Michael Carrick says Man Utd will ‘wait and see’ as transfer deadline looms

Michael Carrick admits Manchester United could be active before the transfer deadline and says Marcus Rashford feels like a new signing after the returning forward helped secure a 5-2 win against Ipswich.

Having kicked off their Premier League campaign with a shock 2-0 loss at Hull, the Red Devils overcame a shaky start against another promoted side to roar to a much-needed Old Trafford victory.

Leif Davis put Ipswich ahead on Sunday but United capitalised on a slip to level through Bruno Fernandes, before Harry Maguire survived a VAR check for handball when his effort went in off Jacob Greaves.

Skipper Fernandes scored two more to complete his hat-trick and then set up Bryan Mbeumo to add gloss on a day that ended with Chuba Akpom scoring a consolation goal for the visitors.

“It’s a week in football, isn’t it?” head coach Carrick said. “The ups and downs.

“The biggest pleasing thing for me was, we spoke about actually in the week, about dealing with setbacks, really.

“If you want to be a good team and a successful team, every team gets beat or you’ve got to deal with setbacks in certain ways – whether that’s momentum in the game, whether that’s a goal in the game, whether that’s losing a game or a run of games, whatever it may be. You’ve got to deal with the setback.”

United managed that after Luke Shaw was all too easily beaten by Abdul Fatawu to cross for Davis to give Ipswich the advantage and highlight United’s left-back issues.

An addition in that area is among the possibilities before Tuesday’s transfer deadline – a point many at the start of the window predicted Rashford would have left by.

Instead, the 28-year-old has parked any frustration about Barcelona not making his loan permanent to return to the fold,