{"id":414769,"date":"2026-01-17T06:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:37:10","slug":"michael-carrick-wont-rule-out-long-term-man-united-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/414769\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick won’t rule out long-term Man United stay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Carrick has refused to rule out the possibility that he could stay on as Manchester United<\/a> boss beyond the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Carrick was unveiled as United’s new head coach on Tuesday with the remit of leading the team until the end of the current campaign — another 17 Premier League<\/a> games.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old, who was briefly caretaker in 2021, will take charge for first time in his latest spell against Manchester City<\/a> at Old Trafford on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Carrick says there have been no discussions yet with club bosses about keeping the job permanently, but he left the door open.<\/p>\n

“I think we’re realistic about where we are at the moment, why I’m here and the role I’ve got to do,” Carrick told a news conference on Friday. “That doesn’t change how we go about it in the day-to-day and the focus and making decisions for the long-term strategy of the group.<\/p>\n

“I’m certainly not coming in thinking it’s a time where week-to-week, game-to-game, we’ve got to get through it and tick each one off. I think we want to plan to improve beyond this season.<\/p>\n

“All I can control is what we give the players and how we create the atmosphere around the group. That’s the main focus and we’ll see what happens after that.”<\/p>\n

Michael Carrick was named as Man United head coach until the end of the season.\u00a0Ash Donelon\/Manchester United via Getty Images<\/p>\n

United made it clear in their official announcement that Carrick has been given the job until the end of the season.<\/p>\n

However, it was noteworthy that he has been given the title of head coach rather than “interim” or “caretaker.”<\/p>\n

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was made caretaker when he took the job — initially temporarily — in 2018 and Ralf Rangnick was named interim in 2021.<\/p>\n

“I’m here because I enjoy the role and I wanted to do it and I’m hugely privileged to be in this position,” said Carrick. “That’s kind of where I am, it doesn’t change whatever the term or whatever the length [of contract].<\/p>\n

“I’m here to do my best and hopefully I’ve got a lot of experience of what it takes and where we need to get to and I’ll try and help with that.”<\/p>\n

Aside from three games in charge of United more than four years ago, Carrick’s only other managerial experience is two-and-a-half years as Middlesbrough boss.<\/p>\n

He’s been out of work since being dismissed by the Championship side in June 2025.<\/p>\n

“I’m happy in my skin, happy in this role, I know what it takes,” he said. “I’ve worked closely with Jose [Mourinho] and Ole for some time so when I took over it felt quite a natural step.<\/p>\n

“I understand the questions and that’s how it is, you always question until you’ve achieved something. So that’s how it is.<\/p>\n

“All I can say is I feel at home, I feel I’m ready and I’m really looking forward to getting to work.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick has refused to rule out the possibility that he could stay on as Manchester United boss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-414769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}