What's gone wrong at Manchester United and how to (maybe) fix it w/ Carl Anka
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🗓️ 9 October 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
With Manchester United having about as poor a start to the season as possible, Taylor (a United fan) talks with The Athletic's Carl Anka about a whooooole lot of Manchester United. The board level mindset that is holding the club back, which players are most in need of a reset, what the club can learn from Southampton, Carl's approach to fixing the club, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:02.6 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the Total Soccer show. My name is Taylor Rockwell. And if you love Manchester United or love to enjoy their misery, then this episode is for you. It's going to be a deep dive look at Manchester United. What's gone wrong? What might be going right? Question mark? Who needs to be moved on? Lots and lots of stuff to cover. And to do the heavy lifting on that front is Carl Enka of the athletic. |
| 0:40.1 | Carl, it's been a week. |
| 0:41.5 | How you doing? |
| 0:43.5 | Oof. |
| 0:46.2 | Is that your official statement? |
| 0:48.0 | Yes, yes, it is. |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah, so we are going to be focusing a lot on Man United and what is going on there. |
| 0:56.6 | Up front, I wanted to run a theory about what's gone wrong by. |
| 1:00.7 | You see what you think. |
| 1:01.3 | Last season, United hit the restart strong. |
| 1:03.4 | They finished third against expectations. |
| 1:05.9 | This happens while you're covering Southampton. |
| 1:08.9 | You move to Manchester and then things happen. |
| 1:12.1 | Would you like to take a moment to apologize to Manchester United fans? |
| 1:15.6 | No. I'd like to tell them all, I told you so. |
| 1:20.6 | I want to take this opportunity to apologize to absolutely nobody. |
| 1:26.5 | I told everyone the third place finish, more so than any other league finish deserved |
| 1:32.3 | than Asterix because Manchester 9's third place finish relied on not only them |
| 1:38.0 | continue in the very good form they had before project result happened, but also in giving |
| 1:43.1 | more time for Paul Pogpa and Marcus Rastrow to return from injury. |
| 1:48.1 | Manchester United finished third. |
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