{"id":367108,"date":"2026-01-13T05:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367108\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T05:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:03:13","slug":"man-utd-manager-latest-michael-carrick-close-to-deal-for-old-trafford-caretaker-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/367108\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd manager latest: Michael Carrick close to deal for Old Trafford caretaker job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Carrick is close to agreeing a deal to return to Manchester United as caretaker head coach for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

Talks have progressed and the former United and England midfielder, 44, is set to be in charge for Saturday’s derby against Manchester City (12:30 GMT).<\/p>\n

Club chiefs are hoping to have an appointment in place for when players return to training on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Carrick previously had a three-game stint as United’s temporary boss following Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s dismissal in 2021.<\/p>\n

He won two and drew one of those matches but left after Ralf Rangnick’s arrival as interim manager. <\/p>\n

Carrick is known to have significant backing from within the United squad and the Ineos hierarchy that run football affairs at Old Trafford. <\/p>\n

Solskjaer held face-to-face discussions<\/a> with the club on Saturday about a return.<\/p>\n

United sacked Ruben Amorim as manager<\/a> after 14 months in the job on 5 January.<\/p>\n

Darren Fletcher, a former United and Scotland midfielder, was initially handed temporary responsibility for first-team affairs following Amorim’s departure.<\/p>\n

United suffered an FA Cup third-round defeat<\/a> at the hands of Brighton on Sunday in what looks set to be Fletcher’s second and final game in charge. He led the side to a draw at struggling Burnley in the Premier League last Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Carrick is close to agreeing a deal to return to Manchester United as caretaker head coach for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-367108","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367108","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=367108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}