Former Manchester United star and first team coach Michael Carrick has revealed that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer urged him to take the manager's role at the club.

When Solskjaer lost the head coaching job in 2021, he told his assistant Carrick to take on the job until the end of the season.

However, Carrick only remained as caretaker for a few games, before departing United for a sabbatical.

"I didn't just take the job and forget about Ole," Middlesbrough boss Carrick told the Daily Mail.

"He was the first one I spoke to.

“He said, 'You have to take it, 100 per cent', because that's the man he is. I've the utmost respect for him."

He added on his time at United as a coach: "It probably gets lost how well we were doing. Finishing second and third was a great achievement at that time. We were in finals and semi-finals but, at United, you've got to win. We hit a bump in the last couple of months. People jump on it and things can unravel."