Every word of Michael Carrick’s Sunderland embargoed press conference

On the permanent manager role The first question was “would you expect an absolute full kind of process of recruitment and for interviews for whoever’s in for [the permanent manager’s job]”? Carrick replied: “It’s a process. I think it’s pretty obvious it’s going to be a process, and that was from the outset in terms of finding someone to fill the position ultimately in the end.

” The reporter continued, “you’ve kind of exceeded expectations, so you know it’s happened before that an interim has done well and would get the job. ” He answered: “Yeah, a lot’s happened before in all sorts of different ways, whether it’s interim getting the job, not getting the job, whether it’s having success or not success. So I think past’s the past, really, and I’ve learned from the past, I’ve learned from my own experiences, but there’s mixed throughout history in football.

” “So I think to compare all the other things and how it’s gone before, I think it doesn’t necessarily give you a good gauge of what’s going on now and what needs to happen next. And that’s not me personally, I just think that’s the situation where it’s at right now. ” He was then asked “Is it difficult, is it unnerving for you in the job at the moment to see that job kind of being discussed externally with other candidates?

” “No, genuinely no,” he said. “Whether it’s discussed or not discussed, it hasn’t bothered me, hasn’t changed literally how I go about it, you know. Confident in the work that we’re doing and working with the players and leading the club.