Man Utd can win Premier League next season - Mount

For now, though, he is fully focused on the playing side.

Mount praise for calm Carrick and under the radar Holland

First, United need to complete their Champions League quest, although their place will be secure anyway if neither Brighton nor Bournemouth win this weekend.

Then the club must decide who the new manager will be.

As he played so much under Amorim and not as much under Carrick, Mount could be forgiven for being ambivalent about who his boss is.

That is not the reality.

"He's been brilliant for me," he said of Carrick.

"As a midfielder, I looked up to him when he played. He was an absolute maestro which is something I've always looked to do.

"It was difficult at the beginning because Michael came in and I got injured, so I missed a few games.

"But he said: 'I want you back, you're a massive part of the team and when you're around the lads you obviously have a big effect', so I know where I stand within the group.

"It's not my call but I really like the way he works; the way he sees the game.

"He's very level-headed. Very calm, very knowledgeable about the game.

"He knows what he wants going into games. He will do his analysis on the opposition and talk us through it on the pitch.

"We're in a really good place. You can see that from the way we play and how we've performed since he's been in.

"Even in big games where we've probably written off a little bit, we've come up with massive performances that have really kicked us on."

Mount may only have watched Carrick from a distance before but he knew all about his assistant Steve Holland from working with him at Chelsea and England.

In a coaching team relatively light on experience, Holland seems to be the glue that keeps it together.

Mount is a huge fan, and recalls a story from the early days of Carrick's reign - his first two matches were against Manchester City and Arsenal - as an example of what the 55-year-old brings.

"He's got such a football brain," he said.

"If he sees something, he'll know what to say, and he's not afraid to say it.

"In either the first or second game after they took charge, he was taking a team talk and saying: 'Look we're going to win – we're going to win this game.' That was the confidence from day one.

"There's probably not many in world football that have his resume and his experience, is there?

"Maybe he goes under the radar a little bit but he is very tactically astute.

"He's always there to give the gaffer a few tips on positionings or if he sees something that needs to get changed, he will say it.

"They're always talking, which is super important.

"The last game, I'm on the bench and the gaffer will come back and speak to Steve and get his opinion on things.

"It's been very clear. Everyone knows what they're needed to do."