Michael Carrick insists he's not concerned by Middlesbrough's form - but he should be.

Boro have won just two of their last nine and are outside the top six after their painful defeat to Sunderland. 

So what's going wrong and how does Carrick fix it? Can he fix it?

And how do we reflect on the January transfer window? 

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