đ¨ Roy Keane doesnât hold back:
âI listened to Carrick after the match. Fresh start. Purpose. Good run coming. Brilliant. What about bloody winning a football match?
Seven games, one win.
Thatâs Manchester United weâre talking about.
And weâre supposed to sit there and be encouraged because the manager thinks he saw some positives? I must have watched a different game.
People will say Iâm being harsh on Michael. I said it when they gave him the job: I didnât think he was the right man.
I said it when he was winning games, so Iâm certainly not changing my mind now because heâs drawn with Leeds.
Being a decent fella and having played for the club doesnât qualify you to manage Manchester United. Thatâs not how it works.
You look at the team. Brunoâs here, Cunhaâs there, Mbeumoâs up front. Players being shifted about, and for what?
Whatâs the idea? I donât mind a manager trying something, but when itâs clearly not working, do your job. Change it.
You canât stand there for 75 minutes watching the same rubbish and then come out talking about a fresh start.
And donât get me started on the players. Theyâll be disappointed, apparently. Theyâll be hurting.
Good. They should be. Youâd swear running back, winning tackles and making a simple pass were special achievements now.
Theyâre the basics. Youâre being paid to do them.
Someone said to me, âAt least United didnât lose.â Jesus Christ. Is that what the club has become?
Do United get a point for turning up as well? Leeds get a draw against Manchester United and weâre talking as if United survived some great European side.
Then you look across Manchester. City have won seven out of seven. Arsenal are competing.
Brighton are selling their best players every summer and still playing better football than United. Brighton! And fair play to them, theyâve got people who know what theyâre doing.
Thatâs the embarrassing part. It isnât luck. Theyâve got a plan.
At United, every six months itâs a new manager, a new system, a new explanation.
The same people upstairs tell you theyâve learned lessons, and six months later weâre having the same bloody conversation.
Whoâs holding them accountable? They appointed Carrick. They built this squad. They canât keep hiding behind whoeverâs sitting in the dugout.
And I know what people will say. âRoy, youâre always negative.â Negative? One win in seven!
What would you like me to do, congratulate them?
The supporters are spending their money, travelling around the country, watching their rivals fight for titles, and theyâre being asked to applaud a draw at Leeds because the manager saw a bit of spirit.
I want United to win. I want Carrick to prove me wrong. But he has to earn that. I wonât sit here and lower the standards just because I played with him.
If youâre not good enough, youâre not good enough.
And if the people running Manchester United think this is acceptable, then theyâre an even bigger problem than the manager.â
đ¨ Lamine Yamal attacks the Real Betis player and goes down when he fights back. He gets sent off, and Yamal laughs at him.
This is not football, this is La Liga.
Manchester United protest group The 1958 announce plans for a demonstration at the Fulham game on Feb 1. The group will demand the REMOVAL of the current ownership model. (@MikeKeegan_DM)
đ¨đ˛đ˝ Rafa MĂĄrquez will leave Barça job next week to accept the proposal from Mexican national team.
MĂĄrquez will become assistant for Aguirre until 2026 and then lead the national team.
Official green light expected soon, as @TUDNMEX has reported.
đ´ Erik ten Hag: "Absolutely, I am the right manager to turn things around".
"If the right players are available then we have a good squad. But when we miss almost our entire backline then we have problems".
đ¨ Cristiano Ronaldo has officially won his legal battle with Juventus over his wage dispute.
Juventus will have to pay Cristiano nearly âŹ10m plus interest.