Sports Writer for Forbes, FourFourTwo, Optus Sport, The Athletic, Bleacher Report, The Times Magazine, and author of Manchester United’s Best XI
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Sam Pilger retweeted
Casemiro - 2025/26 - 9 Goals
Šeško - 2025/26 - 12 Goals
⚽️ 21 goals replaced by no one this season and that is on the owners. How can anyone expect Carrick to repeat levels of last season?
Sam Pilger retweeted
Not signing a striker when your only striker has been out for the whole of pre-season with a persistent injury was the greatest act of idiocy and self-harm by the Manchester United hierarchy and emblematic of their hopeless reign
🚨 Confirmed: Benjamin Sesko out until at least January through shin injury.
Period of rest is required so striker is fully healed.
Details + analysis ⬇️ #MUFC @TheAthleticFC
nytimes.com/athletic/7716805…
Not signing a striker when your only striker has been out for the whole of pre-season with a persistent injury was the greatest act of idiocy and self-harm by the Manchester United hierarchy and emblematic of their hopeless reign
🚨 Confirmed: Benjamin Sesko out until at least January through shin injury.
Period of rest is required so striker is fully healed.
Details + analysis ⬇️ #MUFC @TheAthleticFC
nytimes.com/athletic/7716805…
Michael Carrick has attracted a lot of deserved sympathy but he has still not accounted for how an improved squad (Lost Casemiro, but gained Baleba, Tielemans, Santos and Rashford) has become so bad so quickly this season and fallen from 3rd to 16th
Sam Pilger retweeted
The fact that Eddie Howe is even in the conversation to manage Manchester United is such a damning indictment on those running the club. Unimaginative, unambitious, weak and reeking of cowardice because they know a stronger character would call them out on their incompetence.
Eddie Howe would be the most underwhelming appointment as Manchester United manager for nearly 50 years since Dave Sexton?
Sam Pilger retweeted
United should sack Carrick and then immediately appoint him as interim manager to sort this mess out
One of my best friends @LeoMoynihan has written a great book on the genius of Bob Paisley. It is available from today
Sam Pilger retweeted
It should seriously frighten United fans that Wilcox and Berrada will now choose Manchester United’s new manager. After Ten Hag, Amorim and now Carrick, they are serial failures, out of their depth and clueless about what is needed.
Sam Pilger retweeted
I have been interviewed about my 46-year relationship with Old Trafford and spending time with Sir Bobby Charllton there for the Iconic Football Grounds book
Sam Pilger retweeted
Man United with one of the worst ownership combos: American capitalists piling debt onto the club and a right-wing British billionaire out of his depth.
It should seriously frighten United fans that Wilcox and Berrada will now choose Manchester United’s new manager. After Ten Hag, Amorim and now Carrick, they are serial failures, out of their depth and clueless about what is needed.
Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox should have no future at Manchester United. They have spectacularly failed at building a squad or appointing a manager and should be replaced.
If this is the reaction to the Como humiliation then Carrick is finished. United have been appalling again and are constantly giving the ball away
Sam Pilger retweeted
Maybe because you're massive cheats Elliot?
“Everywhere we go, we get it.” 📢
Elliot Anderson on the hostile reception Man City have faced at away grounds in the Premier League this season 👀
🎙️ @jules_breach | 📺 Stream now on TNT Sports & HBO Max streamonm.ax/4ySzugq
Sam Pilger retweeted
"I think we all underestimate how rubbish the Glazers are."
A scathing assessment of Manchester United's owners from @mjshrimper.
Sam Pilger retweeted
To suggest 20 years ago that AC Milan would start a game second favourites against Bournemouth and lose it 3-0 would have been absurd to the point of comical. There is no bigger evidence of how football has transformed than this astonishing scoreline.
Sam Pilger retweeted
Carrick came in, got the players to buy in, did a great job.
Players got convinced to stick around that may have been looking to leave as they got assurances that the club would back the manager and invest in the summer.
Window ends with net 1 extra midfielder and Rashford who doesnt want to be there.
Big personalities and leaders feel like theyve been misled, manager feels like he's been let down, and the energy around the club falls off.
Its not rocket science. Carrick may not be the solution, but he's not the problem.
Rotten.