Jim Ryan - The Busby Babe who found Paul Pogba
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🗓️ 20 July 2020
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
This week's episode comes from a man with an incredible amount of years under his belt at Manchester United; Jim Ryan.
Jim told the guys about his time playing at Old Trafford under Sir Matt Busby, having once been tricked into asking the legendary manager for a pay rise!
We then heard how he came to return to Man Utd under Sir Alex Ferguson, overseeing David Beckham, Paul Scholes and their Class of '92 teammates' rise to the First Team.
Not only that, but Jim was responsible for scouting dozens of top name players that ended up at the club, including Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Paul Pogba, and the few that got away, such as Zinedine Zidane.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Manchester United Podcast. I'm Helen as always Sam and Maisie are logged on with me. Once again guys we are on Zoom. |
| 0:09.3 | One day we will see each other again but for the minute we're still on the internet. How are we? |
| 0:14.3 | Very good thank you Helen. How are you? Good week everyone. I'm good. Thank you. Good week everyone. |
| 0:18.4 | Yeah, decent. United back. Playing that's nice. Yeah. It's, do you know what? that's nice. |
| 0:22.8 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:23.8 | Do you know what? |
| 0:24.2 | It's quite, obviously it's great to have football back, |
| 0:27.7 | but obviously there's a lot of games on and I'm really, really busy with the kids. |
| 0:30.7 | We don't always get to watch them. |
| 0:32.4 | But just having that |
| 0:33.2 | background noise I'm finding it really soothing even if I'm not watching the game the |
| 0:37.3 | kids no the match oh it's a very different background noise do you watch with the fake crowd or do you watch without the fake crowd? |
| 0:44.8 | Well I tried it with both but I like it with the fake crowd I have to say. |
| 0:48.4 | No. It feels more authentic and it feels more like football with the fake crowd but I quite like trying to listen to the players |
| 0:54.7 | yeah I like to listen to the players if I'm just going on in the background then then I'd be fake crowd but it just makes me think of like a |
| 1:01.9 | pre-season game or something if I listen to it without the crowd? |
| 1:04.7 | It is a bit like that isn't it? But it's so nice to have it back. |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah. Yeah, it certainly is. Our podcast, all of them I think have made the headlines somewhere for the players that we've been talking to obviously |
| 1:14.7 | There was lots of drama with Paul Pogber and Graham sooness and Paul Scoles was in the papers and |
| 1:20.2 | Maisie you featured in some of the papers when you came out. |
| 1:23.0 | But what hasn't happened until very recently |
| 1:26.0 | is that the things that we've just been talking about have made the papers. |
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