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Former Newcastle United boss Steve Bruce wants to be the man to hold the fort until the end of the season at Man Utd, according to reports.

Bruce left St James’ Park by ‘mutual consent’ last month with the announcement coming 13 days after the club’s takeover by a Saudi-led consortium.

He left three days after his 1,000th game as a manager ended in a 3-2 home defeat to Tottenham, during which disgruntled fans renewed calls for him to go.

But now he is apparently ready for a quick return to management after Man Utd confirmed that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had left his role on Sunday.

As soon as Man Utd called an emergency board meeting on Saturday night it was obvious the writing was on the wall for their former striker, who despite changing the atmosphere around the club following the toxic end of Jose Mourinho’s reign never really convinced in the role.

A 4-1 defeat to Watford on Saturday means Man Utd have now lost five of their last seven Premier League matches, while they have only won three of their last 11 fixtures.

There have been numerous possible replacements mooted with Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers and former Real Madrid head coach Zinedine Zidane top of the list.

However, Man Utd announced that they will appoint an interim manager to take over until the end of the season before deciding on a long-term replacement for Solskjaer.

And The Athletic claim that ‘former United captain Steve Bruce, recently let go by Newcastle, would be very keen on the role, and believes he could help stabilise the dressing room’.

The report mentions Ralf Rangnick, Lucien Favre, Laurent Blanc, Ernesto Valverde and Rudi Garcia as potential other options for the interim position.

Michael Carrick will take a caretaker role until the interim boss is found but former defender Gary Neville believes the club should be looking at ex-Tottenham manager and current Paris St Germain boss Mauricio Pochettino as a long-term option.

“He’s always been a stand-out candidate and the only name I’ve mentioned as someone I thought really suited Manchester United in of core principles and values and how they play, how he acts and behaves,” Neville told Sky Sports.

“They haven’t planned or prepared for this, it’s deteriorated so badly and so quickly; Michael takes over now, the only option the club had was to put someone in to the end of the season, that’s been obvious for the last few weeks.

“If there was a world-class manager sat on the shelf ready to go two or three weeks ago, I think Ole would have been gone by now.”

https://www.football365.com/news/bruce-very-keen-stabalise-man-utd-dressing-room-solskjaer-replacement

Pochetino will 100% become the manager of Man Utd starting next season.

But for now, we should hire either Bruce , Koeman, Ernesto Valverde or even Nuno as interim manager.

We need to let this awoof/bonanza we started to go round first before thinking of anything else

GGMU

Hmm! A very goodluck to him then, because the problem with man utd now

is very deep than STABILIZING THE DRESSING ROOM & SOLKSJER himself that just left,

Only few professional analyst can understand.

MangekyoAlt:


https://www.football365.com/news/bruce-very-keen-stabalise-man-utd-dressing-room-solskjaer-replacement

All nah cruise

Any coach that will make the rival fans happy is highly welcome


Now that Ole is out, where will we get comic relief from in EPL


Chelsea went to Leicester, bought 3 king power oil, ready to fry their own share of the goat meat, mumu board sacked the sharer

Maguire's boss is gone.

Ole believed in Maguire when even a mad man wouldn't and the guy paid him back with underperformance.

Wahala for who dey choose captain anyhow.

Who is this one again?

I believe SiaSia will do a better Job.


He has the experience

Who be this one again? He better respect himself, we haven't recovered from that Ole Gunar fraud, surprised they didn't arrest him after the sacking

Thats beautiful

If you are ing super eagles with Manchester United, you are going through a lot

Is Gernot Rohr a joke to these people?

MangekyoAlt:
Pochetino will 100% become the manager of Man Utd starting next season.

But for now, we should hire either Bruce , Koeman, Ernesto Valverde or even Nuno as interim manager.

We need to let this awoof/bonanza we started to go round first before thinking of anything else

GGMU

no, I think it would be zidane

Good decision for opposition fans!

Good news to us, Cityzens!

Lol na cruise oh club be making some people proud man U 4 life chia i just miss Nigeria shia

Okay

Pride Na dey kill Man U..

Very conservative and is not helping..

There are better people out there, open it to them

Speaking as someone who is not a fan of man u, Steve bruce might be what they need...for now.

All the good coaches are taken, even people like Zidane that are available won't want to come and coach a club with such uncertainty, so for now, Bruce might be the one...especially as he is an ex-Man U legend with the respect of the fans.

At the end of the day, man u fans, your club needs a coach with a long term plan. In my opinion, whoever they give the job to, be prepared to go for some 5 seasons trophyless as the coach rebuilds from the bottom up. Ferguson that everyone ires won nothing from 1986-90, time he used to build up the club and to revitalise the youth squad...which is how we got the class of 92, and before that , players like Giggs. I'm saying that any new coach that comes should be given time to rebuild and money to spend not just on buying new players, but building for the future.

I wish man U good luck. It's a club with a decent history and a lot of pride, and they have come back from worse before (being relegated in the early 1970's for example).

Eleribu

Lol na to dey cruise

This United board haa I hope it’s not real Bruce of all coach. Well am not surprised one of the glazer’s said it took him long time before he could understand the offside rule.

MangekyoAlt:
Pochetino will 100% become the manager of Man Utd starting next season.

But for now, we should hire either Bruce , Koeman, Ernesto Valverde or even Nuno as interim manager.

We need to let this awoof/bonanza we started to go round first before thinking of anything else

GGMU

No way, Carrick should hold on till the next season

Another Ole

Just the way Moyes took United from top to where Everton used to be on the table, so will Bruce take Man United to the position Newcastle is.

I'm happy that it will be impossible for Man United to hire Conte
The beating continue