Barney Ronay

Oh, why didn't he keep Carrick on?

He had United DNA.

Look at his record last season.

But equally, if they do keep him on and it turns out he can't cope with playing two games a week and European football and the fatigue of that, then they could easily be sacking him in November and it's another wasted season.

And I don't know.

It's really tricky, Barney.

I mean, I'm not really a tea drinker, but my grandparents used to, as they would put it, scald the cup.

I'll translate it, scald the cup.

So they'd fill the cup with boiling water first to keep the cup hotter so the tea retained its heat for longer.

could you scald a cup and replace the cooling cup with the scalded cup and put the tea in that?

Or was that moving to a new team?

You have no notion how tight my grandparents were.

They wouldn't have just been making a new... Oh, I can guess.

I mean, I don't think quite the same expenditure.

I know Arsenal fans like to point out they actually signed more players and therefore it's been more disruptive to them.

But Liverpool tried to undergo a pretty radical change last summer.

Five major players came in, plus a couple of others.

I think you would expect that in any circumstance to take time to work.

Even towards the end of last season, Schlott was talking about how this team needs, we need to start again.

We need to sort of rip this up.