Darren Fletcher held his first press conference as Manchester United manager.
Darren Fletcher’s run as Manchester United manager is likely to last only this week. PDO
Manchester United is back to square one again.
Led the men’s national team for 14 months Ruben Amorim got a shoe on Monday and the rest of the coaching staff disappeared with him.
In Wednesday’s away game at Burnley, the team will be coached by a club legend, a five-time Premier League champion Darren Fletcher.
– If Amorim had trouble winning the players’ trust in his side, I don’t think Darren Fletcher has the same problem. He seems like a man to be respected, the football editor of The Observer Rory Smith told the BBC.
In the same breath, Smith also found something funny in the situation.
– It seems that United ran out of volunteers and they just decided to put one of the players’ fathers as a coach.
Captain Fernandes returns?
Fletcher himself held the first press conference of his career as Manchester United’s head coach on Tuesday evening. Naturally, he was also asked about his own sons, Jack’s and Tylor’sabout the chances of getting on the field against Burnley.
– I will not reveal the composition of the team. They were in training, but we still have to assess the condition of a couple of players on Wednesday, Fletcher started.
He revealed that both Bruno Fernandes that Mason Mount are trying to get fit for Wednesday’s trip to Turf Moor.
– My sons are still on the outside of the team. We’ll see how it goes, father and head coach Fletcher continued.
– I hope the team looks like something the fans can be proud of. It’s about the players, not me. I’m just here to help them.
For Fletcher, the Burnley match means his first coaching job at the adult level. As of Sunday, he was only the head coach of United’s under-18s.
The coaching team includes the head coach of the under-21s Travis Binnionwho served as Fletcher’s right-hand man in the academy as well, a newcomer Alan Wright and has twice represented the club as a player Jonny Evans.
Solskjær is negotiating
It remains to be seen how long they will be able to hustle with the first team. of The Athletic according to information, a club legend even bigger than Fletcher Ole Gunnar Solskjaer would currently negotiate a longer head coach contract.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær has last coached Turkish Beşiktaş. PDO
The Norwegian still has a detached house on the outskirts of Manchester, and he coached United with reasonably good success for almost three years from 2018 to 2021, during which the team reached the top four and the Europa League final in consecutive seasons.
Even Solskjær’s pest would probably be temporary, as United want to look at the coaching market in the coming summer. Then they are possibly free at least Carlo Ancelotti, Thomas Tuchel, Oliver Glasner, Marco Silva, Mauricio Pochettino, Didier Deschamps and Roberto Martinez.
The second question then is whether any of them would want to join a club in disarray like the current United.
– The most important goal now is to beat Burnley. Now I’m just focusing on doing my best for United and trying to help the club, the team and the players to make Manchester United successful again, Fletcher said.
– Everyone expects United to be on top, to win things. It’s the standard. And that’s what we all aim for.