ESPN FC’s Mark Ogden joins Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens on the Gab and Juls Show to discuss Manchester United’s CEO Richard Arnold meeting fans in the pub. The guys debate if he knew he was being recorded and whether he said anything he will regret later on.
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Ah Man United fans, when they aren't forcibly trespassing inside the stadium to get a match abandoned, assaulting the police in the ensuing riot, issuing threats against and vandalizing the previous executives home… then they're threatening to come to your home and they are surreptitiously recording you.
And yet they wonder why they don't get the "transparency" they want. 🙄🤦♂️
I completely disagree that he should've stayed positive. I think he actually earned a little respect from the fans by saying what we know to be true. The club has been run straight into the ground by Woodward for years and at least this guy had the guts to come out and speak to these people and admit that the clubs been a disaster. The fans are sick of all the pr speak
He’s shouldn’t have did anything other than what he said because what he was his words. The honest truth. He’s not the media like you are.
He comes to me as honest imo.
Next time you want a beer, call Arnold about a protest 🤣🤣
Beer and sambos at number 10, Harold Wilson met the unions, back in the sixties got results. Inclusiveness is better, and discussions in an informal atmosphere starts to build a bond. What Richard Arnold did, at least on the surface which seems genuine, is the equivalent of beer and sandwhiches between Wilson and the TUC. The strategy got results, to a point, until Thatcherism came along. The Glazers and their destructive aggressive takeover represents Thatcherism. Richard Arnolds tactics could be, in a way, likened to those used by Harold Wilson. For the first time in decades a senior member of United management showed a willingness, and in a pub making it all the more informal, to discuss. Whether there is any sinister motve time will tell so keep up the guard. Cautious optimism is how I look at it.
Stop taking Ogden
Jules is wrong. Fans appreciate his honesty about how awful the Woodward era was. It humanized Arnold.
Football politics ! Come on wake up guys ! Do you believe in politicians? Its very very commercial club ! Only naive people still supporting this club !
Why is the Julien talking about Man Utd he never makes sense or has valid opinions , it’s not negative it’s the truth we’ve wasted money badly and the communication from the glazers has not been there if anything I think Arnold done it on purpose so that someone comes in to buy Man Utd because he knows the glazers are clueless American trash
Is it me or Gab speaks more clearly (and loudly) when he's not wearing his headphones?
This is why the media are losers. They cry about PR Speak and when people are honest with them they treat them like trash. Media is hypocritical.
Juls seems like a terrible journalist/analyst, someone that doesn't take accountability for anything. Its amazing how someone that should be responsible for reporting or analyzing based on facts seems to be discouraging honesty so much. I guess he's only good at one thing, defend Pogba by all means possible.
gab is so weird he will defend liverpool and united forever and throw chelsea and city under the bus, perhaps because those first 2 clubs are owned by americans.
never seen a more entitled fanbase
This seems to have been a set up
English fans are just looking for get mad at.
How can you ask someone to give their expert opinion on something they haven't even seen or heard themselves. Then they want to go and call other people naive etc. Poor quality punditry.
Everybody knows what he said ….it all came out weeks ago ….he didn't say anything anyone from the planet didn't know. What he did do is get a pointless protest away from the front door of this 🏠 house.
for the chief executive to go to these lengths to have communication with the fans is incredible!
Ogden actually looks like a human in the studio lighting, outside of the prison and horrid lighting from his usual Zoom prison
3:24 the moment Gab realised Juls hit his IQ capacity… might as well cohost with your grandma.
Maguire at 80 million must be the worst transfer ever glad all those responsible have been sacked 🙁
Because thats where issues are sorted in england. Down your local 👍🍺
Just here for Jules’ shirt 🔥
Always nice to have Oggy on
Fans recorded it because we need proof these people have been lying to us for 10 years
The last Bayern CEO used to do this all the time. I don't see where the fuss is.
These United fans who go to peoples houses need to grow up
What's there for him to be positive about? I can't think of one highlight of the entire season 😂. If anything he seems just as frustrated as the rest of us and speaking without any filter.
You have to respect the man to go down in a pub full of United fans. Not alot of CEOs would do that
Don't get it twisted guys (@ESPN) we want the players to leak things, especially when things aren't great. We the fans deserve to know what's going on, and if that is by leaks, so be it.
As a United fan it's nice to see the CEO acknowledge that things haven't been going well the last few years.
Mark Ogden , this leaked video isn't the same as players leaking information from the dressing room. Players are employees, fans aren't.
SPENT THE MOST IN THR PL IN 10 YRS, ADDED 8 UCL N A WORLD CUP TGIS YEAR AN OFFICIALLY UNITEDS WORST TEAM EVER SEWWWWYYY
He followed the "new CEO 101": blame the previous management and emphasize that you've inherited a mess.
Man United the gift that keeps on giving .
@ESPNFC do you upload the full video recording of these podcasts?
can’t lie i’m surprised that he hasn’t been used as a scapegoat lol
The fans have no right to plan to go the guys house. That's an absolute liberty. I give him credit for going to that pub…. all it takes is one roaster to lose his cool.