And So, Okay, and with Andy Slater from the Barmy article Fanzine following Manchester United Women's Team.

Andy, welcome to the pod.

Thank you.

You got to be on?

Yeah.

Honestly, I've been meaning to get people on to talk about the women's team for so long and what with everything that was going on

didn't quite manage yet. I follow but I have to admit I'm not at all the games so it's great to have someone who

definitely is.

Yeah, I've been a fanatic of the men's team for so many years when the women's team started up and it's so close to where I live.

I started off thinking I'll get to a few games but very quickly got hooked on it.

It filled the gap that not going to Old Trafford anymore provided so it's it does draw you in once you get access and you see what it's about it does draw you in the same as the

same as the men's team always did.

Yeah, we're just on the eve of the Women's World Cup, of course, and there's a few United players there.

Perhaps a couple fewer than we'd like to actually be Manchester United Players, so I guess,

maybe we can start with the elephant in the room

how are you feeling about the departures of on Abache and and Glesia Russo I mean quite a

quite a shock well maybe not a shock but quite a blow to the team.

Yeah, they are very two different questions really because they're very different situations.

Yeah, we start with the positive on a batch of, we got her because of the loophole in Spanish transfers.

There's a real word Spanish clubs have to pay a premium if they're buying youth from Spanish

teams, which meant Barcelona weren't going to get her three years ago,

which opened the door for us. Now she is Catalan, she's played for, as well as playing for Spain,

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