 It is the touch line here on Y254, now for your fan favour, the fans zone and we are to talk about some of the matches that will be coming away today. We got Leicester Vasa's Asano early kickoff but also Manchester United against Tottenham on the lead kickoff. How those matches will go, we'll be talking about them but we're going to talk about some of the talking points that have come your way this weekend and one man who people predicted will not make it to December or January has got to be Ronald Coleman who was actually sacked yesterday and now Barcelona is actually in shambles, joining us here on the fans zone to talk about everything that is happening in football. Maureen Muddoni, how are you Maureen? I'm great, I'm great, how are you? I'm good, I'm good. Love one, after Covid, even some messages have been on for two years, we're here, where are we going? Yeah, at least we are back now. It's hard to say come on, she said United dropped me for a shambles. For you to come back? For you to come back, those things need to start happening if you're not continue like this. And Erica Ganya is also here with us today. Eric, you were sitting there when you predicted it last month to touch up on what? I thought it would be a 2-1 or a 3-1 but I didn't, you know Liverpool, they don't understand jokes, you were just joking, you weren't that serious. Yeah, they don't understand jokes. We don't understand jokes. Yeah, they've made our youth to be very tough on social media. People, the streets are quiet. Yes, that's the status of Liverpool. Liverpool, Kiburi, I've seen. But before we talk about Manchester United and everything, Ronald Coman also has been sacked by Barcelona. There's got to be tough for Barcelona at the moment. Robert, we could see Barcelona's downfall coming gradually. It's only that it had not come out as strongly as it has right now. You would get back their troubles from way back when Messi was refusing to negotiate a contract and nobody was really trying to pin down the problem in that midfield. We also had the issues of the elections, the presidency when Giuseppe had to go and then we have Lapota comes in. Barcelona has had problems with their books. They are in financial crisis. People are trying to control that by selling the expensive players, getting players to train, get a salary cut. But these players are not going to do that. So you bring in Coman. I think it was like last year in August in the middle of these shambles and you're trying to get this coach to get these things going. So what profile did Coman have coming into Barcelona? I mean, what was his profile? What was that midfielder that was? He's a legend, just like a colleague. He's a legend. It doesn't have to be a problem, Eric. Because boys club, that's how it comes out. I'm your boy, I'm your guy, I give you a job. Lapota is so Coman like, this is my 92 captain. He's a super captain, he can help us. But I think I have to agree with Maureen. More of Barcelona's problems were off the field, more in the boardroom. Because you look at the past maybe three or four seasons, they abandoned their culture of nurturing young talents from the academy, bringing them up. They started making panic buys, panic buys that they didn't need. They bought Oswandebele, who is rarely fit. They bought Grisman, they had to sell him again. So you don't really understand. They bought Grisman when they have Messi. So Grisman does not fit, does not belong. And they didn't manage the transition of... You see, the strength of Barcelona has never been in their defense. It has been in their midfield and attack. Look at the midfielders who left. We have Xavi, we have Niesta. We have Sergio Busquets who is aging and very slow. We have Messi who had to go. Now, who came in to replace these players? You cannot have a tangible player. Maybe the one who has remained there is Guero. Guero is also aging and injury prone. And you find that is where the problem comes in. And Kuman, even when he was coming in, he was set up to fail. And we said it here, he's not going to last. And Barcelona are in trouble. For the next three or four seasons, they are going to suffer. And we've seen that transition took time in Liverpool. They had to go through a series of coaches to get it right with Klopp. Look at what Manchester... United is going through. That's the same. So Barcelona should watch what Manchester United goes through and prepare themselves for that. Good that you have got in Manchester United because that was my next point actually. Also in trouble. Laguna Solcia might not make it to December. This breaks my heart. In totality, it breaks my heart. But you see that it's almost a decade now and we have not gotten any decent thing going on for Manchester United. And it might get us. Honestly, it might get us. I'm looking at a team and a coach who I think are the most spenders in this transfer window. They brought in Sancho, they brought in Varan. We brought in Cristiano. And this is a team that is not even gelling up to today. We were thrashed five nil by Liverpool. That even hurts more than what else could be. I mean, I do not understand why we have no proper structure at this moment because if I'm to clean down our problems besides the players, besides the coach it is the structure that the coach or Laguna and his tactical bench are trying to bring out. What structure do we have? Sancho has come in. How many games, how many minutes has he got? Almost none. I don't know whether it's another up to a full game. We brought in Varan. We brought in our defense because Harima Goya has been Shambolic. We'll always be Shambolic. Their communication with Shoe on that game was horrendous. They almost costed us all those goals. You're trying to look at our midfield. We cannot, and I have said this and I'll say it again, you cannot have Fred starting every game in this football club. What if you clean Fred with Makromini? Because that is just Shambolic. It's a defensive midfielder like Kante. When Kante comes into a game, you're almost starting. This is a midfield that is going to be properly controlled. If it covers it, who is there. This is a midfield that is going to be properly controlled. If you go to city you look at a player, he's even aging. But when Fernandinho is there, if it's Roger that game gets controlled. You cannot have Fred controlling your midfield from the back. If you have Pogba, he didn't start that other game and I'm glad because it could have been Shambolic. It could have been worse because Pogba is an excellent player. That one I will not doubt. But the problem we have is Oleguna does not appear to know in what position should Pogba play. If he plays, he plays in wrong position that gets worse. Today we play Tottenham. We do not have Pogba's headache. Felix was my question there. But I was good to combine them with Oleguna and ask who will be fit enough for Manchester United because soldier is not good enough for Manchester United. In football you have a coach who assembles a team and we have a coach who wins trophies. You saw what happened at Chelsea. Lampard assembled 90% of that team. Broting kids from the academy into the first team and made most of the buys. But he was not good enough to win trophies. I think the hierarchy at Manchester United should have realised by now Oleguna is not good enough to win trophies. He does not have the balls to make the tough decisions. Look at Oleguna since he came. He has not sold anyone. He has John's on the payroll and he plays even once. What are you still having there? Why are you still having him there? So he's the nice guy. In football you have to be rootless. Look at Klub. He's very rootless. Look at Pep is rootless. Tushel once put in a player. 15 minutes the player didn't perform. Do you him? Does Oleguna have that? No. He doesn't have the guts to bench Magwaya who is operating at 50% You see simply because this is your captain. You are not going to win trophies. So Manchester United now need a coach because the squad has been assembled. We have a good squad relatively better than what we had last season because we brought in Varani to the defense. We brought in Sancho to the attack. The right hand side has been a problem for Manchester United and then we brought in Cristiano for experience and he is a non gold scorer and he has scored. Look at the games you have played against Villarreal. Look at Atalanta and people got carried away what happened when you played Leicester. I listened to Brandon Rogers. It was very simple. Manchester United were not pressing. If you are not pressing, you are adding pressure to the defense. If you are adding pressure to the defense, there will be mistakes. Oleguna does not know how to manage the 90 minutes in a game. He is poor in timing of his substitutions and we need a coach who can manage. And that is when you get in season winners like Conte. Conte's name being thrown in there. Personally I will go for Conte because already he has the Premier League. He has managed in the Premier League. He understands what the Premier League needs. You see, as compared to the Premier League, he is also good. He is a good tactician to learn the Premier League. Conte already understands that and the sooner the better because the beating will continue. It's so sad to say that but it will continue. Look at the game that we have. Next year at Atalanta we have Man City. We have Chelsea. How many points are we going to pick there? The problem is we are going to play Tottenham today. We have a manager who is hanging loose by a thread. Or every other person is hoping that Manchester United can beat Tottenham so that Ole Gunas job can be guaranteed. That is not an attitude you want to be taking to big games. We are going to face a terrible one month before the international break in November and even after the international break we are going to be horrendous if we do not make that decision right now. Tottenham has also its own problems but we have to focus on why are we not performing. We have a proper setup we have a proper team. We have the right players. It's only that the person who is coaching these players the person who is speaking this team does not appear to have the right technical advice whether he is not bringing in the players mentality right for the game. The players can also be sabotaging the coach who knows. We have Konte contesting for this job. Konte has premier league experience. Look at what he did with Chelsea over such a short period of time. If you want instant results and I know this because people will argue that Konte is not a long term solution. Who said we need a long term solution? Right now. We need instant trophies. We tried and brought in Mourinho because we were thinking instant success. We got a trophy or two but what matters here is the premier league trophy and Konte can't bring that. Let me tell you something you bring in Konte into that team Fred is never going to play. You bring in Konte into that team we cannot have green wood making all the passes for this he looks for the goals. That is not going to happen. So this club and I'll tell you Robert just like Barcelona Barcelona is a fan based club is mighty fan based in every other section we cannot have the board not listening to the fans they have to sit down they have to make a decision we cannot afford to go into December with this man Karaga said it the former Liverpool player said that the old boys are protecting the likes of Neville they come out and say this boy is good but when Mourinho was in they were bashing him left right and center and Karaga said it these boys need to tell him the truth and need to say the truth and this guy should be out of Manchester United who could be your next pick for the Manchester United job? Personally if I'm asked I'll go for Konte simply because he understands the premier league and he's a proven winner you need that you need that win because already if you look at the Manchester United team it's a team that doesn't have an identity we've had so many coaches with so many different styles that we were thinking that Ole is going to bring in the Manchester United way but he's not a winner we have to accept it he's a nice guy but we don't need a good guy we need somebody to win trophies and we are yearning for that champion league trophy that we have not seen in a very long time Konte will come in will make changes will make the system become better of course there will be casualties in terms of players you have a problem when he talks about Fred you have a problem when you are relying on Fred as a midfield anchor then you know your team has a problem because he is unreliable and maybe what happened with Pogba was a statement to the coach because if you look at that red card the challenge was unnecessary it was not dangerous you are in the opponents half in fact in the opponents 18 why are you going for a two footed challenge that's a message that Pogba is sending to the manager and the manager if they are beaten today he will lose the confidence of the players who don't rank him highly I have already lost confidence he is won nothing and if the beating continues he will lose the dressing room and that will be it I am telling you but I listened to Skulls speak among the boys of the class of 1992 I listened to Skulls speak after we won I will put in quotes 1 the game at Atlanta because obviously we scraped through that game and he said that how are you going to be playing in big games against Liverpool against Tottenham against Manchester City you are going to be beaten by half time and by the time you are going into second that is a game gone these are the kind of words we need to be getting out there I don't know where did our Nikibat go where is all these boys where are they we need people to speak for the club because apparently they both cannot listen to the fans we cannot afford to go another season trophy less we cannot afford to be scraping through games like this so what I am saying is if we win today my god I hope we lose because if we win that means that only good job we still stand so you need to lose today we need to lose the board can sit down and see you know what this is serious somebody better get us counter on the phone we just need to lose today's game it is the touch ready on Y254 Morin Mudoni Erika Ghazia here for the touch and Arsenal is still one nail ahead against Leicester City and we've got some of the matches coming away at five we've got Burnley versus Brentford Liverpool will be playing at home against Brighton and then Man City will be playing at home against Crystal Palace, Chelsea will be away at Newcastle and then Watford against Southampton then in the late kickoff will be Tottenham versus Manchester United Erika one team the beginning of the season we've got now nine matches I think nine matches at the beginning of the season no one ranked Arsenal no one thought Arsenal was a good team and all that Manchester United started on a high nine matches in level on point today Arsenal is winning against Leicester they seem to be a pretty good team what is the team at the moment Arsenal have Ateta and if you look at Ateta tactically he has worked under one of the best coaches that we have that is Peth so tactically if you compare Oleganga and Ateta Ateta is superior tactically it's not that Arsenal didn't have the right players and they don't have leaders and it becomes a problem when they trail they cannot come from down and win a game but if they start by scoring you are in trouble so what happened at Aston Villa last Friday today they have already scored so they are very high standards that they will win that game but he still needs maybe one signing or two signings away from challenging maybe for the Premier League but he's been building momentum and when a team is building momentum they become relatively unstoppable in game after game when you win that one game you believe the next game you are going to win and in the next game you put the next game more confident he started slow he started the season by being beaten to kneel by Brentford and then he came up and you've seen what he's doing before the Leicester game we were level at points right now as it stands at 17 we are at 14 and we lose today I don't know where we will I don't know where we will walk you don't have that scenario and one advantage that Arsenal is obviously having they are still in the Karaboka they are winning over there over the week obviously that will boost their moods more going into the Kutafainos of that competition then the lack of Champions League for them means that they have more time to prepare for these games if they play today and they have the entire week to rest Manchester United will go to struggle with Atlanta and that means when they come again for the next Karaboka they are going to be obviously more fresh I like individual players at Arsenal they seem to have a very brilliant attitude Smith-Rowe is one of the good boys that we have there the Saka it's exciting Arsenal have exciting prospects but do not write of Leicester we are playing against one of the most with all strikers in the Premier League right now, Jamie Vardy I do not need to repeat I do not need to repeat what Jamie Vardy did to Manchester United they also have a young kid for Dhaka they have Jamie Vardy they have Dhaka I mean where I come from Robert Dhaka loosely translates to Mad so do you Dhaka litu paka matope but if Arsenal defenders are not very careful they cannot afford to relax they are one nila but Vardy makes goals out of nothing out of nothing so if they do not take care of Vardy did not take care of Dhaka they have a good midfielder in the name of Thilman Thilman is quite good I mean this is a game and I am actually jealous of everybody who is watching this game obviously it is exciting it is as exciting as Arsenal we will get to it in the second half they are big ones there Arsenal are still leading Leicester by one goal to nil nine minutes goal in that game badly will be coming up but we've got Liverpool win against Manchester United big statement there but it also showed the class and the difference between Liverpool and Manchester United and today against Brighton you expect a tough win for them it will be tough because Brighton also knocks the ball around they are not a pushover and you can see on the log they are on the top six and they gave Manchester City hard time despite the fact that they lost but what Liverpool has perfected and what club has perfected he has perfected the 4-3-3 he has done it over and over and you saw the Manchester United game he made two changes bring him Jota rest manne bring him Katerin Havok before the injury in fact the injury was a blessing in this case because it was something that was not expected with his change of pace moves the ball very fast he will slow it down and Klopp has done that over the years and you see great managers have an identity if you look at Klopp he has an identity he plays heavy metal he moves the ball very fast to the space and if you look at Pep Pep will move the ball within the two players but also first words you have to have that and if you look at what Liverpool did last weekend they were making a statement we are in this thing and we are going for the 20th league title and you see they are up there with Chelsea they are up there with Man City and you cannot hide from that fact and you see the experienced managers and before look at what Watford did remember the Watford game against Everton Danzy won 5 nil Cloudio Ranieri Everton was leading he came and won experienced he knows he is a seasoned winner he assembled the Leicester team and won with it he went and came back because he is able to manage the 90 minutes he knows if this opponent makes this move I am supposed to make this one our coach sits on the bench and just sits and then waits for the 18th minute and makes a few changes here we are in trouble if you read war history they talk about generals and some of the best leaders when it came to war Napoleon was one of them usually said war is not one on the day on the day you go to war it is one when you plan for and Napoleon was good in that and much as United Oleguna doesn't seem to be doing that you are talking of Smetro Asano is already leading 2 nil so I told you the momentum the momentum is building when you are winning in every aspect of life even when you get a good win even you are working style changes you work with Moswaga if you have money in your pocket when you are winning that comes in you become unstoppable because if they win against Leicester today the next game they will win and you see that momentum they will definitely be on the top 4 and they are arrogant and they will be loud today I wanted to add a point on to Liverpool because obviously it is a team that you cannot ignore it has brilliant players I don't know whether anybody can argue that Muhammad Sadler right now is the best player in the world but you realize that player is not about individual that team is not about individuals you lose the ball you go for it the group, the 11 players play as a team from the goalkeeper the defenders everybody you remember how we considered our first goal it was Kater Skorin who was providing the assist it was Sala it was provided by Sala so it doesn't matter who comes into this field of play when it is a club side what matters is that whoever is called upon will represent as expected they fit into structure if it is a 4-3 and Milna starts Milna actually knows where to sit if Milna gets injured and they bring in our Handerson Handerson knows what to do I don't think you can say that for Manchester United because the coach has a philosophy exactly what philosophy we do not appear to have any identity exactly we do not appear to have any structure for Klopp he can get the team because when the players need to be substituted he can go and sit at the bench actually if Klopp was ever to be problematic and is given a red card and goes to the trenches you will not be surprised that his team will still carry on as planned because this is a team that plays not as individuals, not as Cristiano Ronaldo not as Greenwood, I don't mention them but as a team and that is why it is bringing in these results I do not expect Liverpool to be troubled by this game they are going to again it's Brighton I know Graham Potter has done a brilliant job with his team top 10 right now they are at position 8 this is a team that is not supposed to be in the top 10 anyway but it is there so they will be a bit problematic but for me if Salah plays if Mani plays then you expect always that they are going to get a breakthrough so what we are betting Liverpool but we are betting Liverpool here we go guaranteed but I will go to also another team that lost a call Steve Bruce formerly of Manchester Manchester United captain actually losing his job last week and now they are playing against Chelsea also at 5pm can't be a win for Chelsea this one it will be a win for Chelsea but not as easy as they had last weekend scoring 7 goals what scares you about the Chelsea team is that this is a team that can score 7 goals without a strike out of the field they didn't have Tim Moana and they still pumped 7 and come midweek they still scored 4 or 5 so you can see the level of confidence in that team that anybody can score and you seen their goals even coming from defenders their goals coming from the midfield and that is the kind of morale you want in a team and today they are going to want to keep up with the pace because they know Liverpool is likely to win Man City is likely to win so they have to win today and the sucking of Steve Bruce was inevitable after I didn't the only thing I didn't expect it coming that soon but he was to go with all that money being pumped in he was to go he was not to manage that and today Newcastle are going to lose again unfortunately they are going to lose again until they make they bring in some buys in January they are going to have a tough time because also Steve Bruce was really popular with the players if you've had Maxim's talk you've had their players talk they really loved him and that kind of destabilizes the team and it will be a win for Chelsea today as I look at that big one there Newcastle, Chelsea then Liverpool, Brighton Man City, Crystal Palace just a game where Man City might run Crystal Palace to the ground when we were used to watch Crystal Palace we used to love the fuma coach Roy Hudson we used to go against Godiola Godiola gave him the respect he deserved he could even go and sit in his bench they could talk while the game is going on do you want to suffer today? no not that much because again I look at Patrick Vera he is a man who has studied Godiola very well he was managing the other Man City you saw what he did last time they play similar football and you find that anytime Godiola goes against such kind of a team it becomes a problem for him Man City may win but it won't be that easy as everybody expects because during Roy Hudson's time Crystal Palace was struggling with discipline because Roy Hudson was an old man so he wasn't tough on them Vera has brought in that discipline they are really disciplined, the cards are not there and he has gotten a well balanced way to start Zaha and Benteke in the first eleven so today it may not be that easy and bearing in mind that Man City also played over the midweek it may not be easy for them tough one there that will be happen let's finish off with Tottenham you have already predicted that Tottenham will win this one she wants actually what happens is Tottenham is coming into this feeling they might not be the feel right team to win it remember Tottenham have problems of their own Nuno is not performing well I think so far it has really lost four of their club his job is also on the line it's not popular with the players these are London clubs obviously what needs to happen these are two coaches that both need to win so for me Manchester United need to lose so that Oleguna can lose his job that is what needs to happen you know this conversation used to happen five years ago with Arsenal now it's happening but you realize that when Arsenal went to play Tottenham for the London club that's when they started their current form I am hopeful that we can afford to be beaten five nil by Liverpool and then come today and we again afford to get beaten by Tottenham Tottenham off the field have chaos our hurricane has not been on a very decent form this is what I always say you saw what happened to Messi with Barcelona if a player submits a transfer request by all means let the player live so you have our hurricane here but Daniel Levy and his guys do not want to let him go so what are the repercussions you have a player slack in every aspect he has not been firing as expected so if Tottenham can get a hurricane they can get a human son on form it can be good I remember the beat Manchester City in the opening so it's not all gloom for Tottenham it's not all gloom for Manchester United but this is the one game that we need to win so that at least we can get our momentum going into the Champions League we have extremely huge games coming on we play Tottenham, we play Atlanta we play the Manchester City W then obviously we play Chelsea we play Arsenal in December it's going to be chaotic and results needs to start streaming in today so as much as I want I would want Manchester United to lose this game they better win Eric give us your last word on this game I think on the game the players not only on the coach but the players will also want to come out and say hey look here for the fans because they also have a reputation to keep and we have big game players who don't like losing Ronaldo doesn't like losing we have Greenwood Rashford who has come in and is trying to adapt into the game so I think the players will like to come out and put a statement out there we cannot lose 2 in a row or 3 in a row and we have to do it for the fans and you saw how the fans were so frustrated and I listened to Christiano Ronaldo after the game and they said we let the fans down the fans were amazing so I don't think the players today would want to let the fans down again so they will give it, they will put in a good shift I have seen rumors about the starting line up it's a good at least Varane is coming back into the team bring stability at the back and I saw Carl Radul saying it will be El Sakiko or head of the coach may be sucked in this game depending on how it goes we will leave it here on the touchline it has been fun here on the fans on Erika Ganya with us Moreno Mudoni also making a comeback let's say good afternoon enjoy the rest of your viewing here on Y254