{"id":235729,"date":"2025-07-03T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235729\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T21:23:10","slug":"manchester-united-set-to-hire-coach-who-had-little-bit-of-a-falling-out-with-jason-wilcox-just-two-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/235729\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United set to hire coach who had \u2018little bit of a falling out\u2019 with Jason Wilcox just two years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Manchester United are poised to hire David Horseman as the former Bristol Rovers boss prepares to reunite with Jason Wilcox.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Manchester United\u2019s<\/a> coaching ranks have been through some real changes this summer.<\/p>\n

United\u2019s academy director Nick Cox has moved on to Everton<\/a>, while Under-18 boss Adam Lawrence decided to move on.<\/p>\n

David Hughes has become Newport County boss<\/a>, while Paul McShane has joined Lee Grant at Huddersfield Town.<\/p>\n

United have been forced into a reshuffle, with Jonny Evans appointed as head of loans and pathways<\/a>.<\/p>\n

United are now set to hire David Horseman<\/a> as the Under-21 assistant alongside Travis Binnion, replacing the departing Hughes.<\/p>\n

\"ScarboroughPhoto by George Wood\/Getty ImagesDavid Horseman\u2019s connection to Jason Wilcox<\/strong><\/p>\n

Horseman has recent managerial experience on his CV, having taken charge of Forest Green Rovers in 2023.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old only lasted five months in the job, winning seven of his 29 games in charge before leaving the club by mutual consent.<\/p>\n

Horseman then became first-team coach at Bristol Rovers and took interim charge after Matt Taylor\u2019s exit in December.<\/p>\n

Now heading to United, Horseman is set to reunite with Jason Wilcox<\/a>, having worked together at Southampton.<\/p>\n

Horseman served as manager of Southampton\u2019s Under-21s, with Wilcox becoming their director of football in 2023.<\/p>\n

The pair only worked together for a brief period, but Wilcox has surely been a driving factor behind Horseman\u2019s arrival.<\/p>\n

Horseman has previously admitted \u2018falling out\u2019 with Wilcox, as he found himself in demand from Inter Miami, Reading and Forest Green Rovers.<\/p>\n

Ruben Selles wanted Horseman as his assistant at Reading or Inter Miami, whilst Forest Green had eyes on him to become their manager.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Bristol Post<\/a>, Horseman admitted that Wilcox thought he was touting his name to multiple clubs in an attempt to get out of Southampton.<\/p>\n

Horseman maintains that was not the case, and he would have been happy to stay with Wilcox at Southampton if Forest Green\u2019s offer hadn\u2019t arrived.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was always planning on going back to the B team, I knew that anyway and I loved it,\u201d said Horseman. \u201cSome of my best memories are with the Southampton B team. What ended up happening, I went on holiday and I got a phone call from Ruben offering me the assistant manager job at Reading. So Jason Wilcox comes in and in week one of his job he gets a phone call from Reading approaching me to be their assistant manager. I was in Ibiza so it probably wasn\u2019t the best time to make a decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Ruben was down to the last two for Inter Miami with Messi and had just been offered the Reading job and I would have gone as assistant manager to one of those two. I don\u2019t know where I wanted to go. I was more than happy to go to Reading because I really like Ruben. He\u2019s brilliant at what he does.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a couple of days, I was flying back. I was actually then starting to read up on Reading and realised it\u2019s in a little bit of a mess at the moment. I\u2019m not in a financial position where I could go a month or two without getting paid, so I turned that one down. The following week, a friend of mine, Gary Probert, put in a word for me to Forest Green who had just sacked Duncan Ferguson.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo week two or three, we\u2019ve basically just gone back to pre-season at Southampton and I get the second approach. I\u2019ve been approached by Reading and approached by Forest Green. It looks like I\u2019m tagging my CV around everywhere. I never applied for anything. I then had a little bit of a falling out with Jason Wilcox in the short-term because he thought I was desperate to get out and I was more than delighted to stay,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

David Horseman on Tyler Dibling<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wilcox and Horseman clearly resolved that issue, and are now set to join forces at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

Wilcox seemingly values Horseman\u2019s work at Southampton highly and will be trusting him to develop United\u2019s talents for the future.<\/p>\n

Intriguingly, Horseman played a key role in the development of Southampton wonderkid Tyler Dibling.<\/p>\n

United are interested in Dibling<\/a> and may still look to pounce for the teenager after Southampton\u2019s relegation to the Championship.<\/p>\n

Horseman helped develop Dibling on the South Coast, and told Sky Sports<\/a> that he thinks the winger can become a Champions League player.<\/p>\n

Wilcox knows Dibling well enough himself, but if he wanted a second opinion, Horseman would be the perfect man to ask.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United are poised to hire David Horseman as the former Bristol Rovers boss prepares to reunite with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[92121,94,10761,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-235729","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-david-horseman","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-jason-wilcox","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114791409576502518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}