{"id":678769,"date":"2026-01-07T00:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678769\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:17:18","slug":"manchester-united-speaking-to-several-former-players-about-being-interim-head-coach-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/678769\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United speaking to several former players about being interim head coach | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United have been in talks with several former players to take on the role of interim head coach, as the club seeks a manager to lead the team until the end of the season following Ruben Amorim’s departure.<\/p>\n

Michael Carrick and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer have been informally approached about the possibility of managing the team, along with the current caretaker Darren Fletcher.<\/p>\n

It’s expected that other candidates will also be contacted before any decision is taken.<\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim was dismissed on Monday<\/strong><\/a> after 14 disappointing months, which came to a bitter end following Friday’s heated meeting with director of football Jason Wilcox.<\/p>\n

Under-18s boss and former midfielder Fletcher has been temporarily promoted to interim head coach for Wednesday’s Premier League trip to Burnley.<\/p>\n

Fletcher is expected to stay in charge for Sunday’s FA Cup third-round match against Brighton while United weigh their options.<\/p>\n

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“It’s surreal,” said Fletcher, who made 342 appearances for the Red Devils and has worked in a variety of different roles for them since 2020.<\/p>\n

“I don’t even think it’s in my wildest dreams that that was something that could potentially happen.”<\/p>\n

Fletcher said leading the team was “an amazing honour”, even though “not in the circumstances I expected it to happen”.<\/p>\n

“But I’ve got a job to do, and I’ve got to lead the team tomorrow, and think of the great honour and pride in doing that.”<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, the club also spoke to former boss and treble hero Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r, who was named as Jose Mourinho’s temporary replacement in December 2018 and got the full-time post in March 2019.<\/p>\n

Solskjaer led Man Utd to second place in the Premier League in 2020-21 and a Europa League final defeat to Villarreal before being sacked in November 2021.<\/p>\n

Since leaving Old Trafford, he has only managed Turkish club Besiktas.<\/p>\n

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\n Michael Carrick. Pic: PA<\/p>\n

Carrick, who had been part of Solskjaer’s coaching team, briefly served as caretaker manager before departing the club.<\/p>\n

The former United midfielder later managed Championship side Middlesbrough from October 2022 until last June.<\/p>\n

Ruud van Nistelrooy, who managed United between Erik ten Hag’s departure and Amorim’s arrival in November 2024, is also reportedly being considered.<\/p>\n

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Another club legend, he was dismissed by Leicester towards the end of last season.<\/p>\n

Sky Sports is reporting that the club haven’t ruled out the possibility of making a substantive appointment, if they decide the right coach is available.<\/p>\n

It’s thought club’s bosses would like to have someone in place before the Manchester derby on 17 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have been in talks with several former players to take on the role of interim head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,2465,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-678769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-manchester","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115850945915176844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678769","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=678769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}