Carrick's career in numbers

What Premier League legends said

"He was like a Rolls-Royce, cruising around the football pitch." - Paul Scholes

"When you play with Michael Carrick you think there is authority, control, peace. Scholes and Carrick together was peaceful. It was like going into a bar and hearing a piano playing. It’s relaxing." - Gary Neville

"He’s one of the best holding midfielders I’ve ever seen in my life, by far." - Pep Guardiola

Watch Carrick in Premier League action

Did you know?

Since passing statistics began to be recorded in 2003/04, no player has completed more passes in a Premier League match for Man Utd than Carrick’s 135 v Crystal Palace in February 2014.

In 2012/13 Carrick completed 2,443 passes, the most by an English midfielder in a Premier League season, and the highest by a Man Utd player in a single campaign on record since 2003/04. 

Carrick ended on the winning side in 120 of his 157 home Man Utd appearances, an average of 76.4 per cent. This is the best win ratio of any player to play at least 150 home matches in the competition for Man Utd.