How the hell did West Ham United get a penalty in their game against Manchester United?
Who should be the new Man U manager now that Eric Ten Haag has been sacked?
Would Jose Mourinho, Gary Neville or Gareth Southgate be a good fit?
And what does pulling the trigger mean in the context of football manager jobs?
Hello, Zdenek Lukas here and this is the Footglitch Podcast, your ultimate solution for learning English through football.
And unless I am mistaken, today is the first time ever on the Footglitch Podcast that we have two guests at the same time.
It's Karl, a returning guest, who has been here twice already. Welcome back.
Thanks for having me, Zdenek. Appreciate it.
You're always welcome, especially since you are an Arsenal fan.
No, in fact, on this podcast, it's not true. On this podcast, you know, all fans are welcome.
But also today we're joined by your friend Brian. Welcome, Brian.
Thanks for having me. It's a nice little thing to do.
Lovely. But you are not an Arsenal fan exactly, are you?
I am not. No, no, I was born in the 90s.
So because of that, naturally, I'm a Man United fan for for my sins, I would say.
This is amazing timing. What a timing this is, because your manager, Eric Ten Haag, as I learned to pronounce it, not Ten Haag, Ten Haag.
Very good. The Dutch Dutch pronunciation. Yeah.
Has just been sacked literally a few hours ago.
So I'm sure we're going to talk about that one hundred percent.
Definitely, Brian, you are the main man today because it's the main agenda for today is the West Ham, West Ham, Manchester United game, Manchester United.
What's going to happen with it? Who is going to be the next manager?
But also we want to hear from Carl as well what his views are on that.
Absolutely. Yeah, I think it's good to get the non Man United fan on it, too, because you can get very tunnel vision about your own club.
So, yeah, I think it's good. It's good.
Tell me about it. Yesterday, I was arguing with my Liverpool friend about some sort of disallowed goal.
Nobody knows what I'm referring to, Carl, right?
No, don't have a clue. Have not. Never happened.
Anyway, for some reason, I just crumbled under pressure and I admitted it was a foul in the end.
I feel I feel really embarrassed about that, Carl. I'm sorry.
Definitely wasn't a foul. Just never a foul.
Yeah. Seems seems like Irish sarcasm to me.
Oh, no, no, I actually am serious. I don't think that was a foul at all.
I was. It's just typical Liverpool, but listen, that's another topic.
That could be another another focus for another day, I think.
Liverpool, you mean?
Yeah, well, I didn't want to say it, but now that you've said it, it's out there.
So, yeah. Anyway, anyway, let's talk about that West Ham
Manchester United game, which I happen to see as well because I kind of support West Ham, actually, as my number two team.
So interesting game with a really bad ending for you.
So, yeah, I mean, yeah.
Just, I mean, a bad for football, I think, because that VAR decision was atrocious.
It was so bad. Like, I just I can't.
There's no words to say. Like, I mean, this.
We talk with VAR every single week and it's all like, what's a what's a clanger?
What's a serious error?
It was never it was never it never should have been brought back.
It was never the referee didn't give it for a reason.
And I mean, yes, the only upside is, I suppose you could say is it's probably made the decision now to get rid of the manager.
But in terms of the game, it was disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful.
You needed that. You needed that for the manager to be sacked.
Otherwise, he would hang on for ages.
Well, I'll have you know that we need VAR.
Otherwise, there would be no podcasts and YouTube channels.
There would be nothing to talk about.
Yes, exactly. No controversy.
You know, social media needed to all that, you know.
So that's why it was created, probably.
But of course, you are referring to what happened at the end of the game.
But Carl, tell me when you saw when you saw the result, like, did you did you watch the game by any chance?
I assume you didn't.
I didn't. I didn't watch the full game, no.
I caught parts of this mainly walking by the room where Brian was watching it and hearing the reaction coming from the room.
I thought it best just to leave him be with his emotions.
So this is better than like watching the score live on livescore.com or live sports, right?
Because this is with emotion as well.
It's perfect. You get that.
Yeah, yeah.
Definitely my gut reaction when I saw back when Brian showed me the highlights afterwards, while we watched them back.
And my initial reaction was that it seemed like a very soft, like very, very soft penalty to give one of those ones where if it was given for you,
you'd absolutely be delighted and you take it, but you kind of go, oh, my God, I can't believe we got away with that one.
You know? Yeah. No.
OK, we start from there. Why not?
So basically, this was the deciding moment, deciding moment of the game.
It was one one. Was it around the 80, 85th minute or something along those lines?
87th, I think. Yeah.
So it was the I can't remember his name now, but the West Ham United substitute was his name.
Danny Ings.
Danny Ings was allegedly fouled in the box.
And as someone who really likes West Ham and supports West Ham, there's no doubt that this was not a penalty.
I think all West Ham fans, they just they just couldn't believe, like what sort of gift they were given by the referees.
And the referee actually didn't blow the whistle, right, Brian?
It was Vard. Was it? I think it was Mark Oliver as well.
Yeah, typical, typical Michael Oliver.
And I don't need to tell Arsenal fans how questionable Mr. Oliver can be.
But I think as well, the referee was called maybe three.
I might be wrong now, but I think it was something like three minutes after you're kind of saying, like,
how can it take that long? And if you're debating it that much, then clearly by the letter of the law, it's not a clear and obvious error.
So that's the price, right? Obvious error.
Yeah, so clear, sorry, clear and obvious error.
Same thing. Clear and obvious error. Right.
So what happened to that? What happened with that, Cal?
Why did that go? It seems like it kind of comes and goes whenever it pleases.
And, you know, the AR kind of rears its head whenever maybe the attention hasn't been on it for a while.
Yeah. So Jarrod Bowen took the penalty and he scored and Wes Ham won it.
But you actually did start the game really well in the first half.
You were on the front foot and you dominated the possession.
You had way more chances. I think you missed several sitters.
You hit the crossbar twice. Yeah, but it just sums up 99 at the moment.
You know, like, I mean, I saw a stat today, their top actually with Spurs for the most missed clear chances.
I don't know how they qualify that stat, but 22 times they've missed clear chances, whatever they are.
But I mean, like, they should have been about five or six up at halftime.
Wes Ham were abysmal. They were so bad. Yeah.
And on top of that, you know, you actually played well.
They actually did play well in the first half.
But like he said, it's a crossbar twice. Dalough missed an open goal.
And yeah, just I don't know, it's kind of one of those things like when something goes wrong, it's just everything goes wrong.
But then to put it into context, then at halftime, one manager saw something going wrong, made changes.
It worked. The other manager did nothing.
You know, he kind of thought it went well, so why won't it continue to go up?
And ultimately then Wes Ham were better team in second half overall.
And with the home support and everything, it's inevitable you're going to.
With the bar support as well.
Well, you know, I'm trying not to go too hard on that.
But yes, absolutely. Absolutely.
This is actually clear and obvious. Yeah.
This one is clear and obvious to me.
Now, with the benefit of hindsight, with all the replace we have now, it's just it's a nonsensical penalty.
Like it just makes. OK, even if it is, why was it why was it given when the ref didn't give it?
It makes no sense. Yeah. Yeah.
No sense. Yeah. They just I think they've made it too difficult on themselves now because it's meant to be the referee's call, which is fine.
But then if it's a 50-50 decision, then it should just go to the referee's call.
And they do that sometimes, but not all the time.
Very rarely, I would say. It's like five, four percent of time.
I think there must be some stats and I have seen it like twice and I have seen so many games with VAR decisions like that.
It seemed like that ref, it was just the pressure got to him.
I could see it on his face. He just wasn't sure with himself anymore.
Like you just have to stick with what you believe in.
And it's just I don't know.
Carl, tell me with all those missed opportunities here, do you think that it's now like in Manchester United players heads really?
Like it's about it's about it's a confidence issue.
Certain I think confidence, a lot of the players definitely don't lack for confidence.
I mean, you look at some of the way that they kind of nonchalantly approach the game.
Maybe maybe it is a little bit of lack of confidence in some of them.
Like you look at the likes of Marcus Rashford, who's just kind of a shell of his former self.
Garnaccio obviously looks quite like a bright spark.
But for someone like Rasmus Highland, who just seems like he's almost like on an island up top sometimes,
the only person there to support him ever is Bruno Fernandes.
It's kind of yeah, it's it's it's something you can definitely point to.
But when there's so little confidence like in the manager and there's so little confidence with results and things like that,
it's it's bound to kind of breed the lack of confidence throughout the squad as well.
Yeah, well, let's take a look at the table, the league table.
Yeah, so we have to.
I'll make it quick, I promise.
I don't want to torture you too much.
And also and and your friend, Carl, as well, because look at this now.
So Manchester City are back at the top of the league because, of course,
the Liverpool Arsenal game ended in a 2-2 draw.
So that's exactly what City needed.
Aston Villa on 18 points, the same same number of points as Arsenal.
Then we have Chelsea right behind, even Brighton, Nottingham Forest.
There's a bit of a gap Tottenham.
But where is Manchester United in the 14th place?
Wow, crazy. It's unheard of. It's unbelievable.
West Ham on the same amount of points, but a better a better goal difference, I guess.
Yeah. Honestly, if someone told you that after nine games,
you would be in the 14th place on 11 points, would you have believed them?
No, and truthfully, I was actually quite optimistic going into the season.
I thought I thought the recruitment was good during the summer, both in and out.
And I suppose the fact that we actually had a fully fit squad as well.
And, you know, we'll get on to it, I'm sure.
But like a lot of people would have criticised the manager last season with the talk with the injuries.
But the fact of it was that the amount of injuries they had to deal with last season,
you could forgive a certain amount of it.
But he went into this season with everyone, but maybe Luke Shaw and Lenny Yarrow.
Aside from that, he had a full squad.
So, you know, I've been dumbfounded, to be honest.
And like even in the in the Community Shield, they played quite well.
Like they lost the city, but they played well.
So I kind of thought building blocks, you know, will get better.
But it's just been oh, I can't I can't push any explanation on it.
It's just I personally, I think he lost the dressing room.
A while ago, and it's just finally kind of coming to fruition now.
Maybe that.
Maybe that FA Cup win, which was significant, in my opinion,
it was like paper over cracks or something like that.
For sure. For sure. Yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah. So it's unfortunate.
And you know what's interesting that actually, West Ham United,
their fans were really excited about the game.
Their fans were really excited about the season.
They thought in the preseason, they got really good new players
and they rated their transfer window as 10 out of 10, a lot of them.
You know, so from that point of view, you kind of in the same boat,
you know, the same number of points, really disappointing start to the season.
Yeah, I guess I guess the new West Ham manager, Lopetegu,
he at least hasn't been there for a long time, so he still has, you know,
he still has time to prove himself, I suppose.
Yeah. Yeah.
But I suppose, again, Ten Hag couldn't say the same because it's his third season
and how many of the start in 11 hour either his transfers or players he's brought through,
I'd say probably eight of them, nine of them, maybe.
So, you know, like it's eventually you just have to kind of take the criticism
because unfortunately, like, you know, like it's just been, you know,
you can say what you want to put the players, but like the manager just hasn't,
unfortunately, done enough.
And that's why today has happened the way it's happened.
Well, Kalle, let me get you involved.
Let's have a bit of banter.
So as an Arsenal fan, do you think the fun is over now when Ten Hag got sacked?
Do you think that's it?
We won't have any more sort of teasing of United because this has been hilarious.
Let's be honest.
They are this massive club with such huge fan base.
Guys, I live in Vietnam for a long, long time of the year now.
I'm actually heading back this week and in Vietnam, like people support Manchester United
more than they support Arsenal, that's for sure.
So is this fun over now, Kalle?
What do you think?
It's kind of it's an interesting one, because on the one hand, I do like I found myself
kind of rooting for Eric Ten Hag a little bit just because he came across very well
in the beginning and he seemed like a kind of guy that you could kind of get behind,
which is very odd for a Manchester United manager.
I mean, you look back at the likes of Van Hal and Mourinho and you think, good Lord,
there's no way I could find any redeeming qualities in these guys.
But yeah, I guess I suppose if you want to call it fun, definitely the fun.
This part of the fun, let's say, is over.
It's going to be interesting to see what goes on with Nisleroy obviously taking over and
how long that will last and what he will do.
No doubt we'll add a bit of pep in the step of some of the players and get a bit of a
boost for them.
But yeah, it was kind of nice after so many, many years of being the boss of the joke
to finally have the tables turned a little bit and for them to see what it was like for
us.
OK, well, let me add some fuel to the fire.
Brian, everybody started to feel sorry for United now, right?
Isn't that worse than making fun of United?
Isn't that worse than pulling your leg as Ben Bentele has always been part of football,
right?
We always make fun of each other, of your mates.
But when you start feeling sorry for someone, that's really bad, right, Brian?
What do you think?
Oh yeah.
It's very, it's very comparable to, you know, Arsenal's streak, I would say, when the Emirates
was being built and they had no money for transfers.
So granted, they were still getting top four, so it wasn't nearly as bad.
And then, you know, you think of the Liverpool teams kind of 2010 to kind of when they had
lads like, you know, Bruno Sheru and Jay Spearing in their midfield and all.
And like you said, it's not even like banter anymore.
It's just hatey.
And yeah, it is.
And I think at this stage, it's kind of like making fun of United.
It doesn't work anymore.
It can't get worse.
Like, it sounds dramatic, but it can't get worse.
That's equivalent to kicking someone who is already lying on the floor, you know, like
that's what it feels like to me, you know.
So OK, well, let's let's talk about potential replacements of Tereg, Tereg, Eric Tenhaag.
I can't say his name anymore.
Yeah, you won't need to.
You won't need to.
He's gone now.
So that's true.
So you might get an interim manager or a caretaker.
I don't know.
But yeah, I'm let's play this game now.
I've written down a few interesting names and I want to know your reaction and possibly
even calls to these names.
Some of them, of course, are a bit of joke again, but some of them may be more serious.
So OK, Ole Gunnar Sorskiar.
Would you take him back?
No, is the short answer.
Like what he did for the time, like he, you know, he was, you know, he provided moments
for sure.
I think he held himself very well.
He held himself a lot better than Tenhaag did, but he just doesn't have the kind of
the tactical quality that you need to be competing at the top, top level.
So I think we were very much a counter-attacking team under him and it was great at times,
but you're never going to win the league like that.
So there's no point in just putting in another person who's temporary.
And I do love Ole.
I'll always love Ole.
What a guy.
Well, I actually think if you look at all the managers that succeeded, the one and only
Sir Alex Ferguson, I think Ole is number two, in my opinion, in Manchester United's fans'
eyes.
Would you agree with that, Carl?
My God, I think it's I think in terms of emotions and the emotions that certainly were invoked
while he was there, definitely Ole would have provided that.
But I mean, it's hard to it's hard to knock like Mourinho on how he how well he did now.
He might have been a nuisance and very annoying from a United fans perspective, maybe.
But I mean, you can't argue with with results and the way that he finished with the second
place and he had I think was he quoted saying that Chris Smalling and Phil Jones is the
starting centre backs and he finished second place in the league.
So and a Europa League title as well, you know.
So sorry, that was that was Ole or Mourinho with the number.
Mourinho was.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So Mourinho, would you take Mourinho back?
You would have to buy him out from Fenerbahce.
No, no, God, no, no.
I like that.
Look, like Jose's record speaks for itself.
Like what he's done in the game is incredible.
Bush, he's the special one.
He was he was, but I think football has moved on from how he his philosophy.
And we've seen it now.
We've seen that United, we've seen that Spurs, we've seen that Roma.
Like, you know, he he can get teams going, but he's great for a season.
He gets a new contract and then things go to go to rubbish.
That's just the same thing every time.
So, yeah, I agree with you.
What about Zinedine Zidane?
Oh, no, no, I I I I've spoke about this a long time.
I just think Zidane, what he did at Real Madrid will never be repeated.
But Real Madrid is just a different club.
And the fact that he's Zidane, it's just they go hand in hand.
And I just think I don't think it would translate.
I think the Premier League is is on a different level to La Liga.
And yeah, I just I don't I don't think I think I think the two jobs
Zidane can do are Real Madrid and the France job.
And aside from that, I don't think I don't think you'll work anywhere else.
And that's just me.
But I don't I don't think so.
Carl seems to be nodding, so.
Yeah, yeah, no, I would agree.
I think that he had a very special relationship with the likes of Ronaldo
and and Benzema and those guys, and that kind of definitely helped him
because, like, fair enough, you could say that tactically he did well,
but I don't think anyone was under any illusions that he was a tactical mastermind.
And and he was definitely blessed with the crop of players
that he had at the time in Madrid.
So, yeah, I would definitely agree.
To be honest, you and I could be managers at that time.
And Real Madrid would have won the title
would have won the titles and the Champions League as well.
So, yeah, yeah, definitely.
Not sure if definitely, but most most most likely.
Hopefully, 98, 98, 98.5, I would say.
Yeah. All right.
How about someone like David Moyes?
Again, I think I actually really like David Moyes, I have to say.
And I think that his whatever the seven months he had the first time
doesn't reflect him as a manager, but I just think it's too big of a job.
And again, I think in the.
Will he do the thing to win the game to outdo the other team?
No. Can he maybe stop the other team?
Sure. But I think he's a very good manager.
Sure. But like you want you want the tacticians, you want the front
the front foot managers that are going to play attacking football.
And that's just not him.
I don't think personally.
He won't excite fans, I think.
No, no. He did so well at West Ham, but the fans still ousted him out.
Yeah, yeah. So that's football.
You know, everyone he stayed, he has stabilized the club.
Bush, I don't think it'll bring us more.
You wanted to go. Yeah.
OK, then, well, then we have got, of course, Gary Neville,
who's a legend, who's a Manchester United legend,
hasn't got much coaching experience.
Where was he at Valencia?
Yeah, for four months.
So once he was he did really poorly, but he is an excellent pundit.
Would you give him a chance, Brian?
I think in his own words, he'll never be a manager again.
I think it's it's a different skill set, you know, because being a manager,
it's not just picking a team, you know, it's there.
There's there's so much involved.
There's, you know, you have to deal with the media so regularly.
And I just think personally, I think
the Man United job is one of the three big ones.
In world football, Barcelona, Madrid, the pressure and the scrutiny
that you face, I think, is just unmatched.
So you need someone that would kind of flourish in those conditions.
And I love Gary Neville, but no, not as a manager.
No, it would be it would be funny, wouldn't it?
Yeah, it would definitely continue that streak of fun time for other fans,
I think, yes, because Gary Neville's
because Gary Neville's a source of memes just in from his punditry alone.
So you can only imagine what would happen if he took over the job.
Yeah, I like to listen to Gary Neville.
He he's very opinionated sometimes, but I like it.
You know, I like authentic people who stand by what they say.
And he's good at what he's doing.
In my humble opinion, I know some people don't like him, but I do.
And well, then there is, of course, the ex England manager, Gareth Southgate.
How about him? I think in my this is my theory, Brian.
Yeah, I think after Eric Denhaar, Manchester United players,
of all things they need an arm around their shoulder.
And I really know I'm not I'm not Joe.
And right now, no, this is not pity or I'm not.
I in fact, I really think that that's what's happening.
That's what's happening here because they don't have any confidence.
And I think it would help someone like Ancelotti, Ancelotti type, you know,
someone like that, because I think that our Fragnik was probably a disciplinarian,
you know, with a with a whip with a whip in a training session.
Not sure.
It's an interesting comparison.
Yeah, I was going to say, please don't compare
Carlo Ancelotti, one of the greatest managers to ever grace the game.
And Gareth Southgate.
Look, he's a nice guy, too. Right.
They are nice guys.
Listen, listen, me and Colin are nice guys, too.
But that's that's irrelevant in this conversation.
Like, you know, it's you know what I mean, though?
Like, yeah, I want someone who's going to shout at players like, yeah,
you need someone who's going to instill that confidence back in them.
And who is that going to be? Southgate, Southgate is free. Come on.
Play style is just what watching England, England in the Euros.
That's all I need to say.
I mean, he's too cautious, like, and it's great having players
feeling good about themselves, but that won't mean anything
when they're getting beaten by Arsenal and Liverpool and Man City by four or five goals.
He had results, though.
Like, I still don't get it, because he got he got England into the final.
Was it twice? Right. In the Euros?
Then there was a semi final World Cup semi final.
Remember when it happened last time?
I don't think we do remember that because it was like when we were not alive.
So I think he did extremely well, but I understand the fans.
Yeah, yeah. And international football is different.
Like, it's it's very much like,
yeah, it's a different thing, like it's a shorter and more intense period.
And I think it's different.
But listen, he he's definitely got his qualities.
But I don't think for the man United job now.
Certainly in terms of like, I think the scrutiny that the
he would get from the man United job is not the same level of scrutiny
that he got when he was in the position.
I almost feel like the media took it easy on Southgate
an awful lot of the time when he was in the England job.
And kind of similar enough in the sense that we talked earlier
about how Zidane had such a good team.
Like he's had one of the best crop of English players you'll.
Oh, yeah. We've seen in years.
And so any manager in there, you would have thought
they have to be making these semi finals and finals.
Well, we will see, you know, because time will show you.
It may be true, but, you know, in the Belgium team,
you know, the golden generation also did anything.
So we will see, because I think it's about balance, in my opinion. Right.
It's you have to balance the team well.
You have to your players need to respect you.
And there has to be mutual trust and all that.
But OK, who then, Brian, who then?
What's your idea of a new manager?
It's a good question.
It's actually come through on Sky Sports.
They're they're looking at the Sporting Lisbon manager, Amarin.
I'll be honest, I don't really know about.
I know Liverpool were supposedly looking at him during the summer.
But it's I I kind of decided myself
it was after the Tottenham game that he was done.
I just I just felt that game just epitomized everything we were at.
And I think I would rather find this the right
keep the job for the season
and wait to find the right person, who that person is.
I just the short answer is I'm not sure.
I'm not sure because it's tricky.
You could look at someone maybe in the profile of like an Eddie Howe
and look at how when he's done at Newcastle and see if he could build up from there.
They could have gotten Tuchel, I think, if they had acted sooner,
they could have gotten him in.
But or you could go for someone like Xavi.
But again, does the Dan thing, would he work in another club?
I don't know. But yeah, it's it's it's tricky.
But the only the only thing I would say is that since INEOS took over,
they've improved the background so much that I have to think that they've lined up
someone who fits exactly what they want.
So if they go for Anne Arendt or whoever it is,
you'd have to think that they'll meet the criteria
of someone who's going to produce the football ultimately that we want to see.
Gael, is there anyone that you think might be the right fit for this huge club?
Manchester United?
Someone that's available now.
It's kind of hard to look around the world of football and see someone who's out of a job
currently that that would be able to slot in immediately.
I know some people through Nagelsmann's name out there, the
German national manager, former Bayern manager.
I personally thought they might have gone for someone like Dzerby.
I think that if they had pulled the trigger on Teng Hargo in the summer,
Dzerby, I think, would have been a great kind of manager to bring in
because he's he seemed to galvanize that group of Brighton players
that with a good mix of like you said, with the ragny kind of toughness,
but then also with the arm around the shoulder, kind of had that both elements to him.
I think he's someone that they could have gotten,
which obviously would have been a gamble because he's not as,
I suppose, well stated as other names like Tuchel.
But I agree, definitely Tuchel was a big one that they missed out on.
You know what I will say, Brian?
Whoever it will be, I hope for the sake of the league
and for the reputation of the league that actually Manchester United
get back to that top top six, you know, group, because I think we are all missing out
because good Manchester United team makes everyone else better.
That's the way I see it.
And this is not this. This is hilarious.
It's only hilarious for half a season or something, but then it's just it's not good for anyone.
So I sincerely hope you get someone good and then you fix this mess,
get rid of the dead wood and all that.
And also, of course, like we have Gary Neville who says, well, the real problem is the owners.
So, Brian, do you actually are you with Gary Neville on that?
I think we're moving in the right direction.
He's definitely right.
Like, I mean, if you actually look into what the Glazers have done,
I mean, it's it's sickening, really, like, I mean, they took over a profitable business
and they just put all their debt into it and they just they suck the money dry out of the club,
which is terrible.
And then every couple of years, they throw some money at it.
So in a perfect world, yeah, they'd be gone.
I don't think they'll ever be fully gone.
I think they'll at least have they might end up with maybe a 25 per cent stake at some point.
But yeah, they're not over the footballing decisions anymore, which is good.
Jim Radcliffe is definitely he's a fan, at least, and he's a pretty shrewd businessman.
But yeah, no, the Glazers are they're they're a toxic bunch.
But I mean, the power is in their hands.
I don't see them going anywhere because they're just making too much money.
That's that's it.
So, well, that's what your fans always think.
We want Glazers out.
That's the most important chant I always hear when I watch some highlights of your games.
Carl, what do you think from now on?
There are some good times for many United ahead.
Absolutely.
I mean, like as Brian said, Radcliffe is definitely a very shrewd businessman.
I think any manager that walks in there now, I would hope anyway from from Man United's sake
that they would say no to some decisions that the manager wants, because I think that too
many managers have gone in and like Brian said, the Glazers have kind of thrown the money around
and said, go on, you can spend that you can spend that.
But they need to have someone that will say no to them and say, you mean they need they need a coach,
not a manager?
Well, I think they need the structure there.
And I think as as Gary Neville has said, the structure has been put in place and it's
constantly evolving and changing.
And but once they get that right, I think they'll have from top to bottom, like I look at our
situation with Arsenal having Edu and the crew that Edu has and they're the ones making the key
transfer decisions.
Obviously, Arteta has input because he has players that he likes to look of
and they'll work with that.
But at the end of the day, they're the ones making the decisions.
And I think that should have been left out of Eric Tinhag's hands and any manager's hands,
especially in the Man United job, given how big of a responsibility it is coaching the team,
first and foremost, let alone all the other decisions that need to be made.
Fair enough.
OK, guys, I think we have come to an end of this wonderful chat about Manchester United.
Thank you very much, Brian, for all your insight.
And, you know, fair play to you because it's not easy, you know, to get to get guests of teams who
are not doing really well.
It's always easier to, you know, when I invite people, they are all, oh, OK, my team is doing
well.
All right.
Yeah, I would like to be on the Footgrish podcast.
Sure.
When it comes to, you know, guests of the teams that are not doing particularly well, that's
always something I admire and I respect.
And thank you.
Thank you for coming on.
Thanks for having me today.
It's great and horrible to talk about all the things that are bad, but nice to be here.
Nice to be here.
I hope it's more great than horrible, but you know what?
Definitely.
This doesn't always have to be like this.
True, true.
And also thanks to Gal, of course, your third appearance.
Thank you so much as well.
Always happy.
Thanks very much, Dernic.
Take care, guys.
Welcome back to the Language Corner.
As always, in this part of the show, I'm going to be doing my job.
I'm an English teacher, so I might as well have a look at the English language here.
Right.
And this time I'm going to take a look at a little excerpt from Carl's speech.
We were basically speculating about who the new Manchester United manager should be.
And this is what Carl said.
I know some people through Nagelsmann's name out there.
The German national manager, former Bayern manager.
I personally thought they might have gone for someone like de Zerby.
I think that if they had pulled the trigger on ten Hague in summer,
de Zerby, I think, would have been a great manager to bring in.
He seemed to galvanize that group of Brighton players that,
with a good mix of, like you said, with the Ragnick kind of toughness,
but then also with the arm around the shoulder,
kind of have both elements to him.
I think he's someone they could have gotten, which I think would have been a gamble.
All right.
Well, there are a few words to look at, few phrases.
First of all, I know some people through Nagelsmann's name out there.
So you know what it means to throw, like you can throw a ball.
The past tense is through.
But here the meaning is sort of to suggest, to mention.
So some people suggested Nagelsmann's name, right?
And I personally thought they might have gone for someone like de Zerby.
I think that if they had pulled the trigger on ten Hague in summer to pull the trigger,
right, when you shoot right from a pistol, you have to pull the trigger to do it.
And this phrase is also used when talking about fighting someone, sacking someone.
So if, let's say, the club owner pulls the trigger on the manager, they sack the manager.
They make the manager redundant.
Right.
So now Eric ten Hague has been sacked because the owners pulled the trigger on him.
Right.
OK, he seemed to galvanize.
We are talking about de Zerby, the Brighton manager.
He seemed to he seemed to galvanize that group of Brighton players.
Interesting the word to galvanize.
And I think in this case, it kind of means to sort of motivate, right?
To how should I put this?
To well, I'm looking at the definition online now.
It also says here to cause someone to suddenly take action.
I kind of like to encourage, to motivate, to, you know, to to
to make that person work hard, right?
Make the team work hard.
So if you galvanize the team, that means you have a really positive effect as the manager.
Right.
And lastly, I think he's someone they could have gotten, which I think would have been a gamble.
Gambling, you know what gambling is, like when you play a lottery or betting on sports.
A gamble in this context, it means a risk.
If something is a gamble, it's a risk.
So if if they had gotten the Zerby, it would have been a risk.
That's what Carl thinks.
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