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17 Jan 2026 17:59:20
Roy Keane isn't a fan of Carrick is he?
We've had the spats with Carrick's wife and he has been complaining all week about the coaching staff, not sure what his beef is.
In effect, Carrick replaced Keane, and their United careers are oddly similar. Keane made 326 appearances, Carrick made 316. Keane won 12 major trophies, Carrick won 11 major trophies, remarkably similar United records.
I like Keane as a pundit, he's good value but he was having a dig before Carrick even got started and I thought he was grudging with his post match comments. To quote Chris Sutton, you're better than that Roy.
Kudos to Carrick for refusing to rise to the bait.
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17 Jan 2026 17:21:20
Meanwhile Liverpool draw at home to Burnley and so fail to beat any of the three promoted teams at Anfield for the first time since 1980-1 and Spurs continue to struggle despite signing Gallagher.
There are no foregone conclusions in the EPL. Every point has to be worked hard for. I'm still wondering whether we would have had more points at this stage were it not for losing Amad and Mbuemo to AFCON at the moment we were to play the weakest teams.
Hats off to our more experienced older players today. Shaw, Maguire, Bruno and Casemiro were all immense. And I'd like to commend Dorgu who has improved enormously over the last few weeks.
As much as I wanted Amorim to succeed, I think we will do better with 4 at the back. If Carrick takes us into Europe does he get the job full time?
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17 Jan 2026 17:44:19
If we beat Arsenal, he should get the job full time.
What say you Red Man?
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17 Jan 2026 16:50:16
Gooner in peace.
Just wanted to say a massive well done for today and for giving us a better chance to keep City out of the title race.
Your new manager looks the real deal, good luck for the rest of the season 😊.
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17 Jan 2026 15:33:53
missed the game but looking forward to watching the replay. sounds like we were very good.
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17 Jan 2026 15:55:49
It was fantastic Ahmad. I got slated for it on the chat but meant it genuinely and as a compliment to Carrick, but I felt the approach was mostly similar to Amorim's with subtle tweaks. In attack Dalot pushed up giving a back 3 and defensively we usually were a 4 but sometimes a 5 when Dorgu got back to cover overloads.
The intensity was excellent. Mainoo played well. Positionally especially. That was the other difference. It meant Bruno was further up and we created so many good chances because of that. It showed Mainoo and Bruno can actually play together. Very encouraged by it.
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17 Jan 2026 15:58:03
We were excellent. A well deserved victory and we could/should have scored more.
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17 Jan 2026 16:12:12
We were excellent and the approsch was nothing like Amorim's. 😄.
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17 Jan 2026 16:22:51
Did score more Fizz they just kept getting ruled out! 3 ruled out for offside and hit the woodwork twice. Great energy all round. Definitely missed Bryan and Amad and even Harry at the back but everyone stepped up.
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17 Jan 2026 17:26:47
Ok AJH. I didn't expect differently from you. I think you mentioned in the chat that it was similar to the Newcastle first half but yeah that doesn't count.
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17 Jan 2026 17:34:20
Great stuff. Well deserved. I thought we were good only decent in 1st half but excellent in the 2nd. Dominated them in most respects.
I did expect a win and delighted with it. Same again next week please.
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17 Jan 2026 17:47:18
Lol Don, yes, similar to the one half in Amorim's reign when we looked like United. One half out of 63 games.
It was fast paced, breaking quickly in numbers, high pressure, all very different to what we have seen lately. But, early days.
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17 Jan 2026 09:41:21
Best of luck to Carrick today, really pulling for him to do well.
But if I see Ugarte start, I'll cry ðŸ˜.
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17 Jan 2026 11:25:27
No tears today, false 9 day it looks like.
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17 Jan 2026 11:54:49
No Ugarte, Cunha or Sesko.
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17 Jan 2026 12:01:59
Yes grim, sit in and counter I'd imagine. Cunha and Sesko to change it up then if needed.
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17 Jan 2026 12:14:03
Next of luck to Carrick. He'll need it. If he can get best out of this squad we will stay in european place.
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17 Jan 2026 12:17:37
Best#.
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17 Jan 2026 08:43:08
Ambition, something Manchester United had right through the club until the Glazers arrived. SAF had it yet had to bow to no value in the market. I remember watching Aguero go to city whilst there was no value as an example.
So what, said it before. Here we are in January having sacked a manager who was changing the club, but had already been turned down on who he wanted to buy. He wanted certain players this window, now he has gone and someone put a stop to that appalling spending of money that might go on dividends. The 20 years of Glazers should have taught us that, only difference now is they don’t have someone to say No value.
Speaking of no value, there was no value in Semenyo, or Guehi. City are now what we used to be, a club moving together in one direction, who trade far better than we do, plan very well. Have no doubt that Peps replacement will already be lined up. Yes there is the outcome of the 115 charges to wait for, if they are ever able to get out of a legal circle.
So today, we play City, don’t worry about midfield we are looking at a mystery midfield player on loan (Ruben Loftus Cheek I bet) , our leaky defence is ok. Meanwhile the club put out stories the players are astonished on how good Carricks training is. We wonder if we can get a result against the might of City, against all expectations today. We have Wilcox ex Blackburn with responsibility for our future whilst destroying a manager, telling us the poor team we have should be able to make top four. Ambition.
Twenty years of Glazers has turned us not just into a financial mess so they can be billionaires at the price of shafting the fans, but also they have made us the noisy neighbours with little ambition.
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17 Jan 2026 09:39:43
Red man, I've said it before and I'll say it again, Ruben Amorim should have done with the players he had at his disposal, 32% win rate in the premier league. He won only 15 games in his 14 month tenure! 15! OGS did that in an interim spell . His results were appalling and he blew it up himself. He sacked himself, it's well known the club did not want to sack him, for whatever reason. Players he wanted? Why not do better with the players you have first.
On the Glazers, yes, they have been terrible with the leveraging of debt and putting people in charge of the club that were nowhere near capable. And because of the mismanagement of 20 years, I am willing to give Jim and his team a little bit of leeway. They are wading through so much crap and have to get so much more together and right before Amy of us will see real results.
And let's just remember, they did not want to sack Amorim, they wanted him there, in charge for the future, mad as it is to me, that's what they wanted.
Sure, I'd love to see them go out and buy more players but I believe they were throwing caution to the wind based on the Managers abysmal record up until that point.
Let's see how this period goes, who they look to appoint in the summer and players they are looking to get in. We are still in massive rebuild stage that is going to take nothing but time.
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17 Jan 2026 10:04:52
angel
I am looking at the bigger picture. You just don’t get the change needed, for you it’s all about the results now, now, now. Change management involves short term pain, but some fans don’t understand. SAF would have gone in 1988 on your stats basis.
We have hit the panic button by not nurturing the change, kept with Wilcox methodology, gone back to the initial comfort of old slippers, someone who knows the club, who won’t push for signings. Time you woke up to the bigger picture.
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17 Jan 2026 10:22:46
It is possible for both things to be true. The owners and leadership are incompetent, and Amorim struggled to get the best from this group of players. We can debate whether he was right or wrong, but calling this the worst United team ever, and regularly singling out players for public criticism does not make for a happy environment.
Conte's comments about Højlund this week were telling. He said Højlund is improving now he is receiving proper coaching.
Scott is ripping it up in Italy, Rashford is doing well in Spain. There is clearly something endemically wrong at United. I for one, have no idea how it gets fixed. New owners seemed like a good start but that isn't going so well is it?
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17 Jan 2026 10:33:15
Spot on Red Man. Plus the not unexpected 32% response! Things were beginning to change on the playing front. Now we'll never know as we rinse and repeat yet again!
Imagine if SAF had been treated in the same manner. Again, we shall never know. But, for the sake of instant gratification, here we are again!
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17 Jan 2026 11:35:53
Red man, you say it's all about now now now for me but here I am saying Jim and co need time and you want them out of the club. don't be so hypocritical, practise what you're preaching.
I didn't see the change or improvement in the team at all apart from the clutching at straws argument that we were closer to the top 4 than ever. I'll remind you, we were 4 points off top 4 when Amorim came in.
But it's done now, experiment over.
AJH makes very valid points above.
I'm willing to give the senior team more time to get this right as the job on their hands is massive.
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17 Jan 2026 11:37:20
If people want to draw SAFs time as a comparison, he never presided over such dreadful results and he had much more difficult things to deal with.
Let's stop kidding ourselves with this.
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17 Jan 2026 11:39:41
Redman, I'm only going to quibble with one thing. There are no dividends at the moment and haven't been since 2022. Personally I'd be really happy if the club was doing well enough to generate profits and be able to pay dividends, whether or not they are actually paid. If United wasn't a public company we wouldn't likely know what the shareholders were taking.
Why do people invest? To make money via income and/or capital appreciation. There's nothing unique about owners taking dividends, management fees, salaries etc. Despite the restraints put on SAF thanks to the requirement to service LBO debt, the club was in a decent leverage position after it went public. Since then United has spent plenty money on players. They've just done a crap job at it. That's the real travesty. The appalling mismanagement. If we were winning titles regularly would anyone really care that the owners were making money out of the club?
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17 Jan 2026 12:02:25
Angel when did you change your mind on jim?
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17 Jan 2026 12:04:57
Get that scumbag Jim as far away from our club as possible.
This is a previous post from Angel so i'm not sure that's a post looking to give him time.
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17 Jan 2026 12:07:16
Is 5th not getting best from this group i don't think we are 4th bestt squad does anybody?
I suppose we will have to wait and see how much not Carrick gets from them.
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17 Jan 2026 12:26:45
Newname
No dividends due to accounting rules, do you not think they are itching to get them again?
The Glazers have not invested one cent and yes I have called out the Glazers since the leveraged buy out because I understood what it was and meant. I want us to win titles but I want the Glazers out.
angel, what league positions did SAF achieve in his early years?
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17 Jan 2026 12:33:57
Ken, he is a scumbag and I didn't want him at the club, but he's here and it's the first time that there have been footballing people in charge of our club so Berrada, Wilcox, Vivell, I'm willing to give them time to get it right. Hope that clears that up.
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17 Jan 2026 13:27:24
Just clears up what we know angel.
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17 Jan 2026 14:31:59
RedMan bang a new drum other than the glazers, we all know you don’t want them and we don’t want them or SJR, but RA was very poor and deserved the sack long ago, the football was really poor the results awful, terrible in game management and he wanted the sack, so good riddance, do I agree with Carrick, nope that’s another awful mistake….
But you deride everyone else but bang on and on about the Glazers which until someone with very deep pockets comes along that’s not going to change.
RA never improved one player in fact most digressed so how you can bang his drum is mind blowing.
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17 Jan 2026 15:08:13
Redman. It's nothing to do with accounting rules. Of course they want dividends again. But to get them they'll need to make profits. I'd prefer they invested in the club rather than took dividends, but the only thing I really care about is the quality if our football.
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17 Jan 2026 17:54:11
Newname
You are showing your lack of knowledge on financial matters. Accounting rules meant dividends could not be taken, that does relate to financial results and profit.
You would prefer, prefer they invested in the club. They haven’t invested a cent, I care about the football club and the Glazers need to leave.
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16 Jan 2026 16:35:58
Another good signing for city from palace this time.
I think they will go hard after elliot Anderson in the summer.
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16 Jan 2026 19:48:30
Assuming they sign Anderson and get Guehi over the line, those 3 players signed are the three players that we desperately needed to lift the quality of our squad another notch. Those three additions would have secured us a run at the top echelons of the EPL, but instead we chose to dispose our manager and do nothing.
I was reading how City have churned 14 players since 1st Jan 2025, lowering their wage bill and creating flexibility in the transfer dealings. We on the other hand do nothing, succumb to player power and keep useless assets and skewed wages to further limit ourselves.
This summer, we again have an opportunity to rip apart the squad. I can't be bothered to list them anymore but we have at least 14 players that need to leave for one reason and another.
I suspect we will do nothing, because we have no plans. Time will tell.
I will accept Tuchel in the Summer. I want Keane, but that's not happening until Fergie passes away. I guess we just keep going around in circles.
I pray for OT to be absolutely empty against City, a boycott that is befitting of our current status.
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16 Jan 2026 20:42:09
Jimbo
Keane was not a great Manager, he's pretty much admitted that himself. Is Guehi all that? Nobody on here has suggested we should be pursuing him. Anderson yes, but let's see what happens in the summer. Anderson, Baleba, Wharton, there are other options.
You are right about how efficient City are at buying and selling players, we do seem to take forever when they are wham bam, thank you ma'am.
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16 Jan 2026 21:32:13
Elliot Anderson would be my dream signing in midfield, he has that Bryan Robson all action midfielder vibe going. The kind of midfielder who is so well balanced that you can play him alongside any other midfielder and it just works.
He works hard, is great defensively, and will step up and grab a goal when you need one, he's also becoming a real leader on the pitch.
That said even with UCL football it might be difficult for us to get him given the disarray the club is in right now. Frustratingly he looks City bound, and he'll captain them to titles in the future, I'm sure of it.
The biggest issue we have is that until we know who the next permanent manager will be it is almost impossible to even work out what type of midfielders we might look in the summer, let alone names of potential targets.
While I think a club can bring in players in most positions that are adaptable to most managers style of play, the midfield is to vital to how a manager wants to play.
Every manager wants centre backs who win duels, are fairly quick and mobile, and good on the ball. They all want, or can make use of a tall strong target man type striker, or a quick tricky winger.
However, the midfield is absolutely vital for how a manager want to set his team up. Does he need a deep-lying playmaker, a disciplined holding midfielder, a dynamic box to box player, a tireless work horse, a feisty bull dog type player who'll snap into tackles.
Does he want his midfielders to sit deeper, have good technical ability and expansive passing range to ping balls forward, or to be tireless high pressing monsters.
The midfield gives the team it's identity, and the club will have to bring in the right midfielders to suit the manager or he will struggle. It's that simple.
The club have been linked with all of Baleba, Wharton and Anderson, yet all three are distinctly different midfielders.
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16 Jan 2026 21:44:47
That doesn't mean he can't handle the UTD post AJH.
We have had some great managers come through the doors and they have all failed to a degree.
I say give him the job if we can't get Tuchel and send Fergie out to pasture to stop him interfering with the club. Legend or not, his time has passed.
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17 Jan 2026 05:01:55
Guehi is miles better than anything we have at CB all our CBs are very poor, It comes to something when probably our best is McGuire! Never been impressed with Yoro, you all said he is great! You all said I was wrong when I said Deligt is just unreliable because injuries, how’s that turned out and Martinez is not great either, shipped more goals than ever since he been back!
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17 Jan 2026 08:04:24
Good posts Jimbo.
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17 Jan 2026 09:10:42
Guehi is a class defender for both club and country.
I think most fans didn't talk about him because realistically we couldn't compete for his signature in the summer against liverpool or in January against city as opposed to not wanting him.
Says it all really about how far we have fallen.
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17 Jan 2026 16:18:21
By all accounts he told United he was not interested back in the summer hence why they showed no interest then or now, in reality they would have loved him because all our CBs are really poor.
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16 Jan 2026 14:21:24
Glasner confirms he's leaving Palace at the end of the seaspon.
I can see old SJR rubbing his hands with glee.
Won't cost him a penny to get and i can't see him (Glasner) commanding a high wage.
Perfect fit for the next 12-15 months until he gets the boot.
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16 Jan 2026 15:07:35
Wouldn't look to much into it sim ancelloti tuchel naglesman iraola are all out of contract in the summer too all names that have came up.
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16 Jan 2026 15:18:23
I hope your right Johnreese.
Tuchel would be my pick.
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16 Jan 2026 17:07:38
Lots of good managers are out of contract in the summer.
I have to say i don't have any major preferences at the moment. There are a whole host of managers out there and i don't really have any strong argument as to how one would fare any better than another.
We have a few good players but huge deficiencies right throughout the squad.
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16 Jan 2026 18:13:34
The only problem with the world cup managers is that they will be missing out on pre season planning and recruitment. I remember this being an issue for LVG in 2014.
Could see it being Di zerbi in the summer.
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16 Jan 2026 19:25:49
I‘d fly to Paris and have a croissant with Luis Enrique.
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16 Jan 2026 23:10:50
Id be happy with that dsg.
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17 Jan 2026 08:23:42
Jonny8, he’d be my number one preference.
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16 Jan 2026 14:20:41
Lots of news out of palace today. Guehi joining city (sigh) glasner leaving at end of the season, mateta will be sold. So would glasner and/or mateta appeal to anyone on here? I think if I asked that 6 months ago the answer might be different to now, seems his stock has fallen lately but he’s a very good manager with a record of success at both palace and Frankfurt.
To have 2 trophies for palace in the last 12 months is fantastic by any metric.
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16 Jan 2026 14:57:13
I would say no and no, but what do I know? Glassener I don't really know enough about, but my preference would be Tuchel, I've warmed to him since he started with England.
Mateta doesn't inspire me, very hit and miss.
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16 Jan 2026 15:09:37
It amazes me these so called pundits laud the glasners and iraola’s. Last 2 seasons crystal palace have finished 10/12 and bornemouth last 3 seasons 15/12/9 they are mid table managers.
We should not be looking at these types of managers. I can’t see it inspiring the squad or future players.
We need someone who has been there and done it consistently.
Glasner has won a europa league in Germany that’s it and some would say it’s a weak league. His league finishes in those 2 seasons 11/7. Mid table manager.
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16 Jan 2026 15:10:00
No to glasner for me a poor manager and worse person.
Mateta would be good option to have with sesko for the right price we need another striker next year if we are serious about challenging on all fronts.
Somebody suggested ilyman ndiaye yesterday too which I thought was a great shout for the left wing.
Murillo from forest is also being linked who I wouldn't be against either.
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16 Jan 2026 15:46:53
All about opinions ajh, I’m not sure I know what type of manager we need if I’m honest. We’ve tried all sorts and for the most part it hasn’t worked. Anyways it’s INEOS ideas that matter and I don’t think any of us could guess what they’ll do next.
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16 Jan 2026 17:51:35
There are many better managers out there then Glasner, he done extremely well with no budget at palace, but we should not be entertaining him, but SJR done stupid things from day one up to now appointment of Carrick being the latest stupid idea, so he probably will continue to do so, it’s a tough team to support atm from top to bottom, mind you the way Ineos are losing money is it any wonder…You can buy Nice FC now for a few Francs as that’s the era Jim lives in.
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16 Jan 2026 21:35:08
I think it's a bit rich to suggest that Glasner is a poor manager, and without knowing the guy personally and only going off of hearsay I'm not really in a position to judge him as a person.
However, as good a job as he has done at his previous clubs, I'm just not a fan of how his teams play. Far to reductive and pragmatic.
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16 Jan 2026 07:39:05
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