The Football Reporters: Europa League or bust for Man United

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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James Olley, Rob Dawson and Mark Ogden discuss the potential £100 million pound hit Manchester United will face if they fail to win the Europa League. Plus, James interviews Archie Gray at the London Football Awards and Alex Kirkland joins from Madrid to discuss the ongoing drama with LaLiga referees and Real Madrid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Football Reporters. It's Europa League or bust for Manchester United. They face a pivotal fortnight with their finances and for Ruben Amarim as they face Real Softied Ad in the last 16. If they don't play in Europe next season, it'll contribute to a financial black hole of over £100 million.
0:22.9	Real Madrid face a different battle in Spain. Their issue is with the refs and La Liga.
0:27.3	Plus, we've got James talking to Spurs Archie Gray as he wins the Young Player of the Year award at the London Football Awards.
0:35.5	I'm Rob Dawson. We've got Mark Ogden back in the studio, but we've lost James. James is in
0:40.0	Aindhoven ahead of Arsenal's Champions League trip. James, Aindhoven, treating you well so far.
0:44.9	Yeah, yeah, all good. Nice reminder of the realities of European travel these days on arrival here,
0:51.2	actually. We were in two cues for the passport control. One was, you know, EU u passports one was non-e u and this british guy goes right up to the
0:58.4	EU passport that's told he's got to go to and join the other queue and the and the
1:02.4	dutch passport control officer just looked him right in the eyes when he said well why i've just
1:07.2	queued for 10 minutes to get it and he he said, because you've voted for Brexit.
1:12.5	And I was like, yeah, well, that's where we are.
1:14.3	So, I was in the right. So it's not as far as you think, is it, all this football travel.
1:16.3	We're going to start today then with Man United's finances.
1:19.3	Mark, you've written a piece that's going up on ESPN.com this week about the importance of United's Europa League tie against Realisades.
1:28.5	I think in your intro, you've called it the most important game
1:31.4	or the most impactful game potentially since 1990.
1:34.6	You're going to have to explain that.
1:36.2	Yeah, I mean, obviously, United have been to four Champions League finals since then.
1:39.5	Won two, lost two.
1:40.4	They've won countless Premier League titles, FA Cups.
1:42.8	But for me, this is the most consequential game for United since. Perhaps since Alex Ferguson went to Nottingham Forest
1:48.9	with his team in January 1990 needing to win to save his job, and people might think that's a bit
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