{"id":679390,"date":"2026-11-09T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T09:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/679390\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T09:58:15","slug":"man-utd-former-tottenham-boss-explodes-into-lead-to-take-job-as-carrick-reacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/679390\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd: Former Tottenham boss explodes into lead to take job as Carrick reacts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mauricio Pochettino<\/a> has stormed into favouritism to become the next Manchester United<\/a> manager after a flurry of sizeable overnight bets completely altered the landscape of Michael Carrick\u2019s future, and with TEAMtalk sources confirming \u2018meetings will be held\u2019 at Carrington this week to discuss the club\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

A woeful start to the Premier League season has left the club going into the international break in 19th place, with just eight points to their name from 10 games and being outperformed by newly-promoted trio Coventry, Ipswich and Hull City thus far.<\/p>\n

After a calamitous performance at home to Aston Villa on Sunday \u2013 that resulted in United clawing their way back from 2-0 and 4-2 down, the latter with two injury-time goals to salvage a point, even Gary Neville has now accepted that relegation could be a possibility<\/a> for a Red Devils side winless in eight Premier League games.<\/p>\n

As a result, United\u2019s hierarchy may feel they have little choice but to make a tough call on Carrick\u2019s future, with the popular former star now in serious danger of the sack just a matter of months after signing his deal to become permanent manager.<\/p>\n

But with sources revealing that a high-level Carrington meeting will take place this week<\/a> to discuss whether to sack or back the struggling 45-year-old, new information has come to light on his possible successor.<\/p>\n

For the past month, the market has been dominated by three main names in particular, with Julian Nagelsmann, Eddie Howe and Antonio Conte, the trio all under consideration.<\/p>\n

However, amid major doubts over all three names, Pochettino<\/a>\u2018s name has come out of almost nowhere to suddenly lead the betting after a flurry of overnight stakes.<\/p>\n

The Argentine has long been linked with the Man Utd job, but that chance appeared to have gone over the summer when United opted for Carrick and the 54-year-old signed an extension to remain coach of the USMNT.<\/p>\n

However, sources have long since made clear that the former Tottenham and Chelsea manager would love another crack at a top Premier League job<\/a>, and he has now burst into the 5\/2 favourite to become the next United boss following some serious overnight investments.<\/p>\n

Howe (3\/1) and Nagelsmann (6\/1) are next in the betting, with Conte and Didier Deschamps (both 10s) next.<\/p>\n

DON\u2019T MISS: David Ornstein drops new Man Utd Michael Carrick sack plan before Aston Villa game<\/a><\/p>\n

Carrick reacts to latest Man Utd sack claims<\/p>\n

Despite all that, Carrick insists he expects to be allowed the chance to battle on at Old Trafford after seeing some positive signs in Sunday\u2019s crazy 4-4 draw against Villa.<\/p>\n

During a somewhat tense interview on Sky Sports, Carrick was asked if he was considering his position. \u201cI\u2019m not,\u201d said the 45-year-old, who was curt when Patrick Davidson said that it was clear there would be conversations about his future before United\u2019s next game; away to Liverpool on 22 November.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs there?\u201d he replied. \u201cYou\u2019re telling me. I\u2019m quite clear with what direction the club needs to go in, and it\u2019s got to win games.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t won enough games, but I expect to move forward and keep working on the things that we\u2019ve been working on and showing a lot of the good in the game today, tighten up on a few mistakes and win football matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carrick then says he can see enough in United\u2019s displays to give him hope for the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, 100%. I think there\u2019s more than enough,\u201d he said. \u201cGoals change games, and you\u2019ve got to deal with it, and it\u2019s part of something we have to improve on drastically, but there\u2019s more than enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just making it too difficult for ourselves at the moment in certain times.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neville warns Man Utd over bigger issues at club<\/p>\n

In light of those developments, Gary Neville has warned the United board that changing the manager may not alter their reality.<\/p>\n

During an appearance on NBC Sports, the pundit explained: \u201cYou can paper over the cracks and get a new manager bounce.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the new manager comes in, everybody\u2019s happy for a couple of months and all of a sudden, six months later, it happens again.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can keep changing the manager and thinking that\u2019s going to be the answer. But this has been proven now over eight managers in 12 years; that\u2019s not the answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cMichael could leave, Michael might stay, we don\u2019t know; the ownership don\u2019t have a clue what to do.<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s rinse and repeat. Amorim, Ten Hag, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Carrick, Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal, David Moyes, Ralf Rangnick \u2013 some of them are world-class managers who have had success; there are a lot of promising young managers there, ex-players who know the club as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of it has worked because if you recruit badly, if you\u2019ve got a poor performance department, poor recruitment department, you\u2019ve not got leadership that is strong right through the spine of the football club, you will fail.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery organisation in the world will fail if you\u2019ve not got an aligned leadership from top to bottom \u2013 your board and your ownership right the way through to the person who is stood on the pitch trying to play football.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are real issues within that football club; you\u2019ve got people doing those jobs who have never done those jobs before in senior positions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Roy Keane has delivered a one-word verdict on Senne Lammens\u2019 performance against Villa on Sunday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rio Ferdinand has also launched into a tirade over Man Utd\u2019s performances, explaining why watching them this season is giving him grey hair<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mauricio Pochettino has stormed into favouritism to become the next Manchester United manager after a flurry of sizeable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[912,914,61,60,917,213111,47000,3106,1102,112,3568],"class_list":["post-679390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all-the-news","tag-front-page","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-manchester-united","tag-mauricio-pochettino","tag-michael-carrick","tag-popular","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679390","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=679390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}