Ryan Giggs has become the latest former teammate to back Michael Carrick for the permanent Manchester United job.
Carrick has put himself in contention for the role after an impressive interim stint. The 44-year-old has won seven of his 10 games in charge, losing only once, to lead the Red Devils into the Champions League positions.
United are yet to make a decision on a permanent successor to Ruben Amorim, who departed in January.
Julian Nagelsmann and Mauricio Pochettino are names under consideration, but Giggs says he ‘can’t see past’ Carrick getting the role. He hailed Carrick’s impact and believes the interim boss would only improve with time and backing.
“The hardest thing in the world as a manager is to win games and he’s doing that, we’ve lost one game,” Giggs said to Webby & O’Neill.
“Not only that, just the feeling around the place, we were going to games and watching games not knowing what we were going to get. It’s all changed now, fans are coming to games now or watching TV thinking, ‘right, we’ve got a massive chance here.’
“We’re looking up now rather than down – can we catch City?
“The turnaround has been amazing. I think we were all like, well I was, ‘we need seven or eight players,’ to now maybe needing three or four in the summer, which is more achievable than seven or eight players.
“I can’t see past Michael at the moment, I just can’t. I think he’s brought a calmness, I think he’ll bring in Man United players because he knows the club. Give him time I think he goes from strength to strength.”
