Jamie Carragher urged Casemiro to ‘name it a day at this stage of soccer’ after his stunning efficiency in Manchester United’s 4-0 defeat at Crystal Palace.
Casemiro was straight at fault for one among Palace’s 4 targets and turned in a horrible show on the coronary heart of United’s defence, filling in at centre-back once more attributable to their damage disaster.
Although a formidable performer for essentially the most half throughout his debut 2022/23 marketing campaign at Outdated Trafford, the Brazilian’s type has fallen off a cliff this season.
Throughout Sky Sports activities‘ Monday Night time Soccer protection of United’s newest loss, former Liverpool defender Carragher delivered a scathing criticism of Casemiro.
“I mentioned at half-time he [Erik ten Hag] has received to carry Casemiro off, I do know he is received children on the bench,” Carragher started. “However I believe Casemiro, lethal critical, ought to know tonight as an skilled participant that he ought to solely have one other three video games left on the prime stage, the subsequent two league video games and the cup remaining, after which he must be considering, ‘I must go to the MLS or Saudi’.
“I am lethal critical. His agent, the workforce of individuals round him, they should inform him, ‘this has to cease’.
“We’re watching one of many greats of the trendy occasions, enjoying in one of the best midfields we have now seen who’ve dominated Europe – him holding, [Toni] Kroos and [Luka] Modric alongside him, may simply go up in opposition to that Barcelona midfield that all of us loves of [Sergio] Busquets, [Andres] Iniesta and Xavi. He is been an absolute nice.
“I’m nowhere close to on what that man has achieved, successful Champions Legaue, enjoying for Brazil and enjoying for Actual Madrid. However I all the time keep in mind one thing after I retired myself, there is a saying I all the time keep in mind as a footballer, ‘go away the soccer, earlier than the soccer leaves you’. The soccer has left him at this prime stage. He has to name it a day at this stage of soccer and transfer.”
Shifting Casemiro this summer time may show difficult for United given his reported £350,000-a-week wages, whereas he additionally has one other yr left to run on his contract.
Carragher added: “‘He’d have made a proper few quid and good luck to him. They pay him off and do some kind of deal. However that stage of that participant, he shouldn’t be placing himself via this.
“He’s too good of a participant to place in a efficiency like that and being laughed at by Crystal Palace. He is not enjoying Manchester Metropolis or Actual Madrid, with all attributable to respect to Crystal Palace.
“A person of that stage shouldn’t be going via what he is going via now and he must name it a day.”