Manchester United sacks Michael Carrick with club in Premier League relegation zone: Reports

Michael Carrick’s last match in charge of Manchester United was a 4-4 draw with Aston Villa, wherein the Red Devils scored two stoppage time goals to salvage a draw. | Photo Credit: AP

Manchester United has sacked head coach Michael Carrick on November 12 with immediate effect after a poor run of results in the ongoing season, according to several reports from British media.

United has been in a dismal run in the last two months, with just one win in 11 matches, and is languishing in the Premier League relegation zone, at 18th with eight points from 10 games.

In their previous match, the Red Devils were trailing 2-4 until the 90th minute – a result that would have made it drop to the bottom of the league standings – when stoppage-time goals by Joshua Zirkzee and Patrick Dorgu helped them salvage a point.

The club is reportedly set to appoint for Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino as head coach, with the Argentine leaving the men’s team’s camp of the United States of America.

As a player, Carrick had joined United in 2006 and went on to win 17 trophies with the club under manager Alex Ferguson, including five Premier League titles and the UEFA Champions League in the 2007-08 season.

He returned to the club as manager in 2021 and again in January this year as interim manager. He was given the full-time role in May 2026 after steering the club to a third-place finish and earning Champions League qualification.

The board backed him in the summer with £155 million on transfers for a midfield rebuild, which saw the arrivals of Youri Tielemans, Carlos Baleba and Andrey Santos, but they haven’t translated into results.