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

Roy Keane I think.

Because an influential ex-player, with a large following, is sticking the boot in as soon as he got the chance to.
If it was Mark Goldbridge people would call him out for being a p**** too.

Am I the only one who thought Scholes quote was supposed to be a compliment?

"Michael has definitely got something special about him, [because] United have been crap last four games... night,"

As in, United have been crap but he won all those games so Carrick must have something special about him.

Either way, put me in the column of people who think its a complete non-story, who gives a **** what pundits say or don't say.

For it to be sarcastic there first had to be people saying Carrick had something special about him, and I thought the general narrative was far, far more cautious than that.

Maybe it was a dig, I don't know, but it can be read either way. I just thought it made its relevance even less important.

I kind of agree but here is the likely scenario… Scholes, possibly a few beers in, isn’t thinking about what the general narrative is. He would have known that Carrick had (rightly) been getting praise for the first two performances and for winning games. He seems to be bothered by Carrick for some reason and goes and publicly posts that. Deletes it in the morning.

Can be read either way if you want to, but it’s far less likely that he is giving Carrick a compliment.

And it probably is being talked about too much - that’s what happens when United don’t have games for a week or two. Why it’s relevant though, isn’t that he’s saying the performances have been bad (because that’s not controversial at all) it’s because he’s having a kick at the interim manager who is his former teammate, and it’s uncalled for and a little bit weird.

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Just seen a clip where he’s come out pretty much saying what you’re getting at. I think it’s bollocks personally and he’s clearly backtracking. Not many will buy it. My word though, the guy is everywhere.

The fact it was posted about 12am i'd reckon the beers were in full flow before it, hence the delete of the post.

Im probably the biggest criminal here for doing the same.

Its being made more of a big deal than it is. New episode out tomorrow so let's see if he talks about it.

The Liverpool players from their 70s/80s heyday were just as scathing about the teams of the 90s/2000s, but we didn't have social media and wall to wall coverage so it didn't have the same impact as today.

Uniteds a goldfish bowl and always will be. Scoles, Butt, Neville et all are entitled to their opinions and if Carrick wants the job permanently he'll have to brush it off. The pressure is never going to be off him.

I know a few on here and reddit noticed the similarities.

See they recently also came out saying United signed Marcos Rojo because Van Gaals grandson told him about this player from Argentina who was good on FIFA so Van Gaal signed him.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/sport/manchester-united-in-talks-over-dublin-friendly-1873165.html

Remember we were heavily linked with Muani for big money a summer or two ago.

He's fair bad

Makes it worse knowing we lost against them in the EL final.

Newcastle sent out a fairly strong signal last summer, can't imagine either are realistic targets for us as they'll demand huge huge money.