Regarding excessive injuries, could Carrick and the coaching team be party responsible for this?
40m i would be surprised if we spent 12m in the summer. Theres no way carrick is going to get the players he needs its the story of every manager back to karanka. Carrick has been absolutely shafted this season particularly the January window. I think we will get the results to stay up if he changes formation and when howson comes back. The last thing we need is gibson to panic and sack carrick.
Carrick wont be here to see next season out . He will either resign in the summer after not getting the backing. Or he will be sacked around October for not getting results again after struggling with half the recruits he needed to bring in. I have every competence in carrick its the incompetence off the pitch at board room level which has been the problem for years.
What would that achieve. Our best chance of getting promoted next season is with carrick. Gibson has to hold his nerve and support carrick
I don't know why this even needs answering? Chelsea and Aston Villa are Premier League with infinitely more talented squads, Leicester are basically a Premier League team having a vacation in the Championship. We should't be setting up defensively and looking to try and let the opposition have all the ball, soak up pressure and try to catch them on a break against most of the teams in this league. Teams like Preston and Rotherham have basically set up that way against us as it is.
Yes. I agree. I think we would be hard pushed to find a better coach. I his time here we have played some fantastic football and with the right support he will be a success.
Karanka got us promoted by setting us up more pragmatically and making us tough to score against. Sometimes it was a tough watch but he knew how to get results
We don't have the players to be tough to score against however many numbers you throw back there, we did with Karanka. Even the first leg against Chelsea where it 'worked' relied on Chelsea also missing about 5 chances, it's not like we made ourselves tough to beat, they had enough chances to put about 4 past us and just didn't take them. Similarly Leicester the other week had enough to put us away, it's not like we've suddenly turned in to 93/94 AC Milan when we've played five at the back.
Real question, yes MC has had us playing some incredible football at times but has never sorted the defensive frailties since day one, didn't deliver promotion last year when we had arguable 4 or 5 of the best players in the championship in our squad, he also couldn't adapt tactically and technically when it mattered and this since while being dealt some difficult cards has time and time again struggled to motivate the team from minute one, has players constantly doing things they aren't good at and the defensive issues, mistakes and technical know how is still lacking, he has a team drifting towards relegation why on earth would any team in the top flight be looking at appointing MC, no disrespect but other than some good football he still has a lot to deliver before clubs will be scrambling for his signature.
Engel isn't injured and surprisingly you can't find a place in the team for VDB.
Then I can't help you, sorry.
Who would you replace him with?
Cooper, Heckingbottom, Jones
Heckingbottom get real the blokes a dinasour
It's not about a replacement, I like Carrick but some fans seem to constantly disagree with criticism for him yet he is responsible for the results, if we where playing well and missing chances I could agree but week after week the tactics, team, selection, patterns of play, substitutions are horrendous, woodgate got hammered when the same was happening under his reign and he's a local bloke yet Carrick who has no affiliation to the club is not aloud to be questioned
if you start from the point of view that he is a good coach and hard to replace - you get behind him and give him time - just like we DIDN'T do with Gareth Southgate.