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

Anyone of any good in the Nice squad. Currently looking at relegation with 1 game to go.

13/10 G/A is not a bad return for a loan player in what isn't a vintage Barca side. Worth 40m to anyone.

I think Barca would like to keep him, but also know he wants to stay and United really don't want him back. So feel they can get him on another load or at an even lower fee.

United allowed for this to happen when they made it a straight option deal. Though short of making it an obligation on winning the league I am not sure what obligation Barca could have been held to (Goals or appearances they;'d have just stopped picking him)

Sesko was injured, as were (apparently) casemiro and ugarte.
So that is two forced changes.
We then dropped Heaven for Martinez which doesn't scream like giving time to people to assess them.
Mazraoui for Dalot arguable in this case.

If they are giving him the job, yeah. Have it announced for the last home game. If they have made the decision.

But man would it be such a let down, imo.

earned the 'right' to the job, is just such a silly way of running a football club aiming to win titles.

He earned the right, by acheiving the target Wilcox set before he was even hired as interim. so the only way he doesn't earn this right, is by failing to achieve the target that was set.

Such a stupid way of approaching the hiring of an interim manager. If you get us the result we think the squad is capable of, the job is yours. No questions asked.

I thought it was harsh dropping Heaven. Yes he's young and can have rash moments but Licha was thrown straight back in after a three game ban and was very lucky VAR didn't review his tussle with Brobbey or he could have been looking at a longer ban.

I love the lad and would hope that he's here for a few more years but he's got question marks around his future at United and it's reported that United are looking at left footed CBs. So why not give game time to the young promising left footer whose been a cracking signing.

Lacey another lad whose surely worth a few minutes off the bench given that Amad has been on the missing list since AFCON.

Most people likely expected Carrick to do a Rosenior when he was announced as interim.

I don't mind if Carrick gets the job. I think whoever gets the job will be doing well to secure CL football again next season. But there's a part of me that doesn't want to see Carrick get the job because it's going to be Amorim 2.0 with how heated some are going to get about Carrick Out throughout next season.

Maybe Iraola as he's done a good job with Bournemouth. Not sure who else they might even be discussing or talking with behind the scenes. Would assume it's being kept hush hush because some options are still employed or have a WC coming up.

Guys you have to remember a lot of the other teams have been poor, no way we would normally get 3rd over Liverpool and Villa, even Chelsea have a better squad.

We are just countering teams it's not sustainable, Carricks done a great job but he's not the man to take us forward.

No I fully agree with you. You'll hear so much about the managers position but recruitment imo as you said is gonna be more important. Recruitment of players is gonna be the make or break of United. Unfortunately we need a little too much recruitment to get it done in one season still.

Yeah I agree, as we all know it's likely to be a more difficult season next season - teams that were off it this year should improve and the game load is going to be much higher.

I think it's fine to go into next season with Carrick and his team, set the target to be in the top 4 at the end of the season and make it to the CL knockout round. Our next target is making sure we stay in the CL. Then you push for PL title after.

I wouldn't move from Carrick to Iraola. I would only at this stage move from Carrick if the other manager is elite.
Moving to Iraola doesn't remove a lot of the questions I would have over Carrick and at this stage Carrick has at least shown he can get some results. Iraola hasn't managed at a club this size and overachieving with Bournemouth doesn't tell us much regarding his suitability for the Utd job.

I don't know if we are here at this time next season after sacking Carrick or not but I don't think it's a terrible decision right now to keep him in the role given the performance but also more importantly for me the lack of elite options to take over.

Maybe there is a more obvious replacement next summer. Maybe Carrick continues to meet targets.

I'm happy enough to let it ride

Arguably, whoever next season's manager turns out to be will have to bed in 4 or 5 first team members, develop another 3 or 4 from the youth team and be tactically flexible and adaptive to the demands of European football. That's without the expectation of strong cup runs and CL qualification. Carrick hasn't demonstrated capacity in any of the above yet. I'm not doubting his ability to learn on the job but I'd feel more confident of our prospects next season with someone with a better track record in charge.