Just because Michael Carrick doesn’t let rip in press conferences doesn’t mean he lacks “passion”. You don’t start off at five, playing in Under-9s five-a-sides at Wallsend Boys Club, getting beaten 14-0 and still in there fighting for a comeback without having a competitive nature. You don’t leave a loving, secure home at 16, move to West Ham, and make it as a pro without being driven.
You don’t become seventh on the list of Manchester United’s all-time appearance makers – behind only Giggs, Scholes, G Nev, Rooney, De Gea and Keane – win five titles for one of the most demanding managers in history, overcome a bout of depression, take and nail a penalty in a Champions League final without having strength of character. You don’t captain United for a season unless you have leadership qualities.
Leadership comes in differing forms. Carrick is a quiet leader, who will have his say behind closed doors, for the players, not for the cameras. Not for show. Carrick has a big job on at Manchester United but don’t doubt his determination to get it right. Because he cares about the Club, the staff, the players and the fans. Good luck to him. #MUFC
Too much talk about Bruno Fernandes again, blah blah blah.
I know what I see. For me, he is the best player Manchester United have had since Sir Alex Ferguson left. Not even particularly close.
And honestly, I don't care what anyone thinks about him anymore. I don't care if you think he's too wasteful, too emotional, gives the ball away too much, whatever. You're entitled to your opinion. It just doesn't change mine in the slightest.
I've watched this guy turn up week after week, play through everything, create something out of absolutely nothing and carry ridiculous responsibility for this club for years.
He wants the ball. He wants the responsibility. He wants to decide games. Even when things are going badly, he never disappears. He still wants it. That's what I want from a Manchester United player.
I wouldn't swap him for anyone when it comes to leading this team. Every single matchweek, I want Bruno Fernandes walking out first, wearing the armband, dragging everyone else with him.
He's my favourite post-Fergie United player by a mile. And I genuinely think we'll look back one day and realise we had an absolute all-timer playing for us.
You can say whatever you want about Bruno. I really couldn't care less.
Bruno fucking Fernandes. That's my captain.
@markgoldbridge@Utdtruthful I'll use one of your classic analogies, "If you throw enough shit at a wall, some of it is bound to stick." My mate in Carrington didn't tell me about Kone, but he did tell me about you being a sellout for money, how you treated your ex staff & how you know negativity = clicks 😄
Carrick: "I am talking to you quite calm but I am not calm inside, enjoying the day. I played here [at United] for a long time. We don't all have to shout + scream + create some chaos. Calmness doesn't mean there is not emotion in it." #MUFC
At least under Carrick we’re allowed to be unhappy and critical after the loss.
Those Amorim guys would have gaslit you for not celebrating this as a Win. Because we won on Possession, xG and hopeful shots taken 💀
“The underlying numbers are good”
Over reaction as usual going on here 😂
We saw what we want from our team so far in the preseason. Today the way we were setup itself was obvious it was just to give the likes of Bruno Tielemans minutes and nothing more 😭
It stings because it's Amorim. But we'll be fine.
When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.
The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.
India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.
Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.
The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.
So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.
Rashford isn’t Garnacho
We signed Garnacho from Atletico Madrid
Rashford is Mancunian
He was a United fan before he was born
You cannot love the football club more than him
🚨🗣️ Laporta on Rashford: “He is very honest, and he told me that his dream was to play at United for his entire career. He wanted to be a ONE club man. Things happened, and he wasn't able to do that. That's why he signed, to show that he's still the same player he always was." #MUFC
Wanted Amorim sacked - Got it
Wanted Carrick employed - Got it
Wanted Mainoo important - Got it
Wanted Rashford Home - Got it
This is my life right now
his best friends’s #14, 14 years since our last title to get us our 14th PL title, coming back to play under the manager who gave him his first MOTM award. Maybe this sport IS fucking scripted or we are in a simulation man
futbol, bloody hell.
I’ll never have anyone saying he doesn’t love Manchester United.
Just look at his reaction after we won the FA Cup final in 2024.
Welcome home Rashy. 🏴❤️