Mauricio Pochettino has emerged as the frontrunner to become the next Manchester United manager and is the top pick of the club’s majority shareholders, the Glazer family, The i Paper has been told.
A meeting will take place between CEO Omar Berrada, director of football Jason Wilcox, co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe and other senior figures in Monaco on Wednesday, where the fate of Michael Carrick will be decided. The besieged boss is at the club’s Carrington base on Tuesday taking training as usual.
It is almost certain the axe will fall on the former midfielder in the days that follow, leaving United looking for their third permanent manager in the past three years. Carrick oversaw just one win from the club’s first 10 league matches of a season for the first time in 53 years.
Pochettino has been interviewed by United twice previously, in 2018 and 2022, but the Glazers elected to go for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Erik ten Hag instead.
Two sources in the US, who have close working ties to Joel and Avram Glazer, the most active members of the family in United dealings, insist the Americans will not make the same mistake in overlooking Pochettino again.
The Argentine’s stock has grown markedly in the country since becoming coach of the United States men’s national team two years ago.
Mauricio Pochettino last coached in the Premier League when at Chelsea in the 2023-24 season (Photo: Getty)The Glazers have very close ties to the billionaire hedge fund owner Ken Griffin, who helped finance Pochettino’s lucrative four-year deal he signed in the summer. Griffin and his Citadel company also provided funds for the Glazers’ leveraged takeover of United in 2005 and own a very small amount of shares in the club.
The i Paper has been told that Pochettino is happy in his current role but would be willing to hear what United have to say, when he is contacted. No approach has been made as yet. It would cost $10m (£7m) to release the 54-year-old from his contract.
It has been suggested that the increased input from the Glazers, so often away from the day-to-day workings at United back in Florida, could indicate that the majority owners plan to take a more active role in footballing decisions again – something they stepped back from upon Ineos’ investment in 2024 – as United continue to go from one disaster to the next under Ratcliffe’s command.
There are doubts among several US-based insiders over whether Pochettino would leave the US job now. The former Chelsea and Tottenham boss has spoken about his long-term plans for the role in great detail and is creating a young and vibrant side. Taking over a “poisoned chalice” like United right now seems, to some, puzzling.
Aspirations to return to the Premier League have never gone away for Pochettino, however, and there remains no bigger role in world football than trying to turn United around.
Pochettino’s suitability for the role centres around his coaching ability, working with what he has got, often without a budget to splurge on new players, to oversee improvement.
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Opinion: Man Utd fans hit a new low by humiliating Diogo Dalot Transfers: Inside Man Utd’s plans to rip up their leaky defenceCarrick was afforded more time, three games, following the club’s disastrous 3-0 home defeat to Bournemouth two weeks ago, to show he was the right man to turn things around.
While there was some improvement in performance, the United hierarchy are not understood to have been convinced by Carrick, and they will make a change this week, with an announcement expected on Thursday.
Eddie Howe and Julian Nagelsmann are still very much in the running. Howe is the top pick of Wilcox, given his recent Premier League experience, while Nagelsmann is head of recruitment Christopher Vivell’s leading candidate, the pair having worked together at RB Leipzig.
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