Michael Carrick

We've had two really good games and I understand why Levin made his big games and we've had two big performances but it never carries on all the way through.

You've always got to find little tweaks here and there and this week we'll try and do that.

Yeah, I mean, that's all the work and effort that the academy staff put in to kind of get the boys through the system successfully.

ultimately is to try and get them near the first team in the end and we're fully aware of that I think it's a huge part of this club it's not something I do because I feel I have to do it I think it's just something that I really enjoy as well going to see the games and feeling the connection and wanting to see who's doing well and have eyes on the younger players I think it's really important we do that

And for them, you know, to understand there's opportunities there and sometimes you're closer than you realise and it doesn't take too much.

And then, you know, we try and get the younger players up and around us as much as possible, training and feeling what it's like, learning off the more senior players.

And at some point, yeah, you want them to make... Everyone can't, unfortunately, make the last step, but you want boys to make the last step and to be ready for it.

I like the way Cobby takes the ball after.

I think there's a big part of being a footballer and being a top player is...

being able to cope with the environment.

Yeah.

And you come in at such a young age and play some big games in the Euros, for England, for, you know, finals.

Yeah.

For Manchester United and playing a big part in those games.

So just being able to cope

first off is a huge thing and he's proved he can cope.

He takes the ball, he drifts, he can play a little bit deeper at times, he can play a little bit higher up depending on who he's playing with.

I think sometimes we can pigeonhole players in certain things quite quickly and it's not always the case.

Sometimes you say things and you see things in a player and you tweak a little bit.

a bit like Patrick playing a little bit higher and playing as a high winger and all of a sudden things open up, that's fine, you see things and you go with it.