{"id":359013,"date":"2026-01-08T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359013\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T13:46:10","slug":"thomas-frank-future-live-arsenal-cup-romero-statement-and-manager-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359013\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Frank future LIVE: Arsenal cup, Romero statement and manager future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berrada and Wilcox need to make the right call for Man Utdpublished at 11:52 GMT<\/p>\n<p>11:52 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dbbc71db-9f26-48c8-81be-402f406e5682.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Simon Stone<br \/>BBC Sport Manchester United reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Omar Berrarda and Jason Wilcox\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/a3e8ce74-0658-42db-984e-195250549afa.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With the Burnley trip out of the way and Darren Fletcher confirmed as remaining in interim charge for the FA Cup tie with Brighton, Manchester United&#8217;s hierarchy can concentrate on sorting out who takes over on a caretaker basis until the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a decision they need to get right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Jim Ratcliffe has presided over too many bad calls since he came in as minority owner two years ago \u2013 including the arrival and exit \u2013 both for compensation of Dan Ashworth as the overseer of change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was Ashworth who advised appointing Amorim in mid-season was a mistake. He has now returned to the FA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some fans made their views clear at Turf Moor last night when they held up a banner criticising Ratcliffe. They also sang a vicious song against co-chairman Joel Glazer, which, admittedly is nothing new.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ole Gunnar Solskaer and Michael Carrick are the front-runners but with United slipping to seventh ahead of fixtures against Manchester City and Arsenal, and European qualification crucial, the pressure is on Ratcliffe, chief executive Omar Berrada and director of football Jason Wilcox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Berrada and Wilcox need to make the right call for Man Utdpublished at 11:52 GMT 11:52 GMT Simon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-359013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}