Carrick signs until 2014... and it isn't with another club

[guyfawkes5]

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What an absolute joke.

I know Fergie 'trusts' the squad and wants to develop them together as a unit, but surely even he must realise it must be time to let him go at this stage, as a nice guy/great servant of the club/what-have-you he is?

I guess that's our midfield weighed down with his mediocrity for the next few years then. All I can hope is that his poor form for the past two years was because he doubted his future at the club...

*straws fall from hand*

Roll on Gibson until 2015.

Doubt Fergie's competency below.

 

[guyfawkes5]

I agree with SPW, although Fletcher can do enough both on and off the ball to occasionally 'wow'; succinctly he's a bit more than 'reliable', but a bit less than one of our best.

 

[guyfawkes5]

Would Carrick make a better CB than a DM?

I just mention this since if I recall the only thing he did right in the game against Bolton was make a few last-ditch blocks in the box, everything else was the usual back-passing, inaccurate hoofs forward, and losing the ball. He mentioned recently that Phelan said he might be pressed into doing it since we have so many central defenders out, and remarked: "I don't fancy that", but if the shoe fits...