🚨 Michael Carrick & coaching staff informed by Manchester United of decision to part company. 45yo + main backroom team members already departed Carrington after receiving news. #USMNT boss Mauricio Pochettino lined up to take over at #MUFC@TheAthleticFC https://t.co/hhcmBHj0aC
Michael Carrick deserves heaps of praise for what he did last season. Made fans feel connected to their club for the first time in a long time. Instilled belief in the players, got United back in the Champions League, helped players like Mainoo find their feet again.
Ultimately given too much responsibility by a board unequipped to make difficult decisions. INEOS outsourced the pressure on them to a man willing to do anything for the club.
Sad to see him go but had to happen.
At around the time The Athletic broke the news that Manchester United were finalising their approach for Mauricio Pochettino to be their next manager, their current manager was arriving to take training.
On Wednesday Michael Carrick will, as he did on Tuesday, go through the motions of overseeing a session that involves the few United players not on international duty, existing in the liminal space between employment and dismissal, floating through life but knowing the phone is going to ring soon. He may well have to do it again on Thursday.
It’s not a dignified existence. He knows the end is near. We know the end is near. But more importantly Jim Ratcliffe, Jason Wilcox, Omar Berrada and whoever else chips in with these things at United or INEOS, all know the end is near.
But this is Manchester United, the club that somehow always manages to get things wrong. The club that want to appoint Pochettino, a man currently in an international job, so have chosen an international break to make their move for him, one of the only fortnights of the year when they know he is definitely busy.
One thing is for sure, Manchester United have treated Michael Carrick dreadfully, the latest in a long line of terrible decisions from a shambolic football club.
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Perfect fit that should’ve happened 7 years ago — if not earlier.
PLEASE be brave & cull the seniors. He’s proven in terms of youth development & play style. Do not shrink due to the size of the job.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester United finalising deal to appoint Mauricio Pochettino if ultimate decision made to replace Michael Carrick. 54yo lined up & terms being done with camp. #MUFC yet to contact US but straight-forward should plan proceed @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/YTEGRxbVpF
Serious question: has Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox got ANYTHING right at Manchester United?
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IAN HERBERT: Classless Chuckle Brothers Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada are not fit to lace Michael Carrick's boots - they have treated a dignified Man United legend shamefully with this painful charade https://t.co/SvTV2Q5NWq
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@StretfordPaddck@MailSport He’s been hung out to dry all season. Didn’t get backing in the window. Didnt receive any backing post Bournemouth. Told to take training on day he’s expected to be sacked.
“Best in class” at it again.
How I view Poch at various clubs so far:
Southampton – class
Spurs – absolutely brilliant, kinda unfair sacking after lack of backing
PSG – underwhelming, but wasn’t great conditions for any coach (Emery, Tuchel etc also had problems)
Chelsea – his darkest one, but even then, individuals (palmer, Jackson) shined and he’s not the only gaffer who had it rough there
USMNT – vast improvement in the footy compared to Chelsea (read @htomufc’s posts about this) and shown consistent improvement
It’s a good fit for United imo. Not perfect (that’s basically impossible) but the best choice out there right now
Once again, United will probably go out and appoint someone who isn't a tactical continuation of any recent groundwork laid
Amorim --> Carrick --> Poch (?)
rigid 3atb -> possession -> vertical football, intense
Mbeumo, Cunha etc. (half space attackers) were signed for Amorim's narrow attack, not Carrick.
Tielemans + Santos were signed as the beginnings to start committing to a more ball-first model. They weren't signed to play in a run-heavy system
They're talking about this bullshit "one window = one area of the pitch gets addressed" transfer model, when the type of profiles required in said areas change drastically from season to season because they keep fucking changing the coach & any ideologies he had previously signed the other players for
and THEN they have the cheek to wonder why it never works