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Jim Ratcliffe arrives in Carrington- Man United January Update
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The Not A Pundit podcast is back in 2024 for the latest news from the red side of Manchester.
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Introduction to 'Not A Pundit' Podcast
00:00:00
Speaker
I'm not into podcasts. Back of the net.
00:00:14
Speaker
Hello and welcome to Not A Pundit. It is 2024. It's our first episode of the year. We are delighted to be back. I'm lads. I'm delighted to have yous, Robbie and Nate of the Not A Pundit crew. And just so you know lads, I've acquired a new title over the Christmas break. I was gifted a piece of land in Ardmore in Northern Ireland. So I am officially Lord Killeen Ginnity.
00:00:44
Speaker
Oh, Lord. It's about time. Long overdue recognition both here. Here we are.
00:00:53
Speaker
And it's January, lots changing.
Man United Club Takeover Discussion
00:00:58
Speaker
Clubs are on the on the wares for new players. But one club that is on the wares for a new system is Man United, as we've discussed before. And Nate, I'm going to come to you first on this because you are the man with the finger on the pulse and means I don't have to actually ever think about Man United because you're going to tell me what is the latest? Because the last we heard was there was a takeover at some stage happening.
00:01:24
Speaker
Well, the takeover has been confirmed at least on the club side so far. We've had a statement from the club and I think it was something on the stock exchange which basically just put out there intent but for it to fully go through, it's going to go through the Premier League processes.
00:01:43
Speaker
And yeah, I believe that'll be done early January, hopefully. And yeah, so only a few days until we could see the deal fully over the line. So is this like the fit and proper person's test up there that we've also famously heard about? Basie, yeah. The ones that they didn't give to the Glazers, Basie, we're getting it the second time around, so we're lucky. But yeah,
00:02:12
Speaker
The deal looks like it's about to go through. It pretty much is. Radcliffe's in Manchester now, so I could see it being over the line the next couple of days. And has there been any kind of indication of any changes happening yet? Because there was rumours around director of footballs, directors, INEOS people coming in.
00:02:36
Speaker
So from what I know, and this is what I've been told, Sir Jim and Brailsford has been in Manchester the last few days having discussions with the staff at the club.
00:02:51
Speaker
there was a staff Q&A tonight that actually took place where they I believe they just let the staff ask questions on the takeover, their intentions and stuff like that. So there is moving pieces happening. And in regards to director of football, I don't think much much business will be happening in January. So I don't think there's a major rush on it just yet. I think it's just they need to sit down and see where where they're going in that direction.
00:03:20
Speaker
Rob, let's play pretend.
Concerns About Glazers and New Ownership
00:03:22
Speaker
You're at that meeting tonight, the Q&A, it's a free for all. What's your worries? What do you have to, what are you thinking about? Basically as a fan and pretend you work for the team, what do you need to know now that like you're kind of in limbo? Yeah, I think the big one is, is this eventually going to lead to a full takeover? Are the glaciers gone? That would be, that's the first thing in my head as a supporter.
00:03:50
Speaker
and otherwise it makes me more wary of this because it means the Glazers these guys could even be around even longer now so that that would be the first one and do you know what it's like i think i said this to me so i think it's the easiest job i think jim rackliff is the easiest job in football now he it's the club is such a mess that he he really can't make it any worse so i think i suppose it's actually to back up
00:04:16
Speaker
a lot of the talk that's been going around. He doesn't have a great record in sport in us. The first club he bought in Switzerland, they got relegated. Nice. I think they're doing okay this season, but in past seasons they haven't been great. His cycling team haven't been doing great compared to what you're doing when you're a team sky.
00:04:35
Speaker
and he bought a sailing team to compete in the America's Cup. That didn't do great. So I suppose I was wondering about, like, you know, you've been completely lacking of any type of football direction for, but since Ferguson left, but since the Glazers really come in, and it's a question of, are these the guys with the expertise? And I don't know, I'm a bit skeptical. So I would want him, I'd want them to pitch this to me. And what's their big plan for
00:05:03
Speaker
five ten years where did they see this going and not just the usual talk of oh we want you know back to the top or we want to reconnect with the community all this nonsense like what does that actually look like in practical terms and what do you think like
Jim Radcliffe's Involvement and Plans
00:05:21
Speaker
say you are advising Rob, Sir Jim now, what do you think as soon as the Premier League approves of this takeover, what should Sir Jim be saying to the fans and what should he be doing to kind of like as a statement of intent? See he's in an awkward position because he can't criticise the Glazers and he does have to still work with these guys so might be advising us to keep his mouth shut basically and under promise and then hopefully over deliver
00:05:50
Speaker
and all fans want, oh you need to reconnect, you want this to glaze them inside. When the glazes are gone we can dance on their glazes basically, but for now I will be trying to keep the media onside, I will be briefing them, not in the way Woodward used to do it, and briefing them about nonsense transfer targets that were never going to come true, and I will just let the season play out. I know that sounds silly, I wouldn't be dipping into my pocket,
00:06:14
Speaker
for a big marquee signing in January to say, to placate the fans and say, this is what we're going to do. I'd let it play out, and Penhag has been given plenty of resources to build a squad. Some players got injured, but maybe that's still his training methods or all these other things. But I'd let the season play out, and then I would take stock in the summer. And in the meantime, I would be in the background, hammering away and nailing down, mixing my metaphors here. This director of football rolled that.
00:06:42
Speaker
may not have been completely lacking. Like you could get an average football manager player, such as myself or yourself, and you would have ran the club better than John Morta or any of those other guys who have been not doing the job well over the last couple of years. So I would do nothing. I'd sit on my hands and just watch for the next couple of months and I wouldn't be making any grand statements because it'll only come back to biting.
00:07:08
Speaker
I resent the average football manager accusation. Yeah, I was about to say you were going to let him say that though. My as-cals team is doing very well in the Filipino Football League. Thank you very much. Nate, what do you think Big Jim should do as soon as he comes in as a kind of a statement of intent? Is there something that you would look you would go, yes, go on, Jim. I believe in you.
00:07:33
Speaker
if he did this one thing. I think he ticked the box right away when he's come in. He's had his meeting with the staff tonight which I think it was very much needed. I know there was a lot of worry and
00:07:47
Speaker
negative feeling around the club over the last couple of weeks because people don't know where they stand, their jobs currently. There's a thousand people employed at Manchester United, so it's going to be a huge number of people that are unhappy. I actually have some of the notes from the talk today where I've talked to a guy that I know that was involved with the talk and stuff like that.
00:08:10
Speaker
So Basie started off and he said the deal with the glazes was agreed in May. So that's a long time ago. When was it kind of like publicised? I feel it's much sooner, was it like September? It was around October, was it? Where we sort of got like word that... It wasn't going to be Justine, it was going to be him.
00:08:34
Speaker
Yeah. And so that's such a long time ago. And Jim went on to say that he wants to be ruthless and make changes, which I mean, he's going to say regardless. It's more actions than words that we need on that front. And now this is a sticking one. There'll be no investment in January due to the legal issues around the proper tests and stuff like that. And now I wasn't expecting investment because
00:09:03
Speaker
United are so on the line with FFP that we need either a big academy sale or a big player sale. That's kind of really getting the crawl of a lot of normal United fans. Oh yeah, yeah. That's going to annoy a lot of people, but I think it was genuinely unavoidable that you can't put money into the club if your ownership stakes still going through with the remedy.
Radcliffe's Commitment and Historical Context
00:09:29
Speaker
So I think that makes sense.
00:09:33
Speaker
James said during the meeting that you know you need to be back at the top of the tree and he's here to help achieve that. That's just PR, he's always gonna say that. But he also said at the end of it that he will use his own money and he's not here to make a penny out of the club, which I think that will bring.
00:10:07
Speaker
but I think initially he's made the right first step on sitting down, having the chat with the staff, laying out where he is, where he wants to go and I think that will settle the boat a bit of united for at least the next couple of weeks.
00:10:10
Speaker
peace to United fans.
00:10:23
Speaker
So with the takeover still kind of a few, possibly two weeks away from actually being finalised and Jim being able to take kind of the control that he's expected to take, I just want to kind of go back to an era. So let's just picture this. Tony Pulis, Stoke, Rory Dilap whipping it in, taking the Premier League by storm. A few years of mediocrity.
00:10:51
Speaker
getting relegated. All of this is to say, is Jim Radcliffe not being able to spend in January going to make Chupa Moting's agent the greatest of all time, from failing at Stoke, to go to PSG, to Bayern, and now maybe Man United, Rob? This is step down for the great Eric. It's Chupa Moting. This guy's played for PhD in boring Munich, and then he's going to have to play for Anthony.
00:11:21
Speaker
So I wouldn't I put some respect on his name killing. Ball series, you know, 100 net goals that man has. Yeah, it's the United playbook the last couple of years. It's it's it's I can't even call it the bargain basement. It's just rummaging around for a striker and someone with two legs who can run. He was available like a gallo then I was a fake horse and now to promote him. But it doesn't surprise me. And it's again, it's not the it's not the worst thing like
00:11:51
Speaker
When I sent the forwards for Rasmus Hall Island, he's just come to United too soon. You're never going to see the best of him, not for a couple of years anyway, and it's too much of a burden for him to do on his own. Martial, even though you're in talks that extend his contract, I don't know if you heard that name, which is a terrifying talk, he's not up to it.
00:12:16
Speaker
You would just, yeah, he's under a body, I suppose, but it's probably, it would be symbolic of the Glazier error that the last kind of signing that one of their guys sign off on is a journeyman striker on loan because they just, they can't, nobody can't cause a financial fair play, but before they just wouldn't put their
00:12:37
Speaker
hand in their pocket and it's just symbolic of how poorly they've been planning. So I've kind of wrote this season off. Anyway, it's done. And if you're not finished top four, that's fair enough. If you don't win anything, that's fair enough as well. I think there needs to be the hardest of hard retits and that could include the manager and most of the players and hopefully the administrative staff. So I'm perfectly fine. If Rory the Lap wants to join in this month, I'm fine. I'm up for that as well. I'm here for that as well. Well, as Rooney is a free agent.
00:13:07
Speaker
Yeah really. Do you want me to scare you even more about Chupomote? I've got one other name that has been linked that has some truth behind it. Like 100% have some truth behind it. Timo Werner. I don't think that's a bad signing though. Yeah, I wouldn't say that's the worst signing either. Like it's... Dixie has some potential I suppose. He's still young enough, relatively speaking. I think you're forgetting them Chelsea games to be honest though.
00:13:38
Speaker
He's 27. I thought he was like 24. I've run his shots on Galo. You know what I mean? He's one of the players that you watch and you're pulling your hair out. But look at some of the strikers that has failed at Chelsea. I wouldn't hold Chelsea against him. Look at Murata. Murata everywhere he's gone. Barra Chelsea, the man has scored. But why is he getting loaned out of Leipzig then?
00:14:04
Speaker
because Leipzig are upwardly mobile and United are not. He had 23 goals in 89 games for Chelsea. If he comes to United and scores a couple of goals, I don't know. I just, I think I'm just so resigned to them just being pathetic, that team-over-earner, and Chupa Moulton, Rory De La for anyone now at this stage, because I feel like this is just the last
00:14:33
Speaker
the last dying embers of the Glazer era and it's a zombie team and a zombie club and hopefully our friend Jim can put some shape on it now. Just a quick one. If they extend Anthony Martial's contract, this club is finished by the way.
Transfer Speculation and Strategy Concerns
00:14:51
Speaker
There's nobody that can sit there in a boardroom and go, let's give this guy another contract. I refuse to believe it. That's even a conversation we've entertained.
00:15:03
Speaker
The only thing you'd hope there is that's just in a hope to cash in on them during the summer. Well, he's gone in the summer. Well, that's what I mean is I'd rather lose them for free. Get a contract now and at least get a V. Even then, you get a very reduced fee from a copy. Again, it probably doesn't bother a long term because they're probably thinking, God, if we let this guy go, we'd literally have no one else up by the front other than Highland.
00:15:31
Speaker
One thing for you is to consider now, it's a whole new world, multi-club ownership. Does Marcel want to go back to France and enjoy some time in Nice? Oh, true. Yeah, but it's like why you're facilitating him when he's not really done anything for the last couple of years for the club. So I don't see why the club would go out their way to do that.
00:15:54
Speaker
I think him going to Nice would be a good move for Nice and potentially a good move for him. So I think that would increase his value if nothing else. But more to the point, he's going to need bodies in the likes of Werner being a good example, because it looks like Sancho is going back to the Bundesliga. Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio. Yeah, it's true and Anthony is all in the deal.
00:16:25
Speaker
clearing out a lot of dead wood. That is actually a rare example. I suppose there's no choice actually, I can't give you too much credit, but you can't be sticking around. I'm so done with that guys. Yeah, the fact that they're going to be paying them to pay for borrowing or dormant who they spent so long to assign them from just is incredible. But one of the things that
00:16:51
Speaker
I find interesting about that whole situation is he was so expensive. And how are they going to be able to, even with a mortisation, basically write off that for a player that's now going to go out unknown? Have they learned nothing from Pogba? He seems like he's going to be another Pogba.
00:17:14
Speaker
And I think, Rob, you brought this point up before, and I think it's really, really good on that. It just ultimately goes back down to bad scouting because, yes, he had great expected assists and goals or whatever, but he's playing it with Halland, as we all see now, that Halland just ruins everybody's on paper numbers. And the same can be said for Anthony, because, Nate, is there any validity to the reports that
00:17:43
Speaker
that United Scouts had initially valued Anthony at 25 million. I mean I saw that report like you did and I'd imagine so like I don't really know how much he was valued at by the Scouts but if it is that that's a scandal like
00:18:04
Speaker
There's like one thing a manager wants in a player, but if your scouts are saying that, like it goes back to like the incompetence of the leadership of the club. Like if your scouts take on this player, it's worth 25 million. Why are you paying 80 odd million for them? Like it's just, it's mind alteringly like annoying to see stuff like that. But
00:18:29
Speaker
This has just been a symptom of United for the longest time, and you would hope that the scouting department should be the first thing after director for Radcliffe's team to just gut.
Academy Restructuring and Talent Development
00:18:45
Speaker
But with the guys that they do have in the door, there seems to be, Marcial aside, a good few kind of contract renewals. Rob, is it Wampasaka's got a new one as well, despite the criticism?
00:18:59
Speaker
Yeah, again, I think it's just the question of, I think they just know, Nate will defend probably one second. I think he's on the ball. He's one of the worst footballers I've ever seen play for mine. He actually can't really play football, but he can tackle and he can jump and he's physical, but the actual ability of kicking the ball and passing through his teammate is really difficult for him, but he isn't the biggest problem there. And it's just, again, it's like,
00:19:28
Speaker
You've been doing this for years. Juan Mata was there for probably at least four years after he should have been. Poor Juan Mata should have let go and played somewhere else. Or Juan Bassaca should be back at Crystal Palace now. But it's just, you know, you just can't afford really to go. It's just easier just to keep them on the books. And they always put this thing in the entire contracts where they can extend them by another season. And I'm sure the same will happen from Tominee or
00:19:55
Speaker
Lindelof as well and even McGuire. I think McGuire will be sticking around because they're so bad at signing players and they've been born so much that they're going to try to keep them in the building now because they know they aren't going to get anyone else. I think that's the current administration now. It might be different with
00:20:15
Speaker
Radcliffe and his crew but I think the current crop realised that basically this is the best we can do. I read today that you know you have a hundred and forty scouts and apparently when they were interested in my Misaka they scaled 500 right backs. I don't know what the other 499 were doing because what a Misaka can't be better at football than
00:20:40
Speaker
even half of those guys so that would tell you that there's definitely some misalignment somewhere in the club and ultimately I suppose players like Sancho and a lot of these guys are just they're the ones ultimately being rewarded because if they don't do well they're still going to get paid or they're just going to be moved on so it's kind of there's no I don't know there's nothing really no downsides for them for you know it just lumbered with like probably
00:21:06
Speaker
10 maybe, 10 to 12 players that just aren't good enough, but they can't get anyone better and they're not going to be able to move them on. So it's another, um, another issue for Radcliffe today when he does come in. And on kind of players coming in and not being of choice, but you say you didn't have much options. Um, Nate, what happened with Sergio Wrigley on? Like, was he not assigned for the full season?
00:21:35
Speaker
Yeah, that was a strange one. He was recalled. To be honest, I'm not sure why. It actually shocked me the other day when I saw it. Was he recalled or was the loan cancelled? The loan was cancelled on the United side. So I was a bit shocked by that. I was like,
00:21:53
Speaker
All we've really needed are one of the biggest positions we've needed people to fill over the last season has been left back. So it's like, why are you getting rid of someone that, who in my opinion has done decent for us? Like I'm not going to say he's the best player in the planet, but he's come in and done a shift and played well when he's been asked.
00:22:14
Speaker
You spent time whenever Shaw was injured to be in complete panic stations to kind of go, OK, well, at least we have somebody that's capable, may not be as good, but it's a reason to be safe in their hands. Like, Rob, we haven't seen Malassie at all season. Like, so it's like, no way. Why are you getting rid of her? Like, her back up left way. So unless they're bringing back
00:22:36
Speaker
they could recall Alvaro Fernandez who's at Granada, he's an academy left back who's doing really well and he's I think believe Ben Fico on them so maybe they're trying to secure him for the future or whatever but it's a really strange one. Yeah like you think that this is where United would famously bring true one of their youngsters and
00:23:02
Speaker
Is it just me or is this something that Radcliffe should be looking at? Is that the Academy doesn't seem to be producing what it used to rob? Like in the sense that even like the likes of Garnacho commentary, they're actually bought in youngsters rather than developed. Yeah, definitely. And this is going on for years. Like I remember when Robin Van Percie joined United, his son though signed for the United Academy.
00:23:31
Speaker
I think it was the same with Phil Neville and Darren Fletcher's twin sons both played for the City Academy. Like that was to me, I remember seeing that probably 10 years ago and you're thinking like these are my United players but they played for my United and some of them came through my United and they don't think the club is good enough anymore. So they're letting them play for their actual rivals like United where are they leading? Leading club are producing new players for like
00:24:00
Speaker
that's been part of their built into their DNA and it goes back to Mount Busby and Ferguson in the 90s and there hasn't really been anyone and again it goes back to it's always this is why I think non United fans get sick of hearing United fans a lot of it it does come back to the Glazers because
00:24:17
Speaker
it's never been a priority or the people who were in place left and it's never been replaced or the club has never been modernized so I think there's hopes for it to be manual like he does seem to have a bit potential to actually break true but otherwise like no there hasn't really been anyone and that's where the squad is kind of filled out not really counting I suppose McTominay would be the last one really to come true
00:24:43
Speaker
but he's not exactly top class so there hasn't been anyone in a long time, maybe Johnny Evans who seems to come back to United and the fact that United haven't got this academy produced in these types of players anymore, it does lead to your staff filling the squad then with
00:25:02
Speaker
types like Amrbat or Rambasaka or certain guys that just aren't that good really when in the past those squad positions probably wouldn't have been filled by younger players and homegrown players who inevitably you wouldn't be paying them as much but also they might have kind of more loyalty to the club so it's just another another failing by the Glazers I think
00:25:27
Speaker
One thing I will go ahead is I will defend the club on the economy because they did a restructure two or three years ago, I believe, and we're starting to see the fruit of that. As you said, Kobe Meinu, Granaccio was boxed,
00:25:46
Speaker
as part of that restructure. And people like Alvaro Fernandez, people like Mark Gerardo, Dan Gore, there's really good talent coming through that we'll see next year. So that's one thing I will defend the club on is they've actually gone ahead and
00:26:07
Speaker
move to a good plan for the Academy and we're starting to see that. Covid-19 has been a revelation the last couple of weeks. If the rest of our midfielders could pass the ball like he would, we'd be top of the league. It's like the Academy sort of needs to catch up with the first team if that makes sense. That's where I'm at with the Academy.
00:26:29
Speaker
I think Dan Gore is actually Irish eligible, so that's always a good one to have at a United Academy. But I see what you're saying. It's a work in progress and it's starting to bear fruits. It's just it's annoying for me being a
00:26:49
Speaker
like you mentioned Rob Van Persie's son, who was an absolute football manager wonder kid this year, and if you haven't signed them yet, do it. But over the years, the amount of what seemed to be good youngsters coming through that have just gone to waste and have either, they've gone to kind of like
00:27:10
Speaker
varying degrees of success. You have the likes of Angel Gomez, who's I believe doing decently over in Liga for Lille, but then you have the likes of Tatis Chong that's in the Championship I think was last with Birmingham maybe he's moved since, but then like Fosu Mensa has gone on to have a decent career in the Bundesliga which
00:27:36
Speaker
and he's a kind of player that in the last two years just would have been crying out to have in the squad if nothing else.
00:27:43
Speaker
Oh, for sure. Players are definitely not, by the wayside. And I think that's why the re-structure did happen, is there was a huge rate of players leaving for free. That went on to good clubs. Like, as you said, T. Chong, Ted and Menge, they're both at Luton, I believe now. Or Chong might still be a player. Yeah, I know. You're right. You're right. Is he?
00:28:08
Speaker
So they're both elutin there. They're both highly rated in what I would have called the old economy. So they're players that have definitely slipped through, Fosse and Menza. He played well when he played for the first team. So I think they've moved the United Academy now to more
00:28:29
Speaker
finding the best talent rather than just bringing through a blanket like your class of whatever bringing through like a whole whole team worth of players now it's more
Potential Transfers to Benefit Man United
00:28:42
Speaker
It's honed in on certain players now, so there's loads of different age ranges where next we'll see our dango or whatever come through, and then you've got your Shae Lacey, stuff like that. Each age group has their three or four top players that are coming to Academy-wise, where before we were like, let's just bring through as many as we can, if that makes sense.
00:29:05
Speaker
Right lads, we are very fastly approaching the end of our show for this week, but I want to put it to you as with Man United's financial woes very much in mind.
00:29:20
Speaker
Rava, I'll come to you first on this. What transfer do you think United needs this January transfer window? That can be going in or going out. That could be existential. That could be big moting coming in. What one do you think needs to happen?
00:29:41
Speaker
with their with their financial woes in mind, but it could be anybody. So like, this could be bring back to here. It's not going to happen, but that it can be open minded, but realistic. And I do like that one that you know, I think to Michael Elise, a palace, I think that's more of a long term, but to me, that's a very logical, sensible transfer because he has like a 60 million bio clause, which
00:30:08
Speaker
means that there won't be this long drawn in saga like there was with Sancho. So you just pay the price and you get the player if he wants to come. And he's proven in the Premier League, which I would have always scoffed at that. But I think Anthony, and even Penhag to an extent, or Hammerbat, a lot of these players have shown that this step up is real to that division. And Anthony is, he might even be a good player in the Netherlands, but
00:30:33
Speaker
the increased physicality and his sense skill set just isn't matched to the Premier League. So the fact that Alisay is Premier League proven, he is in a position a wide forward that United, not that they're overstocked in, but Ghanacho and Rashford. So I do like the look of that long term. I like that link because to me it shows that there's someone with their head screwed on as opposed to some of the transfers we've seen.
00:31:00
Speaker
and in the past so i'd say at least a long term but in the short term felt like he could pick any any position really maybe a center forward i let you pick from your football manager database kid and i can't think i'm on top of my head order them to promote but a center forward would be ideal because i think um and poor hoyland is it's tough for he's only a kid like it's a lot to expect from him in his four seasons primarily
00:31:28
Speaker
Yeah, I was going to say that about the Elise one. It's not going to happen now. I reckon, though, you could probably get a reasonable loan due for somebody like Jota over in the Saudi League. Get him in on the wing and free up some of that kind of Anthony space that might make it
00:31:48
Speaker
You could say the likes of Hoyland were not going to see the best of them now, but at least if you had some reasonable balls being put into them, then you could then criticise them. But Nate, what do you think? The signing that you would think needs to happen, but being realistic?
00:32:04
Speaker
I'm sure the name was, but going on what you were saying, I'd go rather for more of a creative winger to bring in. Someone that can get the ball to hide them there. Because I think he will score goals if he's given the opportunities.
00:32:22
Speaker
So that's the route I'd go down. I feel like Hoyland's unlucky now. He's sort of playing in between. I hate the word selfish, but it feels like two selfish wingers where they're like, they want your balls. Where this poor kid is just coming in for his first season. Needs service. So I feel like we need to get someone in that can provide that service. But I'll be honest, I don't know who that is or how we get to that.
00:32:49
Speaker
Sancho. In another world it would have been Sancho. I'm actually just looking at the stats here before you go kidding that in this last season with Holland, he had, let me see the exact figure here, but he had like 20 assists in his last season for Holland and 16 goals. This is Sancho from an expected assist right ring of seven and an extra five. So he's massively over performing, but
00:33:19
Speaker
I think Sancho was meant to be that kind of creative white player but for millions of reasons it just hasn't happened but I would definitely agree with Nate how selfish Rashford and Anthony and I think it goes beyond selfish to just there's a distinct lack of kind of cop on with both of them they never just lift their heads and yeah particularly Anthony I just don't think he's capable.
00:33:41
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I think he's kind of slightly sold herself short in this window because it seems that Donnie Vanderbeek is going to Frankfurt, Sancho going to Dortmund, which I know isn't going to be getting necessarily wages off of the books, but that means you have a little bit of play around.
00:34:00
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I would I'd be going and taking an old-school leaf out of the United Book and go to Barca and try and get something like a Farron Torres in on loan, do a Henrik Larsson on it and make use of their financial woes that he's going to relate to.
00:34:17
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just because if Ansufahi can go to Brighton, Man United should at least be able to get a reasonable lone player in this window. But there's only one way to find out and that is to wait and see lads. Thank you so much for bringing us through all of that and all of the updates. I'm very excited to see
00:34:37
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how it all turns out for years, and more so to see how it'll impact the FOP manager database at the end of January. This is always my main concern. I've been killing Ginnity. I've been delighted to be joined by Nathan Byrne. It's been a pleasure. And Robbie Redmond. Thanks, lads. We'll be back next week, and we'll chat to you then. I'm not into podcasts.
00:35:14
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of the night.