Manchester United have contacted Mauricio Pochettino about potentially replacing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as the club's manager, according to reports.
The Red Devils were humbled 6-1 at home by Pochettino's former club Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday which has clouded Solskjaer's future at the club in doubt.
The Argentinian manager has been out of a job since being sacked by Spurs 11 months ago and is waiting for his next challenge in management.
And according to the Daily Star, senior figures at Old Trafford have contacted Pochettino's representatives and are asking whether he would be interested in the role.
The report says members of the United hierarchy want to see better results from Solskjaer and that chief executive Ed Woodward is reluctant to sack the Norwegian.
Therefore, the contact with Pochettino is only provisional in case they have to switch managers.
Pochettino took Spurs from top-half regulars in 2014 to Champions League finalists five years later.
In that period, Tottenham also moved stadiums while the manager helped to create a strong core in the playing squad that includes club captain Hugo Lloris, defender Toby Aldeweireld and star striker Harry Kane.
Though just five months after taking Spurs to the Champions League final, which they lost 2-0 to Liverpool in June 2019, the Argentinian was relieved of his duties for a string of poor performances and was replaced by Jose Mourinho.
The Portuguese coach took Spurs from 14th position to a sixth-place by the end of the 2019-20 season and the club will compete in the Europa League group stages this month.
Questions are being asked about Solskjaer's competences as United manager despite a third-place finish in the Premier League last season.
However, Manchester United fans have also pointed the finger at other personnel at the club for their falling standards in recent weeks, which has seen them pick up just one win in their opening three matches of the Premier League season.
Chief executive Woodward's inability to bring in top transfer targets such as Jadon Sancho has been a concern for supporters, while regular defensive frailties from the likes of Harry Maguire and Victor Lindelof have been pointed out by fans.
ChelseaGoBluesGo
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i think it is the wrong person being replaced🧐 Its woodward that needs to be replaced
dt_gamer
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Then poch will come raise our hope in his first full season , then 2nd season he crumbles the hope . Rome is not built in a day , give Ole a chance sacking coaches every 2 season will not help our situation rather we will keep rotating on one circle. Those fans calling for poch will be the same fans calling for him to be sacked. GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED 💯💯🔥🔥🔥💞💕💞💕
leybdilmoy
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Though more fans would like to see Woodward going for not getting top target deal across the line but I try to be critical here though. The team has huge quality but the problem is the coach. I am not quite sure that Ole is the right man for this club. What does he bring to the table? Absolutely nothing. One specific thing I have learned from Ole since his appointment as manager, is the swinging of a pendulum. His results have been back and forth and ups and downs like undulating hills. Ole has to go. You can not download a file size of migabytes with a kilobytes data. We need experienced coach or a legend that was a regular started than a supersub. The likes of Lampark, Zindine, Pep, ect are all former players and legends who were not supersubs.
Bundyee
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I don't know why after seven years of not being able to compete for the title, fans still are so conceited that they can't accept that we are not the team we were before. Before Fergie came back in the day, Liverpool where running the show and it was their time. He knocked them off their perch and we had our time and it ended when he left. We have fundamental issues to tackle in the club and it will not end by sacking coaches and appointing new ones. Lest you forget, we have had two of the most tactically sound coaches in the world namely, Van Gaal and Mourinho (who both managed Barcelona and Madrid successfully) manage this club in the past and between them we accumulated only three minor trophies. Whether you want to admit it or not, we're not just at that level to compete for major honors anymore but we are getting back on our feet. No coach started at a tactical genius, not even Fergie. They learnt, watched their plans fail, experimented and tried again. Of course there's a hint of sentiment in what I'm saying cos Ole is a club legend but who will be better. If we had a two time champions league winning coach like Mou and he couldn't help, then who will. Ole knows what it's like to represent Man Utd and though he isn't perfect and some of his decisions have been appalling, I feel he should be given time to grow with this squad and learn from them as they learn from him. His signings may have had some rough patches but they have proven to be competent for the most part and shown their mettle in many matches. We just need to get a winning formula and proper rotation of players in the squad and the story will be surely different in the next five years. Right now I'm prepared to wait that long cos I've seen some teams wait for 20 years and some 30. We won't need to wait that long if we put our faith in this coach and this team.
Divine_Armour
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Hoe many times have we changed coaches since Ferguson left, and yet there are no positive results.... The only thing is that we're going back and forth.... We've let good relent slip through our fingers and we say they are not good enough for Man United! Most of the players we buy we doing great wherever they were till they came to us and turned to be flops.... De Maria was doing amazing things at RM till he came to Old Trafford and we turned him to a dead wood, Deepay, look what he's doing at Lyon now and he's even wanted by Barca. Janazaj, we also sold him and said he wasn't good enough, and look what he's doing at Real Sociedad..... Zaha was another good talent we had and yet again, he was let go and take a look at him at Palace..... Blind, was also not used to his best abilities and look at him at Ajax now.... Evans, we also let him go, yet we wanted him back not long ago...... I LOVE Man United, and I've been a Man United Supporter, fan and lover since I was 11 years old and I've since Alex left we've made bad decisions after another, for how long is this going to go on? Using money to fix our problems, with both coaches and players? Spending money is never a problem, but only if we get good returns for it, which is not happening at our beloved club..... Can't we just get a Sporting Director, someone who's gonna take are of the transfers and let Woodgate concentrate on off the field things like getting us good sponsors cause niw they are even considering calling Poch.... This is really sad, we are being made laughing stocks out there by the hierarchy and Woodgate and this hurts to the CORE
RedTheLion
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Man United and Barca have the worst boards it's sad to see these two top clubs downfall.. I'm making a list of Players Ole wanted in previous summer Vs Players Woodward bought De Ligt - Maguire ( Overrated fridge who don't even know to mark his opponents) Sancho - James Haland ❌ Upamacano ❌ Zakaria or Ndidi ❌ Bruno ( Ole desperately wanted him previous summer and Woodward bought him in winter only due to someone burned his house) These just showed that Ole had clear plans and ideas to run the club but the Glazers and Woodward failed yet another manager.. No use of sacking the managers even if Guardiola or any other top managers won't succeed in Man United with the Glazers and Woodward running the club.. Man United fans globally should make riots, don't go to the stadium, don't buy shirts, boycott everything and quit buying United purchasable items. These Glazers have been ruining the club for more than 15 years now they sold CR7 first who was happy to stay here and SAF never wanted him to be sold but Glazers sold him even without finding a replacement.. The Glazers even don't know wtf is an offside.. We've been down fallen for 6-7 years now and still the club's not ambitious idk what will happen in this season with Maguire, Bailly and Lindelof as CBs.. We'll get banters from even tiny little clubs this season so be ready to face that.. No use of sacking managers until Glazers and Woodward leaves the club won't find anymore glory..