Speculation over another potential high-profile change in the Old Trafford dugout has continued to rage on following a disappointing start to the season under Ruben Amorim, who also could not engineer any sort of turnaround last term after succeeding Erik ten Hag and has remained under significant pressure.<\/p>\n
United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe\u2019s latest insistence that Amorim is not in any danger of the sack and \u201cneeds to demonstrate he is a great coach over three years\u201d is unlikely to do much to quell the constant discussion over the Portuguese\u2019s future if the Red Devils are unable to build on the momentum gained from the 2-0 home win over Sunderland, with a trip to face out-of-form rivals Liverpool at Anfield coming up straight after the international break.<\/p>\n
A number of names have been put forward as potential successors in the event that United were to part ways with Amorim, who has been in charge of United for 11 months now after leaving Sporting, with Old Trafford legend Paul Scholes stating earlier this week that he would opt for Newcastle\u2019s Eddie Howe.<\/p>\n
However, fellow United heroes Keane and Neville are in agreement that Simeone would be the perfect choice having proven his quality and passion for management during 14 memorable years in charge of LaLiga giants Atletico Madrid, who recently hit five goals past rivals Real Madrid in a derby thrashing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to see Simeone go in there,\u201d Keane said on the latest edition of the Stick to Football podcast, broadcast in Rome.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know his mate [former Atletico sporting director Andrea Berta] has gone to Arsenal, but I think he would just create havoc. But good havoc.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he\u2019d rock up to that place and say, \u2018hey, this is how you do things\u2019. Obviously no guarantee, but I\u2019d just like to see his personality, his track record.\u201d<\/p>\n
After Ian Wright suggested former Chelsea and Tottenham boss Antonio Conte as a potential alternative, Neville interjected: \u201cI think I\u2019d go with Simeone. I like Simeone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Keane added: \u201cThey [Atletico] beat Real Madrid and they scored five goals, this idea that he\u2019s defensive… yeah, he doesn\u2019t like his teams giving up too many goals or chances, but they can play a bit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re fighters. We saw them up at Liverpool [in the Champions League] a few weeks ago, the team aren\u2019t as great as they were a few years ago but there\u2019s still that fighting spirit.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s on the sideline causing… he got sent off that night, didn\u2019t he. I\u2019d like a big personality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neville then said on Simeone: \u201cI think he gets talented players working in a ridiculous way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speculation over another potential high-profile change in the Old Trafford dugout has continued to rage on following a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[98,101,1677,99,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-486858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-manchester-united","9":"tag-premier-league","10":"tag-roy-keane","11":"tag-ruben-amorim","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115346756391762368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486858","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=486858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}