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

He was credited to very good set piece plays by carrick I think he does a bit more then bibs. Maybe he is learning on the job but maybe there's capacity there for someome to learn on the job. Fergie had two main coaches and some background coaches near the end. It wasn't always best in class it was what fits the team and role.

You could argue last summer, Amorims first, was the start of a 3 (or longer) year plan with the big investment in the front line, to be followed by the midfield this summer and so on. Amorim going loco with the media obviously but a spanner in the works so he had to go. But we are told that the structure now is such that the coach is not the be all and end all, so the change in coach does not affect the long term year plan Wilcox and Berrada are enacting.

If you were buying players for a specific coach then yes, his contract should match this but we're supposedly not going to operate that way anymore.

Big mistake imo, I know I'm in the minority but this won't end well.

Ah well I better strap in and get used to it and hopefully he is backed properly.

we are told that, but to be honest I am yet to see real evidence of it. Still feels like the manager/coach is VERY important to the direction the club goes in recruitment.

But even taking it as true, where the manager is more interchangable because the plan is beyond them, i still think you have to plan that your manager and recruitment will work out and expect that 3 year plan to be consistent - so you need to show faith in that manager.

IMO you can't be saying our project is 3 years and we want to be [here] in 28/29 - but we are only giving you a contract to 27/28. To have the manager on board with your 3 year planning, imo they need to be seen as fully part of that plan.

Otherwise you open yourself up to the manager making decisions to support his own job application, rather than what is best for the club long term.

Loads of polls done across the channels and vast majority of United fans would not give him the position.

Don't see this working out too well either. Holland, Woodgate, Evans all defensive minded, just think we will really struggle with 4 competitions next season and his experience and tactics will be exposed. Hopefully I be proven wrong as well, but can't see it

By all accounts it’s more or less a done deal for Carrick.

Hopefully he can be backed by a few decent coaches as very few available when he was appointed mid season.

If INEOS really believe he is the man to take us forward I hope they give him a reasonable contract and back him properly in the transfer market .

Two years is adequate imo. He should fully expect that he'll be trying to prove himself next season.

No manager at Utd ever gets time anyway, that's just the reality. It's a Goldfish bowl. Ten Hag and Amorim were under the microscope immediately.

Only 4 months of PL experience. Practically no experience managing in Europe. And while the league results have been good, this has been an unusual season in the sense that the standard of Top 4/5 kind of plummeted (Liverpool, Chelsea, very poor, City below par, Newcastle a mess etc.).

So there are still question marks for sure.

He'll need a lot of help in the summer we all know to address the squad issues. That's another discussion of course

Emery would be my first choice but I think he's also out of reach. Enrique is pie in the sky as he's at the best club in Europe. Tuchel and Carlo are making smart decisions to stick with England and Brazil. I don't get the Nagelsmann hype.

Big fan of Iraola and would have liked to seen him in charge but I also wanted Thomas Frank to replace ETH so what do I know.

Carrick has more than exceeded expectations since coming in. Hopefully there's a big ass bag of money to bring a minimum of five players in this summer.

In the last 10 years we've had former players, RVN, Ole, Giggs, Fletcher, Carrick, established high tier managers LVG, Mourinho, up and coming managers, Tenn Haag, Amorin. While Carrick isnt setting the place on fire imo he seems to have stabilised the squad and got a better tune out of some players. I can fully understand it if the club is thinking if its not broken then dont fix it. A few strong midfielders might make the world of difference to this team

I'd like someone like Ancelotti myself, a safe pair of hands but unlikely to come back from the beaches in Brazil to the premiership.

They are all reason not to give him the job on the first place. Now you've given it, give him a proper contract, imo.

Iraola is the only gettable person I would be sorry to miss out on. If he goes to Chelsea I think her could do super there. or again, it's Chelsea so who knows!

It's very easy to get a long term contract with get out clauses. It be silly not to. I don't think it will be an issue with Micheal.

But then everything he will do next season and every input he will have to recruitment, will be coloured by the need to get results now. Obviously i am not saying that results are meaningless, we still need to be finishing top 5 - but if we want to build a league winning side then we have to be builing towards a league winning side - and that can mean making choices that are arguably sub-optimatal now because they will be better in the long run. That can be recruitment: Lammens and Sesko vs Martinez and Watkins. Or it could be tactical - playing a lower ceiling type of football cause the floor is higher, rather than trying to move towards a more 'league winning' style.

Carrick may be a short term appointment - but it would be idiocy to treat him as such, cause you are just setting yourself up for failure imo - you can't, imo. marry long terms squad planning with short term manager thinking. It can happen because of failures, but you have to start with a better goal.