Michael Carrick makes major transfer decision on £80million Man Utd star | Football

Michael Carrick has made his first major decision as Manchester United’sinterim manager by insisting Harry Maguire stays on the club.

The Red Devils are reported to have received several offers for the experienced international already over the course of the January transfer window.

Maguire joined United seven years ago in an £80million deal and featured during Carrick’s first interim spell the helm.

The 32-year-old’s contract expires in the summertime and although he had been hopeful of earning a brand new deal, it appears likely he’ll bring the curtain down on his Old Trafford profession in the summertime.

Inter are already understood, in response to The Sun, to have registered an interest, while several Premier League clubs are monitoring his situation.

For now, nonetheless, Carrick is adamant that Maguire will remain a part of his plans until the top of the season and can refuse to sanction his departure before the window slams shut.

Maguire made his return to motion as a late substitute in last weekend’s FA Cup defeat against Brighton having been out since early November with a hamstring injury.

Carrick is more likely to restore the experienced centre-half to his starting XI on the earliest opportunity, especially givenhis more likely to decision to discard the 3-4-3 formation that did not deliver results during Ruben Amorin’s disastrous tenure.

Carrick, meanwhile, insists there continues to be ‘magic around’ Manchester United as the brand new head coach dismissed the suggestion he has returned to a soulless club stuck within the mud.

The previous Red Devils captain was put in charge for the rest of the season on Tuesday after Darren Fletcher had initially stepped in as caretaker following the top of Ruben Amorim’s 14-month reign.

Carrick returns to a club he spent 15 years with as player after which coach, making 464 appearances before transitioning right into a staff role that ended with him walking away in December 2021 after an undefeated three-match spell as caretaker boss.

There have been loads of lows, together with the odd high, within the 4 years he was away from Old Trafford, resulting in a growing sense of disquiet inside the fanbase and a sense that the club has not progressed and even change into soulless.

‘I actually don’t think it’s soulless,’ Carrick said. ‘I believe there’s a magic around this place. I feel it. I feel at home straightaway, coming into the constructing, coming in and around it.

‘I’ve obviously been around it for quite a while after which missed slightly window, but I believe there’s a magic around this place. You’ll be able to’t help but feel that.

‘Yeah, results and sometimes from the surface things look slightly bit different but it surely actually doesn’t feel majorly different on the within, I even have to say that.

‘Listen, a part of my role and responsibility is shaping what we would like to seem like going forward as a gaggle.

‘What happens on the pitch, the tactical side and the performances is one thing but actually the culture as well and the way we predict, how we act, how we behave, what it means to us to be here.

‘That’s something that is an element of my responsibility to spread in the suitable way.’

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