmental players, but we do not hire a manager capable of developing them or providing the right environment, is Emily Derry. Oh, yeah, it's an absolute contradiction. We keep buying all these young players and there is no pathway. there's no development it's uh it's an absolute contradiction definitely emily um liam says off topic hypothetically right now would you take the city charges at united if it meant we would get new owners otherwise have a great weekend that's a hell of a that's a hell of a hypothetical man Liam.

32:25Thanks for being a member, by the way. I think that if I was being completely honest, would I... God. So would I take Man City's charges?

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34:30If it meant we got new owners. Well, the trouble is, if you take Man City's charges, you're known as cheats in the world of football for a very, very long time, aren't you? So, I think that's... Look, I would take new owners if Man United were in League Two. I would do that. I've got no real issue with that one at all.

34:58But I don't know whether I'd want to take their charges and be called a cheat. I think that one's a tough one. We've had a super chat come in here from John Bottomley. Luke Shaw played centre-half for six months, not the same. John, look, I appreciate you getting involved, but what I don't like is people who just throw out opinion without actually backing it up. because I actually do spend time checking these things out. So what John is doing without researching is last season, Luke Shaw was averaging about 1.3 crosses per 90 and now he's averaging three. So John's saying, well, he played centre-back last season for six months.

35:36But the great thing about filtering these things out, John, is that you can do it from January to May when he was playing at left-back under Carrick and it was 1.3. You can also do the pre-season before where he played at left-back and he was averaging 1.5. So Luke Shaw wasn't and hasn't been getting forward, putting crosses in for the last two seasons at left back. The reason he's doing it now is because Marcus Rashford's on the wing and with Rashford on the wing, your fullback has to run past him. Otherwise, everyone knows he's cutting in on his right foot. So John's not right, Jack, because I've got the stats and the information in front of me.

36:17do the last eight games of last season and he'll be averaging 1.2 crosses per 90 and he was playing at left back. That's the genius of research and being able to check it individually and by parameters. Luke Shaw wasn't getting forward for the last two seasons as a left back. Now we've got Rashford. He is. Oh, he's been asked to do it and he won't be able to do it. He won't be able to do it. Stephen says, get rid of the internationals. We've had a World Cup. Thank you very much for that. And you can't give stats on a player that played in two different formations, says Jack, mate. You've just put yourself in a timeout.

36:52Sorry. I'm not, I don't think anybody wants me to keep explaining something twice for morons. Surely there's a channel for Jack and John. Give Luke Shaw a lifetime contract, says Mr. Miyagi. I wouldn't take the charges. We united and we win without cheating, says Tony. And I don't know why youngsters think it's acceptable to cheat nowadays. explain City's denials and corruption of the sports as culture spot. I mean, I don't want to talk about City on this show and we haven't really done it. So what if there's no international break and call up players just missing them? The big problem with the three-week break, right?

37:28And this is just stone cold facts. The big problem with the international break is we've played five Premier League games, a Champions League game and a Carabao Cup game. So you've had a lot of games and you get up to speed, right? Do you then have a three-week international break? So for the likes of Harry Maguire, who isn't on international duty, first week you probably go on holiday, so you slow down. Second week, you start trying to get yourself back up again, and then next week it's preparing for Spurs. It's incredibly stupid. It's incredibly stupid, because if you're playing international football, you're going to keep your intensity, but you're a long way away from your team.

38:09Three weeks is a long time away. But if you're not an international footballer, like people like Phil Foden, then you just go from being up here and your match sharpness and fitness just drops. It's too long. Three weeks is too long. Two weeks flies by. Three weeks is too long. So I don't know whether we're sticking with it next year or not. And the sad thing is as well, Michael Carrick can't get Maguire and Mount and Shaw and whoever else is left to work on patterns of play against Spurs because he knows full well on the Thursday before Spurs, his real players are coming back. So you can't work on anything either.

38:48It's just too long. Too long, in my opinion. Thank you so much for tuning in this morning. Appreciate you. We are back at eight o 'clock tonight. What I want you to do if you didn't watch live or if you did watch live is get in the comments with your best 11 because I want to use it for something on socials anyway. So thank you very much. that team on there is not Carrick's. I think this is Carrick's. Gunja Rashford. That's Carrick's best 11, I think. That's what I think his best 11 is. Take care, everyone. Stay safe. Get yours in the comments. I'll speak to you all in a bit.

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