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Middlesbrough finalise their managerial shortlist and fans go viral with reaction to Carrick’s exit

Middlesbrough finalise their managerial shortlist, and fans go viral with their reaction to Michael Carrick’s exit.

Interviews start next week, with there being no rush as pre-season preparations get set to begin in around a month.

The Northern Echo report that the current candidates for the job include Steve Cooper (ex-Nottingham Forest/Leicester), despite his preference for abroad, Rob Edwards (ex-Luton, linked via Boro’s recruitment team), Gary O’Neil (former Boro midfielder, unemployed), and Danny Rohl (Sheffield Wednesday, requiring compensation). Robbie Keane is not a contender.

Some quotes from the fan reaction to Carrick’s exit, which has gone on to get over 1.6 million views and thousands of likes:

“I feel over the moon. I’m glad he’s gone. He hadn’t got a clue.”

“Oh, what? Oh, well, never mind.”

“I’m good at actually because I quite like Michael Carrick. He’s good.”

“He should have been given another year at least.”

“Just really shame, but hope we got somebody better and do well next season.”

“Who do you get though? This is the thing. It’s alright sacking them, but how do you get to take the place? It’s just a merry-go-round of managers isn’t it?

“I know who I’d have. Jurgen Klopp.”

“I’d go for Sheffield Wednesday’s manager.”

“If you don’t have money to spend on players, who’s gonna come to the club?”

“I want Tony Mowbray to come back.”

“If they don’t get somebody who’s passionate about the area and the fans, it’s not gonna work, is it?”

“I’m sure we’re end up with someone.”

FAVOURITES TO BECOME NEW MIDDLESBROUGH MANAGER:

Sky Bet – 6th June
Steve Cooper – 1/1
Rob Edwards – 2/1
Danny Röhl – 7/2
Jon Dahl Tomasson – 4/1
Brian Priske – 9/2
Sean Dyche – 6/1
Gary O’Neil – 12/1

BetVictor – 6th June
Rob Edwards – 6/4
Steve Cooper – 5/2
Sean Dyche – 3/1
Jan Dahl Tomasson – 4/1
Roger Schmidt – 8/1
Danny Rohl – 8/1

Mark Drury, BBC Radio Tees Middlesbrough commentator

Middlesbrough’s decision to sack Carrick may surprise some outside Teesside but one thing it can’t be described as is a knee-jerk reaction.

A month has passed since Boro’s 2-0 defeat at Coventry on the final day of the Championship season.

That loss was their 18th of a desperately disappointing season and was followed by the head coach insisting “I’m carrying on” in his BBC Radio Tees Sport post-match interview.

Many Boro fans had come to the conclusion he would be doing just that as the days and weeks ticked by without any sign of white smoke from the club’s Rockliffe Park training ground. However, that silence was not indicative of inaction.

Boro’s hierarchy had let it be known they would be conducting an in-depth review into the reasons a season where promotion had been targeted and budgeted for ended in a failure to reach the play-offs despite an unusually low points total – the lowest for a decade – being required to make them.

They were as good as their word, conducting a series of meetings, a number of which involved the head coach, while trying to block out the chorus of disapproval from a fan base which had largely become disenchanted and detached by the season’s end.

There will be a sense of sadness on Teesside that Carrick was unable to follow up on the promise of his first season when some of the football left fans purring. That sadness will be weighed against the reality the club have gone backwards in the seasons since.

Attention now will be on who comes next? Rob Edwards is known to be highly-rated by head of football Kieran Scott while Sheffield Wednesday’s Danny Rohl will be of interest to any Championship club without a manager after his sterling work at Hillsborough.

It is now 10 years since Boro’s last promotion to the Premier League. The next manager needs to be the one who brings that long wait to an end.

More of Mark Drury’s full analysis on Carrick’s departure HERE

Twitter users reacted as Middlesbrough finalise their managerial shortlist and fans go viral with their reaction to Carrick’s exit…

@DCFCcammm: Nothing can prepare you for 23 seconds in

@_mattyholt: Quite nothing can prepare you for who this Boro fan wants as Michael Carrick’s replacement at 00:25 😭

@GoldSportsVIP: I admire the optimism of the guy that said Jurgen Klopp 😂😂😂😂 Dream big or go home. 💪

@ArsenalTrader78: Klopp 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@gempopmoo: Klopp 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 whatever this guys having i want some

@Wrexhamed: Why hadn’t anyone else thought of Klopp!? 🤣

@MissKaKaCarter: Timing was unfortunate, Carlo Ancelotti has signed for Brazil. He’d have done a good job for the Boro.

@westmelgeordie: Ffs. Stop wanting our old managers / players to come back

@Rob_Whittaker1: The guy at 26 seconds saying he wants Klopp to go to Middlesbrough 😂😂😂

@JL_1872: Jump to 23 seconds and tell me you could see that coming… 😂😂😂 Mutants.

@JLTLUFC: Jesus Christ 😭

@BobHammond2: I’m loving the optimism of the Middlesbrough fan asking for Jurgen Klopp to be appointed as the new manager.

@MCFCjxck: Old guy spot on about the merry go round. Championship clubs keep hiring the same dogshit managers and wondering why they don’t get promoted

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