{"id":282075,"date":"2026-01-13T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/282075\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:00:13","slug":"manchester-united-richard-jolly-the-eight-players-from-harry-maguire-to-kobbie-mainoo-who-cant-afford-for-united-to-waste-another-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/282075\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United &#8211; Richard Jolly: The eight players from Harry Maguire to Kobbie Mainoo who can\u2019t afford for\u00a0United to \u2018waste\u2019 another season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (top) and Michael Carrick are the leading contenders for the interim manager role (Peter Powell\/PA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2.57420939.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (top) and Michael Carrick are the leading contenders for the interim manager role (Peter Powell\/PA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was part rallying cry, part warning. Darren Fletcher had not been told his time as Manchester United\u2019s interim head coach was over, but he seemed to sense it. And so his parting message to the players who had just exited the FA Cup was laced with an awareness of the worst-case scenario. \u201cDon&#8217;t waste the season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Those words could have been aimed at the directors\u2019 box, given that, if United\u2019s campaign ends in failure on all fronts, much of the blame will rest with the hierarchy who first appointed Ruben Amorim, then stuck with him last summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ole Gunnar Solskjaer (top) and Michael Carrick are the leading contenders for the interim manager role (Peter Powell\/PA)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,20,5005,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-282075","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-manchester-united","12":"tag-ruben-amorim","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115888155683107401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282075","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=282075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}