Sancho's Moment, Klopp's Midfield, A Sea of Gold & Green: The Night The Erik ten Hag Era Began
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K 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.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:03.1 | Well, they've been criticised, humiliated, |
| 0:07.6 | battered by Brentford and Brighton, |
| 0:09.9 | but on Monday night, |
| 0:11.4 | against Juergen Klopp's mentality monsters, |
| 0:14.5 | Manchester United finally took off under Eric Tenhag. |
| 0:21.6 | The Jason Sancho, still Sancho. |
| 0:24.3 | Cullen as you like. |
| 0:26.5 | But those guys for me need confidence |
| 0:28.7 | and need a manager that says |
| 0:30.7 | you are my sort of stars |
| 0:32.5 | or you're who I'm going to depend on for creativity. |
| 0:35.7 | And I do think the Ronaldo dynamic just shifts that. |
| 0:37.9 | Salo was being smart and was right on it. |
| 0:40.3 | All he needed to do was push and shove, Fernandez, to get into pushing shove and back. |
| 0:44.4 | He gets a yellow card. |
| 0:45.5 | Fernandez gets sent off. |
| 0:47.8 | United correspondent Laurie Whitwell, Liverpool correspondent, |
| 0:50.8 | Sy Hughes and the Manchester News correspondent Dan Sheldon are all with us for |
| 0:55.1 | this one. I'm Mark Chapman. This is the Athletic Football Podcast. |
| 1:01.4 | Let's see. Yeah, Alex! Yeah, Jackson! |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, six. |
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