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This is Talk of the Devils, Athletics Show, dedicated to Manchester United.

Coming up today, Manchester United are now out of the FA Cup, falling at the first hurdle,

just like the League Cup against Brighton at Old Trafford on Sunday.

We'll get into the details of that.

Moving forward, Michael Carrick is now the frontrunner to be named the interim boss at Uttford for the remainder of this campaign.

We'll have the very latest on that.

And we'll also ask the question, what exactly is left to salvage of this season?

As the questions grow about pretty much everything, it seems related with Manchester United.

It's a fun podcast.

It always is when there's this sort of mood

around the group. We've got Critch, we've got Carl, we've got Andy, and we've also got a bonus Laurie section as well because you want to talk about the very latest on Michael Carrick, Laurie, don't you? Well, there is that. There is also the fact that Critch has been far too good on these podcasts recently so I wanted to

just elbow him out the way

a little bit. But usually, I know when we did those photo shoots in the summer, people were laughing at us saying you're trying to be some kind of boy band. Rightly. Yeah, correctly. Usually a boy man loses members, don't they? We're actually gaining a member here. See, was it worth, was it worth? I was telling these guys, I've got a joke lined up, heard of recording, Critch is laughing, try and start the podcast with a little bit of positivity maybe. It's always great when you big up your own joke after you've told it. He is getting a bit of love though. This is Hamish's message. I'm loving the squad rotation on the pod recently. Just when you thought the first team was locked, in comes critch, dropping brilliant insights and Hemingway references. So he is getting some love, Laurie. But yeah, come on then. Let's talk about it because it's one of them moments again, isn't it, for the club? Feels like the lowest moment of the season, but is it about to get a bit clearer what happens next?

I think so, a bit clearer.

I mean, it needs to get clearer, doesn't it?

Because having a caretaker before an interim or whatever we were going to call it feels very haphazard.

It doesn't feel like there's a plan there.

It feels like this came about because of a, you know, obviously a big row really between Ruben Amory and Jason Wilcox and then, okay, right, let's, when the dust settles, let's see what we can figure out here. And I appreciate that, you know, you have to kind of roll with it a little bit. But there clearly needs to be some, you know, direction for where this club is going. even in that situation it's an interim until

the end of the season Michael Carrick is now we believe the frontrunner I personally would

expect him to be offered the job the United sources are saying that that is a bit premature

still but certainly from speaking to people last night this was starting to come out that Carrick had done really well in the face-to-face interviews.

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