Michael Carrick has stated that Manchester United will not make a \u00a3100m signing due to their finances, with the manager also insisting that Marcus Rashford \u201cis our player\u201d despite the forward and club preferring him to depart.<\/p>\n
In the current window United have invested a total of \u00a385m on Youri Tielemans and Andrey Santos but have never spent \u00a3100m on a single transfer.<\/p>\n
This is in contrast to Manchester City, Tottenham, Liverpool, Arsenal, and Chelsea, the rest of the traditional top six, who have all spent \u00a3100m-plus on a player in recent years.<\/p>\n
Carrick was asked how United can compete. \u201cMoney\u2019s money. I get that,\u201d said the manager. \u201cIt\u2019s still about football and that\u2019s where the competition lies. What we feel naturally as a group is to try and win games. So there\u2019s a lot that goes into that, but certainly the situation is what it is as well, whether that\u2019s finances or whatever.\u201d Carrick guided United to third last season and was asked why the money from Champions League qualification cannot be invested in expensive elite players.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be honest, I haven\u2019t got the answers for that. We\u2019re working with pushing everything that we can to make the best of it,\u201d he said. \u201cFor now, we\u2019ve got to make the most of it, push everything in every boundary that we can to be able to win again, basically.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old was asked whether United can win the title without any players worth \u00a3100m or more in the squad.<\/p>\n
Carrick said: \u201cA little bit depends on what position that is and what you\u2019ve got and the dynamics you need at certain points. Sometimes you do need that if it\u2019s the right player. Again, it\u2019s not purely on money. Obviously over time we need to be pushing to look to enhance the squad. So, yeah, 100% we need to do that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve done really good business. So we\u2019re delighted with that [but] we want more, we need more, we keep looking for how we can do that, so that never stops.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rashford joined the squad at their County Kildare training camp base on Sunday following a post-World Cup break. The 28-year-old has been on loan the past season and a half at Barcelona and Aston Villa respectively, due to a breakdown in his relationship with the club\u2019s executive and the former United head coach Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n
Relations have eased and Rashford is focused on working under Carrick, though the player\u2019s preference is to depart. The club want the same as they seek to reduce the wage bill. The forward\u2019s final two years of his deal are worth \u00a335m.<\/p>\n
Carrick was asked if Rashford will stay beyond the 1 September deadline. \u201cHe\u2019s our player and has trained really well,\u201d said Carrick. \u201cIt\u2019s been good to have him around the group again.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The manager was asked if he wants Rashford to remain. \u201cHe\u2019s a very good player, Marcus, and if you\u2019re going to have a career over 10 or 15 years, there\u2019s going to be times when things go in a direction and maybe a different direction. All right, that happens,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s ups and downs, and that doesn\u2019t judge you as a one-off kind of [state]. It\u2019s what happens over time, and now we\u2019re in a positive place as a group, and Marcus can offer us so much. He has done, and he can do again, so it\u2019s quite exciting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked if Carrick views Rashford as not for sale, he said: \u201cNo, he\u2019s our player and he gives something a little bit different in the group.\u201d Harry Maguire, Noussair Mazraoui and Tielemans have all indicated United can win the championship. \u201cWe\u2019ve definitely got the potential to achieve something really special,\u201d said Carrick. \u201cI\u2019m not hiding from the fact, and we should aim to do that, but I can\u2019t give you a definite answer on that \u2013 it\u2019s certainly what we\u2019re pushing to do because that\u2019s the club we are.\u201d<\/p>\n
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