{"id":498058,"date":"2026-02-23T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498058\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:44:08","slug":"michael-carrick-says-he-has-not-spoken-to-jim-ratcliffe-since-last-month-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/498058\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick says he has not spoken to Jim Ratcliffe since last month | Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Carrick has revealed he and his Manchester United squad have not received an apology or a message of any sort from Sir Jim Ratcliffe after his claim that the United Kingdom has been \u201ccolonised by immigrants<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

Ratcliffe, United\u2019s largest single shareholder and head of the club\u2019s football policy, made the comments during a Sky News interview on 11 February. The outcry was strong and immediate, leading the 73-year-old to say the next day he was sorry if his \u201cchoice of language <\/a>has offended some people in the UK and Europe\u201d.<\/p>\n

United\u2019s squad contains players of diverse backgrounds and Carrick was asked on Friday if Ratcliffe had followed his qualified public apology with one to the interim manager and his players or offered any sort of explanation for his comments. \u201cLast time I saw Jim was Arsenal, and I\u2019m fine with that,\u201d he said of the away win on 25 January. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything, in terms of constant communication from above, [for] my role that I need.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy role is to create the environment within the group and lead in terms of the first team and beyond that. I\u2019m sitting here now and the supporters listening in, that\u2019s part of my role, but I don\u2019t necessarily need it from above to be constant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carrick, whose team face Everton on Monday night, was asked if Ratcliffe had undermined Manchester United\u2019s ethos, cultivated under Sir Alex Ferguson, of being a club where everyone pulls together. \u201cWe\u2019re definitely all pulling together,\u201d he said. \u201cBeing around here and being in and around stadiums in the last few weeks, it\u2019s clear [we are] pulling together, pretty strong as a group.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since replacing Ruben Amorim<\/a> on 13 January, Carrick has attended academy games, including the under-18s\u2019 3-1 win over Manchester City on 14 February. He referenced his experience as a young player at West Ham, where he won the 1998-99 FA Youth Cup, as to why this is vital. \u201cIt has a little bit to do with my upbringing,\u201d he said. \u201cAt West Ham, Harry [Redknapp] was manager at the time, and Frank [Lampard Sr] assistant manager. A big part was pathways to the first team and a connection with the first team.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of my big experiences was playing in the youth cup. We were playing York away \u2013 it\u2019s a decent stretch from London, and it was a Tuesday night, and Frank Lampard Sr came and watched. That is something all those years ago I still remember. I missed a penalty on the night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s that connection and our success, coming to this club, and the history and the traditions here, it\u2019s something I\u2019m passionate about. We want players to come through the system and try and get in the first team and be around it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick has revealed he and his Manchester United squad have not received an apology or a message…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-498058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}