Jaap Stam - "The truth about my exit" (Part Two)
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🗓️ 15 March 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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This is the second part of our extended conversation with Jaap Stam, where the Dutchman talks us through his controversial exit from Manchester United, and reveals that there was an opportunity for him to return to Old Trafford in the seasons that followed.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the United Podcast. This is our part two conversation with YAPSTAM. |
| 0:04.8 | If you haven't heard part one already, go back, find last week's episode, |
| 0:08.8 | you get the full first half of the conversation, and then you want to be here. |
| 0:12.6 | Or if you've done that already, sorry for talking about last week, you've already done it, |
| 0:15.9 | so perfect. Here we go. This is part two of our conversation with YAPSTAM. |
| 0:20.4 | We'll all sat down together in Zwoller in the Netherlands, and here's what happened. |
| 0:24.3 | Let's talk about that season. I mean, I'm sure you get asked about it all the time, |
| 0:32.6 | or have been asked about it a lot. Did you ever... Tell me, every writer in the UK is writing |
| 0:39.2 | something about this season or not. Pretty much, because I'm getting so many emails about |
| 0:46.5 | how I'm a writer and I'm writing about the trouble season. I'm thinking, like, did it already, |
| 0:50.8 | like, spoke to you about this one, aren't you? But we saved them a job, they can just use this. |
| 0:58.2 | Did you expect your season to go anything like it did? No, never. |
| 1:02.7 | Because obviously the club had missed out, asked on the double the season before, |
| 1:06.2 | so I guess the focus was, win that back, or at the very least, win the league again. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm thinking about... Did we ever... And I don't think we had. |
| 1:16.5 | Now it's like in coaching for a coach that you say in the beginning of a season that |
| 1:23.9 | you maybe have certain targets where you want to go to. As a top team, you always have a target |
| 1:29.3 | of winning the league. I'm thinking, did we ever have a meeting like that? I don't think we had. |
| 1:35.3 | No. I don't think we had a meeting in the beginning of the season that Sir Alex said, |
| 1:39.6 | Fergie said, okay, guys, listen up this season, we've done this, next season, we've done that, |
| 1:44.8 | this season, we go for winning the league, the Champions League, what the Carleton Cup, |
| 1:52.1 | or what was it at the time, or whatever. I don't think we have had. |
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