Michael Carrick isn’t ruling out the possibility of staying as Manchester United’s head coach beyond the end of this season, and insists he won’t just focus on the short-term. Carrick was put in charge on Wednesday and faces Manchester City in his first game in the Old Trafford derby on Saturday lunchtime. United are planning to make a permanent appointment in the summer, although Carrick has yet to speak to the club about the prospect of staying longer. Keane re-ignited an old squabble with Lisa Carrick when he suggested that she could always replace Carrick if the interim role doesn’t work out for him because ‘she's got a bit of a big mouth sometimes’. ‘It's totally irrelevant in terms of me and how I go to work and what I focus on.’

Source: Daily Mail January 17, 2026 05:20 UTC