United flop in Bilbao

Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer,

4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It was supposed to be party time; 24 hours in a cultural and culinary paradise, taking the edge off an awful season. Instead we're left wondering what happens next... for the team, the players, even the manager.

Ange Postecoglu's Spurs are the Europa League champions, they will play Champions League football next season and represent the Premier League in the European Super Cup... Manchester United will have to come to terms with the sporting, commercial, and financial, realities of a 40-game diet of domestic football.

Although there is one more game, one we're now dreading against a very good Villa side, the loss in Bilbao feels like a line drawn under a dreadful season. It may yet lead to lines drawn under some tenures at the club.

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0:55.6	This is Talk the Devils, the Athletics podcast dedicated to Manchester United.
1:00.1	I'm here, and he's here, Carl's here and Laurie is here.
1:05.2	We are looking over a football pitch covered in gold and silver.
1:07.0	Ticket tape and glitter.
1:09.9	We are in the San Mamez Stadium.
1:12.4	We've watched Manchester United lose the Europa League final to Tottenham Hotspur and we'll go through every detail that we can on the podcast.
1:20.0	The performance tonight, the impact of the result moving forward, the opinion of Ruben Amarin,
1:25.9	the opinion on Ruben Amarin, the opinion on Ruben Amarim, and everything in between.
1:31.2	We'll do our best to pick people up, but it's going to be difficult, Andy, isn't it?
1:35.8	Yeah, I feel really low. I can't recall feeling lower than this as a Manchester United fan in my life.
1:42.5	Really? Really? In my life. I mean, it's an obvious question for me to ask
1:47.4	because I know the reason, but why? It's a team. I've just had the worst season in my life,
1:53.5	so I can't talk about the relegation season because I know I'm old, but I'm not that old.
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