{"id":272208,"date":"2026-01-07T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/272208\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T13:10:08","slug":"united-to-hold-further-talks-with-solskjaer-and-carrick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/272208\/","title":{"rendered":"United to hold further talks with Solskjaer and Carrick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Michael Carrick are set for further talks with Manchester United later this week as the club work to appoint an interim head coach.<\/p>\n<p>The pair \u2013 both former United players \u2013 are understood to have held a first round of informal discussions with sporting director Jason Wilcox on Tuesday and are set to hold further talks, though not on Wednesday with the focus being on United&#8217;s Premier League match at Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood there could be roles for both Solskjaer and Carrick in the new backroom team. Another former Red Devils player \u2013 Darren Fletcher \u2013 will lead the team at Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>United are believed to be considering other options too \u2013 including ex-United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy.<\/p>\n<p>The club are without a permanent head coach after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/0105\/1551522-amorim-departs-manchester-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ruben Amorim&#8217;s sacking on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A heated meeting between Wilcox and Amorim last Friday triggered a series of events which ended with the Portuguese\u2019s dismissal on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>If Solskjaer is successful, it would represent a return to the United hotseat. He took over initially on an interim basis in December 2018 following the dismissal of Jose Mourinho, before he was given the job on a permanent basis the following March.<\/p>\n<p>Solskjaer was sacked in November 2021, with Carrick placed in temporary charge.<\/p>\n<p>United head into the Burnley match sixth in the Premier League, with eight wins from their 20 matches so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Michael Carrick are set for further talks with Manchester United later this week as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-272208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115853985307704950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272208","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=272208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}