Michael Carrick delivers update on Man United future with Red Devils on brink of Champions League qualification

Michael Carrick reiterated his happiness astatine Manchester United erstwhile questioned connected his aboriginal beyond the extremity of the 2025-26 campaign.

A determination connected whether Carrick volition beryllium handed the managerial occupation connected a semipermanent ground is yet to beryllium made, but the 44-year-old's enactment astatine the helm has made him the favourite to unafraid the presumption moving forward.

Carrick has guided Man United into 3rd spot successful the Premier League table and enactment the squad connected the brink of securing a instrumentality to the Champions League for the 2026-27 campaign.

Ahead of Monday's Premier League contention with Brentford, the Englishman was again quizzed connected his presumption with the Red Devils moving forward

"I've said it galore times, I bask being here, you know, I bask the relation I'm in. We've had immoderate bully results and we're successful decent shape, there's a batch to go, we inactive privation to support improving, determination are layers that we privation to get to really," Carrick told reporters.

Carrick is the favourite to beryllium appointed Man United's adjacent imperishable caput coach

"I'll see, I'll support saying the aforesaid things successful beforehand of you each week, determination is lone truthful overmuch I tin accidental successful presumption of that, but I've said it galore times again, I bask being here, I emotion being present it's a existent privilege to beryllium successful the presumption I am. Thriving with the work we person got.

"I'm not sure, to beryllium honest, and it's not, genuinely, it's not thing successful presumption of deadlines that I'm truly chasing. I deliberation it'll go wide erstwhile it's going to go clear, and I'm present astatine the infinitesimal to assistance the squad and assistance the nine get results.

"At the infinitesimal we're doing alright, we tin support pushing and getting better, truthful truly that's genuinely each I'm focused connected close now.

"I've benignant of been present for rather immoderate clip and seen rather a lot, immoderate ups and immoderate downs, truthful your benignant of acquisition helps you a batch successful situations. So I wouldn't accidental being amazed by it.

"Working with the players is what I enjoy, that's benignant of passionateness of helping them make and yet getting results and sharing with the supporters.

"When you get important wins and large wins and you person moments to bask their moments, that's what we're each present for successful the end, truthful we've got to marque the astir of them arsenic well."

Man United caput manager Carrick responds to Solskjaer comparisons

When asked astir the comparisons with ex-Man United caput manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Carrick said: "I don't deliberation it's disrespectful, I deliberation I've got the utmost respect for him.

"He's a adjacent person of excavation truthful I worked intimately with him erstwhile helium was present truthful I was rather attached to that and I thought we did a batch of bully things truly and we became adjacent and successful the extremity evidently it changed and it went a antithetic direction, that's football.

"I deliberation comparisons, you could comparison to each sorts of antithetic situations and managers and coaches and teams implicit the years, it conscionable depends connected what you privation to take to compare.

"It's irrelevant really, it truly is, and that's not a antagonistic oregon a positive, it doesn't truly person immoderate nexus astatine each I think, we're a antithetic squad now, irrespective of me, who's successful charge, it's a antithetic time, truthful I don't truly deliberation comparisons virtually marque immoderate quality astatine all."

Solskjaer was handed the Man United occupation connected a imperishable ground disconnected the backmost of an fantabulous spell successful interim charge, but the Norwegian's clip astatine Old Trafford yet ended successful disappointment.