Manchester United Thread 25/26 - Teamtalk/Transfers/Gossip Mod Note in OP 12.02.26

I thought we won more over the top teams in the table than the lower sides.

Has to be such a confidence booster for the players, that's 2 top teams we've beat that are going for the title.

Im hoping we keep the same going on throughout the season. Its the lower teams we've lost more points than the top end.

Its a point i said earlier. Its the lower teams we've lost the amount of points on. Next couple of games and reassess

LiveScore had him down as injured.

We need to take full advantage of the weeks breaks when it comes to casemiro. He has been excellent recently and everything needs to be done to insure he can be all guns blazing on matchday.

Saw it mentioned recently and agree, if we can get another midfielder in on loan until the rest of the season it would help. Focus on picking up one of Anderson or Wharton in the summer then.

Well I haven't seen it discussed too much in here so I might as well ask because it'll inevitably be a thing.

At what point does Carrick have to be considered a possible permanent manager?

When the word first came out that Ole and Carrick were the likely interim options, I initially wanted Ole. Not because he was necessarily a much stronger option, but because I thought he could stabilise us and get us Europe. And because I thought he'd be easier to say no to in the long term even if he did well, simply because he's been down this road before and it ended in the sack.

There just wasn't the same "what if" question with Ole because we've already answered it.

With Carrick, I was OK with the appointment but on the condition that we didn't jump to conclusions after a good spell and give him the job based purely on a good run and "feels".

But...

Michael Carrick now has 5 games as interim coach, in 2 different spells. He is undefeated with 4 wins and 1 draw. Under him United have won away in Europe, beaten Arsenal home and away, beaten City and drawn with Chelsea at the Bridge.

We have 15 games left this season. How many of those do we win before we have no choice but to see him as a viable contender? 8? 10? Secure top 4? At what point do we have to forget about just a new manager bounce and consider that maybe he's got something to offer in the long term? Or do we rule him no matter what based on the principle of what happened in the end with Ole (who let's not forget would have won the title if not for City's doping)?

The other question is whether he wants the job permanently of course but nobody knows that but him. Ole did say himself that Carrick would be the manager some day.

If INEOS had no plans to get someone in then the buzz from these last two games will hopefully have change their minds. They did meet with Carrick after the City game to talk about it I believe. Hopefully something comes from it.

Watching MOTD2 and have to say Wazza is turning into a decent pundit.

Analysed the Utd game very well,similar to what Patrick Viera said after the game,Utd made it difficult for Arsenal to play their tiki-taka in midfield and Zubimendi and Odegard struggled to get into the game.

Lammens settles the defence so well,Maguire and Shaw were outstanding throughout,Dorgu is turning into a real player,Mbuemo and Cunhas finishes were excellent.separated by a real pearler from Dorgu!💥⚽️👏……

And Carricks substitutions were the right ones and at the right times……although I thought myself Casemiro looked gassed after 70 mins and needed replacing.

It’s important imo to get a decent midfielder in on loan till end of Season if at all possible,in case Casemiro or Mainoo pick up an injury.

Douglas Luiz is available,although it looks like Chelsea have him cornered…..need a tough experienced player of his ilk.

The real test is ahead……starting by beating an in-form Fulham side next week.

so often it’s been waking up on Monday morning and then suddenly being hit horrible Man Utd memories from the day before.

Yeah - I think its silly to rule out Carrick entirely from consideration, but its far too early to talk about it. No one is going to steal Carrick away so we can wait and see how things go by the end of the season. I liked that Carrick made a point to the reporter today that he wouldn't be answering questions about a permanent role every week. The club needs to shut that nonsense down from reporters.

There is a perfectly good outcome where Carrick secures top 4 football for United, the club decide to go another way with a bigger name and Carrick has a great chance to get a job at another PL club on the back of turning United around. Everyone still wins.

And for that reason alone we don't need to start talking about Carrick as a contender for the permanent role for a while yet.

I am of the opinion that we need to go and get the most elite level manager we can get right now and try to push forward with building the squad out.

Carrick can absolutely play himself into contention for the role. However it would need to be an extremely impressive run in.

I will say though what I seen against City and today against Arsenal. Can't really ask for much more. They were superb twice.

I hope they are at the same level over the next 3 "lesser" games as well. If Carrick cracks that then we might have something to talk about as fans but I do still feel we have to go as elite as we possibly can