Michael Carrick's first Man United team was leaked over an hour before it was due to be released on Saturday morning. It's not a good thing but let's move on and go to the next one and see if they find the next starting XI.' But the mole appears to have come again after Samuel Luckhurst, United correspondent at The Sun newspaper, shared the lineup before Saturday's Manchester Derby. 'It is unclear if that leaked XI is accurate or deliberately incorrect. In the past, some inaccurate United XIs have leaked in an attempt to unearth the source,' Luckhurst wrote alongside Carrick's teamsheet.

Source: Daily Mail January 17, 2026 13:06 UTC