Manchester United remain undecided over who will lead the senior team for the remainder of the 2025\/26 season following last week\u2019s dismissal of Ruben Amorim. Ole Gunnar Solskj\u00e6r, currently listed as the club\u2019s U18s manager, is among those being considered for a more formal interim role until a permanent appointment is made in the summer. A potential complication for his case is a lack of clarity over which coaches would form his backroom team.<\/p>\n
Other internal and former figures are also under consideration. Michael Carrick and Ruud van Nistelrooy are on the list, with Carrick having been the first to hold a face-to-face meeting with senior staff. Solskj\u00e6r followed suit on Saturday. Van Nistelrooy has not yet met the hierarchy. ESPN notes that Fletcher has impressed the club hierarchy, while Van Nistelrooy is said to believe he features lower down the list of options.<\/p>\n
The question of support staff is acute given Solskj\u00e6r\u2019s recent managerial path. His last Manchester United support team included Mike Phelan, Kieran McKenna and Carrick. He inherited McKenna and Carrick and later brought Phelan back. McKenna is now a manager in his own right, and it is unclear whether Carrick would accept a return to a support role.<\/p>\n
Amorim\u2019s entire coaching team were sacked alongside him and are likely to remain aligned with the Portuguese coach in whatever role he takes next. That continuity contrasts with Solskj\u00e6r\u2019s more fragmented coaching links since leaving Old Trafford in 2021. His brief spell at Be\u015fikta\u015f was his only managerial job since that departure, and in T\u00fcrkiye he reunited with Erling Moe, his former Molde assistant from eight years earlier. Moe did not follow Solskj\u00e6r to Manchester in 2018 and instead replaced him at Molde.<\/p>\n
Given those circumstances, the club faces a familiar choice between short-term stability and a broader search. At present, who would be available and willing to form a Solskj\u00e6r backroom remains unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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