# Man United's underwhelming window

An episode of [The Good Days Are Coming - a Manchester United podcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1833675045), 4 Sep 2026, 1 h 00 min.

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Justin, Jim, Danny and Noz compete to be the most withering about United's underwhelming transfer business as the window sighs shut. A look ahead to Everton with a foul mouthed Kanchelskis anecdote, clown schools and more. Subscribe and follow, follow, follow "The Good Days Are Coming": Insta - https://www.instagram.com/gooddays_pod X - https://x.com/gooddays_pod Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@gooddayspod Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/gooddayspod.bsky.social Whatsapp - https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb6miYb1SWt7wDL5Qs1i

## Transcript

Justin: it's brought to my attention after we recorded that instead of saying the word Omar twice in the next few minutes, I say the word Oscar. Sorry. Rumbelows 1995 Woolworths 2009 And now the Manchester United Transfer window 2026. Three things that have closed and left people very, very angry. Like an older relative going to the shop for milk, bread and maybe some nice ham for a sandwich, then coming back with a Savoy cabbage, 10 Bensons and a Faberge egg, Omar Berada and Jason Wilcox went to the market for a left-back. Chex Notes, something we 100 % need considering we've only got the one left-back. Who is injury prone and when is off as a propensity? Instead of recuperating to go to the shops for pot noodles and wambars when his mum specifically sent him for margarine and a take a break magazine. Instead of getting a left back they were looking for, Oscar and Jason went down a middle aisle and bought another midfielder who they going to get last time but couldn't find him so now they bought him and he's injured anyway. 9 in 14 out. Total expenditure 117.5 million euros. R to convert that. About what city spent out? Willy nilly. on Enzo Fernandez at the hypothetical checkout in the supermarket to tortuously bring this analogy to a close. Well, nothing much has changed on this podcast. No one came in for Jim White except his designated carer. The rumours around Noz aren't transfer related. Danny Mack failed a fitness test for the Stretford Paddock, and I have quietly been trying to get back to match fitness for the 36th season in a row. To commiserate with each other on a pitiful transfer window and look forward to the Everton game at the weekend is your second episode of the week. of good days are coming. Joining us today, eventually because he had some technical problems, it's Noradheen Chowdhury. day to you, Noz.
Noz: Hello?
Justin: Hello, how's your transfer window?
Noz: I'm glad it's over.
Justin: You're glad it's over. Jim White is back in his
Jim: Yeah.
Justin: Dungeon of Doom in Oxfordshire. Every time we record, Jim tries something else to make his recording studio look a bit nicer. This time he's put a bright heat lamp in the back that he bought from his back in 1978. And now his face is in shadow. I'm seeing him Saturday to do some technical help. Good afternoon, Jim. Good morning, Jim. It doesn't matter to you what time it is, does it?
Jim: Good morning. It doesn't matter because I'm...
Justin: You're still getting up for a wee when you need to.
Jim: Exactly. Thank you very much. Four times at least per episode.
Justin: And Danny Marks joining us. What top are you wearing there, Danny? If you're listening to this, Danny's wearing, we'll do this for the people who are visually impaired. Danny is wearing a R.
Danny Mc: it's a a Thrasher Adidas Argentina collaboration.
Justin: Hmm.
Danny Mc: Based on the nineteen ninety four away shirt that Diego Maradona famously got pop for Effer drilling.
Justin: All right. Well, listen, we're to talk about the transfer window. Before we do, I just want to tell you, I was in Dublin for a couple of days today and Noz will like this because you know, Noz is part Cromsell, part Pakistan Heritage, part Fontaine's DC. He loves a bit of the Irish, doesn't he? Noz O'Chowdry there.
Noz: you
Justin: There were so many Irish people wearing Argentina tops. It was incredible. But they must have bought them when they beat the Willco.
Jim: Ha
Justin: So, yeah, so the transfer window has slammed shut. It didn't just close. It slammed shut on Tuesday night, wasn't it? And United's sum total. Do you know any plays in and out we've had? I think I've just told you. Nine in. Can we name them all between us?
Danny Mc: No. Can name five.
Noz: Ken Barlow.
Justin: Go then.
Noz: Can't follow.
Justin: Kembalo.
Danny Mc: Caldarlo. It's like Harry Hill, that isn't it? Kim Barlo. Caldarlo.
Justin: All right. Yeah.
Jim: Hahaha.
Noz: Yeah.
Danny Mc: Mm.
Justin: some of these players I've never like, so we know, so Toby Collier comes in, but then he, he, he, he, he goes out again. So he counts twice in these figures. This is weird. Cause
Danny Mc: What why did he come in?
Jim: Where did it come in from?
Justin: he came in at the end of his loan hole on loan.
Danny Mc: 'cause he came back from his load.
Justin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm looking at Transfer Market. This is one of the thingy websites. But anyway, so the headline figures are 76 million on Carlos Boliva. This is Euros. Andres Santos, who seems to be forgotten in the last week or so, doesn't he? Yuri Tillemans. Carl Darlow, because that's what we needed, a 35-year-old reserve goalkeeper from Leeds. What a weird transfer that is.
Danny Mc: It was funny though, because everyone was like, just let Tom Eaton play. And I was sort of like, Yeah, you may as well just let Tom Eaton be the second choice keeper. Like, how often is they gonna play? And then he played in preseason and pinged his hamstring up on a goal kick after like greatest
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: player I've ever played with.
Justin: Bro, it was Tom Eaton. Wow. That's
Danny Mc: Yeah. On the fifth on the fifteenth.
Justin: pretty good. That's nice. That like you've actually. No, go on.
Danny Mc: Have you not did I not tell you the story? So I went to I went to pla so Chester Council organised this team from Chester to go to Inc Italy and play all the twin towns. So we were playing Lorac in Germany, Senegalia in Italy, Ensange in France, and there was a miscommunication with the age limits, the age group. So we were under fifteens, like I had like a beard and that. the the the French were under fourteens, the Germans were like under tens, and the Italians were under twelves, and we absolutely battered we had Tom Eaton in goal, who went on to play for England. We had Eddie Johnson up front who played like a couple of games for United
Justin: yeah, yeah.
Danny Mc: in the in the Carlin Cup and went to play for Coventry and Portland Timbers. We had another lad who was at crew, we just battered everyone like 18-nil, and then at the end they were like, Well Do you want the trophy? We were like, yeah. he was like, Do you know that meme of the guy on the podium with the champagne? He was like, we were like that, just celebrating. All these kids are crying.
Justin: So it's Tom Heaton from Chester.
Danny Mc: Yeah, he's from Gild and Sutton.
Justin: Alright, were you his mate?
Danny Mc: No. We we like got on but we didn't. Like I don't think he'd remember me now. But but yeah, he was in goal.
Justin: was he good? he like brilliant then?
Danny Mc: He was like two years below us or one year below us, but yeah, you could he was like it was the first time I'd seen a goalie like use his feet. And I was like, why doesn't he just kick it up the pit? Why is he passing it? It was yeah, it was
Justin: Yeah, alright.
Noz: Thank
Danny Mc: it was but it was lovely there, Santa Gallia on the on the east coast of Italy.
Justin: Did he have football intelligence?
Danny Mc: Yeah, easy. He's very intelligent, football wise.
Justin: Why do they always say football? They never say that about anything. If someone's good at accounting, he's got numbers intelligence. What they're saying is he's thick, but like his brain works well when he's playing football. That's what they mean, don't they?
Danny Mc: Yeah.
Noz: You
Justin: Yeah. Football intelligence. It's like when I get told that I'm emotionally immature and I go,
Jim: I can't believe that's ever happened just then.
Justin: NONONO
Noz: Maybe football intelligence is like on stage charisma because you do get some people who are great on stage but they're boring as fuck when she speaks on stage.
Danny Mc: That's true.
Justin: Yeah, that is very true. Yeah. I mean,
Danny Mc: Comedy intelligence.
Justin: we really, really want to mention them now, don't we? Like,
Noz: Yeah.
Justin: one of the worst things is when you, when you're like, when you do what me and Danny do and you kind of, you're very much adjacent to some very famous people on occasion. And I'll tell you what happens is comedians who have done very well, they, they, when they, when they're writing a new show, They either like some really kind of famous ones do a work in progress theater tour, which is like unbelievable, it? Or they kind of, they, cause they play in the game, they'll come back and do the clubs, man. And what's always funny is that they're like, they're just not very good when they come back at first, cause they've been out of the loop and that's fine. I mean, that's, I, I rather that than that. But some of them, like you've watched them over the years and think, think they're great. And then you start talking to them, you're like, God, glad I didn't do ghoul with you. I'm glad we didn't have to go to services together. You are so boring Eddie is that.
Jim: Hahaha!
Noz: No!
Justin: I mean, it wasn't Eddie.
Noz: On a totally unrelated note, I was watching this podcast called Edinburgh and Beyond, who's like this Scottish guy, he just does stuff about Edinburgh. And like he did like a YouTube video about the Edinburgh Fringe and they were recording something for BBC Two which he spotted in Pleasance and it was Jack Whitehall and Mark Nelson and he waited.
Justin: can't believe Mark Nelson's not mentioned that he did anything on the BBC journey.
Noz: He doesn't like talking about it. like,
Justin: That is a niche, that's a niche, horrible comment and then Mark will never hear it.
Noz: but like, but this guy, this guy just was just waiting around for ages after they stopped filming and got told to get out of frame as well by
Justin: Yeah.
Noz: a very nice producer. But like the funny thing was that afterwards he just like, as soon as he finished, he made an absolute beeline for Jack Whitehall. And like, was like, do know when you get like a paedophile hunter? And Jack Whelan was like, what the fuck? There was a camera in his face. He's like, we're live streaming.
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: We've got video evidence of you here with Clifford with the big the big red dog.
Noz: You
Justin: He stroked him and made him big, didn't you? You said you'd stroke him and make him
Jim: you
Justin: big.
Danny Mc: I heard you was on a cruise, a a jungle cruise.
Justin: Yeah. I you meant the cruise that was on with me. I did a cruise with Jack Whitehall.
Danny Mc: no.
Justin: Yeah. I went to some islands with Jack Whitehall.
Danny Mc: Ha ha ha.
Justin: I'll tell you this. I was on that cruise with, do you know his brother? He's got a brother called Barney Whitehall. It sort of works for him now. And he's got big cauliflower ears, right? Big cauliflower ears. So I went, I don't know why. went, look at your ears. And I went, what's that? it like boxing? Is it rugby? said, is it rugby or jujitsu? And he just went, went like, no, just anxiety. I was like, fucking.
Noz: See ya.
Danny Mc: Jousting.
Justin: I know, just touched his ears like that much.
Jim: no!
Justin: That his little tick made his ears. Yeah. I said, that's what happened with my penis. I've got a big horrible cliff of the red dog anxious penis.
Danny Mc: That is good, but maybe I have just misjudged every like big tattooed grok that I thought was like an MMA fighter and a gig. Maybe
Justin: Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Danny Mc: they were just anxious.
Justin: Just got anxiety mate, my dad never told me you loved me.
Jim: Thank
Danny Mc: Got octagon intelligence though.
Jim: Hahaha!
Justin: They probably do need oxygen and challenging. I always think it's, I always think MMA and I don't know. I do not like it, right? I don't like it because I don't like seeing men in itty bitty little trunks, destroying each other. That's a different thing, isn't it? And loads of comedians love it. And they talk about it all the time and they have a thing about it. And I just, get I get why they like wrestling because that's show business and it's different and it's weird and it's fun. But the MMA is so graphically, it's just, don't, do you watch it Danny?
Danny Mc: No, I used to years ago.
Jim: I've been to a fight in Vegas, an MMA fight in Vegas. I was the guest of the MMA people down at white and all that. it was a very strange experience because everyone there was just waiting for blood. That's all anyone wanted. They wanted someone to get absolutely battered. But everyone in charge of the...
Justin: I think you meant like they had them little motorbikes where they had to get to another hospital for an emergency operation.
Jim: But all the people in charge were desperate that there was no blood and they could claim that it was a proper sport. so they were saying, you'll
Justin: Mmm.
Jim: notice that actually nobody got injured here because we're very careful about that. And I was thinking, yeah, nobody got injured, but everyone there wanted somebody to get injured. So you aren't quite delivering
Justin: Mmm.
Jim: what they want.
Justin: I get a funny feeling when I watch it that I think I'm enjoying it and I'd hate myself for enjoying it. You know.
Danny Mc: The the trouble is with it, I think it's one I know it's not an MMA podcast, but it's one of them things where the better it is to the higher level it's performed, the worse it is to watch.
Jim: Less battering you say?
Danny Mc: Because like the the in the inter the intricacy of like jujitsu and stuff like that is actually when you're watching them like go from position to position, trying to move a submission and stuff like that.
Justin: Mm-hmm.
Danny Mc: Technically that's really interesting and dead good and high level. But like Jim said, like I
Justin: Yeah. Yeah. It's like chess in it.
Danny Mc: I yeah, I just want to see someone round us kick someone's face up.
Jim: So basically, basically what he's saying, octagon
Justin: I... My favourite one I've ever seen.
Jim: intelligence is crap is what you're saying, isn't it? That's gold.
Danny Mc: It's like pep well, it's like pep it's like pep's football.
Noz: Yeah.
Justin: What when it's good?
Danny Mc: Yes, you're just watching people like strangle their life out of the defe like pass it from side to side. It's like that. But really, you just wanna see Christoph Dugarry and people like that. Proper
Justin: Yeah. Every now and then you just want it being launched up to the big man. Sometimes you want it to go up there.
Danny Mc: Yeah, or like Burbatov do a flick.
Justin: Yeah. mean that that Berbatov's not MMA is he? Berbatov was a fighter. He'd be Taekwondo. I
Danny Mc: Yeah.
Justin: think, yeah. no, that was, that was Latem wasn't it? That was, he did bit. Is Taekwondo the kicking one?
Jim: That's it, boss. Yeah.
Justin: Yeah. Yeah. He's the, he's not the kicking one. He says, know it's kicking one. I don't think it's not my, anyway, let's get back to what we're talking about.
Danny Mc: Latan came in on deadline day, didn't he? There
Jim: You dig?
Justin: yeah. So,
Danny Mc: we go, back on back on track.
Justin: so can't we...
Jim: Who else came in on deadline day? Ronaldo second time came in on deadline day. Giovanni came in on deadline day. Very exciting signings.
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: Garlo.
Justin: Darlow.
Danny Mc: No, a Galo.
Justin: I said Darren Dutton came in on deadline day. So we've brought in Radek Witek came back from Bristol city, Hariamas, which he stayed, hasn't he? Which is a strange thing. Hariamas has stayed. We thought he'd be going. Obviously we counted Marcus Rashford. Rashmush Hoyland counts as coming in and going out because he's Napoli loan ended and he went out. So actually,
Danny Mc: To Napoli.
Justin: yeah, yeah, it's mad, it? Most of our business has been goalkeepers. It's been, we've had, Dermot Me has come up from the Premier League 2 squad. So he gets put into the squad. It's mad, isn't it? This is what it counts. Exactly. So the actual,
Danny Mc: These aren't real transfers, are they? This the transfer market is
Justin: the money spent has been on Bolivia, Santos and Telemans. That's the money.
Danny Mc: And Tin and Thompson or whatever Tyn and Thompson.
Jim: The
Justin: Tynan Thompson, Tiny Thompson. But...
Jim: difference between United though and Chelsea and City and all these other clubs is United don't seem to be able to get any money coming in for players. know, Chelsea for all their madness, you know, they get big money for the players they sell. United, what, what, Hoyland is the biggest sale, isn't it? And he was for about, what did he go for? About 35 million. And we paid about 80 for him.
Justin: 44 million euro. Yeah.
Jim: Yeah, and we paid about 80 for it. So a huge loss. Whereas, De Lap, Chelsea managed to make a profit. Now you have to say, De Lap was even worse than Hoyland when he played, yet Chelsea managed to make a profit. Why can't we make a profit on anyone? We had to get rid of people like Sancho.
Justin: think you can say make a profit.
Jim: Sancho and Malaccio, we just go, well, your contract's up. You can go, we don't even get any money for them.
Justin: But I mean, the thing is, Jim, you can say all that, but you can't say, Chelsea are more astute than us in the transfer market when they're wrapped up in a football group and they're passing stuff around different places. Look at how many transfers between them and Strasbourg and all
Jim: Mm-mm. Mm.
Justin: these sorts of things. And also their money, that's not real, money, is it? Because it's like, it's going to be counted in two years and three years and four years and five years. And I said it on the pod the other day, I think we're... We're heading for a massive problem with clubs like Chelsea and they don't balance the books right. They'll have three years where they can't do anything.
Jim: I totally agree with all that, but how come Liam de Lapp they managed to get a profit on when we managed to make a huge
Noz: It's a
Jim: loss on Hoyland? Why is that?
Danny Mc: That's a the the lap's a weird one 'cause they sold him. He had a he had a relegation clause for thirty million last year, but if they'd have sold him in normal circumstances last year, you're probably looking at sixty million.
Jim: Okay
Noz: Also, there's a lot of
Danny Mc: Like, that's why.
Noz: talk about like there's like a quadrant of Mercunus with city, chelsea, forest and villa and about their sort of like interchanging sort of trans-biz.
Justin: Unbelievable.
Danny Mc: And Everton have like got their head at the window, like, can we be in? You doing tra you doing transfers? You doing tra
Justin: Yeah.
Jim: you
Noz: Yeah, yeah. By the way...
Danny Mc: what tr you doing transfers there? Have you got any transfers?
Noz: you
Justin: I always look at it and I go, cause I base it on like where good comedy clubs are. So I always go, yeah, well I can see why the money's been spent in London. I can see how it's been spent in Liverpool and Manchester. Hang on a minute. There's nothing good goes on in Nottingham and the Birmingham
Danny Mc: Yeah.
Justin: scene isn't great. The villa thing is so weird. And he seems to be quite happily behind it all, doesn't he? The manager. think he's sort of shaping that squad. Maybe they'll end up doing good business. I mean, we're playing Everton on Sunday. We'll look forward to that game in a bit, but their fans have more or less blocked their transfer activity and then everything's fall. I mean, imagine a player coming, having a medical. I reckon he's had a drive round Kirby. I
Jim: you
Justin: reckon they've driven him around Kirby and he's gone, fuck this. I'm not staying here.
Noz: That was so
Danny Mc: Have you heard?
Noz: mad, that whole recalling thing is so mad and the knocking effect, how he managed to fuck off or sort of piss off like about seven clubs because like the domino
Justin: What's he going to do now? What's for Charles? Because he's not going to play that often for Tottenham,
Danny Mc: It'll
Justin: is he?
Danny Mc: they'll go to Turkey. The the window's still open.
Noz: He's troubled his wages by going to Fennivac.
Danny Mc: Yeah. So apparently
Justin: guys.
Danny Mc: they Balogun was the one who who said no because he didn't like the way he was treated. But they just wanted to double check. I don't know, I don't know how I feel about it. It's a bit did he? Right.
Justin: He failed part of his medical, so they tried to renegotiate the deal, not with him, with Monaco. And
Danny Mc: Yeah.
Justin: they were sort of like, I think they were moving it around and he just went, nah. I mean,
Noz: Yeah.
Justin: to be honest with you, if you live in Monaco, right, you
Noz: Yeah.
Justin: are waiting to find out what's happening and you're looking out of the window and you're just like, what's that out there? it's somebody coming back from the shop with salt and pepper chicken. They invented it around there. Why are you all wearing socks on their hands? It's what they do in Kirby. Is
Danny Mc: Mm-hmm.
Justin: that Jamie Sutherland opening the gig in the social club? Yeah, yeah, I'm not staying here.
Noz: It kind of affected us, didn't it, that situation? Because Xerxes at one point was going to go to Everton.
Justin: Yeah, yeah. But Xerxes fine.
Danny Mc: Yeah, but I'm glad he didn't.
Justin: But Xerxes fine because like he's always ready to go in a different direction and he never ends up getting there anyway. So that's
Jim: Ha ha.
Justin: the transfer market around here is like his play around the box, isn't it? Just making the odd weird run. Like he made a weird dash towards Derby County. No one's asked for you at Derby County Xerxes.
Jim: you
Justin: Why have you made yourself available there? Chidi Obie is how you say it. Okay. That's
Jim: Yeah, see you there, Wopie.
Danny Mc: Cheetah Obi.
Justin: Chido Obie has gone to, the only football team named after a Monarch. William second. Yes.
Jim: Will Elm the second. Gino Obe is an interesting one that one because he came in with Aid in Heaven and they were the two bright sparks from Arsenal and it's, he had a few games, he? Ten Hogg played him about five or six times, didn't do much. And he just seems obviously Carrick just doesn't think, but actually, know, he could do with it. No, what? Why?
Justin: a minute. I, I, no, want to, no, no, Jim, I want to stop you on this because I think this is, we need to stop saying this about players like this. He's 18. Like he shouldn't be in the first team squad anyway.
Jim: Why not?
Justin: He, know, we bought him because he's 18 and he wasn't, we didn't buy him ready to go in
Jim: Ryan Cakes was in it.
Justin: the first team squad. I'm going to admit. yeah. Duncan Edwards was the best thing ever. I mean, you can, you can go on like this all the time, but he's not, he wasn't bought to solve problems, Jim. He's an 18 year old from Arsenal's... school.
Jim: Yeah, I agree with that, except United could do with a reserve centre forward and occasionally play a young kid
Justin: Mm-hmm.
Jim: is surely better than sending him out on loan, isn't it?
Justin: can, Danny knows about this cause he watches a lot of the, this is kind of weird. This gets taken out. Danny knows about this cause he's got his eye on young people a lot.
Danny Mc: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Justin: but, is, Shay, Shay Lacey can score goals. Can he place through the middle or is he just probably just on the right?
Danny Mc: No, he can play through the middle in a ten, but he couldn't he'll just get
Justin: Yeah, number nine.
Danny Mc: punched up if he goes like up against Caliba or something. That's the trouble with Obi is like he's six foot one, six foot two, but he's eighteen and he looks he's not he's not strong.
Justin: He is 18 though, isn't he?
Jim: Mm. Mm.
Danny Mc: him yeah, and he's well he's eight he's not twenty. I don't he might be nine I don't know how old he is now. Right. He needs a full it
Justin: He's 18. He's 18. I've fact checked it as... I fact checked it as Jim destroyed him.
Danny Mc: He needs a full season against men.
Justin: What?
Danny Mc: That's what he needs a full season against men. It's alright playing like
Justin: All right. Yeah.
Danny Mc: every now and again in the Carabao Cup, which were what we would use him for. That's his
Justin: Mm-hmm.
Danny Mc: best case scenario at United. But that's like possibly three or four games. He needs like twenty games against adult people, I think. And that's the same with a lot. I think United are really bad at loaning people out. It feels like something that they haven't really got hold of. There's never really been other than like Lingard had a good loan years ago. I can't
Justin: David Beckham, Preston.
Danny Mc: Yeah, but I mean like that's that's what I would like and obviously and Wellbeck and I think they missed that that Royal Antwerp
Justin: connection.
Danny Mc: it was it was it Antwerp, not Antwerp, and yeah, yeah, Antwerp.
Justin: Yeah, yeah.
Jim: That was.
Justin: Michael Clegg and people like that one there, didn't they?
Danny Mc: I think they haven't got so they've they've only just started using so they've sent Tyler Frederickson to Lausanne with a buy a buyback clause. And that's Seiku Kone's Yeah, that's what I mean. So
Justin: Don't we own Lausanne?
Danny Mc: like it's the only time that there there's there's two players, is Seiku Kone who's fr from Mali, I think, who's highly rated but has had a bad injury last year so he's might be one of them. It's so like precocious that league, if that's the was that's
Justin: Mm-hmm.
Danny Mc: not the word. where like that sort of age group where he was like the best thing in the academy this this kid and he got an eye socket injury and now he's like three years behind almost and it's just he yeah. Yeah he got an eye socket injury.
Justin: an eye socket injury. thought you said an eye socket injury. It's like, what?
Danny Mc: He got he got hooked
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: He got an eye socket injury, I think, and now people are going, he'll he won't make it now. Whereas like two years ago he was like, This guy's a shoe in, put him in the first team. It's it's Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Justin: He got a shoe in as well. This guy's like one of them accident adverts, isn't he? he's getting his dick. Yeah. Hey,
Noz: you
Danny Mc: Yeah, he was he used the wrong ladder to go up for a corner.
Justin: that's a, what's in it. That's a blast from the past. I used to do a routine about the kid goes, and now he got it. He had an accident in the playground and now he can't see. Pick up dog shit. That was when I was like 20, I remember that routine. I used to go, what kind of ladder do you use? Was he on the budget cage? So we haven't got a left back cover apart from Harry Amass, Darren Dutton who can switch to the right, Dogu can come back and be on a bungee rope tied to the corner flag so it doesn't go too far forward. It's going to be a problem isn't it?
Jim: say something about left backs? Can I say something about left backs? And you're going to attack me again for having to go a young kid? What happened to Diego Leon?
Danny Mc: is can I can I talk candidly?
Justin: Talk candidly, Danny.
Danny Mc: He looks shit.
Justin: Those are the candid
Jim: So it was a bad buy, was it?
Justin: words of Danny McLaughlin
Danny Mc: I f I think I think they've seen like a
Justin: sponsored by Frank Shaving.
Jim: Ha ha.
Justin: Danny speaks candid,
Danny Mc: I I might
Justin: dandid, dandid words. He's shit.
Danny Mc: I might be wrong, but I think they've seen like a 17-year-old kid that looks like a fella and has like got real like physical gifts, and they've
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: gone, we're gonna do one of them sign-ins that we're always saying we should sign.
Jim: Yeah.
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: And the poor kid's come over, he can't speak a word of English. He just looks out of his depth. He doesn't look I mean, he looks like a beast. Like he's fast and he's strong, but He he doesn't look good at all.
Jim: Are you suggesting he hasn't got football intelligence? Is that what you're saying?
Danny Mc: That's exactly what I'm saying, Jim. Or or
Justin: Hmm
Danny Mc: football intelligentsia.
Justin: Where's he from?
Jim: Why?
Danny Mc: Paraguay.
Justin: Yeah.
Jim: It does look like, I mean you were talking about Obi not being physically perhaps ready to challenge. Diego Leon really does look physically ready, doesn't he?
Danny Mc: Yeah.
Justin: Jim, how many times have I got to tell you this, right?
Jim: Well.
Justin: No matter how old they look, you've still got to check. That's right. I shouldn't do that. That's horrible. I do apologize. I am sorry, that isn't nice. That's not nice of me. And I will, take, I'll take, I'm taking that. Will you let me take it back?
Jim: All right, I'll you take it back. 19. But
Justin: He's 19. He's 19. He's 19.
Jim: I'll take what Danny says. Obviously, they thought they were doing a smart
Justin: Mm-hmm.
Jim: bit of business and it hasn't quite worked out. But they're not even sending him on loan, are they? They're not even sending him on loan though, are they?
Justin: According to.
Danny Mc: He's another one that needs a loan. They should have.
Justin: No.
Danny Mc: They should've sent into sport in He Hon or something. Like that's what he needs, like somewhere like that.
Justin: he'd end up a donkey there, wouldn't he?
Danny Mc: huh.
Justin: He's sporting hi-ho. Apparently, according to Google AI, which is where I go for my football
Jim: Hahaha
Justin: knowledge, because he still considered development projects and spent time adjusting to the English football. Moving from Paraguay meant an adjustment period to a new culture language and a high intensity football style. What? When have we ever played high intensity? He showed Flash's performance for the under 21s. He's not been consistent. apparently his physical condition, intensity and tactical discipline need improvements.
Danny Mc: Yeah, it's rubbish.
Justin: Yeah. That's brought to you by Dan's Candid Moments. I'm going to Google something where I can get a little bit of a jingle where it goes, Dan's Candid Moments. Dan, what do you think about Doggoo? Well, you know, just not good
Danny Mc: I have
Justin: enough.
Danny Mc: I have got thoughts about Dorgu. I think it's
Justin: Save them for next week's Dandid.
Danny Mc: Alright. Well it's the tr it we're talking
Noz: You got to.
Danny Mc: about a left back. I think it's Carrick's
Justin: Go home. Tell me.
Danny Mc: I think it's Carrick's big thing. Like as a as an armchair fan, you know, we've all got those things where we like, why don't we play Lissandro Martinez in the six? You know, like you've people have
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: got them opinions. I don't know why he's not he's playing Dorgu at left wing all the time. I'd like I why doesn't he just try him at left back? I d it's the one thing with Carrick that I just there must be something, obviously, he's there every day, he watches him. But I just can't believe that Dorgo isn't just the de facto Luke Shaw standing.
Justin: Was Dogu... I've got this wrong, tell me I've got this wrong, but was he not considered when we got him to be a wingback?
Danny Mc: Yeah, but like so was Roberto Carlos at one point in his career. Like the surely that's the easiest transition to make is wing back to left back.
Justin: don't know if you've ever seen this. Do you know Roberto Carlos? Do know Roberto Carlos? Don't you ever seen this? He once took a free kick and it had a wicked curve on it. he went,
Danny Mc: No, I haven't seen it. Sounds good.
Justin: it went really, it's almost like, you know, physics took over and he hits it with the required amount of spin at a certain point in the ball and atmospheric conditions and probably the pressure of the ball moving through the air. made it before. If you've never seen it, Google that.
Noz: Justin, the way you said wicked curl in your accent, sounded like you were doing a great shit.
Danny Mc: Ha ha.
Justin: How do they say it? Wicked Curl.
Noz: I'm a wicked
Danny Mc: Mm-hmm.
Noz: girl. I'll give it five minutes. I'm a wicked girl.
Justin: Why do you always do that voice for me?
Danny Mc: L'eau doire.
Jim: You
Noz: I know, I always do.
Justin: do you? Why? Imagine if I started doing your voice, Nos. Imagine.
Noz: Anytime I'm doing an impression here he's like, alright, a wicked girl.
Danny Mc: Ha ha ha.
Justin: You know, best thing is when Toby Foster does impression of me, it just sounds
Noz: Yeah.
Justin: like him. And when I do an impression of him, it just sounds like him. Hello, my name's Toby Foster. he goes, hello, my name's Justin Morneau. None of us actually. I never go, hello everybody, how you
Jim: You
Justin: doing? It's nice to be here. Hiya doctor, how are you? I've come about me gout. You've probably stepped it up when you're talking about those things. I've got a spot on me backside, doctor. Why I've seen it, she's not too happy about it. What can you do?
Noz: The thing I'm fascinated about you just that is like, I mean, in terms of your voice, like it could be described as gravelly. Now,
Justin: Graveler.
Noz: that gravelly. So I've seen pictures of you when you're younger, when you're like
Justin: Mm-hmm.
Noz: a teenager or you've been in a hold or whatever. Like I think, has that kid got the same voice?
Justin: Yeah, I did. I did.
Noz: Did you have to same place when you're like...
Justin: I did. And without being too sad, RIP Barney, Barney used to like have the same voice as well when he was little. So
Noz: It didn't.
Justin: I can't go, he didn't go, I'm eating my dinner.
Noz: at primary school.
Justin: Yeah, yeah. We used to do the thing on the... When I first did a radio job, was on Manchester's Magic 1152. Like the gold things. We used to do a thing called The Kid Knows Best. And he'd come on and go, he describes and he'd go, they're black, they're long and my mum loves them. And that people would like ring in and try and guess what it was. And he'd recorded all the insults and he was like, because when they got it wrong, he'd go, he'd go, bet your house stinks of cats.
Jim: Hahaha
Justin: And he'd say things like, I hope you haven't got a girlfriend mate, cause she's going to be finishing with you. Cause the funny thing was like, I can't believe you're talking about Barney like this, but cause he went to school in Denton and then he went to little posh school when he was 11 and his nickname at school with all these kids like from Bramall and everything else, his nickname was Denton. That was his nickname. Can you go on? He had a little gravelly voice. Isabel's got a little gravelly voice as well. She goes, Hey daddy, daddy, I
Noz: I am
Justin: talked to piss for four years, but now I'm going to go to clown school. How's that?
Danny Mc: Ha ha.
Noz: How is Brown School?
Justin: Well, this is another discussion for another podcast. yes.
Noz: Wow. She's gone full edding,
Justin: She told me the other day, like I was going, I'm looking forward to watching the Stamptown Netflix thing. And she just goes, mm, no, not really in Stamptown these days. Cause there's some of her other friends who were clowns were like, am not having clown on clown violence. It's just heartbreaking.
Noz: What's that school that they all go to?
Danny Mc: Goliai.
Justin: Golly, a clown school. That's where she wants to go.
Danny Mc: Clown on clown violence is funny because they did a drive-by and 730 people were involved.
Jim: Hahaha!
Justin: Yeah. my God. What weapons has he got? He's
Danny Mc: Ha ha ha.
Justin: got a bucket of confetti.
Noz: Yeah. You don't even need to turn up, just leave a load of rakes.
Danny Mc: Ha ha ha.
Justin: Yeah,
Jim: Hahaha!
Justin: yeah it was a rakish murder. Who controls it? Well, it's the ringmaster.
Danny Mc: Yeah.
Noz: Speaking of class, let's talk about United.
Justin: Yeah. So I think overall Danny in the WhatsApp group said, he went, said, I am, what did you say? I'm going to quote you, Danny, cause it was quite, it was quite good. He went depressing window. It's like.
Danny Mc: Yeah. And it's not because like I didn't think that that I wanted them to sign a hundred million. Do you know what depresses me? The the lot
Justin: Mm-hmm.
Danny Mc: the the the rhetoric that's come out now about their logic, how they fix the team. Like we do three strikers last year, we do three defenders this year, and then we do three midfielders this year, and then free defend all that's gonna happen is next year they're gonna go, United want defenders, thirty mil on that on that price. It's stupid. Like there's
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: Why it's depressing is because it feels like they know what they want and they're waiting on like little I don't know, it's like, Klarna, everything's Klana or w it's not even Klarner, it's Wonga. Like it feels like retro waiting for payday. Like, if r if Rashford goes, then we can afford some All right, but what about the Casemiro money that's gone off and the s it I don't know, it just feels like I'd
Justin: And also getting three defenders, then three that it's, it is, mean, I'd say triggers broom, but it's chip a thesis, isn't it? It's that kind of like, eventually like that acts, whatever it's called. You know, the idea that how old is that acts? I've had that 45 years. I've just replaced it with five heads and six shafts. You're not going to get a team.
Danny Mc: Yeah. And it feel it does feel like to use another phrase, it feels like painting the fourth bridge, 'cause it it feels like when the defence is sorted, they're then gonna need another three strikers.
Jim: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And next
Noz: Yeah.
Justin: Yeah, there's a meanwhile.
Jim: summer they're going to go for Lewis Hall. They've said that, that's what they want. know, sources
Justin: Yeah
Jim: speaking on terms of anonymity to the Athletic have told them that they want Lewis Hall next summer. Well, that means Lewis Hall is going to cost three times as much as he would have cost this summer when apparently he was too much to buy now.
Danny Mc: I think do you know I think they're hoping? This is just Mark, this is conjecture from me. new contract in October with a release clause
Jim: for whole.
Danny Mc: for Lewis Hall. Newcastle sign
Justin: What, Ellie Anderson? sorry.
Danny Mc: a new contract with a release clause so they can get and it'll be eighty five million and they'll
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: United'll pay it because they don't do bidding wars.
Justin: mean, compare and contrast with, you know, City across the road, who, you know, how you can say that they have got the money to spend like they spent this season, you know, spent, you know, 458 million. Like
Danny Mc: On midfielders.
Justin: on midfielders. It's just, it's just mad. It's 125
Noz: It's a hit.
Justin: million on, on Fernandez, 116 million on Anderson. And they bought a teenager for 86 million. It's just like, this is not, mean, what it is, what it is. The stable doors open now and all that business and you know, it's all, it's gone forever. And United have bought players in the past for lots of money that they shouldn't have done. But it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Isn't it? That the amount of money that's been spent. It's, but you look at
Jim: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Justin: their squad and you think, think it's frightening. You know, in central midfield, they've got, well, the five players that they mentioned is Kovacic, Bwadi, Fernandez, O'Reilly in midfield and Anderson can all play midfield. It's incredible. It's like, and they lost Rodri and you know, they're not even going to miss Rodri,
Danny Mc: Still feel like sometimes armored armored field looks better.
Jim: They've lost George Street though, haven't they?
Justin: but they're not going to miss Rodri. They've lost Rodri and it doesn't matter.
Danny Mc: think they might miss everyone's like flaming Elliott Anderson like he's the the I don't know whether he he might but I don't know whether he's gonna live up to that price tag. this Buadi might come in and be absolutely overwhelmed by the league. Fernandez might be sent off or suspended for racism or whatever. Like
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: I I don't think that's as clear cut as it looks to be honest. Like I d I Everyone's going, they've spent loads of money, they're gonna be this, that. I think I d I don't know. It feels now that Pep's not there, like if Pep brought all them in, you'd be like, right, he's got a plan. But it feels like they're just doing like sort of United under whoever signings where they're like, We'll bring so so in, we'll bring so and so in, we'll bring so and so in and see and hope it all fits because we spent loads of money. I'm not that mad
Justin: The big, sorry.
Danny Mc: about United s not spending money. Like I'm more bothered about I'd rather them just say, look, we've got a stadium to fund and we're not It's it's the lies.
Justin: That's a di-
Danny Mc: It's like, we're going again next year. It was the PR an hour after the window shut. It's all that that pisses me off.
Justin: the lies. It's the lies. Like the thing is, right, I know he's been knocking around with her, right? People have told me, right? I know that, but he comes
Noz: you
Justin: back to my bed, right? And he's here. It's me and the kids. It's the lies I can't stand. Just be honest Darren, just tell me.
Jim: you
Danny Mc: That's it. That's what it's like.
Justin: People always say it's just the lies. It's not that. It's the fact he's been shagging someone else. That's what's bothering you, not the lies.
Noz: But what Danny's saying is kind of true because like the thing that annoys me about United is the business that they do, I think is good business, but they just don't do enough of it because I wouldn't want United to replicate what Chelsea do and I wouldn't want United to replicate what City do. I would want United to do what they're doing, but just do a bit more. sometimes it feels to me as if United want like... to be applauded for being prudent or applauded for being smart and it's like But the team is not complete like I think not getting a left back. It's like kind of a derelict like it's a it's a It's not doing your job like I Was
Justin: Was you going to say dereliction of duty?
Noz: gonna but but I knew I struggle with the word derelict and so I kind of avoided saying it but I
Justin: Say it, say it, Nils.
Noz: Can say now because you've said it derelict and but I was gonna say I was gonna say something else. But yeah, it's
Justin: You know, he used to be the counselor for around here, Derek Liction, who's an independent. He took over from the liberal Democrats. And he was an ex-soldier. So he was Derek Liction ex-off duty. I think,
Noz: You
Jim: Ha ha.
Justin: I do think that what I don't understand is, well, because I'm not into football, finance and business, I don't understand, because we don't work there. Well, clearly, you know, Any fool knows, as they say in Private Eye, that we needed a left back all summer. Everybody, we need a left back, we need a left back, we need a left back. So, Lewis Hall, Lewis Hall, we Lewis Hall. We're left back, we're left back, we're not gonna get left back, we're not gonna get And then right at last minute they go, Barcelona, you know, have you got one there maybe? You know, just why is it so late? I mean...
Danny Mc: I I don't believe that's the thing I'm talking about. I don't know whether that's the case. Cause there was loads of chat out like on the day going United have finished. They're not they're not trying to do anything. And then roundabout deadline time it comes out, we tried for eight nori, we tried for I don't think they did. I think they just say it. That's what I mean about the lies. I d I d I think they knew they weren't getting a left back. They knew ham Harry Amas wasn't going anywhere, and they knew that they probably might have to play Dorgo at left back. The one that really annoyed me was Louis Page. Like, he wants to play for United, he knocked back Arsenal. Like, that might be the one that's like, you know them Caicedo at five million ones?
Jim: Yeah.
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: That's the one I'm worried about. Like, sure I understand that you might not want to drop 70 mil on Lewis Hall because you haven't got it. They've obviously had to pay. People forget that they have spent hundred million this year, but they've spent another two hundred million on Casemiro's transfer. Like all them like all them debts were phoned
Justin: Yeah. Yeah.
Danny Mc: in this year. Like two hundred and seventy seven million on the on the Klarner, apparently they had to pay. So
Justin: Yeah. Yeah.
Danny Mc: it's that. It's the fact that they they
Justin: Wouldn't it be good if it was actually Klarna as well?
Danny Mc: It probably is.
Justin: And he gets a little e-mail, gets a little, he goes, don't forget your Klarna is due tomorrow, so I'll make sure the money's in your account. Apparently, I don't know how true this is, United were in for Ryan Aitnuri on the day. what did he do? Meet him in town, like...
Noz: So I think that was, I think that's a story that's come up from the agent. Cause it sounds as if it's not City who pushed it. It's not United who pushed it. It's his representatives who contacted
Justin: Mm-hmm.
Noz: United and said like, he's available. So then it sounds as if United sort of like said, well, okay. And so I like contacted City and said like, we'll only take him on loan. Cause we don't want to, we don't want to spend money on him. And then City said no. But the weird thing about that is, like, so I don't think United were pushing for it. I think it was just like. possible opportunity if we get him alone. how weird would it have been if City had said okay? Because it's one thing like signing a player from City which is like kind of unprecedented but it would be even weirder to have somebody alone, like have a City player alone that goes back to City.
Justin: Yeah. And a prospect. So imagine, the thing is what we could have done with that is we could have had him, he could have done really well and say, he went, I'll bring him back and he just becomes the next, you know, Nico and all these other young players that they've had. A name that we've not heard, I don't think we've heard for a while, the United transfers and they were synonymous, not players we were buying, Mendez, apparently. United put a call into Mendez about Baldy, not Pep.
Jim: Ha ha!
Justin: I would just say his name Danny, but is it Baldy?
Danny Mc: Balday.
Jim: Well, bye.
Justin: Baldy. He's 22 and apparently Ian Matson, Matson, Matson.
Jim: Villa.
Justin: But this is all on the day, all on the day, apparently. don't
Jim: No, think Balde, I think Balde they'd been, they'd been looking out for quite a bit in the summer. I heard rumors about Balde for a while. The problem with Balde is I believe Danny might know better. He's got a bit of a dodgy injury record. They were worried about that.
Danny Mc: It looks like he has, yeah. I think that they did look at Bale. I think they looked at all these people in the middle of the window and then like no one's got anything to write on deadline day. So they pretend that we're going back in for because fucking ten, twelve, fifteen, twenty years ago, the other Jim White put a yellow tie on, and then all of a sudden now deadline day's gotta be a thing. Like that's
Jim: Yeah. By the way, talking of
Danny Mc: the th like
Jim: talking of the other Jim White, I got a call from BBC radio Stoke saying, would I be interested in coming on and doing Deadline Day? And it was it was a brilliant
Justin: Avril.
Jim: conversation because the producer realized about pretty quickly that I wasn't that Jim White and and was it. hi, I'm reading from BBC Radio Stoke, just wondered if you'd come on and do a little bit about deadline date and I go, well I can't really mate, I'm doing something. yeah, yeah, no, no, no, that's fine, yeah, yeah, fine, yeah, no, understood. When he realised there was.
Justin: You should. If that ever happens again, mate, it's incumbent upon you now for this podcast. A bit like when Nod and I could have stood up if we ate the glazes when we were the directors box. We missed a massive trick there to make this podcast better and bigger. You should just go on and go, unbelievable, I'm available. outstanding. And then you should just go on and do it. You'd be like that fellow who turned up the taxi driver on
Jim: Yeah.
Justin: BBC News. That'd be great. That would actually really, really be brilliant. You know, Jim, talking to different Jims, our mate, Barca Jim, apparently, and I don't know how true this is, maintains that once on deadline day, he saw a bloke on a tram going to town at work with a yellow tie on.
Danny Mc: I love that. It used to
Justin: I'm wearing a yellow tie for deadline date.
Danny Mc: it used to be a thing. My mate used to book a day off. Like it was a it was a thing, like
Justin: But know what? Game's gone. We're never gonna... Pink dildo. That's it, innit? It's never gonna get beat. Purple dildo.
Jim: Yeah, that was the high point. That
Danny Mc: Pur purple.
Jim: was the shark. That was the shark it jumped over.
Justin: Was Purple Dildo the same year as that player, I've forgotten his name, who turned up?
Danny Mc: than Wingay.
Justin: Yeah, just turned up and he wasn't there.
Danny Mc: Think it might have been that's like Forrest Gump, Shawshank, and Pulp Fiction in the Oscars, that in it. Like it never
Justin: Yeah, yeah.
Danny Mc: gets any better. Like Purple Dildo and Odin Wingy in a car park on the same day.
Justin: Yeah.
Danny Mc: Plus, you had Harry winding the window down,
Jim: Yeah.
Danny Mc: doing transfer news to the McDonald's drive-thru stab. Like
Justin: Yeah. Yeah. I'll have a look. I'll have a look. I'll have a look at him.
Noz: Also, let's just consider that purple dildo for a second, that man work was waxed in that reporter's
Justin: You sound like that is a very cautious introduction to a sex chat with a partner. Let's just consider that purple dildo for a moment. mean,
Noz: No!
Justin: nothing's off the table. don't put it on the table. Got to eat
Danny Mc: Ha ha ha.
Justin: on there.
Noz: So he probably, he saw this purple dildo and thought, right, this will be a great thing. Yeah, yeah. What happened?
Justin: Where did he see it? Let's go back. Where are going love? I'm just out mum. You've not taken my purple dildo have you?
Noz: Was it a fresh dildo straight out of the packet or was it like, you just spotted it and thought, right, I'll say that.
Justin: Well, if he's bought it and then he's opened it, that's another thing on the way to the train. Was it Everton? Was it Everton? I can't remember where it was.
Danny Mc: Was it s I thought it was Stoke, but it might have been Everton.
Justin: I can't Google. I'm not going to Google it.
Jim: Yeah
Noz: Yeah.
Danny Mc: I mean it it changes the phrase could he do it on a wet night in Stoke?
Jim: Ha ha ha ha ha!
Justin: Yeah. I don't, I don't think, you know what? I don't think that's, that's the end of the podcast. That's finished. We're done. That's good. we've,
Danny Mc: Well,
Justin: we've just talked for so long now and we haven't even discussed the game on Sunday. we're playing Everton who have had an absolute mare, when it comes to the thingy, which means that they'll probably up for it on Sunday, but they're really kind of like not happy at all. Everton are they about their, their transfer business? We've talked about Baloguns collapsed, the fans revolted. So Harrison didn't go there, sort of thing. I mean, they're saying, right? They're saying, ITKs, they're saying that the way the owners have been in this transfer window is going to make it difficult for them to carry on. Like Moys, what has Moys got on Everton that he will just stay there forever? Like some kind of virus. what, what, what, what do I mean, you must know ever some fans being living on that side there, Dan, do you know many of us and fans over there?
Danny Mc: not as many as you'd think. I know a couple.
Justin: Right.
Danny Mc: Like and like I haven't spoke well, I do know some, but I haven't spoken to anyone about it. But by the way, I
Justin: Right.
Danny Mc: will say that that dildo was Everton. first of September 2014. three World Cups ago.
Justin: All right. I just use Google it private browsing.
Danny Mc: no, no, no, just normal browsing, like that doesn't tou that doesn't
Justin: You don't care. You didn't use the wankers cloak.
Danny Mc: touch my brows in that. That doesn't that doesn't su that doesn't sully that doesn't sully my browsing at all. I put PU
Justin: You didn't use the wankers cloak. It improves it.
Danny Mc: in and it put purple dildo.
Justin: Ha It actually improved your algorithm. Finally,
Danny Mc: Yeah.
Justin: it's refreshing.
Jim: Hahaha!
Justin: He just wants to know about a sex aid. That's all he wants to know about. Not about fishing in carp fishing in the south of France. They were supposed to have sign... Jack Grealish has turned up for them. I mean, he is... That is natural level, isn't it? You know, the plimsoll line, you know, on a ship. And the plimsoll line is the way it can't go below that danger of sinking. That's Everton is Jack Greelish's plimsoll line, isn't it? the, that's the, that he is Everton and Everton are him. And I don't dislike him at all. I think he's sporadically brilliant, but he is a, he's more of a thing that he is a player, isn't he?
Jim: Yeah, yeah. I mean, they are definitely weaker because and Di who has gone to City, you know, he was he was their creative force, particularly when when Grealish wasn't wasn't playing. But they've got these two young midfielders, got Hackney from Middlesbury is pretty good. But the kid who the riot was about.
Justin: Is your teenage footballer called acne?
Jim: The kid who the riot was about, I saw Everton in the, just looking at the, know, on the highlights on match of the day. He looked really good. He'd been at Preston. It was like, I think it was a bit for the Everton fans. It was a bit like the, Ineos saying, right, we've got to sell Kobe Maynu. You know, he's one of their own and they were just getting pissed off about it. But you
Justin: Yeah.
Jim: know, that's what that was about. Why are you selling him? For God's sake, you know, we need players covering... That's
Justin: For the money.
Jim: obviously what it was about.
Justin: Yeah, he is. mean, I think, have you heard about them? Have you heard the story about the toffee doughnut?
Noz: No?
Danny Mc: No.
Justin: So at 10 past 10 on the transfer deadline day, their big tweet that went out, it's had two and a half million views, was a stack of toffee doughnuts. Somebody's put only
Danny Mc: What saying like
Justin: this, they were launching the tough another year. So
Danny Mc: Right.
Justin: only clubbing the premise where one strike and one fullback announced fucking donuts.
Jim: Ha ha.
Justin: And then our mate, our mate Carl, Danny on the Twitter page just wrote, fuck off. Anyway, we're playing Everton on Sunday. Quick predictions. I think we should have enough, shouldn't we? If we score one, we'll score five according to Danny's theory.
Danny Mc: Yeah.
Justin: If we score first, we'll score five.
Danny Mc: Sometimes, yeah, not not all the time. But yeah. Not against these, I think two and eleven. But
Justin: Do ya?
Danny Mc: yeah. Don't think I think, yeah. I think yeah, we are, but
Justin: Really? We're better than Everton. We should have some
Danny Mc: but we don't turn up. I feel like teams it's we're not at that stage yet where we can beat teams who have their cup final against us.
Justin: Everton are not the team that had the cup final against us. They're not, they're not whole.
Danny Mc: They are they are this time. After all this transfer deadline day nonsense and stuff, that's what I feel. That's what I feel.
Jim: I've got a sense of Danny's pessimism. I know that David Moyes has never been any good as a manager against the big clubs.
Justin: You could end that sentence there.
Noz: you
Jim: I'll leave it there. I'll leave it there. But
Justin: You can send us at the end of the word manager.
Jim: I just have a horrible feeling about it on Sunday. I definitely don't think we'll be going now.
Justin: No, I might be having a nap.
Jim: Could be one of them, you reckon? Ooh.
Justin: I think we're going to beat them 3-0. I think we're 3-0. think I'm dead. I am genuinely, genuinely dead confident about this game. I think we're going to kick on. think honestly, I think we're about to, there's been times in the last few years where there's been misplaced optimism. And I've said, we're about to give a team a hiding. I, the things that I saw against tip switch on Sunday in patches, of course, and there was a couple of little mistakes, but the way they're playing football, the way There seems to be something about this squad and the togetherness and the kind of composition of it. And I just think I'm, I'm too, I'm overconfident, but I don't mind. And I think it's going to be four, four, I'm to say four nil to Manchester United. It's going to say Everton nil Manchester United for Noz.
Noz: I kind of agree with with Danny and Jim. I'm saying
Jim: Hahaha.
Noz: one all. But but with the caveat that we are I agree with you as well, Justin, that we are going to kick on and we are going to be OK this season, but not right now. I think there's still teething problems. And yeah, I just think it's perfect. It's set up perfectly for them to have a really good game because everyone's sort of pissed off. Moise is going to print out. sort of like that tweet reply from your mate Carl that says, fuck off. He's going to put it on the changing room
Justin: Hehehehehe
Noz: and that's going to be the motivation. Like let's prove everyone wrong.
Justin: Yeah. Could you imagine the way we were putting down an A4 and all these like these foreign players who play for Everton just don't understand like the... Mr. What is this? What do you mean fuck off? How are we going to play? I
Noz: Hey.
Justin: just think Everton are not as good as United. I mean, it's as simple as that for me. I don't think they've got strength in depth. I think at the moment we're flying and I think we're going to absolutely wallop them. And I don't mind saying that. And you know what? Laugh at me when I'm wrong, but come with me when I'm right. That's what I'm saying today. Well, I'm going to end this with another anecdote and I'm going to hand the baton to Danny,
Danny Mc: so me and Justin I I'd blank the ticket. Justin was meant to be
Justin: And we saw Jim there. We saw Jim as well. sat in front of, behind Jim.
Danny Mc: yeah, yeah, yeah. we we when we played Everton at Goodison Park, it was the day Justin, you were working, well you're meant to be working in the lounges, but it was the day Howard Kendall died.
Justin: Mm.
Danny Mc: So they were like, We're not doing any comedy. So we just went to the game,
Justin: But you can still come.
Danny Mc: yeah, and have your dinner. And we was having our dinner in the whatever it was, the the posh bit. And we were sat next to Paddy Crend and no, we were sat next to Andre Kinchet Andre Konchelskis.
Justin: sat next to... But we didn't know it was him at first, did we?
Danny Mc: Yeah, and Paddy Creron walked past and Bobby Charlton walks past and it's still my biggest regret that I didn't like just fucking say hello to him or whatever. And and Cranon clocked Kinchelskis. And he just went, Andre, you're still selling fucking guns to the Americans
Noz: Amazing!
Justin: And he just went, he goes, buddy. Yeah. Yeah. It was great.
Danny Mc: I am A, I haven't seen you for twenty years. He's still selling arms.
Justin: That was one of the occasions. Cause I said to Paddy Creran once, I said, when I'd done something and I met him, said, it's a story. My mom used to say all the time, she used to go best law and child. And it would have been nothing without Creran. Right. And I told it that story. And he went, your mother's right. But then every time I saw him, he went, how was your mother? It's getting
Danny Mc: Ha ha
Justin: really weird. How was your mother? What a great, what a great man. I know he's not been very well recently. So, great man, great man, Paddy Crerendon. What a great, what I loved it. The way he just said it, goes, hi, Andre. And he was like really rude, wasn't he? He are you still selling guns to fucking Russians? And Andrey Kuchelsky is like mid, mid pasty or whatever. Right. Take care everybody. Listen, thank you everybody for listening to the podcast. We appreciate your feedback. Get in touch with us. You can follow us on socials, Good Days Pod. We are striving to be here twice a week, looking back and looking forward at the games. We think it's going to be a good season. We've got loads of plans for the podcast. Stay in touch, tell your friends, share the word. I spent a lot of... I was over in Ireland this weekend. Loads of people are listening to the podcast and people are really enjoying it. They think we're onto something. So, take care everybody, look after each other and we'll see you soon.
Danny Mc: Bye.

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