New Manchester United captain Michael Carrick has warned that the club must think bigger than a top-four finish next season, saying: ‘It’s win the league or nothing for me.’
Carrick, who succeeds Wayne Rooney as skipper, wasted no time spelling out what he expects from his team-mates.
United have finished in the top four only once since they were last champions under Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013 but Carrick says that not even a Champions League place would satisfy his ambitions to help ‘a beast of a club’ return to the pinnacle of English football.
‘I can’t get my head around that, to say top-four is acceptable,’ said the five-time title winner with United.