🚨5 YEARS AGO TODAY! 😍🔴
Manchester United hammered Leeds on the opening day 5-1.
Varane walked out on the Old Trafford pitch, Paul Pogba gets 4 assists in a single game. Bruno Fernandes hatrick. Jadon Sancho makes his debut.
Ole’s at the wheel.🥲❤️
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🚨🎙Michael Carrick on concerns over squad depth with United competing back in Europe this season:
‘We're NOT naive, we know what we're going into,’
‘But we feel we're a STRONGER group now than we were last season as well in many ways, so we've just got to CAPITALISE on that.’
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🚨🎙Michael Carrick on whether United’s reluctance to hit the £100m mark affects ambitions.
"Money’s money, I get that"
“It’s still about the football, and that’s where the competition lies. There’s a balance of responsibility of this club, and what we feel naturally as a group anyway, is to try and win games and be successful."
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🚨🎙Michael Carrick on Rashford:
"Bringing him into the group and carrying on as normal brings the good things that we haven't got.
“And we want to get that balance with every individual player, and Marcus has come back and he's in good form, and it's been good to have him around this week.”
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🚨🎙Simon Stone on Michael Carrick:
“Carrick doesn’t chase headlines or search for handy soundbites.. calmness is a major STRENGTH of his.
“Make no mistake, he is NO pushover, he is mentally tough. If something is not the way he wants, he will say so.
“Carrick brought stability to Old Trafford last season. Now he needs to push on. That may require a bit of HELP [from INEOS].”
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🚨🎙Michael Carrick big QUOTES:
“Your eye takes you to different parts of the game. We can all watch the game and see something a little bit different.
“Being a midfielder and how I’ve seen the game, in some ways it helps because you’re kind of connected to all parts of the team over time.
"I’m not saying you have to be a midfielder to be a good coach, but I think it’s how my reference points are in some ways, and what I feel has worked over the years, what kind of football I think the supporters want to see as well, and hopefully that fits together.
“Naturally, midfield is a big part of the teams that I’ve coached.”
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🚨🎙Michael Carrick on concerns over squad depth with United competing back in Europe this season:
‘We're NOT naive, we know what we're going into,’
‘But we feel we're a STRONGER group now than we were last season as well in many ways, so we've just got to CAPITALISE on that.’
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🚨🎙Michael Carrick on Kobbie Mainoo:
“The biggest thing for me, Kobbie [Mainoo] is in a really GOOD place… I think he feels that. He’s come back and he's come home and he's ready for a BIG season.”
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🚨🎙Michael Carrick on the feeling going into the new season:
‘I think you've got to have the belief, you've got to be going into the season thinking we can achieve something SPECIAL'
‘Don't be going into a season thinking this could be a struggle. We've got to set out to really ACHIEVE something.
‘We've definitely got the potential to achieve something really special. I'm not hiding from the fact, and we should AIM to do that.
‘I'm not going to make any CRAZY predictions, but I think on the back of what we've done, I keep saying it, I think that gives us the CONFIDENCE to move forward. How quickly we keep moving forward, that's the challenge.’
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🚨🎙Michael Carrick on Kobbie Mainoo:
“I was in contact with him quite a bit through the summer,”
"I’ve been in that position myself and not played at a World Cup, and I know from the outside you can look in and everyone goes, ‘You should be happy to be there’, and there’s a part of that, and not taking it for granted, for sure.
“But there’s the other part, as a human being and a professional, you want to be playing and so I’ve been there, I understand it.”
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🚨🚨 Michael Carrick on Marcus Rashford:
“He’s a very good player, Marcus, and if you’re going to have a career over 10 or 15 years, there’s going to be times when things go in a different direction. All right, that happens. There are ups and downs, and that doesn’t judge you as a one-off of judgement. It’s what happens over time, and now we’re in a positive place as a group.
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