According to reports, the Glazer family ‘intervened’ to overrule Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada on Manchester United’s next manager.
In the past 24 hours, it has emerged that Mauricio Pochettino has reached an agreement to replace Michael Carrick at Man Utd.
The current USA boss has emerged as the frontrunner to succeed Carrick in the past few days, with Man Utd also linked with Eddie Howe, Julian Nagelsmann, Antonio Conte, Fabian Hurzeler and Unai Emery.
For the past few weeks, it has felt like Carrick’s sacking could come at any time, and he was finally put out of his misery on Thursday.
Man Utd were expected to sack Carrick after heavy back-to-back losses to Como and AFC Bournemouth, but he was given the matches against Chelsea, AS Roma and Aston Villa before the international break to save himself.
However, Carrick did not show enough in these matches to stay on after the international break, and the club are right to move on to a new manager.
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As mentioned, Pochettino has only recently become the firm favourite to be Man Utd’s next manager, with it said beforehand that Howe and Nagelsmann were the leading contenders.
The Glazer family overrule Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada on Manchester United’s next manager
Now, a report from The Daily Mail claims the Glazer family ‘intervened’ to overrule director of football Wilcox and chief executive Berrada on who will replace Carrick.
This is big news because the Glazers have had a backseat at Man Utd since INEOS supremo Sir Jim Ratcliffe purchased a minority stake in the Premier League giants at the start of 2023.
As part of this deal, Ratcliffe took control of football operations at Man Utd, and he has been assisted by Wilcox and Berrada.
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However, the report claims that ‘a Glazer family petrified by the shocking descent of their Premier League asset have simply stepped in to get Pochettino installed’ after Wilcox and Berrada were pushing for Howe instead.
The report also says the Glazer family are ‘back calling the shots’ at Man Utd, thus making Wilcox and Berrada ‘irrelevant also-rans’.
The report adds:
‘If Berrada and Wilcox had got their way, we would seemingly have been treated to the sight of Eddie Howe wandering into the Old Trafford madhouse in the next few days. The Glazers said ‘no’, insisted that Pochettino would have the keys and Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his men fell in line with that.
‘Should Berrada and Wilcox both survive the latest embarrassment – and it would be a travesty if they do, as United pay US Soccer £7.5million in compensation for Pochettino, who would have been out of contract if they’d moved for him in August – then both will be a virtual irrelevance now. Also-rans, bypassed by the latest executive dice roll for United.’
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