On Wayne Rooney\u2019s comment that Carrick should get the job full-time, and blocking out the external noise about the situation:<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s not that much noise, is it? I don\u2019t mean Wayne, I just mean in general. It\u2019s only noise if you listen to it, I suppose. But it doesn\u2019t affect me one bit, to be honest. I\u2019m in this position at the minute, doing the best I can, and loving it obviously and we keep pushing for more, we want to make the team as good as we can, we want to keep improving everything. Whatever s going to happen is going to happen, but in terms of conversations, we get on great. I\u2019ve just seen Omar [Berrada] and Jason [Wilcox] downstairs there, we had a chat about the game, how it\u2019s gone and it\u2019s all pretty open. It\u2019s all pretty calm, to be honest. Today was a good win for us, so we can definitely enjoy the win and look forward to Friday night [at Bournemouth], but other than that, it\u2019s all I’m thinking about really.”<\/p>\n
On replacing Casemiro, what he does in the dressing room and behind the scenes, is it a case of replacing him and other players also have to step up in terms of leadership?:<\/p>\n
“Listen, this is totally no disrespect to Case, he\u2019s been fantastic, he\u2019s been a player for us and he\u2019s been important in the dressing room and one that I\u2019ve spoke to and connected with really well. But as a club and as a team, players come and go, some are bigger, some are maybe more important than others at different times, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever really about replacing like for like, I think you can go in a different direction, you understand what the balance of the squad needs, whether that\u2019s on the pitch, off the pitch, leadership, positionally – there\u2019s all sorts of different things going into it. Case has done some really, really good things, certainly since I\u2019ve been here, he\u2019s been an absolutely pleasure to work with.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wayne Rooney\u2019s comment that Carrick should get the job full-time, and blocking out the external noise about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[169962,3214,59,1753,4980,72217,50,1755,101,56,54,1756,55],"class_list":["post-477634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2026_03_15_old_trafford_manchester","tag-first-team","tag-gb","tag-like","tag-match-coverage","tag-michael-carrick","tag-news","tag-search","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-now","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477634","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=477634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}