{"id":360854,"date":"2026-01-09T12:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360854\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:20:07","slug":"six-reasons-why-keane-wants-pl-manager-to-replace-amorim-as-ornstein-reveals-crucial-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/360854\/","title":{"rendered":"Six reasons why Keane wants PL manager to replace Amorim as Ornstein reveals &#8216;crucial&#8217; factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United legend Roy Keane has revealed who he wants to be Ruben Amorim\u2019s permanent replacement at Old Trafford in the summer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Red Devils<\/a> are currently in the process of replacing Amorim, who parted company with the Premier League giants on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/ruben-amorim\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amorim<\/a>\u2018s position became untenable after he butted heads with the director of football, Jason Wilcox, while he has also had critics over his refusal to adapt and poor performances\/results.<\/p>\n<p>Man Utd are planning to bring in an interim replacement until the summer, at which point they will appoint a more established permanent successor to oversee a rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the summer, Keane has named Newcastle United boss Eddie Howe as the manager he wants to lead Man Utd into the future.<\/p>\n<p>This is because of his experience, age, his style of football, his \u201ccalmness\u201d, his ability to win a trophy and making a \u201cteam hard to beat\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho would I go with? I would go with Eddie Howe,\u201d Keane said on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/manchester-united-manager-candidate-removed-fletcher-ferguson-solskjaer-carrick\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United manager candidate removed after Ferguson disciple streak broken<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like him, I like what he\u2019s doing. He\u2019s managed a lot of games. When his teams are at it, they\u2019ll play good football. I like what he\u2019s done at Newcastle and Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has his critics, but I like him. He\u2019s managed 700 or 800 games and he\u2019s still a young man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like his calmness and I think Man United need a bit of that. He\u2019s won the cup with Newcastle, got them in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would be happy to see Howe go in there. They need someone to go in there and get a grip on these players and make the team hard to beat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-fans-trump-take-power-back-mailbox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd fans urged to copy Trump playbook and take power back<\/a><br \/>*\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-caretaker-manager-in-tray-mainoo-back-dalot-dropped-parking-space-ignored-fergie-consulted\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd caretaker manager in-tray: Mainoo back, Dalot dropped, parking space ignored, Fergie consulted<\/a><br \/>* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-romano-reveals-five-essential-factors-ineos-decide-permanent-amorim-replacement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man Utd: Romano reveals five \u2018essential\u2019 factors for INEOS to decide permanent Amorim replacement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, club legends Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Michael Carrick appear to be the leading contenders to take over until the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Respected journalist David Ornstein has revealed a \u201ccrucial\u201d factor is being Man Utd\u2019s decision to go down this route.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was saying [the long-term interim job] is going to Solskj\u00e6r. It may, he\u2019s a strong contender, but so is Carrick. We must NOT write him off in this situation,\u201d Ornstein told NBC Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a third name in the frame and that\u2019s Van Nistelrooy, he\u2019s been spoken to. Whereas Wilcox will be meeting Ole and Carrick because he doesn\u2019t know them from previously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe won\u2019t be meeting with Ruud because he already knows him. For whatever reason, the club feels that Solskj\u00e6r and Carrick are the two most likely, what they wanted was somebody, whoever it will be, who\u2019s got the Manchester United connections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey felt that was crucial in this moment of you could say trauma following the departure of Ruben Amorim.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United legend Roy Keane has revealed who he wants to be Ruben Amorim\u2019s permanent replacement at Old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5862,218,348,349,941,50,221,24740,451,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-360854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-eddie-howe","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-manchester-united","12":"tag-newcastle-united","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-roy-keane","16":"tag-ruben-amorim","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360854","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=360854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}