{"id":564577,"date":"2026-05-03T20:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564577\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T20:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T20:57:09","slug":"man-utd-secure-champions-league-spot-why-not-appoint-michael-carrick-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/564577\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd secure Champions League spot – why not appoint Michael Carrick now?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Club officials have said they want to wait and carry out a full assessment of the situation at the end of the season.<\/p>\n

Is that necessary? Is there an argument to say Carrick’s status should be confirmed before the final home game of the season against Nottingham Forest<\/a> on 17 May?<\/p>\n

Carrick clearly feels, together with his coaching team and squad, that he has done a good job.<\/p>\n

“It has been a good run,” he said. “We have beaten some very good teams.<\/p>\n

“When we came in, the Champions League was a bit in the distance. We wanted to get back into Europe. To be there with three games to spare is a big achievement.<\/p>\n

“One of the biggest things for me is trying to get the best out of players, helping people and letting them go out and perform.<\/p>\n

“Then there is seeing this place alive and bouncing.<\/p>\n

“The players need a lot of credit for the run we have put together and also the coaching staff. There is a lot of good work beyond me.<\/p>\n

“The pleasing thing to see is the spirit and the camaraderie of the group, which you could see at 2-2, when they were sticking in and fighting for each other.<\/p>\n

“We want a team to be proud of. It [the Champions League] is a huge step for so many reasons, and I am not underplaying that.<\/p>\n

“But it can’t be everything. We expect more of that consistently. That is the message – let’s kick on.”<\/p>\n

United fans would doubtless agree, especially those who remember the team Carrick was part of – and the ones before that – who were never allowed to settle for what they had done, as Sir Alex Ferguson always wanted more.<\/p>\n

That is the mentality Carrick has.<\/p>\n

Dion Dublin was part of Ferguson’s first Premier League title-winning squad. He understands the club.<\/p>\n

“Beating Liverpool<\/a> ticks all the boxes,” Dublin told BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n

“It’s decision-making. It’s substitutions at the right time. He’s got his team to find a way to get a result. That’s what a manager does.<\/p>\n

“Well done Carrick. Well done United.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Club officials have said they want to wait and carry out a full assessment of the situation at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-564577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564577","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=564577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}