Watkins interest assessed and where's Mbeumo?
Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show
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🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Exciting times at TotD Towers as we launch on not one but three social media platforms. Some listeners have been asking to see us on Youtube for a while, well now you can... and we're on Instagram and TikTok to boot.
https://www.youtube.com/@TOTDevils
https://www.instagram.com/totdevils
https://www.tiktok.com/@totdevils
On today's show, the Bryan Mbeumo transfer negotiation is in danger of becoming a saga, but what's true and what's bluster? Plus, what is the nature of Manchester United's interest in Ollie Watkins?
With pre-season starting next week, we also get into the details of Darren Fletcher's new job and why he might be choosing to take it now.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic FC Podcast Network. |
| 0:18.7 | This is Talk the Devils, the Athletics podcast dedicated to Manchester United. |
| 0:23.3 | Coming up on the show today, we talk Olly Watkins and assess the latest name, |
| 0:27.5 | linked with a move to Manchester United. |
| 0:30.1 | A player who should be making a move to Manchester United at some point in the not too distant future, |
| 0:34.2 | we think, we hope we thought he might sign by now, is Arbri. Why is he not |
| 0:37.8 | our bride just yet? And there's also a new role for Darren Fletcher as well. We look at his |
| 0:42.6 | switch to coaching the under 18s. Obviously, everyone is here, as you'd expect. So hello |
| 0:48.6 | Carl, hello, Laurie, and hello Andy. And it's a very exciting day, isn't it, for Talk |
| 0:53.2 | of the Devils? Because you may have seen already on social media that we have launched our YouTube channel. So the first video will go up there next week. There's a little trailer of what you can expect on there already. A sneak peek of our actual faces. Quite a few people have said already, oh right, that's what you actually look like. Rather than just listening to our voices, you'll have the option to see all the smirk, |
| 1:15.0 | smiles and side comments in vision. You can subscribe now. There's a link in our show |
| 1:20.9 | description to do that or you can search TOT Devils on YouTube. We also have an Instagram account and a TikTok account which have been set up as well. |
| 1:31.2 | It's the same handle, T-O-T-Devils on both of those. |
| 1:35.7 | Very exciting times. |
| 1:36.9 | The comments are already kicking off on YouTube as well, so let's have a quick look at those. |
| 1:42.2 | John Lawler says, |
| 1:43.5 | Laurie's discovering the summer solstice day and now a brand new YouTube channel. |
| 1:48.6 | It's truly the stuff of dreams. |
| 1:50.4 | You in Dreamland, Laurie? |
| 1:51.6 | I'm absolutely in Dreamland, |
| 1:52.6 | and I'm just looking at Andy Mitton's reaction to the TikTok news. |
| 1:57.7 | Oh, yeah. |
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