Carrick’s deal at the Riverside Stadium doesn’t expire until 2025, but Boro want to seal their manager’s long-term future at the club.
Before the season ends, Middlesbrough and Michael Carrick are expected to begin negotiations on a new long-term contract, according to Teamtalk.
Although Carrick’s current contract at Riverside Stadium expires in 2025, Boro chairman Steve Gibson is reportedly eager to reward Carrick for the team’s recent strong performance and guarantee his long-term stay at the club.
After serving as a caretaker manager for three games in November 2021 as a member of Manchester United’s coaching staff, Carrick’s position at Boro is his first senior management position that is permanent.
Why do Middlesbrough want to extend Michael Carrick’s contract?
Signing a new deal at the club would give both Carrick and the club some security over his future. The former Manchester United man has impressed as Boro boss, taking the club to the play-offs last season and to 10th this season, just two points off the play-offs, despite a poor start to the campaign.
Carrick took over from Chris Wilder in October 2022, when the club were 21st in the table and looked to be in a relegation battle. He almost immediately turned things around, taking Boro to an impressive 4th place finish, where they just fell short to Coventry in the play-offs. Despite this, the ex-Manchester United man had proved himself as the man for Boro going forward.
Carrick has been widely linked with former club West Ham United if David Moyes were to get the sack. The former midfielder spent seven years at the East London club after joining their academy in 1997. Given his links with the club, he may prove a popular appointment if Moyes were to leave and could take the club in a different direction with a long-term project.
Journalist Dean Jones told Give Me Sport that West Ham will be looking to take a different managerial approach when Moyes leaves and that Carrick is on their radar. He said, “My expectation would be that they look to be forward-thinking. Unless West Ham suddenly find themselves in crisis and need crisis management, that’s the only time I could see them going for somebody with huge experience as their next appointment.
“I would expect them to go for somebody who’s younger, more forward-thinking and more in tune with the way that the game is heading in the next 10 years rather than how it’s been for the last 10 years. That’s what I would be thinking
“Carrick is a really interesting one, but we have to see which direction his career goes in right now. But he’s definitely somebody who is on West Ham’s radar.”
Given West Ham’s alleged interest in Carrick, it’s crucial that Boro get him tied down long-term, and Steve Gibson has begun those steps to do so.
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