Four years, one month and 15 days separate the final game of Michael Carrick's first stint in charge of Manchester United and his first match back against Manchester City on Saturday - and it is fair to say that a lot has changed at Old Trafford. Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire, Diogo Dalot, Luke Shaw, Amad Diallo and reserve goalkeeper Tom Heaton are the only players at the club today who were part of Manchester United's 2021-22 squad.
Four years, one month and 15 days separate the final game of Michael Carrick's first stint in charge of Manchester United and his first match back against Manchester City on Saturday - and it is fair to say that a lot has changed at Old Trafford.
Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire, Diogo Dalot, Luke Shaw, Amad Diallo and reserve goalkeeper Tom Heaton are the only players at the club today who were part of Manchester United's 2021-22 squad.
Ralf Rangnick, Carrick's successor at Old Trafford, pointed out the need for the club to perform an "open heart operation" in order to get back to competing at the highest level - and the sheer turnover in players since then would suggest that some kind of drastic change has happened.
There is no denying that there are players from the current squad who would have been regular features in Carrick's last team - but the fact that the Red Devils sat in seventh place in the league when he left in December 2021 and will also be in seventh place at the start of Saturday's match tells you a lot about the success of that overhaul.
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