LONDON (The Thursday Times) — Manchester United have opened talks with United States head coach Mauricio Pochettino about replacing Michael Carrick, who is expected to lose his job this week with the club in the Premier League relegation zone.
Carrick’s future was to be decided at a meeting in Monaco on Wednesday attended by chief executive Omar Berrada, director of football Jason Wilcox and co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe. Berrada and Wilcox are expected to recommend that the head coach should go. Carrick was pictured arriving at the club’s Carrington training base on Wednesday morning.
United are 18th after winning one of their first 10 league games, and none since August. It is their lowest position at this stage of a top-flight season since 1986-87, when they were 20th. A 2-0 defeat by Chelsea, in which Lisandro Martínez was sent off, added to the pressure.
Fourth time of asking
United have sounded out Pochettino about the job three times before: after José Mourinho was sacked in 2018, in 2022 before Erik ten Hag was appointed, and again when Ten Hag was sacked in 2024.
The Argentine renewed his contract with the United States in August, after leading the co-hosts to the last 16 of the 2026 World Cup. The US play Haiti in a two-legged Concacaf Nations League quarter-final over the next week.
Pochettino’s Premier League career began at Southampton in January 2013, followed by five years at Tottenham from 2014 that included a Champions League final. He managed Paris Saint-Germain from January 2021 to July 2022 and Chelsea in 2023-24, before taking the US job in September 2024.
