Michael Carrick is close to achieving his objective of qualifying Man Utd for the Champions League next season, but that shouldn’t be the standard at this club.
Just over a year of Ruben Amorim crashed the standards at Man Utd, and Michael Carrick is doing a fine job of restoring them.
Champions League qualification is a necessary first step towards that, but Carrick has already stressed that it can’t be the end goal.
Now, he’s admitted after Mason Mount’s recent comments that he’s brought the club ‘exactly where we want to be’.
Carrick says Top 5 isn’t enough. Honestly, based on his run, do you think we are a genuine Title Contender for next season?
Michael Carrick backs Mason Mount’s mentality shift
Mason Mount hasn’t played an awful lot under Carrick due to familiar injury problems, but his presence around the group has remained important.
Carrick praised him recently, and Mount even revealed how much backing he received from the Man Utd manager when he was injured.
It’s no wonder, therefore, that Carrick has backed Mount’s mentality shift at United, because it’s exactly what he wanted the squad to feel.
Mount recently said that it was definitely possible to win the Premier League soon, and after Carrick’s remarks about UCL qualification not being the end goal, it came at the perfect time.
Carrick backed Mount’s remarks and said that it’s exactly the place he wants the squad to be at, filled with self-belief.
He said: “Yeah, listen, to win the league is the ultimate. It’s special, and it takes an awful lot. For the boys to feel confident and have the hope and the belief that it’s possible at some point around the corner, I think that’s exactly where we want to be.
“How close we are, time will tell, you know? I’m not going to be making any major statements with that one, but again, the improvement of the group and the results we’ve had against the teams we’ve faced, it gives the boys a lot of confidence, and we need to keep making good steps.”
Carrick deserves to see Man Utd project through
The mentality shift Carrick has powered at Old Trafford in such a quick time deserves a lot more credit than it has received.
If not Michael Carrick… WHO ELSE?
Can you name a good available alternative to Michael Carrick you actually want?
He deserves the chance to see this project through, in success or failure, because no other manager can walk in at this point and start with a clean slate.
Whoever comes in, the focus will go straight back to Carrick once they lose their first game, which is not an ideal working condition.
Carrick has made himself undeniable, so he deserves to keep the job until he makes himself expendable.
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