Who will be the next Man Utd manager if Ruben Amorim is sacked? | OneFootball

Ruben Amorim earned himself a little time with an unbeaten Manchester United run, but that defeat to Everton was rotten.

United contrived to lose 1-0 at home to the 10-man Toffees, leaving us speculating about when he might be sacked.

If Amorim is done for, the next question becomes who could take over at Manchester United? We have the big names with the latest odds here…

6=) Mauricio Pochettino

United missed their chance back in summer 2024 when Chelsea cruelly discarded him, but any second thoughts United might have on that bit of decision-making are for now pretty much futile, with Pochettino having taken the USA job. That surely puts him out of contention for anything else until next summer and a (mostly) home World Cup.

6=) Edin Terzic

The former Borussia Dortmund boss was high in the reckoning for the Tottenham job, mostly we suspect because he is available. The same criteria could get him the nod here, and it’s fair to say that former Dortmund bosses have generally done okay in Our League.

6=) Julian Nagelsmann

Has extended his Germany contract until after Euro 2028, which would appear to rule him out, but the lure of the elite club game can be strong and Nagelsmann in the Premier League has long felt inevitable somewhere down the line. Yet surely, at the very least, it wouldn’t happen this side of the World Cup.

6=) Marco Silva

Whispers of Fulham being unhappy in their marriage were as fleeting as they were ridiculous. Silva would likely be a decent Manchester United manager, but we struggle with the optics of this one. United fancy themselves to be rather above Silva.

6=) Andoni Iraola

Figures high in the betting for any big Premier League job after improbably taking Bournemouth into the higher reaches of the Premier League table. But it’s a big old leap in pressure.

5) Unai Emery

He has somehow made Aston Villa the third best Premier League team of 2025 while battling PSR issues. He probably deserves another crack at a massive club, if he can be arsed with the pressure.

The former Barcelona coach has been out of work since leaving Barcelona at the end of the 23/24 season, when it was reported that he was eyeing an ‘interesting’ club in the Premier League. And the one thing you can guarantee with United is ‘interesting’.

3) Gareth Southgate

Very strongly linked with the Manchester United job last summer after somehow taking England to another European final. He would not be a popular appointment, but the good news for United fans is that it won’t happen.

Southgate has been pretty clear about feeling mighty comfortable about never taking another managerial job. That hasn’t stopped him being described as a “master of manipulation” and being tipped for the big job, mind.

A brilliant player for United, he burst straight into this top 10 after being sacked by Saudi Pro League club Al-Ittihad. He has since somehow climbed to second favourite when we were not paying attention.

1) Oliver Glasner

That FA Cup win with Crystal Palace has taken the Austrian high up all the lists, and now right to the very top of the silliest of all of them with Spurs off the table for at least the next few months. Maybe. It helps that a) he plays the same system as Manchester United and b) he is simply not losing (many) games as Palace manager.