guilty of all charges<\/a> relating to breaches of the Premier League\u2019s financial rules over nine \u2060seasons, between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 campaigns, as well as three of four charges concerning their failure to cooperate with the investigation.<\/p>\nCity, who currently top the Premier league table as the only side with a perfect record after \u2060five matches, have denied wrongdoing and lodged an appeal.<\/p>\n
Carrick spent 12 years at United from 2006 to 2018, winning five Premier League titles and the Champions League among numerous honours, before taking charge in January following Ruben Amorim\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n
During his playing career, the 45-year-old former midfielder lost out in two title races won by City, including the 2011-12 campaign when United \u200cfell short on goal difference after Sergio Aguero\u2019s dramatic title-clinching goal on the final day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s thrown up a lot of questions. As it\u2019s still ongoing, and we don\u2019t know how long it\u2019s going to go,\u201d Carrick told a press conference when asked about the City charges.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s affected me personally in different ways over a period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Would medals make up for lost titles for Man United?<\/p>\n
Asked if he wants the titles United missed out on, Carrick said he would reserve judgement until the process was complete.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think regardless of anything, a \u2060medal anyway, in any sport in history, I think later on you get the medal and it\u2019s proven at different times,\u201d the Englishman added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the moment that you \u2060strive for to win and achieve in that moment, so the medal \u2060here or there, not getting blase about it, but that doesn\u2019t bring the feeling of when you initially win or you don\u2019t win. That\u2019s essentially what we\u2019re all in it for.\u201d<\/p>\n
De Zerbi calls on struggling Spurs to react in Man Utd clash<\/p>\n
Roberto De Zerbi has urged bottom-of-the-table Tottenham to \u201creact\u201d to the pressure of their crunch clash with fellow strugglers United.<\/p>\n
Spurs have been waiting for the chance to erase the bitter taste of a 3-2 home defeat against Aston Villa in their last match before the international break.<\/p>\n
And, with scrutiny mounting on the Italian, the Spurs manager demanded his players rise to the challenge against United.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been waiting for this game from three weeks. After the defeat at home against Villa, personally I wanted to play the day after,\u201d he told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was difficult, it was very tough, especially the first week. But it is football. It is part of the situation in this moment. We have to react, to work in this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Misfiring Tottenham must improve their aim<\/p>\n
Tottenham failed to score in their first four league games before finally finding the net twice against Villa.<\/p>\n
De Zerbi conceded his team have to improve in attack if they are climb out of the bottom three.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe created chances to score many other goals in these seven games but we didn\u2019t. We are working to improve in the last third, the assists and the finishing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are fourth in the table for the team who brings the ball into the opponents\u2019 area the most times.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is nothing but it shows we can arrive in the area. We are not good enough to score goals so far when we have clear chances.\u201d<\/p>\n
Can Carrick or De Zerbi survive \u2018El Sackicko\u2019?<\/p>\n
With Carrick also under pressure following their poor start, Tottenham\u2019s trip to Manchester has been dubbed \u2018El Sackicko\u2019.<\/p>\n
De Zerbi saved Tottenham from relegation after arriving late last season, but that final-day survival feat is unlikely to save him from the axe if results don\u2019t improve soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are Tottenham. United and Tottenham are still big clubs in the Premier League,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to deserve to work in this club, playing better and making different results.\u201d<\/p>\n
What happened the last time Man United played Tottenham<\/p>\n
The sides last met in February in a Premier League encounter at Old Trafford with the home side winning 2-0.<\/p>\n
Cristian Romero was shown red on the half-hour mark for Spurs before\u00a0Bryan Mbeumo and Bruno Fernandes netted the United goals.<\/p>\n
When did Tottenham last beat Manchester United?<\/p>\n
Spurs famously beat United 1-0 in the UEFA Europa League final in May 2025, thanks to Brennan Johnson\u2019s first-half strike.<\/p>\n
The match marked Ange Postecoglou\u2019s last game in charge of the club before being sacked for their lowly league finish.<\/p>\n
Ruben Amorim paid the same heavy price the following season.<\/p>\n
When did Tottenham last win a match at Manchester United?<\/p>\n
Spurs piled the pressure on Amorim early in the 2024-2025 season with a 3-0 Premier League win at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
Johnson gave the away team a third-minute lead, before United had Bruno Fernandes sent off on the stroke of half-time.<\/p>\n
Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke completed the scoring in the second half.<\/p>\n
Head-to-head \u2013 Manchester United vs Tottenham<\/p>\n
This will be the 205th meeting between the clubs with United winning 96 matches compared to Tottenham\u2019s 56 victories.<\/p>\n
Prediction \u2013 Manchester United vs Tottenham<\/p>\n
The Opta supercomputer has given United a 54 percent chance of winning, while offering Spurs only a 22 percent chance of emerging victorious.<\/p>\n
Manchester United team news<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a bit mixed really through \u200cthe internationals,\u201d Carrick said. \u201c(Wing back) Patrick Dorgu came off and it looks like he\u2019ll be out probably for a number of weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Defender) Noussair Mazraoui came off and took a knock. He\u2019s not quite right yet, we\u2019ll have to \u200csee \u200chow he is.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that Carlos Baleba was improving, while fellow midfielder Kobbie Mainoo, winger Amad Diallo and forward Marcus Rashford had resumed limited training. Striker Benjamin Sesko remains further away from a return.<\/p>\n
Predicted Manchester United starting lineup<\/p>\n
Lammens; Dalot, Maguire, Martinez, Shaw; Mainoo, Tielemans; Mbeumo, Fernandes, Rashford; Cunha<\/p>\n
Tottenham team news<\/p>\n
Kulusevski, Xavi Simons, Wilson Odobert and Mykhaylo Mudryk all remain sidelined due to injury.<\/p>\n
Jan Paul van Hecke has overcome a foot injury, but may miss out after his wife gave birth to twins \u2013 the club has said emotional needs will be taken into consideration.<\/p>\n
Predicted Tottenham Hotspur starting lineup<\/p>\n
Kinsky; Gray, Senesi, Van de Ven, Robertson; Gallagher, Tonali, Fernandes; Savio, Solanke, Marmoush<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who: Manchester United vs Tottenham HotspurWhat: English Premier League Matchweek 6Where: Old Trafford, Manchester, United KingdomWhen: Saturday, October…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[591,218,59,57,58,50,217,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797749","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=797749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}