Carrick long term future

I was talking to a mate of mine, AFC Wimbledon supporter, the other day about the Carrick miracle. He asked me who I thought was the most important person in Boro's potential success in the next few years. Obviously, I said Carrick. His reply was interesting - he said no, it's Ten Hag. He thought that it was essential that Ten Hag continued to do the business at Man U because that was the one offer Carrick would struggle to turn down. If we keep Carrick for five years we'll be pretty lucky and we'll have had a great five years.
 
Let's be honest none of us really know about whether Carrick is a man of honesty and integrity, we'd like to think that he is because it makes us feel better but nothing would surprise me in football.

What we do know is that he appears to be extremely calm and considered, he took a long time to decide to come here initially so its unlikely he's gonna do anything rash. As a few people have said West Ham in a relegation battle would be a really risky move for him where he'd have a lot more to lose than he would here.

I don't massively worry about him going somewhere like that at the moment, the more likely time might be in the summer but if we get promoted then we should be able to fend off clubs like West Ham.
 
He seems to take a fair bit of advice from Sir Alex and he was someone who stayed at a club until he didn't think he could take then any further. 4 years at St Mirren then 8 at Aberdeen. Hopefully Carrick sees it the same way with us and will stick with us until he feels he's done all he can. He's still young, plenty of time left in his career.
 
Nothing at all to worry about he’s just come infact I think it’s a bit insulting to carrick to even think he’d leave. Afterall he waited long and hard before picking his first club. He chose us for a reason.

As for West Ham yes he played for them along time ago but I doubt he’s that bothered about them now and their Dodgy owners. Same with spurs would he trust levy.

I think he’ll have seen potter and thought no Thanks.

He’s going nowhere
 
He’ll obviously court attention but I think he’ll stay here and take us as far as he can. I don’t think he’ll hop from club to club for the sake of it, the great managers stay the distance regardless of the club. I think his managerial career with echo that of his playing career 2 or 3 clubs.

It’s early days but I don’t see us as just a quick shortcut to a managerial career I think we can be the managerial career.

We’re starting to see signs of things that haven’t been done before.. he’s not here for the short term, he’s not a stop gap. Looking forward to seeing how far he can take us.
 
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I was talking to a mate of mine, AFC Wimbledon supporter, the other day about the Carrick miracle. He asked me who I thought was the most important person in Boro's potential success in the next few years. Obviously, I said Carrick. His reply was interesting - he said no, it's Ten Hag. He thought that it was essential that Ten Hag continued to do the business at Man U because that was the one offer Carrick would struggle to turn down. If we keep Carrick for five years we'll be pretty lucky and we'll have had a great five years.
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Ten hag is going nowhere

Don’t forget the owners pick mangers not fans so do you think the glaziers won’t go for top top champions league title winning managers.

I do think he’ll get the Man U job but not for a long time.
 
newyddion said:
He’ll obviously court attention but I think he’ll stay here and take us as far as he can.
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Exactly - of course the west ham media mafia will get excited and try and force the issue through places like talk sport but be honest is there anything about carrick in his career that suggests he’ll not commit long term.
 
And there is sky sports doing just that with cockney muppet jamie Ohara

But as presenter said we could be swapping places with them
 
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Exactly - of course the west ham media mafia will get excited and try and force the issue through places like talk sport but be honest is there anything about carrick in his career that suggests he’ll not commit long term.
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I don’t think there’s anything West Ham can offer that we can’t tbh. Newcastle in 5 or 6 years time might make an obscene offer too good to turn down and there’s obviously Man Utd and Spurs.. I don’t think he’ll necessarily be guided by his past clubs and may even end up managing abroad. Easy to get carried away with this sort of thing. But we did have Karanka managing Real Madrid when he was here!!
 
Feels like a Bryan Robson type appointment or a Steve McClaren type appointment 7 years, 5 years.. I didn’t know what our longest serving manager is.. that’s one record I wouldn’t mind him beating!
 
I think his tenure he will be influenced greatly by our success, albeit in a converse way.

If he can get us up and keep us up and then build on that I think he could be here for a relative long period, on managerial terms anyway.

Failure to get promotion next season may see him move up to a PL club.

He's been exceptional so far, but I'm also conscious that it's not a given he will continue in the same vein, that's a reality that many people don't seem to take into account.
 
I can see Newcastle coming in if Howe takes the England job after Southgate. Any Geordie lad would find that offer hard to turn down. Woodgate would probably go with him unless there’s a manager’s job for him here. Hopefully by that point we’re an established Premier league club again and Kieran Scott has the replacements lined up to carry the job on as is the plan.
 
Let's stop shi**ing the bed.

Burnley are smashing out better football than us, maybe they would pick off vinny kompany first?

We'll have smac back next, ETH to set the drills, woody to do the Xg and Xa interviews.
 
Carrick was very astute in his playing days of making the right moves at the right time to incrementally improve the teams he was with to further his playing career. Look at the time it took for him to decide to take the plunge here.

I feel he will stay with us until the end of the season at least, and if he gets us up we will, hopefully, get a season out of him in the Prem where he keeps us up.

If he does that, I could then see him moving on if the right team is available. I wouldn't expect him to move to a car crash club, like Everton Leeds etc just because they offer a few extra quid or short term are in a higher league.

He will also have Alex Fergusons advice in his ears saying choose the chairman, not the club. Something that makes us a safer choice than many
 
Not something worth worrying about. Things change in football very quickly. We were saying the same thing this time last year about Wilder and now he's being linked with teams like Aberdeen. Whatever happens I would expect Carrick to be more professional about it than Wilder. I don't see him as desperately craving a seat at the top "where he belongs" because Carrick knows he will get a chance. Wilder was just desperate because he's been allowed a glimpse into the big boys club but everyone but him knows knows he shouldn't be there.
 
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