Carrick

Carrick

18.6M! A hell of alot of money. Ferguson will get totally slated if he doesn't play really well!

Re: Carrick

If man u actually get Torres too then I'm gonna whack a bit of £'s on them gettin the title this season..

Carrick is an excellent buy.. even at 18.6m..

Yeah he will protect the defence well I say he like a young makelele.

look at the difference in lampard once he moved from west ham to chelsea, he became one of the top midfielders in the world

i reckon carrick will improve ten fold working under ferguson and especially quieroz

18.6 is far too much!! he's no better than Gravesen who would have cost half.

i think 18.6m is a bit steep.

Big money but Spurs were in the driving seat in the deal, seems they've done well to get a big price like that.

to much money for a player who is supposedly a defensive midfielder . spurs paid west ham 2.5 mil for carrick hes a great player and will only get better but hes more of a box to box midfielder than just a defensive one thats why fergie has bougt him he needs someone whos going to run until his legs give way just like keane did . good business from both clubs imo !

They could of T.G. for alot less than half! 3/4m easy!

Poor man's Scott Parker

tbh i couldn't believe my eyes when i seen he'd gone for that much, i personally havn't seen anything to warrant paying a third of that price.

as a man utd follower i wud say it's slightly steep - but i'm sure they only pay all of that if he is succesful (games played, etc.)

huge gamble.

when he bought rio he bought a finished artical, carrick is far from a finished artical I HOPE

Did you watch a young Makele @ Nantes & Celta Vigo?

Fairplay to you if you did.

Nah saw him at real madrid tho and he wasnt old their. He still one of the best as well even if he is 33 now.

he joined real when he was 27, hardly young

Hardly old too

i never said he was old, but u said he was young

a) Carrick is nothing like Makele....he can pass a ball further than 10 yards for a start.

b) Carrick is not a box to box player, I think i only saw him run half a dozen times in his whole time with us


Hes a good player and we will miss him but he has a habit of just drifting through games, not actually doing very much apart form passing the ball 20 yards side ways.

His reading of the game is up there with the best and he rarely gives the ball way.

He COULD be as good as Hoddle and if anyone is going to get the best out of him its Ferguson. Dont expect him to be the new Roy Keane because he is nothing like him. I still think Man U need a hardman to play alongside him as he would get absolutely owned in a battle against the likes of Gatusso and Mascherano.

Hes a bit of a poor mans Pirlo just without the set pieces