Manchester United sack Michael Carrick, Pochettino expected
I'm getting an inkling that Manchester United have sacked Michael Carrick. Difficult to tell.
Mr Kebab19Hold on Hol, are you trying to tell me Michael Carrick's been sacked?
Andy Northcott8Quite funny if this is how Michael Carrick found out
Ken Gray5Unsure what extra, latest detail you’d get by scanning the follow live QR code. “Latest, Carrick is still sacked”
Emlyn Jones5They've devoted half an hour to this so far.
Richard3Will Harry Kane and Mauricio Pochettino be re-united at Manchester United... difficult to tell?
Tom Hicks1I love that they get photos of sports people doing a reaction to something else but with the same emotion. Like “this is what we think he would look like as he found out”
Fans of Leeds United aren't naturally sympathetic to anything associated with Manchester United but Carrick's treatment is shameful and Jim Ratcliffe is odious. #lufc #mufc
Mandeville 📎 🇺🇦10NUFC aren’t fans of Man Utd either but agree with you their treatment of Carrick has been awful. But with owners like Ratcliffe it’s no wonder they have behaved like it. #NUFC #MUFC
Fiona Phelan6I feel the same as an #LFC fan. It's shabby and classless behaviour by their owners. #lufc #mufc
Ben Hudson5I've been an ABU season ticket holder for decades but even so I'm appalled at the way this has been handled. Amateur and morally bankrupt, so bang on expectations when it comes to Jim Ratcliffe. Makes Maranakis look principled. #nffc
Leon Black4I'm a Man City fan living in Leeds and agree 100% with this.
Dave.4Ratshit's all stick approach has failed miserably. I love that for him. Greedy, tax dodging, Reform supporting pos.
PJ4Despise ManU so otherwise wouldn't give a toss but Carrick seems a genuine bloke. Also as a fan of cycling and formerly Team Sky, Ratcliffe's ownership is making it tough for me to care about the "British Team"...
Obviously recent results couldn't justify him staying, but the way Manchester United have handled sacking Carrick has been disgraceful. Lack of clarity, class and communication (unsurprisingly) stems from the top and it's easy to see why they are where they are.
eastlower7Monaco ‘summit’, all played out in the broad daylight of the media. What a dismal way to behave.
Resident Chizzle5Has anyone looked into Jim Ratcliffe's business acumen? Because the way he's running United suggests he knows absolutely fuck all about running a bath.
Alistair Smith3Always especially sad when the machine devours people who are devoted to the club like Carrick and Solskajer.
Michael2Berrada is an interesting case. He was commercial director for City during all the shenanigans. Which means he was either privy to it all or, if not, then he was basically out the decision making loop and director in name only. So a fraud either way.
MatthewSchaeferFan1Can’t imagine they did themselves any favors with their alumni network in all this.
captainlydon.bsky.social1The same people who sacked Amorim and then have Carrick a 2 year contract in the summer still have jobs
As a disinterested party, the Michael Carrick sacking has been appallingly handled, whatever the merits.
jezbox3Sir Jimmy has no merits.
petehenry139.bsky.social1The way the club is being run is as if The Chuckle Brothers were in charge!
Dave L1As a United supporter the sooner we get these clowns out of the club the better. And I’m talking about the Glaser parasites, clueless Ratcliffe and his mates who supposedly run the club. Arseholes the lot of ‘em
🚨 Michael Carrick & coaching staff informed by Manchester United of decision to part company. 45yo + main backroom team members already departed Carrington after receiving news. #USMNT boss Mauricio Pochettino lined up to take over at #MUFC @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/768...
Kevin Birch10Looking forward to Pochettino sacked announcement in November 2027.
Daniel9Piss poor the manner this has been carried out.
b1rdsteve.bsky.social3Jason Wilcox's position at Man Utd is now untenable. He is not remotely qualified or skilled for his role as Tech Dir, he badly let Carrick down in the transfer window & he has made error after error in his time at United. The bare minimum Wilcox owes Carrick is a massive apology.
Arsenal B3Wow that’s a bolt from the blue.
Cooper Fuqua1After how DDG was treated this is absolutely no surprise.
Chopper18781Carrick getting sacked?? Didn't see that one coming....
Nolan10It took them 2 days from when Ornstein first reported it…
lunch enjoyer7blimey this whole time I thought his name was Carrot
Senne6Players got another manager sacked. Next summer we must get rid of Bruno, Shaw, Maguire, Martinez, Dalot at the very least if we want to fix this joke of a club.
Jess5They are a total shambles. If they had approached Poch in the summer, piror to him signing any contract extension, it wouldn't have cost anything. Now they need to pay around $10m to USMNT.
The Arsenal Hound5This has been handled so poorly by ManU. Publicly announcing your interviewing for a new coach before actually firing your current one is old school Hollywood bad. Nothing like reading you’re being or have been fired in the trades.
Jason Davis5United is a disaster and Carrick was hardly the reason the club is drowning but this was always going to happen after the Pochettino news broke.
Kyle Foley2Just one more manager change, that'll fix it. Just one more I promise (see you all in 18 months when Poch is getting fired)
Well that’s handy. Thank goodness I got a press release about what ‘Psychic World’ predicts about the new Man United manager or I’d have no clue what was coming.
Alistair Coleman6Was it from Mystic Megson?
andylimb.bsky.social1Outstanding. Just wait til you get one inviting you to "Just click on this link to find out if YOU are the next Manchester United manager"
Docker1I mean, they *could* be referring to Poch's replacement ?
Andreas Lindh1Can't they just use their own service and predict what you want? Smells like snakeoil to me.
garretpc.bsky.social1I think that email was sent to you by mistake, and meanwhile in Monaco, Jim Ratcliffe is sitting at his desk thinking "Where the fuck is my email from Psychic World telling me who I should appoint as the next manager???"
jeremynestor.bsky.social1as a PR, having to send guff like this back in the day was the worst. You knew it was rubbish, the journo knows its rubbish, but your client...
Has a manager ever conducted themselves with greater dignity & noble restraint than Michael Carrick? His post-match interviews & press conferences were almost like performance pieces. Let's pay tribute by imagining a montage of them in slow-mo with the sound replaced by Albinoni's Adagio In G Minor.
Michael Carrick departing Manchester United clears path for official steps to formalize the hiring of Mauricio Pochettino from U.S. Soccer Buyout north of $10m incl. assistants. Formal contact started Plan has been for Pochettino to see out USMNT games vs. Haiti over next week
Thierry Ennui11$10 million to get rid of Poch is a lot but it’s a price I am willing to p-[finger to earpiece] hold on I am now getting word th
Graham MacAree4the american tarriff situation is getting out of hand
Steve Dudley2Pochettino. Only because #mufc owners don't have the balls to appoint a manage with a pair himself and who would stand up to them. Antonio Conte is that man. Ratcliffe and the Glazers don't have a pair between them. And we don't have squad to play Pochettino's high energy game. #INEOSout #GlazersOut
"£1bn taken out of the club while others were illicitly pumping in roughly the same." Two decades of football in Manchester summed up in a sentence.
Andrew Beasley16I'm enjoying the escalation in the live blog. First “As a United fan who was around for the early 90s", then “In my 53 years supporting United", followed by “I have been a supporter for 60 years.” I look forward to opinions from people who saw the Busby Babes and Ernest Mangnall's 1911 title winners
And £1.76bn net spend on transfers post Ferguson for precious little in return on the pitch. All of this whinging about interest payments ignores the fact that the Glazers biggest sin is presiding over a long term governance disaster.
RPaz1how they bought that club is/was nuts.
Another sad day in the life of a Manchester United supporter today. We all know that we will be here again in 12/18 months because the fundamental issues that plague this club are not being addressed.
Marit 👹5They’re just playing with our emotions at this point, it never ends. We were just here, and we’ll be back here again soon 😔 I’m furious over how they’ve treated both MC and Ole.
CC1At this stage I'll just be happy if Poch keeps us up so that next year's manager doesn't have the task of getting us promoted in his first year
