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🚨Roy Keane on Manchester United progressing in talks with Mauricio Pochettino while yet to sack Michael Carrick: 🗣️ “I’m angry about it. And I’m sad about it. Because I feel for Michael Carrick. I really do. He’s a Manchester United man. He knows the club. He’s given everything to the club. He’s stood there when things have gone wrong and taken the criticism. So when I hear that Manchester United are already progressing talks with another manager while Carrick is still sitting in that job, I don’t like it. I don’t like the way it looks. But let me make something very clear. Feeling sorry for Michael Carrick cannot become more important than fixing Manchester United. That’s the difficult bit. You can care about someone and still believe the club needs to move on. And if the people running Manchester United have decided Carrick isn’t taking the club where it needs to go, then make the decision. Be honest with him. Tell him. Don’t have him preparing training sessions, speaking to players, planning for the next match while people upstairs are quietly negotiating his replacement. That’s not how you treat someone who has given the club years of his life. But here’s where I get frustrated with Manchester United. Because if you’re going to replace Carrick, then for God’s sake, get it right. Don’t sack one manager just so you can announce another big name and convince everyone that everything is fixed. It isn’t. Pochettino might be the right man. He might not. But if you’re already talking to him, I want to know what the plan is. What does he change? What does he demand? Who gives him control? Who recruits the players? Who decides the football philosophy? Because I’ve watched Manchester United change managers and then act surprised when the same problems come back. New manager. New coaches. New players. Same mess. That cannot continue. And this is why I feel sorry for Carrick. Because managers are often blamed for problems they didn’t create. He might not have been good enough. I’m not going to sit here and pretend results don’t matter. They do. At Manchester United, results are everything. But if you believe he isn’t good enough, then have the courage to say it and move forward. Don’t keep him hanging around while you negotiate behind closed doors. That’s weak leadership. And if Pochettino is coming in, don’t bring him in because his name sounds good. Bring him in because you genuinely believe he can rebuild the football side of the club. Give him standards. Give him authority. Give him proper recruitment. Give him players who actually fit what he wants to do. And then leave him alone to work. Because I’m tired of Manchester United treating managers like temporary solutions to permanent problems. Carrick deserves respect. The club deserves better. And those two things can both be true. I can feel sorry for Michael Carrick and still say Manchester United may need a different manager. That isn’t betrayal. That is football. But if you’re going to make that decision, make it properly. Don’t embarrass the man. Don’t leak things to the media. Don’t have him finding out through journalists that you’ve been speaking to his replacement. And don’t appoint Pochettino just to give the supporters another few months of excitement. Manchester United don’t need excitement. They need direction. They need standards. They need people at the club who actually know what they are doing. So yes, I feel for Carrick. But I’m a Manchester United supporter before I’m Michael Carrick’s friend. I want him treated properly. But I want this football club fixed even more. And if Pochettino is the man they believe can do that, then stop playing games and make the decision. Because the worst thing Manchester United can do is hurt Carrick, lose another manager, waste another season and then sit here twelve months from now wondering how it all went wrong again. That would be the real disgrace.”