Can we be optimistic about Man United again?
Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Back, to back, to back. If Sunderland was relief, and Liverpool was elation, what does a win at home to Brighton mean? Does it mean Manchester United are now good again, and does it mean we can be genuinely optimistic about this season?
Mark Critchley WAS at Old Trafford with Carl Anka on Saturday and they are in the studio with Ian while Andy joins us online from Spain. Everyone was delighted to see Matheus Cunha get off the mark for his new club with a smart finish from the edge of the box. Meanwhile, Bryan Mbeumo and Senne Lammens continue to breathe confidence into fans, and Casemiro showed his value as well.
It was Bruno Fernandes' 300th appearance and he granted an audience to the press (including our own Laurie Whitwell) at Carrington on Friday. His comments about individual accolades versus team success are reassuring, especially with the context of that Brighton victory, while he also offered an interesting response when asked if he might leave this summer.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:18.7 | This is Talker Devils, The Athletic Show, dedicated to Manchester United. |
| 0:22.8 | Coming up today, we reflect on back-to-back-to-back wins for the club, |
| 0:27.5 | finally beating Brighton and getting rid of that hoodoo as well, |
| 0:30.7 | with players like Matthias Cunya scoring his first goal, Brian and Bumo shining as well. |
| 0:35.0 | Matthias DeLitt, Casimiro, there's lots to talk talk about and we'll also be hearing later on as well from Bruno Fernandez |
| 0:41.1 | after he made his 300th appearance for the club. |
| 0:45.9 | We're back in the studio in Manchester. |
| 0:47.9 | Carl Anka's here. |
| 0:48.9 | Andy Mitten is joining us as well and we had an impassioned plea on social media for another man to be involved in this show. |
| 0:57.0 | So this is Omkar. Krich, it's about time you get to say your peace when all is good. |
| 1:02.8 | You only get on to listen to you about finances and when we don't do well. Ian, make sure he's on. |
| 1:09.8 | He's on. Here I am. How are we doing? We're good? |
| 1:11.8 | Good are you? I'm all right. I'm all right. It's the age of rotated front threes, isn't it? So I thought I'd take a leaf out of Benjamin Chesco's book, sharpen my elbows, give Loria digging the ribs. And bang, here I am. So there we go. I'm looking forward to the link-up player then. |
| 1:24.9 | Absolutely. |
| 1:25.6 | Before we go any further, Andy, |
| 1:27.2 | there's only one place we can start. |
| 1:28.9 | That's not with Matthias Cunya's first goal. |
| 1:31.1 | It's not with Embedon. to the link-up player then yeah absolutely before we go any further andy there's only one place we can |
| 1:28.4 | start that's not with matthias cunyard's first goal it's not with ambumos double it's not with delix |
| 1:33.7 | performance casimir's performance it's not any of that it's a flag that's where we need to start right |
| 1:39.1 | yeah uh Alex who's a top united fan, goes everywhere, home, away. |
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