{"id":231037,"date":"2026-01-06T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231037\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T20:51:08","slug":"united-speak-to-solskjaer-carrick-about-interim-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/231037\/","title":{"rendered":"United speak to Solskjaer & Carrick about interim role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United have spoken to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Michael Carrick about the interim manager’s role as the club consider their options, it’s understood.<\/p>\n

Ruben Amorim was fired on Monday after 14 underwhelming months ended in acrimony as things unravelled following Friday’s heated meeting with director of football Jason Wilcox.<\/p>\n

Under-18s boss Darren Fletcher has been temporarily promoted<\/a> to interim head coach for Wednesday’s Premier League trip to Burnley and could stay in charge for United’s FA Cup tie against Brighton.<\/p>\n

The former midfielder is among those under consideration to take charge for the remainder of the season and it is understood the club spoke to former boss Solskjaer on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 1999 treble hero was named as Jose Mourinho’s temporary replacement in December 2018 and got the full-time post in March 2019.<\/p>\n

Solskjaer led United to second place in the Premier League in 2020-21 and lost that season’s Europa League final to Villarreal, before being sacked in November 2021.<\/p>\n

The Norwegian has only managed Turkish giants Besiktas since leaving Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

Carrick was part of Solskjaer’s coaching staff and stepped in as caretaker boss before himself leaving the club.<\/p>\n

The former United midfielder went on to take charge of Championship side Middlesbrough between October 2022 and last June.<\/p>\n

Ruud van Nistelrooy, who led United between Erik ten Hag’s sacking and Amorim’s arrival in November 2024, is also reportedly under consideration.<\/p>\n

Another club great, he was sacked by Leicester towards the end of last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United have spoken to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Michael Carrick about the interim manager’s role as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-231037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}