Casemiro has suggested Jamie Carragher's comments over his form in 2024 were down to "bitterness".

The Manchester United midfielder has been in fantastic form this season, which will be his last at the club.

Signed from Real Madrid in 2022, the 34-year-old has made 159 appearances for United in all competitions, scoring 26 goals and providing 13 assists.

In 34 appearances this term, Casemiro has netted nine goals.

But in 2024, Carragher memorably suggested Casemiro should call it a day at the top level, having struggled for form.

"I always remember the saying 'leave the football before the football leaves you.' The football has left him. At this top level, he needs to call it a day at this level and move," Carragher said on Sky Sports at the time.

Those comments were put to Casemiro by TNT in Brazil this week, and he suggested it could be down to Madrid having pipped Carragher's old club Liverpool to multiple Champions League crowns.

"Everyone says whatever they want on television. I'm not someone who gets involved in that," he said.

"But it's a bit normal, because I won two Champions League titles over his team. Maybe after you win two titles against his club, there's still some bitterness there.

"I respect his opinion. I don't hold any resentment. The important thing is that he recognised he was wrong and changed his opinion. That's what matters most."

Earlier this season, Carragher said: "Casemiro is well within his rights to, if he wants to come back at me and say 'leave the punditry before the punditry's left you!' He could definitely get one of those back in. Credit to him, he looks a completely different player.

"He looks like a different player physically as well. Even when I said that, you looked at him and he looked like an old man coming to the end of his time as a player.

"And whether he let himself go a little bit, or now he's being ultra professional, physically, he looks completely different."