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Cape Town - Manchester United striker Romelu Lukaku
has heaped praise on Michael Carrick for helping him improve his game
with one-on-one training sessions.
Carrick hung up his boots at United this past season after a 12-year spell at the club as a defensive midfielder. However, he joined manager Jose Mourinho's backroom staff this year and has been helping players with video sessions since January.
Lukaku believes Carrick's input has been invaluable for him as a player and has helped improve his game immeasurably due to the Englishman's impressive attention to detail.
"Michael, I want to say a big thank-you for what you've done for me since January," he told MUTV.
"I mean, not a lot of people will know that now we do video sessions after every single game to prepare for the next game and, like I've said, sometimes you think those video sessions don't help me going forward. But they do because I became a better player and I became a better version of myself.
"I think it also starts in training when we do the extra bits and the extra exercises to become a better player. Your eye for detail really helped me a lot more. I've had a lot of mentors in my young career and you're certainly one of them."
