{"id":50,"date":"2026-04-01T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T10:30:54","slug":"man-utd-are-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/man-utd-are-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd are closing in on Champions League &#8211; how has Carrick done it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/99b31c40-2c64-11f1-934f-036468834728.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51\" srcset=\"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/99b31c40-2c64-11f1-934f-036468834728.jpg.webp 976w, https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/99b31c40-2c64-11f1-934f-036468834728.jpg-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/99b31c40-2c64-11f1-934f-036468834728.jpg-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 976px) 100vw, 976px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/manchester-united\"><strong>Manchester United<\/strong><\/a><strong>&#8216;s director of football Jason Wilcox addressed the club&#8217;s players after Ruben Amorim&#8217;s dismissal on 5 January and told them the aim was Champions League qualification, he was sending out a message.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After all, internally in their financial planning, and externally in communication with supporters, the stated target from the previous summer had been a return to European competition, most likely through the Europa League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wilcox was choosing to reinforce a point that just because Amorim had been sacked and a caretaker boss was being sought, it did not mean the season was being written off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When&nbsp;Manchester United&#8216;s director of football Jason Wilcox addressed the club&#8217;s players after Ruben Amorim&#8217;s dismissal on 5 January and told them the aim was Champions League qualification, he was sending out a message. After all, internally in their financial planning, and externally in communication with supporters, the stated target from the previous summer had been &#8230; <a title=\"Man Utd are closing in on Champions League &#8211; how has Carrick done it?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/man-utd-are-closing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Man Utd are closing in on Champions League &#8211; how has Carrick done it?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-man-utd-are-closing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightinspiretime.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}