Manchester United Premier League preview: Carl Anka returns to talk Solskjaer's tactics, Maguire's pricetag, Pogba's role, plus: Southampton preview
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4.8 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Carl Anka is back! He talks to Daryl about all things Man Utd, including the Harry Maguire signing, Paul Pogba giving Utd one more good year, Lukaku's muscle gain and loss, and Solskjaer's tactical setup.
Carl is also going to be covering Southampton for the Athletic this season, so we close with a quick Saints preview.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the total soccer show. |
| 0:20.1 | My name is Daryl Grove and Taylor Rockwell is still at the beach, but do not fret, |
| 0:25.8 | because today's guest is Carl Anker of the Athletic, |
| 0:28.9 | who you will have heard on this here show many times before because he's our favourite Manchester United expert. |
| 0:36.2 | On today's season preview of Manchester United, |
| 0:38.1 | Carl and I talk about Olegona Salsha's tactical setup, |
| 0:41.9 | which involves a handlebars of a bicycle analogy. |
| 0:45.1 | We talk about Romilly Lukaki, |
| 0:46.3 | who are doing some Christian Bale-style method-acting weight gain and weight loss. |
| 0:50.5 | We talked about the role of Paul Pugba, |
| 0:52.2 | the viability of a Harry Maguire Victor |
| 0:54.2 | Lindelof central defensive partnership, as well as many other Manchester United topics. |
| 1:00.6 | Carl also has a professional interest in Southampton Football Club. So if you're a saint, |
| 1:06.6 | stick around for the latter part of the show where we do a sort of impromptu mini season preview of Southampton. |
| 1:13.4 | Before you hear this Man United conversation, I want to make sure you know about our glorious spin-off show Soccer 101. |
| 1:20.0 | Early listening numbers have been strong, strong enough for a brief spell in the top 50 of the iTunes charts. |
| 1:26.3 | That's for all podcasts, by the way. But we also |
| 1:28.7 | know from the numbers that not every regular TSS listener has given Succo 101 a try, at least not |
| 1:36.3 | yet. So I'm here to say, please don't delay, get Sucker 101 in your ears today. See, |
| 1:42.8 | it rhymes, so you kind of have to do it. Whatever podcast |
| 1:45.1 | app you're using right now, search for soccer 101, click the orange logo and away you go. |
| 1:52.5 | A big and sincere thank you to everyone who is doing that right now, or maybe plans to do it |
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