Why Maguire deserves a new Man United contract
Talk of the Devils: The Athletic FC's Manchester United show
The Athletic
4.6 • 771 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Michael Carrick's second spell as Manchester United manager has gone about as well as could have been expected. After our three-part assessment of United's summer transfer objectives, you asked if he is likely to be in charge next season, whether that affects the transfer plans, and if he's a big enough name to attract the right players.
Harry Maguire, along with Kobbie Mainoo, returned to international duty this week but Thomas Tuchel appeared to talk down Maguire's chances of making his World Cup squad. We briefly review a stop-start game against Uruguay and outline why, whatever happens with England, he's important to Manchester United and deserves a new contract.
Marc Skinner's future with the club is being questioned again in some quarters after a disappointing week for Manchester United's women. A spirited performance was spoiled by naive errors in the Champions League and they were thoroughly dismissed by City in the derby. Megan Feringa returns to fill us in on the details.
Read more about Brian Peat's flags here.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic F.C. |
| 0:25.0 | This is Talk of the Devils, the athletic show dedicated to Manchester Night. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello, coming up today, we are going to be discussing the four players who are involved in England's one-one draw with Uruguay from Manchester United. |
| 0:44.0 | We're also going to be discussing the women's team and how Mark Skinner may be under pressure again after two very difficult defeat at Old Trafford and red flags and why sometimes at Old Trafford they're a good sign. |
| 0:48.8 | Right then, which you may have noticed is the international break and we are doing a couple of squad changes. I'm Carl Anker, I'm stepping into the hosting role while Ian Irvin takes a well-deserved |
| 0:52.9 | break and join me today. I've got Mark Critchley with me and Andy Mitten. Gentlemen, how are we? Oh, good, Carl. Actually enjoying Manchester United not playing it. I didn't think I would say that, but I have been enjoying it. Doing the older home admin, laundry, dry cleaning, all that sort of stuff with your days off. Yeah, I mean, the women's team have played. The youth team have played as well. So it's not like there's no Manchester United. But yeah, just spending time with family and obviously taking my new dog to a non-league game the other day, which is what she asked me to do. And, you know, as a responsible parent, I did that. |
| 1:28.1 | Critch, are you using your time off wisely? |
| 1:30.4 | I am trying to replace a lead pipe, which is not a wise decision to use with your time off |
| 1:36.0 | because it involves a lot of deeing, a lot of hard manual labour, and I'm starting to come to my wits end with it. |
| 1:41.8 | But I don't think people want to hear about my lead pipe replacement scheme. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm totally telling enough people about it. |
| 1:47.9 | All right. Let's just get on with this. Right. First things first. We want to say thank you. |
| 1:52.4 | Thank you, Talker Devil's listeners. We've just hit 50,000 subscribers on YouTube. And also, |
| 1:57.4 | we've been shortlisted in the YouTube newcomer category in the UK sports journalism awards. |
| 2:02.2 | So thank you everyone who's tuned in, listened to the show, watch the show on YouTube, recommended to a friend. |
| 2:09.3 | We also want to say thank you to our video editor, Grayson. |
| 2:12.9 | Hi, Grayson. |
| 2:14.3 | Who's amazing. |
| 2:15.4 | And does all the fancy graphics that makes everything on YouTube work well. |
| 2:19.8 | We also want to say thank you to everyone who's listened to our three-part series looking at |
| 2:22.9 | everything to do with Magic United Squad. |
| 2:26.5 | So part one was midfielders, part two was defenders, part three was attackers. |
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