3 Reasons Manchester United will miss Michael Carrick 

#2 His experience

Of course, part of the appeal about Carrick is all of the great players he has shared a pitch with. Training and playing in such close quarters with legendary players such as Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo is undoubtedly going to make you a better player.

Though it would be unfair to say that Carrick was carried by these players. He was in the team on his own merits.

Even though Carrick's career prior to joining United was certainly credible, playing for United took him to a whole new level. This is a player who has played in three Champions League finals and with some of the best players in the world for nearly a decade, so of course, losing an individual with his experience is going to be a loss.

Again the link to the present here is key, there is a lack of title-winning experience in United's line-up with De Gea, Valencia, Matic and Young the only regular first-team starters who have won the Premier League.

You could potentially include Chris Smalling as a first-team regular who has won the Premier League as well. The effect Carrick has on younger players such as Rashford, Martial and even Lukaku in a back-room role cannot be underestimated.

As previously stated, for all of Mourinho's faults and the criticism he's received, keeping Carrick at the club is one thing he's definitely got right.

To quantify Carrick's experience, he is the only English player (alongside Wayne Rooney) to have won every single major honor in the game. You could say that Carrick wouldn't have won those trophies without playing with Ronaldo, Ferdinand, Vidic among others. But his contribution to the success of Manchester United cannot be underestimated.