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But we’ve got news on Calvin Phillips and it could be hammer time for him see you in a Moment wouldn’t it be nice we were older then we wouldn’t have to wait so long and wouldn’t it be nice to Livey h As Bayern Munich threatened to pull out of a move for Kieran trippier does Miguel almeron hold the key to newcastle’s hopes of signing a midfielder this Month hi good evening welcome along to the transfer show we’ll also have the very latest from West Ham Calvin Phillips could be the first of a couple of deals for them dares Chef Melissa ready and I’m delighted to say former England Striker Leanne Sanderson with us tonight now plenty of live footall on

The way this evening Liverpool go to Fulham with a one-goal advantage in their carabal cup semi-final Chelsea await the winners in the championship lead take on Norwich will have the goals as they go In and the focus at Bayern Munich will be on the pitch for the next couple of hours they can move Four Points behind Bundesliga leaders by Leverkusen with victory over Union Berlin right let’s start with new Castle things could be about to get busy in the Northeast with eight GS of eight gay eight days of the window to go new surrounding the future of Kieran trippier has been dominating but could the future of Miguel almeron hold the

Key to their pursuit of a midfielder Keith Downey has the latest interesting use of language by Sky Germany today who tell us Bayern Munich are pulling away from their move for Kieran trip here and haven’t quite pulled away just yet is that a game of Poker by the German Champions or have

They decided that three offers is enough of course the last of those 13 million pounds for tripier was rejected by Newcastle last night elsewhere Newcastle remain in talks with Saudi pro league club al-shabab for paraguayan Winger Miguel alaron while that feels as though that one is still alive as far as alaron

Is concerned he’s happy and settled here on T side Newcastle though of course they need to sell to be able to purchase this January transfer window Eddie how really wants to bring in a midfielder to try and add to the the that position they’ve got a few injuries in Midfield

At the moment and it feels as though out of the three players who have been linked with moves away almeron Callum Wilson and trippier Al alar on the most likely due to the transfer fee that Newcastle could command Keith DX and James’s part for us dares let’s start with tripier a Bayern

Munich trying to play clever here if you just look at it on the face of it and we take everyone at their word Newcastle United says not for sale buy Munich have tried to sign him and Newcastle have basically said he’s not for sale so they’re not going to get him but we

Continually are hearing that Newcastle United is saying that Kieran trippier is not for sale and yet Bayern Munich have gone back three times so are Newcastle United actually hammering home that message to Bayern Munich or is there maybe just a little bit of light there for Bayern Munich to work with for them

To keep going back to Newcastle United and maybe test that resolve of not for sale but as it stands it’s clear that Newcastle United don’t want to let him go and it’s easy to see why he’s been such a key player for them he been is effectively the first signing in the new

Regime whereas Bayern Munich we know that they want to bring in a right back a right back of such experience as well but as it stands and if we hear what Keith down was saying there and we take it on face value not for sale means he’s

Not going anywhere on buying as well they’re in separate negotiations with PSG fori Muka and he was their first choice to cure this position yet they’ve had a stumbling block with PSG who want an obligation to buy and they wanted to bring in a a replacement before they

Continued talks with Bayan but for the fact that they are still in discussion and there’s no not for sale or we’re not willing to do business it could give an indication of why buying are cooling on the tripier side because they’re making some Headway with PSG lean if you were a

Newcastle fan would you be pulling your hair out you’re the richest club in the world and yet people are looking like they’re going to have to go out of the club before you can bring anyone in well obviously with ffp now in in full swing I think ultimately the bad decisions

Have been made in the last few years are the reasons why this is happening now these three players that are linked to being a away alaron Callum Wilson and trippier like they’re three top players and realistically who can they bring in that’s better than what productivity they’re bringing to Newcastle so it’s

Due to their wrong decisions off the field of play why these things are happening but for me you know I remember when Kieran trippier signed for Newcastle last year and I actually said you know that was the best signing of the window based upon the fact of when

He went from Tottenham to Atletico Madrid I couldn’t believe Tottenham let him go so easily I know we had one not so great season but we will have bad Seasons we’ll have bad games but I think you know with regards to them not being able to bring anyone in and out if you

Don’t make the right decisions off the field to play then ultimately it’s going to come back and bite you but these three players you know alaron last year especially was absolutely brilliant Callum Wilson you know he will guarantee goals but so does Alexander ISAC but

He’s always injured a lot of the time we know how good he is but both of them seem to flip-flop who’s injured at any given time so yeah I think you know with alaron potentially linked to going to Saudi Arabia is that really a good move

For him I’m not quite sure but the fact they in this position they’ve got no one left um to blame but themselves is alaron the most likely dares it certainly appears that way Ken Wilson the link with Callen Wilson sort of came and went and I don’t think Newcastle

Were interested in selling and they’re clearly not interested in selling Kieran trippier the alaron one is really really interesting simply because he would probably get the most transfer fee and that would probably sort out Newcastle United just to get out of this little hole that they finds in al-shabab we’re

Told are confident that they can get that deal over the line they’re in talks with Newcastle United but significantly Keith Downey’s been telling us that he’s been speaking to people close to alaron who say he doesn’t want to leave IDE and he’s settled at Newcastle and he doesn’t

Want to go another source that I’ve spoken to says that it’s just the personal terms that’s the stumbling block at the moment so if a deal can be agreed between the two clubs where they’re still talking and the personal terms can just be increased that little

Bit more to tempt Miguel Almer on to think I do want to stay but this is money that maybe I can’t refuse then there’s nothing to say that this deal potentially can’t happen yet but of the three Newcastle United would probably want to do business on almeron rather

Than the other two lean you’re a footballer former footballer used to be you so you know the situation if you’re a player and someone’s trying to ship you off some where you don’t want to go can you sit tight um it’s difficult because ultimately you sign a contract

And you think that means you’re going to be at the club for a number of years doesn’t work that way if the club want you gone then you’re out and I also believe when a player wants to leave you should probably let them leave because it could cause unrest in the changing

Room and those types of things but I think I feel for Eddie how because ultimately when it when the Takeover happened he was asked a lot of questions that he couldn’t really answer because it was to do with obviously being a Saudi Arabian you know teams and

Takeover and those types of things and ultimately the managers are just there to manage and the players are there to play ultimately sometimes you ask loads of questions as a player that you might not know the answer to you’re just a footballer that happens to be good but I

Love Eddie how I’ve always been a big fan of him even when he was at Bournemouth I thought he did a really good job and he almost waited for the right opportunity Newcastle came along he took that job and I feel like whenever they go on a bad run everybody

Questions if he should be at the club people thought he was going to be a stop gap which I thought was a bit disrespectful to Eddie how because I think he’s a good manager and he’s showing that you know then making the Champions League they were unlucky you

Know really really strange decision in Paris so they could have been you know could have would have sh as another thing but I always feel like this season they would struggle a little bit with the fact they’re in the Champions League and playing Premier League on the weekends is difficult and their squad

Depth let’s be honest isn’t that great is it we all thought they were going to sign mbappe Neymar and Messi when the Takeover happened and I think they’ve done good business since the Takeover happened but ultimately you know people are going to expect bigger things this year from Newcastle United based upon

How well they did last year lean loves Eddie how how much pressure is Eddie how under I think as much pressure as you can expect him to be under based on the standards he set himself for Newcastle and much of the reason they are where they are you know that obviously has

Been investment in the squad but it’s been largely his coaching ability and I think in this situation you know we’re speaking about New Castle being hamstrung by the profit and sustainability rules but you look across the league and we’ve had one permanent signing for a senior Squad in the entire

Window that is biting everybody deep it’s not just you know Newcastle have all this money and they can’t spend it everybody’s being a lot more frugal January is a difficult Market naturally but I think that’s enhanced it because people see that it has teeth now there are points deductions involved but we’ve

Also in a situation where we have a window during two International tournaments taking place the afcon and the Asia cup so the small pool of players that you have decreases even further because a lot of them can’t negotiate and they can’t come and make an immediate impact which is what you

Want in January so I think when we Bear all this in mind and know that Eddie AA is working you know within his means and he he has to continue bringing out the best of his coaching ability to maximize what Newcastle can do then I don’t think anybody is

Would be putting any additional pressure on him by what the situation dictates well we know that um Newcastle were linked with Calvin Phillips it now looks like he’s on his way to West Ham darish how close is this this looks really close now um he’s back in the UK with

The rest of the Manchester City squad after they had warm weather training in Abu Dhabi he’s expected in London tomorrow morning where he will have a medical with West Ham United all being well this deal should be completed before the weekend and and one source is

Even told me it could be done in the next 24 to 48 hours it is a deal that is a loone spell until the end of the season but we understand that West Ham United do have an option to make that loan deal a permanent deal in the summer

A price on that option is not out there but one person has told me it’s in the region of around 35 million now there’s no real rush to get it done and over the line by the weekend because it’s FA Cup weekend in West Ham United are out the

Next game that they do have is actually on Deadline day deadline day night against Bournemouth at the London Stadium and as long as Calvin Phillips is registered by midday on Wednesday the 31st then he he is available to be part of that squad for West Ham United but

This one increasingly looking like when and not if Calvin Phillips becomes a West Ham player lean good signing for the Hammers yeah brilliant I mean I love the fact we’re talking about all the people I love genuinely CU you know me Mike I’ll say if I don’t like something

But I love Calin Phillips I mean I’m I’m really when I say surprised it hasn’t worked out Manchester City cuz very rarely the players go there and not succeed you know even when pep guard brought in a Ki people were thinking where is he going to play he’s been

Brilliant it was like 25 mil or something like that you know even though I’m a Manchester United fan he’s never going to come to man united being a leads boy but I would have welcomed him with open arms at Manchester United I think this is a brilliant signing for

West Ham hasn’t worked out of Manchester City but I have no doubt that he’s a top player I loved him when he was in the championship with Leeds you know the guy can ping a ball on a rope and he’s got the ability gal Southgate saw that we

Saw that in the Euros when he was playing in the two with Declan rice and ultimately he needs to be playing I’ve said it before G Southgate will pick players as we’ve seen that don’t need to be playing because he’s still being picked for England you know when he’s

Not playing for Club but I think this a brilliant signing for West Ham absolutely brilliant and I think that’s quite cheap Dar what you said 35 mil I think that’s relativ this is the interesting part of it because sometimes when you have a situation with a player

Like Calvin Phillips he’s still got four and a half years left on his contract so the Assumption earlier on in the window was he’d go for 6 months he’d still have four years left on his contract and imagine he plays really well plays every week goes to the Euros

Plays really well for England as well Manchester City still have him and then they can almost dictate the market value for Calvin Phillips it’s it can almost act as a little Edge and an incentive for a club to take the loan deal and say look we want you to have the loan but

There is an option but man city it is quite a high option considering he hasn’t played I know we’re talking about Calvin Phillips at his absolute Peak but £35 million they’ll be recouping the majority of the money that they paid lead United so in one way you can

Understand why they put the option in in another way you can think could they have taken a little risk here by not putting an option in and then him playing really really well for West Ham United suddenly more clubs will be interested in Phillips come the summer

And then that can drive the price up but say West Ham United don’t take up the option and he still has a good six months there that can still act in the same way as if it was a straight loan because then Manchester City will have a player who’s performed well who more

Likely than not will be going to the euros and then they can tell clubs well he’s actually going to cost you this much look how well he’s played he’s still got it I have no doubt though that he will be a success at West Ham I don’t

Know why I could be wrong but I still think there’s a player in there just hasn’t worked out but I do believe he’s got that little bit of X Factor that I think can work at a really top club listen why hasn’t it worked out for him

At City I think the injury initially for him it’s such a hard place to go and adapt with pep guardiola’s demands especially in that number six position which is so specialized and we’ve seen examples of it when rodri doesn’t play how much City struggle without that anchor that reads that position exactly

The way Guardiola wants it to be played um there’s also I I think once you don’t a climatize well and you’re on the back foot when you’re in such a winning machine you then have more ground to make up I also think that there’s no questions over Calvin Phillips

Professionalism his conditioning any of those things so West Ham are ultimately getting what they want which is steel stability more experience in their Central Area they’re getting a player who can play like lean said in a double pivot as we’ve seen with Dean rice but

Also in a single pivot on his own he’s short passing game he’s long distribution everything you’d want from a midfielder he gives you the uh combativeness you know the question mark will be he hasn’t really played much football two premier league starts in 18 months is not enough uh then the injury

Concerns but he’s a player with the right attitude a player who backs himself and in the right environment like we’ve seen with England England land he can Thrive the other point I wanted to make on Manchester City they’re actually not in the habit of stopping players from leaving to pursue

Greater game time no matter how good the player is we haven’t seen them stand in anybody’s way Fardo Silva yeah he was he was talking about going and was not let go would say if he wants to go if he really wanted to go he could go and and

I think with Bernardo what happened was so many other players had gone that they were in a position where city were like well do you really want to leave and he was like well not particularly particularly and I mean Bernardo Silva has been an excellent player for them

There’s no one that City have Gabriel Jesus Raheem Sterling two Rivals as well yeah they’re very good at letting players leave to get more game time while they also evolve it works out for everyone yeah okay all right we’re going to take a break uh when we come back

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Off at 8:00 now Fulham Trail by a goal they’ve made two changes from the side that lost to Chelsea in the Premier League at the weekend Timothy castania and Bobby dealova Reed are in for Kenny T and Harry Wilson burn Leno continues in goal what about Liverpool well

They’ve made four changes from the 4-nil victory over Bournemouth Quine kellerer replaced is Allison in goal Jerel K quanser Cody gakpo and Ryan grenberg replace Curtis Jones Dogo jot and ibrahima canate updates and goals as they go in here on skysports news throughout the evening right back to the transfer news

Gio Raina to Nottingham Forest Melissa is out a Goa Nottingham Forest are pushing very hard for that loan deal with a purchase option for the 21-year old but the problem is there’s a Twist Mar are now also in negotiations with bcia dortman for him if people remember Gio actually changed

Agents in December and he now represented by Mendes so it’s no surprise that he’s been offered to multiple parties because that will give him the Power of Choice he can select where he thinks he’ll get the most game time and I think that’s what his decision now comes down to it won’t be

About money and stuff because at 21 what he ultimately wants to be doing is playing regularly he had an injury at the start of the Season which curtailed him a bit and he hasn’t really featured much after that I think he’s made something like 13 appearances mostly

Cameo rolls so yeah marsill in the equation Nottingham Forest in the equation when you read reports in France it seems like Mar are quite confident but forests have done most of the heavy lifting here and I think they’ll push really hard to get it done and dusted

What’s your view on this one lean it’s a weird one because I saw him play a lot for nycfc and then he got the move to brucia Dortmund which I was quite surprised at and you touched upon it there Melissa you know he’s injured a lot there’s definitely a player in there

For sure but last year you know he kept picking up hamstring injury muscular injuries there was a period of time he was out for five months so if he can stay fit and healthy there’s no doubt there’s a player in there and then of course there was a lot of drama off the

Field of play with Greg Balter and his dad clao r so there was a massive Cloud over him I felt like going into this season and all that drama that was happening there’s no doubt there’s a player in there but he he just doesn’t stay fit enough for me and and it’s it’s

Not easy as a player when you’re always injured so that’s the only question mark I have over Gio rer is that will he be fit enough on a consistent basis to be able to get you know to help notam Forest but it’s quite a a crazy you know

From Dortmund to Forest is quite a crazy transition okay we will see uh we’ve got some breaking news stes what have you got yeah this is uh concerning a player called Carlos bour but actually wants to be called Carlos Forbes now Manchester City fans will remember him he was part

Of the under 23 Squad uh for the past few seasons he was very close to joining West Ham United in the summer he instead chose to go to Ajax in a deal worth 16.3 million pound now Melissa was saying about giio Raina Nigam Forest being interested in signing him and pushing

For a deal for him we’ve already reported as well that Carlos Forbes is a player that Nigam Forest are pushing to sign as well in the past few minutes I’m told that Burnley are also interested in signing as well potentially of course when they were he would have known him from his Manchester

City days as well I think Forbes will want to go to a club where he is going to get regular first team football he’s been to Ajax he’s made 12 starts in all competitions and he’s scored two goals I wonder whether he would get those starts

He wanted if he was to go to Nigam Forest ahead of Burnley or the other way around if you look at Nigam Forest players like Callum Hudson andoy might be ahead of him in the pecking order given his age and his experience but Burnley could be a club that will come

In and say look come to Burnley instead we’ll be able to offer you a little bit more regular first team football than if you were to go elsewhere so definitely one to watch in the last week okay I’m going to break away from the transfers because there’s loads of football going

On tonight in the Conte cup reading are playing Arsenal Jamie we is there there’s been a goal Jamie there has indeed Mike and it’s gone to the defending Champions Arsenal a constant wave after wave of attack from Arsenal reading are just camped in their defensive third and finally all

That pressure told CA black stus with a perfectly weighted pass right into the path of Caitlyn Ford who scored for the second game running to put Arsenal 1- nil in front but there will be more goals in this game the golfing class between these two sides is quite evident

At the moment it’s just constant wave after wave of Arsenal pressure evets in the reading goal has had a lot of work to do already and we’re just approaching half an hour gone here 1- nil to the Arsenal Jamie we thank you very much right back to the transfers now the

French media agency AFP reported yesterday that Karen Bena wanted a short-term move away from the Saudi pro league Melissa not true tell us why according to Karen Benzema and his Camp it’s definitively not true I think he called it completely false said the media making up rumors and yet the

French media saying actually this story stemmed from your club it stemmed from alad so they calling it a communication War there’s a lot of um friction between Benzema and the club because he was very late to turn up to training he’s been left out of the camp that they’re doing

At the moment so a feeling of isolation between him and the club uh and competing agendas being pushed forward but if you look at it for the Saudi League to lose Benzema who you know along with Cristiano Ronaldo and naar are really their pillars of attraction

To this league and who they built it around I think his contract is something like 200 million EUR until 2026 so one oppos to boy Fort two the fact that no one else can really afford him in well football there’s no really exit options for him it’s a really bizarre tale and

When you listen to the club they say he’s not going anywhere until the summer anyway so why we have these competing stories from the club from Benzema and from the French media themselves is anyone’s guess could could this be a PR exercise though as well on behalf of

Karen benzar I’m just looking at this cynically okay imagine the scenario where Karen benar does actually want to go and we’ve been saying that it would represent such a loss of face from the Saudi pro league if he was to leave that League within six months of him arriving

So if they’ve made it categorically clear to him you’re not going anywhere maybe it might be in benzema’s interest to say no no this story is not true I don’t want to go anywhere and if you think about how any potential deal would work a short-term deal away from

The Saudi pro league do we genuinely think the Saudi pro league are going to allow Karen benzar yet carry on and we’ll carry on supplementing your wages to whoever whichever Club you go to there’s also tax implications as well with a lot of the players you know like

Jordan Henderson’s had to forgo his whole salary based upon that and I was wondering what nunoo tento is doing at Forest because he’s come back quite quickly and there’s a lot of tax implications for that type of stuff because you know Kim Bim are being on that much money a year that’s

Unbelievable but ultimately I think some players are going to the seli league and are okay with it being not many people there and they they’re going there saying they want to grow the league no for me a lot of them are going there for money which is absolutely fine I would

You know and I I wish that players would just say that and I think some players still have it in them still have that fire in their stomachs where they get there like a Jordan Henderson and think actually I want to kick on I know Jordan Henderson’s 33 but he still wants to

Play for England he still has those that ability to be able to have that fire in his belly some players some managers just stepen Gerard’s at the same Club signed the new contract the same day that Henderson wanted out of there so you know Different Strokes for different

Folks things work differently for some people how bad a look would it be though for the Saudi pro league if Benzema was to leave yeah I mean I think it’s not good for any of the players that are wanting out I think they obviously want people to go there to grow it obviously

They got bigger things in mind the World Cup in 34 like I went to Qatar many years before it became being the World Cup because they’re obviously planning to do this and they want the players over there to be ambassadors like Cristiano Ronaldo is doing that’s the

Reality of it but some players are going there and they’re probably thinking you know the stand isn’t where what I don’t know what they expected if I’m being honest because what did they expect if you look at the squads that they have by bringing in a couple of players it isn’t

Going to it might raise the level in the everyone looking at the league but the quality of everyday training isn’t going to be the same so I mean I don’t hold it against the players for going but I’m certainly sure that the Saudi League do not want the players to be wanting to

Leave at the first moment they can that’s the thing that that hits home to me the first opportunity they can get out they’re trying to some it’s one thing Jordan Henderson leaving it’ll be completely different C of fish if Karen Benzema was to go for all the reasons

That Melissa mentioned there aside of Ronaldo he is the post the boy for the Saudi pro league and it would just be such a bad look for them and I think it they’d lose so much face if if he was to go an intriguing elements of this as

Well is that Benzema usually when he wants to send a message he does these cryptic social media posts this wasn’t that there was direct contact to leip and other French media to say where has the story come from it’s completely false I’m settled I’m fine I’m I’m okay

Um and that I found interesting that it was a direct contact from him to set the record straight okay we’re going to break away from transfers again just for a moment because it is carabal cup semi-final second leg time and it’s Fulham who’ve never been to a League Cup

Final against the nine times winners Liverpool here’s joggen klopp well urgen tonight the second leg of your 10th semifinal with Liverpool but this occasion is it as special as the first all those years ago oh 10 semi-finals it’s not a bad number how often did we go through well

I was about to get to that next that the other nine eight occasions so pretty good pedigree who knocked us us out that’s my question so no it’s um it’s good we are here um it’s a intense period it’s a very good opponent and I watched yesterday the press conference of of

Marco most important game of the season so far um and for some of them it’s how you make it what do you make of it and it’s it’s that’s an interesting question to be honest so if you would ask other players and and other clubs who won a

Lot then they would probably say yeah number one Premier League number two Champions League or european League then FA Cup then League Cup but we are here and I we were at when BL played the final there and I can tell you it’s worth each yard uh you run for it it’s

Absolutely exceptional it’s Sensational so that the competition is not always my best friend because we have from time to time we don’t know exactly where we fit the games in but um now it’s all good and now we have to play a really good game because otherwise we will not be at

Vle what as we touched it already historically you have had great success in semifinals so what is so key to that on nights like this these big occasions oh I would have a recipe for that I would write a book sell it and um first and foremost the second leg

In the semi-final is definitely the first result has no real impact so it’s not important um because we not going are not here to defend the result or whatever we are here to win a football game that will be will be difficult enough um and yeah that’s pretty much

All be just as good as you can uh in two leg semi-finals but they are usually um you have anyway uh one away game so and you have to make that that that doesn’t count actually so we have to be calm the atmosphere down tonight with our

Performance can we do that I don’t know but we will try it kickoff at 8 goals as they go in right here on Sky Sports News now when we went to the last break I teased lean and said we’re going to talk Manchester United we didn’t we will when we come

Back from this one we’ll also have news on Celtic Aston Villa West Ham and more that’s all on the way see you in a Moment the breaking news is kieren trippier news Melissa yes by Munich sporting director kristofh Frey he’s confirmed to our colleagues at Sky Germany that their pursuit of cuan Trier is indeed over it is done did that move make any sense for anybody darish well obviously for Bayern

Munich it must have done because they wanted him um we were saying cynically before not for sale not for sale but were they um relaying that message to buy Munich because they kept coming back with bids In fairness to Kier and trip here as well by all accounts he’s hand

This really well because he has kind of intimated you know maybe open to a move like Bayern Munich but has so much respect for Newcastle United as well that he knew that if it didn’t work out he was going to abide by the decision that Newcastle United made and that

Decision is you’re not going anywhere so he stays put he does stay put all right uh jumping away from transfers yet again uh Cony cup reading against Arsenal last time we were with Jamie we he said there’d be more goals he was right Jamie I was right Mike and I I meant more

Arsenal goals when I said that and that has proven to be the case a lovely slick move one touch football Steph catley whipped the ball in from the left and stina black stenus was there to volley from close range to make it 2-nil an assist and N goal for stina black stus

Who along with her fellow Scandinavian Freda manum is at the heart of everything that Arsenal do when they’re in full flow attacking they are a joy to behold and this could turn very ugly for reading indeed because it is all Arsenal reading can barely get out of their own

Defensive third and I think there will be more goals and I think they’ll be the team in red it’s currently 2-0 to the defending Champions amam we thank you very much right we got there we are going to speak manester United Anthony martial has been confirmed that he’ll be out for

10 weeks after surgery dares will this change Eric tenh hard’s plans in this window I as it stands I don’t think it will change much with regard to Manchester United’s transfer plans in this transfer window as you said it’s growing surgery he will miss 10 weeks but we know that Manchester United are

Planning without Anthony martial in the long term already his contract is up in the summer they’ve decided not to trigger the one-year option he’s decided that he’s going to stay he’s not going to play for a little while anyway there’s a chance who knows that he might

Have actually played his last game for United already but does that mean United will need to go into the market and replace him probably not because the likes of Martial and Jaden Sancho have hardly played for United this season anyway so who would they actually be bringing into to replace it’s it’s one

Of those where they’ve basically decided martial isn’t part of the plans at all United throughout this window have been keeping their eyes open and that was before and after the martial injury anyway and it’s predominantly the loan Market that they’re looking at there was talk of Eric chuper moting from Bayern

Munich Bobby broby from Ax who Eric hog knows really well but our information at the moment is is that there’s no player that is hot at the moment with regard to potential incomings at Manchester United that’s not to say that they won’t go into the market the last two transfer

Windows Manchester United on Deadline day have made loan signings Marcel sabitzer in the January window last year and in the summer transfer window they spent big on permanent signings and right on Deadline day they brought in alai Bay India for around5 million p on a permanent deal but they brought in

Sergio regon and sophan amirat on loan so it can’t be ruled out but as it stands it’s not something that is is hot for Manchester United just now lean dares is teasing us he’s saying no but maybe do United need to go into the market do they need to get better

Players in yeah I mean it’s been going on for a long time that we’ve needed better players but I think the best thing for me this window is we have a new Chief you know sporting director at the club Omar bar I think that for me

Has been the best signing of the window that we could ever do I think think you know I cannot believe that Anthony martial has been at Manchester United for nine years he be coming into his ninth year and you know I think he’s one of those players that people say he’s

Got a bit about him but to have been at Manchester United for that long and not really produced he’s had a couple of moments of Brilliance don’t get me wrong but to have been at a club like that you know for that long for me but the fact

That Manchester United got the new you know sporting director in now 10 years without one it’s incredible to me so hopefully to Jim rackliff we’re starting to see only 25% we wanted the whole club sold let’s be honest the fans did but we’re seeing small changes and the fact

That we’ve got from Manchester City come from Barcelona as well there’s something in there I like the fact that the wheels are turning but right now who’s out there that we could potentially get you know a lot of people saying oh you know aiman is the only number nine that’s

Really available but for me Manchester United you know he mentions a bit earlier but without veg horse those types of players coming to the club for me how is this even possible and then furthermore amrabat comes to the club everyone that comes to Manchester United right now doesn’t seem to be thriving

How many signings can you say we’ve made where they’ve actually apart from Bruno Fernandez a couple of years ago in a January transfer but other than that why honestly I I’ve been asking myself this question for a long time even going back to you know Paul Pogba all that during

That time like they come to us with all this Prospect and people say you know sometimes the shirt’s too heavy I’m not having that all the time I’m not having that anymore because you know amrabat had a brilliant World Cup come to Manchester United he was playing left

Back at times when Luke Shaw was out so you know but he hasn’t really done anything so when you look at the signings that we’ve made Donnie vaner bake’s now gone to irre Frankfurt but there isn’t really any players that you’re looking at Man United and you

Think you know when I went to Old Trafford last week I’m looking at the Stalls outside and there’s not one player that I think you know what I really want to be I want to be like you when I was a kid and that’s genuinely the honest truth Manchester United back

In the day Paul skulls Gary Neville Roy Kean the list was endless of Legends of our club now you look at and you think who’s my favorite player at Manchester United probably Luke Shaw that’s the honest truth whereas before I could reel off you know four or five players that

I’d be thinking I want to watch them I want to be like them when I’m older watch everything they do right now I’m looking at and I’m thinking who the consistency just isn’t there yeah that’s because they’ve been signing players without any sort of sporting structure a successful sporting structure a sporting

Structure that’s in sync and today actually marks one month of inos and serim Brad Cliff’s stake being confirmed to the New York Stock Exchange and in that time they’ve made one significant move which is bar CEO and there was a very senior executive from a London rival club that messaged me when that

Happened and said now they’ve got our attention because when inos took charge and it was you know ordained that they’re going to be in sport and control of the club a lot of the rivals thought well how is this going to work it’s only a 25% stake the glazers still have you

Know the decisive saying matters can they work together can you separate sporting operations from the commercial activities of a club I think in this first significant step where they’ve gone and poached somebody from Manchester City a man who’s also been very successful under different guises for Barcelona that is psychologically

Huge the statement it sends to football to people within United but also to other Executives that they can lure in terms of sporting directors heads of recruitment it does make a huge difference and I know people want the headline names they want the me Mega Money signings to talk about during the

Transfer window but United have done that regularly have spent ridiculous money on players without a proper plan a glued up plan they’ve just bought whatever yeah whoever managers wanted even Eric tag has got players he wanted that don’t make long-term sense for the club and now what United are saying is

Hang on that’s how we’re in a position where we can’t really spend we can’t sell we’ve given out Duff contracts that have now put us in a very awkward situation which they’re trying to overhaul that process and the way to solve all this is to cure the sporting

Structure if we get that in place if we are World Class off the pitch that’s how we return to being world class on the pitch it’s it’s easy for fans it’s it’s natural for fans bring a signing we want to bring in a signing inos have come in

They’ve taken control of the sporting operations of the club I don’t think their biggest worry is in a January transfer window do we need to bring in someone to cover a right wing they need to they’ve said this is the issue at the club let’s go to the top so now they

They’re trying to build this structure Chief Executives in the next recruitment position is likely to be sporting director or sporting directors recruitment team suddenly you’ll have a a structure in place and an infrastructure in place whereby everyone is talking from the same page and doing signings from the same page so it won’t

Be down to one particular manager to say I want that player or we better get him that player because what has happened is in the past 10 to 15 years Manchester United has been operating in a way that has been unsustainable simply because they’ve gone into a position where

Instead of changing the structure they’ve changed the manager and they’ve changed the manager and not one manager Bears any resemblance to the philosophy of the previous one and what ends up happening is one manager says I don’t like these players I need 200 million so

I can get my own players in that’s fine does it manager doesn’t work the next manager wants to do the same and in the end what ends up happening you end up with a mishmash imbalance Squad that that Manchester United have now and Eric ten hog is in going into the market

Trying to bring in players that he he knows inos have said this is wrong now and the glazers have effectively admitted that they’ve been wrong because they brought in someone who’s got a 25% minority investment but with that minority investment they’ve said you are in charge of the football operations by

Saying you’re in charge of the football operations that is an admission that they’ve got it completely wrong for the last 10 to 15 years can I just say something really simple well real quick yeah really quickly I love the fact that Manchester United have done this so

Quickly in it was like almost done in the back door and it happened because look at the Frankie D Young Thing a couple of years ago it was ongo Ono on goinging and it never got done so credit to the club for actually making this

Happen in a real quick way see I told you I’d let let you talk about Manchester United does sound like you fans are going to have to be patient for a while though all right we’re going to take a break when we come back more news

On West Ham we know the Phillips Deal’s almost done news on further potential signings plus we’ve got some outgoings at Aston Villa and Celtics see you in a moment halime reading against Arsenal uh Arsenal lead 3-0 updates when we finish at 8 here on Sky Sports News now we know

That West Ham are closing in on Calvin Phillips more news coming out of West Ham dares yeah throughout this transfer window it’s our understanding that they’re they’re after a left-sided forward player and talked to advancing now between West Ham United and the Danish Club norand over the 19-year-old

Winger Ibrahim Osman um it’s understood the fee under discussion because it is a permanent deal because his contract is up in the summer it’s for around 15 million pounds he’s he’s a graduate of the right to dream Academy the same Academy that Muhammad kudas came from as

Well West Ham still looking at the alad forward jotter as well completely out of favor in the Saudi pro league that could prove more problematic he’s purportedly on around2 200,000 a week but the Ibrahim Osman one that one looks like it’s advancing okay as usual we’re Galloping through because we’re running

Out of time Melissa brenford closing in on a goalkeeper tell us more yes they’ve agreed a fear off around 2.6 million with the Swedish Club elsburg to sign the goalkeeper hwon vladim Marson he’s 22 he’s been kept five times by Iceland he’s flying into London to complete his

Medical interesting with this is what does it mean for David R we know he joined Arsenal on loan but there was an option of27 million to make that deal permanent but it was an option that would turn into an obligation if certain conditions were met including how many appearances he makes and he’s

On course to make quite a few so keep an eye out there absolutely dhes departure at Celtic not quite let’s not scare Celtic fans just yet but they’ve received a bid they’ve received a bid from Atletico Madrid for the highly rated Matt oy it’s an initial loan plus

An obligation to buy but he signed a new contract last year it’s up until 2027 but there has been interest from shirona and Inter Milan so you know a bid for him it shouldn’t come out of the blue but Brendan Rogers considers him as a really key player of his Squad really

Quickly leando dandona what’s the news with him yeah he’s in Rome been having a medical ahead of a move to Napoli we can see pictures of him now it’s understood he’ll move on loan from Aston Villa to Napoli and there’s an loan an option to make it permanent for around 8 and a

Half million pound damesh Melissa lean thank you very much great to work with you at last lean there is carabell cup semi-final second leg at Craven College Fulham against Liverpool Liverpool lead 2-1 Fulham last year went out to Crawley in August this year they can turn over Liverpool they’re in the League Cup

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