Success for United this season would be qualifying for the Champions League after a two-year absence.<\/p>\n
If they beat Brentford at Old Trafford on Monday, they will need a maximum of two points from their final four games to seal a top-five slot.<\/p>\n
After that, the focus will be on United’s hierarchy to decide whether to appoint Carrick on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n
Most supporters feel the transformation since Ruben Amorim’s dismissal means he should be given the job.<\/p>\n
The man himself insists he is not demanding answers.<\/p>\n
“In terms of deadline, it’s not something I’m really chasing,” he said. “It will become clear when it becomes clear.”<\/p>\n
Those who argue against giving Carrick the job permanently tend to cite the appointment of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as evidence.<\/p>\n
That view overlooks the fact Solskjaer is the only United boss since Sir Alex Ferguson to deliver successive top-three finishes, had them top of the Premier League a couple of months before he was sacked and also reached a Europa League final in 2021, which was lost because goalkeeper David de Gea missed a penalty in a shootout defeat by Villarreal.<\/p>\n
Carrick was part of the Norwegian’s coaching team and the pair remain close, despite ending up competing to replace Amorim.<\/p>\n
He dismisses comparisons with Solskjaer as irrelevant.<\/p>\n
“I’ve got the utmost respect for him,” said Carrick. “He’s a close friend of mine and I worked closely with him when I was here. We did a lot of good things and came close.<\/p>\n
“You can compare all sorts of different situations with managers, coaches and teams over the years.<\/p>\n
“But it’s irrelevant really. It really is. That’s not a negative or a positive. It just doesn’t have a link at all. We’re a different team now, irrespective of who’s in charge.<\/p>\n
“Comparisons literally don’t make any difference.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Success for United this season would be qualifying for the Champions League after a two-year absence. If they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547045","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=547045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}