Date of Birth: 28 Jul, 1981
Nationality: England
Appointed: 13 Jan, 2026
Contract until: 30 Jun, 2028
Coaching Licence: UEFA A Licence
Preferred formation: 4-2-3-1
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Michael Carrick | 2026/27 Manager Performances
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Date of Birth: 28 Jul, 1981
Nationality: England
Appointed: 13 Jan, 2026
Contract until: 30 Jun, 2028
Coaching Licence: UEFA A Licence
Preferred formation: 4-2-3-1
He was never good enough but we all already knew that. Unfortunately for him, he's the fall guy. This club isn't serious.
Far from it. I’m pissed off with the performance and result just like everybody else. I’m just fed up being told I should be more positive about a manager I don’t rate.
Two games a week with an inexperienced manager, this could be a difficult season. Carrick was ok for interim job, but when you start the new season you need a top manager, and you already saw with Solskjær.
We created nothing after going down 2-0. A good coach has an effect on the game, he had nothing.
I’m afraid we’ll go on a bad streak and he won’t know how to right the ship.
I’m afraid we’ll go on a bad streak and he won’t know how to right the ship.
I think this is close to it. They saw the name Hull and thought they’d just be able to play them off the park. Our best performances last season were when we were up against a team perceived as better. Bruno can usually be relied on to instill some fight, but he was weirdly subdued today.
I said it from the start so don't want anyone claiming I am reactionary
It was obvious he wouldn't be good enough. A lot of the games he won last season we didn't play well in, it was always going to catch up.
His seemingly vibes style approach only works when you have a good team, not when you have a team who shit themselves at the sight of the ball
We need a system manager till we can afford a vibes manager. Whether people liked Amorim or not it doesn't matter and I am just using him as an example but you need a manager who has a specific plan and style and back then 100%. We are not in a position to not have a manager that doesn't have strong and rigid principles cos then the players won't play with any either and just play with their fingers crossed
It was obvious he wouldn't be good enough. A lot of the games he won last season we didn't play well in, it was always going to catch up.
His seemingly vibes style approach only works when you have a good team, not when you have a team who shit themselves at the sight of the ball
We need a system manager till we can afford a vibes manager. Whether people liked Amorim or not it doesn't matter and I am just using him as an example but you need a manager who has a specific plan and style and back then 100%. We are not in a position to not have a manager that doesn't have strong and rigid principles cos then the players won't play with any either and just play with their fingers crossed
I'm not sure we ever had a chance. And it was being briefed that the club approached him in the last 12 months (can't remember when exactly) when he hadn't signed the new contract at PSG.
Just the same intensity issues we’ve had for years. Managers just aren’t able to fix it.
Groundhog Day. We are literally repeating the exact same pattern as with Solskjaer.
Anyone who was even remotely objective knew that Carrick wasn’t good enough for Manchester United. The guy had managed fecking Middlesbrough and that’s it. Once again, we fell into the trap of choosing a manager based on the current mood instead of using our heads and some common sense.
It was obvious last season that we had no real style of play. But we successfully relied on counterattacks and benefited from playing in only one competition. And let’s not forget that in quite a few games we literally got away with it despite being the worse team.
Today we played Hull. Hull. We can talk all we want about how good our new signings are, but against Hull, these players should be completely dominant.
I don’t know about you, but I’m fecking sick of the whole vibes, laughter and good atmosphere bullshit. Just give me a proven manager with an actual system for once. I couldn’t care less about the atmosphere at training, how nice and friendly the manager is, or any of that stuff. I just want to finally see United playing with a recognisable system. I’m sick of the improvisation and games where we depend on an individual player pulling a rabbit out of the hat.
Anyone who was even remotely objective knew that Carrick wasn’t good enough for Manchester United. The guy had managed fecking Middlesbrough and that’s it. Once again, we fell into the trap of choosing a manager based on the current mood instead of using our heads and some common sense.
It was obvious last season that we had no real style of play. But we successfully relied on counterattacks and benefited from playing in only one competition. And let’s not forget that in quite a few games we literally got away with it despite being the worse team.
Today we played Hull. Hull. We can talk all we want about how good our new signings are, but against Hull, these players should be completely dominant.
I don’t know about you, but I’m fecking sick of the whole vibes, laughter and good atmosphere bullshit. Just give me a proven manager with an actual system for once. I couldn’t care less about the atmosphere at training, how nice and friendly the manager is, or any of that stuff. I just want to finally see United playing with a recognisable system. I’m sick of the improvisation and games where we depend on an individual player pulling a rabbit out of the hat.
I'm not sure he has a personality at all. Always comes off as the most tedious, expressionless, monotonous stick in the mud.
All the greatest managers have personalities and attitudes. You can't be a leader if you're so boring nobody wants to listen to you.
Deserving of the wum tagline.
Worst game under him. Hopefully the half season with him wasn’t a fluke.
Yeah better not try and stick to ex players with zero experience managing a top flight team
It’s gonna feel weird being part of the manager out gang this season.
What did he train the team on in the fecking pre season?
A bit premature, but just give it a few weeks
Ole interim till the end of the season
Now Conte is the only top manager free.
How's that?
Can someone please tell me the plan today?
Bypass the midfield, everyone clog the middle and launch hopeful crosses at their keeper?
We looked nowhere near ready, fitness wise. Poor subs too.
Bypass the midfield, everyone clog the middle and launch hopeful crosses at their keeper?
We looked nowhere near ready, fitness wise. Poor subs too.
Amorim was well on his way to fixing it. It’s shocking to see how it’s been undone so quickly though.
From a club though that literally did the same thing only a few years ago, you'd think we'd have thought this might not be a good idea.
Obviously I'm being fickle, but when you look at Ineos so far with everything other some of the players they've brought in, they've got virtually everything else catastrophically wrong so far, and you can see Carrick being added to the list, and it if so it was so predictable.
It's not so easy to get Enrique in of course. But it definitely is so easy - I can't stress just how easy - for Manchester United to appoint a manager and coaching staff far more qualified than the one we currently have.
Woody and Evans at the wheel etc.
Where is the white text?We have appointed someone who simply shouldn’t be our manager, the most likely scenario is he goes this season. I hope it works out for him and today was one of those days where no one played well but do have this horrible feeling it will be another disaster.
…. and like clockwork….cue the overreactions.
He couldn't ask for a softer game next weekend to set things right. If we lose that as well we might as well just sack him on the spot.
We'll never be a serious team if we don't turn up until November.
I hoped that Carrick could change this bad habit but it looks like same old same old
There's no freebies from me. Make a difference or you're out for the next pretender.
I hoped that Carrick could change this bad habit but it looks like same old same old
There's no freebies from me. Make a difference or you're out for the next pretender.
His OOP schemes have always been worrying, it's scary that if Baleba bombs we will have Mainoo, Tielemans and Santos for the midfield pivot. He is done if Baleba doesn't work out. Our press was nonexistent and it doesn't look like we know how to execute it.
Could be out of a job by November, sad because I really like him and want him to succeed. If he fails, he has been set up to fail his tactical shortcomings notwithstanding and Berrada along with his sidekick must leave before he does. They made a mess of this window, stacking the side with unathletic midgets that can't offer anything off the ball in the PL and trying to be too clever with critical signings.
Could be out of a job by November, sad because I really like him and want him to succeed. If he fails, he has been set up to fail his tactical shortcomings notwithstanding and Berrada along with his sidekick must leave before he does. They made a mess of this window, stacking the side with unathletic midgets that can't offer anything off the ball in the PL and trying to be too clever with critical signings.
Before he went to PSG I meant, he was there for the taking and we stood by ten Hag then went with Amorim.
Whats happening now is a consequence of not getting a world class manager when theyre available. Backing ten Hag then going with Amorim has cost us massively
That's not true. How many times did people complain about Amorim swapping a like for like defender when losing. Not to drag him into it, just a recent example.
Right... because I liked how quickly he made substitutions? We played like shite, and looked unprepared. However, what Carrick did during the game I liked, and I think its something that bolds well as long as he doesn't go like the ones before him and go defensive.
So no weirdness then when you were (presumably) part of the Ole out brigade
It's Ole all over again isnt' it? can only play counter attack football.
Yeah I almost put virtually any manager (bar Amorim) would have done the same.
So many of us said this. It was so devastating to see the interim vibes bounce blind everyone again when a proper manager was available.
This is United, we do things differently (see ten Hag, Amorim).
He's too media trained, says what people want to hear too. Don't really watch conferences because it's obvious he knows how and what to say but will never get much