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@PalaceGates86 @UnitedStandMUFC Read the initial question 🙏

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Nagelsmann or Hürzeler for United?Nagelsmann’s rotations and half-space overloads feel made for Bruno + Mainoo.
Hürzeler’s last-line occupation and intense press could really suit Cunha, Mbeumo and the wide runners.Who actually fits our current squad better? Genuinely curious 👀

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@sampeoples_ Bench Rashford and replace him with Cunha, improve the press structure

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Rangnick diagnosed the problems & had the solutions 🧠
Amorim cleared out the deadwood 🔥
Carrick’s taken us straight back to square one 📉Can he actually get it right after the international break? 👀🔴#MUFC #GGMU #Carrick

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How Carrick’s Boro reign actually endedMichael Carrick arrived at Middlesbrough in October 2022 with little senior management experience and immediately lifted the club. First full season: 4th place, play-offs, some of the best football Teesside had seen in years. Possession-based, patient, technically sharp. It felt like a project with real direction.Then it https://t.co/AgsM2Lys9V 2024-25 Boro finished 10th, four points outside the play-offs. The same patterns that once looked controlled started looking slow. Short-passing football became easy to sit against. Rival managers openly said they knew exactly how Boro would play. The attacking spark faded. When the usual sequences didn’t work there was little Plan B. Substitutions and tactical changes often arrived late and rarely shifted the https://t.co/lzIlofnKxj and local journalists called it predictable and one-dimensional in the second half of that last campaign. The club’s own review after the season reached a similar conclusion: Carrick wanted to refine the existing style rather than change it in the way the hierarchy felt was required.There was no explosion, no public revolt. Just a growing sense that it had run its course. In June 2025 they parted ways. Disappointment more than anger.That’s how it fell apart. Not overnight. Gradually. Predictably.

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@ManUtd Happy Birthday Heaven, the future is bright

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Manchester United Tactical analysis vs Fulham #MUFC

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“The 1-1 at Craven Cottage was not one bad afternoon. It was a recap of Carrick’s United this season: a press that looks busy, a mid-block that is easy to play around, and a side that does not cover the ground required when the first line is beaten.”

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“Cunha’s late, deflected strike rescued a point. It did not rescue the performance. Same issues as against City and earlier this season: inconsistent press, a mid-block you can play around, slow in-game changes. Carrick’s patient positional idea needs intensity and compactness this squad is not currently giving him against organised Premier League sides.”

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“Carrick waited until the 77th minute for the first change, then took off Mainoo — one of the few players actually covering ground — for Mount. The away end booed. United covered less distance than Fulham and looked passive for long spells, especially the opening quarter-hour after half-time. Carrick has rejected the idea that energy was the issue. The pictures and the running numbers say otherwise.”

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Sekou Koné vs Lugano: 50 mins, 84% passing (16/19), 1 key pass, perfect on long balls. Busy in midfield with a dribble, tackle and interception before a rash red wrecked the night in a 0-4 loss. Impact cut short. 🔴 #MUFC #LSFC

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That 100% record is officially gone.

Michael Carrick’s record against Spanish managers in the Premier League is now:

🇪🇸 Mikel Arteta — 2 wins
🇪🇸 Pep Guardiola — 1 win
🇪🇸 Unai Emery — 1 win
🇪🇸 Álvaro Arbeloa — 1 draw

4 wins, 1 draw.

Arbeloa becomes the first Spanish manager to stop Carrick from taking all three points in the Premier League.

And considering how United performed today, that feels like the least surprising part of the afternoon.

1-1 at Fulham. Another game where United failed to turn control into a win.

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@mufcytp Let him work with Baleba, Seskoand Amad during the break, we might have a monster of a team after the break

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@rioferdy5 Call Carrick and tell him mate

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Fulham 1-1 Man Utd.

26-shot first half, 0-0. Then Bassey’s shot parried, Martinez OG on 63'. Cunha smashes the equaliser from range in the 89th.

United created more but gifted the lead and left it late. Two struggling sides share a point. Neither looked like winners. #MUFC