A lot of misremembering from United fans. Overall the player he became was a success and key to the team.
Whilst I agree his passing isn’t the best he’s actually more progressive in his passing, he passes forwards a lot more than I’ve seen from Rice.
That was always a stupid one. He played next to Giggs in a two-man midfield against Xavi, Iniesta, and Busquets. Carrick had no chance.
3 man midfield with anderson. There was the match against Bayern around that time he was blamed for a couple of goals too. And dembele and toure tended to give him a hard time. He was a very good midfielder (better than anyone we've had since) but he had a weakness or two.
Yes and personally I wondered if I was missing something when all that came about as he was just such an average workhorse to me, I really wasnt excited about him as a signing at all.
Who knows. I read figures from £80-100m as the rumour though. I think the main thing to consider with premiership prices is Rice for West Ham is there captain, young, English and there biggest player. Even if these figures are wrong, really couldnt see Wst Ham prepared to sell him under £65-70m for example which is still a huge huge fee
Probably be slaughtered by many. For me though I think people remember Carrick slightly with rose tinted glasses when he played a lot of his career for us in a weak midfield....and of course that midfielders since have struggled so much.
I agree with you, he got better with experience but in the prior years he was good but not as good as some memories
His passing from deep was very good in general when I think about Carrick being good.
His defensive positioning was excellent too. Stronger than his passing imo. He was slightly lindelof like passive in terms of sticking the boot in when needed though, only real weakness in an other wise well rounded player.
This, a very good player, not a great one.
Pressing was, but not that high up the pitch. The first coach who did that in the PL was Pochettino.
I think something that people should remember is that Carrick was our main defensive midfielder most of the time. People always compare him to the likes of Scholes, Pirlo, Xavi, Alonso, etc, and he obviously comes up a bit short in terms of passing and creativity. But the fact that he was close enough to be mentioned in the same breath as them while actually playing a different role (a role that none of them were defensively good enough to play) was a huge strength. It actually allowed us to do something that pretty much nobody else could do and play two true playmakers together in midfield (Carrick-Scholes), while all the others I mentioned needed a more defensive player to help them out. The only other team that could do something similar was Barcelona with Busquets next to Xavi.
Fair enough. But, I think having Vidic, Rio, Fletcher etc playing with him means we were not that exposed at the back. So, I didn't want to say it as one of his strongest points. I didn't find him very special in that sense when he was playing under Jose and VG without those players.
Prime Carrick would cost an absolute bomb and yes would transform our team.
I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
He's had a great night so far. The amount of times I've not got the hype with him it's only fair that I credit a huge half. He gave the Italian midfield a nightmare wit hand without the ball.Harsh to criticise for the genius of Chiesa there.
Yeah it is harsh to be fair. And it's difficult to expect a 'perfect' performance.
