Hello and welcome to the Total Sucker show.

My name is Darryl Grove and Taylor Rockwell is still at the beach but do not fret because

today's guest is Karl Anker of the Athletic who you will have heard on this show many times

before because he is a favourite Manchester United expert.

On today's season preview of Manchester United, Karl Anker and I talk about only going

to SoulShars Tactical Setup which involves a handlebars of a bicycle analogy. We talk

about Rommel and Lukaku doing some Christian Bale style method acting weight gain and weight

loss. We talk about the role of Paul Pugba, the viability of a Harry Maguire Victor Lindelough

central defensive partnership as well as many other Manchester United topics.

Karl also has a professional interest in Southampton Football Club so if you are a saint, stick

around for the latter part of the show where we do a sort of impromptu mini season preview

of Southampton. Before you hear this man you're not a conversation, I want to make sure

you know about our glorious spin off show Sucker 101. Early listening numbers have been

strong, strong enough for a brief spell in the top 50 of the iTunes charts, that's

for all podcasts by the way. But we also know from the numbers that not every regular

TSS listener has given Sucker 101 a try, at least not yet. So I'm here to say please

don't delay, get Sucker 101 in your ears today. See it rhymes so you kind of have to do

it. Whenever podcast app you're using right now, search for Sucker 101, click the R&S logo

and away you go. A big and sincere thank you to everyone who is doing that right now

or maybe plans to do it after this episode. Okay, here's my interview with Karl previewing

Manchester United's upcoming Premier League season. So via the magic of Skype I am joined

by Karl Anker. Karl welcome back to the total soccer show. Hello, it's good to be back.

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