Erik ten Hag has departed Manchester United following his aspect’s poor begin to the brand new Premier League season.
The Dutchman has been on the membership for the previous two and a half years and survived hypothesis that he was on account of be dismissed on the finish of final season after pulling off a shock FA Cup Closing victory over Manchester Metropolis. Nevertheless, United have began this season poorly and sit 14th within the Premier League desk after 9 video games following their late defeat to West Ham United on Sunday afternoon.
So who is likely to be in line to interchange ten Hag as the following everlasting Manchester United supervisor? Here is the chances as supplied by SkyBet and proper as of 12:15pm on Monday October 28.
Subsequent Manchester United supervisor odds after Erik ten Hag departure
Favorite: Ruud van Nistelrooy (2/5)
Ruud van Nistelrooy returned to Outdated Trafford in the summertime (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Former Manchester United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy has been positioned already been confirmed to be in interim cost of the primary crew after returning to the membership as ten Hag’s assistant in the summertime.
That appointment had led folks to take a position that van Nistelrooy is likely to be being lined up as a longer-term successor to his compatriot, particularly given he already has top-flight administration expertise with PSV Eindhoven.
Unsurprisingly, then, the bookies presently appear to view the job as van Nistelrooy’s to lose, putting in him because the odds-on favorite with the remainder of the sector presently seen as for much longer pictures.
Different robust runners: Gareth Southgate and Ruben Amorim (7/2)
Gareth Southgate has been linked with Manchester United for months (Picture credit score: Valerio Pennicino – UEFA/UEFA by way of Getty Photos)
Gareth Southgate is just not a brand new identify with regards to the job at Outdated Trafford: there have been stories earlier than this summer time’s Euros that new United shareholders INEOS have been eager to agree a deal for the then-England supervisor to take over as United boss after the Euros.
Southgate subsequently stood down as England boss following their defeat to Spain within the last – however did say earlier this month that he meant to take a 12 months out from soccer.
Stage pegging with Southgate within the bookies’ eyes is Sporting boss Ruben Amorim, who was strongly linked with the Liverpool job earlier than they employed Arne Slot earlier this 12 months. Amorim took Sporting to the league title in spectacular type final season, the second time he has laid fingers on the trophy in his fourth-year spell as gaffer.
Different potential candidates for the Manchester United job
Thomas Frank has achieved an excellent job at Brentford (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Ian Wright just lately threw his weight behind Brentford boss Thomas Frank – ranked at no.30 in FourFourTwo’s checklist of the most effective managers on this planet proper now
Frank is rated at 7/1 – although he mentioned final week concerning the prospect of leaving for a ‘greater’ job: “For positive, if I ever obtained the provide to go to a giant membership and I made a decision to go there, it will in all probability not make my life higher. I believe everyone knows that. Perhaps it’s a problem that you must attempt. It isn’t one thing I’m desirous about.”
Graham Potter can be at 7/1 having been accessible since leaving Chelsea 18 months in the past, and mentioned final month he is able to return to administration after a little bit of a sabbatical.
Former Barcelona midfielder-turned-manager Xavi may also be in with a shout: he left the membership after saying he would go away on the finish of the season, then providing to reverse his resolution and lengthen his contract, then getting sacked anyway. Xavi managed Barca to the 2022/23 league title having first reduce his enamel managing in Qatar.
Former United midfielder and caretaker boss Michael Carrick is at 8/1, having been at Middlesbrough for the previous two years; they’re presently ninth within the Championship.
Ipswich boss and former United coach Kieran McKenna is as 12/1, whereas former Borussia Dortmund boss Edin Terzic is 14/1 and title-winning Inter Milan boss Simone Inzaghi is eighteen/1.
