Carrick's JOB Warning! Gyökeres TRANSFER Bid?

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1:27Hello everybody, welcome to the United Stands. I'm Mark Goldbridge. How are we doing? You're legends. We're live. The international break is over. We've got a live preview for you at 8 o 'clock tonight for the Spurs game who we play in nearly 48 hours. What a long three weeks it's been. We've also got press conference reaction at lunchtime as well. So Carrick's job warning. We'll be talking about that on the show this morning. Has he only got a month to save his job as Fabregas waits on the bench, on the shadows, whatever you want to call it. We'll talk about that story. Also, Jocares to Manchester United.

1:59Is that something viable? Would you be happy with that? I would. We'll talk about that as well. And some further comments coming out from Sir Alex Ferguson about the new stadium, about how he nearly didn't retire and how he wished he'd gone for Pep Guardiola and how close that was as well. So we'll delve into that a little bit later into the show. But welcome to the show. I can't believe the change in temperature. I have a little temperature thing in here because in the summer it was getting so hot. It was getting up to like 29 degrees in this little room. It's 15.8 degrees in here at the moment.

2:31Welcome to the UK, the change in temperature. I had to bloody delay the start of the show to find my slippers. I love a pair of slippers though. I don't care. Look, look, there we go. They're my slippers. I go for that sort of style. I don't know what the start. I love him. I don't care. I love it. Anyway, last to get into on the show today. Apparently, Carrick's been given a job warning. No more losses. He's got one month to save his job. We'll delve into that one straight away. But before we do that, I just must remind you, if you are a member, got something a bit special for you after the show tonight.

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3:32i didn't think i needed to show you when i spoke with my head you can't slag off passengers in united anymore we're playing with american I think I should have gone for that. I think I should have gone for that. I say, Lewis, they're in fighting. We've got them.

3:52He was, dude.

3:58I didn't think he was going to do it. He's very competitive, Wayne. He's very, very competitive. That was my first time playing paddle. You can play against us. If you want to find out how to do that, Check out the members video, get in the comments of that. But good fun. Check it out on the members section. Into today's show, though. So look, don't shoot the messenger. I think that what I would say about...

4:26Hold on a minute. Let me just... One minute. I'm just going to send it. What I would say about this is it's coming in from Indy Kayla. and the Ocaraz thing, I will do a poll on.

4:56So basically, this has come out this morning. Sorry, I've just got a little bit of stuff in there that hopefully I'll bring into the show for you as well. This can happen when we're live. so effectively let me just see where this is here so I think I'm on the wrong bit here it'll be worth it in the end don't worry Sir Alex Ferguson Pep Guardiola so Indy Kayla News are saying that we exclusively broke that Michael Carrick has until the next international break to turn results around Fabregas is a serious option if Carrick is removed as manager of Man United The name will not go away. So this was causing a lot of excitement last night.

5:38Look, I don't acknowledge that source as credible, by the way. I don't. I think they did very well on Belaber. They post two or three times a day, and I don't think they've had anything right in 12 months. So their success rate or hit rate is worse than the bloody Timo Werner one-on-one on goal. So I don't think they've got some sort of exclusive on Michael Carrick. We are playing Como in two weeks, actually, looking forward to that game. So look, Fabregas has a great opportunity to show his worth. What I am interested in is the situation over the next eight games. We have five Premier League games and three Champions League games before the next international break in November.

6:26and there is no appetite for Michael Carrick to lose his job in the corridors of power at Manchester United. They're completely incompetent. They're not interested. They'd rather put a tweet out about a crap player to try and get them popular. This is propaganda. This is how Man United work. They're not interested in winning. They're interested in manipulating you. That's why they'll put a compilation out about a crap player because they'll know that you think they're crap. So they try to reverse psychology you to go, they're not crap. Be sympathetic. Their whole power play, the Glazer's whole power play is like a cockroach.

7:05How do we survive? How do we survive this nuclear war? And they will, because that's what cockroaches do. They're not interested in going, I know how to be popular. I'll get rid of this shit and I'll buy good things. I'll get rid of an average manager and I'll get a good manager in. I'll pump money in to be successful because that costs them money. The Glazer playbook is how do we survive without spending money? And they've done it for 20 years. So they've got no interest in sacking managers. They've got no interest in spending big money. That what they have got an interest in is bringing in a PR person who can make crap players more popular so they can survive longer.

7:44You can fill the blanks in in the comments with players that I'm describing here. I don't need to fill the names in. Hello, I'm player A. I've been at Man United for over five years. I've sacked multiple managers. I've had multiple bad games. I really shouldn't be here. I probably earned somewhere between 150 and 350 grand a week, which means I could be player A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I. I'm not very good. I'm very, very inconsistent. Nobody will buy me, but my chances of getting a new contract are far better than them actually selling me because basically I'm exactly what the Glazers like. Somebody that's already here that they don't have to pay to replace.

8:28So they'll pump money into my marketing to make you like me. So expect me to appear on your timeline at any point in the next two weeks doing something good I did in a season three years ago. That's basically the Glazer playbook. And it needs exposing because they've been doing it for a decade. Shit players that shouldn't be here get glazed. Even Michael Carrick, before the international break, they just posted a picture of Carrick. I remember mentioning on the show, it was a picture of Carrick. I think we just bloody lost some points. and you sort of like go, what is this subliminal manipulation?

9:10Like Carrick had had a shit start to the season and they posted a picture of him. And you know what? If you look in the comments, you know what you saw? My manager. And this is what they do. This is what they do. So look, they've got no interest in sacking Michael Carrick. They've got no interest in selling Luke Shaw or Deleau. It's fantasy. And they've got no interest in signing people like Elliot Anderson or Alex Scott. They won't sign the players we need and they won't get rid of the players that we need to get rid of. So I don't think right here, right now, Indy Kaler or anybody else have any information that Man United have given Michael Carrick a job warning.

9:49However, we have got eight games in a month coming up. And I think if he loses three or four of those, the pressure will start to grow from the people that actually sack managers, which is the media and you. So look, I think that whilst there's no appetite, and I guarantee you now, Man United have got no contingency plan. If Michael Carrick turned up to work tomorrow morning and said, I'm retiring, I don't think they've got anyone planned to bring in. But results will drive competition. And I think it's going to be a very big wake up call for our fan base over the next few games to where we were after Fulham.

10:28This three-week gap has buried a shit, really. It has, like we've all forgotten. And it could all come back very, very quickly. But do I think they've pulled him into an office and given him a job warning? Absolutely not. Patrick Lynch says, speculating that Carrick is under a certain amount of pressure is not revelatory. United managers are always under pressure. Managers in a current job feel less credible to me than someone like Conte. Thank you very much, Patrick. Hope you're doing well. So MU Carry, welcome to the Members Club. Thank you very much for getting your badge in. Don't forget to watch the video that's dropped of me and Rooney playing paddle.

11:05That's very, very good. Right, I want to run a poll here on this. This is the one I want to really, I've got no idea which way this is going to go, but I saw this last night and I thought I'm bringing this into the show. It's topical. It's something I would do. And I think it's something that's going to happen. So, Joachim Rez at Arsenal is unsettled. Definitely, you can see it. I don't think he came back from pre-season looking particularly fit. Arteta clearly prefers Havertz. And I think that there's a very big chance that he's going to leave Arsenal soon. I think he is the sort of player that we could get in January.

11:51I do. I think it's a player that Man United could get in January. And I don't think he'd cost a lot of money. they can't be asking for anything more than 40, 50 million pounds for him. I would sign Jochores. I would. I don't get how a decent player goes to a club, doesn't settle, and suddenly they're shit. There is so much context to this. If you watched Jochores when he was playing for Sporting, he was one of the best strikers in Europe. At Arsenal, you play up front, you don't get quick ball. They're the most pragmatic build-up side I've ever fucking seen. They just do not move the ball quickly in the final third.

12:30They've also got loads of players that are very centric to themselves, like Saka needs goals, Odegaard. They're not really the sort of players that want to play quick ball. They want to play magnetic, pragmatic ball. Jokeres is a breakaway striker. Jokeres is a counter-attacking striker. Jokeres is the guy that runs the channels quickly when you put the ball into the channels and runs after balls quickly. He wants space. I'm not joking. I like Sesco, but I feel Sesco at Arsenal would have done better than Jokeres and Jokeres at Man United would have done better than Sesco. I think he would be a very, very interesting profile striker for Manchester United.

13:12And you know what? I'm not even saying beggars can't be choosers because I think beggars can't be choosers would be people like Calvert-Lewin who I do not want. but Jochores would suit the way Man United play. Well, Jochores would suit the way we play. It's not the way I want to play but we can't play any other style of football other than counterattacking. Spurs are looking for a striker in January. We're looking for a striker in January. We need somebody with a point to prove who is experienced, who suits the way we play and Jochores ticks all three of those boxes and I think Arsenal would do the deal.

13:47I don't think Arsenal see United as a threat. I think he'd be perfect for what we need. I think he'd help Sesko as well. I think there is this almost snobbery around Jokeres because he went to Arsenal and not us. We don't really know what happened there, but I don't blame him for choosing Arsenal over his. And do you really think we were in for him? I don't know. You just don't know, do you? We wanted Elliot Anderson and we never bid. So I think, look, Sesko's not going anywhere, but he might not be fit anytime soon. We need a striker really, really quickly. Jocarez is one-dimensional. Like, I am not going to pretend that he is R9 or Batistuta or Harry Kane.

14:28He is not a link-up striker. He is not dropping deep and getting involved in the play. But what he is, he's a battering ram, last-man striker who occupies centre-backs, runs the channels, and works really, really, really well in a counter-attacking team. I think for United, he would be really, really good for us. Obviously, I think, as Dias says, that AC Milan are looking for a second striker as well, and they might, well, look at that. But I'd be all over this. I really would. It's interesting. The chat's not as bad as I thought it would be. It's basically 50-50, which I can live with. But...

15:09Sorry, I'm loving my coffee this morning. I don't think he's a bad signing. You know, there's people in the chat saying, no, mate, horrible player. I don't think you've watched him. I really don't. I think he struggles in an Arsenal team, but we've seen Cavani, Ronaldo, Martial, Rasmus, Cesc, struggle in a Man United side. So it's OK to say that it's a graveyard shift to play for Man United. But when a striker struggles in an Arsenal team that doesn't play to his strengths, he's suddenly a horrible player. But at sporting and in the Champions League, he was brilliant. this is just like I mean for me this is like what Berbatov said football is a simple game for intelligent people I think if you're an intelligent fan you know what I'm talking about you can't just write a player off because he plays in a team that doesn't play to his strengths I'm telling you now you put Jokeres up front in a team that counters attack I think he'd do a very good job and we need somebody who can come in and score us some goals Now, look, I like Brodby.

16:10I like Brodby. I take Brodby every day of the week. But are we going to go for a player like that? We're cheapskates. I think we might have to get a little bit creative. And I think Jokeres might be somebody that we could get creative with because I don't think his stock's going to be very high. And I do think he suits the way that we play. He wouldn't be my plan A. I haven't said that. What I'm saying is United tend to sign plan D. Tillemans, plan D. Bilaba, plan D. Santos, God knows what plan E was. So we don't even get plan A and B. But I do think there's something there. I would be very much looking at it.

16:47The Beautiful Game says, Carrick relying on the seniors to get results is like trying to cure IBS with a madras. Find myself not caring if the senior five fail. Groundwork is needed, says The Beautiful Game. I think this goes back to, and to be fair, Beth sent me this this morning. It's actually come out from Italian sources that AC Milan are looking at Leni Oro and preparing a bid. You can't trust Italian sources. I think the only Italian source I would say that's any good around transfers these days is Romano. There are plenty of Italian outlets out there, but they're very difficult to verify or trust when it comes to transfers.

17:30Obviously, Lenny Oro was with Amorim, and I think Amorim would probably take a couple of players from Man United if he could. I don't think Lenny Oro is about to sign for AC Milan. I think he'd have better options than the Italian League, with all due respect. Possibly PSG, certainly in Spain. So I don't see that happening. But in answer to the question, I think that you've got to look at...

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19:53and vision. What vision would be would be to utilise people like Lenny Yarrow in the next eight games, because if he just gets results and there's no performance and vision, he won't get off the hook. Carrick's not going to survive. Look, this is a really good point. Carrick could win his next eight games like he won those games between January and May. The club will think he's off the hook. I guarantee you the fan base won't let him. He's not going to survive on results. because he's not an interim. He's got to stop behaving like an interim. Imagine he wins six of his next eight games and draws two.

20:31There'll be this, oh, we're back. You know, the club will be there doing their little compilations. But I guarantee you the fan base won't. He's not an interim coach. He's been given the full-time job. You can't just go out there and grind out results like you did as an interim with counterattacking football. You need to show us a vision. So results have to happen in the next eight games. But also he has to show us a bit of a vision. Picking older players that have had their chances for the next eight games is not the way. He's got to integrate Lenny Yarrow in at least... I'd say in the next eight games, he's got to start Yarrow at least twice.

21:08Got to. What those twice games will be, I don't know. But I expect us to get injuries anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if Maguire gets an injury before Dillard's back and then Yorro gets his chance. Slazy says, Jokerez, Kunja and Mbermo would cause havoc running behind defences with Bruno pinging balls to them, but it could also be too one dimensional. It wouldn't also work with a 4-3-3. I think that would have worked with the 3-4-3 that we had. Phil says I know this is the United stand but I'm torn City deserve to lose but I just can't stomach wishing Liverpool to win plus I would sign Victor Jokeres says Phil thank you very much for the Jokeres thing thanks very much for being a member I personally hope Liverpool smash Man City at the weekend I think it's obviously Liverpool are a bigger rival than Man City to us but I saw a brilliant clip when Beth was on the fan debate actually yesterday and I quote tweeted it.

22:11She basically said that when City started the cheating in 2009, I think she said she was like eight or nine. So you don't really know loads about football at that age. So she basically said the last 17 years, which has been her upbringing in football, has been robbed of integrity by Man City. I think it's a great point. so Liverpool are our biggest rival but one of the reasons they're our biggest rival is because we're quite similar you know, great city, great footballing history great success we don't like each other because we're proper rivals there's an integrity to our rivalry what Man City have done to football in the last 17 years is rip the integrity from its very soul so I would love Liverpool to smash them 10-0 on Sunday I don't think they will but the Liverpool rivalry is real.

23:11What Man City have done to football is turn it into an episode of EastEnders for 17 years. It's been scripted and we never knew. So I hope they get beat. Gab, some great questions coming in this morning. Gab says, Xerxes is modern Berbatov. Berbatov won't work. Gab, I am so close to clicking three buttons next to your name and blocking you. I do not think you realise how close I am to blocking you. That is one of the worst comments. In fact, it is the worst comment of 2026. And I've been called names. You know, I've been called a nonce. So Xerxes is modern Berbatov. Berbatov won't work. That is horrific.

23:54That is football prison for you with no parole. that is 30 years in football prison. You know, that is one of the worst comments I've ever seen. Xerxes is a modern Berbatov. Oh my God. So what's Deleu, a modern Cafu? What's Luke Shaw? You know, the modern Maldini. I mean, God, mate, Xerxes can't even get a game for Man United. Berbatov was an artist. you can't compare Xerxes to Berbatov. I'm sorry. I know we don't get many of those types of players anymore, but that is incredibly crap. That is a rubbish comment. I sort of know what you mean in the sense that Xerxes is a bit creative, but he ain't fucking Berbatov.

24:46I mean, Xerxes is not even a modern...

24:54I'm trying to think of somebody really bang average who was quite creative.

25:01he's not even a modern Kevin Nolan. Carrick, done that one. Thank you very much. Thank you, Patrick Lynch as well. Appreciate that. Okay. Thank you very much to Phil as well there. Incredible stuff. Should be at least a timeout, says the residue. I mean, yeah, it's terrible. Right. I like Xerxi. He's crap. Carrick doesn't rate him. won't use him, wanted him to go, couldn't get rid of him, didn't really want to go. That's why he's still at Man United. He likes it at Man United. I don't know the reason why he likes it at Manchester United. He likes having played for three managers that don't rate him and won't use him.

25:49He hasn't pushed for a move in two and a bit years. the reason he's at United is because he is happy that Man United trust me if he'd pushed for a move he would be gone but three managers don't rate him so look what was the game he played the other week where people were like I'll Uber him out of Manchester you know he was so shit I can't remember I actually don't think he was that was it Sabah when he came on I don't know maybe he just loves sitting down I don't know sitting on the bench but he ain't very good. He's not very good. He'll probably go and score a hat-trick on Saturday now. Good, good, but he hasn't been very good.

26:32Gav out in the chat. Keel Robinson says, no matter who we get, Carrick has got no tactics. We just, you know what? Preview live tonight. We've just got to win tonight. We've got to win tonight. there's no sorry not tonight preview tonight I'm thinking about my career mode I'm doing my career mode tonight not tomorrow because I'm four o 'clock tomorrow it's the launch of Overlap Daily with Neville and Carriger and me so I can't do my career mode tomorrow so I'm going to do it tonight at five on my channel that's what I'm talking about but no Saturday we have to win I think we will win I think Old Trafford is a get out of jail card I do think our record undercarriage at Old Trafford is good.

27:24Obviously, we lost to Man City, but it was a bit of a strange game, wasn't it? I think we will win. But yeah, it's going to be very interesting. Just, I said I was going to talk about this. So Sir Alex Ferguson, got a few quotes coming in from him this morning. By all means, throw your questions in as well. so oh sorry I just had a question here do you think Belaber will be a success Mark

28:04I'm so conflicted on this because the answer probably gets clipped in our community because you're very good at that sort of thing I am leaning towards the Labour will succeed because the midfield is so shite I rate Maynou and I rate Tillemans but defensively they're bad Santos hasn't been used so you know if you're hungry and somebody walks in they don't need to be Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay they can be a half decent chef from the pub down the road and it will taste like fine dining because you're hungry and you've not eaten for a couple of days. And I do feel like that about Balaba. He may not be the next Caicedo or the next Rodri or the next Kante or the next Elliot Anderson or whatever.

29:01He may just be okay. But we have got such a void there that I think we'll think it's the next Kante or whatever because... So I do think there's a great opportunity for him to succeed. Also, I've done quite a lot of research on him over the last month or so. Ever since he did that goodbye interview to Brighton, which I really liked because I'd never heard him talk before. He comes across as quite humble and hardworking. So I think he will go into games with an incredible amount of intensity and desire. So in the early days, I think he's going to work out. That's my prediction. Long term, I do worry about last season at Brighton.

29:47That was very, you know, if we're being polite, inconsistent. I also worry about his mentality dealing with a club like Man United because it's not Brighton. The scrutiny is huge. and then you've got things like fitness, like is he the sort of player that can stay fit twice a week because at Brighton, you don't need to do that. So there are pitfalls, but if you're asking me, do I think he'll be a success or a failure? I think in the short term, he will be a success. Having said that, I really thought Santos was going to be as well because I thought his pre-season was good. The hunger of an opportunity that he wasn't getting at Chelsea.

30:28and the fact that Brazil had started, you know, identifying him as a Casemiro replacement, I expected Santos to do a little bit better as well. And hopefully he still can. But no, I think Beléber... I think Beléber will do well. He has to. I mean, look, I've left that till the end. He has to do well. But look, I wouldn't have signed him. I'm not a fucking hypocrite. The tweets are there. The videos are there. I wouldn't have gone anywhere near him. but now that we have, I hope it works out. Yeah.

31:07Sorry, Jamie just said, some of your takes lately are insane. Our issue this season has been our attackers. Jamie, please list off the takes because I don't hide from any questions. So I don't like people who hide their points behind intelligence. It comes across as stupid. and our issue this season has been our attackers. No, it's not. Definitely not. We've conceded fucking loads of goals, mate. Defensively, we're a shit show. Our defence is a joke. Our full-backs are shit. Our centre-backs haven't been very good. Our midfield hasn't protected that defence very well. Our attackers could have done better, but defensively, we are in big, big trouble.

31:49We would have taken more points this season if our defence had been like it was last year, so I disagree with you on that, Jamie, and I don't think it's insane to say that. Obviously, DB is better than Jay-Z. They have similar playing style, but fair play. Says Gavardino. I thought you were talking about David Beckham and Jay-Z, the artist there. He's talking about Dimitar Berbatov and Xerxi. I don't think they have a similar playing style either, but I think they play in a similar position, but I don't think they're similar players. But we'll agree to disagree.

32:25Michael says, hi, Mark. I understand professionalism is key and the show needs to be professional, but I would love to know Gary's opinion on Ineos now. We will definitely be doing that, Michael. I don't know whether we'll do it tomorrow because that's on Overlap Daily. But I know that we're going to get Gary on the Stick to United show soon, certainly before Christmas. So I'll 100 percent be asking him about that. And I spoke to him about it on something we recorded on Monday anyway. So I don't think it's off limits at all. Daniel Thompson says hello Mark hope you're well I've definitely take Jochores okay not work to Arsenal but I think it'd be great competition for Sesco and these are the type of deals we should be doing in January but never do well also Daniel I don't really understand our fan base sometimes in relation to the profiling of players that they're looking for I mean it's almost like you're in a fucking coma and you haven't looked at what we do we're not going to go and sign Harry Kane you know we're not going to sign Kylian Mbappe we're not going to sign Erling Haaland that's not the ambition level of this football club we will go and buy some sort of mediocre player who's an option D or E and in that category I think Jocarez would be a good signing for us and also this is a second striker I don't know why we've still got fans that think we're going to go out there and buy Harry Kane like you've got to look in the sewer which is where Man United shop and say what piece of shit might actually be a turd we can polish.

33:53Possibly one of my best analogies is that because that literally does describe the reality of Man United. And even I'm guilty of it. I start talking about Elliot Anderson or I talk about Alex Scott. My standards for this football club are the right standards for Manchester United. But the standards we get from this ownership is the sewer. So you better get your wellies on and start, you know, having a look around for a piece of shit you think you can polish because that's basically our transfer approach these days. And I'm not saying that Tillemans is shit or Sesko was shit or anything like that.

34:30What I'm saying is we're not shopping in Harrods, are we? We're shopping in Poundland. We're looking for a bargain. And you can find bargains, but... um rosinator says it's because other players have told him how easy it is at united and the club will always blame managers over the players easy wages sad but true look i got told by somebody about 18 months ago um that in the modern game and certainly it's true of man united it was an agent In the modern game, there are players that don't love football like you and make money off you. They see football as a wage. They want to make as much money as they can.

35:17And they're not particularly ambitious. In fact, I don't know whether this was a fake quote or not, but I saw it a couple of days ago. Fred was talking about Duran, who used to play for Villa. I couldn't believe it when he was knocking on the door of Villa's first team in the Premier League and he decided to go to Saudi. Money. Now, I don't know whether it's a fake quote from Fred. Maybe some of you haven't seen it, but it basically said that he played with him in Saudi and he said he's a nice lad, but football is not that asked about. when he's taken a shot and he misses, his attitude is, I'm already rich.

36:00Why do I need to practice? Now, I don't know whether that's true or not, but it will be true somewhere. 100 % it will be true somewhere. We use our time, like now, to talk about football because we're passionate. Some players are not like that. It's a job. I never understand why if you wake up in the morning at half six, you're not out of the house by half seven to be at Carrington for quarter past eight, 45 minutes early, coffee, shower, ready to go, doing a bit of a warm up. Apparently people rock up five minutes before because it's a job. They're multimillionaires and it's a job. And this is how it works.

36:53And also, if you're at a club like Manchester United, the money you can make from brands and commercial deals is far, far bigger than you'll make if you go and play up front for Frankfurt. So for me, if I'm sat on United's bench for two years and Frankfurt come in and say, you can start for us, I'm saying to Carrick, I want to go. I want to go and play. I want to make the most out of my career. Some players would go, and I'm not going to get a lot of Instagram interactions there. I'm not going to get a lot of brand deals there. I'd rather sit here.

37:33Christian says, do you think Fabregas can fix this team? I'm really looking forward to the next three Champions League games anyway, because I think that in Serie A at the moment, Roma are top. They've not lost the game. So they've won four and drawn one. And Como are obviously managed by Fabregas. So I'm interested in how we do against them. And Atletico Madrid, you know, it's Simeone, isn't it? It's always a difficult game. And they're second in La Liga as well. So I think we've got three really interesting Champions League games coming back, coming in. Fabregas will be very interesting. I mean, it is a...

38:22Look, I've watched football long enough. We've seen this time and time again. Look, when Cherokee played against us in the Europa League, we all knew that was an audition for the Premier League. We hoped it was an audition for us. It ended up being an audition for Man City. So sometimes people swerve those things, don't they, and go, oh, no, life doesn't work like that. It's not an audition for Fabregas. Of course it's a fucking audition for Fabregas. It might not be for United, but it could be for another Premier League club. like when you play Man United in the Champions League loads of people watch it and if Como beat us we've all heard about Como but if Como beat us Fabregas' name goes from here to here so look can Fabregas fix Man United?

39:07I don't think we're looking to bring Fabregas in but I do think that a manager with aura and charisma is needed at Manchester United And if Michael Carrick can't be that guy, eventually he will be gone. I don't know why people don't phrase it like that. It's not that Carrick needs to be sacked. He's just not what we need at the moment. We don't need a manager that comes out and protects these players. We don't need a manager that's, you know, about as interesting as a tin of grey paint. Like we need charisma. We need aura. We need accountability. We need direction. Michael Carrick can deliver those things.

39:47things. I'm not going to stop calling that out. I don't think that's a problem. I don't think saying you lack charisma, you lack fights, you lack ambition, you lack aura, you lack direction. Maybe Michael Carrick can start to deliver those things. I think he has to. I do. Thank you, everybody's tuning in this morning. I'm absolutely loving the show. Please do share the video as always let's talk next about some sir alex ferguson comments um he has spoken about death which uh look i'll always be honest on this show we've had conversations before in the united stand um meetings and stuff i don't know how old sir alex ferguson is but the clock will stop at some point as it always does i remember having these chats about sir bobby and it's like car crashes injure over a million of us every year because we're human for over a decade we must been building a driver that's safer statistically 10 times safer in the cities we serve not because humans aren't enough but because they're everything based on over a 94 % reduction in serious injury or worse crash rates.

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42:17On that sad day when Sir Alex passes, what that will do to this fan base? I mean, look, I didn't see Sir Bobby Charlton play. Sir Bobby Charlton was somebody that I watched videos of and was always there in the crowd. a legend of the club. Sir Alex Ferguson, literally, I remember him not winning things and then I remember him rebuilding the club into the greatest manager we've ever had. So, he was like a surrogate granddad to many of us, a surrogate dad to some of us.

42:57The amount of good times he gave us is just incredible and he spoke himself about death. I've got time, I'll bring it in. But he's also, I think this must be from his book or maybe he's doing an interview tour, I don't know. But he spoke about Pep Guardiola. I've always been massively interested in 2013. The last time we won the Premier League, but the speed of Sir Alex's departure and Man United's absolute implosion from there because David Gill went as well as the CEO. So we lost a very good CEO and we lost an all-timer as a manager. And the way we let that just disintegrate so quickly was incredible.

43:42I mean, there's probably analogies for this, but it's a little bit like your dad being William the Conqueror, right? And he comes over from France, he conquers England, his army is amazing. You completely get control of England. then William the Conqueror snuffs it and his sons just basically go back to France and say he can have it back. You know, it's like everything, your life's legacy gone. And I don't know whether Sir Alex looks at it like that, but I've never heard anybody describe it like that. You know, we as fans have had to live with the debris, but I don't know. I don't know how it works because I've never built an empire like that.

44:23But if you, the amount of work he did, you would expect a bit of a legacy from that. And it just died overnight. Now, in one way, it makes you look incredible because it just falls apart when you go. But I'm the sort of person that would like, and I would think Sir Alex, I've read some of his books. I don't think he'd take any pride in the fact that United fell apart the second he walked away. Yes, it shows how great you were, but you were great anyway. it's not like yeah yeah I don't know but look I am very interested in what happened after then and why it went so shit and he said look over the past 10 years I've often wondered what might have happened if the dinner I had with Pep in New York in 2012 had taken place a couple of months earlier at the time I hadn't decided decided for certain that I was going to retire and Pep was convinced that after achieving huge success in just four years in La Liga with a continental treble as well as a league in the Champions League double, he wanted to try life in the Bundesliga with Bayern.

45:27If I could rewind time, we'd have dined some months earlier. I would have poured plenty of Italian wine and had tried my hardest to convince him that his future lay in Manchester. Unfortunately for us, it did an offset in relation to Man City. So look, I think that's the first time I've read that, by the way. But I think that that sort of answers my question about what Sir Alex Ferguson thinks about the disintegration of Man United post him leaving. I think it does trouble him. If he's still thinking about could he have got Pep after him, I think that answers a question that we've never really asked.

46:10What does Sir Alex Ferguson think about the carnage that instantly occurred the second he left? And I think the answer is there. He'd love to have got Pep to come in and carry it on. So I think he does care about how shit it's been. And look, Mourinho was available. Ancelotti was available. Pep was available. It just didn't work out for us because, I don't know, and we ended up with David Moyes. All his work was undone. He also spoke about his thought process of retirement in May 2013. He said, I've taken real care to keep my decision to retire secret. I've not considered retiring before the October when his wife's sister passed away.

46:56On the surface and in the eyes of the supporters, I'm sure everything seemed to be totally fine and I was in good health. I was trying to stay fit. I felt full of energy, even though when my hip was hurting me, I sometimes thought I'd never want to be seen on the touchline with a cane. I love the club and football, but the death of my sister's my wife's sister changed everything. And I decided I spoke to David Gill in the February and told him I decided to retire. He also told me he decided to retire. I managed to keep my emotions in check. And I just sat and he said, I went back to my office and after closing the door, it all hit me.

47:38I sat at my desk and cried. I knew then it was over. After wiping my eyes, I told myself I'd better leave quickly before the news became public. Four days later, we're at Old Trafford facing Swansea City. The quietest moment of a match for a manager is when the players were out on the pitch warming up. At that moment, I couldn't help thinking I'll never experience this again. I said it to Rod and he replied confidently, you'll never stick it out. You'll be back next year. I was eager for the match to start, so I didn't let myself give in to regrets or nostalgia. I mean, it brings it all back for me, like just the enormity of that quick retirement from Sir Alex.

48:15And look, on a personal level, I think you had to do it quick. And obviously walked out the front door with a guard of honour. But I just find it stunning.

48:35What happened? Look, this has just come out from Rob Dawson in the last few minutes. Some people in the chat have said, can you talk about it? So Rob Dawson, we've had him on the show before, ESPN journalist says, Club sources have told ESPN that in terms of summer transfers, Man United operated within their means. United say they didn't have the budget to push the boat out further, but there's no escaping the fact that money is tight because of a 1 billion worth of debt piled on by the Glazer family since they leveraged takeover in 2005. Money could play a part in Carrick's future. United need regular Champions League qualification to build up their finances, and club bosses will be keeping an eye on the trajectory of results in relation to a top four finish.

49:16I think that's quite interesting on two parts. One, we were lied to, again. Man United were more than happy. Look, United monitor social media like a hawk monitors a field for mice. And you speak to a hawk, they monitor fields very closely for mice because it's their main source of food, right? United know everything that is going on on social media about them, right? So when David Ornstein says, I think Man United are going to be the biggest spender this summer. And when other journalists are saying, expect the British transfer record to be broken, Man United would have seen that in May and June.

49:59and they chose to say nothing about a challenging budget or the debts or anything like that. So United sat back and allowed that story to go out. If debt and finances were tight, why did they not put it out there? So they created that lie by not saying anything about it and they're now talking about debt and challenges. Bullshit. I'm not having it. I'm not having it at all. So that's the first bit. The second bit about Champions League football, we do need Champions League football, which is why we'll push for the hardest punishment of Manchester City. Because if Man City can't go in the Champions League, that opens up another spot.

50:40And also we might be able to sue them for a few millions. So I expect Man United to be at the forefront of pushing for Man City's relegation. But if Carrick starts to look like he's messing up the Champions League qualification, that's the only way I think he might lose his job. I was thinking about this last night, right? I was thinking about this last night. United, I'm going to be really honest, like I always am. Man United are back playing football. Very excited about it. It's been a very long international break. And I thought to myself, when have I genuinely been excited about the pathway of Man United in the last decade?

51:20And I thought, when Ten Hag first came in, when Amrim first came in, when Oli got the job, and when Mourinho got the job and when Ranjik was coming in as director of football. So there's five times in the last 10 years I was genuinely excited about the direction of the club. Was I excited when Carrick got the job? No, no. I back him. I think he deserved to get the job, but I wasn't excited. Am I excited about Man United being back playing football on Saturday? Yes, because I like watching Manchester United. Am I excited about the direction of the club? No. I'm nowhere near as excited I was when Mourinho came in, Ranyuk came in, Oli came in, Amrim came in and Ten Hag came in.

52:09I think this is really important because if that's reflected in the general fan base, this is not a good sign for whoever's running the club. Now, look, it was naive to be excited about Ten Hag and Amrim and Ali, etc. But I'm not excited about this. So therefore, things are worse. As fans, you have to be excited about the direction of your club. I'm not excited. I think the team is ageing and reliant on players that will be gone soon. The manager is uninspiring and seems to be struggling with the weight of the job. And the owners are unambitious. I just have this complete and utter feeling about the general direction of the football club, which seems to me to be totally focused on building a stadium to make money for them.

53:00So. What would make me excited about Man United? I don't know. A new ownership, really. Sir Alex is not a legend what he did to us after he went is questionable him getting Moise in started the downfall he lived long enough to be a villain is Andrew absolute bollocks Andrew well done for absolutely taking the place of the worst comments of 2026 and when we thought we'd already seen it about Xerxes being like Berbatov that's fucking rubbish Sir Alex is not a legend mate I think you're on I think you're having a laugh Daniel Thompson says when Sir Alex Ferguson left is when we started going for the cheaper option.

53:40Not sure he really wanted Moyes. He wanted Jose or Pep, but when the owners, as they wanted the cheap option, that's where it all started. To be honest, Daniel, I think other than Moyes, who was a shit choice, what else was there? I mean, I know Sir Alex said, get behind your manager and said positive things about David Moyes, but I was fucking disgusted. It's a shame we weren't doing United Stand at the time because I would have been doing videos saying Moyes out from the start. I knew that was a mistake. Just totally and utterly not a Man United manager. David Moyes, at no point of his career, has ever been a Liverpool, Chelsea, Man United, Arsenal, Man City manager.

54:23He's just not that. West Ham, Everton, Crystal Palace, you know, absolutely. But he was never that level of manager. But by the time we were looking for a Sir Alex replacement, nobody was left. Mourinho had given his word to, I feel like Chelsea maybe at that point. Pep had obviously gone to Bayern. Ancelotti, I think, had gone to Madrid. So there wasn't really anything left. It was a shit manager market and we ended up with a shit manager, really. Yeah, that's what happened. thank you so much everybody for tuning in remember we are live at lunchtime it's Michael Carrick's press conference today we'll be live at about 2 o 'clock interested to see what he's got to say about injuries 8 o 'clock tonight we are live with the preview for the Spurs game live preview and then straight after that we've got something special that we're going to do I'll tell you about it at 8 o 'clock and my career mode will be at 5 o 'clock today on my channel as Well, and don't forget for the members, you can go and watch the full video of me and Rooney playing paddle.

55:34It's live on the members section now. Here's a little snippet. I know what you're doing. I love you.

55:47I love my girl. Lazy bastard. Spoke. Right next to you. I don't know why. I didn't think I needed to show you when it's fucking right there. But you can't slag off passengers in United anymore. Playing with a mannequin? Think I should have gone for that? Think I should have gone for that? I say, Lewis, they're in fighting. We've got them.

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56:19I didn't think it was going to do. There's actually a really good bit where Wayne shouts at somebody else, but it's not me. He's very, very competitive. and you can tell he's competitive because if you've ever played tennis or paddle with anybody who keeps the score on every point, that's Wayne. Check it out on the member section. Thank you so much, everybody. I will see you on the eight o 'clock show. I think Beth's doing the press conference. Hey, it's Hannah Burner from Giggly Squad and the holidays are around the corner, which means I'm officially entering my hostess Hannah era with arm and hammer hardball cat litter.

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