Managers react to Manchester City’s guilty verdict: ‘Uncertainty is not good for anyone’

United manager Carrick rues missing out on ‘emotion in the moment’ while Iraola’s players are focusing on next game, not the fallout Michael Carrick has said retrospectively receiving a winner’s medal would not make up for being robbed of emotional moments of glory by Manchester City’s breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules. Manchester United’s manager was part of the squad that lost out on the Premier League title to City on the final day of the 2011-12 season when Sergio Agüero scored a last-minute winner to secure top spot on goal difference. Carrick and his United teammates were left solemn on the touchline at Sunderland while City, found guilty of breaking financial rules during a nine-year-period between 2009 and 2018, celebrated.

“The emotion, the feeling about winning, a lot of it is in the moment,” Carrick said. “Whether you’re successful, whether you lose, whether it goes against you, That initial [feeling], the beauty of sport and the beauty of football and the beauty of trying to win trophies here, is a little bit on the journey towards it and then the finale, and does it go for you, does it go against you. “Once that’s done, there’s no getting that back in any direction. The feeling we all crave is coming out on top – that kind of sums