Manchester United players and staff reportedly fear that Amazon Prime's documentary cameras are contributing to their early-season struggles. The club is the focus of the latest instalment of All or Nothing, the fly-on-the-wall series, following a deal worth more than £10million.
A crew is following Michael Carrick's side over the course of the 2025-26 season, and there has already been plenty of drama. United's arduous summer transfer window has been followed by a run of poor results to start the campaign and an explosive interview from Lisandro Martinez in midweek.
Players and staff holding back
With only two wins from nine games, Carrick is already under pressure just weeks into his first season as the club's permanent manager. But some fear that Amazon are to blame. The Sun claim that both players and staff feel that their colleagues are holding their tongue in post-match debriefs knowing that they're being filmed. The cameras are described as a 'pain' and the belief is that 'punches are being pulled'.
Manchester City, Tottenham and Arsenal have previously been the subject of All or Nothing. Amazon has also created series following Australia's Test cricket team and Premiership Rugby.
Carrick's earlier comments
In August, Carrick was asked what it was like having the cameras around. "That's been fine," the United manager replied. "It's obviously a little bit new, and unique, but the actual day-to-day workings of it, we have that many cameras around anyway that the boys are kind of half-used to it."
"We've got to work through it, of course, but they've been respectful. It probably seems bigger from the outside than it is day-to-day when we're working in it." But things appear to have changed within United's inner sanctum now that the season is in full swing. Their tribulations continue on Sunday with a trip to Leeds, who promise to provide a stern test.
Carrick relaxed despite pressure
Carrick, though, is determined to turn United's form around but is relaxed amid the notion that he needs a positive result at Elland Road to keep his job. "I don't think it's the last game I need right now, for sure," the Red Devils boss said.
"I'm really looking forward to the game. I generally feel the drive for myself to want to push this club forward more than anything. There's always negativity if you want to look for it or you want to feel it, but I don't go looking for it. I don't want to feel it."
"I understand the reality and I've said it enough in terms of feeling like I'm saying the same things, but accepting where we are, but I don't feel that. I'm totally focused on what's best for this place and this football club and what it's going to take to win games, you know, and get the boys playing what we know we're capable of, which we still don't think we're that far away."
