{"id":296600,"date":"2023-11-29T20:23:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/?p=296600"},"modified":"2023-11-29T20:23:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:23:56","slug":"jamie-carragher-slams-man-uniteds-purchase-of-casemiro-as-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/jamie-carragher-slams-man-uniteds-purchase-of-casemiro-as-terrible\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Carragher slams Man United&apos;s purchase of Casemiro as &apos;TERRIBLE&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jamie Carragher slams Manchester United&#8217;s $89m purchase of Casemiro as a &#8216;TERRIBLE&#8217; signing&#8230; as ex-Liverpool defender and CBS pundit says Erik ten Hag has &#8216;too much power&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Casemiro has struggled for form and fitness after a great first year with United\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jamie Carragher does not believe\u00a0the club got good value for the midfielder<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pressure is easing on Man United boss Erik ten Hag: Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jamie Carragher has slammed Manchester United&#8217;s purchase of Casemiro as a &#8216;terrible&#8217; buy as the $89million (\u00a370m) midfielder struggles for form and fitness in his second season at the club.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian, who has not played since November 1, has dealt with ankle and hamstring injuries this season and will turn 32 in February.<\/p>\n<p>And Carragher, speaking from CBS\u00a0Sports&#8217; Destination Miami event, doesn&#8217;t believe\u00a0United\u00a0got good value for money signing the five-time Champions League winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When you look at Man United buying Casemiro &#8211; I don&#8217;t care how well he did last season &#8211; that&#8217;s a terrible buy, from a business and club point of view. That&#8217;s just a panic,&#8217; Carragher said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;\u00a370million on a guy who&#8217;s 30, 31 on a five-year deal, on massive money. I think he&#8217;s on the way down now&#8230; who&#8217;s going to sign him?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/18\/78195385-0-The_Brazil_midfielder_has_struggled_for_form_this_season_having_-a-1_1701282465455.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brazil midfielder Casemiro has struggled for form this season having been excellent last term<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/18\/78386205-0-image-a-1_1701282831463.jpg\" height=\"439\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s a terrible buy, from a business and club point of view,&#8217; Jamie Carragher said\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Discussing United more broadly, Carragher said that the club has given too much free reign to managers such as Ten Hag and others who have come &#8211; and failed &#8211; before him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think the managers just have too much power,&#8217; Carragher said, calling Sir Alex Ferguson a &#8216;legend&#8217; but also a &#8216;one-off.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I just think since then, top football clubs have top directors of football, people who run the club. And I just think they let the manager get on with it.\u00a0He buys who he wants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You look at Ten Hag now, basically 60-70 per cent of the players he&#8217;s bought &#8211; they&#8217;re either from the Dutch League, or he&#8217;s worked with them before. So you know he&#8217;s got an unbelievable amount of power at the club. It hasn&#8217;t worked, I think it&#8217;s the same with Jose (Mourinho), (Louis) van Gaal, other people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And a manager should have an input into signings,&#8217; he continued. &#8216;I&#8217;m not saying a manager should not know who they&#8217;re signing. But a manager shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to just go buy who he wants.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>With Sir Jim Ratcliffe close to buying a 25 per cent stake in the club, the billionaire is reportedly targeting former Liverpool chief Michael Edwards\u00a0to oversee transfers, while Paul Mitchell has also been linked to the role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/19\/78388145-12806211-image-a-39_1701286924282.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Carragher believes United have given too much free reign to managers such as Erik Ten Hag<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/18\/78386263-12806211-image-a-2_1701282975341.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>CBS Sports is in Miami, Florida for this week&#8217;s coverage of the UEFA Champions League<\/p>\n<p>John Murtough currently serves as United&#8217;s football director, while signings such as Antony, Andre Onana, Lisandro Mart\u00ednez and Sofyan Amrabat have all worked under Ten Hag at previous clubs (though the figure is far smaller than 60-70 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, it has been 10 years since United last lifted the Premier League trophy, and Carragher has admittedly enjoyed that barren run a bit.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s helped me, from a TV point of view, because Man United have been awful since I&#8217;ve been doing TV. So that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m never gonna retire,&#8217; he laughed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So hopefully, that&#8217;ll continue. But I&#8217;m just thinking, &#8216;Why are you this bad when I retired? Why weren&#8217;t you this bad when I was playing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a rocky start to the season, United are now the Premier League&#8217;s in form team with five wins from six but threw away a two-goal lead in Wednesday&#8217;s 3-3 draw at Galatasaray in the Champions League.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You know, football cycles&#8230; they&#8217;ll come back, it&#8217;s a great club,&#8217; Carragher said. &#8216;And they&#8217;ve got a lot of money. Great history, tradition. So, Man United will be back. But certainly in the Premier League, there&#8217;s a lot of competition. A lot of competition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So it&#8217;s not easy, but yeah, I just wish what we&#8217;re seeing now we were seeing\u00a0maybe 10 years ago when I was playing.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12806211\/Jamie-Carragher-slams-Manchester-United-Casemiro-TERRIBLE-signing-Erik-ten-Hag.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jamie Carragher slams Manchester United&#8217;s $89m purchase of Casemiro as a &#8216;TERRIBLE&#8217; signing&#8230; as ex-Liverpool defender and CBS pundit says Erik ten Hag has &#8216;too <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstoft.com\/soccer\/jamie-carragher-slams-man-uniteds-purchase-of-casemiro-as-terrible\/\" title=\"Jamie Carragher slams Man United&amp;apos;s purchase of Casemiro as &amp;apos;TERRIBLE&amp;apos;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jamie Carragher slams Man United&amp;apos;s purchase of Casemiro as &amp;apos;TERRIBLE&amp;apos; 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