{"id":456512,"date":"2026-03-04T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456512\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T05:03:08","slug":"michael-carrick-cant-rule-out-man-united-mounting-late-premier-league-title-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456512\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick ‘can’t rule out’ Man United mounting late Premier League title charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Carrick is refusing to rule out the possibility that Manchester United<\/a> could still catch Arsenal<\/a> at the top of the Premier League table.<\/p>\n

Victory over <\/a>Crystal Palace<\/a> on Sunday<\/a> moved United up to third behind Mikel Arteta’s side and Manchester City<\/a> in second.<\/p>\n

Carrick’s team will kick off against Newcastle on Wednesday 13 points off the top.<\/p>\n

But after six wins and a draw from his seven games in charge, the interim head coach insists a late title challenge — as unrealistic as it might be — is not impossible.<\/p>\n

“You can’t rule anything out in football, but we’ve got to be realistic and know where it’s at,” Carrick said.<\/p>\n

Michael Carrick has said he cannot rule out a late title challenge.\u00a0Shaun Brooks – CameraSport via Getty Images<\/p>\n

“I think we’ve just got to try and keep winning games and see. Above us now there’s two fantastic teams. There’s some really good teams in and around us.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had a good run, we’re certainly not getting carried away.<\/p>\n

“Of course, I’m being realistic about it. We have to win a lot of football matches for that to happen.”<\/p>\n

United’s improved form under Carrick has raised the possibility that the former England<\/a> midfielder could win the head coach job permanently.<\/p>\n

He’s repeatedly played down talk about his future, but with every positive result come more questions about whether he will be in the role next season.<\/p>\n

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“It’s going to be every week, isn’t it, this?” Carrick laughed when asked for an update on the situation.<\/p>\n

“There’s no getting away from the situation of course. There’s not really an awful lot I can say about it to be honest.<\/p>\n

“I love being here. I love doing what I’m doing. I’ve said it from the start, I’m not making any decisions for short-term or quick fixes.<\/p>\n

“Winning games helps and the boys are doing great with that.<\/p>\n

“We’ll just have to see where it ends up. There’s not really much I can give you on top of that at the moment, really.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick is refusing to rule out the possibility that Manchester United could still catch Arsenal at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-456512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}