{"id":817643,"date":"2026-10-29T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817643\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:24:10","slug":"man-utd-crisis-sometimes-a-manager-needs-sacking-for-their-own-good-gary-neville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/817643\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd crisis: Sometimes a manager needs sacking for their own good – Gary Neville"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Neville says managers sometimes need to be sacked “for their own good” as he reflected on Manchester United<\/a>‘s decision to persist with under-pressure Michael Carrick.<\/p>\n

United are 16th in the Premier League, just one point above the relegation zone, following a dismal 3-0 home defeat by Bournemouth<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Carrick was widely expected to be sacked after that loss, but the club have opted to give the 45-year-old head coach the opportunity to turn things around,<\/a> and he will remain in charge for United’s trip to Chelsea<\/a> on Saturday lunchtime.<\/p>\n

“I reckon what’s happened in the 24 hours after Bournemouth<\/a> is that they’ve literally debated it back and forth,” former Manchester United<\/a> captain Neville said on the Stick to Football podcast.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know this, but they’ve debated it to the point where they’ve got themselves into a muddle, and thought, ‘we’ll just stay with him’.<\/p>\n

“I think staying with him is a result of the lack of planning, the lack of probably available options, the lack of decision-making around the two people that probably are available. That’s when you’re really struggling.”<\/p>\n

Neville added: “Sometimes a manager needs sacking for their own good. I needed sacking at Valencia.<\/a> I was happy that they put me out of my misery.”<\/p>\n

Carrick’s position was precarious even before the Bournemouth<\/a> game after captain Bruno Fernandes criticised the tactics deployed<\/a> in the 4-1 Champions League loss at Como last week.<\/p>\n

Fernandes was dropped for the Bournemouth<\/a> match, but he and Carrick have since held talks to clear the air.<\/a><\/p>\n

“We’ve all been in football dressing rooms, and they’re quite brutal places,” Neville said.<\/p>\n

“If Bruno Fernandes, the captain of the club… if he comes out and questions the manager’s tactics after a 4-1 defeat in Como, where he’s played like a drain, and he’s been playing like a drain for three months, and the rest of them have as well, that is only 1 or 2% of what they’re actually saying internally.”<\/p>\n

United fans sang Carrick’s name as he applauded the crowd after the Bournemouth<\/a> defeat during what Neville called “effectively a farewell lap”.<\/p>\n

Those fans then booed the players as soon as Carrick went down the tunnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Neville says managers sometimes need to be sacked “for their own good” as he reflected on Manchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817643","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\/817643","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=817643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}