The Debate - Who’s ready for 2023/24?
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🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Zarah Connolly was joined by Danny Webber & Wes Brown (sporting this season’s new home shirt), Laurie Whitwell (The Athletic), & Ian Irving (Talk of the Devils & Premier League Productions) yesterday in the Megastore.
Topics
- New home shirt now on sale and the panel’s favourite iconic shirts of the past, can this one join them?
- Transfer window speculation
- Laurie Whitwell runs down the anatomy of a transfer rumour and how these are substantiated before reporting
- What should United’s aims for 23/24 be?
- How far can United go in the Champions League?
- Who do the panel want to face from Pot 1 in the 23/24 Champions League?
- Pre-season tour 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Bay, we are back in the Megastore and join me to ask some very special |
| 0:09.7 | guests. We have got Timmeride, Wes Brown, how you do? Very good. There we go, they've got |
| 0:14.1 | the raps you top on to there. You are wrapping it too. I've got Danny Weber too and you're |
| 0:18.4 | wrapping it too, but don't know which one's better at the minute. I'm saved. Yeah, we'll figure |
| 0:23.1 | that out. We've also got two special journalists who have saved, we've got Laurie Whitwell from |
| 0:26.0 | the athletic. We've also got Ian Irving from Premier League Productions. You guys okay? Very good, |
| 0:30.5 | yeah. Thanks for having us. Great to have you here. I mean, what's it been like and saw |
| 0:33.6 | been a bit busy? Going away anywhere? No, it's been quiet really, aren't it? We just |
| 0:37.4 | waiting for the footballs to kick off again. This feels like almost the first day back doing |
| 0:41.8 | the debate again, so getting ready for it. I'm excited to be back and I feel like especially |
| 0:47.1 | more than that. When new kits come out, it kind of feels like all the seasons started to begin |
| 0:50.8 | again. I mean, as a player, does it kind of feel like that kicks out something? Yeah, it's good, |
| 0:55.5 | it's just like a fresh start. You know, it's the beginning of the season that the new kit |
| 0:59.8 | are. We've got to try and do well. It looks nice. It's good. Okay, I'm the Champions League badge. |
| 1:04.4 | There you go. Yeah, the Champions League badge is something special, I mean, I was like generally |
| 1:08.0 | out there when you get to see all the articles and everyone talking about the hype around these |
| 1:11.0 | shirts and things like that. Everyone's talking about Champions League badge, aren't they? Yeah, |
| 1:15.4 | well, it's such a huge thing for you to be in the Champions League financially, but also the prestige |
| 1:19.9 | of it. That's where a club of the scale in I should be every season. But yeah, in terms of whether |
| 1:25.0 | it feels like a new season, I was sort of already thinking that as soon as the FA Cup final |
| 1:28.5 | had finished, I was like, right, that's last season. I'll read it. Let's move on to the next one. |
| 1:32.3 | Could you kind of feel like we want to draw a line under it? Yeah, there was a lot going on. It |
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