Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Football Ramble Mailbag. Michael Carrick, Victor Jokeresh and Toilet Roll are the orders of the day. It's Tuesday, 5th of May. I'm Marcus Speller. I'm Jim Campbell. And I'm Pete Donaldson. Hello, everybody. It's mailbag time. And that's the time for you to ask us questions. If you want to do that in future, message us on XBlueSky or Instagram at FootballRamble.
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It's very impressive considering where it started.
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Chapter 2: Should Manchester United keep Michael Carrick as manager?
Marcus.
Yes. Well, they weren't third when he took over.
No.
They were lower than that.
Yes.
Emotionally. Far lower than that emotionally. And they were not going to get European football. They let us remind ourselves that they were beaten by Grimsby Town in the Cup. They were going nowhere. And... The upturn in form under Carrick has been very, very evident.
And then we heard on yesterday's show, Cobby Mayne, whose comments about, you know, how they're willing to die for him on the pitch and the confidence and the belief he has in all of the players, particularly him, of course, but all the players. So it's been far better under Carrick.
Now, at the moment, Manchester United, my very, very high level sources have informed me and the rest of the media that Manchester United, the club are looking around and assessing their options. I think that's something that we're all very aware of. And so they are definitely doing that. The chat is... And Vish said this on the show yesterday.
He said, if they can't get Andoni Iriola, then give it to Carrick. Now, it may not be Iriola, the name on other fans' lips, but that's clearly where they are now. They think, right, is there someone who's... a more experienced manager, more experienced Premier League manager, or a big hitter. But as everybody has observed, how many big hitters are there available and how many are there?
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Carrick's recent performance?
To start, when you try and do this, and say, oh, but that manager did that there. I understand totally. We all do it. But sometimes someone just fits in a job. They go with it. They were a little bit younger. They were a little bit more inexperienced, whatever it may be, the different playing field.
One of the things that a lot of people have been saying about this is, is it a bit Olig on a Solskjaer?
If they hadn't had Olig on a Solskjaer, you imagine that he would have a bit more of a crack of the whip.
I agree with that point, definitely.
I definitely agree with that. And to be honest, most of the managers, you know, the last three postings have been managers who haven't managed in the Premier League or they're slightly untested at this, you know, the top table, so to speak. So you do sort of ask the question, is this... Is it one of those things where has the rebuild or the steadying ended at the end of the season?
Do we need a few more months of this and maybe, you know, see who's available, you know, heading towards Christmas next year? Or would you give Michael Carrick a war chest? Would you give him enough money to sign his own players? But... But Michael Carrick's never experienced that before. He's always, in his coaching career, just made do with what he had, effectively.
Sure, but he wouldn't be doing it alone, though.
No, they have Jason Wilcox in there, who's quite a hands-on sporting director.
For me... Yeah, he wants to be in the dugout. Remember, he was sort of talking the big... He wanted to be in the dugout, didn't he? I think that's how we'd all like to see this play.
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Chapter 4: How does Carrick compare to previous Manchester United managers?
Probably a good idea, isn't it?
yeah well he may well leave he may well leave and so they'll be needing spunkers as you say yeah but I mean look they've got a couple with Chow and Botman and stuff like that you know it's not like it's not as grim as it used to be in the back line he's got a bit of a keeper crisis to deal with I don't understand why Pope's getting played over what else he's got on the bench but
and you're going to be losing probably Tenali possibly Bruno definitely Gordon and maybe Walter Marder as well it's going to be he's going to have a lot of money in the pot to spend it's a big summer for Newcastle yeah and I don't think you're going to get upgrades on players like Tenali do you really think they would lose all of those players
I think everyone's got a price tag and they are, they're some of those players that you would sort of get out of Newcastle for like 60 million. Whereas if you're trying to pry, you know, players from like Arsenal or something or Man City, you're obviously going to be looking at 100 millions and stuff.
So I think, I think that Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is still our biggest outweighing sale. So I take your point, but Arsenal are not a good example.
No, but you're right. And I think, I think, look at Tenali, you know, like how many teams will think, let's test Newcastle United's resolve with him. Massive.
Massive. And it sounds very much like they want to go. They want to play Champions League football, these players. It's supposed to be a club that has played Champions League football with that amount of money going in. I just can't see why.
Well, I think that's a big factor, Peter, because I think if, you know, Newcastle played Champions League football. They played knockout football in the Champions League this season. That is, you know, players want more of that.
Of course they do.
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