Lads On The Sideline Podcast
A football podcast hosted by a father, Vincent, and his two sons, Sean & Conor, who are massive Man United fans. Not just Man United talk but all things football. From match reviews and previews, to big topics and stories we will give our honest and unbiased opinions on it all.
Lads On The Sideline Podcast
Episode 30 - Advantage United & Arsenal
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This week we had a look back at gameweek 30 in the premier league which saw Man United take the advantage in the race for the champions league places, Arsenals lead grew at the top of the table, and all 4 teams battling for relegation got a point. We looked at the news from the footballing world, had a little chat anbout the champions league, and answered some listeners questions.
Welcome back everyone, episode number 40, Lads on the Sideline Podcast.
SPEAKER_04It's me, Connor, as always joined by my brother Sean. How's everybody getting on? Welcome back.
SPEAKER_00And our father Vinno. Welcome back for uh uh for uh uh Monday night because Patrick's above doing this because of Patrick's Day, so happy Patrick's Day to everybody. Happy Patrick's Day, yeah. Paddy's day. Happy Paddy today to these two. I'm gonna walk in the man and these are drinking whiskey.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, we're doing this Monday because obviously Paddy stays tomorrow. It's just a bit too awkward, isn't it? So whatever. Final knows gonna go through the results in a little while. We won't have the result of the Brentford match because it hasn't even started yet. It's on his head behind us, so uh we'll uh touch on that next week, maybe if you remember. Yeah, we will.
SPEAKER_00If it's worth touching on. Yeah, exactly. Not saying it, but you know, like but we give Keith Andrew still a big shout out, even though he's still having a great season. Yeah, no matter what we have.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, Chelsea. So they're not that far behind. They'd always be a point behind Chelsea if they were to win out tonight. That's actually mad.
SPEAKER_00He's put it this way, he's not the lapis title we thought he might have been when he got the job in the first trace after Thomas Franco sect. Like when when he when he appointed him as manager, we all didn't give him hope. No. I wouldn't say we're the only trace of fair play to him. He's doing a great job there. Yeah, definitely, yeah.
SPEAKER_03So uh yeah, just thanks everyone for listening. I saw us last week and a couple of weeks before that. Um all the feedback has been nice and John's getting plenty of questions in.
SPEAKER_04We'll eventually get through all the questions.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well looking what can you do?
SPEAKER_04There's loads. I know, yeah. I'll keep writing them in, I was saying to me as we if I see his on the street or an or wherever the case may be, or and text the M the holo. Yeah. Any questions? A lot of them do not repeat themselves, that's just the way it is. Like, you know, obviously everybody's thinking the same things, it depends on the events that happen. So yeah, just throw them in and not ignore any of them. Ask the question, you know.
SPEAKER_00We'll get them eventually. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll have a day when the internationals is on and we'll be talking, and then you'll probably get more questions in, and so we'll get them, you know what I mean? Like, yeah, so yeah, look. And thanks if you're if you're our listeners out there that um and watch my video on Instagram. I think it's up to 58 and a half thousand now. So thanks very much. Delighted there looking for you. Cleaning up Ireland every day looking at a refresher. Yeah, you joined me on Instagram, by the way. Oh, yeah, actually, yeah, that's it.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, you forced me into it. Yeah, when you went to my nose as opposed to force my nose as vinyls on Instagram now, yeah. The Sean helped set them up, so he's getting all he's bombarded with the questions. Questions are Villa find them on Instagram and follow me. Probably won't follow you back, but probably out there. You know where the app is, they are but yeah, look at it. We'll go on to our news and not as much as last week. Thank god there's a lot, there was a lot last week, wasn't there? Well hasn't. For two are sort of go hand in hand. Now this was I put this down before the match yesterday, the Spores, the Spores game, and uh their manager, they sort of they didn't come out and say that they're backing them and keeping them, but they're not coming out saying that they're looking for anybody else either. So do you keep them or do you not keep 'em? Like I think you should keep them, though it's no point in changing this stage. Yeah. Bad, isn't it? No point in changing this stage.
SPEAKER_00Eight games to go. What would you do? I don't know. Bring a happier dead in that pin or something like that. Like to say, no, look, they brought them in to do a job now. We got a good results yesterday. Yeah. Fans then well deserved that result. Yeah. So um maybe they might just get like a little kick from that, but a big, big, huge game for them next week. Sorry, yeah, it's playing a hunt to end not in the forest.
SPEAKER_04Maybe we couldn't cross there, but that you just caught one of the questions there. Eddie probably into us about the sports, exactly what you just said. Exactly. So just I'll answer that now from yeah, yeah. Yeah, sorry, that's what we're answering that now, Eddie, right? Thanks. Oh, yeah, yeah. But yeah, that's uh I don't remember. I don't think they should they should keep him. Well he interviewed them for the job. Yeah, who else are they gonna get? Listen, the players just have to take them on themselves now and really it has to hit home with them, no? Yeah, to think like we can get relegated here, lads. It's not just uh we'll scrape by these are these are that was a big point. That was a big point, and he played like they they needed the points, you know, the way and they were coming. We were texting me, you and Shane, weren't we? We were texting um yeah. He was nervous that was going back now. I put down any predictions too, they dropped two, but I thought they were gonna fight back a bit, and they did, like you know.
SPEAKER_00Do you know what it is? Like you can look at it in different ways with the manager. Now I know the players went off last week, we even in the in the in the in the Champions League, and the goalkeeper made a couple of sense, he brought them off and he didn't pat them on the background. And I just say, like, well that was the starting to cut across you, then that's the second bit.
SPEAKER_04I was just gonna ask him with the goalkeeper. Yeah, you can throw it away.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and I think you can just say, like, now the goalkeeper I think he should have, because he was only his first game, just say really, uh, and then like you'd comfort him after taking somebody off after six ten minutes, just say, right? Now just it is madness, right? Right now, but he like I don't think we're ever gonna go back into the game, like, but he should have done probably things a bit different there. But I think do they need tough love? Like, and there's nobody um like do they need it like that? Um that I'm in here doing a job, I'm taking no messing, and it's this way, and this is he thinks this way is the is the way to keep him up because he's not really showing man management skills at the moment, but maybe they had all that and it's not working, maybe he's coming in there now and just saying this is it. I think you're right. I'm here now, you do what I'm my way, and I'm gonna keep this club up, and that's it. I don't know, I'm just surmising this, but like he like all the other pundits like are are giving out about him, or like on all uh on social media and I'm saying that he's this and he's he's man around his skills of being brutal, but maybe they've seen all that before and he's just coming in and saying, Well, I don't care, I'm doing the job here, and it's just this is it, is it too soft? But he got a bit of a song out of him against Liverpool.
SPEAKER_04He played well, it was coming, they deserved it. Played well, yeah, they deserved it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's strange.
SPEAKER_04There was something open at the back now that Liverpool had any sort of quality, but they had quality, but any sort of competence they would have just painted.
SPEAKER_00But Liverpool had a power, didn't he? It's very good. It showed how poor Liverpool was as well. Yeah, yeah, it was like that. We'll we'd have gone on to back in a few minutes on another question there.
SPEAKER_04Sorry, but I'd ask about that. We know one or two sports fans, surprisingly. So I know that pulling the hair. It's uh sort of a bit like us last year, like they're they're at a stage, you know. I don't really slag to any other fans any because United have been shot and they just sort of focus on United, but it's not even at a stage where you can slag them, they're sort of not saying I feel sorry for them, they're just going through.
SPEAKER_00If you were to slag them, I don't even think they care. They don't even know what way they stand. No, like they're they're they must their emotions and feelings must be all over the place because like like realistically, every so often you might get a good game. Yes, it was a going a good game, they played well, but it hasn't been like that for months. As bad as United were even at the start of Amaron and on last year, and all like they throw in a good result every so often. Sports haven't been even doing that.
SPEAKER_02No, yeah.
SPEAKER_00So they can't even look forward to saying, well, maybe today it'll be a good result they'll play well. But yes, they didn't um give them all like yes, they just say right, give them a bit bit of hope, right? Now they could go out and beat not in the forest next week. That's a gap. That's something to that's a big that'd be a big huge result for them. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, then uh just a quick look back as the Champions League is on them tomorrow and Wednesday. Just to look back at last week. Uh Gallat has right, they beat Liverpool 1-0. You're sort of watching it in the background, wouldn't they? Yeah. They hadn't goals allowed and all, didn't they? It was a bit dubious, but a place to go to, isn't it? Yeah, it is, yeah. Very hostile. One nil might be a good result for Liverpool nearly.
SPEAKER_00It's hostile in the every time Liverpool got the ball, they could hear the crowd and really, really hostile.
SPEAKER_04Not many teams will go there and beat them 3-0 or 4-0.
SPEAKER_00They're a good side. They're good. They're not an old guy, it's right team. Like, like they play good ways there now, they've a good side. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Newcastle then got a good result. I'm lucky not to hold on near the end against Barcelona. You probably deserve to beat them. I thought you deserved to beat them for a little panel at the end. Poor Barcelona side, isn't it, too? Yeah. Compared to the Barcelona teams of years ago, isn't it? Like putting down to win the Chatness League and looking at them. Are they nothing? No. If you go through all the top teams, I know we've said it before, and people have had comments, people don't really like them or saying oh it's terrible football and all. But there is you break down the Reign Madrid is not the same as before. Barcelona is not the same, AC Man, Indoman, Juventus, United. Liverpool, Man City Rubik is really new. Yeah, even the Chelsea. Man, the Chelsea don't like the Rugby.
SPEAKER_00They're always sports the same. Sports. Still in the Champions League, but you give them a mention. But look, and the only consistent team is is probably Bayern Munich. Yeah. Them and Arsenal.
SPEAKER_04Them and Arsenal, yeah. And then you look at, like you said, sports, they lost. Obviously, we touched on that minute five too at Atletico Madrid, and geez, Atletico flew at them, didn't it? Fair 4-0 at the 21 minutes. Yeah, great and an Albers the front, they'll cause heels problems. Yeah. And the but there was mistakes at the back front.
SPEAKER_00Like there was mistakes, but there was as you said as well, Conor, there saying there was definitely more goals than Atletico Madrid if they really wanted to do that.
SPEAKER_04Well, put it this way, like the the mistakes that the goalkeeper made, we'd love to have seen Village goalkeeper make them yesterday because they came to Atletic Madrid actually putting pressure on sports. Yeah. He wouldn't make these mistakes if he he might have fallen over it and no one was there, but they were pushed up right up. Yeah. And we are screaming at the telly the last couple of weeks with United the press. So they got what they deserved, like from taking advantage of it. And you did, yeah, right. And then the result I didn't thought Bayern Munich was 6-1. The Atlanta away. I thought Atlanta might have been like that's a dark horses, but they might have the last Italian hand left, or you think that they give us something?
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh can hell.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. They're Wednesday night and Arsenal drew away to Leverkhousen. Again, a penny that they got that they probably shouldn't have, but ridiculous. You just hate these results so much. Take them to the second level and beat. Right the result there, but look at that.
SPEAKER_00So when it's going for you that way, as you say, like it's gone for you.
SPEAKER_04But it's not as if they're playing away to Prime Barcelona or Prime Inter Milan or Venus. You know that the game's like me and I played away into Rin and Keen and all this guy. It's not the same quality. No, I don't care what anyone says. Well, you can take it, obviously. But you're playing with the Brian Leverk who's in a way with it. Yeah, but you know what? They drew a new the weekend, didn't he? So maybe there is a good point. Maybe in the well, not a good point, it's not a point, it's a draw. Like it's a good point, obviously the way the game went.
SPEAKER_00You take them in Europe, many times united over the years. Go and play shite in Europe, brutal and um still come away with something. There's something different about going on and playing away in Europe, but there's definitely something different about it, isn't it?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, well, you look at playing the other two English teams and Chelsea and Man City PSG 5-2, Real Madrid 3-0. Like that was two mad results there, but then like they're the Real Madrid game, didn't it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the Real Madrid game definitely didn't expect that. No. They came out and played well actually against Madrid, and didn't Manchester City play at all really well.
SPEAKER_04And did you see that the camera caught into the the stands and the amount of like Bellingham wasn't playing and Bat Bay wasn't playing like Alaba wasn't playing the amount of players he didn't have that were?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, man Van Vardi is a good player, isn't he? Yeah, yeah. He's not really a goal scorer, and he said about geez, he took you three goals for him. I think I put him in my short list for midfielders, isn't he?
SPEAKER_04A couple of weeks ago. Yeah, he's only about 26 or 27, isn't he?
SPEAKER_00He seems to be playing about age or then, doesn't he?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and his value I think I think his captain. His value's gone double now. Yeah, there you go. There you go. And then come here, look at probably the result of the Champions League week was Borough Glynt. 3-0 a hond the spot for Lisbon.
SPEAKER_00Where are they coming from? Borough Glint.
SPEAKER_04Look at this. Are you got any one of these Oyax a couple of years ago or Brush Dome with Lick or DV? Do you have a lot of players that you know you want to be watching?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Public. Look, there's a chap on their job, and there's a Shellbourne fan, Thomas Keaton is his name, and he goes to watch all the Shellbourne games, and his son goes to watch all the Shellbourn games. And they played uh uh Bobo Glinton in the competition this year beforehand, and whatever way round it was, wherever it was, and he said I think they might be Shellbourne tree and that could be only a guess now. Don't get me wrong, we on the results say, but he said they were a really, really good team. So I'm still surprising that they're doing it against this opposition.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, do you know what I mean? Look at if things go the way they go, they'll play Arsenal next. So maybe it mightn't be as easy for Arsenal for what you think. Like, well, probably not. Or they could be playing Boy Labour House, and you know, it that's called football. They could go to the Emirates and we just expect Arsenal to beat them, but they might be sure. Yeah, well, they'd be the real under those going in, so you know yourself. You'll have nothing to lose with looks. Well, those four step results, there's definitely four of them or something, five of them that you didn't expect.
SPEAKER_00No, no, like and look at the second legs are always great because it's it's a cup final, you either go through or you don't. And they're great.
SPEAKER_04That's why we never took the aggregate thing away. Because even though I know it's lagging ourselves, though, with them for example, if Barry Leverco isn't like it's it's only them, but still it's it's away from home, it can be high stuff. They could have been playing by the PHG and got a one-nold draw. Well, if Chelsea got a one-nold draw, that goal is well earned. Look at look at Gallatashroy. If the Liverpool had got a draw out of that, let's say that would have been a really good goal to get. Yeah, constantly. That Liverpool game, just say Gallatashray got one-up. I mean Liverpool have to score three goals to go through instead of two, and it could go to extra time.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that was good with that, wasn't it? Yeah, like you had to push more, and it was more it made the game more exciting, didn't it? Yeah, yeah, exactly. Instead of teams holding out of pandas now, if it's a one-old drawer, it's a three-old draw, but away goals don't count us if we could still win this on the next one with pennus where you knew if you need to get another goal because while they wasn't here and now we get like it made it more exciting, didn't it? Made it more exciting because the team scored way more goals.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it had to score. Yeah, the difference is when you have an incentive to go. Yeah, very few teams are just held out for the same result. It'll always be they'll get the winner or get the the the equaliser and then might win the extra time or whatever. But no, it's oh no, it's mad, isn't it? Well, hopefully, hopefully next year. Uh next, and then look, I'll touch on the too long, just to give a little mention to your man uh Max Down, the youngest coach caller ever in the Premier League. Yeah, pretty good, right?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Now look at his any I say anybody could have done it, but he's yeah, I think he's doing his exams or something now, isn't it? Like the next couple of weeks.
SPEAKER_00Come here, you're right, Connor. He's 16, he he it came out like Pickfoot and all up. Doesn't matter, just say right. It came out right, you handed the ball past the to the defender. He went past the other one and went in, they put the ball back in there. He said, How are you going for that? And for somebody's 16, part of him, think of his family, his upbringing, and all that. Think of all that, think how proud everybody likes it. What team is he's playing with Arsenal all, just say you could like Arsenal, you could hate Arsenal, whatever it is. Doesn't matter if he's playing for Arsenal, the Wolves. It's the youngest player to score a go on the premiership, but he just happened to be playing for Arsenal. Yeah, just there, right? So it's a proud moment for him, isn't it? That's good. What way you look at it?
SPEAKER_04No, they would he'll be on the ball and our list by the end of the year anyway, but yeah, but look at where I see it's great. Like a man that played for Liverpool, yes, he's probably their most dangerous player. Rio Ingam or whatever it is, they just have to stay away from the limelight a bit, don't they?
SPEAKER_00Come here. And and that's how it went to the way. And you say they're well brought up, um like uh and their parents have to take credit and all, and reverse skills and all the meant and all the whole lot. Because when you see a lot of youngers going around now, like going around now, um scooters going around and I don't care and all, like when you see youngers at that, all you can do is take out and say, Well, I hope he continues the progress and he turns into a good player and that and it was gonna be for an axe one. Oh well and good. Yeah, perfectly.
SPEAKER_04And then just an ask bit then to finish off. I only saw it today, I think it only came out today about Chelsea. So they've a one year suspended ban on transfers um for stuff that happened during when a brown village was there and you're fine ten million, big whoop. But there's a ban under academy as well. I think they're not allowed to sign academy players or something for the next year or two years. Really? But if you do breach any rules, they'll get banned then for two years or something.
SPEAKER_00So if that's a suspend suspended ban out of gas, so they can still sign players.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, but if they make one more fault or anyone, like one more breach of any rule, then they'd be well harsh.
SPEAKER_00Well, the web's run of the club, and if they did that, they should be executed. Yeah. Never mind, yeah. So I mean like such a big club that you should make that's a stupid, suspended sentence. So don't punishment. No, no, it's not ten millions now. So that's how so you might as well that's nothing. Yeah, it's six range.
SPEAKER_02Like it's not eggshells though, that's the only thing. Yeah, exactly. And players might want to go to the meeter, that could be a yeah, a negative, if you don't.
SPEAKER_04Yeah. Well, look, it's now one or two Chelsea fans, and I saw a thing today, and uh I think there was a Chelsea fan on Sky now, not you bring them on every now and then and a bit like United, like it's only you focus on your own club, but if he was going in a bit on Chelsea saying that like when Abramovich was there, people were getting sacked, and managers are getting sacked, and this, that, and the other, and not just that, but like physios and everything else. People nowadays are actually leaving because they want to leave. And he's like, just people he knows people who walk in Chelsea's shop that want to leave, and people who walk in the canteens and behind the scenes that want to leave because they just don't want to be there. They're not enjoying top to bottom. These seem to be all over the place as well. Like there's nothing.
SPEAKER_00And you have them on the Chelsea have struggled a little bit at the moment, isn't it? Like, I don't know about the Rosine is the man for the job. But do you know? Realistically, I know he's a bit perky or that way he goes on and talks and all and strains and all, but do you know what's deep down down the road? Uh like you I can see it just not working with him. Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But uh yeah, no, that's all the new, so I suppose when you have your results there.
SPEAKER_04Like we said, we don't have to bread for the wolves results because it's only on now because I don't know, it's Monday, so so for anybody that's new, um every week there, because we had a couple of new listeners here go through all the results from the previous week of the Premier League. We just have a little talk over them and we sort of go into depth a bit on United's a bit more. And then um every week then they'll put up predictions for us. And um if you get a win if you can predict the correct win, you get a point, and if you get the correct score, you get two points. So we come on to it at the end, but there's a runaway leader and we'll find out if it's changed at the end, but probably hasn't.
SPEAKER_00Eva games ago, can't we? And that's it. But um look, we go look at Arsenal and everything, and because I look like everything gave Arsenal a really tough game, like and um two late goals, and look, it doesn't matter, they all count. Um said, like uh Garkey has scored like in the eight-ninth minute, and then as you said, um Dowman, um like Scottish goal in the 90, 90 plus minute, and Rebbe was like just to see the win. But look at the end day, like it's still a good two-nil win. That's uh like still under pressure, like in every game the players like a cup final.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, the players still play terrible football, but they're still it's not a scintillating football, but they're just getting over the line, aren't they? Yeah, 2-0 win. I take it every day of the week. You have to do something in the years, don't you? It's just it's it's a it's a game that's uh probably was a tough game for them, but it's it's out of the way with now. Yeah, yeah. Over and done with just look forward to it. They're not a bad team, everything.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they're a good side. They're a tough team to be. Up to that, Miles is doing a good job with them, and they're a tough team to beat. Yeah, like they're a good team. That they have that they're winning. And Man City slipped up again, it's going into the final. Who's the more confident? You know, look, and you've played the game more artists to say, and I know that now, like, no matter the way I would just say, like, but you've only seven games left, so it's another game you can chalk off with with three points, no matter whatever you look at. And then like this one, like I always say, like, sometimes you get games of the weekend, but Borney and Barmouth, nil also, then Chelsea nil, um Newcastle won.
SPEAKER_04So an upset. I've nothing to add on that game either.
SPEAKER_00No, because it's brutal. Only thing I'm gonna add to it is right that we're playing Barnwood, and I hope it's a bit better than that.
SPEAKER_04I hope it's not. I mean, if we win, I don't care.
SPEAKER_00Okay, get the three points. What they're saying now with Arsenal, it's just about results now, isn't it? Yeah. Like you you you look at the top of the table to say, right? Just say, right, the third, fourth, and fifth for the Champions League, to say, and look after itself, but it's still going to be very close. But the bottom of the table now like that, this time yeah, it's just results, isn't it? Yeah, so you don't care now. That's it, isn't it? Like, so then the ghost that then just say Newcastle would be my result of the weekend to say, right, and winning Chelsea, which was great for us as May United fans, but it was obviously great for Aston Villa because they obviously lost as well, and it was great for Liverpool. But like for Newcastle to come away from a Barcelona game where they should have won, a little bit dejected because he's considered the last 95th minute penalty, it wasn't 96th minute penalty. To go away and beat Chelsea in between and have to play Barcelona again. That was a great result coming away to Chelsea.
SPEAKER_04And swearing Chelsea had chances and he sort of hoofed and puffed and whatnot. But I always sort of thought Newcastle was a second goal there for him. And this is where I like Joe Linton wasn't playing, Tanali wasn't playing, or Guma Ryus weren't playing in the middle. The whole midfield three is gone. And the eleven foot rooty vulnerable front, he's not he's no good. I have to say, I know we've said it before, but um every time I look at Chelsea playing Garnacho plays, I'm delighted that United got rid of them. Thank God. Yeah, yeah. The theme leak was the Chelsea's team game. Leak before again.
SPEAKER_00Probably his brother again. Him giving it to his brother and his brother.
SPEAKER_04And their leaks have stopped, you know. I'm just saying. Yeah, look at that. But you know it is a little shy bag, isn't he?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he is. And his final delivery is just unbelievably bad, isn't it? Yeah.
SPEAKER_04He had a lot of potential, I think, at the start, and it was decent. It was good, like when he bought him. Um, and is is up. He came into the line very quickly, but he just doesn't have the attitude. I could know what good people buying him when he got paid too much money too quickly, but he's never gonna fulfil his potential ever. That's why I was mentioned earlier with the two lads from the Mount Marshall and Liverpool. Like, this is what can happen in a couple years' time. Yeah, like you need to keep a feet in the ground. Like we've seen it for numerous years. Look at like Rash just famous Barcelona, he's playing he should be ballon d'or if he's fulfilled his potential. Didn't Yanna Zoe, Sancho, Garnacho now as well. Like it just always happy people.
SPEAKER_00He looked around themselves with the lime light. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like you know, if they keep his feet in the ground, like they can go places if they really want to.
SPEAKER_04Like Garnaccio wearing rap Ronaldo jerseys around the Argentinian campaign. We all should have known this was gonna be coming in, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but queer. Look at Chelsea have to get their act together. That's right. Do you know what? You said the second kind of this is why Chelsea people are leaving the club, and then when they're doing things like that, and they and they might unlike them drop 40 million off them for Gunatchup. Yeah, who's like they're not running the club well at all? No.
SPEAKER_04And Lucas only six points behind them now. Yeah, two wins. Yeah, exactly. And then, like we said, Brent would win their point. And we said a second ago, Everton are tough to play against Chelsea are playing away to Everton now this weekend. Yeah, I wouldn't fancy that was as a Chelsea fan. That'd be a tricky. We but we are looked at the fixtures area then, wouldn't he? Yeah, I know we said a couple of weeks ago we went through them all, but which we'll go back over in two or three weeks' time we'll have a look to see how we are getting on with our predictions for the top four, but these tough matches coming up, Chelsea.
SPEAKER_00Like deep the hardest matches, I think. For for for the for the team that's like having to play for something like as like obviously digging into the Shaman's League to say, um, I think Chelsea have to have the toughest fixtures, haven't they? Yeah, definitely. A lot of hard fixtures to play. So then, yeah, well, look at a great win. And then look at still a good win, Brighton. Like you they would they were obviously safe just in the league. They'll say, but Sunderland are still struggling again, isn't he? Like it's as still as if they're still safe in that position, like the third team just say with 40 points, you say, so they're saying they're they're safe. They're making themselves easy to beat now, wouldn't you? Like, but it was a good bit for Brighton now, and I know um is is everybody playing right to Brighton this week? Yeah, hard to do it. I think they're hard to Saturday. So look, come here, it's be a tough game for them, but a good bit for Brighton no matter what way you look at it. See you Brighton played well, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Sorry, fine. They played well against Arsenal a couple of weeks ago. Played very well, yeah. So no, it's kind of Sunderland, not right. We've been saying this the last four or five years that they're sort of safe and they're going through the motions. How much would that impact next season, do you think? Yeah like if they finish the season sort of a bit bad, can you just motivate themselves to go again next year, do you think? Or is it a case of could be thrown out? Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Like Well, do you know what? If you are Sunderland, you'd still like to win like the last one. Oh, win I got games of the season and go into the depends on what they do in the summer as well, but I know what you mean. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Now you had a great summer this summer, so that so to replicate again and have the money to do that again, that would be very hard for a club like Sunderland. I'm sure one of two people might be.
SPEAKER_04I can see this time next year if Sunderland just say four from bottom and struggle, and everybody's thinking, geez, that's a surprise you did so well last year. But when you look at the last ten games, twelve games of the season, they probably won two. Well, it's not really a surprise. Like Sherman. We have to play them away, so hopefully to keep the this this uh level of performance up, you know. Yeah, we would divide him, but there's a couple of weeks. So I'd I'd just be from Sunderland's point of view, it's it's you'd still want to see them winning and playing back.
SPEAKER_00It's funny when you look at like just to look ahead to next year, like yeah, and look at you look at Sunderland just Saturday and where they are at the league just early, and I like um Thorteint and then Chelsea at sixth, and it's still only eight points in the difference. So it now that just goes to show you that the league is very poor. Yeah, yeah. It shouldn't be like that. It's nothing to do with Ant-Nel's, it's just a poor league. Now we know United are up to 54 to say, and they're that's a bit a bad season, but it's a good season compared to where we finished last year, 15th, and it's definitely an improvement, to say. But if you look at all the all the points from sixth down, and you go to Sunderland, and then even I think uh Brighton are ahead of them on 40 points as well, and you say to the only middle of the table team, just say playing like that, but still only Chelsea has six and they have 48 points only, so it's a poor league, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04But it's just the quality of football, yeah. They've come up into the league and just done well they could promote teams too, and that's got them up the table. That's the show just know. Like they should be just they should be still fighting relegation. That's the way it should go, but it's not gone like that, and it's gone from the top right down to the bottom. Like even United relying on set piece as well. There's Arsons going on them again, but you know what I mean? It's it's poor.
SPEAKER_00Doesn't they go to show you all the same that and you know you play a fourth game, a second game, you even go with them and play your fifth game, and on the start of the season is so important, isn't it? Oh yeah, whether you're gonna be at the top in the middle of down the bottom. Yeah, massive. Do you know what I mean? Like really. So um, but look at fair play to them anyway, like uh bright, they've got to go to the end, and then a good win, a good a good result for West Ham the weekend, um, to snatch a point and get a point. And it wasn't even a snatch because you could score it early, like West Ham ago, to draw one on Man City was a great result of them.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and the career looked like the same again. I was watching I had that feel to it where City had a have all the ball. But they're not playing much pace or something. I don't know what it is, they're just like United. Yeah, it's just like United in the fourth half. City'd have 90% of the ball, and you know they just break a team down eventually. Eventually, I don't know, it just seems to be too easy or something. But the play some of the players see how I look at are too nice. Yeah, like even Cherokee's a good player, like from white football. I feel like he's a bit too nice or something.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and they look at Harland and they score the goals. Now you said the legs probably four months or kind of you keep them out of the game, um uh you don't get results. And that you win the leagues like this, and they were getting the little 1-0 wins at the end. Now it's Arsenal are getting the late goals now, so that that little thing's at the switching, doesn't it? Flipping it, that's why you kept the Briner. Yeah, they're missing that extra quality, not extra quality.
SPEAKER_04I guess quality is like the best in the world.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, three is not always probably the most assistant in the premiership, isn't he? Like, really, like you should just yeah, it's his passing the way he controls games, and you'd be missing his goals.
SPEAKER_04You can't replace players that's yeah, Bruno Fernandez.
SPEAKER_02I don't know.
SPEAKER_04You play to stay at you know that's the only one. You played as a like a foul and midfielder, if you will. If you're playing against a De Bryana, you're always looking to see where he is, aren't you? But if you were playing against someone like a Marmous or a Cherky, or sort of you're not really looking as much. You can't make that mistake. Oh yeah. And then but I played against players that obviously it's different level, but the same game has just different levels. So you're yeah, course. Like and they just drift and they're lazy, yeah, you know, in a sense. But when you get the ball, you're like so you can switch off for a second, and as soon as they pick up that they will see you switching off, they'll pick it up in the pocket and just break over the defence or put it in toward the dart. You're like, fuck. But Fernandez now, you know what I mean. Fernandez on the S they just drifted out left to the wide, nobody went down, no one really marked him, and he brings the game for some like an arrow great pass. And they were supposed to mark him. If that was me supposed to be marking him, I'd be kicking myself. Yeah, you know, things just off like that. Do that all the time, it'd be messy. Just stand there, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cole Parmer does it. They don't really play in a position, you just sort of like you said, they drift, so sometimes you see them walking on the pitch. Yeah, but like you said, everybody's just so all over the place. Yeah, he just finds himself in like 20 yards of space, and then that's all these players need is five, isn't it? Yeah, anyway.
SPEAKER_00Quick turn and they're gone. Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent. So yeah, but good good draw for West Ham, give them that. And then look, I have to say this now. I always say it was a good draw for Leeds away to Crystal Palace now. Yeah, for the fact that you played all the second half with with 10 players, yeah. I have to say now, and Mr. Pennell. Yeah, so that's another point, though.
SPEAKER_04Very harsh red card as well. The second the fourth one was the the amount went past them, the left back Goodmanson just dragged him down, playing the yellow card. But the second one is I don't know, I thought the repere could have just sort of said look at last one. Wasn't a malicious tackle around, yeah, yeah. A tiny bit late. I didn't see it, Connor. That's what I'm saying. In the middle of the park as well, it's not as if they were breaking away or anything like that. So I thought it was a bit bit harsh, but like you said, you get a point. You take a point.
SPEAKER_00Any point where's the leads are on no leads have 42 points now? So they're three points uh uh off the the bottom say like it's look at the bottom two teams are gone, just say with Borneo and Wolves as I say. Then it's West Ham and not the Fridays have 29, Sports have 40, and Leeds have 32. So they've been little cushion, but like depending on who they're playing all like say it's look it's gonna go all the way. Yeah, that's it. It's definitely gonna go all the way. So um then it just said take one place up to that, which was Crystal Palace, which have 39, so all the rest are safe. 39 to 40 almost are all safe. So then look at then the um a good draw as we said, like yes, I like the need as well. Spores like like the exo point could do down the water good as well. Um away to Liverpool 1-0, as you boys said a second. We said you could see it coming. You deserved it. Miles away.
SPEAKER_04What yeah, I don't know, again, it's one of the questions we have. Like, I'll read it out now, like um, while I'm there. Hang on, I'll just get me uh Yeah, I always watch it. Joe, I'm gonna give that as my result of the week. Just because it was uh is it a fourth point of the whole year, is it? Or do you definitely haven't won a game anyway this year's fourth? Just calendar year. Yeah, 2026. Yeah, if you got man's after losing his four or five matches in charge or something, but losing the Athletic of Jordan the week and all going to Anfield, you just expect to be beaten three or four and nil. So I'm gonna give I I know it's only a draw, but I'll give them a the draw could be the best draw they'd have this season. I'm not gonna give that as my result.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, a fellow called Scott, he wrote two questions into us. But one of them's like, How how bad are Liverpool? That power a bit laughing facely, you know.
SPEAKER_04Well I say how like again they are poor, but they're only five points off the hoard at the same time. Yeah, goes back to the day because it's been power.
SPEAKER_00Like I said it, didn't I? I don't even know whether I just said it to you somewhere else along the way, or else I said it on the podcast. I can't remember because we're always obviously watching the games and talking. Between take Arsenal and City Air, we just say, and then you have United Villa, Chelsea and Liverpool. They're all as bad as each other. Yeah, they're all as bad as each other. There's not one of them United are toward, you can't say United are better than Liverpool, you can't say they're better than Chelsea, you can't say Chelsea are better than Liverpool or Astabillet are better than United. They're all as bad as each other, they're all poor. United are obviously better than them at Tort and they're better than last year, but they're all capable of good results, inconsistent results, and bad results. And you just don't know, you just don't know what you're gonna get on the day. Yeah, and that's it. I think we're bad, I think they're a really good team. Do you have a good side? Do they just have a bad manager? Bad bad manager, really do.
SPEAKER_04Like the likes of the money they spent and all uh Ekati K is a good player. Every since I put him into my fancy football team, actually hasn't scored a goal, so I'm gonna keep it there the rest of the season. Um but uh like the likes of Verts and I'm just not living up to no expectation at the minute. I can see what he bought I can't see what he spent the money like. You think of it, Embremo and Cunnya cost probably 10 or 15 million more combined than they did with him. He and Verz has six goals and assists this season. They've 22.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, why is it for them? But still, he still had a lot of four-power of front, they should be called more goals. But they've a good team. I don't like it, just it's the manager, I think.
SPEAKER_04I think he needs to go, and I think a lot of local fans listen now probably agree with me. I think he needs to go because I hope to keep him for obvious reasons, but if someone's gonna go in there and get the best out of them players. Not saying they're world beaters, right? But they look around. You can see no channel for the league next year to get it right. 100%. Yeah, exactly. They're like united. That's a great way, great way of putting the conneries. Yeah, they do you know what? Don't like saying this about the people either. I'm delighted what's happening to them, and I hope they keep that ball, the leading fella. You know what I mean? Yeah, but you know what's lucky.
SPEAKER_00But they're like United, right? Um, when you look at them, um they've good players, right? But then they just don't play as a team. They're just disjointed at the moment as well, isn't he? Yeah, like they've they've a lot of good players now, but they've experienced players, which some of them like United are just not playing well. They're like Salaton on and Van Dyken on and all of them like the best days and poor. Yeah, very poor to back to say, right? The goalkeeper does well for them to say, and then a slab as low level like he gets the goals that free kick and all, like he's probably the best player this this season, he's having to play right back. Yeah, sorry, but that's yeah, no, you're right. But I'm saying is they're not playing as a team, even though they have a good squad and they could have a great team, it's like United just say they have a good squad. You need to get the right person in to make it all gel, though. I don't think Slot is just that man.
SPEAKER_04No, no, no, I think they're missing as well, they're missing Trent. No, he couldn't defend that people are giving over, but this quality going forward, you can't deny that. That extra bit of quality that could be just be a nil all like against it could be one nil up against Spurs and there's all over them, and he could just spray one pass that just opens up many times his passing range is ridiculous. He played well last week. You know, so they're missing quality, yeah. By the bigger players who get off the ball like that.
SPEAKER_00So we watched them playing against Man City last week for Real Madrid and he had to read a good game. Yeah, I like that. So you're right, the fairness like in the Champions League, trying to try to Alexander like he's a quality game. He's a good footballer.
SPEAKER_04I say I I think they've enough to get into the Champions League Liverpool. And like I said, if they were to get in, I don't know who, maybe another midfielder, a striker, or winger, I don't know what they were to get, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were challenging for the league, do you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they need another centre half. When they missed out on go, yeah, he went to City just say that to them. Um that was a big loss. That would have been the big difference to them. So they definitely Banders United do they definitely need a centre half. They need a right back as well. Yeah, they do, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, can't keep playing Spozzle right back. He's the best he's been the best player this year, you know what I mean? Like can't keep playing him in opposition like that. It's like playing Fernandez in right back four, isn't it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, and look at the play him there. Look at Mr. We go into our last two results, right? Now we know you asked us now. We can we can go by not in the first and best and Fulham. It was an ill old drop, but it was still a good result for Forrest to say, right? But he thought he might have got the three because he found a home, like we think Leeds get him home, just say right. Yeah, and he wanted to smack one at the crossbar, didn't he? As well, and I said you were a bit unlucky, just say, right? But look, come here, Fulham picked up a point. But like United and Nasson Villa, like we go, that's the last one, just say, and like it was a great win for United. Doesn't matter what way you look at. You said a corner, like, and you said it to Sean. Um they leave him Sasko out, and five balls had pulled into the bottom of the box, the first half. Now you would have scored at least one, I'd say. Yeah. Yeah. Now they were they were poor the first half and very letardic and slow and all, and then other other people thought now that like like when you're talking created chances and all listening to Rickane and others on the sky down at half time. I thought they were just bad in the first half, fairly slow, fairly poor. Um, shouldn't we come down 100 miles an hour if you didn't? And I said, Well it's like going in a half and says again, you can't come out in the second half and be a slow, do you know what I mean? Like, and then look, obviously they scored a goal and then end up one all to say Barkley scored a good goal and be taught, hopefully you might think my air up his arsenal being offside, but you know, if you throw it the other way, you might have been offside. Do you know what I mean? Holy yeah, but you know it did, in fairness, but um but look, they came out with the second half and they would like me, they got the three points and did they got the job done and you had a bet that second half, but a massive result with the rest of the results. What do you think?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, say it was the fourth half. I thought it was just the same as the last couple of weeks. It's just slow and people not closing down, and people waiting for villa players to get the ball to then close down, and people run the law just run up front again, and Castle Mara all over the place like a headless chicken and Delau or Ahmad, sorry, just not running at full backwards. Just so brutal.
SPEAKER_00Were you the same? Were you the same now? You're thinking to Ahmad, Ahmad is reminding me now of Ratchwood. Yeah, and every time he gets the ball, he turns back, places a silver ball back to the centre half or something in the middle, and taking a lazy way out. Yeah, yeah, and very frustrating.
SPEAKER_04Uh Kwane was a bit better because he got a goal and whatnot. But the pair of them do work hard to say, but then you look at it like United Centre half and see when he come out with the ball and touch, touch, touch.
SPEAKER_03How is it so much?
SPEAKER_00Brutal isn't yeah, you miss when you you miss Martinez with the ball through the middle. Yeah, if you know what I mean. He takes a chance with that pass. Yeah, I mean, like, but then he's injured too much as well. Do you know what I mean? Like so.
SPEAKER_04But then, yeah, the second half then obviously it was much better that he came out and actually played a bit quick, quick passes.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, the Fanarin days we'll get into no matter what you say, what can you do? 16. Holy yeah, he's rocking his hair like with all these over a hundred assists and and over a hundred goals for Man United. He's probably the toward player in the premiership. I think Ryan Giggs has one of them, and Wayne Room's probably another, I don't know. But he's probably only the tall player in United in the Premiership now, only that has about 100 goals, 100 assists.
SPEAKER_04What can you say he's got into a hundred assists in like 300 and something games for United? Yeah, like Messi did that in like similar numbers for Barcelona and Ronaldo that it was similar with Real Madrid.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, look, he's 58 goals or something, and 23 assists for Portugal or something as well, only in a hundred and forever again. Like he for for Sport and Lisbon was the same. He could he's nearly had the same for them, he's loads of goals and loads of assists for them. So he's just got goal and assist king, isn't he? Especially if he are in the league at the moment.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, people um we I'm his biggest critic because it's petulance and is given out to the referee and and the balls back in playing. It's very frustrating in that sense, but I'm I have to have to get on the Bruno show now. Like it's unbelievable. It's always if he's playing for Prime Barcelona and Prime, you know, it's he's just good, he's he's the best signing we've had since Alex Ferguson left. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm against the biggest critic, and I've never blown smoke up as Irish hand. And now I'm I'm this is mad.
SPEAKER_00Well, he's playing in his proper position.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's did the graph come up before this match about the chances created in the league, and like I think everybody the highest is at like 50 or 60, and then Fernandez is on like 120 or something. He's mild, he is mild. Everybody's mad, isn't it? But that goes back to the match, right? But crap, bro. Again, how are we so slow out of the blocks in the in the first half? I think they're they've having too much time off is killing them, but then when they have a midweek game, that's when they drop points. That's that's when we've lost the West Ham and Newcastle. So we're not able for it, but then you have the second half to come out of the blocks a bit quicker, put a pressure now. Villa crap, right? Yeah, let's be honest.
SPEAKER_00But they're not like all of us. Well they're playing at the moment. The farmers were all the chances up the top looking for that, they're the one that has the most farm.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and and the mid the midweek games is is is obviously killing them as well. Yeah, don't get me wrong. But the I think the break is too much for us, and the next break is even more worrying wrong. Anyway, next year. But it was great great the the it's a corner. I think like it's a corner's an assist. I know I used to slag other things, but but this is the corner's a corner, whips are in there, and Casemiro again. We're gonna miss him on both ends of the pitch, but I think he needs to go at the end of the season. Let this little like a not a cameo. Maybe he is a cameo like over the little farewell time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If he can get us back in the champs, he needs to go because he what he's done that's just not worth 350 grand. You know, it's nice to see and he's kissing the badge and he's still and I like watching him and I like his attitude. And in some ways, he'll miss him, definitely for his character and his thing, but he's he's he's pinched, yeah. And his goals are crazy, you know.
SPEAKER_00He's going to love his time at United, no matter what way you look for it. Yeah, because he's he's gone like from Real Madrid to Man United, like two biggest clubs in the world, just say then he's playing with Brazil as well into the bag, and then he'll go to the World Cup and all, and like any and like five Champions Leagues, like he's not ever, he's never going to ever say that you had a bad career, just say like, but what you're talking about, Sean, is like I mean, that hadn't had a goal the other day to say, is it as good if somebody scored in a volley like or scored a goal with 30 yards or a free kick? It's unbelievable the way he gets up and scores them. Is there anybody else like him that can score goals like him? I don't think there is.
SPEAKER_04No, no, but I said it to you yesterday when we were watching the game, like I Barb Sergio Ramos and Thiago Silva, who the ball just always seemed to go say I don't think I've ever seen a player as dangerous in the box in my life. Yeah. And like that's uh I don't think anybody can turn around and say, ah you're wrong, or blah blah blah. Like it's a lot of people. It's Gabriel barred them like playing WWE in the box with the opposition, but Gabriel always finds us as on the U said it does Van Dyke. Yeah, you said it during the week there we were walking, and um Brazil have Casemiro and um Gabrielle in their team, so you know what I mean, and people have ripped the ball in, so yeah, play a shape of the World Cup.
SPEAKER_00I'm look I I look at Casemiro, right, and you say Van Dyke sort of stands out a bit, and he stands back sort of the penalty spot, and you put the ball in, and he's a big tall fella, right? So he's gonna attack it, he's gonna win it. Yeah, some you'll push somebody else out of the way, and he's dead. It's like Casemiro runs around like a little thing, like even though he's tall, like there you go, he can score the goal from the back, he's great at free kicks and run in, but then he had to dart around a few players to the front post to get to that. That was just a great header.
SPEAKER_04Like nobody marks his matter, he doesn't. Back to the match, a bit of um quality down a bit quality, that was an unbelievable assist. That's an assist, that's a proper assist. Like he no one's saying that pass. Yeah, and he puts it through and Cunny obviously. Done the business and then Sesco came on and tell he looked hungry, he jumped over players and all to get to the ball.
SPEAKER_00I was delighted for he could have got another assist.
SPEAKER_04Ah, that was Brutal at the end, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_00I don't know whether he was two minds whether to pass or not or whether like he was. You know what?
SPEAKER_04That's happened a few times. Yeah, if you look at it, and he's hit the post five times as well. Yeah. So this is like Bruno's on a different level, and yeah, if he keeps going the way he's going, he has to, as an individual, he has to get a player of the year. I know we just disagree with a few weeks ago when I could understand his appointment, but I don't care now. No, he's yeah, he's definitely up in the individual level. Yeah, he's up there, it'll be talked about. Yeah, considering he'd probably have the record if he would have played in this position for the whole season. He only just say from December onwards, he's doing this. He missed three three or four games from injury as well. So hopefully he can he can do it. There's another happy well putting the ball in the back of the net, which he weren't last year. Yeah, so but it was still a worrying performance, I'll be honest.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I still I still think that we need a different manager, yeah. That's it, yeah. That that might make that that like be a bit faster coming out of blocks.
SPEAKER_04That's it. Just to if before we move on, just before we go over predictions table, uh just to people might agree with me or disagree with me, but that's toward against fourth in the league, United against Villa. That just sums up the league, I think, the quality and how bad it was.
SPEAKER_00Like yeah, and they were talking about our own team here, yeah. But it was poor game.
SPEAKER_04I can remember United and Chelsea going for the league, and Arsenal and Liverpool are toured and forth. Yeah. And some of the best games to watch, like you know what?
SPEAKER_0015 years ago, you'd have been just say you were playing at the bottom of the league and you tried to stay up. Just say you'd have been playing back to football in that game yesterday.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah, it would have been so uh yeah, the predictions table then. Um give me them quick. Well, I'll update the league tables after this match out tonight, but so far, before this game, we've all said Brentford are gonna win. So before this game, I have one, two, three, four, five points. Sean, you have one, two, three, four, five, six points. Okay. And then Vina, you have four points. So not bad. Things say the same, we'll catch up one point in you. Okay. But uh yeah, when I put up the next predictions now, which should be Toursy uh for the weekend, it'll have the little scores beside all of our names, and people can say Sean's clearly in the lead, but should we look at the new mountain? So uh yeah, if people wanted to see our predictions, they'll be up on Instagram then on uh Tours Day and Friday.
SPEAKER_03And yeah, that's it. Sean, did you give a result of the week? Did you uh you get Newcastle? I've got against Newcastle about the Chelsea.
SPEAKER_04I think what they've been through and I was going to Liverpool dropped points, but he deserved it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, look at that's come here. Look everybody has their opinion, and that's and you did deserve the draw just say like of the back of what he's been going through, you know. Yeah, look at West Ham getting a draw against City and that was a good result to say I know City are struggling, but look, come here, that's that's what you have your opinion.
SPEAKER_04And away as well. Yeah, Anfield. Yeah, yeah, I mean so uh yeah, we'll move on to a couple of questions. I don't think we'll get through them all, but sure we'll get through as many as we can as you per usual. So do you know what thanks Connor? We have the international rate coming up as well, so we'll I look back and we can go through a few bits, but uh again, um a lot of people write in the same sort of question, give or take, you know.
SPEAKER_02Um uh this is from Paul Dugan. He said, Should we keep Runo for another few seasons?
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. I think I think you should do that. You usually give him like a two-year contract with a option for a little bit.
SPEAKER_00I say he'd want to stay. Yeah. I would keep him. But then you can't. I agree, yeah. We should. I think we should. Jeez, you should look for a payroll.
SPEAKER_04But there's no one in the needs of the captain, right? But there's no one in the team that you'd give the captain Cena to now if he left in the summer. Martinez would be an ideal, but sure, he's this is gonna be another question now in a few minutes, but like he's never playing. No, so you can't give that someone's not playing. Bruno's always playing, so he you don't know he's gonna be a good one. You can't give a back to work.
SPEAKER_01No, so yeah, no, he would get it. Then stats is ridiculous.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, if he wants four underground league, just give it to him. Yeah, definitely he's all almost single-handed back into the Champions League. Yeah, and it's by a roll of player not quite like Cesco's and well, Casemiro and Theo Boys, you know, but it's ridiculous.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, look, do you know what if you look very realistically with Bruno and take all these moulin and he's crying over, and sometimes you can have a bad game, just say right a lot of times you can have a bad game, he's probably still the best number ten in the world.
SPEAKER_04Yes, but to talk about the bad game, I talk about fellow in work today, he's a United fan, he's very strong. Uh some people might think he's a bad United fan, but he does some good opinions as well. He said, But Cristiano Ronaldo had bad games. Anyone's a re shout at the telly, what are you doing? Flicking ball here, flicking ball there. He scored 40 goals, we're gonna say no. That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER_00He shuts anybody up with the stats, and that's what he's doing. That's what I'm saying. Well, he stats alone, yeah. Cause you'd have to sign and give him another concept. Yeah. If that's all you did every year for the stuff. He's in the top three of all time, you know. And he's still playing for the keeping. Yeah. He's six in, what you got? Six in assists. Have you got seven or eight goals? Seven, yeah. Seven goals? Caution. In 27 games, because he missed three games through injury. So there you go. So that alone, cause you'd have to keep him. Yeah, cause you'd have to keep.
SPEAKER_02So, yeah, thanks well. I hope that answers that. And um fella uh Shane wrote into us not our friend Shane Shane. Should Martinez be offered a new contract?
SPEAKER_04No. You can't keep these players at our constant. Like he's if you said fit, you'd put them up there as being one of the best out of the half you could get. Exactly. Like Veran will never be put down as being one of the best in history, even though on his day he probably was. He was never injured, never fit. If it's a good one, then he's gonna be the same. Like, he's never he's not there.
SPEAKER_00Like what do you Well I'm gonna tell you, and you can make up your mind on that, Shaw, and you as well just say, right? Because I remember he signed in 2022. So this is his fourth season. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So what's uh how many can you play? 120, 152. I'd say he's got a play. I'd say he's played 74.
SPEAKER_0072. Nice half he's played right now. Now he's played a couple of obviously Champions League games, if they were in or Europa League games, Africa Cup games, just say, right. But look, if you look at his injuries, he had a calf injury just early, he was out with 21 days, he had a crucial ligament injury, he was out with 292 days, right? He had um another calf injury, 30 days, and then he he knew 50 50, 55 days, and at the moment now, like uh he's out, and the very first, if you can remember the very first season he started in in 2022, he missed 14 games for a methatarsal injury. So already he's had missing a total of um 478 um minutes as the guard say that he missed on the pitch. Yes so alone, how how could you? No, you're right, that's I wouldn't because of that as you said, the second one you sean, just say you're you like I know I'm about to give me a few stats there to say right. No, he's two injury prone, yeah, and he's 28.
SPEAKER_04But if you only got you you look at Gabrielle and Saliba, and I'm just going for them because they're probably two of the best sellers in the league at the moment. And even Van Dyke thrilliers, you know, he got a big injury. These teams wouldn't be anywhere near the air where without the consistency. I guarantee if you look into Gabrielle's played more games in the last two seasons than Martinez has played before. Well, look at as I said, like I'm telling you, and that's you know, I'm not saying I'm saying level or whatever else, but that's the level of consistency you need. If you look, you don't care how good you are if you're not there, you're no good. No, it's simple. So no, my answer is no, don't do the contract.
SPEAKER_00Sorry. Look, he he played 72 premiership games, right? And he's missed 94. Yeah. So it's ridiculous alone. That alone tells you no, he's too interesting. How? You can't.
SPEAKER_04He can't, and he's really wondering you're right on his best. So probably in the world, I'd say, but his height and all the way he plays and his pass and his composure, and he's really, really good footballer, I think. At the minute, he's not on the pitch, so he's no.
SPEAKER_00He's their best attack and defender, if that makes sense. Yeah. That he breaks through the lines when he's passing. Just say really good, right? Because their full backs can't grow up the bleeding line and do anything. And McGuire is good when he goes up for corners, and he's don't get me wrong, he's having a good season, just saying he's doing well at the back now late as early, but he passes the ball so well where accuracy like through the line to say that we were on the attack like very quick, more so than the labelled passes that are going left and right. But his injuries, no. No, like Van Dyke and all and the good Santa House that play play whole seasons, they could play like four years without getting an injury. He's injured every year.
SPEAKER_04So no, yeah, I wouldn't leave another comment saying it's an awful shame because it's qualities, but anyway.
SPEAKER_02No, so I hope that answers that. So onto another bleeding injury prone, I'm not gonna person. Um this is from Trevor. Uh so we mean him were just having the yap at throughout the match, you know, and he's a sort of it was a question, but it was a statement as well. So he just asked me this, so I wrote it down myself.
SPEAKER_04Like so, should United get rid of Mason Mount, like throw him down to the reserves and get rid because you can't just no one's gonna come in and buy him. So I think they need to force him out, is what Trevor said. I think they need to get rid of him. I guess that's it. But you think they need to get rid of him.
SPEAKER_00He's another he's he's doesn't he like Martinez, yeah. Another injury from classes. He's that now he's not that probably worse. Yeah, well he's 27 just say as his age, to say, right? Now, but he's only there like since 2023, so he's not there that long to say, but he still missed over 50 games. Like if you look at his like and a half, he's played 66 games to say, right? Um a lot of them would be only coming on as subs and all that. But look, he's the same. He missed 26 games in 2023-24. He missed two 23 games in 2024-25. But so by this year, he's had to miss nine games. But then I look at I looked at a forder. 50% of the games. Yeah, right. Now that I looked at a forward, right? And then I went back to Chelsea and he was at Chelsea for four years, right? Tell me games he missed for Chelsea in four years, 19. That's it. That's all, right? And he played 195 games for Chelsea, right? And he scored 37 goals and got 30 uh 33 goals he scored, he got 37 assists for Chelsea. He won the Champions League, the Super Cup, the FIFA Club World Cup. So where's that player gone? Do you know where he knows it's gone in all his injuries? So he's another player you can't keep because he's too injury prone. Yeah, and that's it.
SPEAKER_04And like how many times do you sorry Seany times you watch him when he starts and the fairly he does work hard and etc. Then he just does come out with a second half and you're like, he's injured again. That's it. That's definitely happened at least double figures in this time at United where he just doesn't come out with a second half and you're like, he's injured again.
SPEAKER_00Or he plays the whole game and then he misses six games after that.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, there's no point again. He can't build momentum. No, and it's a shame as well because he has showed quality, and he if he did could play week in week, he could build a team around him in a way, or be a part of a of the good like of a good good squad, but there was no point. Fairly brittle. Yeah, very point. How many players do we have loads of players like that, don't we? Yeah. That's what me and Trent were talking about. There's so many players that we got rid of the Riff Raff last year. There's one thing that Armor and done for us, he got rid of all the troublemakers. Now these are causal trouble in other things, other ways. So, and it's it's gonna bring me on nicely to the next question. Um came in from a fellow called Kenneth. He said, How many players the United realistically need to get rid of?
SPEAKER_00Well, let's go through it. Twelve. That leads on there. That's a quick guess, right? Right.
SPEAKER_04And then we can go through it. I'm saying twelve. Ten, I'm gonna say. Now including the players are still on the books in a way, because yeah, Highland, Rashford are still there. Oh yeah, I'd be saying there, yeah. Yeah, right. So you go up in the back, right? So goalkeeper, see the grid of buying there and then.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you have to that's two straight away. Yeah, agree. Right. I think we're all gonna agree. Get your pen neck on it and right because you'll run out, you don't have to put the the net the names, but make sure we keep the figure right. That's two, right?
SPEAKER_04So look at realistically, we all don't like the low, but they're not gonna get rid of them, right? So realistically, go though. Yeah, I know, yeah. But I think he won't go next year. I think we'd the summer after our right back. So I think with Masrawi and Delo, that'll they'll be our right backs. That's not the question. How many players do we realistically need to get rid of? Oh, right. Realistically then, right? Delow is three. DeLo is three, McGuire is four, yeah, DeLict is five, yes, Martinez is six, Shaw is seven, Malassia is eight. Right? That's it's just a defence and the goalkeepers alone. Yeah. This is what the answer is. And there are defenders that you can think of. No, because I think you had to mention that all that. No, yeah. So then you go into the midfield, so obviously Casemiro is gone. Yeah, Ligardi has to go. Gone amount needs to go, right? That's up to up to 11. Right. Now, right? So then you move forward up the pitch, then Xerxes definitely needs to go. Yeah, yeah. But then, like some of the others like Fletcher and all that, they're all on young, right? Derek had me players that come true, right? So that's 12, isn't it? Sancho, yes, Rashford, yeah, Highland. That's 15. Yeah. Fifteen players. Holy god. That's realistic, though. If if you have if I was on FIFA, if we want to be getting rid of all them players, yeah. You look at you go to the Arsenal team, you go to the City team, go to Liverpool team, they're not getting 15 players to get rid of. Some of them might have a couple more than others, obviously, but they're not. You go through Villa, they're not gonna go, they won't have that many players to get rid of. This is my unit. So that's a good question. The only thing I would say is I wonder if you're to look at Arsenal teams six years ago, would they have been in about where we need to get rid of about twenty. How many players have you missed? If you actually did, you would that you remember Bammy Angle this war now. No, like yeah, they would have and they cut you can't. You see, they got rid of like they got rid of three or four players last year, and then they need to get rid of us a few more. Naturally, some will go. Yeah, it's like when you said a second time. You can't just do them one season.
SPEAKER_00It's like you can't win the league in one season when you buy new players. So like Connor's right when you talk about like McGuire getting another contract to stay in the dressing room, uh the law will still stay there, just say, right? The little probably still stay there. Martinez will still say Martinez like like like so a lot of them will still stay there, like, and you just buy more, and then they just see these people's contracts out on it. But but but realistically they could get rid of ten. Yeah. Like if you're saying, like when you said ten, realistically, like you said, Connor, they're saying we won't go through them all, but this farm or treat them out or four of them out to say, right? And then you got you should go and Casemiro, so that should be six, six, they go, could shook should be seven. So I mean the two goalkeepers will be nine, but that's so ten. I'd say definitely ten, it'll definitely be shipped.
SPEAKER_04Ten was yeah, my pit number, but then I read it again and I was giving out the a little bit there kind of realistically. That was that was I didn't read the question properly myself, so yeah. In an ideal world, 15, but realistically ten. Very good, yeah, very good. Yeah, yeah. Um yeah, look at compared. If anybody has any other they want to get rid of, or think that maybe we're being too harsh, maybe people think that maybe we should keep Martinez and Delow and DS. Yeah, yeah, let us know.
SPEAKER_00Look, generally it's everybody has their opinion, Connor, and everybody and and everybody inside their opinion, and that's why opinion everybody should speak and mind that's their opinion.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and that's it. Yeah, exactly. A couple more questions there, lads, but I think we might how a lot of that will be it. Yeah, but like you said, the internationals are on next week, so we won't have like too much to talk about over the next two weeks. But hopefully we do with Oreland. Yeah, of course. We can we have a lot of questions. Scott has a question there, like I won't answer, so yeah, yeah. Am I doing on the Monday?
SPEAKER_02I'll ramble on more about that.
SPEAKER_00Am I doing on the Monday? Forget for parties, I don't forget, and then next week as well, we might have to do it a day early as well. Like, and call uh Sargon as well, because we're obviously going away to Lanzarotti. Lanzaroti, maybe Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_04So yeah, these Pearl Bowl and that United aren't playing for three weeks, but they're going to Spain alright, aren't they? Yeah, go ahead.
SPEAKER_00We're going to watch Ireland playing.
SPEAKER_02I only got an assistant here or they worked down for sure.
SPEAKER_04So there you go. A bit of luck. Yeah, it's true, yeah. So uh yeah, if anybody has questions, uh like I said we answer them every week or try to, but definitely the next two weeks is your chance to your opportunity to get loads in because we'll have plenty of time to talk about and answer questions.
SPEAKER_00We'll give our in-depth uh uh uh opinion on if it's if it's leads, if it's arsenal, like whatever, like I say, if it's sports, whether they like anywhere you like, we we'll just give our honest opinion.
SPEAKER_04And I will say as well, there's a few people that don't want the name insurance and that's fine, that's grand, but they disagree with what we say. So if anybody disagrees with what we say, write it in as well. So we'd love to talk about that as well because that's it's all about back and forth.
SPEAKER_00And this is and isn't this the best about opinions, yeah. And every if everyone's opinion was the same be a bar mort. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_04Um but yeah, that's it for episode 40. So again, yeah, thanks for everyone that's listened and sending in your questions and following us on Instagram and whatnot, and liking and sharing and stuff.
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