Fixtures, striker search, and ticket price reaction

Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer,

4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

It's a midsummer special on the week of the longest day of the year (if only there was a proper name for it...)

It's also pretty much square in the middle of Manchester United's summer break, with a month gone since last season and a month until the first pre-season fixture. The Premier League fixtures were announced this morning and we react to a tough start!

Andy has been speaking to Omar Berrada, at great length, about his plans for the club and we consider his performance, both in the interview and in the job.

Finally, sort of, there's a glimpse into Carl's breakdown of Ruben Amorim's ideal striker and whether he can buy one who matches up in reality. The "sort of" is because we have an extra bit with Ian and Andy reacting to the news that ticket prices for individual fixtures will go up next season.

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1:26.1	This is Talk to Devils, the Athletics podcast, dedicated to Manchester United, the Devils, the athletics podcast dedicated to Manchester United.
1:31.1	The Premier League fixtures are out and we're here to talk about them.
1:34.1	We've also got an overview of Andy's chat with Omar Barada.
1:37.3	Carl's been shopping for strikers and there's the breaking news as well that Nick Cox looks set to depart, Manchester United.
1:45.9	Friend of the show, Nick Cox.
1:50.1	The only way to talk about all of that, of course, is to get a full band together. So we've got Laurie, we've got Carl, and we've got Andy. How we're doing okay? Fantastic. How are you, mate?
1:54.8	Good. Yeah, it's been a little while, hasn't it, since we've caught up we wanted to wait for the fixtures to drop and Andy they have dropped
2:02.0	they've dropped and they've dropped and they're difficult reminding me a little bit of
2:05.4	David Moyes's first season when I think within the first five games they were three
2:11.0	the top six teams and David Moyse felt that the Premier League had it in for him
2:16.0	because they wanted a different champion.
2:18.5	Oh, honestly, those were the days where they didn't want Manchester United to be winning the league all of the time.
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