Steve Nicol calls United's treatment of Carrick "an absolute disgrace"

The ESPN FC pundit's objection is to Carrick taking training while the club pursues Pochettino, with a later discussion reporting his dismissal.

Channel: ESPN UK Story of November 13, 2026Trari Newsroom

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Why ask Michael Carrick to keep taking training while pursuing someone else for his job? That is the question at the heart of Steve Nicol's criticism of Manchester United, rather than whether Mauricio Pochettino is the right replacement.

In ESPN UK's Short, Nicol says Carrick is being left to work with the team while talks with Pochettino are openly discussed. "To have him turning up to take the team training, while openly, everybody knows they're talking to Pochettino, is an absolute disgrace," he says.

The former Liverpool defender directs his frustration at United's owners and football leadership. His argument is about the way they are handling the person still doing the job, not Carrick's tactics or results.

The clip drew roughly 107,000 views in its first day, about twelve times ESPN UK's usual start for a Short. The comments also became much busier than usual. Among the responses, viewers bring up United's handling of previous managers, while one asks whether Nicol applied the same standard to Ruben Amorim.

The situation has since moved beyond the training-ground limbo Nicol describes. In a subsequent ESPN FC discussion, Theo Walcott, Frank Leboeuf and Shaka Hislop react to United confirming Carrick's sacking. That upload reports a further delay in confirming Pochettino until after the USA's next two matches.

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The numbers

Nicol's Carrick clip drew an unusually large first-day audience for an ESPN UK Short, alongside a much busier comment section.

the video's first day

usual first day here

8,819

this video

106,873

subscribers

1,620,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,087,772,140

views per day

782,739

typical day: 810,305

the video

views

135,695

likes

1,906

comments

263

days online

2

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

AFTV

1,840,000

Tifo Football by The Athl…

1,830,000

The Overlap

1,810,000

ESPN UK

1,620,000

FOX Soccer

1,580,000

Overlap Daily

1,560,000

As of November 13, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.