Manchester United had plenty of time to prepare for the loss of Michael Carrick, and yet there’s an argument the club is yet to replace the central midfielder.
There has been a significant turnover in Carrick’s position, beginning before his eventual retirement in 2018, but none of them have quite filled the hole left by the former West Ham and Tottenham man.
However, perhaps United can find the answer by looking a lot closer to home. In 2009, when Carrick started at centre-back as a makeshift XI beat Wolfsburg in the Champions League, Oliver Norwood got as close as he ever got to a United debut.
The teenager travelled with the first team to Germany, but while fellow academy graduates Oliver Gill and Magnus Wolff Eikrem were named among the
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