{"id":670351,"date":"2026-10-31T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670351\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T00:10:08","slug":"michael-carrick-tells-players-hard-truth-in-attempt-to-turn-manchester-uniteds-season-around-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670351\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick tells players \u2018hard truth\u2019 in attempt to turn Manchester United\u2019s season around \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Carrick<\/a> said he has had difficult conversations with the Manchester United<\/a> hierarchy and his players during their turbulent start to the season.<\/p>\n

United have not won in their past eight games and start the weekend in 16th place of 20 in the league, one point above the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

Carrick\u2019s position was under threat after losing last Sunday to Bournemouth but he has held on to his job for the time being and been given the chance to turn things around, starting at Chelsea on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The head coach suggested he had spoken with the club\u2019s director of football, Jason Wilcox, and the chief executive, Omar Berrada, this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty clear, it\u2019s not always rosy and nice conversations between anyone, whether that\u2019s between me and the players, whether that\u2019s between me, Jason, Omar or the owners,\u201d Carrick said. \u201cIt\u2019s the truth, it\u2019s the hard truth at times and it\u2019s what we need to move forward. Whatever we need to move forward, we will do.\u201d<\/p>\n

The supporters cheered Carrick off after he did a lap of the pitch in the aftermath of Sunday\u2019s 3-0 defeat, but once he entered the tunnel they booed the players after a poor performance and perceived lack of effort. Carrick said the players are \u201churting\u201d but are \u201chungry\u201d to turn things around.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be totally honest, it was mixed feelings for me,\u201d Carrick said. \u201cTo have the appreciation from the supporters and that connection and that respect is something I feel strongly about.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a nice situation but to feel that was important, of course, but it didn\u2019t make me feel better in the fact that I\u2019m with the players 100% and we\u2019re all in it together. I\u2019ve told the players that, I\u2019m happy to say that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t feel comfortable being in any way, shape or form, a separation from that. That\u2019s my group, my players and this is my football club so we have to all be in it together, and that\u2019s the supporters included. As hard as it is at the moment, I totally get that, I get their feelings, but when we get through this then we\u2019ll be a lot stronger as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gary Neville questioned some of the players\u2019 professionalism on his podcast this week. \u201cI\u2019ve got no time for them,\u201d Neville said. \u201cThere\u2019s a few of them that don\u2019t go to bed at the right time. Don\u2019t eat the right things.\u201d Carrick laughed off the allegations with the remark: \u201cGaz says a lot of things.\u201d \u2013 Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick said he has had difficult conversations with the Manchester United hierarchy and his players during their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,917,47000,1102,112],"class_list":["post-670351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","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\/670351","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=670351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}