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Episode 37 - Glory Glory Kobbie Mainoo

• Vincent, Sean, Conor • Season 1 • Episode 37

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This week we took a look back at gameweek 35 in the premier league which saw Arsenal go clear in the title race as they swept Fulham aside whilst Man City dropped points away to Everton, big away wins for Forest & Spurs, and Man United beat old rivals Liverpool. We had a bit of a pop a Liverpool whilst also discussing Arsenal progressing to the Champions League final. We had some great listener’s questions to finish off as always.

SPEAKER_02

Episode number 37. Oh Lady Jesus huh? Lads on the sideline podcast. It's me Connor, joined by my brother Sean, as always. How's everybody getting on? Welcome back.

SPEAKER_01

And our father Veno. Oh yes, welcome back everybody. Thanks as we said last week for your lenship, it's much appreciated. Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Episode 47, huh?

SPEAKER_01

47 quick weeks. Whole season of the flying end, isn't it? Yeah. It's actually crazy. Did you enjoy it? No, yeah, there we go. We can't go and keep carrying on, but we'll be here for another 40 year. As a new one that you got going, kind of did you enjoy so far everything? It's been good, hasn't it? It has been, yeah, no, it's been pretty good. Different and plenty of listers and all, so other people seem to be enjoying the table, don't you?

SPEAKER_02

No, when you're doing it, it's not what we used to think, but when you're doing it every week, it's like Jesus. No, we're not well doing this on Wednesday. Shall I got back from Poland just to usually do it on a Tuesday? So we're gonna do it now Wednesday before the Boring and uh PSG match, but when you're doing it every week, the week's flying out. Yeah, really do. It's like it's Tuesday already, like yeah, rapid.

SPEAKER_01

It's just it's like now is it Monday and and Tuesday's gone, the week is gone. Yeah, the weekend just creeps up so fast, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. And it's probably to do our age as well, looking forward to the weekend as well. No, I mean like if you're only usually if you're only a child and you're in school, the week's probably dragging. Yeah, yeah, it is quite quicker, don't you? Very well.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's been yeah. For uh that's listened over the last 30 odd weeks, and like I said, if it's your force and I are 37 when you're gonna listen to thanks very much. Yeah, all the support and all the questions that Sean gets in as well. Show me vlogs now for later on, do you? And a couple.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, a couple of yeah, well, good.

SPEAKER_02

Uh right, we'll kick off the news as we usually do. Uh start off sort of lower down the table. Another manager, gone, Parker. Yeah, gone from Burnley. Uh all the jokes coming in now, man. Michael Jackson he's taken over the last couple of games. He was the assistant. I think he's like the 11th or 12th manager now, gone this year in the Premier League. Like so. I wonder if it's a record. No, it's I looked at you today because I thought of I said, but it's I think it was like two or three years ago, there's like 15 or something sacked. So didn't do us a lot. I think it was the year Graham Potter was at Chelsea and stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Did you find it hard to replace him as a good manager? Like, I mean he was with him well, wasn't he?

SPEAKER_02

I don't know how they're gonna get in. Hard to replace people like that. He's gone, and then talk about what our managers being kept, and obviously McKenna got kept with Ipsich last year when they got relegated, and now they're after getting promoted. Yeah, so Ipsych are back second into the championship, so they're back up into the Premier League again. So it goes to show you you can't go down, and if you keep a group, come straight back up. Keep the whole lot, yeah. Yeah, yeah, and add a little bit here where like, yeah, yeah, yeah. You need to keep some of the players but they did lose players, didn't they? Oh, yeah, they did, yeah, yeah. The Lap Houston, he played for Ipsit, did he think? So there was a few or Chelsea, like yeah. He went to a worst team. Yeah, but he could go back next year, you never know.

SPEAKER_03

Um to a worst team, yeah, exactly. Yeah. You wouldn't have thought he'd say that now, did you?

SPEAKER_01

No, no, and United would look run as well, and then he and he chose Chelsea because he'd have been in the Champions League. Not even anywhere near it.

SPEAKER_02

That's the scary thing that that was United's first choice. What the fuck were he looking at? Yeah, well, I don't know. Was that lesson in disguise? I think so. Makes me a little bit nervous that they've just got lucky that he dodged it. Oh, really? Really?

SPEAKER_01

You wouldn't know. Well, maybe not, I don't know. Look, it doesn't he done do you know what you do we associate with a hundred players?

SPEAKER_02

No, no, no, you listen to you listen to obviously rumours are starting now already, but every outlet is like Belaban now. Every single person, there's not anybody else in the race from fans. Every outlet is saying that he's coming to the United States. It's gonna happen. But the only two teams that were in it for for your man last year was United and and Chelsea, and every outlet was saying that you're coming to it's actually nearly both him. So I don't know. Um, there's some truth and say, Oh no, it's the come here.

SPEAKER_01

I said it's a lot of truth, but shouldn't he sign his name's had his agreement and then he had his contract signed last year and just uh Brighton wouldn't let him go? So he was disgusted, and I think that's probably half his problem this season, like because he the deal never worked manually. Well that's a good point, isn't it? So um so look, he's halfway there with with the talk, he's just getting the figure now, and like it's won't be anywhere near a hundred million, what you were looking for last year. Better not be anyway.

SPEAKER_02

No, better not be. Sticking to the team at the championship, the playoffs start on Friday. So I'm gonna ask the two of you who you think will get promoted. So Hall are playing against Millwall and Middlesbrough are playing against Southampton. So over the four teams. Who do you think is the one that will Southampton? Southampton.

SPEAKER_01

I think Southampton and Millwall get to the final, but I think Southampton will be the team that'll come up. They will at the end for him team, so I just think it'll be the team.

SPEAKER_02

I I think the same. I think Millwall will get promoted though. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

You think Millwall like is in the stars with him to go up? I think so, yeah.

SPEAKER_02

No, you look at like we are watching it, wouldn't we? The weekends and Hall literally go into the playoffs. Oh, the last second game. It's always mad in that championship, isn't it? Are you losing and wrecks and drawing and something and next while Hole aren't in it aren't in it, and the next file are in it, and they could they could win it all and both for moment.

SPEAKER_01

Like it's just the last days just be great, doesn't it? Like when there's so much at stake, like even for other teams going down to leagues one and two, and all like last second teams are going up and staying out and getting relegated. Like it's like Closer Show, like for all the leagues and all the English leagues, like it's great for everybody, isn't it? Like there's fans of every team, isn't it? And it's ups and downs, isn't it? Like the last day is a great day. But that's the outsider and it's always always great.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, it never disappoints. No, especially some that said like this, some like you say, Hall have been there before, Middlesbrough, South Hunter, they all seem to be there, there outs every time. So it must be a role coach, and they're like, ah, this again, more playoffs, of course, yeah, not getting promoted and and other like matches, don't you?

SPEAKER_01

Like and as much as you like to come up, and I'm not even saying it because of course it's worth 190 million, that's what you just say, right? And if you can invest it properly, like it got to show you you can walk, just say. But um realistically, if you come up and you don't get it right and you're losing every week, well, you're better off to stay in the championship and win. Yeah for your fans. No, I mean obviously everyone wants to come up, and it'd be stupid to say that you wouldn't want it when the fans, but like if you don't get if you don't get your recruitment right, as you said, it's topsy tovy, isn't it? It's headaches after headaches, isn't it? Just every week. Just looking at your team lose and lose.

SPEAKER_02

I I don't know if we have any Borney fans listening, but I wonder if the Borney fans enjoyed this year more so than last year. Just being in the Premier League, like you said. Or like easy last year, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01

It's great. You're going out for a few points and you're in a good year because you're winning matches.

SPEAKER_02

Every fan wants to see a team winning matches. Or do you take that one good year or one bad year? Maybe that's what you're maybe it might have to stay up in the league a bit longer. Like look at Brentford, something like Brentford, yeah. Somewhere in the middle. Yeah, look, you're right with Brentford. Yeah, then all the players they've lost and I don't know. Obviously, not gonna win that, but they couldn't get out of Europe. Yeah, they were right in the mix to get Europe like that.

SPEAKER_01

They need to stay guarded they're guaranteed enough to stay up, and we all put them down to be relegated, so they did it right. So they can build on that.

SPEAKER_02

Um I'm sure we'll touch on it later on, but I just wanted to throw out to May new got us a new contract. Yeah. Um five years. I think it's a five year next one, I don't know. Yeah, no, don't you do that? That's fair, like yeah, that's that's what that's the gun, right? Like a ten-year leading or an eight year one. No, and I try to find what he was getting a week, and you see different sort of sources saying he's getting 150 and 120, and then one said he's getting 200 grand a week, and don't give 200 grand a week.

SPEAKER_01

So I'd imagine I'd say it's been 80 and 150.

SPEAKER_02

What was he on before? I think he was on what's it? Well, you would have tripled the wages. Yeah, say 120 probably what he's getting. Terrible. Then 120 territory, Axman'd be heavy. Absolutely, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

But you look at where he he he he's from the academy and he's he's the local lad, and it's such a good story by him, and you know, that's it. Just on the touching on that, isn't it? Oh, just like what the fuck was Amron thinking?

SPEAKER_02

I don't know. Yeah, he's nearly cyber lappy. Yeah, exactly. Like, yeah. I know we look back at what some of things we said, but we were just frustrated with United in general. I think we probably would have taken it out a little bit, but we never got a game, so maybe we didn't. I'm trying to think back to what we were talking about when he wasn't playing season.

SPEAKER_01

He wasn't playing, was he? No, well he wasn't playing. He said him and Fernandes wasn't fitting up to play the same team, yeah, we're fighting for one position. What are you talking about? Like, oh no, what that's all about.

SPEAKER_02

No, no, we take that fellow and think about it. Yeah, tomorrow you look back at what United are now. Look, I mean we'll do it in a couple of weeks. We'll we'll do a review of the season. We'll probably have a separate podcast for United's one, and then we'll probably do a uh a whole and all together, excluding United's the rest of it's teams in the league, etc. for the United States. We'll force having the season. We'll have to go into it in depth to think of what was that?

SPEAKER_01

What do we have? What give just give your honest opinion, what you think went wrong, and we could have been closer to the league to share for a poor league. Not saying it, but you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_02

Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah. We move on then to yesterday, considering we're down to some men, so we were able to watch the the dull Champions League semi-final last night. So anything on in there when you said that. We'll give them congratulations, they're into the final. The gap has let to go. And I don't know. I don't want to go out and say that whoever they play in the final, like you said earlier, Venero, and Arsenal don't concede loads of goals, but they've given up loads of chances the last couple of weeks. And Jesus, if they do that against PSG or Boy Munich, you can really see them being put to the sword, can't you? And training or something. Yeah. I really thought like this, these are the two, like these are the two best teams in the world played. This should be the final. Should be the final, yeah. It's a disgraceful game, last thing. And I know. We'll look at the two. I wouldn't be complaining at all, but just going from that though those games to those it's fucking cheese. But you know what? Well, Arsenal would be hard to beat look at the play to the strengths. That's it, that's the game we have. Yeah, I'd say that. Dave, they can the thing that's happening now is like the Sakazak was scoring a couple of goals and then Joker's Jaccaras is back. Well, yeah, he's not the 20 goals of the season, whatever he has. So but it listened to a typical Arsenal. Will they get too big for the boots again? Will they will they get too confident going into this final thinking they no matter who they play? That's not a fellow today, they think they're gonna they're gonna not win easy, but they if he had to put his money to put it on Arsenal. Oh no. I think he's off his rocket.

SPEAKER_01

That's what he said. And you put you played as well. No.

SPEAKER_02

And Atletico. Did you beat Atletico 4-0 in over whoever it was, and you'd just go in 4 shots. Couldn't he go for shots entirely against them? No, he beat him to Album. But like you look at the force leg from Atletico, and even last night you had chances, you can't be given those chances to PSG or Boy Munich. Like people at the end of the year. And I just saying that he both conceded loads of goals last week, and then when Boring played against Real Madrid, he conceded goals as well. Yeah, but he scored loads. That's the problem. Like you look at the route to the final for those three teams. Like Boring Munich here, they play Atalanta. Then the next round here was Real Madrid. Yeah, now PSG. Then PSG played against Chelsea, Man City, now Boring Munich. Arsenal's route was Boring Labourcues and Sport and Lisbon and Atletico Madrid.

SPEAKER_01

And then in the groups, then you had a few with Bobo, Billington and all, didn't he? And they beat the big thing, they beat like look at during the final, there'd be a better chance than Atletico Madrid to win and now, like, no matter where you look at it. Yeah, a better thing, yeah. If you look at the match tonight and just say there was no goals, yeah. Like just say Byron Muni be going out scored four goals away. Yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean? Or just say Byron Muni going and went 2-0. Just say, well then they be PhD be going out after scoring five goals at home. Yeah. That's the difference. So which would they rather be an over game? They're in the final now and that's it, and they're away. You look at it. They have a chance of winning it.

SPEAKER_02

So them dirty tactics, it's gonna be it'll either be like 3-0 or a 4-nil, a four-one or something, or a scrappy one-nil win, or they win a penalty or something. Because Arsenal's slugged this out. They Arsenal won't be scored more than two got two or three goals. No, you don't see goals, it's like one way, they're gonna be tumped and they're gonna get embarrassed for the way they're playing football, or it'll walk again. And just shut them out and get an old counter-attacking goal or a free kick or look how we'll lead and I'm sure in a couple of weeks we'll have a little preview of the Champions League and we go in depth down, but Declan and Beckham there might be putting them on the top cards.

SPEAKER_01

You should say they were not I was hop obviously hoping it'd let the goal Madrid it just makes the final more exciting because we have one thing that we want to win the monthly and we won't want to lose them that arsenal in the final. If it'd let the go Madrid would mean just against Boy Munich, you'd have watched it and you say, Well, look at Boy Munich win or whatever. You know that's what you would. We'd have been saying we hope it'd let the go Madrid win the first thing. But you only just say you were you lost in a couple of finals, didn't he? Like against Real Madrid. So the fact that um Arsenal there, obviously we're gonna want one of the teams tonight that's just playing PSG or Boy Munich. So if you have any. Make them more interesting.

SPEAKER_02

You have to win the championship. You have to win everything. Yeah, it's the only way. What a way to go out on a hike. I'll come back to Harry Kelly.

SPEAKER_01

I'll come back and beat the fellowship record of United think for every deep Alexero.

SPEAKER_02

Just don't win the World Cup or England or not. Sorry to the English listeners that we didn't expect they were Irish. But uh, yeah, that's all the the main those. So er I'll fling it over to Villa there with the L results on the weekend. Just um before you get gone, then our little predictions, which people are sort of starting to get a bit interested in now because it's coming down to the wire. We've three games left, and there are two points in it. We've all done we all did well this week. Um I got six points in, and you got seven, and Sean got eight. So um I'm on a hundred I'm on a back half there, lads. I'm on 160 points, and then Vinny, you're on 162, and then Sean's on 183. So, as much as people want to write in about what the loser has to do, let us know what we have to give Sean as a runaway winner of the league. I started getting forgotten about the crispy 50s there, lads. Yeah, should that another crispy 50?

SPEAKER_01

Couple, I said one each, that's a couple. Fair enough. Right, but look at Arsenal have decided under pressure, but you've got a great win against Fulham 3-0. What can you say? They put the pressure on City. One of the best wins of the season for them.

SPEAKER_02

I know I'd have to say, I know he's lowered most of the times on this, but that's what they should be doing. That's the frustrating thing. I think I don't really give a shit about Arsenal too much. It's more as I keep saying it's the fans and whatever else, but that's what they're capable of doing. Yeah, that's what you want to see them doing, you know, not this horrible rubbish football. Look at the players they have. That's always been my issue with them, you know. In all seriousness, I know I do it to wind people up as well, of course, but that's um that's what should be happening, and it hasn't been enough. But still, that might get them might win the two biggest prizes that they're that's uh that's available. Yeah, at the end of the day, you know, so that's what the answer I'm being thrown at me, and I can't say anything for that.

SPEAKER_01

So no, and as you say, if that's what the strengths had to be able to win, like playing that type of football. Well, if you win like we were mainlight fans and they did it, we'd be just delighted with it.

SPEAKER_02

I'm just I'm just delighted now that I said before that they're not they might think they're but they're not. No, they're not. Every scoring record, uh beaten every sort of attacking record, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but you look at just say Arsenal, you can comment on that as well. Um I never really celebrated too much when we even won Anton. Never mind only winning the semi-finals, haven't won Anton yet. No, they did go about overboard last night with the celebrations, didn't you?

SPEAKER_02

Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, like but like you won't go down and it's one of the best teams ever. No, what maybe I'm glad for.

SPEAKER_02

Imagine he did. You would never hear them, and he couldn't sit attention. So if they're gonna win things, I'd rather them win like this scrappy, horrible football, because that's what they're gonna be remembered for. Yeah, I was looking at um Romano's Ferbitzia Romano, just like always look at his socials, like you know, he's the biggest one in the world, the football boys. So he put out a thing that arsenic went into the into the final great fair enough. I think he got 400,000 likes or something, whatever it was, interactions, whatever it was. But United getting back into the chat and things like 1.4 million or something. Yeah, well, look like that's the difference, isn't it? Yeah, no, I'd they'd rather I'd rather be in the final, yeah. I know, but that's just yeah, but look, it's my United Nice with Sean Holmes. That's why I'm glad they're they're winning things the way they're playing football. Because if they were battering teams by City have or I mean by Liverpool have, she'll never hear the end of any place. I am at least I have a bit of an answer for them like the other way. But but again, uh they're the ones that could win the two biggest prizes in football. So look at fair play them in some ways, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Do you know what it just uh petit fies a football in England and in Europe at the moment when you can look at that match last night as a semi-final with Champions League, that's all that's all I think. You text me last night, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02

You know if that's if you let the go to Madrid and get to a semi-final or Champions League semi-final, there's hope for all of us. Yeah, that was wrapped that one. Yeah, very bad. There you go.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, look at I'll I'll I'll point on the app, but look at Leeds. I'll go back to Friday night, like Leeds and Burnley, like still were under pressure. And um like great win. It doesn't make any difference. Like every game for them was under pressure, and they could have been dragged back in, but I think put them down on about 43 points as I think they're well safe, I think, now.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, I think the I was watching it, they played well. Fairness Burnley just bad. I don't even think these players that anyone would sign. Fairness, like I'd have to give it to Leeds. That's a couple of wins now over the last couple of weeks. And they're playing Spores now this weekend, I think it's Monday night, away at Spores. So that'd be another tricky game.

SPEAKER_01

Like I don't know what the points difference are between Spores and Leeds, but it could be a case of Leeds might have to go and get another point just to be absolutely points in it between Leeds and just say West Ham with three games to go. So you wouldn't want West Ham to go out and win the last thing, even though we would because you just say Railway would walk out, but they're not 100% guaranteed you had to stay up. So of course they're gonna have to go out and try and um like you have West Ham lot to play as well as as a as a big game for the end of the season, haven't he? Leeds so I mean they still need to go and get another one one point and would match, they could be safe now, but they've got to go to try and win it and get something else for us as well.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, well you can they can help relegate one team by keeping themselves up as well, so that's another incentive. That's it. Well, because it's Monday, West Ham might lose to Sunday against Arsenal and he might go to Spores free, yeah, and he might get battered, he might win easy. It's it all depends, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, that's it. That's a big game, actually.

SPEAKER_01

You know, that's a big huge game, yeah. And then look at Brantford, made easy walk at West Ham, didn't he? West Ham were very proud, wouldn't you? Like, but maybe you have to give it to Brantford again, like another gold win fine now.

SPEAKER_02

If they played against US tonight, um I don't know how you man didn't score a front again, they'd create chance. Yeah, did you do a West Ham? We were just lucky, I think. Like in in any way, they're not we score goals and wherever else, but still. And if United are playing a halt at West Ham, you'd be thinking to yourself, this might be tricky because they're surviving and this, that, and the other, but they just went out and made it look easy, didn't they?

SPEAKER_00

And it did fair for Europe. And I hope to get it.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, you know what I hope to do. Yeah, after saying that they were putting down to go down and they're managing to get sacked and all them. Ah, yeah, they're saying it'd be a hard one, you know. So making us all the hours, but I don't mind it because it's Brentford. Yeah, that's a nice story, you know. He's Irish as well.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I know Keith Andrews had no matter what's happened for the rest of the season, he's had having a great season. That's it.

SPEAKER_02

He's could still get the goal in the middle. I don't know. Yeah, good players.

SPEAKER_01

Two boys in the middle, like Dance Gard and that and good goalkeeper in Hellehart.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, if you did anything, somewhere as well, like yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And then look at Newcastle took a little bit of pressure off anyhow. I know like they were under the cosh a little bit when it was two on, but look at he got a goal. Barnes didn't need a nightmare to make it three. Three one against Brighton was a good win. It was a good win. Yeah, like you said, they were right now putting the pressure on the book.

SPEAKER_02

Well putting it on, like yeah. Fairness to them do you have a lot, and it's horror golf. Come here, just killed the game off, didn't it? But they might say it must be relief.

SPEAKER_01

And they look at Camera and and now I doubt I've seen another headline in the paper today, like that. Barcelona now looking for Garden now as well. So I mean look at Tanale, so like you could be gone like it could be a complete team again at the end of the summer, a bit look. They couldn't need a new manager. Like any hell, we don't know what the story is, but like you said, they had a poor season, didn't he?

SPEAKER_02

Especially under like they don't seem to be getting away with like being able to spend all the money that to say city code or yeah, any of these things that get taken over by any of the like, isn't it? Or whatnot, like it's all about revenue you make, isn't it? So they're not up there with the remote. They say United got trouble by a Saudi or something. I think I don't know, I don't know many Newcastle fans, but I'd say in Newcastle they probably see them as the biggest thing in the world, but outside of Newcastle they don't really seem to be like it really seems to be a city club, isn't it? Yeah, like anyone in Newcastle supports them.

SPEAKER_01

A one came yeah, a one came club, and that's it, like like that. But look in fairness, I think they they them owners just have loads of money to say they can pump her in. But Man City found a way of pumping her in with all them ghost businesses. So you know what I mean? Like that's a big difference. Let's see what happens there with that. Like Newcastle are doing it the right way, they're only spending above the means and staying above the PRS or whatever you call it, just say right. But I mean Have all these ghost things on pumping money in the pumping wasn't even there. Well, we'll see what happens down the road of that. Yeah, hopefully. So and I look at Wolves and Sunderland, but there was nothing that's day there with one all draw. That was it. Yeah, we all said it'd be next bar draws. Yeah, yeah. No goals are gone. Sunderland next.

SPEAKER_02

We're playing Sunderland next. I hope they're just bad now on Saturday.

SPEAKER_01

They're not the holidays the way by the looks for like and then look at uh Barman's good win against Crystal Palace. There's Keyson up there as well for announced uh spot for sixth. Yeah, well up there, too.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, they them and Brentford have been really good this year. The three B's, isn't it? Yeah, and Brentford and Brighton. Yeah, you man sign a new contract, didn't he? The Brighton manager.

SPEAKER_01

Well, but the looks of it's one of the three, isn't it? Yeah, go back then as far J points then. Now it's only four points, but you can't see Chelsea don't know there or anybody else. So it's definitely one of the three B's as you said, didn't it? Yeah. Bright and Brentford.

SPEAKER_02

Well it's a six and seven get you all up, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. European League and the one will get the Conference League. Yeah. So play for the Commander.

SPEAKER_01

And then as you said, Assembly could could win the Europa League and then and six will get the Champions League. Yeah. I mean they're not in the first could win, win, and and and get relegated and be in the Champions League. No, you don't know which is funny, isn't it? Like this season. But um but look it was a good win with Bar and McGround, and then look at Aston Fella. I'm sure um all the all the all the fans of West Ham and and the teams down the button must have been going mad, like playing a half-hearted team against Spurs because they're playing lovers against Nottingham Forest tomorrow night in the Europa League.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah I was watching it and I don't know if any of you saw it, but I kept going back to Emory on the sideline, and he was literally just standing in the one spot almost like in disbelief to that. What am I watching? Like no he's mad and he's animated and blah blah blah. He was just standing there almost like shaking his head as if he just couldn't believe what he was saying. Yeah, that's what and that's what the commentators were saying. Like some of these players are out there playing to probably like get a chance to play in the final and this, that, and the other. Sancho, thank God he's leaving in the summer, he just doesn't care whatsoever.

SPEAKER_01

But then is that a message would you think of it? Would you would you think that's a message from him saying that like we could win the Europa League here? They're gonna be in the Champions League from the league position, and let me just say, I just said you won the Europa League. Would that be him turning around and saying, This is my second thing team? Useless. Like, we're gonna be in the Champions League next year and you want to push on to the league again next year. You well bother back this team. Because like when you look at them playing, you say the home to sports, she looked dreadful, didn't he? Like that like so you it could be a message as well. Like, you don't know what these people now obviously like you to keep it for tomorrow, night, but like you can go into the bar and say, Look, this route for Walker. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They give it a spore, so they did deserve it. Yeah, they're all exactly now. Look at Mayor and Brighton, they were very lucky against Brighton, they could have been Brighton as well. They can see the last minute goal against Elder Dorothy at the moment, what they're saying so there, we've had to come in and do a little bit of a job there, isn't he?

SPEAKER_02

7.09, isn't it? Be filler there away, and like you said, Brighton. So, like if you're a fan, if you happy with that, because this is literally just so idle. Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_01

He's like, No, nothing next year, that's mad. But either way, but supposed all West Ham, it's just one big club going down. It'd be a big empty stage when there's championship next year.

SPEAKER_02

Well, then it depends on if they stay up and next year, there might be a similar will happen to us. Yeah, they won't have any distractions. The player players should be back, they shouldn't have that many injuries if they hold on to the players, of course. If they can uh add additional players to it, obviously can't spend that much, but I'd say they could be like a ring of a sixth or seventh finish next year. So in a couple of months we're doing our predictions, I'm gonna stick them up higher table if they're still in, they could be they could go on losing a relegated, yeah. Then then then then coming back up because they're gonna lose players, that'll be the opposite, then I think.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you see what the summer spend is like as well. You have to do that as well, don't you? And then look at Man United against Liverpool, Hans Eyelik. It's a great win. Great win. You know what I mean, like what scores it? 3-2 goals, so we really think they deserve to win.

SPEAKER_02

Three-two leading nice watch up in your Fernandes missed that chance, didn't he?

SPEAKER_01

And to like to finish the game off, really. Should have been trained in a half time. Yeah, when Liverpool played United a few years ago and United were struggling, and Liverpool were like that. Don't get me wrong, United are now being brilliant, just like what Liverpool were a couple of years ago. But we have a chance to punish teams with that. Sunday was it was a big chance to punish them, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, it's a handball though, so please don't get twisted, you know. Handballs fuck off with it. No, you couldn't have to be able to do that. If I give him handballs with that, like graceful. I don't think you could zoom in anymore, could he? No, to see like one angle. It wasn't definitive, so it's it's not. It's not as if it if it did and it flicked off his nail, it's not gonna send the ball in the back direction. It's gone that direction already. It's gonna hit his chest anyway. If his hand is out, that's gonna change it. It would have hit his body, but it did anyway. Yeah, yeah. Do you know what I mean? So, how does that make a difference? You take a little fingernail out there, it's not gonna make any difference. Oh, to the speed of the ball to where it's going, they weren't getting back anyway.

SPEAKER_01

So shut up. You shouldn't be looking at it to be disallowing goals anyway. Like the game is all about goals. Yeah, the likes of that, it's like tackling on, and you can't even tackle now, you get yellow cards, and it's not like you should you have to let it have to use the rules in games for the game and look at the game as a game, like if it's Rams against Barcelona and a little few things happen, let it go. People want to see the game go, and you don't want to stop freeze, stop freeze, stop freeze, or this road, that rule. No, use the rules for the game that you can see the game, that's a big huge game. You'll see the difference down the World Cup and Fernandez.

SPEAKER_02

Fernandez is tackle on the Watson, isn't it? But if you pause that where he where he there is connection, it looks terrible. Yeah, you need to stop it. But when you do it in even the slow motion or whatever the the fastest slow motion you can do, he just clips off a little bit. Yeah, it's not as if you if you pause, it looks like you've done them. So it's not picture I can understand people, but what you replay the poll video, yeah. It's a yellow card wherever you've got it, it's not an issue, it's not down. Yeah, you it doesn't look like you pulled out of it, but when you pause it there, it looks like here. But it's a great win. But uh back to the win, there was, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, great atmosphere. I thought that atmosphere in the always great. Like even when they scored the second goal and the man's made a mistake, but you can't criticise him at all to say you have to learn from it. We were shouting a little bit, saying they'd get to concede in the goal, play the ball long a couple of times now, and take away a press draw. Look at he could he could he made a mistake, he learned from it. Um didn't but at the end we went punished for it really at the at that, but even when it was two all and he did make the two mistakes, the fans were united were still great, they were cheering them on and trying to get them a boost and all it and he went down in fairness like like if that had been last year, just say I thought they would have lost four or two. Yeah, could have so so to steady the ship for Fever Temples and that when Liverpool got that chance, and the man took it off the line to say to go and get the winner then and change it around a little bit. You can see that they're definitely improving. Definitely improving.

SPEAKER_02

I thought that match was the the good, the bad and the ugly of United, hasn't it? Yeah, like the good being able to score goals and like that getting setbacks and coming back this time around, like do you know what I mean? But again, you say it, and people say Casmara played well the other day. And he didn't he's the look I I we've said it many times with this, he's the worst, most experienced player I've ever seen in my life. He why is he our forwardest player forward? Why is he trying to like close down fullbacks and all this sort of stuff? You're in the middle, stay there in the midfield. Yeah, it wasn't. Like the only thing that Liverpool had in the second half was when our midfield was just completely open. You're able to run through. They had four midfielders or five midfielders, and they're fair enough. Where are Casimir's already seeing? Yeah, like we do. It's not a lie, he took it well, but he ran in the halfway line. Yeah. When he ran straight and took around to his left one printing the corner, depending on the five. No midfield, obviously it wasn't bad partially, fair enough. But the defence, they're just so well, they're so open in that game. As we say, Casemira's been great about goals and he's kept us some good moments. He's got us a tittis position as well, to be fair to him. But he has to go. I wouldn't give him his position to play is awful. He's just like he's trying too hard, but yeah, legs, you can't you never really had legs like that, you can't do it. Stay and hold your position and let May know do it. Now, you've got to bear in the angle of Liverpool, or that that was one of the worst Liverpool teams I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_01

And you look at a lot of players, thank God you did a lot of players missing. He had a lot of players injured, just gonna say. But look at if you give the ball to Sabozela in the middle of the park and you're a centre midfielder, Sean, and the defensive federal review centre midfielder, you play centre at least and meet Conrad, so we all know how to defend, right? If you give the ball to him in the middle of the park to say, if you go come behind you and you're just there on your own and you say, well, you have to defend him. Now it's over 10, you get the ball out.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So how are you saying to run through there like and just go in and put the ball in the back and then with McGuire and the law then coming in to challenge him?

SPEAKER_02

It's different if you've if a black base run 100 by the and doing all the tricks and the stepball back back and lead you, but supposedly he just dribbled them.

SPEAKER_01

You had McGuire turning around in the leading to think he was a strictly come dancing. You don't do that, you you keep your body face the ball and you shift left or right.

SPEAKER_02

You know what I've seen in the Liverpool fans as well saying that oh that was United's strongest team out of there, that was their worst team, and then you only beat us three things. Well, we hand you his two goals, right? But that's not our two best and the halves are injured. Yeah, people don't forget forgetting this. Yeah, and we still have the law. If I still have Shaw, yeah. Like if you if everybody was fit, you'd be playing the lit and you'd be playing Martinez as good as McGuire and all has been, and Heaven has been doing very well, which that I it's a question I wanted to ask you is would you would you put would because Martinez is back available now. I know there's not much left to play for, but would you play Martinez or would you know?

SPEAKER_01

Give more experience for the next three games.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, but back to the point, um them two at the back. But I'm missing our two best and halves. Yeah, exactly. No matter which way you look at, so he's gonna fuck off.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. And you're right, because at the end of the day, um if Fernandez would have taken that chance, we could have ended up we could have ended up winning five now. Yeah, exactly. So if he missed that chance, we gave them two goals and we came back on one, so go to shower characters at the ground. That's it.

SPEAKER_02

Lee and Ting was losing the plot as well, wasn't he, Jamie Carnegie? He was, yeah. Jesus Christ. He gives it. I don't like him or Neville anyway, but Alice definitely when he lose a game to United. He's a sore loser, isn't he? Yeah, just like your team are crap. Yeah, like just a lot of people. Just like accept a defeat. Like Gary Neville is trying to say this, that, and the other, and he's just losing his mind. Like, just shut up. Your team are crap. You're after losing the biggest game of the season. Just take the defeat. We all had to do it. Yeah, true. Spend half a billion. Jesus. We ain't gonna tell you. That's him uh that's him having a lack of education. He's a ticky, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01

And you know what? I'm gonna say, alright, they're pampered, they eat the best food, they get massages, ice bats, they have masseuses that'll do anything for them from one game to the next. They should be able to play every two every Sunday or every Saturday, every Wednesday, every Saturday, every Sunday, every Wednesday, whatever. They should be able to play three consecutive games every week without being tired and getting injured. I don't care what anything says. You need a big panel, they're the most pampered players in the whole world. They're not getting tackled like they're getting kicked around the way the way they were years ago. They're playing the best football pitches that you can ever play on to say there should be no excuse if it's one game a week or three games a week. I don't care. You should be able to play it. There's no excuses. Connor's right. It doesn't matter whether United's trying to play one game a week in Liverpool is playing three games a week. You should be delighted to play play three games a week by Liverpool or United. United are just better than the McCrack. Liverpool are crap, you're right.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I think they've gotten away with more of this year. Yeah. They'll finish in the Champions League to say because the league is crap. But like, realistically, like the Polkbaok are absolutely slated by United. And he cost what probably like 30 million less than Bertz. Bertz is brutal. Yeah. I didn't know why. I didn't even think he was playing it. We said last week we were saying we could just get stuck into him and he'd be out of the game. You might as well eat scrap. He didn't think he got stuck into him and he wasn't even in the game. He's brutal. McCallister is brutal. That's where he was very powerful. If they were uh Kirk has a shy, like they were missing players, of course they were, but you're still looking at the names you have called out. I looked at their starter and like, geez, they could still hurt you some of these players, but they need to show up. First things to show up. Like if that's what the way uh Liverpool fans go on about what he used to do.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. You don't mind that on.

SPEAKER_02

Why can't he have a mobile brilliance? Couldn't I know he's playing?

SPEAKER_01

Or not you're gonna try to span in the work so but uh do you think that's down to do with um with the manager and the way they're getting picked by the play? Maybe like is it is it down to their injuries or is it a collective thing? Like, are they happy with the manager and all and all season? You don't remember it's hard to know, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02

But where else is where it's played though?

SPEAKER_01

Like if it's not worth them, but the team in general, like Liverpool in general as a football team, didn't have a good season just say compared to last season, all the players you bought now, know the ring is but you still have the bulk of the same squad that you're saying, Sean. Yeah, you had a bleeding poxy season, hadn't he? Thank God. Do you know what I mean? Like, but does it get down to you think the manager did he get lucky to win the last few games out of the bringing them up to the Champions League?

SPEAKER_02

A lot of Liverpool fans want him gone.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02

That's what that's so there is turmoil in the camp, definitely, I'd say. That's what I'm saying. Well, the verts are not worth the money. Isaac's not worth the money. I know he broke his leg, he might get a bit of a reprieve next year. Injured again, though. Injured again. Economy, it's not a bad footballer, to be fair. What did he pay with him? That's 70 odd million. I don't know. Maybe Frim Pong bought as a right back and he played right wings today. He's not good, but Kerkez is poor. Yeah, he's a headless chicken. They're all hanging the hopes on the two. Economic is a good sign on east foot footballer.

SPEAKER_01

They spent 450 million this summer, obviously, for this season. They went and blitzed the leg.

SPEAKER_02

Didn't he buy a center half in January as well? Yeah, they're gonna come in now in the summer for a good bit of money, and then they have a centre half that they signed at the start of the season and got injured, so they're kinda hanging the hat on them to bring them up, and then the goalkeeping situation doesn't seem to be great either. Because Allison is getting on now, and even when your man Marchville representing his place, he's not brilliant either. No, like Salah's gone, they're gonna have to replace all his goals. Like as much as like uh he's had a bad season, this, that, and the other, but you know, you have to put another 200 million into the into the team, yeah. And that'd be 700 million into the seasons, yeah. That's right, and he might get right either. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01

Rant over and then look at uh it could be another result of the weekend as well. Um Chelsea like getting beaten in 3-1 and hunting that's forest. Well you could have another rant of her Chelsea as well, couldn't you? I just don't care enough about them. I think they're the worst running club in the league. They are the money they're spending. Now obviously you have a couple of teams that they're getting relegated, but fair enough to say, right? For a team that is supposed to be getting into the Champions League with the money you're at the spending. I don't know why Chelsea's club's getting run at all. I said it last week, like a skill by Damon Allen, they're the worst run run club in the premiership. Yeah. For a top ten.

SPEAKER_02

Growing up, obviously you're all over the million, you are as well, Charlie, but you remember them being decent. But when I was growing up Chelsea and United, we're going out in the leagues and Abraham's there and they're always in the big team to beat and all. But they'd be more of a rival to me than Arsenal would be. Ah, yeah, yeah. And um City would be. Yeah, yeah. Liverpool are always there. But it's like what is going on? Who knows? The players are poor. Like I said, the decision making from above is bored is bad. They beat Leeds in the semi-final, and then that's how that manager says, Oh, good start, he's had to get him. Boom, straight back in your into your box there. Like what I mean. Like manager wants to fill the wrestling players, not the first wrestling player.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, and when it's seen the end, the only the only the only good thing about the game was uh you know Pedro, and I'd say well Pedro because of the goal, good overhead kick, just like but stop the rough for six games in a row without goals, that's a bad yeah.

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SPEAKER_02

I mean, like some of them ought to be in head clashes though, wouldn't there? Hopefully the young stuff from Chelsea know before we say Anton Hellton hopefully's all right. Ah, yeah, hopefully. You got an hour, you got an absolute clatter into the head, isn't it? Fairness, and then Gibbs White and Sanchez is a nasty one now.

SPEAKER_01

Look, there you go, like if they go to Shawry, like not in the forest, like there's not got to be any way of a pushover for tomorrow night for Astonville. No, like Europa League, where some people are saying our Astonville are a favourite now, and he go in and lose them on then you play not in the forest who's on farm.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, yeah. Anderson's a really good footballer, isn't he?

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, Gibbs White, you know, obviously, like he got injured. Hopefully he's playing play tomorrow, but I'll tell you what, Gibbs Water's back. Yeah, he's gonna score a couple of goals. Yeah, they haven't got a bad goalkeeper, really. I'm fine. They've a good squad, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then City, did you think you throw the league away the other day? Oh, could be, yeah. Did you rescue a 97th with a goal?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, big one then. It would uh I sort of think to yourself, right, if you lost, it would mean Arsenal have to lose, or at least draw two games. But now they can it's like they can afford to draw. If Arsenal draw against West Ham, then it's back level. Yeah. That's a dodgy game, that's the only goal.

SPEAKER_01

Two good goals, you mean two goals?

SPEAKER_02

Now, as I said to you, it was it's strange that they scored in the 97th minute of 90 plus six. Yeah, yeah. Oh, with the way and Michael Oliver, the referee. I know him I know him slaying Arsenal a lot as well, but I fucked I don't want seating them in the bleeding league either. I think about it, it's off that name he would just mate said there as well. I said it to him it's dodgy about it. Maybe y'all had an epiphany after that match of Monday or something. Never heard me say that now.

SPEAKER_01

But I said it to him, right? I said it to Connor, right? I said the other day, I said, Do you know what? If Arsenal's going to win the league, just say and win the Champions League, and then fewer players is leaving now, like to like Sir Roger and all and Sylvia, and then just say City still have this thing hanging out, and just say Wad Yowler then decides to leave and take up something else now because he didn't win the league now and he's looking at the team, I'm not as good as it was. See, that this could be the city crumbling now. Yeah. So like United doing on the Ferguson on the Vegos. It could be another reason why he might leave. So if we knew like he was going to leave if he didn't win that the league, I'd rather let Arsenal have it. 100%.

SPEAKER_02

I just think yeah, I don't know what it was the fourth time. Monday. I've never really sort of said who I want to win the more so than the other. But I always just thought until Arsenal do it, I won't believe that they do it. I still think that even with three games to go. Of course. But it was the fourth time looking at the match of the day, when it was three, one that Everton was like dependent to Guardiola and Silva and all. I was like, you know what? I don't want them to win the league. And I don't give that another league title for them, they'll win three things again. It's like Well see, that's the thing. Oh they're they're I know nobody cared a shit about City, but they're all that they're what they've won is challenging United's records, and they're building up fast. Arsenal now are near United in the Premier League area. Anyway, so let them have it. And then you sort of have to be like this be, yeah. If City did win the league this year playing poor, they just go out and spend loads more money again next year and be even better.

SPEAKER_01

Like so. As you say, look at Kamair, it's all look at whoever wins the league this year is the poor league, but they'll still be crowned champions, and that's not your point. The point is it's a poor league this year, so this is a year to capitalise on getting a good summer recruitment and being up there. I'm not even saying it for challenges next year because you shouldn't even be talking about it as bad as night be able to last year's, but the things are so poor in the league this year, then I'm telling you, there's a chance to push up a little before. Tell you, like, but it's all down to the recruitment because it's like a lot of them, a lot of players will need a lot of recruitment, a lot of midfielders and that this, but we're just concentrating on United. United have to get right. Yeah, that's right.

SPEAKER_02

I saw a couple of things with the Mark Gay there was comparing to the Gerrard slipping. It's like he said the moment the league went, like you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_01

Well it's a backpass from the fans, like character. But uh look at you could you got a for 97 minute goal as you said with the referee and all there's like essential goals I saw it was 97.

SPEAKER_02

I watched the game and I saw it was ninety-seven minutes. So I looked at the replay then on the Tuesday thinking, right? Oh well it would have been yesterday. I was like, right, could he have blown the whistle? Because I know it was from a corner and all. But he could have because gay he sort of touched it, and it sort of went outside the box and was like sort of nothing for like two or three seconds. So that could have been your it was going away in goal, blow your whistle. But then the fairness stock it was two good goals that he scored. Yeah, it was like that was your chance to blow the whistle. Like I mean I know ever to make a soap, so that was your extra 20 seconds, but it was way beyond that then when he scored.

SPEAKER_01

So look, he has that affiliation with man CD says he's so who knows?

SPEAKER_02

I'll be coming back to that if they if they do win the league. I'd be coming up if I was an Arsenal, I'd be coming back to that moment. These decisions like Ray, what was your result of the week? A couple you could have picked from the fairness.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, well, and that's it. Now, do you know what? And I'm gonna give it to um it doesn't matter, not in a forestry. Now, Chelsea are still a struggling, struggling team to say, with the rest players, and still be at the bottom of the league, and not safe. They could have been dragged back in for like by Sports winning and all, like winning only a couple of points in it. To say um it was still a pressure game. Thinking of the Europa League as well during the week, could you got a great win? 3-0 they were up since what the last kick of the game for for Chelsea. So I could have gave it to the United win against Liverpool, but I'm giving it I'm giving it a not in the first.

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna give mine to Sports. Yeah, just again. They actually didn't sit in and defend, he actually played well and deserved it. And I know they've arrested a couple of players, but still a big pressure. That's the game they probably would have been looking at thinking, oh god, we might lose this. We went there and won well. It was 2-0 up until the 94th minute or something, so these guys didn't really count. No, it was a consolation though. I think with a scorchia could be a big three points. After West Ham losing as well, like I was thinking about giving it there, something. Yeah, I think it was a really good performance, good win.

SPEAKER_01

I know as I said, and up and I know it's laid him enough, but I think it was that's what they should be doing, so I'll give it to them. There they can drop on the floor and pretend it's me, huh?

SPEAKER_02

Plenty of people wrote into us about thoughts on the Liverpool game. How do you think we'd like to play? So I think we sort of answer that out there, yeah. So I take everybody else back anyway. So thanks for that. Uh writing them in. Literally six or seven of the same type of question is worded differently. But uh we'll go back into that, so I hope before that answered all those questions, more or less. There's another one here on the Liverpool. Is there answer? No, no, I think we got everything yet. That's okay on that. Um so should United stick with Carrick as a sentence by Stephen. Would it be the best move to keep the ship uh steady for another season and then the season after try and go and get a big manager? I know what he's trying to get you.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I understand that. Like it's still 50-50, isn't it? Like he means he really did steady the ship and he's results speak volumes for for but it's do you know what it's really undecided now? It's really hard to answer that because he is steady in the ship and he is man uniting all, but then you're playing safe. Or a safety, it's it's a safety just say where they are at the moment with the way they're playing, and that they get up the toad now and then and just stay sort of there like for another year to foot more recruitment and then just again go and then again then. So do you think are you ready to go all out and swim in the league now? Or sh I know, like should you just be steady, like or if if if let's say Connor, just say Sean, just say if if PSG Lewis and I and and De Manger comes away and Mel Rickey comes available, do you try and go out and get him tomorrow? Like because who he is? It's hard to know, isn't it? Like, but like but do you know what it was? It would all depend on what manager are available. I'm gonna sit in the ship with different events, but it all depends on what managers come available from United to speak to. And if it comes down to just say the likes of Adriola, to say or Carrick or something like that, or even go as far as Pochicino, I think I'd stick with Carrick for another year. Do you know what I mean? Like Bar wanted Bar Pepper and the Olive jumped the ship and went to golf road, do you know what I mean? Or Jogan Klopp said well, no, I'll come back to United to say obviously unrealistic. Depending on the manager, I think I'd be nearly at this stage now, probably nearly sticking with Carrie. Just for just for that, give him two years to say we're another year that you could extend it, and if he does all right, whatever. If he doesn't, it won't cost you a lot to sack him, I'll get rid of him next year. If somebody else came out, that was really good.

SPEAKER_02

Or don't you use the right yeah, like you say, it's it's like straight up straight away when he forced took over like no matter what he does, he could win every game, you need someone more experience. But like I said, the more it goes it's going on, and you're like, right, the manager's summoner at the World Cup, and you're gonna have to wait till after the World Cup to get them. Enrique is probably unrealistic because if they win the Champions League again, why would he get to leave them? Like you know what I mean? Um there's not more out there, is it?

SPEAKER_01

What would he face for your defensive minded, isn't he?

SPEAKER_02

And like I said, some of them even in the Premier League, like Areola and all the Brighton fellas on a new contract and stuff, but like he's done enough to sort of prove right, some of the performances have been poor. But the team are poor. Like yeah, we just literally said if they had bet the midfielders today, they probably would have won the game easier. Of course. And etcetera. But yeah, I don't know. I think I I'm sort of starting to lean towards uh keeping for another year or so. Yeah, because it it looks like they finished third this year, and then with the last couple of games you might win because it won't mean that. So they might finish just say 15 points off the top. So just say next year they finish third, or it could be fourth again, but it's like 10 points off the top. Yeah. Then you have to go to like a quarter final in a Champions League sort of and then maybe like win a cup, or at least get to a final. Then you sort of look at that and think, right, you're able to fight in all three fronts, four fronts, still maintain our position in the league, and then you go again then the following year. And maybe he is the person to do it and see. Maybe there were ten years. Steve Holland was there with Chelsea when they won everything.

SPEAKER_01

And you lookante when you won the league, and how was he like that?

SPEAKER_02

Maybe maybe he is, maybe the grass isn't always greener. No, maybe we might have to water our own on.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, look at look, he knows a lot about United, and that's it, and he's and if look if all the rumours are true and and all gone, what's what's what's told out there is all the players are happy with him. Yeah, really well. And that means an awful lot, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_02

What do you think? Yeah. I think um I'll put it to you like this the way it with the board we have, the glazers in charge, and but it's still there, people don't believe uh realise that Ineos and all the lads above. Yeah, but I don't think a manager like Enrique, who looks like he'd give it back to the board, or someone like that, will fit. So I don't think it's gonna work. So I might have to stay with the Lyzer. And actually he made a good point there. If you Ariol is a good good manager, don't get me wrong, you I could get on board with him coming in, but yeah, but I think he made it and Steve made a good point there as well. Steady in the ship for another year. Is it is it risky? I don't know. Like in terms of investment, Carrick's not gonna be shouting on the rooftop rooftops for for players, but I don't think he knows they're gonna give an Enrique 300 million to spend. No. What they did with Amaran, they filled them full of false promises. If that happens again, that's just gonna knock us back. If I didn't think Enrique came in and got sacked by Christmas or January, did that be we'd be gone back believe in decades then or most of them. Yeah, no. I don't know. It's nice enough. I'm closer to coming on boardroom than I ever have been. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Only because of I've thought of other reasons. If if if they weren't in charge, you'd go out and get the best manager. Because I don't think we can go from where we were 15th to but maybe finishing toward this year to win in the league. Especially for us, and it hasn't happened in 13. No, so it has to be built.

SPEAKER_01

I think you need you build them exactly, build them blocks, yeah, and then a good a good steady, an experience forward, a couple of midfielders, a full back, and and you can in attacking um um winger, left winger. But what you need to do as well is, and and we saying Sean and Connie usually always agree with this as well, and it's in the paper, do you need to get rid of they're gonna get rid of nine players and they'll be loaded just going out of the door? Do you need to start getting rid of the players off the force team? Yeah, and not all these players that are already gone and they're not giving contracts in anymore. You need to look at it and go, wait, McGuire, a year you, and that's you gone, we're gonna get better sent out next year. Shaw, Delow, like we know whether people's gonna go, Mason Mount, Sersky, get out the bleeding tower. You're not good enough for my United. And you need to really, really.

SPEAKER_02

I wouldn't expect them to win the league next year. You can't. Champions League if you got to a quarter final, obviously it wasn't to get four there, but that'd be realistic enough. It depends on who you buy, of course. Then we could have an unbelievable summer, but I don't believe we're gonna have um and you could win an FA Cup, I guess it could be a bit of a cup run. I'd fancy it would knock them three teams out of the way. Oh, yeah, definitely. But look at the and then if you do come forward next year, for example, or in the fifth or whatever, and you had another Champions League spot, then you can invest heavily. I think because you have to build up the the money and you'd have no choice that then you could go for depending on if CT's charges, there's all other factors that will come into it. So that's the way to go. I think it might be, I don't know. The players you brought in last year just saying were like for Premier League approval, and they're sort of like a seven, seven and a half out of ten every week. Cardick when he played was like seven and eight out of ten every week. So maybe that's just what they'll be for the next year or so. Look, yeah. That'll be steady and be consistent. I'll see you ready to take that next step.

SPEAKER_01

And looking at the next step is look at is buckle up the midfield, yeah, and that's it. Replacing Casemira, which would be hard, don't get me wrong, they would like hit and miss, but he was a good servant tonight over the four years. So it'd be hard to replace him in general, just say, but you need to get the recruitment right this year. And and but what I'd like to see next year is like improvement in the style of football. Yeah. I know Carrick is good steps in and he's demanding, and he gets a few decent players in and on, and just say, my Jays with all them defenders in it, just say because to keep a steady team, a steady ship, and start playing the same 11 for a few games in the round on to get right. We want to start saying better football. That's it.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, no, nice. That's a good talking point there. Um Paul Duggan wrote into us again. He said, Should Bruno get player of the year or should it go to a player who wins the league? I know we've we've answered this sort of before, but it's it's very very realistic now. I think we answered that about three, four, maybe about five weeks ago. Someone asked that question, but I don't well go for worse. I don't think it should go to the player who wins the wins the league. Again, if Arsenal were to get a Harry Kane up front who scored 40 goals and he's the obvious choice, he shouldn't go to Declan Rice. He's a solid 7 out of 10, all the time. I mean he's a good player, and he usually does go to one of the players most of the time who win the league, but there's they've been shit. Yeah, even though you know what I mean. If you think about it, there's not one player who stood out. No, no. Like remember, even if Zark Ray scores a hatrick, hatrick, hatrick, he shouldn't get player of the year. No, he won't. He might. No, he shouldn't. I think someone like Bruno, who's are a worse rank club, are the worst team, you know, are worse than Arsenal. I know we're sleeping, but I and I don't go on as if United are the best thing. I know what we are. Yeah, I just want to push on Arsenal to know what they are as well. But no, I don't think you should. I think Bruno should get better. I think he should. I think Bruno should get it.

SPEAKER_01

No matter what happens in the next three games, if Arsenal win the league and go on to win the Champions League, and I'll just say they did. Um there's no one on Arsenal's have to stand out more than um Bruno Fernandez as a footballer this year. Man City, and that's it's the only way the only way that City are gonna win it now is Arsenal slip up. Yeah, and even if Harlem was a scoring on a couple of goals and he won the league, he he was he was missed for a lot of the clubs, he didn't have a great season.

SPEAKER_02

No, so like it's to me that like the the like if I was like one of the writers or one of the photos, I'd be I'd be giving people it's what they've done, what they've achieved, and he's overachieved, overachieved his numbers have always been good since he came to United, something like crazy. But this is really good, yeah. The best special guy, yeah. And like dangerous again against the Surrey Congress against Liverpool. Everything came through. Yeah, everything, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

I think you got six chances. I think might be the most in the Liverpool game United. Didn't you see that chart?

SPEAKER_02

Um it was on the chance Monday football. The chances great, the dots there, you know, some of the elite, some of the good players and the what's that um post's name? Who was it? I can't remember his name. Gary Neville was there. He's always host, I can't remember the guy's name. Yeah, no, but anyway, he was pointing up there. That you see all the dots there, all players who supposedly there, sack it there, a few people are there, and then he said, way over here, there on his own, is Britain Fernandez. It's only gotten that was a couple of weeks ago, it's only gotten worse or better, we're we're gonna look at it. He's out there by himself at at the in at this league. And I'm his biggest critic, but yeah, can't tell him anyone else had a better season than him. No, yeah, I think so, because the fourth half of season he's playing the number six. Yeah, and like Germany as well. No point. And like I I don't, like you said, but what was the you're saying should it someone that wins the league win it? Yeah. Well, I don't think so, because remember when Van Percy won it when United won the league. Yeah. No well he didn't win it, because Schwarez won it that year. And he didn't win the league. No, that's true, yeah. Yeah, and he had a great season as far as that yeah. So that makes no difference. Yeah, Schwarez won nothing that year, and he won the player of the year because he should get it. So we should get it as well. And he gets his assists and all, and yeah, should have gone back. Hopefully, we didn't get one. It's for the dead on. I'll never know. Even if it's take that or no bemo, I know he's offside, but take hell forward to watchable across like definitely the best player in the league, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

100%.

SPEAKER_02

So right, yeah. Thanks, Paul. Hope that answers that. Um Jay wrote into us, he wrote last week as well, and this week's same. What do we think of Elliot Anderson going to Manchester City? Not much because he goes signing for them, but he goes, he goes, he breaks his leg in the first game. Sorry. I feel like he's gonna be a good one. Or else he wants to or you else he wants to play in the championship again, one or two. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

If they do get charged, like come here, if he if he wants to go to City Letton, he's only going for the money then because he's not going he's not going for the prestige or going to a big club because City will never be a big club. Now the record speaks for itself what they won over the last let's say ten years or something. But he'll never be a big club if you can't. If you if you get to the semi-final with an FA Cup and there's 20,000 lessons in the stadium of Wembley, that that shows something. That alone should say to you, like if you go to Man United fan in the Egg Cup and you put it in Wembley, they'd be Man United fans will fill it on their own round a thousand.

SPEAKER_02

Well, United Elites is all down out of Crowe Park. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, if he goes, yeah, forever. Yeah, well it's a lot of money.

SPEAKER_01

We'll only take it to players that come to United and that's that. We won't care if anybody else goes anywhere else.

SPEAKER_02

I know he's a good player, Hanson, but would you break the transfer record from like that's a hundred no at least 110 million? Or a bit less than a great footballer. That's a lot of money, isn't it? Yeah, it is, yeah. It's too much of budget. Yeah, we won't have enough in the budget to facilitate it because it's too much of a gone. Exactly. Like I think my fans out there think we're gonna spend three and four hundred million, you get your hedge out there, arses. 250 I'd say you spent 150 on him. You don't have that left to make it. No, but you build this for Romano came out earlier and said that they've got 140 million to spend on three midfielders this summer. So you want an 80 million pound midfielder. Uh summon for 40 million and then some for 20. That better not be Beleva, the 80 million. I tell you. No, I think Shoumini's the main one that they're looking at. Go him, Beleba and Gomez, that that'd be that possible. No. The Fernandez is a good advice time. He's a good midfielder, isn't he? Someone like him or Gomez or your man Edison. They're the song. Edison, yeah. The 40 million pounds they're looking at. Well, Edison's a good player. Beleza can't be any more than 40 million, he's no, and the 20 million they're looking at as sort of they're looking to do someone like Lamons or Dorgue, who never heard of, but who's a good player. Yeah, but then they're not going to get the Anderson 100% now. Only two people in it. Well, they've got Bill Mike and memory, another ridiculous bid. Well, it's probably very nice, you'd say, yeah. Yeah, but that's 120 million at least, I think they're still talking about it. Could especially be nice in the race. Yeah, too much money for one. We should be only 140 to to to spend, you know. Yeah. Um, but this is right just a a random, random number numbers. It's a long old name, but numbers and about uh no name. In the last 11 years, how many cups have a let go of Madrid won? Would you say?

SPEAKER_01

How are we supposed to know that?

SPEAKER_02

Just take a guess. Yeah, the reason why, because I've obviously looked it up. The last eleven years, what's about you know 26 or since 2015? Yeah. So the League Cup, the Champions League, and the and the league. Not looking for the exact number, but if you get it great, but it's gonna shock you. I'd say they've won one league. Two Cups. Copernelas. I think they won a Europa League as well. And then maybe a Spanish Super Cup or something. What's that? Five or six? So yeah, it's the it's the Champions League League and the Spanish Copernel Rey. The Super Cup doesn't count. No. If it was a helicopter there bringing in the next trophy, look at probably empty-handed, suppose.

SPEAKER_00

They're bringing in the gold trophy for that.

SPEAKER_02

No, that's don't get me started on that. I'd I'd say oh Jesus, I don't know now. Three a league and two copy rays, I think. One one league in 2021. That was it. That was it. Nothing else. I definitely thought you won a Europa League or something.

SPEAKER_01

No, they're never really into Europa League too much, did he?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that's what I thought you I thought you would have won a Copa del Rey as a guest, just yeah, but yeah, it's probably one of them things where I think you won the Europa League was 2014 when you won it or something like that. Do you know what it could be? I didn't look at the Yeah, yeah, you had to go in so fast. Yeah, yeah. But uh Yeah was actually on Romano's um page and had a look at it.

SPEAKER_01

Oh shit, the premier, didn't he?

SPEAKER_02

I was I was over in Poland there just for the weekend, it's the uh weekend, um, and plenty of big football fans over there and uh uh in-law of mine, Raja, he's a big, big um fan, isn't he? He likes Thormond and that, you know, but he's a big big fan of Man United. Yeah, fan of the Premier League, but because of me I was happy before my mother, but but he said he's absolutely delighted. I was watching the game sort of with the second half of me, phone as I watch on my phone outside, but um he's delighted that United, and the two friends that we met later on that night were delighted that United are back in the Champions League. Yeah, we mentioned that before on the podcast, anyway. So he just wanted to show his questions that we said who are the worst team to watch in the league? Bonley. Crap.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, crap, isn't he? Yeah, Burnley. Burnley. Even Wolves had a bit of a three-game spell there when you make them in a seemed to be half decent. Look, put it this way, like wolves are going down at the worst team, just like, but you see wolves coming up quick in a Bonley. Yeah. So why would you pick a Bonnie too?

SPEAKER_02

Bonnie's not even sitting in the fence and keeping speed or go, but you think that I think you think he said sports. And I'm not gonna do the actual that's terrible I've been doing listening to the podcast. So he's the way you said it was. The second, the fourth half of the stage of wolves are playing poor, aren't they? Brutal. But he might be four, though that's hilarious. But there you go. But uh yeah, no, thanks. And then he said, are Liverpool the worst champions we've ever we've worst defending champions we have ever seen? Er No, I don't think so. It couldn't be. You know you finished seven, didn't he, the year after that? Seven or eight, leicester.

SPEAKER_01

Leicester got many games about two years later, did he? Yeah, well, we went downhill rapid, didn't we? Leicester finished. I think Leicester finished about twelve, didn't we? I didn't even think about Leicester. Yeah. I was gonna agree with him.

SPEAKER_02

And even now, Jesus Christ, now Leicester finished about twelve. I'd say no, because they're gonna get back into the Champions League. I should even see last year with Pat Champions, wouldn't he like finishing toward and I like probably uh double figure points? Probably after as uh Alex Erickson left and that was a bad one about more playing. Yeah, Matt it in January, yeah. And Rooney and um the opposite end of the parents. Leicester thing finished about twelfth. Yeah, so they have to be the woods, probably Leicester, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

And then if you look at Leicester over the last what ten years, that's just coming up, going down, coming up, going down. Now they're down two leagues today. They have a drastic ten years of it.

SPEAKER_02

I like the hate by Jay from Liverpool.

SPEAKER_01

Thanks for that. Yeah, yeah. Thanks very much. Keep the parking branch.

SPEAKER_02

Thanks for that. Yeah, thanks for a good weekend as well. A few fizzy drinks were had. Oh yeah, 40 degrees in Poland on Saturday and Sunday. Crazy. Uh anyway, that will um let you wrap her up, can I? Yeah, that's it. Uh episode 47, yeah. Good weekend. Obviously, you like to go on and into the Championsie now and we can sort of relax watching the rest of the match tonight now.

SPEAKER_01

Good to watch the Boring Munich PHG again now later on.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and again, look at we've joined us a day later, so it'll be out a couple of we hope to have it out now before eight o'clock, and it's out a couple of hours later than usual, but I think people allow us for that.

SPEAKER_01

Well, Sean's fault, he should be going to Poland every few weeks.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, and look at me be back then back then next Tuesday and we'll have our Champions League final all set and ready to go, and there'll be more ups and downs in the Premier League.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, okay. We can relax now, really, can't we?

SPEAKER_02

What will um what will Sports fans want? Will they want Arsenal? Will he be churning on Arsenal against West Ham? Will he be churning West Ham on against Arsenal? It's mad, isn't it? That's a good question. I think I did want uh because Arsenal to win. Yeah, big time. But uh yeah, look it. We'll be back next week, and thanks again for listening, and we'll talk to you next week then. Thanks very much. Thank you.