Paul Scholes names ‘perfect’ manager for Man Utd and snubs Michael Carrick | Football

Paul Scholes insists Michael Carrick has done a ‘great job’ at Manchester United but still believes there is a better option to become the club’s permanent manager.

Carrick has won six of his seven games in charge of United since being hired as caretaker manager following the sacking of Ruben Amorim in January.

The ex-United midfielder remains unbeaten and has taken the Red Devils up to third in the Premier League table, above top-four rivals Aston Villa, Liverpool and Chelsea.

Scholes has described Manchester United’s transformation as ‘unbelievable’ and insists his former teammate Carrick is ‘putting real pressure’ on the Old Trafford owners to get the job on a permanent basis.

Carrick’s return was only expected to be temporary but United’s recent resurgence has convinced many pundits and fans that he should be handed the reins on a full-time basis.

Scholes wants to see how Carrick deals with a period of ‘adversity’ before endorsing him for the job, however, and believes the ‘perfect’ candidate is Carlo Ancelotti.

Currently preparing to take Brazil into this summer’s World Cup, Ancelotti is one of the most decorated managers of all time, winning titles in England, Italy, Spain, France and Germany and lifting five Champions Leagues.

‘Michael Carrick is doing great, it’s unbelievable the change,’ Scholes said on The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast. ‘If you put yourself in the owner’s shoes or whoever is making the decision, he’s putting real pressure on them to get the job.

‘The people making that decision might have to think about it a little bit differently because I don’t think you need the most technical or talented coach.

‘You’re at a big club with good players who know what they’re doing, maybe they need a man-manager more than anything.

‘If you look back to Sir Alex [Ferguson] he was never a coach really but he knew the players, he knew what the players needed and how to treat players to get the best out of them.

‘If you look at Real Madrid with Carlo Ancelotti, Zinedine Zidane, I don’t think they’re the most technical or tactical coaches but they’re good man-managers.

‘Ruben Amorim seemed obsessed with tactics and it didn’t work, Xabi Alonso seemed the same at Real Madrid. Do those type of big clubs need those coaches or a more man-manager?

‘I don’t know what Michael’s coaching style is like but I can imagine as a man-manager he’s very good because he’s brilliant with people and players.

‘The question over Michael is does he have the experience? I know he’s managed in the Championship but this is obviously different.