Pundit and Media Watch on Aston Villa 24/25

[Rory]

Rooney Twathead - Rashofrd only wants to play for Manchester United.

Contrast that Total Embarrassment of a  Pundit to Clarence Seedorf.

Didn't hear the comments, but I thought Man Utd fans', manager's and pundits' whole problem was that he *didn't* want to play for Man Utd?

Hence being 'lazy', a gobshite, not trying in training etc?

[thick_mike]

Rooney totally blues

[rob_bridge]

Rooney totally blues

When he was hired by them I couldn't even be bothered to take the piss out the utter fucking stupidity of appointment to my Blues friends.

They Knew.

[eamonn]

I thought Wazza was the most interesting of the four tbh! Ashley is boring. Sturridge, a bit..off the cuff and Seedorf - a "macro man" - probably couldn't name more than a handful of our players.

Rooney did give us credit but it's hard to argue with his point that we fcuked ourselves in the first half.

[Nev]

I generally avoid 5Live breakfast these days. Jolly Hockey Sticks Rugby Union Fan Hag Rachael Burden and that Glory Hunting tit Edwards have made patronising the listener into an art form with their "playschool approach".

However, I know they review the football from the night before with a fan (s) on the line so tuned in at the usual time. We were afforded 3 minutes, Edwards confessed to not actually watching the game earlier, there was no discussion with a fan but they did play a clip of the pundits from last night. No mention of the comeback only a bit about the Manager making the wrong call in taking Rashford off, then a txt was read out making precisely the same point before they swiftly moved on to Woolwich.

Cheers.

[Chap]

^ Utter wankers

[LeeB]

I generally avoid 5Live breakfast these days. Jolly Hockey Sticks Rugby Union Fan Hag Rachael Burden and that Glory Hunting tit Edwards have made patronising the listener into an art form with their "playschool approach".

However, I know they review the football from the night before with a fan (s) on the line so tuned in at the usual time. We were afforded 3 minutes, Edwards confessed to not actually watching the game earlier, there was no discussion with a fan but they did play a clip of the pundits from last night. No mention of the comeback only a bit about the Manager making the wrong call in taking Rashford off, then a txt was read out making precisely the same point before they swiftly moved on to Woolwich.

Cheers.

My wife annoyingly listens to it in the car it was on when I got in last night to go to the game last night. They were talking excitedly about PSG to a French journalist and the BBC host said "I know it's been some time since they won it". He was taking about PSG.

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[OCD]

It was when they were going on about Rashford in the context of going back to United that I turned off. It seems if we want Rashford, we have to accept the circus that comes with him.

[AV84]

I think if he signed for us permanently the circus would die down a bit. He's still tied to the clowns in Manchester, so they're going to keep talking about him. If that connection was gone, half the stories would die with it.

[Smithy]

It was when they were going on about Rashford in the context of going back to United that I turned off. It seems if we want Rashford, we have to accept the circus that comes with him.

They all seemed to ignore the fact that we have agreed a fee for him, and all were assuming that it was a forgone conclusion that at the end of the season a deal would have to be struck and United had the final say (Sturridge in particular said it more than once that it was up to Utd what happened next).

My guess is that if we get Champions League, he'll sign.

We really need Man U knocked out of Europe soon, so they don't get into the Champions League that way.  Would be a sickener to see them playing at that level next year having been so tremendously shite for a couple of years now.

[AV84]

You'd assume they'd get roundly beaten at that level unless they have some kind of miracle happen over the summer.

[Dave]

We really need Man U knocked out of Europe soon, so they don't get into the Champions League that way.  Would be a sickener to see them playing at that level next year having been so tremendously shite for a couple of years now.

It would, but don't forget - it's only a year since they were last in it, when they stunk the place out and finished bottom of their group.

So while it would obviously be galling, it wouldn't fix any of their structural problems.

Losing finalists would be ideal so all their focus is on that on the last day of the league season.

[LeeB]

You'd assume they'd get roundly beaten at that level unless they have some kind of miracle happen over the summer.

Can you imagine what that lot we played last night would do to their defence?

[Mellin]

The current Man United would comfortably finish in the bottom 8 of the league phase. They are shocking.

[Smithy]

We really need Man U knocked out of Europe soon, so they don't get into the Champions League that way.  Would be a sickener to see them playing at that level next year having been so tremendously shite for a couple of years now.

It would, but don't forget - it's only a year since they were last in it, when they stunk the place out and finished bottom of their group.

So while it would obviously be galling, it wouldn't fix any of their structural problems.

Losing finalists would be ideal so all their focus is on that on the last day of the league season.

I don't want them to avoid being in it because I think they'd do well, I don't want them in it because it gives them scope to sign and attract better players.  And it gives them money.  Players that will join a Man Utd side that's in the Champions League are better than the players would join them if they weren't.

It's the same reason I want Forest to take one of the league CL places (assuming we get one of them).  It's one less "rich" club with a Champions League carrot to dangle in front of prospective players.  It's another year where we can close the commercial gap and start playing them on a level-ish financial playing field.