Mark Critchley
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1,840 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jul
Mark Critchley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This was something that helped them gain an advantage over rivals who sometimes were willing to pay a bit more.
And even then, in those circumstances, though, you think of the Mbumo deal and how long that took to get across the line.
There was a lot of penny-pinching.
Penny-pinching probably isn't the word, but a disciplined approach, I think, is fairer to say.
They still would only pay what they thought the player was worth.
And that has been very much the mood music that's been coming out of United over a while now.
Omar Barada did an interview with a guy called Andy Mitten.
I'm not sure who he is, but where he said earlier this month, we have to be really disciplined.
It's simple.
We have a plan.
We know what we can invest and we have to stick to that.
It's very important that you don't let the market or agents dictate what we should be doing.
Now, he said that nearly a month ago.
I think we've seen that approach.
in action over over this over this transfer saga it will be judged ultimately on results but I think it will also be judged on what's next because you know you can walk away from the from the table and fair enough but these holes that United have in midfield still need to be filled at some point and fans will forget about Mateus Fernandes if they've got a nice shiny Aurelien Tchouameni or somebody for example but if those positions aren't filled then there's going to be more scrutiny on that kind of disciplined approach absolutely
Yeah look I think to take a go at it first I think the plan was always to sell him this summer that can't happen anymore realistically given the severity of his injury that is a blow financially I suppose but it still doesn't change the fact that you need to fill those midfield spots that I was talking about before if anything it exacerbates the issue right because you haven't got an option there that you had on the books.
It's quite a complex picture.
I think United always wanted three midfielders this summer.
They wanted different profiles among those midfielders, as Carlos touched on.
You've got one agreed in Edison.
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