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2:20

from the future, I think. I'm

2:23

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2:25

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2:27

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2:49

we're going to get stuck into

2:51

the results of this week's Skybet

2:53

fanview survey. And we've got

2:55

a really good question today, Joel, to get

2:57

stuck into. Who has been

2:59

the best English player in

3:01

the Premier League this season? Now the

3:04

Euros is coming, and England have got a

3:06

wealth of talent, Gareth Southgate has got an

3:08

embarrassment of riches to pick from. But

3:10

in terms of who's been the best English Premier

3:12

League player, who are the first maybe one or

3:15

two candidates that spring to mind for you? Well,

3:18

first and foremost, Olly Watkins. I mean, one of

3:20

the top scorers in the Premier League this season.

3:22

I think he's still quite underrated by a lot

3:24

of fans. And we'll

3:26

get into the actual poll of that

3:28

soon. And I think certain viewers of

3:30

certain persuasions and allegiances, let's say, will

3:33

be very annoyed at the percentages of

3:35

the actual vote. But, you know, Olly

3:37

Watkins and Phil Foaden are the

3:39

ones that instantly come to mind to me.

3:41

Maybe Kobe Manu. Steady

3:44

on. Probably a little bit early for Kobe

3:46

Manu to be considered the best English Premier

3:48

League player. But I totally agree with you

3:50

about Olly Watkins. 19 goals

3:53

and 12 assists heading into the

3:55

weekend, Premier League fixtures. Someone

3:58

who has really fought for the forced his

4:00

way into that conversation when it comes to

4:02

back up for Harry Kane, and obviously probably

4:04

aided slightly by the fact that Ivan Tony

4:06

hasn't been around Joel because he's missed half

4:08

the season with his beating ban. It did

4:10

seem to me like a year ago Ivan

4:12

Tony would be the one to play

4:14

back up to Harry Kane at the Euros, but after

4:17

the season that Watkins and Villa have had, as

4:19

I mentioned, knocking on for 20 goals and in

4:21

double figures for assists, I mean

4:23

he's well in the conversation isn't he in terms

4:26

of the best English player in the Premier League

4:28

this season. Oh easily, when you've got stats of

4:30

19 goals in the Premier League,

4:33

I feel like people are almost swaying

4:36

away from just how difficult that actually

4:38

is. He's on Erlen Harland's level this

4:40

season, not only that but he's a

4:42

great goal scorer but he's a great

4:44

playmaker as well with 12 assists as

4:46

well, and the Skybat fanview survey results

4:48

show only 9% of people think

4:51

that he's been the best English player in

4:53

the Premier League this season, which in my

4:55

opinion, I don't know about yours, but I

4:57

feel like that is criminal. That

5:00

is criminal is it not? Because I'm just

5:02

going to reveal now as well that the

5:04

guy who's next ahead of him is

5:07

Declan Rice with 20% and

5:10

okay Declan Rice has been a catalyst for Arsenal

5:12

this season, but are

5:14

Aston Villa getting into the Champions

5:16

League without Ollie Watkins? I

5:19

don't think so. This is the way I think we

5:22

should look at this Joel, because you're absolutely right, Declan

5:24

Rice has been brilliant for Arsenal and Arsenal might well

5:26

still win the Premier League title, we don't know that

5:28

at this point in time, there are still games to

5:30

run between now and the end of the campaign.

5:32

I think Rice going to Arsenal,

5:35

he's made such a name for himself both at

5:37

West Ham and in the England national team that

5:39

you almost expected he would be able to slot

5:41

into that Arsenal team and do a job. For

5:44

Ollie Watkins, I don't think anyone at the start

5:46

of the season would have predicted him to hit

5:48

20 goals and be

5:50

in double figures for assists and Aston Villa

5:53

being the Champions League positions. So for me,

5:55

I think that we are just looking

5:57

at a little bit of big six bias here because

5:59

Rice is being a big six. outstanding but he's not

6:01

been 11% better than Ollie Watkins

6:03

has been this season in my opinion. Yeah

6:05

it's very hard to compare a midfielder to

6:07

a striker in terms of their impact because

6:10

Deccan Rice definitely has had an impact on

6:12

Arsenal's season and like you say if they

6:14

win the title we might be having a

6:16

very different conversation in about three weeks time

6:18

of how he was pivotal in their title

6:20

win. Let's keep it

6:23

let's steady on for now but let's talk about the

6:26

first to who's in second place in the

6:28

fan survey. Well if we're praising Ollie Watkins

6:30

Joel for how well he's done and how

6:32

good Aston Villa have been can't really say

6:34

the same about Chelsea because it's turned into

6:36

Cole Palmer FC hasn't it this season for

6:38

Pochettino mid table in the top flight as

6:41

it stands but with 20 goals and nine

6:43

assists heading into this Premier League weekend 23%

6:47

of people feel that Cole Palmer is

6:49

the best England Premier League player

6:51

this season. He is

6:53

only second to Erling Harland in the

6:56

top scoring charts as we record this

6:58

podcast which is absolutely staggering and I

7:00

know he scored what is it eight

7:02

penalties this season but without Cole Palmer

7:05

Chelsea's miserable mid table position

7:08

might be even lower. Yeah he's been their

7:10

silver line in Hasenia this season even and

7:12

it's been shown when Pochettino said he wanted

7:14

to prove that they're not the Cole Palmer

7:17

FC to paraphrase and then they

7:19

went and got busted. It was

7:21

just poetic wasn't it but

7:23

you know at the start of the season when they paid

7:25

40 million for him I didn't expect

7:27

any impact whatsoever I didn't even think he was gonna

7:30

get in the team. I thought he was

7:32

going to be you know very slowly introduced

7:34

I didn't think that he would be this good

7:36

I didn't know he was this kind of player

7:39

who could actually make a difference in games and

7:41

like you say scored a lot of penalties but

7:43

I hate taking away from plays who scored a

7:45

lot of penalties because they're not easy to convert

7:47

especially when they're in high pressure situations you look

7:49

at that Man United again when he had to

7:52

score that penalty in what the 95th minute it

7:54

takes courage To do that

7:56

and I didn't see a lot of... Keep scoring as well.

7:58

to have eight and score them all. Yeah

8:00

yeah yeahs cover it every single one. And

8:02

the fact that you knew I didn't see

8:04

many chelsea place tried say the ball off

8:06

him when he hath take it in a

8:08

high pressure situation that shows his got a

8:10

steal he got nervous the you think maybe

8:12

the only thing with Coal Palmer is. As

8:15

a mention, those stats heading into this weekend:

8:17

Twenty goals of which I have penalties. But

8:20

goals. A Goals. As you mentioned, But.

8:22

Nine assists so deck them. Rice has got

8:24

seven assists. Watkins has got twelve assists. Now

8:26

nine assists is a good return for someone

8:28

who's only really having their first established Premier

8:30

League season. Call Palmer Still very young, but

8:32

to think maybe we might see that assists

8:34

tally creeping up a little bit more in

8:37

the years. The com the while the slogan

8:39

a Jackson ahead of him at I think

8:41

give his has many marriages a rather than

8:43

that am I have a twenty five assists

8:45

If he was of the make such as

8:47

if you're Didier Drogba ahead of you we

8:49

might be talking about a very different play

8:51

with forty plus goal. Involvements. You know you

8:53

can only supply so many to a

8:55

strike a gaudy, the rest of it.

8:57

but again, exactly. I think what's quite

8:59

excited for Chelsea fans is the fact

9:01

that he's doing this in a in

9:03

it and it's fucking line op where

9:05

he's the only output really. Because.

9:08

I know Jackson's got was just over

9:10

tangos now but a lot of them

9:12

a com in a hat trick, three

9:14

goals forgo the is taught noom doing

9:16

clumps there in clusters the not consistently

9:18

in the scoring basis. So when Chelsea

9:20

eventually but as against victor Aussie men

9:23

in. And Ivan Tony. At.

9:26

I'm sure Call Palmer puts the know will

9:28

be licking the lips or what kind of

9:30

out where could get potentially be got that

9:33

kind of striker head of the ball? Twenty

9:35

three percent of the people surveyed by Sky

9:37

Bet think that Call Palmer is the best

9:40

English Premier League play this season, but leading

9:42

the way with a massive forty eight percent.

9:45

Of. The phone. His. cell phone and

9:47

sixteen goals and seven assists and in

9:49

into the weekends premier league matches an

9:51

amazing season we all knew how could

9:53

this lad was we all knew that

9:56

when that infamous tweet from a certain

9:58

journalists came out that said phil Foden

10:00

agrees to sit on the bench for six years, but

10:02

he was going to go and prove that person wrong.

10:05

Guardiola has managed him exceptionally

10:07

well and now he's becoming someone who,

10:10

instead of being that person who

10:12

plays 15-20 games a season, he's now

10:14

almost playing every single game every single

10:16

season both in league and in competition.

10:18

You just need to look at his

10:20

Champions League performances as well as Premier

10:22

League performances this season. He

10:25

is someone in which England fans

10:27

are really excited about when it comes to the

10:29

Euros. You talk about the talent that England have

10:31

got, Foden certainly is one of those young stars

10:33

that you can imagine. He's going

10:35

to be one of the Premier League's figureheads

10:37

in the next 10 years. This season he's

10:39

actually determining outcomes of games

10:42

now. You mentioned that right

10:44

on Madrid game in the Champions League. They're

10:46

the types of games where these players announce

10:48

themselves. It's okay getting

10:50

consistent goals in the Premier League here and

10:53

there, but if you're going to start being

10:55

a game decision maker, that's where you take

10:57

yourself from a good player to world class

10:59

very quickly. The fact that

11:01

the discourse is now around Phil Foden

11:03

having the England team built around Phil

11:05

Foden, it just shows how

11:08

much everyone's paying attention and seeing how much

11:10

of an impact he's having. Even

11:12

Pat Guardiola's starting to push him ahead of

11:15

Kevin De Bruyne a little bit in that

11:17

starting line-up, almost like it's the natural transition

11:19

for when De Bruyne eventually starts coming

11:21

out. Do you think he

11:23

deserves that 48%? Do you think it's harsh?

11:25

Do you think it's actually quite justified because

11:28

he has been absolutely outstanding, possibly his best

11:30

season in a Manchester City shirt so far?

11:32

I think it would be unfair of me

11:34

to say that it's unjustified, to be honest

11:37

with you. But when I did

11:39

think of the best English Premier League players, he

11:41

wasn't the first person that sprung to mind. That

11:43

was Watkins, and then it was Palmer. So

11:45

actually my 1-2 was Watkins Palmer, and

11:48

Rice and Foden probably didn't come into my thinking

11:50

until I saw the results of this survey. And

11:52

I don't know whether that's because Manchester City is

11:54

so good and you expect him to put in

11:57

those sorts of performances, but that is just the

11:59

reputation. he's crafted for himself and that is actually

12:01

the biggest compliment you can pay him. The

12:04

actually 16 goals, 7 assists is an

12:06

amazing season for Foden and Manchester City

12:08

look such a good team when he's

12:10

in the side but that's only

12:12

because he's made that the

12:15

situation himself because of how good he's been so

12:17

yeah I can't begrudge him 48% of the vote.

12:19

I think the one thing

12:21

that does bug me about these survey results is

12:23

that Watkins has only got 9% of the vote

12:25

that I can't get over so

12:28

maybe 48% for me is a bit of

12:30

a stretch in terms of Foden being voted

12:32

in the Skybet fanview survey as the best

12:34

English Premier League player this season but Watkins

12:37

9% that is a scandal. Villa fans where

12:39

are you? Start voting on

12:41

these polls and we'll be able to

12:43

say yeah correct justified 9% is

12:45

criminal hopefully in the auras

12:48

though if he goes which I'm I'm pretty

12:50

sure he will be he can prove that

12:52

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good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. It's

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a bit of a weird football social daily today.

14:35

As you may

14:37

find out in

14:39

the coming minutes, we're all on holiday

14:41

except me because I had a kid so I can't go on

14:43

holiday anymore. Niall

14:46

is currently getting very

14:49

drunk in Las Vegas. Joel

14:51

is off on his travels to

14:54

the coast of Iberia. He is in Spain

14:56

and Portugal. But because

14:58

we're so dedicated at FSD, we needed to

15:00

bring you something to

15:03

keep you going because basically, Monday night got absolutely

15:05

slapped on Monday night and I cannot let it

15:07

go without getting some kind of,

15:09

some form of podcast out there to you guys

15:13

because you all know as dedicated

15:15

listeners that I was absolutely dying

15:17

to talk about this game. So

15:20

we've got a little voice note coming up

15:22

from Joel in Barcelona or

15:24

Portugal he actually is now. He's

15:26

clearly, clearly paying him too much

15:28

for his time. So

15:31

he's from there. He sent us a nice little

15:33

voice note where he's probably going to skirt around

15:35

the problems at Monday night like he usually does.

15:38

And then we've got a second

15:41

effort at a voice note from

15:43

Niall who because of the time

15:45

difference, it's quite intriguing when

15:48

a voice note comes through to your phone at two o'clock

15:50

in the afternoon. And Niall is absolutely

15:52

drunk as a skunk in Las Vegas.

15:55

So he had to send another one because it

15:57

was quite simple. It wasn't fit for purpose to

15:59

go out. on the podcast. So

16:02

what I'm saying is bear with us a little

16:04

bit. This one's a little bit mashed together. It's

16:07

coming from the past, the present and the future

16:09

but we've got Joel's thoughts on the crypto palace

16:12

game. We've got a little bit of reaction to

16:14

the Champions League results

16:17

last night with Dortmund ousting Paris

16:20

and German in the French capital. So

16:23

here goes. If it's a little bit cobbled

16:25

together you'll have to just

16:27

bear with us really because I'm not usually

16:30

the guy who stitches this podcast together. That is the

16:33

mighty fine job that Niall or

16:35

Joel normally does. So if it flows

16:37

badly allow it. Please come back. Please

16:39

keep listening and we'll be back to normal for next

16:41

week but as I say we had to get you

16:43

something out so here it is. Hey

16:58

guys I'm currently speaking to you from

17:00

Lagos. Not Lagos Nigeria. Lagos Portugal. Just

17:02

got a flight over from Barcelona late

17:04

last night and I don't know if

17:06

you can hear it on my voice

17:08

but the last night in Barcelona

17:11

I've been very very quiet but

17:13

made even more quiet by the fact that I

17:15

looked on my phone and late

17:19

during a night in Barcelona I saw

17:21

that United had just been beaten 4-0

17:23

by Crystal Palace.

17:25

I mean my night was going really well up until

17:27

that point and then suddenly I just

17:30

wanted to disassociate myself again. It always seems

17:32

to be the case that whenever

17:34

I'm away I think the last

17:36

time was when Chelsea beat United 4-3 in the last

17:38

minutes. It always seems to be when I'm away so

17:40

I probably just stopped going away but

17:43

it just feels to me as if or

17:46

very similar to when Olegonislauska was about to

17:48

be sacked and he was losing these very

17:50

easy games. I remember the 4-1 against Watford

17:53

which is his final game and

17:56

I don't understand why the players are

17:58

almost in the end of

18:01

the season like it's almost a testimonial because we've

18:03

got the FA Cup final to come in what just

18:05

under two weeks time now and

18:08

surely you want to be getting into that game

18:10

probably the make or break of our season and

18:12

you want to be going into it in decent form

18:15

but honestly I watched I watched highlights of the game

18:17

against Palace and like

18:19

a lot of reports came out on set I think

18:21

a lot of players futures 100% if

18:23

they weren't being evaluated before

18:26

now I think majority of them are going

18:28

to be evaluated I don't really care what

18:30

kind of name they have what reputation they

18:32

have every one of the majority of the

18:34

players should be having

18:36

their futures considered by an absolute mile I think

18:39

it now is the time to be very very

18:41

reckless when it comes to that but not only

18:43

the players but the manager as well and I'm

18:45

still very very torn because I've always been a

18:47

big advocate for him being under

18:50

a regime that's not a circus and

18:53

I just feel like this is just the end of the circus

18:55

now but is he going to be ready to take over in

18:57

a new kind of environment or are the

18:59

new owners going to be even patient with him because we

19:02

don't know how he can operate under that but it

19:04

just feels like the team just

19:06

have lost all sorts of motivation

19:09

confidence no cohesion I don't

19:11

see any improvement and the fact

19:13

that you know Thomas Tuchel speaking very candidly about

19:15

wanting to be back in England and it's quite

19:17

a few managers now who seems to be flirting

19:19

with it and I always maintain

19:22

when Jim Ratcliffe was asked the question about Tenhogg

19:24

during one of his initial interviews and he didn't

19:26

want to talk about him I

19:28

feel like he wasn't convinced by him from the very

19:30

moment he stepped into the door to be honest and

19:32

so from that perspective I actually wouldn't be surprised to

19:34

see him leave but we've

19:37

seen stranger things happen and my gut feeling is

19:39

that he will still be in charge for

19:41

the next season at least but

19:45

it's just it just feels like you know the

19:47

end of the road of this this season's felt

19:49

like it's finished a long long time ago but

19:51

anyway I'm just on a balcony so let me

19:54

get back to fun rather than talking about this

19:56

depressing topic that is Manchester

19:58

United for the last two. two

20:00

months, three months, however long you want to go,

20:02

ten years. I want to go take

20:05

a dip in the sea and I

20:07

don't want to hear anything else about Man United

20:09

again for this sea-able future. Nice

20:13

one Joel, morning from Las Vegas. I'm

20:15

in our hotel room with Liam. How

20:17

you doing mate? Hello guys, alright. Got

20:20

Jay and Ben here as well and we were

20:22

in an Uber the other day going

20:25

down the Las Vegas strip and we spoke

20:27

to a taxi driver who could not believe

20:29

that Crystal Palace slapped Manchester United 4-0.

20:31

He genuinely couldn't believe it. He's a

20:34

big Premier League fan and

20:36

he was shocked but I know that you weren't

20:38

shocked Marley because you actually predicted that

20:41

Crystal Palace would walk all over Manchester United.

20:43

It's just one of those things where United

20:46

have had so many of these results over the

20:48

last two years under Eric Tenhark. You

20:50

even think when he first started that

20:53

maybe second game that he had as the United

20:55

manager, they lost 4-0 to Brentford and everyone was

20:57

like oh there's some serious work that needs to

20:59

be done here and it feels like two years

21:01

on if not more but we're talking about the

21:03

same problems and you can point

21:06

fingers wherever you want but you cannot be

21:08

losing games 4-0 to Crystal Palace. Yes they've

21:10

got a new manager, yes they're in good

21:13

form, yes they've actually got good players but

21:15

when you're a club like United you can't

21:17

lose 4-0 to Crystal Palace. You just can't,

21:19

especially away from home as well when

21:21

you've got the travelling fans there. It's

21:23

just one of those where can you

21:25

put it down as another bad day at the

21:27

office because it's becoming so regular now for United.

21:30

It's getting silly. Thankfully

21:32

most of the boys here haven't watched too much

21:34

of the Premier League. We've been out and about

21:36

on the strip enjoying ourselves so

21:38

can't really report too much on the rest of the

21:40

action from the weekend although we did manage to catch

21:42

a little bit of the Champions League Dortmund

21:45

knocking out PSG and I know this

21:47

isn't Premier League lads but PSG are

21:49

the biggest bunch of bottlers in

21:52

European football. I've said

21:54

this before on the podcast as well,

21:56

PSG just somehow find a way to

21:58

mess things up. And dorm

22:00

and. I'm not seen the I

22:02

think anyone predict interests Champions League. To

22:05

stages if you will. So. It's.

22:08

Yeah, not a shot that Paris of Boss

22:10

would again to be set. The. Got

22:12

so many good players they burn

22:14

through multiple top managers. And.

22:16

They still haven't won the Premier Li Na

22:19

the Primitive, the Champions League a sucker for

22:21

says outside I am Edu I get to

22:23

speak to and joe a thing you're in

22:26

Barcelona or molly you're in Manchester or wherever

22:28

you are. Ali box one of you boys

22:30

to have. To. Give your

22:32

opinion. right?

22:35

One of the sort of a different

22:37

was it to his odds and griff

22:39

nationalism is ever. I will not say

22:42

anything about the the first. Fight.

22:44

Club Denial sent over which is from

22:46

a nightclub no less and so he

22:49

couldn't hear a thing. Basically if that

22:51

Niles they're very package voice talking to

22:53

his phone book. The one thing that

22:55

we would brings us all together and

22:58

keeps is doing is focused is delivered

23:00

football and and yeah it's been it's

23:02

it's been a crazy week so far

23:05

as an it. seriously how can we

23:07

skip over Bob? We can if we

23:09

joke joke is go over anything and

23:11

both. That gave my word. Monday night

23:14

it. On Monday night against Crystal Palace,

23:18

I mean it's check our social

23:20

media. If you check our Twitter

23:23

feed and my Instagram feed, you'll

23:25

realize that. Back. On

23:27

the bus kinda vapor. think of the

23:29

twenty six in April said when Newcastle

23:32

last two nil to Crystal Palace ourselves

23:34

as. An alliance with

23:36

Smirk in a little bit of Lego

23:38

you know Newcastle going says he will

23:40

lead in the to listen to Crystal

23:42

Palace and in a we've given Crystal

23:44

Palace No End of Stick and on

23:46

the podcast over the past season two

23:48

seasons and probably more because they're very

23:50

middle of the road the usually just

23:52

finished thirteenth or whatever. it's very boring

23:54

to be a Crystal Palace fun book.

23:57

When Newcastle when see when? when Selhurst.

24:00

We. Got we got laid off a park it

24:02

we were a with a simple and you

24:04

know Joe was there laughing and new of

24:06

a you know we're gonna get system this

24:08

may be safe books probably six or gonna

24:10

finish above you guys He could see that

24:12

look on his face and I I looked

24:14

him and Monday nights six years and I

24:16

just said to myself and you've gotta go

24:18

to Crystal Palace and was Kevin Keegan you've

24:21

gotta go A cell has to get something

24:23

and and there is no chance there was

24:25

no chance money idol winning a game and

24:27

even with a full he fully fit squad

24:29

they wouldn't have good. Result of sit there

24:31

with then hindered by boon of and

24:33

and is missing or was apparently he's

24:35

first ever again through injury in his

24:37

career am and of the only having

24:39

one sits and descend on the pitch

24:41

with to is at once it cent

24:43

of ah sorry which is Jonny Evans

24:45

and and then owns the alps as

24:47

well by casimir haven't yet Another shock

24:49

and proven that he legacy gone and

24:52

and easier it is like it. Is.

24:54

Like a busted flush basically in them is

24:57

is on his way out book that his

24:59

money I it as a whole and and

25:01

the big a thing for me and off

25:03

after Monday's night monday night's game is he

25:05

can argue about ten og. Is

25:08

now you have outs the you know whether he

25:10

he deserves to be in charge or whatever next

25:12

season book. The. One

25:14

thing that that came to me

25:17

from that game is if you

25:19

give this manager next. Am

25:22

an uber kim three the summer. And.

25:25

I don't know she's done enough. I

25:27

don't a season done enough to

25:29

deserve that. I mean this money

25:31

I team around put around cause

25:33

the lowest sam points total in

25:35

in premier league history them their

25:37

own. And. They'll do well to finish

25:39

her. The post is called the sense that button

25:41

tokens coming off towards into the season. You

25:45

know, and that is currently Cel.

25:47

Minus one goal difference so it's

25:49

pretty dire at the minute. Fair

25:52

for money I'd books you know,

25:54

There's. the whole off the field situation and

25:57

you know who's in charge in any of

25:59

come in and stuff like that but I'm

26:02

starting to think will any of us not be

26:04

looking at looking at this

26:06

and saying we've just seen Jade and Sancho

26:08

on Tuesday who would still

26:10

be at the club is Tenharg wasn't there because

26:13

obviously the argument started and

26:16

Tenharg was too stubborn to allow

26:18

the situation to go

26:21

away. Sancho was obviously

26:23

too stubborn as well to

26:25

say sorry and say it publicly but

26:28

to me that's still a bit schoolboy-ish of you know

26:30

you're trying to assert your power over someone basically in

26:32

public and a lot of players don't like that. For

26:35

me that's your job as a manager to manage players

26:37

and get the best out of them and

26:39

we've seen Jade and Sancho bossing it

26:41

in Champions League semi-finals and

26:44

ultimately Jade and Sancho is going to play in a

26:46

Champions League final in June and the

26:48

only thing Eric Tenharg is going to get in in

26:51

June is possibly his P45 because this

26:53

Man United team they

26:57

look awful and a lot needs

26:59

to change. Any of us might have all the plans in

27:01

the world but ultimately he's got to manage the team and

27:03

you know the team that played

27:06

against Crystal Palace on Monday night you could

27:08

tell from the minute that team sheet dropped

27:10

that team was gonna get pasted

27:13

around the park you

27:15

know Alicia and Eze dropping

27:17

in those holes where there's not even

27:20

a proper defensive midfielder to track them.

27:22

You know Christian Erickson you're asking him

27:24

to do a role that he's

27:26

literally never done in his career I said this on

27:28

the podcast a couple of weeks ago he's never played

27:30

defensive midfield in his life ever

27:34

but now Tenharg the you know the

27:36

little Dutch mastermind wants to play him

27:39

as a deep-lying playmaker and trying to get the

27:41

ball to him to feed and it just hasn't

27:43

worked but yeah it's a huge

27:47

huge job for Man United in the summer. Whether

27:49

Tenharg is going to be there or not I

27:51

think they will genuinely look for other options. Is

27:54

Thomas Tochel an option? Maybe.

27:57

Gareth Southgate being linked again which you

27:59

know Joel might never come home from Barcelona if that's the case.

28:01

He might just stay and become a Catalan

28:05

bloody handball lover or something because the

28:07

sport isn't for him if Garrosavka gets

28:09

that job on the back

28:11

of England's Euro 2024 campaign. But

28:16

yeah, it's a mess. It's a mess at Man

28:18

United. It has been for years. Something

28:20

needs to come and change everything.

28:22

Charles Frangnick said it, the

28:25

open heart surgery comment type of thing.

28:29

It's all very well saying you

28:32

need open heart surgery but ultimately you

28:34

need to do it. You need to then plan

28:37

it, plan that surgery, carry

28:40

it out, recover from it and

28:42

then thrive after it if

28:44

we're talking quite literally. That's

28:47

what needs to happen with Man United.

28:51

But yeah, that's all for

28:53

the future. I'm sure we'll spend many, many minutes

28:55

talking about it in the future but just

28:57

a word on Crystal Palace. Crystal Palace

28:59

are a very good side

29:01

now and Oliver Glazner has done a

29:04

very good job and it's actually a

29:06

very simple job he's done with

29:09

Crystal Palace. He's changed the formation

29:11

to suit, to essentially build a

29:13

team around Eberie Eze and

29:16

Michael Elise. It seems

29:18

obvious because all he's done is changed

29:21

the system to a 3-5-2 and played

29:23

them in almost a three-roll behind Jean-Philippe

29:25

Mateta. Roy Hodgson

29:28

in the past had Elise from the

29:30

right, as in he

29:32

had defensive duties as well to do with

29:35

Eze sort of central or

29:37

slightly from the left. Glazner

29:40

has went up here and

29:43

he won the right-hand side. Munoz,

29:45

the new right-wing back, he's going

29:47

to deal with them. Elise can

29:49

just vibe basically. He can go

29:51

and do what he wants as they can do the same.

29:55

They're such skillful players that the opposition then has to

29:57

react to them and say, right, we need a plan

29:59

for them. And when there's two of them, it's

30:02

so much harder than, you know, if there's one

30:04

of them, and we're stating obvious there, two people

30:06

harder to mark than one. But

30:08

at least they have so, so much

30:10

quality in their games that

30:12

they are so hard to stop. And

30:15

they ran the game, Mateta scored a

30:17

couple of goals, Ohnana stunk the place

30:19

out again, probably

30:21

should have said two

30:24

of the goals, I would argue at least. And

30:27

then you've got, you know, players like Casamiro and

30:29

stuff like that, not making anyone's job

30:32

any easier by proving that they're

30:34

over the hill and way down the other

30:36

side. But that is

30:38

Manchester United in a nutshell. Big

30:41

job to do. Whereas

30:44

Crystal Palace on the other hand, we'll be looking forward

30:46

to the summer and seeing who they can add to

30:48

this team and seeing if they can build on that

30:50

momentum and finishing the top half, you

30:53

know, next season at least to

30:56

try and build on the positive start that Oliver

30:58

Glazner has done. And

31:00

fair play to them, they finally seem to

31:02

be moving forward after years of safe, you

31:06

know, safe play under Roy Hodgson

31:08

and Sam Allardyce and Alan Pardrew

31:10

before that. So fair play

31:12

to them, they're doing fine. Might

31:15

not be taking the mick out of them for being bang

31:17

average next season, you never know. And

31:21

yeah, it's down to, it's completely different

31:23

at Man United. It's as long

31:25

as it can get really. If they carry

31:27

on this towards the end of the season, I can't see

31:29

Ten Harg being there. I can

31:31

see that, you know, Jim Ratcliffe and

31:34

Inny Austin, whoever, Bill Brielesford or Chris

31:36

Hoyle, whoever is in charge of that show at the minute,

31:39

you know, they need to be coming up with

31:41

a short list because Ten Harg, I feel like

31:44

if you come in and tell him what to do as well,

31:47

you know, he's a stubborn guy.

31:49

He's not gonna, he's

31:51

gonna come up with excuses of why it

31:53

hasn't worked. I'm not sure he's right for

31:56

the job long term. And

31:58

ultimately, if you back Ten Harg, I'm gonna be back.

32:00

You have to write off Jaden Sancho for example you

32:02

have to then sell him Because

32:05

and you make a loss that way because it's cheaper

32:07

to spend however than it is to sell Sancho

32:09

for 20 30 million and take a

32:11

50 million pound loss on him for example So big

32:14

big decisions that Miami United is still to be made.

32:17

We'll see what they do In

32:19

the summer. We'll see if this is the you

32:21

know the new era truly the new era of

32:23

Manchester United, but Now

32:26

the last 10 years has proven that there's been quite

32:28

a few false bonds at Manchester United, so I

32:30

think it's There's a

32:32

big big job to be doing open heart surgery You

32:34

don't recover from that in the

32:36

space of a preseason guys and trust me.

32:38

It's not It's not a

32:41

simple one to come straight back from so we'll see what my

32:43

night you do in the summer and Speaking

32:46

of the near future. We will be

32:48

back to full strength podcasts from

32:50

next week when the lads are busy Back

32:53

and recovered from their Galavant in around the

32:55

world Nile

32:57

will be asked to be physically dragged

33:00

out of a casino in Las Vegas And

33:04

Joel will you know he'll have

33:06

to be pulled out of hiding basically from somewhere in

33:09

either Portugal or Barcelona or wherever he's

33:12

wherever he's off partying next and

33:15

I'll have to see you see you next week when

33:17

we've got be back to full strength Maniacd

33:19

will still be losing Newcastle still

33:21

be cruising all nicely and finishing

33:24

above Maniacd But until then we'll

33:26

see you then guys