Gary Neville refused to get carried away by the giddiness of Manchester United’s deserved 3–2 victory over Arsenal on Sunday, insisting instead that the club should turn to a figure in the mould of either Carlo Ancelotti or Thomas Tuchel, two wildly different candidates, to succeed Michael Carrick at the end of the season. Not all of his fellow United alumni agreed.
United’s transformation under Carrick has been staggering. This is the exact same group of players that were knocked out of the Carabao Cup by League Two Grimsby Town, that lost at home to an Everton team fighting themselves and failed to beat the relegation-battling duo of Wolverhampton Wanderers and Burnley. Yet, in the space of eight days, they have outplayed the two principal contenders for this year’s Premier League title.
