Massively under utilized by England National team .under rated beyond description!! An unsung hero!!
We are gonna find it hard replacing him long term!!
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Mourinho: "The worst manager in history of PL - Frank de Boer 7-0-0-7 zero goals - says it is no good for Marcus Rashford to have manager like me. Maybe with him he would learn how to lose." #mufc
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Massively under utilized by England National team .under rated beyond description!! An unsung hero!!
We are gonna find it hard replacing him long term!!
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carraghar ne sky purathaki alle... good.. carragher neville keown savage oke polethe alavalathikal enthu punditry nadathananu ..classless bindippers in their playing days and now all of a sudden from nowhere become pundits in suits....
pundits-nekaal kashtavaa pre/post match press conferenceil britainile top newspapersile sports correspondents chodhikkunna chodyangal... theera nilavaaram illaatha chodyangal... athuvechu nokkumbo spanish journos, german journos okke team formation, strategies okke base cheythu chodhikkum... britishukaarude chumma manushyane vadi aakunna chodyangalaa...Originally Posted by Santi
Young could be on his way to Russia !! Huge turn around for his career!!
England's left back options
Ashley Young
Ryan Bertrand
Danny Rose
Luke Shaw
Out of these four Young looks to have a proper shout for a place in squad to Russia!
Would like to see Jose giving enough chances for Shaw to impress Southgate!! Credit to Young ...he made himself ahead of Shaw,a proper LB, in the pecking order at United!!
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Out of the remaining 8 games, Manchester City needs to win just 3 of them to clinch the title.
De boer thinks Jose destroys rash's career
Most #ManUtd appearances under Jose Mourinho:
Rashford 93
De Gea 81
Herrera 80
Martial 80
Lingard 79
Pogba 77
Mata 75
Valencia 73
Smalling 71
Fellaini 64
Mkhitaryan 63
Blind 54
Ibrahimovic 53
Bailly 51
Rojo 51
Young 50
Jones 47
Lukaku 42
Darmian 42
Carrick 42
Matic 39
Rooney 39
Few United supporters would have expected Carrick to appear more times for the club than Bryan Robson when he was chosen to strengthen their soft centre. The season before Carrick arrived, Ferguson had settled on an auxiliary midfield axis of John O'Shea and Ryan Giggs, having sacked Roy Keane and lost Paul Scholes for half the campaign due to a mysterious eye problem.
The central midfield he would come to neglect required reinforcing and chief executive David Gill promised supporters 'two world-class players'. Javier Mascherano, Rino Gattuso, Mahamadou Diarra and Didier Zokora were the fans' favourites to replace Keane but Ferguson opted for Premier League experience.
United originally offered Tottenham ?10million and eventually paid nearly double that, acquiring Carrick for ?18.6m. He inherited Keane's number 16 but the comparisons ended there. At the time Carrick was not 'world-class' and the antithesis to Keane, a concern succinctly summarised by United authority Rob Smyth: "The signing of Michael Carrick, a Pirlo when a Gattuso was needed, is a band aid for a bullet wound, and a ludicrously expensive one at that."
Ferguson attempted to supplement Carrick with an additional midfielder but Bayern Munich refused to release Owen Hargreaves and a deadline day attempt to prise Marcos Senna from Villarreal collapsed. United's central midfield options comprised of Carrick, Scholes, O'Shea and Darren Fletcher, the latter two derided by Keane during his unaired punditry appearance on MUTV.
The punchline is United played their most vibrant football of the last 12 years in 2006-07 and won the league for the first time in four, staying at the summit for all but two weeks.
Ferguson had staved off mutiny the previous season by jettisoning Keane and then Van Nistelrooy amid the toxic fall-out from the Glazer takeover. The leadership change eased Carrick in. Scholes had decided to reinvent himself as a deep-lying midfielder and United's control of matches improved with him and Carrick shielding the back four, Rooney playing off Louis Saha and Giggs and Ronaldo providing the width. Eight United players were named in the Premier League Team of the Year. Typically, the understated Carrick was overlooked.
The choice of Carrick was a fundamental one as Ferguson assembled his last great United side. Hargreaves arrived in 2007 along with Anderson to beef up United's midfield but it was Carrick who started the three Champions League finals United reached within a four-year period. United won five titles in the seven seasons after Carrick joined.
His United career was not without a slump.*Gazzetta dello Sport*gushed 'bellissimo' following his performance against Jose Mourinho's Internazionale at the San Siro in 2009 but Carrick endured a lengthy hangover from Moscow 2008. He was dropped at the start of 2009-10, similar punishment followed after his feeble performance against Bayern Munich in the 2010 quarter-final defeat and his new contract in 2011 was splashed by the acerbic Red Issue fanzine. 'Incapable hands signs incapable feet', read the headline, accompanied by a photo of Gill and Carrick and a speech bubble emerging from both which read: 'I can't believe I'm getting away with this.' There was an Anfield horror trilogy between 2008 and 2011.
Ferguson's refusal to sign central midfielders in his last six years reprieved Carrick and he belatedly repaid him. It was not until United's 2011 midfield crisis - one so embarrassingly critical Tom Cleverley's injury left United supporters despondent - that Carrick was given a pathway back into the first-team. The consistency of his performances in the last 18 months of Ferguson's United epoch were arguably unrivalled.
Even during the doldrum years post-Ferguson, Louis van Gaal and Mourinho came to rely on Carrick as the pivot in their midfield. He started ahead of ?54m worth of midfield talent in Ander Herrera and Morgan Schneiderlin in the 2016 FA Cup final and Bastian Schweinsteiger was barely a competitor. A man as synonymous with possession as Carrick still prefers Mourinho's regime to Van Gaal's.
Carrick's popularity in the dressing room has risen with his seniority. United players planned a gathering in Carrick's honour towards the end of the 2015-16 season amid uncertainty over his future but he stayed on for two more years. His first United start was against Watford in August 2006 and his last may be against them 11 years and nine months later.
He will hope the long goodbye ends at Wembley or in Kiev.
(M.E.N)
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Top three players whose transfer value has increased the most during the last 6 months (CIES Football)
1. Mohammed Salah (Liverpool) + €74.7m
2. Ederson (Manchester City) + €74.4m
3. Leroy Sane (Manchester City) + €63m
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