 Welcome to the Premier League show, Eric Tan Haag has been named as the Manchester United manager for next season. Steve McClaren's is number two, incredible. That is fantastic. How do you say fantastic? Good old Steve, back at Old Trafford of course. He had the very successful period there as the number two before, but he is joining the Tan Haag as part of Manchester United's new management team for next season. The job has been touted as a Poisoned Chalice by many. This is what the lads on the last fan-standard thought of that. Is it too big a job then for Tan Haag? Can he do it, Paul? Is it a Poisoned Chalice? Yeah, 100%. Yeah, it's the biggest Poisoned Chalice in football alongside Real Madrid pretty much and probably Chelsea to some extent as well. Although I think Chelsea will settle down now because ahead they'll have two. But now that there is the pressures of seeing at Manchester United then it's the weight of history that adds to that pressure nine years out of the league title now and that quickly becomes 10. And then when you're a 10, you know, all better off really. And it is that weight of global expectation from the fan base adds to it. And then in addition to that, you've also got all the players who were absolute legends of the football club, the ones who won everything, who hold the club to higher standards on the pitch and they are tearing that football apart on every single channel that hosts the football across the world. And I know all this because this is what it was like to be a Liverpool fan in the 90s and early 90s where you had to listen to Alan Hansen, try to explain to you why Bjorn Torcavala wasn't good enough to be a centre-back for Liverpool and be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, no one was really as good as you made. And so, yeah, you've got all of that and then you've got the bickering that goes on with it and then you've got things like certain players are performing, but maybe they're not really at the level for the team ethic and all that kind of stuff. And it's very hard to unpick what is good enough when you're in that sort of mind. And tennau, it looks a really good manager, good coach by all standards, but is he of the same standard as Klopp, Guardiola and Tuchel? Maybe he absolutely might be, but he's going to have to be at least that good, and even if he's that good, he's still fighting against the football club. Hmm, Poison Chalice. Is there only a Poison Chalice because people have just been a bit crap at the job? Yeah, Liverpool would have been a Poison Chalice, wouldn't they, before Klopp got it right? Everything's a Poison Chalice right now. Every big job is a Poison Chalice because fans are demanding. Clubs have had huge success and have big financial outlays. Manchester United have brought in Ten Haag because they believe he's the right man for the job. Now, time will tell. What I like about him as a manager is he's got... There's no baggage that comes with him, no fanfare. He is what he is. We went into Ajax and he came into Ajax as an outsider. They brought him in from another club within Holland. Teams in Germany were looking at him. They could have brought in Pochettino, but it would have been the whole thing of, well, he failed at Spades and he's failed at PSG really. I'm sure you've got the job a few years ago. They looked at Conte earlier on and again it's all a bag of this. This guy is a fresh face. He's new to the Premier League. What he's got to do is go in and sort out the dressing room straight away. The club have put their faith in him. What has to happen is at any club is that the club has to back up their side of it. This is something that we've seen at Everton. It doesn't matter what the manager does. If you undermine him, if you bring in players that he doesn't want, if you bring in the kind of players that are egos and it's all about selling shades or that kind of thing, Manchester United now have to back their manager completely 100% and say that you're in charge and you have, whether you're bringing in a technical director or how that works, we don't know, but they have to let him do his side of it. If he wants to get rid of players, which has seemed, Manchester United has struggled with it before, they've got to let him do his job and I think the fans will be on board. That's the thing. It's only a poison challenge if the whole thing is going wrong, not just the manager. If the manager is allowed to do his job, the fans will get on board. The fans have showed their side at the moment at Manchester United. They don't like the glazes. They want them gone. They think they've been appointing the wrong managers, but also not helping those managers. Every job can be a poison challenge if everything is around it is wrong. Obviously, to bring it in, it was very much his own man. He didn't buy me anything, he didn't buy me anything. He's done all the stuff. He's coming in, he'll get on with it, he'll want to get on with it. McLaren's an interesting one, because he's obviously been at the United at the number three before, so it's interesting on that one. It's just that long day allowing to do his job, obviously, Rangic there at the minute, will he take the director of football job, or will he leave John Mater and Darren Fletcher still doing stuff there. So, it'll be interesting to see. You talked about big egos, the big names and the dressing room. You've got to try and get a grip of that. You've got to be patient with them, because if you're going to try and put in a brand of football, that's going to get Manchester United going again, you've got to back it. One of those big egos is Cristiano Ronaldo, and he got a hat-trich at the weekend against the Norwich, and he bounced back from the Everton, beat Norwich, 3-2 in a tight game. He led 2-0 before ex-everton, cair yn dal, scored, and then put a great ball through for Pookie to make it 2-2, and then Ronaldo won it with a free kick. So, I got dragged then back in, obviously, into the battle for the top four. And then they played Liverpool and Amfield on Tuesday night, and what is obviously a grudge game normally, two big rivals, and it was a bit of a mismat, Liverpool destroyed them. In fact, it was 55 minutes, I think, before Manchester United had a shot. Liverpool don't have 4-0 winners, which led Bruno Fernandez to say, after the game, well, we've got nothing to play for, which I thought was a mad thing to say for a team that needs to be in the Champions League, and a team that's one win off the Champions League. I mean, obviously, it was a very sad situation this week. So they were playing without them, which was sad, but I think that shows the mentality of this team and how they are rudderless in many ways in the dressing room, and have the wrong... It's funny, isn't it, because for all the sort of winners they have in the dressing room, they don't seem to have the right mentality, and even coming out after the game and saying something like that is appalling, I think. What message does that send to your fans? But the club are appalling. The fans, for the knowledge game, they protest and were walking in on the 17th minute, and Manchester United on the 15th minute tweeted a video of their American fans celebrating, and it's just little things like that that just cause... Divisions. Divisions, and you don't need divisions, you need a club. Look at the top two, everyone buys into it, and that's what Manchester United have got to get back to if they want to start winning things, is everyone buying into it, and I don't really think personally that can happen under the glages. I really don't. I just don't think that if you've got people running the club who cause problems for the fans, that club, they're taking money out of that club. That money could be going into strengthen in the squad. They should be considering how big they are and how commercially fantastic they are. They should be hugely wealthy with everything. And they are wealthy, but the glages have took so much money out of them. I mean, the things like... Just looking at the stats in the Liverpool game, 14 attempts at goal for Liverpool, two for Manchester United, one on target. Liverpool 72% possession. It's like you've lost four-nil in a game. You know, Liverpool have beat them, they beat them four, five-nil-roll, Trafford have beaten four-nil-roll. From Manchester United, that's mad. You know, I think a lot of other teams would go out there and to Anfield and have better numbers. So, I want the biggest rival in the Premier League, which is, you know, rivalry in the Premier League. For me, United plays the team in a display like that. And, you know, they haven't... Again, probably they're bringing, you know, ragnig in. Again, it's let a lot of players just be able to go, we haven't even got a proper man. Let's just do what we want. There's a lot of... I mean, Oly, Donner Solsker said this a few years ago. He said, I have to be able to get rid of the plays. I want to get rid of them. He got rid of the Cachew, but he never got rid of Pogback, because he said he couldn't really fall through both of them in one summer, and he shut off. And that club is a little bit rotten. But what they have got is a manager in place and they have got the money to, you know, to train it round. Just Liverpool's very briefly on Liverpool, obviously. Very briefly. Manchester United there to go top of the league. Four-nil, two goals for most shallah. I mean, the first goal Manchester United defending on the halfway line against one of the quickest teams was utterly 3-v-1, basically it was for the fid Lewis Diasers goal. Manai, and shallah with two very well-taken goals. Put them top of the league with, you know, City when playing till Wednesday night. So, you know, go for them, they just beat Manchester City when we obviously didn't have a cup of the weekend, and went above them. City came back down the next night very strongly with a 3-nil win against Brighton. Big second half display. Could have been one of those where Brighton parked the bus a little bit. But Manai City went out second half and turned them over, got the three goals and went back top of the league and it's going to be ridiculously close now for the rest of the season. You know, both teams have essentially got to win every single game. It's crazy, isn't it? Every single game. The pressure that that brings. And both of them will finish in the 90s, the mid 90s. They've poated unbelievable points. It's just unbelievable, two unbelievable teams. That's a big win after what Manchester City, you know, put out a B team basically in the semi-final. It's a big win for them and put them back top of the league. Top of the league. In the race first, you know, because we just talked about Manchester United and that was what implications that had for the fourth place, you know, winning that game of the weekend. We saw Spairs play Brighton with, you know, early on on Saturday with the opportunity to poor a marker down for the rest. And we're beaten with Troshard goal in the 90th minute. Never got going. No, and obviously, then, you know, Arsenal were back to Southampton and then they get beat. They got beat. So you got, and don't get me wrong, listen, it was an unbelievable display by Fraser Foster in goal. He made some unbelievable saves for Southampton. Arsenal did really bad on them. But, you know, two goalkeepers in goal, one's touted as an England goalkeeper, the other's touted as a former in goalkeeper. But I know which one. And they're having goal because Major was huge. 23 attempts to goal. So you've got those, obviously. So Manchester United put themselves back in contention. Chelsea obviously playing, or at least basically guaranteed the third place. They've played. And then that led us on to obviously Wednesday night, Arsenal, away at Chelsea. Chelsea threw to the FA Cup final. I'd obviously beaten Southampton 6-0. There'd be four. And Arsenal come and score four goals against them. And Chelsea have suddenly considered four goals in two home games, which is, in both home games, which is mad. But a brilliant performance by Arsenal to put themselves, you know, could have been four defeats in a row. But, you know, Chelsea had 68% of the possession. 11 attempts to 14. But we're beaten four to two. I mean, some, a couple of the goals, one of them, Kety's goal. I mean, what Christensen was doing, just giving it, knocking the ball back straight to him. But, you know, great result for Arsenal, because there was, again, crazy talk that Arthetta was getting questions again as whether he should remain as the manager after losing three on the rumbum. A huge game there. And that leaves, that leaves Arsenal toting them on the same point and on the same games now. Arsenal have got man united, of course, at home in the weekend. Did you face each other in a few weeks, but Manchester United, yeah? That's a massive game. It's going to Brentford. That race for the top four is going to go right down to the wire. It's hot enough, isn't it? It's hot enough when you're looking at it now. I mean, we show West Llammer with another team in the run on four. It's a bit different point of drift now, because they have been there home. First off, for West Llammer, it's just sluggish. But they were coming off the back of that game against Lyon, which obviously was, to get themselves into the semi-final of the Europa League. I think that, you know, West Ham are a classic team in and around six, seven, eight with the Europa League. They just don't have the squad and something had to give. And obviously, barely missed a penalty as well. At 1-0 up, that could have sealed it, but West Ham should have gone on and won it. Well, they ended up with 61% possession, 21 attempts at goal, eight on target, Burnley had nine attempts at goal, one on target. You know, and they've got out with a point, because, again, Nick Pope turned in a wail di display to grab them a point. West Ham, like you say, four-pointed drift. Well, they're in the race for the Europa League, isn't they? Europa League, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's mostly, should be... Five-pointed drifts, but play the game more. But it really, it's looking now, the Spades National have got a game in London tonight, a point on 57 points. So it's looking like the tattoo it's between, isn't it? You know, the game's over the weekend, so... Do you have a seat at the bottom? Damn, at the bottom. Really? You know. I'm sure Wofforda, Brentforda, Rowman would be able to get, give themselves off a chance, they had to win this game. Went behind early on, equalised through, mangybl Dennis even though looked about 46 yards off serve. And then lost it with the last kick of the game, basically. After they should have scored. After they should have scored, hit the post and they'll have stuck it over. And then Pontres Jansen's popped up with it, the last minute. The minute for Brentford. On a great one. Make sure they're safe. They'll play again. Wofforda are very much writing it now. Obviously knowledge lost as well as we said to Manchester United. So, Wofforda looked a bit of a loss course. Now they're losing home games after Titan Center. It's going to be a really difficult ask. Obviously Bayley drew one-one with Westam as well. So, a new castle practically, you know, secured their safety, they beat. They've got six points in two games. Lester at home with a 95th minute winner from Bruno Gimera. She also scored the first goal, which a face was ruled out for a foul, wasn't it? But when VAR checked it, Michael didn't have any hands on the ball. So, deal harder, after that, I'm all the luck when I give Lester the lead. You followed her up in midweek with the Almarong goal. He beat Palace one-nil around. 20 points. Incredible. See, that was one-one game in December. They bought well. They bought the players in all the right areas and they bought well and they're keeping clean sheets and they're getting the old goal. That's all you can say. They got the right players in. They didn't go over the top. They bought one really good player and everybody else was the right kind of player, a striker and they bought exactly how they should have bought. And it's got them out of trouble. They said, Lester, then Lester went to Goodison obviously, went to the night, took an early lead, conceded the last minute. Conceded the last minute. They're safe, obviously mid-time. 41 points, haven't they? They're into the semi-finals of the conference league as well, so it'll be interesting to see how that dictates the next couple of weeks for them to see if it's now four points ahead of Ben, who obviously play tonight as we record. And it's going to be a fascinating few weeks at the bottom of the table as well. Well, looking at the table, obviously sitting ahead, 77 points from 32 games, Liverpool's 76 from 32 games and then Chelsea bit back 62 and then obviously we talked about Spurs Arsenal and United and at the bottom end, Norwich, 21 points from 32 games. They look like they're gone. Wofford, difficult, 22 points from 32 games. Haven't still got a game in hand. On Wofford. And then there's Burnley 25 and Everton on 29 and then Leeds just a bit ahead. Everton do have a game in hand. Everton and Burnley have a game in hand on Leeds who are on 33. So it's, you know, interesting, tight. And we'll see. It's going to be a big few weeks. It is, it is. The top, the middle and the bottom. And the bottom. Lots of stuff off the grab, so. There you go. Make sure you check out the rest of our last fan stand debate, the sort of stuff on there as well. The link is in the description. Subscribe as well. Subscribe. Leave a comment. Give them a comment, like and all that. Make sure you subscribe to us and if you want more videos including daily live videos on editing, join us on Patreon. See you later.