[Diego] Simeone<\/strong>. I\u2019d like to see him go in there.<\/p>\n\u201cI think he would just create havoc, but good havoc. I think he\u2019d rock up to that place and say, \u2018This is how you do things.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cNo guarantee, but I\u2019d just like to see his personality, even his track record.\u201d<\/p>\n
That track record includes a now 14-year stint at Atleti and it is not an exaggeration to say he has revolutionised the club in that time. While they were once one of Real Madrid\u2019s biggest sources of joy, Simeone turned them into a thorn in both Madrid and Barcelona\u2019s sides.<\/p>\n
And while plenty of managers like Mikel Arteta and Gareth Southgate can be praised for reforming a team, Simeone crucially delivered trophies including two league titles.<\/p>\n
The question would be whether Simeone can deliver that success elsewhere as he enjoyed enormous freedom at the Wanda Metropolitano, not to mention the biggest paycheque of any manager in the world.<\/p>\n
Speaking of Roy Keane<\/strong>, former Spurs midfielder turned talkSPORT host Jamie O\u2019Hara reckons the Irishman should be part of the coaching setup.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m amazed that no one has phoned Roy Keane and said, \u2018Can you come in at Man Utd and be part of what we\u2019re doing here?\u2019 because he is arguably Man Utd\u2019s greatest captain,\u201d O\u2019Hara said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is a leader. He\u2019s unbelievable. When you watch him, he\u2019s ferocious, you listen to him, when he walks into a dressing room, you\u2019re going to listen.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s going to lead by example. He\u2019s not going to allow poor standards. I can\u2019t believe Manchester United have not phoned Roy Keane.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it\u2019s because he can\u2019t be the manager.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it\u2019s because he\u2019s too hot-headed, I don\u2019t know. They want someone in with more tactical nous or whatever.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow Roy Keane isn\u2019t in there at that football club, in the dressing room, in there every day at the training ground telling them this is the standard, this is what\u2019s Man Utd, this is what we\u2019ve built, this is how we do it\u2026 I cannot believe they\u2019ve not done something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keane\u2019s managerial record is not quite as glittering as his playing days. While he did guide Sunderland to the Premier League, he did not do the same at his next club Ipswich and went 14 games without a win in his first full year in charge.<\/p>\n
By the time he was sacked, Ipswich were 21st in the league in what was Keane\u2019s last managerial role. He has since been an assistant boss to Martin O\u2019Neill at Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and the Irish national team.<\/p>\n
Another pundit to put his two cents in is Charlie Austin who put forward two candidates \u2013 Zinedine Zidane<\/strong> and, um, Sean Dyche<\/strong>?<\/p>\nOther than being follically challenged, it is hard to see too many similarities between Dyche and the three-time Champions League-winning manager Zidane but Austin believes his former coach could do a job.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s my decision, I\u2019m going after Zinedine Zidane,\u201d Austin said on Sky Sports News. \u201cI\u2019ll try to convince him to come to Manchester United. [It] shouldn\u2019t need doing but at this moment in time, you do.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, there are a different set of managers that you\u2019ve got to be looking at, because the situation Manchester United are in, I would take Zidane but is he the right man for the job and how we see them, probably not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my honest opinion, you have to look at the job Sean Dyche did at Burnley, what he did at Everton. For me, he stabilised the club, at least he\u2019s going to put structure in there.<\/p>\n
\u201cZidane is the top of the tree for me, but what the club needs now is structure because that is something they do not have. I know Manchester United fans will look at me saying, \u2018he said Sean Dyche\u2019, no, they need structure [and] that is a man who will come in and make the team a lot better than what we are all seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Dyche is on the more extreme end of the scale, the suggestion put forward by former assistant boss Rene Meulensteen may be more realistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael Carrick<\/strong> might be the obvious option if Ruben Amorim is to go,\u201d he told BetVictor.<\/p>\n\u201cObviously Michael Carrick still knows quite a few players that were there when he was there. So he\u2019s still got some good inside information. He obviously knows the club. He knows what\u2019s expected from the club.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the key is that you need to have a guy that obviously has got a clear idea but puts some kind of a structure in place that the players buy into and that you get a spark from the players. Because they\u2019re not bad players, there\u2019s plenty of good players there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure that if they would play in a system that suits them, they really play at their best. I think you could see a fantastic Manchester United. Maybe Michael could well be the guy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not magic. It\u2019s common sense more than anything, that\u2019s it and Carrick has got plenty of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
One name consistently linked with the United job is Gareth Southgate<\/strong> who was on the shortlist the last time there was a vacancy.<\/p>\nIt was Southgate that reportedly turned it down that time, citing burnout from his time at England, but the INEOS group is said to be keen on the man who rejuvenated the national side.<\/p>\n
One supporter of Southgate is Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink who said Southgate would \u201ccalm it down.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLook, I don\u2019t like to see managers getting the sack and all that kind of stuff. But look, Gareth will be a great appointment, he will,\u201d\u00a0Hasselbaink said on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s good at talking to the media. He\u2019s got a brilliant playing style, he wants to play good football and dominant football.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will calm it down, he will be clear, in that aspect, he would be a brilliant appointment.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is very assured of his way, where he wants to go, and his communication skills in communicating with the people around him and the players. He\u2019s very clear in that, and yeah, he gives young players opportunities.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not afraid to give young players opportunities, and that\u2019s what Man United stands for.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hasselbaink is not the only one to suggest Southgate with Peter Crouch backing the man who took England to two European finals.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s gone from a statue to people thinking he\u2019s not good enough for the Man United job. It\u2019s such a fine line in football,\u201d Crouch said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019s someone that could build something there. You keep getting managers over that are here for the short term, but I think Gareth Southgate is someone who can build something big.\u201d<\/p>\n
READ NEXT:\u00a0Premier League CRISIS Rankings: Forest 2nd, West Ham 3rd, but what of Liverpool and Man Utd?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You never have to wait too long to hear a pundit talking about Manchester United and plenty have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[48729,3011,18,793,23042,794,19,17,20,47746,5,5004,795,5788,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-111380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-diego-simeone","9":"tag-eddie-howe","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-front-page","12":"tag-gareth-southgate","13":"tag-home-page","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-manchester-united","17":"tag-michael-carrick","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-popular","20":"tag-premier-league","21":"tag-roy-keane","22":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}