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More from Manchester United manager Michael Carrick: "The foundations of this football club and values have been etched down for many years.

"I totally understand and I get every single one of them. It comes down to being humble, to hard work and being really proud to live up to those values.

"There is a resilience about this football club that has been shown for a long, long time. Whether that's bouncing back from adversity, comebacks, late goals, sustaining success, there is a resilience to this football club that runs very, very deep."

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Manchester United manager Michael Carrick was asked if he considered taking the captaincy off Bruno Fernandes.

He refused to answer, saying instead that he would always do what was best for the football club.

Carrick also refused to say whether he had spoken to Fernandes or what was said in any private conversation.

Carrick has now stopped talking, but stick with us for his full quotes.

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More from Manchester United manager Michael Carrick:

"My responsibility is to get a team on the pitch that represents this football club, represents the supporters and they can be proud of it with the identity that we show.

"We have gone away from that just recently in certain games, which I'm fully aware of and definitely doing something about.

"I think it's important we all recognise that. I certainly recognise it. Our supporters of are the utmost importance to me and this football club.

"For them to feel like they felt for five months at the start of the year and have that about us, that connection and that real vigour, intensity and enjoyment and passion is something we need to get back to.

"We will get back to it. I fully believe that."

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In response to a question on players speaking out publicly, Manchester United manager Michael Carrick said that the dressing room was "not divided".

Full quotes to follow.

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Michael Carrick kicked off his news conference with an impassioned speech, speaking about his love for Manchester United for a good six minutes or so.

Watch back at the top of this page.

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Manchester United manager Michael Carrick: "I'll start today. I just want to say a few things, really.

"Recently, we haven't had a good time. I think that's pretty obvious. So I totally accept what we're going through at the moment.

"We had five months of relative success in a spell where I was happy with a lot of things I was seeing and that we were doing as a team.

"We haven't done well enough lately. We've had a spell that we're really not happy with.

"Wednesday was a bad night. It was a bad night for a lot of reasons. It hurt a lot.

"It obviously hurt me to see us play that way, to see how the game panned out. As I said after the game, it was really unacceptable.

"The supporters are a huge part of this football club. They have to make the effort and the time and money they spend, to feel how we all felt on Wednesday was a tough moment."

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Michael Carrick finished his opening statement by accepting the club has lost its way and it is his responsibility to lead it back on to the right path - "holding the umbrella for me to get wet and everyone else to stay dry".

More to follow.

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Manchester United manager Michael Carrick says the club will get back to their foundations with hard work.

He has been a part of the club's success in the past as a player, alongside greats like Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney, but it was never about the players, or even manager Sir Alex Ferguson, it was always "about the club".

His emotions are coming through and he says the club will not lose that spirit and players need to show what it means and respect what is needed to win, without entitlement, with hard work and sacrifice.

More to follow.

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Here we go, Manchester United manager Michael Carrick started talking without being asked a question, saying he totally accepts what the club is going through and that the team has not done well enough this season.

He said Wednesday's performance was unacceptable and hurt him.

Full quotes to follow.

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Michael Carrick's response to those Bruno Fernandes comments and the subsequent reaction from fans and pundits was already going to be interesting.

Antonio Conte's statement earlier today, in reference to reports in Italy suggesting he wanted "full powers" to take over Carrick's role at United, adds further intrigue.

Conte has said that he is in "no negotiations at an advanced stage" and would need "conditions to be right" in his next role.

You can watch Carrick's news conference live, using the play icon at the top of this page.

The United manager is scheduled to face the media from 13:30 BST.

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A lot has been made of Bruno Fernandes' comments after the loss at Como and while Michael Carrick will no doubt be asked about them again this afternoon, he has already responded.

In his post-match news conference following the 4-1 defeat in Italy, he appeared to have a little dig back at his captain.

Asked about Fernandes' criticism, the United boss said: "There's a little bit of whatever system you play, whatever tactics you play, if you don't run, and you don't run forward, and you don't run back, you aren't going to win."

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Andy Mitten, editor of United We Stand, told BBC 5 Live Breakfast that Bruno Fernandes has "thrown his coach under the bus".

"It's a terrible look," he said.

"And Manchester United fans are divided as to whether he should or should not do that. Last week, Martinez was also critical. A lot of Manchester United fans agreed with him.

"Again, there's mitigation, he wants a new contract. That's because he's not been playing enough, because he's been injured. And injuries are a real problem for Manchester United. There's no recognised centre-forward. So it is a really difficult time for United."

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Former Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney said he was in "shock" and "disbelief" at the performance against Como and he is as "worried as I've been for a long time" at the situation at Old Trafford.

Rooney also called the players "selfish" and said "they're like babies" in the wake of the controversial comments from both Lisandro Martinez and Bruno Fernandes.

"When Martinez came out, I said this is an absolute nightmare because it will rip the dressing room apart," Rooney told the United Stand podcast.

"That was the start. We've seen it now with Bruno and you're going to see it with more players because they don't want to take responsibility.

"You can say whether Bruno was right or wrong in what he said but you have to take responsibility on the pitch. You have to take responsibility as a group of players.

"These players, they're selfish. They don't care about their team-mates, don't care about the manager, the staff or the fans, they care about themselves.

"If they're not getting what's right for them, they're like babies and just throw their toys out of the pram and go and deflect the blame on to anyone else but themselves."

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Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher, working as a pundit on CBS Sports, on Bruno Fernandes' comments: "He's reacted like that because he's been embarrassed by the manager [who] brought him off.

"And when he talks about pressing, whether it's man-to-man or zonal, for years, Bruno Fernandes has meant Manchester United can't press because he does things for the crowd.

"He runs all over the place like a kid in the schoolyard for the supporters. They all think he's working hard. He's not. He's killing the rest of the team doing it.

"Watching him throw his arms up every week in a game is an absolute disgrace [and] calling the manager out considering how he's performed this season on the pitch.

"[It's an] awful attitude and not what a Manchester United captain should be."

Simon Stone
BBC Sport Manchester United reporter

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Bruno Fernandes will remain as Manchester United captain and will not be disciplined for his post-match criticism of Michael Carrick after the 4-1 Champions League defeat by Como.

The United skipper criticised Carrick's tactics for the game, then said it was up to the United head coach and his backroom team, not the players, to spot any issues and change them.

It was seen by many externally as a challenge to Carrick's authority, just eight days after United defender Lisandro Martinez criticised director of football Jason Wilcox and the club's summer recruitment.

Inside Old Trafford, there is sympathy for Fernandes for the position he found himself in.

The Portugal midfielder did 10 post-match interviews in Como, despite being replaced by Joshua Zirkzee midway through the second half.

While there is disappointment at some of his comments, it is acknowledged Fernandes' annoyance was understandable given the manner of the loss, which was one of the worst in United's European history.

It remains to be seen whether Fernandes will be picked for Sunday's Premier League encounter with Bournemouth at Old Trafford.