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When Michael Carrick is your captain and leader you know you're fecked. Where the hell was he in that second half. Never seen a disappearing act like it
Should just be playing in home games where we can dominate possession and he has time and space.
Brilliant player for us over the years. Thank you for that.
But it does seem to be time.
But it does seem to be time.
He's a furiating figure to watch when we're down and needing a goal. No urgency, the player on the ball next to him is begging for him to run into the space in front of him but he cannot be moved.
Goes hiding when things get tough, it's always been the case and it's the main reason he never made the step-up to top class.
He is finished, especially defensively he doesnt exist. It was coming for quite some time now and people would always say he is a slow starter, but i think this time it has more to do with it that he is just past it.
Sad thing is unlike other times he didn't even have a midfielder marking him out of the game, he just ghosted around taking no responsibility and not having a grip on the game.
So many times Herrera was dropping between defenders to collect the ball.
I honestly didn't evn realise he was playing until I randomly saw him saunter across the pitch in the 86th minute. He's done.
He looked about 60 loping around out there, the game just passed him by as Stoke pressed him out of it.
Made the invisible man jealous today.
i wish he had played today.
Plays like someone that has downed tools.
He should have a lot more ball. He's too far up in LVG system. He is only an engine who keeps the ball in possession and dominate games.
I hate the way that he never actually tackles or pressures people unless they are infront of the box, so many times he follows people out to midfield and just lets them turn or pass without pressure just because they are going away from goal.
We miss schneiderlin badly in that regard that he's always nibbling away looking to pick up the ball high up the pitch.
We miss schneiderlin badly in that regard that he's always nibbling away looking to pick up the ball high up the pitch.
Shocking.
Schneiderlin hasn't exactly set the world alight but we really miss him when he doesn't play and it's obvious that Carrick, Herrera and Schweinsteiger aren't able to win the ball effectively enough for playing CM in the PL
So old, so experienced. Still hasn't the guts to dictate a game. Not one inch of balls in our good old Michael
Statistically we are far better with him in the team. Herrara and Schweinsteiger create things and actually want the ball also, which is something our midfielders don't seem to want.
Terrible during this match, probably the most invisible I think I've ever seen him. But people writing him off entirely are too harsh, he was very good the last two matches and on his good days he's still the best central midfielder at the club.
Carrick has been a great servant to our club...but it is time to put him to pasture and start to rebuild our squad (again).
Underwhelming again. Looks like he is past it but then again so does half the squad playing under van Gaal.
What? No he wasn't and no he's not.
Lives up to his criticisms at the worst of times.
Still a United great.
Still a United great.
And people will dare to speak of how good he has been defensively for us over years, he was always helped out by Fletcher doing the dirty work for him, as well as Rooney or the fifth midfielder in big games, because we always struggled off the ball, positionally he has been okay, filling spaces well but thats the basics central midfielders should do, but if you dont put any pressure on the player or try to tackle you will always watch team backing off but at some point you just need someone to make that tackle, you cant wait for the other team to make mistakes as the quality goes up and you see that even Stoke can easily be very dangerous if given space and that is what exactly Carrick does, his last good season was that last one under Fergie and that was it. Since that should have been used as a squad player maximum.
Wonder why our most creative midfielder Herrera had to do everything for Carrick on the pitch, linking up the play, dropping deep trying to set up attacks, covering basically all ground but you cant press with one player in midfield and I am genuinely annoyed when people start comparing Carrick to Keane in terms of how good and important they were for us, Keane was always the better player as was fletcher in his prime but you wont explain this to some people as they have short memories and still sing its hard to believe its not scholes, a chant that started that last season under Fergie iirc, the only season when Carrick could be considered one of the best in the country. He would be exactly the player England didnt needed if they wanted to progress
Spot on. He was not a regular starter when Fletcher was at his best and Scholes/Anderson were fit and was underwhelming for a large period of time.
When he's given the Scholes role i.e. sit back and don't worry about running he's been mixed he's fine for the most part except this season it seems father time has caught up with him.
He is 35 guys, we have to also remember that. I do think we need to go big this summer again and get ANOTHER class midfielder, but somebody more rounded this game. Younger than a 31 year old schweinsteiger too, somebody again in Herrera's mould IMO.
I actually didn't realize he was playing... serious, I saw the whole game and don't remember him even touching the ball
We should have been looking for Carrick's replacement, not a BFS, someone younger to be made ready to take over. Him, Morgan and Ander and even with a BFS for cover, we would be in better shape.
He was top-class in Fergie's last season. He couldn't be further away from it now though.
I mean Alonso-level, he never reached that IMO.
He's been off and on for years and for me he's underperformed for years 99% of the time taking the easy option, don't get me wrong he's been great sometimes but I believe if he had the balls he would have been a far better player than he has been.
That's because Alonso was just simply better and more talented.
Carrick was pretty great himself, and carried a midfield with the likes of Cleverly to a league title and was a great supporting act in our success in the late 00s.
I still rate him as one of the best, if not the best, midfielder in the country. He'd probably walk into any of Barca, Real, or Bayern sides.
He's been a great servant of the club for 10 years. We are lucky to have him in the team as he has been the foundation of many of our successes in the last decade.
It will be a sad day for Manchester United when he retires.
He's been a great servant of the club for 10 years. We are lucky to have him in the team as he has been the foundation of many of our successes in the last decade.
It will be a sad day for Manchester United when he retires.
What in the name of feck are you smoking? He would never have walked into any of those teams in his prime, let alone now.
Perhaps not in terms of pressing or mobility, but he's as good if not a better passer than any player in those teams. He just needs a water carrier next to him at this age.
You need to up your bloody standards to casually throw around plaudits like that.
Assuming you're not trolling which you may well be.
Would walk into Barca or Bayerns team? Not even during a fecking injury crisis, he's too bloody immobile.
What am I reading? He's a better passer than Busquets, Iniesta, Kroos, Modric, Alonso, Thiago?
I mean Xavi Hernandez who's arguably the best midfielder of all time and one of the best passers ever couldn't make his way into those teams last season, how does Carrick manage to do it then?
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