Man United Q&A: Rashford, Ederson, Keane, ‘Carrick-ball’, & more!
Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show
The Athletic
4.6 • 771 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It's the last Q&A of the season (or the first of the new one, depending on how you look at it). Either way, it's a whopper, with a massive influx of questions.
Mixed fortunes for Manchester United players past/present/on loan/future(?) when it comes to World Cup call-ups. We discuss the merits of Harry Maguire's omission by Thomas Tuchel, and whether Anthony Gordon's Barcelona move will skupper Marcus Rashford's hopes.
Ederson looks like he might become United's first midfield signing; what do the lads know of him, more than even they thought... how might the Brazilian fit in to Carrick's plans for next season? And what are those plans? And, of course, the heated question of former players criticising the current team. Do they go too far?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FFC. |
| 0:25.0 | This is Talk of the Devils, the athletic show dedicated to Manchester United. |
| 0:29.5 | Come up today, it's going to be a massive mailbag. |
| 0:32.1 | It's the end of May, the season's over, the World Cup is yet to begin, |
| 0:37.3 | and the transfer window isn't yet open, but there's plenty to go over. |
| 0:44.7 | So I've got two Manchester Night experts to go over the great, the good, the strange and the surreal of our mailbag. |
| 0:48.7 | Thank you very much for everyone who sent in emails to Devilspod at theathletic.com. |
| 0:52.8 | We're also going to go over a little bit about World Cup call-ups, Project 2028. |
| 1:11.5 | And before we go away, we want to hear more of your opinions again before we do our season review next week when Ian comes back. So, big mailbag, I'm going to stop talking very, very quickly, so we can get into the meat of things. I've got lawyer with me, I've got Andy with me, gentlemen, how are we doing? United haven't played in a while. Are you starting to get fiendish? |
| 1:12.8 | It was only Sunday, Carl. |
| 1:26.2 | Four days, I like it. You're getting itchy feet already. I'm quite relaxed about the, you know, break, I suppose, shall we say. Because, I mean, obviously, for you and I, I think Andy as well, you've got World Cup on the horizon, haven't we? So that's looming. |
| 1:30.8 | But obviously, in the meantime, yeah, Man United Business, transfers, questions. |
| 1:27.8 | Thanks so much, everybody. got World Cup on the horizon, haven't we? So that's looming. But obviously, in the meantime, |
| 1:32.6 | yeah, Man United Business transfers, questions. Thanks so much for everybody that emailed in. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, there's loads and really good, interesting variety. So thank you. I'm not missing it, mate. It was only at the weekend. I worked out. I did 90 games last season. I'm looking forward to |
| 1:42.2 | a break. I told my wife last week, that's it. That's me done for this season. And she raised her eyebrows and then I just snuck off on Saturday to see a little game, which I didn't, I don't think she knows they attended. But that is honestly me. That's me, done. She does now? She doesn't watch this. She won't have a clue. What? |
| 2:01.6 | No, does she heck? |
| 2:03.4 | She don't even know the name of it. |
| 2:15.6 | She calls it like the devils. You're still doing that devil's thing. I love how quickly you called it last season. It only just finished. No, it's last season. Well, that is the question, isn't it? When does it become last season? and when does it start this season, |
| 2:16.9 | next season, |
| 2:17.6 | preseason. |
| 2:18.7 | We'll get on to that |
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