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"Michael Carrick got himself sacked," Simon Jordan tells talkSPORT

United's confirmation arrives during the broadcast, but Jordan and callers disagree over how much responsibility belongs above the manager.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 440,461 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (37,744).

Simon Jordan REACTS to Michael Carrick being SACKED by Man United amid Mauricio Pochettino DEAL!

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0:39Jordan criticises United's leadership for repeatedly getting managerial appointments wrong.
5:07Crook says hiring Pochettino would require compensation for his and his staff's US national team contracts.
12:44White announces that Manchester United have officially sacked Carrick.
16:15Caller Michael argues Carrick was not backed in the transfer market; Jordan disputes that defence.
21:19White reads United's statement confirming Carrick's departure as men's first-team head coach.
24:00Jordan argues United should have recognised Carrick's late-season success as an interim bounce and hired experience instead.

Jim White opens with reports of Michael Carrick's departure and later reads Manchester United's official statement on air. Between those moments, talkSPORT's discussion moves beyond whether Carrick will go to who should answer for another managerial change.

Simon Jordan's position is blunt: problems in the boardroom do not excuse failure in the dugout. He argues that Carrick was never equipped to take United where they wanted to go, while also criticising the leadership that gave him the job.

"Michael Carrick got himself sacked. Nobody sacked Michael Carrick," Jordan says after White announces the dismissal.

That is not how several callers see it. Michael argues that Carrick lacked backing in the transfer market. Later, Adam asks why the club kept him if it did not trust him enough to support his plans. Jordan's answer is that United mistook a successful interim spell for evidence of a lasting solution.

Alex Crook adds another consequence of the timing: he says hiring Mauricio Pochettino would mean paying to release him and his staff from their US national team contracts, an expense United could have avoided in the summer. The segment reports negotiations, rather than a completed appointment.

The broadcast drew about 380,000 views in 17 hours, an unusually fast start for talkSPORT. Its comments had already reached roughly seven times the channel's usual full first-day total, with viewers questioning whether changing the manager can fix the organisation around him.

A separate Jordan phone-in upload also ran well ahead of its usual start, while Rory Jennings' Short questioning the prospective Pochettino appointment drew an unusually large audience for that format.

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