{"id":11889,"date":"2026-01-13T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11889"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T10:08:12","slug":"manchester-united-michael-carrick-to-bring-in-steve-holland-on-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=11889","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United: Michael Carrick to bring in Steve Holland on staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 44-year-old had a three-game stint as United&#8217;s temporary boss after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer&#8217;s dismissal in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Holland worked under Gareth Southgate with England and spent several years with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Chelsea<\/a>, where he had major success under a number of managers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 55-year-old was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cn059kxk2elo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">sacked<\/a> as manager of Japanese club Yokohama F Marinos in April after only four months in charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woodgate worked under Carrick at Middlesbrough, while former United defender Evans will also return to Old Trafford. Binnion is already part of the club&#8217;s coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Carrick held face-to-face talks with United officials last Thursday and is understood to have impressed chief executive Omar Berrada and director of football Jason Wilcox with his vision for the team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former England midfielder is set to play a 4-2-3-1 system, a move away from the three at the back set-up employed by Amorim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Solskjaer, who has played and managed United, also held talks with the hierarchy over the vacancy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Carrick has been chosen given he is more of a hands-on coach than Solskjaer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Darren Fletcher, who took charge of the games against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Burnley<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Brighton<\/a> immediately after Amorim&#8217;s exit, will return to the Under-18s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Manchester #United #Michael #Carrick #bring #Steve #Holland #staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 44-year-old had a three-ga&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}