Manchester United's crisis deepens after Carrick's departure

Today the attendees at Old Trafford said farewell to manager Michael Carrick after a run of poor results at Manchester United.

In the football podcast of the Algemeen Dagblad, Sjoerd Mossou reacted: “You no longer know whether you should laugh or cry about Manchester United. It is a prayer without end.”

Negotiations with Pochettino

He found it painful that United were already negotiating with Mauricio Pochettino while Carrick was still leading a training, and noted: “It is a comedy of unprecedented scale. It has also happened before. Louis van Gaal and Erik ten Hag were at some point also dead men walking.”

Manchester United dismiss Carrick as winless run deepens

Red Devils and club policy

Mossou also stated that The Red Devils left their coach hanging in an antisocial manner, and explained: “That also begins to reflect the club very strongly. On the one hand you have the mismanagement itself, buying the wrong players each time and appointing the wrong coaches, which drags you down into the relegation zone. But it is also no longer a club of standing in terms of morale. Manchester United was a great, exemplary club, with a neat image. They had elan and stood for something. There is nothing left of that. It is not only dramatic, but also antisocial policy. It has been a brilliant club, but for fifteen years now there is nothing left of it.”

Finally he compared Manchester United to Anderlecht and warned that Ajax, although now performing reasonably, runs the risk of becoming a similar club: “Manchester United fits a bit into the Anderlecht category. And let’s be honest, Ajax is doing reasonably now, but has also started to run the risk of becoming such a club. A club that wants to stand on one leg in the past, but in the present and future struggles to remain relevant and to conduct a somewhat normal policy. There Manchester United in Europe is the most extreme example of that.”