{"id":666339,"date":"2026-10-27T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666339\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:10:15","slug":"michael-carrick-attends-manchester-united-training-ground-as-club-discuss-his-fate-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666339\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick attends Manchester United training ground as club discuss his fate \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Carrick<\/a> was at Manchester United<\/a>\u2019s training ground on Monday afternoon as elsewhere at the Carrington base Jason Wilcox, the sporting director, and Omar Berrada, the chief executive, deliberated whether to sack the head coach.<\/p>\n

Carrick arrived at about 1.50pm to watch the under-21s play a behind-closed-doors game.<\/p>\n

Wilcox and Berrada met at Carrington on Monday morning after United\u2019s 3-0 loss to Bournemouth on Sunday at Old Trafford that left Carrick\u2019s job in the balance. Wilcox departed just before 5pm and Carrick went shortly after.<\/p>\n

The defeat made it eight games without a win for Carrick\u2019s side, who have two victories all season. United are in 16th in the Premier League, a point above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

If the 45-year-old is removed, Eddie Howe remains Wilcox\u2019s preferred candidate, with contact between them understood to have been made. The former Newcastle manager is open to taking up the position, subject to negotiations.<\/p>\n

Howe would be less expensive to recruit than Unai Emery, another admired manager, because Aston Villa would demand about \u00a320m in compensation for the \u00adSpaniard.<\/p>\n

Julian Nagelsmann, the former Germany and Bayern Munich head coach, is highly regarded by Christopher \u00adVivell, United\u2019s head of \u00adrecruitment, who is believed to have sounded out his fellow German, but Wilcox\u2019s view may hold more sway with Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who \u00adcontrols football policy at United. Antonio Conte, who left Napoli in the summer, is another who may be in the frame.<\/p>\n

Carrick dropped Bruno Fernandes for the Bournemouth loss for \u201cpure football reasons\u201d, he said. This came after the 32-year-old criticised Carrick for his tactics in last Wednesday\u2019s 4-1 loss at Como.<\/p>\n

The captain was an unused substitute and was booed, along with other players, by fans in the Stretford End at the end of the defeat by Bournemouth.<\/p>\n

On Monday Fernandes liked an Instagram post that said: \u201cNever push a loyal person to the point where they no longer care.\u201d The post also said: \u201cThe person holding everything together is usually the one nobody thinks to check on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ineos, which is owned by Ratcliffe, has reportedly put FC Lausanne-Sport up for sale. Lausanne-Sport are bottom of the top division in Switzerland. \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick was at Manchester United\u2019s training ground on Monday afternoon as elsewhere at the Carrington base Jason…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7815,61,60,917,47000,1102,112],"class_list":["post-666339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bruno-fernandes","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-united","tag-michael-carrick","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}