Michael Carrick set for new contract

Accord­ing to the latest news reports, Old Traf­ford boss Sir Alex Fer­guson is about to offer Manchester United and Eng­land player Michael Car­rick a new long term con­tract exten­sion. Car­rick, whose cur­rent deal at the club expires in the sum­mer of 2014, is regarded by pun­dits as one the best mid­field men in the Barclays Premier League.

Greatly impressed by his play lately, man­ager Sir Alex Fer­guson is set to give the dynamic mid­field work­horse a fresh twelve-month con­tract at Manchester United. A depend­able and exper­i­enced player, Car­rick has been in excellent form so far this season and has become an import­ant part of the Manchester United mid­field. The Geordie made his debut for The Red Dev­ils in a 3–1 friendly match win over FC Porto at the Ams­ter­dam Arena in the Ams­ter­dam Tour­na­ment back in August 2006 and he has made well over 200 first team appear­ances for the Old Traf­ford club.

Sir Alex Fer­guson: “I think that Michael Car­rick has been mag­ni­fi­cent. It’s his best ever sea­son at Manchester United and he’s com­mand­ing that pos­i­tion. The player is doing abso­lutely bril­liantly. Even when he came on against West Ham United, he helped ease us through the last twenty minutes. Good play­ers do that. He came on and settled us down.”

Michael Car­rick Fact File

Michael Car­rick kick-started his pro­fes­sional round ball career with West Ham United before he was trans­ferred to old rivals Tot­ten­ham Hospur for an estim­ated trans­fer fee of £3.5 mil­lion in the sum­mer of 2004. After appear­ing in 64 Premier League matches for The Lil­ly­whites, the tal­en­ted mid­field player was brought to Manchester United for a trans­fer fee believed to be some­where in the region of £18.6 mil­lion at the start of the 2006-07 cam­paign. While with Manchester United, Michaell Car­rick has won four Eng­lish Premier League titles, the UEFA Cham­pi­ons League, the Club World Cup and the Foot­ball League Cup.