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

Its a case of you will be damned if you do snd damned if you don't appoint Carrick. If an alternative manager is appointed and things go South, Ineos willbe criticised by fans and vice versa with Carrick.

I genuinely don’t think Carrick has earned the right to be given the job.

Too many red flags to be given it outright but at the end of the day results have exceeded expectations and performances .

By finishing 3rd he should fully expect to be involved in the interview process and if Ineos deem him the best candidate they may give him a decent contract and buy players to back him.

If you do a series of interviews including the incumbant and then end up sticking with the incumbant then that totally undermines his position. We saw this with EtH. It's farcical carry on. You're basically saying that we'll just settle for that.

You either give it to Carrick now without any faff and say, this guy has done a good job and is our guy for the foreseeable.

Or you let him go after the last game and hire someone different in a completely separate process.

What other potential candidate has earned the right to be given the job?

Absolutely no one.

The guy currently in the job is the best option currently on the table then.

Amad pretty much only ever played well under amorim and wing back I stand by that it suited him well, Mbeumo was bought to play in a narrow front 3 system I'd say both of them are exactly why we shouldn't be going from one system to another with managers.

Casimero is doing well under Carrick unfortunately his future had been decided, Mainoo is doing well, Lammens is doing well, heaven is doing well, sesko is doing well, dorgu was doing well before his injury, Bruno is doing well......

Is it perfect? Nope but it's a hell of alot better than where we have been at in the past few years.

That's very true about Andoni Iraola but I think he has a higher ceiling than either Frank or Potter. Apart from his three very very good seasons in the Premier League, he also done an incredible job at Rayo Vallecano for three seasons getting them promoted in his first season and going on to transform them from a struggling side into a top tier competitor. he had several wins over the likes of Barcelona and Real Madrid and achieved consecutive finishes in the table pushing for European places.

He has had three great seasons with Bournemouth, improving them every year while continually losing his best players without a word of complaint. He definitely hasn't managed a big club and I agree there's all sorts of pressures and expectations at the likes of a Manchester United that makes managing them a completely different proposition. As I said I just have a strong feeling that this guy has what it takes to make the step up and one of the big clubs in England or Spain will be his next job I feel.

There was a report earlier this month that the club are keeping tabs on Aaron Danks who was his assistant at Boro. Currently working with Kompnay at Bayern.

One thing he gets high praise for is his set pieces. Meant to be **** hot at improving teams attacking set pieces.

I don't think it is the same at all, and I think the conclusion would be different.

We interview other candidates when ETH was heere because we had already decided he wasn't good enough - we coudn't convince the ones we wanted, and didn't want to take a punt on someone like McKenna - so were were stuck with Erik. It was very clear the people at the club didn't like or rate ETH and being stuck with him at the end was an absolute embarrassment.

Its just not the same with Carrick.

Carrick was hired on a short term contract specifically so we could go through a process to find the right, next, guy.

Approaching other managers is simply the thing you said you were going to do, months ago. Its conducting a process for a position that does not have anyone contractually tied to beyond the end of May.

If you conduct a proper process and you hire Carrick you can claim (at the least) that he was the most impresive of the people available/interested.

If you don't conduct a process and you hire Carrick you have immediately not conducted the proper process you said you would, you've not found out if he is actually the best option - you have simply stuck with the guy that was getting results.

I think you look far weaker hiring Carrick without doing a proper process to find the best person for the job.

If Alonso is open to Chelsea, United must have at least enquired about him. Maybe he has no interest because of the Liverpool connection, and wants to keep that door open.

Well we better hope Liverpool, Villa and Chelsea all have the same seasons again.

We need to kick on and Carrick won't be doing that.

Would you be happy if our starting back 4 next season, first choice, was Mazraoui, Maguire, Lisandro and Shaw?

They conceded 0 goals vs Sunderland last game, so they must be good, right?

Would you be happy if we just gave Casemiro a new contract, and signed no new midfielders? We got CL football with Mainoo and Casemiro - so clearly that is good enough to get top 3? Since the start of January they have 10 wins in 15 - why consider changing?

Results is all that matters, so just stick with the same manager and same players who got those results, right?

No one should concern themselves with the style of football, the quality of our defending, the fitness of the team, the pressing from the front - cause even if it is maybe a little worrying, and maybe a little like his 'Boro side, its 10 wins in 15 so give him the damn contract.