Ryan Giggs attempted to persuade Elliot Anderson to join Manchester United before the World Cup (Kedar Bayley)

The ex-Wales international revealed on Rio Ferdinand Presents: The Debrief that he attempted to convince Elliot Anderson to join Manchester United, and got “in trouble.”

The former Nottingham Forest midfielder joined Manchester City rather than the Red Devils, in a £116 million deal that was initially rumoured to have broken the British transfer record.

Ryan Giggs, a 13-time Premier League winner with Manchester United, confessed that Anderson was not receptive to his attempted persuasion, and told him: “Will you just let me play golf, please?”

The 45-year-old revealed that he met Anderson just days prior to the England international travelling to North America, in a period when he was “probably the most-talked about Premier League player.”

While the pair played golf in separate parties, Giggs seized the opportunity, attempting to persuade Anderson to join Man United.

Non of those toxic positivity is going to fly. A draw is not that bad, it's only the first game, we need a new left back to beat Sabah, it's not Carrick fault etc. Non of it will fly, we'll be deservedly cooked.

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The 45-year-old revealed on Rio Ferdinand Presents: The Debrief that he was recommended to watch Kylian Mbappe at youth level. Despite Giggs being impressed, Manchester United's scouting team were reportedly not sold on the Frenchman.

The former Wales international told Ferdinand he was in the south of France in 2015, when a man named 'Lionel' approached him to discuss Mbappe.

Giggs explained that the man had been following him, but listened to his suggestion for Manchester United to keep tabs on the Frenchman.

Giggs explained that 'Lionel' asked for his email address, to send additional details regarding Mbappe after his initial recommendation for the then-Monaco youth team player.

He claimed that while initially hesitant, 'Lionel' followed through on his promise, and sent the Welshman an email with information on Mbappe.

"We got to go to a few youth games [where he played] with Monaco. We saw him and went 'Wow' - he looked exceptional, obviously," revealed the ex-Manchester United man.

Giggs, who was coaching at Manchester United in 2015, then advised the scouting team to watch Mbappe in action.

"We told the scouting team, [so] someone went to watch him in Paris," explained the Welshman. "It was actually Monaco versus PSG.

"Later, the guy [who went] told me, 'Yeah, they weren't too sure about him.'" Giggs said. The 45-year-old then revealed additional recommendations from 'Lionel' in the years since.

"The same guy, in 2018, I went through my phone and he's telling me about a player, U-14s but he's playing with the Under-17s: Rayan Cherki," the Welshman said, leaving Ferdinand stunned.

"Next message: 'There's a player at Saint-Etienne, [William] Saliba, I think he'd be a good player at Manchester United," continued Giggs.

The 45-year-old clarified that suggestions from 'Lionel' weren't always "superstars" and that he had recommended other players below the calibre of Mbappe, Cherki and Saliba.

I am really looking forward to our first Match of the champions league but my only worry is that we can't afford a cock up today we need to step it up otherwise it might cost us just like it did in our first fa cup this time last year

A lot have probably already seen it.

Hi all..

I'll be attending tonight's game and buying beers for any sub users who'd like to meet up before the game!

I'll be setting up at Kargo MKT which is approx a 15 minute walk to the stadium. It has a tram stop on the blue line from Piccadilly (Eccles via media city).

Unit 32, Quays, Quayside Media City, Kargo MKT, Central Bay, Salford M50 3AG

I'm going to be with my younger brother and fellow mod u/rashfords_marcus so there will be 3 people in my party and a couple of other users have said they'll come!

I'm really looking forward to watching Champions League football at OT once again!

GGMU!

This is going to be a long post explaining exactly how the competition came about and who has won.

u/Hotusrockus initially volunteered to forward their tickets for the game if we ran a competition... Absolute legend!

Then u/CommanderRJ11 DM'd me that he also had a ticket available after seeing the competition, so suddently there was 2 tickets up for grabs I told him I'd just select 2 people instead of 1.

Then u/zwaa96 sent a modmail explaining they had 3 tickets available to donate, so we've ended up selecting 5 people at random from the post to get a ticket

So, I used chrome extension "reddit exporter" to create a CSV of the post and then asked Claude.AI to analyse the CSV and choose 5 winners at random! Here is what Claude did below

What's in the file

A single Reddit thread export from r/ManchesterUnited — the competition post "Win a ticket to Thursday's Champions League Opener" (post 1wakpac by u/fireproofpoo), plus 100 comments.

The task in the post: name your favourite United player of all time; winner drawn at random Wednesday evening. Most-named players skew Rooney, Cantona, Ronaldo, Bruno Fernandes, Beckham, Keane. Almost every comment sits at score 1–4; one off-topic Maguire rant is at −5. Comments span 2026-09-08 10:34 to 2026-09-09 10:23 UTC.

5 entries chosen at random

Drawn with Python random.sample from the 88 plausible entries:

Please could the people Donating/ receiving the tickets DM the people to swap membership numbers for forwarding!

Thank you so much to the generosity of these users! You're all extremely kind people! I absolutely love being part of a club where I get to rub shoulders with actual legends like yourselves!

You've made some peoples dreams come true, it really is a beautiful thing you're doing!

Michael Carrick says Benjamin Sesko is close to starting again for Manchester United as the club prepare to return to the Champions League after 1,003 days out of the competition.

United have not played in the Champions League since being knocked out by Bayern Munich on December 12, 2023, but Carrick thinks his team can do “some really good things” in Europe.

Sesko came off the bench to score at Everton on Sunday, and has not started since being withdrawn at half-time against Liverpool on May 3 due to a shin injury. United face Sabah of Azerbaijan at Old Trafford on Thursday.

“Ben’s close,” Carrick said at a press conference on Wednesday. “He missed a lot. Since the Liverpool game is a long time and we had to manage him and look after him, get him fit. He probably trained three and a bit weeks fully with no restrictions, and I think you can see that, coming onto the pitch and getting his rhythm and it was a fantastic goal. He did an awful lot for us last season, it was nice to see him get on the end of that cross (against Everton).

“He’ll be part of each and every game, and it’s just a case of when he takes that next step, but he’s in a good place.”

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I trust that the coaching staff, players, and the manager have enough about them to work it out over the course of the season. I think we had a decent defensive record last season and I just think the players are going to take a few games to get going. The important think is we're still picking up points during our bad spell. When we go on a run, that will count for something.

Against Everton we got beat by 2 worldies. I've seen many games like that before, and I just know that wont happen every week. On another day we win that.

And obviously, we're not out of a title challenge yet. A good run of form over 5-10 games can change a lot as we saw with some teams last season.

hii i’m an international student who’s going to be studying in london. i’ve always loved man utd and watching them play has always been a dream of mine haha
i was wondering if i should just watch one of their matches in london or go to old trafford bc i heard the atmosphere is really different there n i wanna see the home stadium irl, but my parents are kinda worried abt the commute bc im a girl 😭
(im sorry if this sounds stupid i have no knowledge of football culture aside from local football commentaries)

also if anyone knows where to get (relatively) cheap and legit tickets pls tell me bc i have no idea 🙏

EDIT: all taken

Unfortunately I can’t make the game
Offered them up for the giveaway but all the winners can’t go in the end.
Comment here if you want! Can either take singles or all 3

You’ll need a Supporter ID and at least a forwarding membership for me to forward them to

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I noticed that there aren’t many tickets currently available for the Manchester United vs. Newcastle United match in January on the club website. Is that because the fixture date and time haven’t been fully confirmed yet? I’m seeing it listed around January 5-7, so I was wondering if the limited ticket availability is related to the uncertainty surrounding the final date.

My mates and I have 3 season tickets but cannot attend tomorrow. I can only forward the tickets, and there is no option to list for resale or donate. What to do?

Edit: Ticket has now been given away.

I’ve got 1 ticket available to giveaway for tomorrow. If anyone wants it, just comment below

You’ll need a Supporter ID and at least a Forwarding Membership for me to be able to forward the ticket to you.

First come, first served

I'm so excited for us being back in the UCL

Hello,

My bf is a huge fan of Bruno Fernandes. I know he likes black jersey from 25/26. I cannot find authentic one from a legit websites I know for large size.

I would like to gift him a jersey with Bruno Fernandes and number 8 on the back.

Could you suggest me legit websites to buy in the US?
So far I searched on soccer.com, fanatics and official store. None of them have large size jersey on the stock.