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Under-pressure Manchester United boss Michael Carrick claimed that the club have lost their way in a five-minute opening speech to the media ahead of their crunch clash with Bournemouth. There is increasing uncertainty surrounding Carrick's future at Old Trafford following United's humiliating 4-1 defeat away at Como in the Champions League on Wednesday evening. The 45-year-old is set to take charge of the Red Devils as they take on the Cherries on Sunday‚ seeking their first win in all competitions since early September. And in his pre-match press conference ahead of the match‚ Carrick let his true feelings known regarding United's struggles.
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KIERAN GILL AT THE VITALITY STADIUM: At £15 a pop‚ the half-and-half scarf sellers outside of the Vitality Stadium were cleaning up‚ and while those souvenirs are often derided as cringe fodder for tourists‚ there was no blaming those Bournemouth fans queueing to buy one this time.
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Manchester United's problems are piling up with there understood to be growing tensions between director of football Jason Wilcox and director of recruitment Christopher Vivell. Speaking to a handful of key figures close to the dressing room‚ each of whom are in regular dialogue with the United hierarchy‚ Daily Mail Sport has learned that along with disagreements on the pitch between players and manager‚ there is also growing discontent in the boardroom. Wilcox and Vivell are said to have differing opinions on who should succeed Michael Carrick‚ should the decision be made to move on to a third manager in 2026.
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“Don't want to be there” - Man U have created toxic situation with no solution until the summer claims journalist
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Leeds United and Manchester United. Colourful‚ bitter and deep. There are few football rivalries like it. 'When I was in the academy at Leeds you knew all about it‚' recalls former Leeds goalkeeper Paul Robinson.
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JAMES SHARPE: It was after a Champions League victory over Arsenal in 2015 that Pep Guardiola‚ then Bayern Munich manager‚ made clear his idea of a football utopia: 'What I want‚ my desire‚ is to have 100 per cent possession.' Bayern had only enjoyed 66 per cent that night in a 5-1 victory over Arsene Wenger's side but even that wasn't enough to satisfy Guardiola's unquenchable pursuit of perfection. After all‚ as his idol Johan Cruyff once said‚ 'if you play on possession‚ you don't have to defend‚ because there's only one ball.'
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Reece James is set to be out of action for three months after having surgery on a knee injury sustained in training. James‚ 26‚ missed his side's 5-1 Premier League win over Bournemouth after the international break. While he usually still travels with the squad on the team coach when injured‚ he did not do so for that victory‚ sparking concerns that there was more to his latest setback. Now‚ Chelsea have confirmed that James has had a 'successful minor' operation‚ and will be without him for their league trip to Everton on Saturday and beyond.
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JACK GAUGHAN AT THE ETIHAD: A returning hero at the Etihad‚ invited back for the night. Ali Benarbia‚ the mercurial midfielder‚ is considered a legend of a former Manchester City era as they won the First Division title in the early Noughties. He knows the second tier well etcetera‚ etcetera. But then there was the other guy. The other guy didn't do club media and interviews on the pitch but his presence fills an arena regardless.
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NATHAN SALT: In the space of two minutes and 55 seconds‚ Lisandro Martinez eviscerated a Manchester United hierarchy that for too long have been found hiding in the shadows. Moments after a 2-0 defeat away to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League‚ there was Martinez‚ fronting up as a senior player‚ for the post-match interview. There was Martinez‚ too‚ with a look in his eyes that suggested quite clearly he had something he wanted to get off his chest. 'I have to control myself a lot‚' the Argentine said‚ fuming as he did so. The truth is‚ the fury in his eyes was obvious and in the end director of football Jason Wilcox‚ CEO Omar Berrada and the other shot-callers at United would all get it.
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CHRIS WHEELER AT THE RIYADH AIR METROPOLITANO: On the eve of this test of Manchester United's character and his own managerial credentials‚ Michael Carrick asked to be given more time. When the heat was on in the Metropolitano‚ his team's resistance didn't last a single minute. There were 50 seconds on the clock when Pablo Barrios fired Atletico Madrid in front. At that stage you feared for United and you feared for Carrick. We probably still should. As the Atletico fans smelled blood‚ a fourth defeat in nine games this season seemed like the least of his troubles. It felt like United were heading for a mauling in Madrid‚ the like of which can cost a struggling head coach his job in the morning.
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IAN HERBERT AT ANFIELD: The local planning had been meticulous of course. Flags bearing the words 'Cheats' and images of Pep Guardiola and players as convicts‚ going for a fiver from the hawkers' stalls next to The Park pub. People responding to the message‚ circulating all week‚ about mustering at the King Harry pub ahead of a 'Greeting' for the Manchester City team bus. 'Bring flags‚ pyros‚ flares.' And they did. But inside those pubs‚ there was neither triumphalism‚ nor a particular desire to wage holy hell on a visiting team.
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The Red Devils were twice booed off at Old Trafford on Saturday evening as they conceded a late equaliser against 10-man Spurs to take their winless run to four games in all competitions. But there seems to be a lack of fight from the team‚ according to Neville‚ with fans already questioning the side's desire to run after Youri Tielemans said they didn't do much work in that area of the game over pre-season. Coupled with United's poor running numbers so far this season‚ and there are serious questions around the team's play - and Neville has once again taken aim.
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OLIVER HOLT: Is this an apparition that we see before us? Is it real? Is Liverpool-Manchester City at Anfield a football match or a ghost-game? Will it remain in the sport's history books or will it be erased when City's guilty verdicts on 114 charges of financial chicanery meet their punishment sometime in the months ahead? There was a time when any Premier League clash between these two sides would have been regarded as the best advertisement for the English game that there could be. Not anymore. This game is being played at a wonderful stadium but it might as well be in a circus tent. It is not a match. It is a giant and terrible curiosity. The great managers who helped to define this collision between modern giants - Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola - are both gone and now this clash stands for something else: it marks the start of a period of slow torture for the top flight in this country‚ a period when we cannot know whether there is any permanence attached to results that involve City. A period when we will not know whether we should believe what we see.
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Spurs added 10 players for around £250million in the transfer window‚ many of whom arrived late on and therefore haven't had much time to gel with their new team-mates.
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Arsenal will return to Premier League action with a much-depleted squad after they were hit hardest by injuries during the dreaded international break. There are several reasons why most football fans dislike international breaks - especially when they last three weeks - but chief among them is the fact they regularly leave their club's best players injured. It is usually the league's top teams that are most affected because they have so many high-quality players at international level. And it is no different this time.
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Abodi after Malago compromise: ‘There are no winners or losers'
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IAN LADYMAN AT WEMBLEY: England have grown stronger and better and more convincing with each passing game. An 11-day spell that began with an error-strewn defeat to Spain has ended with England starting to look like the powerfully dangerous team Tuchel wanted them to be when he took the job two years ago. A fortnight ago‚ as England's players gathered at St George's Park‚ we badgered Tuchel about his team's style of play. What exactly was it? Did he know? Could it work?
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The pair are reportedly romantically involved after Chapman‚ 52‚ was accused by his ex-girlfriend Clere Collier of dating Cates while they were still together. Chapman reportedly split suddenly with Collier‚ a Dubai-based mother-of-two and estate agent‚ in April after three years together. He insists there was no overlap between the relationships and that he had remained faithful.
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Paul Scholes has responded to his former Manchester United team-mate Wayne Rooney after the latter said he wouldn't accept the 2012 Premier League title if Manchester City were stripped of it. Since the bombshell legal verdict that found Man City guilty of the vast majority of the 115 charges made against them by the Premier League‚ there has been much debate over how City's illustrious period from 2009-2018 should be judged. Rio Ferdinand and David De Gea have publicly called for the 2011-12 prize to be added to their medal collection but Rooney said Man United do not 'deserve' to be awarded it.
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There isn't much comfort to be found in the pages of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's autobiography if you're a player or fan of Manchester City. But he does offer something relevant - a compelling account of how a dressing room reacts when the asteroid of an almighty scandal crashes into your building. The confusion‚ denial‚ panic and acts of escapology are all written into chapter 14 of I Am Zlatan‚ detailing the sheer chaos at Juventus in July 2006 when the club was informed it would be relegated to Serie B and stripped of two league titles. Like those players who might soon be contemplating similar at City‚ the cogs of Juve were blameless for the Calciopoli saga. They weren't the ones found guilty of lobbying in the shadows to influence refereeing appointments. Nor were they trapped by an elaborate network of wiretaps. The bosses were.
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JAMES SHARPE: It remains hard to see how Man City will be able to keep hold of their star players on huge wages if they suffer expulsion or are sent tumbling down to League Two. If there is to be a fire sale‚ then‚ Daily Mail Sport wonders which Premier League clubs might be the perfect bargain hunters for their wares...
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There was doubt over the weekend whether Ireland would fulfil their fixtures against Israel this international break‚ but the first game was played at the weekend and the second is scheduled to take place too. Ireland beat Israel 3-0 in their first fixture in Hungary on Sunday night‚ with goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu having pulled out of the highly-charged match on ethical grounds. A petition to stop the game going ahead had been signed by almost 20‚000.
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Key questions remain unanswered about the Man City Scandal - but are there one‚ three or seven?
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The astonishing details of Manchester City's almost decade-long cheating have now been exposed in gory detail. As the Premier League released their verdict to shine a light on the extraordinary scale of the club's guilt on Tuesday afternoon‚ the football world scrambled to make sense of the wrongdoing. There's a huge amount to digest from the biggest sporting scandal in British history and behind the £900million artificially pumped into the Abu Dhabi-owned club‚ there were seven thousand pages of damning evidence.
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Broadcasters will not demand compensation from the Premier League - even if they throw the book at Manchester City. City have been found guilty of the vast majority of a series of breaches of the competition's financial rules over a time period in which they lifted three titles as part of an eight-trophy haul. The situation has raised the prospect that those who paid billions to screen that glittering era in the club's history could now seek effective refunds‚ given there would be clear question marks over the integrity of what they paid vast sums to screen.
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“I just have to win‚ win and win‚ and eventually there won't be a debate”
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Former Manchester City financial advisor Stefan Borson has claimed 'anything is possible‚' including the nuclear option of relegation‚ after the club were found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules. The Premier League accused the club of widespread financial cheating over an era of sustained success - with an independent panel hearing concluding in 2024. There has since been a frustrating wait for a verdict but Daily Mail Sport sources have disclosed that clubs have been informed that the panel has now reached a decision - and there is a belief it's a win for the top flight.
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SPECIAL REPORT BY IAN HERBERT: There's no suggestion that the tracking device found under a UEFA investigator's car‚ at the height of a forensic investigation into Manchester City's finances‚ had anything to do with the club under suspicion.
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There is a growing confidence within the Premier League that they have triumphed in their 115 charges battle with Manchester City. The competition accused the club of widespread financial cheating over an era of sustained success - with an independent panel hearing concluding in 2024. There has since been a frustrating wait for a verdict but sources have disclosed that clubs have been informed that the panel has now reached a decision - and there is a belief it's a win for the top flight.
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KIERAN GILL: Jurgen Klopp missed out on his first win as Germany manager with Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo scoring the stoppage-time volley which denied him. It was a fine finish from Gakpo and an equalling exquisite cross from Ruben van Bommel after Serge Gnabry had given away the ball in the build-up. That ensured the Netherlands‚ now managed by Barcelona and Spain legend Xavi‚ avoided losing in Amsterdam. A draw was the deserved result at the end of what turned into a nasty Nations League clash. The tackles were flying in‚ though there were two apparent muscular injuries which will have a pair of Premier League managers concerned. Kai Havertz of Arsenal and Brian Brobbey of Sunderland - both of whom have started every league game for their clubs this season - needed substituting. It was while the latter was down injured that Germany controversially scored their opener.
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Hunting hidden gems - is there anywhere in the world left to scout?
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Which players have stood out and done enough to earn a place in Sofascore's team of the season so far? Daily Mail Sport takes a look at the Premier League's best XI - and there's a few surprise names...
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The former midfielder and Theresa Sommer enjoyed the 191st annual celebrations at Kafer Wiesn Schanke on the Theresienwiese in Munich‚ and posed for the cameras. The model‚ who is 38 years his junior‚ wore a traditional strapless‚ floor-length satin gown in a champagne tone and a fitted bodice‚ while Matthaus opted for a light blue waistcoat over a short-sleeve shirt in something close to traditional lederhosen. As a couple‚ Matthaus and Sommer have gained plenty of attention over the years‚ having seemingly dates for around 18 months‚ having been first spotted together skiing in Austria in April last year.
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Gary Lineker has delivered a scathing verdict on Sir Jim Ratcliffe's running of Manchester United‚ branding the club's co-owner an 'unpleasant human being'. There was optimism when the 73-year-old bought a minority stake in the historic club in February 2024 and took control of football operations. That mood now appears to have soured among sections of the fanbase‚ however‚ amid poor results on the pitch and growing frustration with decisions made under Ratcliffe's leadership.
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The international break is here‚ giving Premier League clubs time to take stock of what has been a thrilling start to the 2026-27 season‚ and Opta to reevaluate their title predictions for the season's close. We're only five games in and there are already a number of intriguing storylines developing‚ not least so-called relegation favourites Hull City's rampant return to the top flight after nine years away‚ claiming eight points to sit eighth heading into the break. Enzo Maresca's start to life in charge of Manchester City couldn't have gone any better‚ winning all five games to clinch top spot as the only team with a 100 per cent record.
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Marcus Rashford: Mystery of ‘glum-faced' Man Utd star solved as there's ‘something behind scenes'
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‘There's no way' - Paul Merson reveals verdict on PL title race after Man City move clear of Arsenal
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Alan Shearer's 'grey' Newcastle United verdict is fair but there's a big chance to prove him wrong
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There was a telling Martin O'Neill comment after Euro euphoria and it's why I'm still wary about Celtic - Chris Sutton
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Almost an hour had passed after the final whistle on Saturday when Tottenham's manager Roberto De Zerbi arrived to do his press conference. There is a temptation is to think his side could have spent that time on the pitch and still wouldn't have scored against a team of mannequins. He would go on to tell us about 'blockages'‚ which might have applied to the Everton backline in a 0-0 draw‚ but in this instance involved something else - it was a discussion about the mental hurdles his forward players are facing in front of goal. In short‚ he said they lack confidence. Overthinking has crept in. The weight of recent history is pressing them down and‚ like a golfer with the yips‚ they find themselves unable to pull the trigger.
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RIATH AL-SAMARRAI AT THE TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR STADIUM: After four league games‚ De Zerbi has amassed zero wins and‚ for the first time in the club's history‚ zero goals. It would seem that his superiors in the recruitment department skipped the most important aisle on their recent trolley dash. Because how is it possible to spend £320million in the pursuit of such a blunt object? Where is the protein in this meal? If scoring is the main aim of this silly game‚ then the early signs point to colossal failure‚ over and again‚ and there isn't much further to fall after back-to-back finishes of 17th.
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NATHAN SALT AT OLD TRAFFORD: There was one sequence midway through the first half that perhaps best encapsulated the good and the bad of Patrick Dorgu the left back. With the game locked at 0-0‚ Sabah broke on the counter and there was Dorgu‚ as far forward as any United player‚ appearing totally uninterested in sprinting back. It did not go unnoticed. But then‚ seconds later‚ Sabah were dispossessed in the middle of the park‚ the ball was turned over and in a flash it was ferried out to Dorgu‚ still high and wide‚ to pick his head up and deliver a dead-eye cross to the near post for Matheus Cunha to score. Pandemonium.
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Alexis Mac Allister has revealed he is 'very sad' that Liverpool have not offered him a new contract. The Argentina star‚ 27‚ has watched his midfield colleagues‚ Dominik Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch‚ sign new deals - and insists there were chances for him to leave the club this summer. Asked how close he got to leaving‚ Mac Allister said: 'There was a chance. As everyone knows‚ I received the news that the club was not in a position to offer me a new contract which of course makes me very‚ very sad.
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£55m Arsenal star ‘lucky to be there' as Berta accused of summer transfer mistake - ‘hard to explain'