United Manager: Who's Next?
#1069 | Michael Carrick has been sacked as Manchester United manager and the money is flowing toward Mauricio Pochettino. Ed and Adam discuss a process that has never looked coherent. They weigh the case for and against Pochettino, why Eddie Howe, Julian Nagelsmann, and Antonio Conte look less likely, and what a new manager could mean for Bruno Fernandes’s future.
Picking the manager is the easy part. The new man inherits the same sporting department, the same CEO, and the same owners who promised not to oscillate between styles. Surely the sporting director has to go too. No promise of a fresh vision can be backed without proof.
0:00 Carrick sacked: who’s next?
1:58 A shambolic process
3:21 Pochettino emerges as favourite
7:49 Case for and against Poch
18:32 Eddie Howe and Nagelsmann
22:50 Conte
26:49 Bruno’s future
31:33 Fuck these owners
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