Manchester United Double winner Paul Ince believes there's three potential reasons why Michael Carrick quit last week.
Carrick resigned after the final game he was in charge at United as caretaker manager.
Ince told the Mirror: "I look at this three ways. I managed many a team. I always took Alex Rae with me who was my number two, a good friend of mine and a top coach
"Every time I left a club I said to Alan 'listen you stay, you take over the job and see if you like it'.
"But he has always said 'no, if you go I go' just out of pure loyalty.
"I am forever thankful for that. But when the news came up that Michael Carrick resigned, was it a situation where Solskjaer was the one that brought me in, who made me assistant and got me a new contract so it was always in his mind that he would go if Ole did. That's one option.
"Second option is you presume Solskjaer will want to get back on the horse eventually, whether that be in the Championship or another country. Is that the case Carrick can go join Ole again as his No.2.
"The third option is that he might have got the taste for it. He did ever so well in those three games. Let's not get carried away, but they were three important games. Villarreal, which they needed to win, the Chelsea draw and beating Arsenal. Those are three tough games.
"For him to go in and do so well with such little experience, he might be thinking 'I can do this job, I've got a taste for it. I don't want to work under someone, I want to find my own feet out there and see if I can get a job as a manager.'
"You see the likes of Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Wayne Rooney, all these top players that have gone into management and done reasonably well.
"He might think 'this is my time'. Those are the three options. Rangnick said he spoke to him for an hour to try and persuade him to stay. Ultimately, he resigned. It wasn't like Solskajer was sacked and got a massive payout. Michael Carrick resigned so he isn't entitled to any payout.
"That just shows what a proper human being he is, he could have easily stayed and played along with it. He has something in his mind that he feels he wants to experience."
