{"id":463350,"date":"2011-07-18T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/18\/michael-carrick-urges-manchester-united-team-mates-to-step-up-to-fill-void-left-by-paul-scholes\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:21:00","slug":"michael-carrick-urges-manchester-united-team-mates-to-step-up-to-fill-void-left-by-paul-scholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/18\/michael-carrick-urges-manchester-united-team-mates-to-step-up-to-fill-void-left-by-paul-scholes\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick urges Manchester United team-mates to step up to fill void left by Paul Scholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Adithya Ananth<\/h3>\n<h4>18 Jul 2011 14:21:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"66.8604368932\">\n<div readability=\"12.1081081081\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael Carrick(Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/u.goal.com\/115400\/115452_news.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Michael Carrick(Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p><span readability=\"34.8108108108\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/manchester-united\">Manchester United<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/6910\/michael-carrick\">Michael Carrick<\/a> believes that the squad must collectively step up to fill the gap left by the retired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/england\/1950\/paul-scholes\">Paul Scholes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old insists that instead of one player improving to emerge as a replacement, the whole team should up their game to bridge the gap, much as they did when Cristiano Ronaldo left to join Real Madrid in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Losing a player like Paul is a loss &#8211; he brings so much to the team,&#8221; Carrick told the club&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a world-class player, so you have to compensate in other ways.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have done that in the past &#8211; we lost Cristiano Ronaldo a few years ago and people didn&#8217;t think we&#8217;d get over it. But different players step up &#8211; maybe it is not one player but we share the responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apart from Scholes&#8217; retirement, United have also had to deal with Edwin van der Sar and Gary Neville calling time on their careers, while veterans John O&#8217;Shea and Wes Brown have been sold to Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p>David de Gea, Ashley Young and Phil Jones have come in as replacements to the experienced players who have left the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are always confident, especially after winning the league,&#8221; Carrick said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The manager always strengthens when he feels it is right and in positions he feels need strengthening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We trust him totally with that and we believe we have a chance this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2896\/premier-league\/2011\/07\/18\/2580146\/michael-carrick-urges-manchester-united-team-mates-to-step-up-to-\" title=\"Michael Carrick urges Manchester United team-mates to step up to fill void left by Paul Scholes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Carrick urges Manchester United team-mates to step up to fill void left by Paul Scholes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Adithya Ananth 18 Jul 2011 14:21:00 Michael Carrick(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick believes that the squad must collectively step up to fill the gap left by the retired Paul Scholes . The 29-year-old insists that instead of one player improving to emerge as a replacement, the whole team should up their game to bridge the gap, much as they did when Cristiano Ronaldo left to join Real Madrid in 2009. &#8220;Losing a player like Paul is a loss &#8211; he brings so much to the team,&#8221; Carrick told the club&#8217;s official website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Michael Carrick urges Manchester United team-mates to step up to fill void left by Paul Scholes - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/18\/michael-carrick-urges-manchester-united-team-mates-to-step-up-to-fill-void-left-by-paul-scholes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Michael Carrick urges Manchester United team-mates to step up to fill void left by Paul Scholes - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Adithya Ananth 18 Jul 2011 14:21:00 Michael Carrick(Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Manchester United midfielder Michael Carrick believes that the squad must collectively step up to fill the gap left by the retired Paul Scholes . 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