A big day ahead for Michael Carrick and Manchester United.

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Manchester United will hold a meeting at Carrington early next week to discuss Michael Carrick's future.

Acccording to TEAMtalk, director of football Jason Wilcox will hold the meeting and deciding Carrick’s fate will be top of the agenda.

United have assessed potential replacements, including Eddie Howe, Julian Nagelsmann, Antonio Conte and Unai Emery.

Wilcox is understood to have significant influence over the outcome, having previously backed Carrick.

The Athletic’s David Ornstein is unsure if Michael Carrick will be sacked by Manchester United.

Ornstein said on NBC Sports, before today’s game: “I think the truth here at Old Trafford is that they do want Michael Carrick to succeed.

“If they wanted to remove him and make a change, I think they would’ve already done it by now and found an interim solution.

“And with that result in midweek against Roma, there was a bit of improved spirit, and let’s see what happens against Villa today.

“Think the truth is, there isn’t a firm plan here at Old Trafford for what to do if they were to make a change.

“No doubt they would’ve had conversations with representatives in recent weeks, and they’ll have more time to do so over the international break.

“A disastrous result today and maybe you think there will be a change, but as things stand, they’re continuing with Michael Carrick.

“I don’t know of a clear alternative plan.”

Manchester United legend has been on pundit duty for NBC Sports.

"Michael Carrick did that last season - so you can paper over the cracks and get a new manager bounce,” Neville told NBC Sports. "When the new manager comes in, everybody's happy for a couple of months and all of a sudden, six months later, it happens again.

"You can keep changing the manager and thinking that's going to be the answer. But this has been proven now over eight managers in 12 years, that's not the answer.

"Michael could leave, Michael might stay, we don't know, the ownership don't have a clue what to do.

"It's rinse and repeat. Amorim, Ten Hag, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Carrick, Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal, David Moyes, Ralf Rangnick - some of them are world class managers who have had success, there are a lot of promising young managers there, ex players who know the club as well.

"None of it has worked because if you recruit badly, if you've got poor performance department, poor recruitment department, you've not got leadership that is strong right through the spine of the football club you will fail.

“Every organisation in the world will fail if you've not got an aligned leadership from top to bottom - your board and your ownership right the way through to the person who is stood on the pitch trying to play football.

"There are real issues within that football club, you've got people doing those jobs who have never done those jobs before in senior positions."

Big movement in the betting markets, as Mauricio Pochettino is stormed into favouritism to replace Michael Carrick.

(Odds via MGMBET, subject to change.)

Michael Carrick was asked directly by Sky Sports if he expects to have talks over his future.

It got a bit awkward.

Sky Sports: What do you expect to happen? Clearly there’s going to be conversation?

Carrick:“Is there?

Sky Sports: You would assume so really?

Carrick: “Would you? ... You’re telling me, what do you think?”

Sky Sports: I’m asking you, Michael. What do you think?

Carrick: “You know the situation, we haven’t won enough games.

“But I expect to move forward with things we’ve been working on, showing a lot of the good from today tighten up a few mistakes and win some football matches.”

As per reports, Manchester United's football operations leadership, chief executive Omar Berrada and director of football Jason Wilcox hold all the power with regards to Carrick’s future.

Taking into account that Carrick held crisis talks with Berrada and Wilcox after the Bournemouth game, they would all - along with minority shareholder Sir Jim Ratcliffe - be expected to meet at Carrington following the Villa fixture.

Michael Carrick has been speaking to BBC Sport.

“[We’re] making it hard for ourselves. Again, I thought a lot of the performances were very good. We made it challenging for ourselves. Mistakes that the boss knows shouldn't happen.

“We built our way back into the game and played well, we probably should score more than we did today. The goals are coming from individual mistakes. We need to tighten up.

"I thought we were the better team. We played some very good football and got back into the game. Two goals again put us on the back foot. In the end, we could have even won it.

“[At the end I thought] if we get one, then anything can happen. We never gave up and never stopped believing.

Roy Keane has sent a message to Manchester United fans after Sunday's 4-4 draw with Aston Villa left the club in the Premier League relegation zone.

On the pitch, Man Utd found themselves 2-0 down after four minutes, and then 4-2 down before the hour mark, but the players were applauded off by some on Sunday after a thrilling fightback.

Whether the point is enough for Carrick to keep his job remains to be seen, with Man Utd languishing in 18th place in the standings.

But the main focus of the supporters' ire was the Glazers, co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and director of football Jason Wilcox.

Speaking after the game, Keane acknowledged and praised the fans.

"Manchester United fans get criticised a lot, but I think United fans are really fair supporters, I really do," he said on Sky Sports.

"They're fair with the players. We saw at the Bournemouth game the players were getting booed off. They gave them a round of applause here because the players gave a little bit of something back.

"That's the minimum you should be giving the supporters.

It’s a two-horse race between Crystal Palace’s Pierre Sage and Man Utd’s Michael Carrick to see who gets sacked first.

(Odds via SkyBet, subject to change.)