00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World, my name's Theo Hewson-Betts and today I'm out on the streets
00:03of Manchester asking people about Manchester City and Manchester United and that's because
00:07on the weekend just gone the two teams played out a startlingly dull derby game, one of the more
00:11boring of recent times and really the reason for that is there's not much for either team to play
00:15for. Sure Manchester City are entrenched in a battle for Europe but really they should be able
00:20to attain that fairly fairly easily. Manchester United are sort of languishing in mid-table and
00:25so the question that we're asking today is which of these two teams do we expect to be better off
00:29in five years time? Now for City there's perhaps more unknowns there, Pep Guardiola probably won't
00:34be around that long and it's yet to be seen how hard that rebuild is going to be but the drop-off
00:39this year has been pretty concerning. For Manchester United they've been struggling for a good couple
00:44of years now really since Sir Alex Ferguson left and although there's optimism around Ruben Amorim
00:48and his appointment it's not started off particularly well. There are big plans with
00:52the new stadium so we're genuinely interested to see which of these two clubs people think will be
00:57better. Well I'm a United fan so I'm gonna say Man United. I think if City get hit with the charges
01:04then definitely United. I think it's a tough assessment with how far that United have dropped
01:10in terms of City because obviously we've fallen a bit further. I think they'll be just a little
01:15bit better than us. I'm sure they've got a much better plan because Pep Guardiola's
01:20only got two seasons left and Ruben Amorim it looks like he's going to be staying for a bit longer
01:26and the future's a bit more clearer for United in terms of from the fans point of view.
01:32We know who we've got, we know the structure, we know we've got a stadium being built
01:36so it looks like we've got a bit of a stronger base however right now City are in a much much
01:42higher position than United in every single way. I mean I'm optimistic about Amorim to a certain
01:47extent but we've not really seen much progress over the sort of short time he's had.
01:54I mean I think the charges will definitely help but I don't know if they'll get relegated.
02:00Manchester City are going to be, you know as a United fan it's hard to say but I think City
02:04will be in a better place than us but it's sometimes never about five years, sometimes
02:10about 10 years. Restructures happen and for a big team like United we'll always come back.
02:15I think five years consistently qualifying in the Champions League I'd be happy with.
02:20Awesome, again Man City where are they in five years time? Five years, hopefully Leeds too.
02:26I can confidently say that in 10 years time Man United will be back on top again and it's
02:33annoying to say because you want it to be now but at the end of the day like I said big teams
02:39always come back up, they'll rise to the top again. City are a big team. So there we have it,
02:45lots of unknowns for both Manchester clubs. The one thing that we can really hope for as a City
02:49is that Manchester will still be the footballing powerhouse that it is now. So that's all we've got,
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