Pundit questions the 38-year-old’s qualifications for a huge role in the first team
Roy Keane has criticised Manchester United’s appointments to Michael Carrick’s coaching staff. After confirming that Carrick would be interim coach until the end of the season, United also announced he would be assisted by Steve Holland, Jonathan Woodgate and Michael Carrick.
In a debate on the Stick to Football podcast, Gary Neville praised the appointment of Holland, who worked with Gary Southgate to coach the England team, saying he was “a serious operator” and his arrival has “made Carrick’s staff better”. But Keane insisted that all appointments to the coaching staff, rather than just one, needed to be sound.
Evans retired from playing only last summer and was given a position as head of loans and pathways at the club, but he left the role after just five months.
“He was on the beach two weeks ago, Jonny Evans,” said Keane. “Jonny Evans leaves Man United four or five weeks ago as a loans manager and then [Darren] Fletcher strangely enough gives him a job. He has two games, Fletcher goes and Carrick gives him a job. Great isn’t it? We should all go to Barbados for a week.
“You’re on about getting your coaching staff in, you’re praising one of them saying he’s experienced and then we just let the other two go, Jonathan Woodgate and Jonny Evans. What has Jonny Evans done to be a coach of Man United’s first team? He left the job four weeks ago – loans manager – and ironically comes back working with the first team. That’s a big step up isn’t it?”
