🚨 JUST IN: One of the main reasons Manchester United have decided to keep Michael Carrick is due to FINANCIAL reasons. Sir Jim Ratcliffe made the final decision after talks involving the Glazers, Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox. Carrick could have the Chelsea, Roma and Aston Villa games. #MUFC [@SullyTalkz]

The person I actually feel most sorry for in all of this is MICHAEL CARRICK, seriously. It feels like this board are just waiting for things to get even worse, until the atmosphere turns so toxic that they have no choice but to sack him. What a horrible way to treat a club legend.

It did not go unnoticed by the #mufc front office that Michael Carrick received significant support from United fans during and after the defeat to Bournemouth [@RobDawsonESPN, @MarkOgden_]

🚨 Michael Carrick will be given chance to turn results around. Carrick is taking training at Carrington, staff + players preparing #MUFC for Saturday trip to Chelsea. More @TheAthleticFC soon.

This is an excellent reminder of how big a factor Ferguson's greed was in destroying Manchester United. theguardian.com/football/202…

Once people stop treating the Ballon D’Or as a legacy award that makes or breaks a players career, the less upset they’ll be about the result of it and we can gradually stop acting like the opinions of a bunch of journalists as the be all end all.

Bruno has been the only consistent at united for years. While the club collapses around him, he still scores, creates, fight + leads deadwoods week in week out & this is the ranking they give him? Pathetic United have wasted Him. Ineos, Carrick and the fans have betrayed him.

People hate Bruno so much that they've completely lost the ability to judge his football. Imagine KDB or Odegaard breaking a 23yo record, being voted the best player in the toughest league itw and still finishing below Ferran Torres in the Ballon d'Or rankings. This is robbery.

Getting a top 5 finish at the ripe age of 39 is INSANE. We’re never going to see anything remotely like this btw.

🚨 Lewandowski was given a newly created Gerd Muller trophy in 2021 because Messi robbed his Bdor Fast forward to 2026 the Gerd Muller trophy doesnt exist 🤷‍♂️

This Ballon d’Or ranking is another reason to show that the EPL PR is currently low. The supposed best players in the EPL last season couldn’t even crack the top 10. Rice was 15th, the best player in the EPL last season was 27th, and Saliba and Gabriel couldn’t even crack the top 20. Yet, this is a team that reached the Champions League final. Don’t know how to say it, but it’s a shame on the PR of the league. We keep hearing how the Premier League is the most competitive league in the world, how the quality is unmatched, and how every team is capable of beating anyone. But when it comes to individual recognition, suddenly the players aren’t good enough. Look at how players from other leagues are marketed and celebrated. The Premier League has the money, the audience, and the global reach, yet it still struggles to give its best players the recognition their performances deserve. That was how Messi won the award over Haaland in 2023. it’s nonsense honestly. They need to do better honestly.

Bruno Fernandes liked this reel on Instagram 🧐

Guess the last time a Manchester United player got nominated for the Ballon d’Or But yeah, he’s the problem 😂🤷🏾‍♂️

A place in the top 30 at the 2026 @ballondor for the PFA Players' Player of the Year. 🇵🇹👏

Ranked at the 27th place of the 2026 Ballon d’Or @B_Fernandes8 @ManUtd @selecaoportugal #ballondor

I genuinely don't understand how anyone can question Bruno Fernandes' commitment to Manchester United after everything he's done for this club. I love Bruno, so obviously I'm going to defend him, but this isn't even about being a fan. What more do people expect from the guy? When INEOS decided they weren't taking the wider staff to the FA Cup final because they wanted to cut costs, Bruno offered to pay for their tickets and hospitality himself. Just think about that for a minute. A club as big as Manchester United couldn't be bothered to pay for its own staff, and the captain had to step in with his own money. And this is the same guy who constantly gives his teammates credit in interviews instead of making everything about himself. Yet somehow, he's still the one whose loyalty people want to question. He could have left in 2024. He could have left in 2025. He's had opportunities to leave in 2026 as well. Saudi clubs were reportedly offering him an absurd amount of money, and nobody would have blamed him if he'd decided he'd had enough. He's still playing at an elite level. He could have gone somewhere else, won trophies and stopped wasting his best years trying to drag United back to where we belong. But he stayed. He stayed because he wanted to win with Manchester United. And honestly, I don't know how much clearer he can make his intentions. This club has given him plenty of reasons to walk away, but somehow people still expect him to keep proving that he wants to be here. What really pisses me off is that the moment he starts questioning the people running the club, suddenly he's the problem. Why? Because he's finally saying what so many of us have been saying for years? We've wasted ridiculous amounts of money on players who haven't worked out, changed managers, changed plans and started rebuilding all over again, and we're somehow still having the same conversations about investment and ambition. At what point do the people making these decisions actually take responsibility? Every time things go wrong, there's another excuse, another promise and another fresh start. Meanwhile, Bruno is still out there trying to make something happen on the pitch. And we're supposed to be angry with him for having had enough of the nonsense? And don't even get me started on the Rooney, Scholes and Giggs comparisons. They stayed because we were competing for the biggest trophies every single season. We were winning leagues, challenging for the Champions League and giving our best players every reason to stay. Bruno hasn't had that. He's spent years at a club that keeps finding new ways to shoot itself in the foot. Do people genuinely think Rooney, Scholes or Giggs would look at United today and see the same club they played for? Or that a top player joining us now wouldn't start questioning his future after a couple of years of this? We've fallen so far behind that we're now arguing about whether our own captain is loyal enough, instead of asking why the club keeps failing him. Look, Bruno isn't perfect. He has bad games, he gets frustrated and he can lose his head sometimes. I'm not going to pretend otherwise just because I'm a fan. But I'll defend him every single time someone tries to make him the villain for wanting this club to be better. He's turned down opportunities to leave, continued to give everything on the pitch and stuck around when he could quite easily have walked away. What have the people running this club done to deserve that loyalty from him? Bruno has done his bit. He's done more than his bit, actually. I'm tired of watching people question his commitment while giving the people responsible for this mess yet another chance to get away with it. If Bruno Fernandes has to keep proving he loves Manchester United, what the hell are the people running Manchester United doing to prove they deserve him?

🚨 José Mourinho: “Let me speak about Fede Valverde. He continued playing despite being injured for over 40 minutes”. “He refused to come off, fought through the pain and gave everything he had for the team”.

🚨 José Mourinho: “In my view, Real Madrid do not play to win at the Camp Nou… Real Madrid play to win La Liga”. “This must be the mentality. We need to continue like this and don’t go over the moon after this win”.

I’m sick of this clown man

If it’s between Conte and Howe, I see it like this. Conte will probably save you the season, but set you back long term. As for Howe, it’s kind of the opposite. Higher upsides long term, but only if you can bare the downsides short term.