{"id":664806,"date":"2026-08-31T07:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/664806\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T07:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T07:23:20","slug":"carrick-leaves-door-open-to-late-swoop-in-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/664806\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrick leaves door open to late swoop in window"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Carrick admits Manchester United could be active before the transfer deadline and says Marcus Rashford feels like a new signing after the returning forward helped secure a 5-2 win against Ipswich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Having kicked off their Premier League campaign with a shock 2-0 loss at Hull, the Red Devils overcame a shaky start against another promoted side to roar to a much-needed Old Trafford victory.<\/p>\n

Leif Davis put Ipswich ahead on Sunday but United capitalised on a slip to level through Bruno Fernandes, before Harry Maguire survived a VAR check for handball when his effort went in off Jacob Greaves.<\/p>\n

Skipper Fernandes scored two more to complete his hat-trick and then set up Bryan Mbeumo to add gloss on a day that ended with Chuba Akpom scoring a consolation goal for the visitors.<\/p>\n

“It’s a week in football, isn\u2019t it?” head coach Carrick said. “The ups and downs.<\/p>\n

“The biggest pleasing thing for me was, we spoke about actually in the week, about dealing with setbacks, really.<\/p>\n

“If you want to be a good team and a successful team, every team gets beat or you\u2019ve got to deal with setbacks in certain ways \u2013 whether that\u2019s momentum in the game, whether that\u2019s a goal in the game, whether that\u2019s losing a game or a run of games, whatever it may be. You\u2019ve got to deal with the setback.”<\/p>\n

United managed that after Luke Shaw was all too easily beaten by Abdul Fatawu to cross for Davis to give Ipswich the advantage and highlight United\u2019s left-back issues.<\/p>\n

An addition in that area is among the possibilities before Tuesday\u2019s transfer deadline \u2013 a point many at the start of the window predicted Rashford would have left by.<\/p>\n

Instead, the 28-year-old has parked any frustration about Barcelona not making his loan permanent to return to the fold, impressing from the outset on his first Old Trafford appearance in 90 weeks.<\/p>\n

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\nBruno Fernandes was superb for Manchester United against Ipswich<\/p>\n

Asked about potential transfer activity, United boss Carrick said: “It\u2019s always difficult to say, to be honest, when there\u2019s so little time left.<\/p>\n

“I think the situation that we\u2019re in, I think the business that we\u2019ve managed to do, I\u2019m pleased with. I think we\u2019re a better group, a better squad, potentially a better team.<\/p>\n

“Adding Marcus into that feels like a new signing, so in that respect we\u2019re quite happy.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re always open to it if there\u2019s something else to be able to add, so I wouldn\u2019t shut that down. But as it stands, we\u2019ll have to wait and see.”<\/p>\n

Ipswich could also make additions on the back of a loss when Greaves\u2019 own goal after a Maguire handball was a key moment.<\/p>\n

Asked about the handball not being punished by the VAR due to his shot being off target, boss Gary O\u2019Neil said: “Yeah, it\u2019s a strange rule, I guess. Difficult rule to ref as well.<\/p>\n

“I can accept it, of course, and the game transpires to be what it is after anyway, but the goalscorer makes a blatant handball.<\/p>\n

“His shot ends up in the goal, so you would expect that to be enough for it to be disallowed but I understand that it is the rule at the moment, so we accept it, same as the result today.<\/p>\n

“We gave everything. I asked the players to commit. They did, they gave everything.<\/p>\n

“We caused Man United some problems. We came up short, so we commit to what we do, and then we accept the consequences, so same with the refereeing decisions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick admits Manchester United could be active before the transfer deadline and says Marcus Rashford feels like…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":["post-664806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117188927137925041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}