Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will meet with Manchester United chief executive Omar Berrada and director of football Jason Wilcox on Saturday to discuss becoming caretaker boss until the end of the season
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is set for face-to-face talks with Manchester United chiefs on Saturday about the interim manager’s job. United are looking to make an appointment for the rest of the season, having taken the decision to call time on Ruben Amorim’s underwhelming 14-month reign on Monday.
Ruud van Nistelrooy and current caretaker head coach Darren Fletcher have been under consideration for the post but Solskjaer and Michael Carrick are now considered to be the frontrunners. The latter, who worked as a first-team coach under Solskjaer and had a short interim spell in charge following his exit, met with United’s hierarchy earlier this week.
The Press Association reports that Solskjaer will now meet with director of football Jason Wilcox and chief executive Omar Berrada on Saturday to discuss the role, following preliminary talks. The 1999 treble hero has already once been placed in charge of United following the sacking of a Portuguese coach having stepped in after Jose Mourinho’s exit in December 2018.
Solskjaer was handed the permanent role in March 2019 and led United to runners-up spot in the Premier League in 2020/21. The Norwegian also took United to that season’s Europa League final before being sacked in November 2021.
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The former striker, who is back in Cheshire having been in Molde on Thursday for the funeral of Norwegian coaching legend Age Hareide, would appear to be up against Carrick for the caretaker role until the end of the season. The 44-year-old former midfielder is understood to have met with Berrada and Wilcox already and is available after leaving Middlesbrough last summer.
United want to hire a former player with a connection to the club to steer the ship for the remainder of the 2025/26 campaign. They will then conduct a thorough search for a long-term successor to Amorim, with Mirror Football understanding that Carlo Ancelotti, Thomas Tuchel and Mauricio Pochettino are three of those under consideration – and that Sir Alex Ferguson will not be involved in the process.
Van Nistelrooy was United interim in October and November 2024 but has been ruled out of the running this time around. And speaking in a press conference ahead of Sunday’s third-round FA Cup tie against Brighton, interim boss Fletcher suggested that he isn’t currently being thought of as a contender for the role until the end of the season.
“I’ve not, no,” he said when asked if he had spoken to owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe about his future. “I speak to Omar and Jason. That’s how the processes work. For me, I’ve been focusing on the job in hand, preparing the team for these two games.
“There’s been no thought or conversation about my future. Honestly, the people in Jason and Omar have given me full responsibility to take control of these two games, make my own decisions, lead the team, guide the team, prepare the team, and that’s what I’ve been doing.
“There’s been no conversation with anybody outside of those two people in higher-up positions in the club.”
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