Sancho's Moment, Klopp's Midfield, A Sea of Gold & Green: The Night The Erik ten Hag Era Began

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The Athletic

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4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Host Mark Chapman is joined by The Athletic's Manchester United writer Laurie Whitwell, News correspondent Dan Sheldon and Liverpool writer Simon Hughes (somewhat more reluctantly), to reflect on all the drama from Monday night's game at Old Trafford... The panel discuss the anti-Glazer protests, how Erik ten Hag's big decisions paid off, while Jurgen Klopp's backfired and what it all meant for the respective futures of the likes of Ronaldo, Alexander-Arnold and more... Plus, an update on United's pursuit of Ajax's Antony and PSV's Cody Gakpo, as well as, why Liverpool may need midfield reinforcements more than the manager is prepared to admit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Athletic.
0:03.0	Well, they've been criticised, humiliated, battered by Brentford and Brighton, but on Monday night,
0:11.0	against Jogon-Clops mentality monsters, Manchester United finally took off
0:16.7	under Eric Tenhark. for Jayden Sancho, still Sancho, cool as you look.
0:25.0	But those guys for me need confidence and need a manager that says you are my sort of
0:32.0	stars or you're who I'm going to depend on for creativity and I do think the Ronaldo dynamic just shifts that
0:37.7	shallow was being smart and was right on it all he needed to do was push and shove
0:42.1	Fernandez to get into push and shove and back he needed to do was push and shove. Fernandez to get into push and shub and back.
0:44.4	He gets a yellow cloud.
0:45.4	Fernandez gets sent off.
0:47.8	The United Correspondent Laurie Whitwell, Liverpool Correspondent, Cy Hughes,
0:51.3	and the Manchester News Correspondent Dan Dan Sheldon are all with us for this
0:55.2	one.
0:56.2	I'm Mark Chapman.
0:56.9	This is the Athletic Football Podcast. Yes, yes it's it, yes it,
1:03.7	get it, get it, get it,
1:04.6	and it's it,
1:05.3	Well there is an awful lot for us to discuss obviously,
1:10.6	I mean, first of all, I cannot remember in my years of working for the athletic
1:14.8	doing a pod where Laurie is smiling and Simon is looking as downcast as he as he is doing
1:22.1	he you all right Simon.
1:23.6	I'm smiling.
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