Michael Carrick - Head Coach for the remainder of the season

I'll be honest I'm not expecting a huge upturn in results, though I think we'll look Abit more coherent and balanced.

Still, obviously I hope he does well and doesn't completely look out of his depth.

But, man, I don't know who on earth can turn this club's fortunes around.
 
There's an edit war going on in his Wikipedia page about whether his title should be listed as "interim head coach" or not :lol:

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El Zoido said:
The criticism he’s getting is really harsh. I really hope he proves the doubters wrong.
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It's not him, it's the entire fecking club. INEOS and the Glazers that people are annoyed with.

The reaction towards Carrick isn't because it's Carrick. It's a reflection of how the club is working that we have another interim another lack of investment in a critical window.
 
FrankDrebin said:
I'll be honest I'm not expecting a huge upturn in results, though I think we'll look Abit more coherent and balanced.

Still, obviously I hope he does well and doesn't completely look out of his depth.

But, man, I don't know who on earth can turn this club's fortunes around.
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I’d say the player recruitment so far has been hugely improved over the previous regime, so just having a more solid set of players is going to help a lot. I’m not as doom and gloom about the state of the club as most people. Everyone wanted Amorim sacked and they got it, now everyone is annoyed that we don’t have an immediate top class replacement, when waiting until the summer is the sensible thing to do. I guess we can be annoyed we didn’t sack Amorim after the Europa loss, but what’s done was done. No time to panic here but it’s quite entertaining to watch the fanbase shit itself over everything.
 
Good to see Carrick back.

Hopefully will steady the ship and get us winning again.

Not expecting miracles though.
 
Is it just me or does Ineos seem to favor having a British head coach? I actually love the idea as well, has nothing to do with anything but is just feel proper. Would love some more Manchester lads in the team as well.

Anyway - hope we are destined for Europe!
 
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Is this sentimentality? Yes, 100 per cent. Am I getting a bit carried away with it all? Undeniably. However, Carrick just oozes class and calm.

He's not a politician (like Amorim). Not everything is slick and charismatic. But there's just a quiet reassurance about him. It just comes across that he knows what's what.

Come this time on Saturday the situation might have totally changed but, right now, I just feel better about Manchester United.

Honestly, I had forgotten what it was like to have optimism about our where we're at. Not just with the way we crashed out of the FA Cup. I was long convinced that Amorim was incapable of overseeing the kind of run that could see us move up the table, and have been dreading watch us slowly slide down the table over the second half of 2025/26.

With Carrick I have some hope. Its nice.
 
Nogho said:
Is it just me or does Ineos seem to favor having a British head coach? I actually love the idea as well, has nothing to do with anything but is just feel proper. Would love some more Manchester lads in the team as well.

Anyway - hope we are destined for Europe!
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Amorim and now Carrick?
 
I'm going to laugh if they sign a midfielder in the January transfer window.

Well, with good luck, we can still qualify for Europe. Honestly, no reason we shouldn't be qualifying for Europe to be honest now that the squad is almost back to full strength. If United get hit with major injuries the rest of the way, then no shot.
 
Brazilian_Ronaldo_9 said:
There was a guy called Paul Pogba, talented midfielder.

We also bought Schniderlen however you spell it.

Our squad building was awful.
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We’ve had decent attacking minded midfielders but what about absolutely stellar midfielders who play deeper?

Cant remember when we last had a top rate midfield
 
El Zoido said:
I’d say the player recruitment so far has been hugely improved over the previous regime, so just having a more solid set of players is going to help a lot. I’m not as doom and gloom about the state of the club as most people. Everyone wanted Amorim sacked and they got it, now everyone is annoyed that we don’t have an immediate top class replacement, when waiting until the summer is the sensible thing to do. I guess we can be annoyed we didn’t sack Amorim after the Europa loss, but what’s done was done. No time to panic here but it’s quite entertaining to watch the fanbase shit itself over everything.
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For me it’s not the quality of player we’ve signed it’s the reason we’ve signed who we have, I just don’t get it.. why didn’t we sign quality wing backs for Amorim? Why have we just abandoned the midfield? Why are we relying on crocks and children in defence? It feels like we essentially went out and bought players who were good at their current club without thinking about our own and how they fit or where we’re weakest.. it’s just odd squad management and comes across as very amateurish.
 
Don't think there's that much he can actually do in the relatively short space of time he has, beyond coach some basic team shape.

Typically when an interim manager improves the team, it's for reasons somewhat beyond their control. Be it the previous manager having been hated by the players, the previous manager not having been picking the best players, or the team having been getting worse results than their performance suggested they should in a way that would likely have evened out across the season under any manager.

Unless you really believe a basic 433/4231 suits the players by a magnitude more than a more thoroughly prepared 343, or you really believe someone like Mainoo will transform the team, then I think the realistic upside here is that Carrick coaches us competently enough that the change of manager doesn't cause much disruption, and we then also get a bit lucky with results.

Either way, I'm not going to be overly critical of him. If we fall off where we currently are then the change of manager mid season did the damage, not subsequently choosing Carrick as the interim manager ahead of Ole or Fletcher.
 
DomesticTadpole said:
OK. We have bought them, just either not good enough or not the position we were desperate for.
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We’ve bought loads. They were all shite apart from matic and casemiro who had a few good months in them then turned into garbage.
 
He's an Aldi Southgate. Which is what INEOS like. I'm sure they'll have the real thing come June.
 
Brazilian_Ronaldo_9 said:
There was a guy called Paul Pogba, talented midfielder.

We also bought Schniderlen however you spell it.

Our squad building was awful.
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The club has bought midfielders.

But, Carrick was the last proper midfielder the club bought, positional discipline, could read the game in defence, superb passing ability and overall set the tempo for everyone else.

Not come close to signing anyone like it since.
 
Jezpeza said:
We’ve had decent attacking minded midfielders but what about absolutely stellar midfielders who play deeper?

Cant remember when we last had a top rate midfield
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Yeah the last one was Carrick.

Hargreaves definitely had the talent but injuries ruined that and Matic was very good but was right at the end of his prime. Same with Casemiro.
 
Can't say I'm excited after the way this mess has unfolded, but I loved him as a player and wish him well. Hope he can get a tune out of some of these players.
 
I feel so sorry for a genuine wonderful servant to this great club but any coach whether interim, Head Coach or Manager must win at least 50% of their matches, that should always be the bare minimum expected, Real Madrid just sacked a guy with a 71.4% win rate and we indulged Ruben Amorim for 6 months too long!

For all of you who think we should have kept Amorim, the damage he’s done to this club would have been beyond repairable had we kept him to the end of the season!

Losing became too easy and drawing matches to some were celebrated like a victory, Fletcher was unfairly thrown into the deep end without time to implement any real change , with three of our best players still at Afcon and his two best CB’s coming back from injury!

If Michael Carrick wins 9 of the remaining 17 PL games, I would consider that a huge success right now, however it’s also important to note that in a 40 match season , United as a club would have won only 17 matches in all competitions, statistics which are synonymous of a a hugely underperforming board, CEO, DOF, Head Coach that clearly are all completely out of their depth.

INEOS and Berrada went out of their way to recruit Amorim, who had no PL experience, could barely win 1 in 3 Matches in the PL and called out the players as being awful, cried that the DOF has was not able to do his job(on this many of us agree!) , he marginalised youth, called them out as entitled and low and behold the U21 team is top of PL2 with 8 wins from 9 matches!

Many of that squad were part of the triple wining under 18 team from two years ago!
Had Amorim done his due diligence he would have known this and asked the U18 and U21 to play the same formation so he had young hungry players ready to perform in his system.

Never have I seen our club so completely bereft of ideas, turning away from our youth policy which made this club so great in the last 148 years, turning away from our British/Homegrown core of working class principles by masquerading as squad of misfit mostly foreign players signed by multiple different managers, with very few of them truly fitting the DNA of the club or more importantly the work ethic required to wear that famous Shirt!

Rest assured the one thing Michael Carrick will do will explain to all of them how lucky they are to be at the club and if they can’t handle the pressure, they should probably ask their agent to arrange a transfer in the summer!
 
Garnacho Libre said:
Wishing Carrick the best!

How Wilcox got himself into this position of power is beyond me.
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Like a lot of people in senior positions in big companies. Don't make waves and cling on, become friendly with those above you and make yourself feel like "part of the furniture". People leave, you move up and it's not even looked at as a promotion, just sort of happens.

There are a shocking number of senior people in all sorts of industries who got there like that rather than any notable talent or insight.
 
OverratedOpinion said:
Like a lot of people in senior positions in big companies. Don't make waves and cling on, become friendly with those above you and make yourself feel like "part of the furniture". People leave, you move up and it's not even looked at as a promotion, just sort of happens.

There are a shocking number of senior people in all sorts of industries who got there like that rather than any notable talent or insight.
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That's true!

I guess a lot of the time is knowing the connections and knowing who's feathers not to ruffle etc..
 
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