Michael Carrick

[BMW E34]

How many losses are we allowed before we can to start to forget about promotion.

 

[Laughing]

Carrick needs help & i hope he gets it over the international break by bringing in a experienced manager to help him out on the sideline when he looks lost what to do.

A few people have mentioned that Carrick looks lost. He had exactly the same demeanour last season and nobody said he looked lost.

No offence BMW but this is nonsense.

 

[Muttley]

No offence BMW but this is nonsense.

Agreed. His demeanour is exactly as it was last season, the only difference being that of necessity (rules) he is alone in the technical area. He's not one for running up and down the touchlines and screaming at his players (who probably can't hear him above 25k others)

 

[InglebyUTB]

You start by saying the CL final was one game then state that Robins changed his team for the second leg to counter us - which was also one game! Anyway, my point is that any time any manager loses a big game, people will question his decision making. That's the same if it is Pep, Klopp, Arteta, Tuchel, despite these being proven top class managers.

I understand why you and others want him to try something different. I am not averse to changing shape/tactics/personnel at all. I do however defend MC for sticking with his preferred set up for several reasons. Firstly, it worked brilliantly for most of last season. Secondly, I would rather have a manager with a belief in what he is doing as opposed to someone floundering around with different formations every game hoping that something eventually works.

Finally, and most importantly, we added 3 players to the squad last week but none of them were here long enough to start. A couple of weeks earlier, Latte Lath and Engel were added to the squad and thrown straight into the first team out of necessity. At the same time Howson was rushed back and a week later Tommy Smith, to disastrous effect! Coburn is only just fit as well. All of this has made it impossible for Carrick to so far set up with the players he wants in the first 11.

I am not for one second saying Carrick is beyond criticism or that the current run of results in not a concern. However, I've felt for weeks that the team we see after the first international break will be the one to judge our season's prospects on. The squad is set now and MC has to start delivering results one way or another with the players at his disposal. Whether that is playing 4-2-3-1, 4-3-3, 3-5-2 or any other formation, that's up to him, but I have seen enough positives over the past 10 months to keep my faith in MC for a good while longer.

But Pep didn’t have another game before the CL final if we’d won the first leg then Robins couldn’t have made his tactical adjustment. They’d had to come at us.

The reason his shape and tactics worked last season was he had £50m of attacking players he had at his disposal, so quite often we could outscore the opposition as we just had too much quality for them.

But even towards the end of last season, teams figured us out. They found ways to overrun the two in midfield and expose us in the space the left back vacated. They know the right back doesn’t get forward, they knew if you stuck a man on the No10 that you kill the link between midfield and attack.

Teams know how to set-up against us, you can say how great it is he has a philosophy but he’s totally inflexible. Pep, Klopp and Arteta all have a philosophy but they’re constantly evolving, some times too much and you could describe it as over thinking. But they know you have to be constantly evolving and changing what you do or you become stale and teams will set-up to counter what you’re doing.

I just don’t see that with Michael Carrick. I see a one-trick pony who doesn’t know what to do if Plan A isn’t working, and as we’ve not won in our last 10 league games he should have plenty of practise by now.

 

[newyddion]

I was excited by MC’s appointment and immediately took to someone who comes across as such a decent, genuine bloke.

As a rookie he hit the ground running and results blossomed, largely due I think to a fully firing and free scoring turnaround from Akpom. Also assisted by Giles’ left foot and later two loans from Villa, thanks mainly to Danks I suspect.

Assisted by Leo Percovich..

Then towards the end of the season injuries kicked in and everything started to become derailed, we were toothless in the playoffs and missed out on our golden opportunity to get money in the bank and get out of this league.

You don’t consider Giles, Akpom & Archer all having an eye on moves elsewhere to be a factor?

This had been the first major test for this still rookie coach and he struggled.

Where was the senior, experienced coach we heard about to support and develop him?

Nowhere.

Instead he got Woodgate, a recent proven failure at this level.

Highly respected in the game and did well at Bournemouth in the circumstances.

Not good enough, MC was let down.

Nope

We come to the start of the next season and MC has lost/is losing all of his best players and the Recruitment Team has done very little about this.

We sold Akpom.. the end.

We start to lose games and then the window shuts.

We lose games and keep being players in

It looks like MC has been left with a bag of light weight bit part players.

Dieng? Lenihan? Hackney? O’Brien? McGree? Forss?

First impressions suggest they are nowhere near good enough to meet expectations.

Bangura hasn’t played, O’Brien has played 21 minutes.. Engel made team of the week.

We continue to lose, the displeasure increases and the booing begins.

We’ve lost two home games

I really feel for MC because he didn’t assemble this bag of misfits but he is the one standing on the touch line, which can be a very lonely place, who is going to continue to take the flak if things don’t improve markedly.

He has no involvement? Nah

Where will this rookie turn for support and guidance, maybe a call to Sir Alex?

Danks? Woodgate? Leadbitter? Percovich?

Shame he doesn’t have such a person to work with him here, as promised.

He does.. saying that.. Steve Round would be good.

We know that MC has his frailties, as do many others , and I do fear that if things continue as they are the whole process could ruin Carrick as a manager.

New coach.. learning his trade

That would be extremely sad and in my view it would be down to the club’s failures.

Pfft

Let’s hope the team can learn to win games and it doesn’t come to this.

Let’s

 

[newyddion]

We managed a decent run before the transfer window.. before the footballing giants that are RAMSEY, BARLASER & ARCHER

 

[coluka]

We managed a decent run before the transfer window.. before the footballing giants that are RAMSEY, BARLASER & ARCHER
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The results above are difficult to assess without the xG and xA stats alongside

 

[UTB70]

He had a good season like lampard at derby initially, mainly based on excellent loan signings as at dervy. Derby lost those loanees and results went south just like we are doing atm. Carrick still has alot to prove but will support him through thos sticky spell in hope we click eventually. I accepted we probs not going up before this season started so just want progression and some entertainment this year.

 

[Ian Bairds Ears]

If you take Carrick at his word, he has repeated a few times at press conferences that he is happy with his squad. I know you wouldn't expect him to say recruitment has been dire, but he could have voiced some concerns and did not.

There is some promise in the players he has at his disposal. I think Rogers will be great for us, but he did struggle on Saturday. Likewise silvera.

He also has a fair number of players who were a success last season, albeit we did loose some very creative players in the summer. He choose to play silvera and rogers ahead of mcgree and forss (though I think Forss has a knock). He even kept silvera on when choosing to change things.

I am adamant that he took lathe off to save him from himself. The lad has missed too many chances and his confic=dence would have started to ebb away.

I suspect he wants those new players to turn their performances around and wants to give them a chance to do that. Perhaps they look much better in training when there is no pressure on them.

Let's not forget we didn't get the rub of the green on saturday and on another day we score first and go on and win, despite what was a poor performance.

He can't do that laughing...he will
Immediately be classed as a wilder if he mentions not having a good enough squad