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\t<\/div>Ryan Giggs has urged Michael Carrick to sign Adam Wharton this summer, claiming that the Crystal Palace midfielder already \u2018looks like a Manchester United player\u2019.<\/p>\n
United are in the market to sign a new central midfielder this summer with Casemiro due to leave Old Trafford at the end of the season.<\/p>\n
Giggs believes Wharton, who is valued at \u00a370 million by Palace, should be one of United\u2019s priorities in the summer window but insists his former club should sign two midfielders, with Elliot Anderson from Nottingham Forest a prime candidate.<\/p>\n
\u2018First of all we\u2019ve got to deal with our players who have gone out on loan, Rashford, Sancho, Hojlund, we\u2019ve got all them to deal with, but the priority is definitely midfield, I can see definitely two,\u2019 Giggs said in an interview with Webby & O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n
\u2018It looks like Mainoo is going to stay, Casemiro is going to go, Ugarte is going to go, and we need to strengthen midfield without a shadow of a doubt.<\/p>\n \u2018I always like a left-footer in the team so I wouldn\u2019t argue with Wharton, I think he looks, to me, like a Man United player.<\/p>\n Metro<\/strong>‘s weekly newsletter In The Mixer delivers punchy analysis and breakdowns of the biggest football stories directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n Sign up here, it’s an open goal.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018Somebody who can handle the ball, passes forward, runs forward, Premier League experience, all of them have got Premier League experience, so I wouldn\u2019t be against that.<\/p>\n \u2018Anderson I like as well, solid player. Plays every game, I can see a Wharton and Mainoo, an Anderson and Wharton, I can see all of those scenarios, it just depends, British players are a lot of money and what we\u2019re able to spend. But we need two midfielders.\u2019<\/p>\n Giggs has also urged United\u2019s hierarchy to keep Carrick as manager and to not look at alternatives such as Luis Enrique, Julian Nagelsmann or Oliver Glasner.<\/p>\n \u2018The hardest thing in the world as a manager is to win games and he\u2019s doing that, we\u2019ve lost one game,\u2019 Giggs said.<\/p>\n \u2018Not only that, just the feeling around the place, we were going to games and watching games not knowing what we were going to get. It\u2019s all changed now, fans are coming to games now or watching TV thinking, \u2018right, we\u2019ve got a massive chance here\u2019.<\/p>\n \u2018We\u2019re looking up now rather than down \u2013 can we catch City?<\/p>\n \u2018The turnaround has been amazing. I think we were all like, well I was, \u2018we need seven or eight players\u2019, to now maybe needing three or four in the summer, which is more achievable than seven or eight players.<\/p>\n \u2018There\u2019s no\u2026 I can\u2019t see past Michael at the moment, I just can\u2019t.<\/p>\n \u2018I think he\u2019s brought a calmness, I think he\u2019ll bring in Man United players because he knows the club.<\/p>\n \u2018Give him time I think he goes from strength to strength.\u2019<\/p>\n For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on ![\"England's](\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SEI_291197704-5f81.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646\")
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