Jamie Carragher’s brutal advice to Casemiro as he rips into Manchester United’s coaching staff

Jamie Carragher told Manchester United midfielder Casemiro to call time on his career at the highest level of the game, as he claimed the Brazil is no longer capable of playing for a top team after a disastrous performance in the 4-0 defeat against Crystal Palace.

Casemiro has struggled throughout this season, yet the 32-year-old stood out for all the wrong reasons as United were humiliated by Palace, with Carragher pulling no punches as he suggested the five-time Champions League winning midfielder needs to accept his time is up on a night when he played as a stand-in centre-back.

“Casemiro should know tonight as an experienced player that he should only have another three games left at the top level – the next two league games and the FA Cup final – then go to the MLS or Saudi,” Carragher told Sky Sports.

“I’m deadly serious. His agent, the team of people around him, they have to tell him: this has to stop. We are watching one of the greats of the modern times, playing in the best midfields we have seen who have dominated Europe – him holding, (Toni) Kroos and (Luka) Modric alongside him.

“I am nowhere near on what that man has achieved, winning Champions League, playing for Brazil and Real Madrid.

“But I always remember something when I retired myself, there’s a saying I always remember: Leave the football, before the football leaves you. The football has left him at this top level. He has to call it a day and move.

“They should pay him off and do some sort of deal. But that sort of a player, should not be put through this. By Crystal Palace. He’s not playing Manchester City or Real Madrid, all due to respect to Crystal Palace.

“A man of that level should not go what he’s going through and has to call it a day.”

United manager Erik ten Hag insisted his side’s disastrous performance was not just down to Casemiro, as he accepted his entire team under-performed.

“You can’t put this to one player. It’s a team performance,” insisted Ten Hag.

“The throw-in where you concede the first goal, that shouldn’t happen and that is as a team because we don’t follow their rules.

“We don’t adapt to the different situations to organise, to keep control in those situations. Five players over the ball and they have a throw-in, it is not possible.”

“There are always reasons and everyone sees our backline and we have huge problems. At the end of the day, we have to deal with it and we should have done better than we did.”

Carragher went on to describe United as ‘the worst coached team in the Premier League’ as he stated the hammering at Palace could have happened numerous occasions this season.

“That score should have happened at Brentford a few weeks ago don’t forget,” he added.

“We’ve seen that a lot this season and a lot of the time United get away with it, with the goalkeeper making saves. He didn’t tonight.

“No Manchester United team should be losing 4-0 to Crystal Palace.

“I get the injury issues, but Manchester United’s under-23s will have been coached, come through the academy and taught how to play. I think if Manchester United’s under-23s played against Crystal Palace tonight, they still wouldn’t have lost 4-0.”

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