Michael Carrick not feeling extra pressure from ex-Man Utd players turned pundits

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Credit: MUTVNew head coach Michael Carrick insists outspoken former Manchester United players like Roy Keane and Gary Neville do not add extra pressure to his job.This has been a fraught fortnight at Old Trafford, where Ruben Amorim’s 14-month reign came to an acrimonious end and Darren Fletcher took temporary charge before the club turned to another ex-Red Devils midfielder.

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00:00I don't feel that, you know, I think it's just part of it, you know, the role, I understand

00:13it, I understand there's plenty of opinions around and some are positive, some are not

00:18so much, but I think in some ways, for me, in terms of putting pressure, for me it's

00:23totally irrelevant in terms of me and how I go to work and what I focus on, I kind of

00:28know already what we want to improve on and how we want to work with the players and I've

00:32already said about improving things, you know, and there's a lot of opinions, a lot can be

00:39said, it is the way of the world, you know, I'm not going to pay too much attention to

00:45the most of that, I think it's not for me to do that, I think for me and the players and

00:50the staff, it's a focus on how we're going to succeed really and that's our job, that's

00:55our responsibility, that's where our focus and our minds should be at, is doing what

00:59we can for this club.

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