Manchester United Rumours

09 Jan 2026 22:53:28
Seen reports today of Toby Collyer going back out on loan surely we should be looking to keep him at the club with our lack of midfield options.

10 Jan 2026 03:37:01
Not sure how good he actually is? Will also depend largely I’d guess on his injury, and whether the club manage to offload Ugarte?

10 Jan 2026 09:10:23
I'd rather play him than Ugarte.

10 Jan 2026 09:52:04
It’s an easy thing to say AJH but Ugarte hasn’t suddenly turned into a poor player since his Sporting and PSG days. He’s fairly limited in passing range etc, but he’s not been played to his strengths, and he’s an experienced international midfielder who could have a role as DM in a midfield 3.

In theory, he should bring energy, tenacity and aggression to our midfield to break up play and provide extra cover for our centre backs, the question is does he have the discipline and positional sense to thrive in the Premier League. In a midfield 3 he now, like Mainoo who can play further forward, has a real chance to shine.

Collyer started well like many, but needs football to kick on. Will he get it here I don’t know. That being said, he’ll be getting the right interim coach whoever it is as either OGS, RVN or Carrick will dip into the youth system more.

10 Jan 2026 09:57:39
I agree Ajh. Ugarte has been a shocking signing. Did he come in, instead of McT?

10 Jan 2026 10:01:34
Hull are doing well and they play good football aswell. They are also on the play offs.

10 Jan 2026 10:57:15
Ultimately young players need to be playing regularly if they are going to develop and reach their potential.

I think the original plan was to loan out Collyer for the first half of the season and see how he did while we kept Sekou Kone and gave him more first team exposure to help him continue to adjust to playing in England. Then assess where both of them were in January. However, Kone's injury and Collyer's limited game time, partially due to injury, has meant that it's hard to judge where either player is right now.

Realistically the club should loan out the player they think has the best chance of having a future at the club so they can continue to develop, while keeping the other one at the club as back up.

I think given the challenging situation our club is in right now and the limited options we have in midfield I'd be tempted to loan out the younger lad Kone somewhere where he'll get regular game time, ideally in the Championship, but abroad if necessary. While keeping the more experienced Collyer (whose still building up fitness after his injury) as without a midfield signing in January (due to being managerless again) it's more likely that whoever stays will be needed as the seasons wears on and players pick up more injuries. I would expect to see Casemiro to have to miss a few games given his age and the amount he has played for us so far this season. While the rarely injured Bruno has had a spell out, Mount will pick up injuries, Mainoo has missed a bit due to injuries and Ugarte has as well.

Given that we will have a caretaker manager and the difficult situation we find ourselves in it makes more sense to rely on the more experienced Collyer in a pinch rather than throwing Kone into the mix.

10 Jan 2026 11:30:04
Ugarte has looked better playing alongside Casemeiro. Ideally the club can move him on in the summer.

Hopefully, he can find his form again, but I'm not sure if he will.

10 Jan 2026 11:45:02
Ugarte has been a massive disappointment, when you think we signed him and let McT go, albeit slightly different positions. I get why we want Rashford to leave, lack of effort, questionable commitment, but losing Scott seemed mad at the time. And this is how I now feel about Mainoo

I can't think of on evanescence when I thought I see why qe signed Ugarte. Maybe the cub is too big for him, who knows, but I would absolutely play others in front of him, including some of our youngsters.

10 Jan 2026 15:27:20
Why do you think you are not in the position to be manager of united ajh?

11 Jan 2026 07:29:29
Ugarte has been better. Still not good enough, but better nonetheless.

11 Jan 2026 13:21:43
Ugarte has been shocking since he moved to PSG. Except when he’s playing for Uruguay. Must be a confidence thing. He seemed like a player well suited to the EPL, but his defensive positioning is poor, and his passing is all over the place. I’d suspect that he’ll be sold if anyone would bid, but his value is rock bottom now.

07 Jan 2026 09:33:53
First one of the New Year. Sam Mather off to Kayserspor for an undisclosed fee.

06 Jan 2026 17:27:03
Oles happening.

06 Jan 2026 17:47:56
The scenes on here if that happens…hard hats at the ready 🤣.

06 Jan 2026 18:06:33
I'll be sick.

06 Jan 2026 18:13:20
Absolutely desperate, at least neville and his chums will be happy, won't hear a peep out of them for the rest of the season, I can see it now, we beat city and arsenal and rio will be wailing for him to have it full time, unbelievabley funny.

06 Jan 2026 18:20:12
Maybe wilcox is on some sort of sabotage job.

06 Jan 2026 18:28:39
Jeez…. At least we have form for getting personnel back after we get rid of them.

06 Jan 2026 18:35:13
Probably fits Nevilles idea of "Utd Dna", whatever the f that is! Genuinely embarrassing when they say this.

06 Jan 2026 18:57:37
If its Ole again, then that's the final nail in the coffin.

06 Jan 2026 19:51:33
Must have fell into a time machine and gone all the way back to 2018 man utd manager gets sacked after outburst at board ole Gunnar solsjaer. Steadys the sip .

06 Jan 2026 20:10:40
Groundhog Day.

06 Jan 2026 20:16:55
Ole is a good man, loves the club and will stabilise the mood. It will be a 5 months max.

Some very disappointing comments here. Ole deserves better and respect.

06 Jan 2026 20:24:54
Ole is to sir Jim as Martin is to wee dermott up in Glasgow. I’d much rather carrick be brought in as I thought he did ok at boro and for a few months then why not.

07 Jan 2026 02:19:45
I’d take Ole and Keane until the end of the season. Fairly confident they’d have us finishing in the top four.

07 Jan 2026 08:55:27
I dot dislike Ole, but let's be honest, he did not push the club forward, at all. May E he didn't send them backwards either, but we have some very big years ahead and he is not the guy, never will be. He is a yes man. A spineless yes man. A puppet, as it were.

07 Jan 2026 09:19:30
A few thoughts re: Ole, I think there was a perception last time that he pretty much let the players do what they wanted at training - probably over-simplifying things but it seems there wasn't as much structure to the sessions behind the scenes. Maybe that's why he was so popular with the players. How much of that contributed to the 'player power' culture, with Rash/Lingard/Sancho all in full flight in that period.
That being said, I doubt there's been a more popular United manager in recent years, and I'd say that the Ole era first time round was vastly more enjoyable to watch than any other for the past 13-14 years, even the final Fergie season.


I'm not overly against Ole as caretaker, but for christs sake no matter what kind of run if any we go on, no knee-jerk contracts before the board have sat down at the end of the season and discussed properly.

07 Jan 2026 10:09:56
I still don't understand the negativity about Ole's managerial tenure. Especially as we've visibly gone downhill since he was fired.

Ole had a clear deficiency tactically, particularly regarding making changes mid-match, but I always felt this was something which he could learn, and he did make some improvement in this area during his time with us, albeit not by a lot.

However, he also had players giving their all, gave us some of our best league finishes since SAF (certainly better than we've had since he left), a fairly decent win percentage, and IMO at least, the most entertaining football we've played since SAF.

Obviously that last part is subjective, and "entertaining" is not necessarily the same as "good", but we scored a lot of goals, and even the losses tended not to be boring.


I'm not saying I want him back, but I don't understand the negativity.

07 Jan 2026 10:20:17
Carrick didn't do well at boro. His training methods were questionable and I'm sure it was a case of jobs for the boys aswell. He simply has got what it takes to be an interim manager at Utd.

The same goes for OGS. Maguire was exceptionally poor under OGS. He simply doesn't suit a 4 at the back formation. Whenever teams played pressing football against Utd, they simply buckled. Let's not forget that Ralf Rangnick said that they were not fit enough when he took over.

Let's not fall back into bad habits and employ previous managers. They need to employ an interim whonplay football similar to the next manager that comes in. A bump less changeover must happen.

07 Jan 2026 11:18:16
I am shaking my head at so many of the comments. Amorim took a poisonous player centric culture that had built up under several managers. As much and all as I admire Ole, he was one of those. I don't understand at all why we're going straight away for interim managers rather than trying to get a manager in right now.

If we cannot get those managers then fine, but not even trying seems crazy. Surely it doesn't take 6 months to evaluate who is a good coach or not.

07 Jan 2026 12:32:43
Don red. For our lot it probably does. Their end of season review of eth took about 6 weeks. 🤷‍♂️.

07 Jan 2026 13:16:32
DonRed,

I'd imagine that the club are potentially looking at Glasner, Tuchel, Iriaola whose contracts expire this summer. to save money and give them time to have a full pre season.

There was talk that Enrique is ready for a new challenge etc. He would be by first pick, but he was to leave PSG, he will likely end up at City. They fit like a glove.

07 Jan 2026 13:44:53
Mad Hatter, the potential cost from a lower league position is likely to be much higher than the cost to get Glasner or Iraola now. As for Enrique, unless he has clearly indicated that he wants to come to us then waiting for him seems like a fools errand.

07 Jan 2026 15:02:43
DonRed,

I would happily go for Glasner or Iraola now.

07 Jan 2026 17:41:33
Get Glasner now, don't wait. Grease the wheels of Guehi, Munoz and Wharton on the way out.
It seems so simple, yet we will buckle to the OGS 2.0 a d we will be here again in a year or two when he gets found out for being tactically inept. I would say he is only good at being a people person and not upsetting anyone, hence the player power debacle.

We need a leader, he is not a leader.

There is a video of him talking about Keane, you can see he is just in awe of him, but you can also see that he is incapable of relocating that trait.

Again, I don't dislike the guy, I was a teenager when he scored against Munich and recall dancing around like a madman. But not once did I dance around when he was manager, because he is not a manager, he relied too heavily on the say so of Fergie at the time.

05 Jan 2026 10:35:12
Manchester United sack Ruben Amorim in the wake of rising tension at Old Trafford; Amorim dismissed after meeting with Omar Berrada and Jason Wilcox; Darren Fletcher to take charge of United for Wednesday's game at Burnley; Amorim departs after 14 months in charge.

05 Jan 2026 11:23:27
The press conference yesterday sealed his fate. Otherwise he would have seen the season through.

05 Jan 2026 11:29:49
Rinse and repeat. And so the cycle continues.

05 Jan 2026 11:40:03
Who we thinking for his long term replacement then?

I believe Glasner is the favourite.

05 Jan 2026 12:00:26
Glasner? The guy who plays 343? That will go well here. It shouldn't be ever so long before some turn on him due to his 'formation'.

05 Jan 2026 12:11:25
Here’s hoping Wilcox follows him out the door.

05 Jan 2026 12:56:35
Ed001, you mentioned that the club were willing to get rid of Wilcox. Is this something they could still do?

I have not been impressed with what I’ve heard about him. That he sucked up to Ratcliffe and undermined Ashworth to steal his job. I feel like we need a proven DoF to come in and sort out the mess.

{Ed001's Note - I think it is very likely he will be replaced as well, in a couple of months or so when it will not seem related.}

05 Jan 2026 15:12:05
Thanks, Ed001.

05 Jan 2026 03:01:34
In the event INEOS release Amorim, it is Fletcher for interim, apparently.

If INEOS were to release Wilcox, we could make a play for Mitchell, I believe he is still a free agent since Monaco.

If INEOS were to also release Berrada, perhaps Jean-Claude Blanc gets dropped into that role.

Eds, what are your sources saying on this debacle?!

{Ed001's Note - from what I can gather it is not so much a debacle as just a group of people who have been put together and it is not working out. Just a personality clash, as much as a working disagreement. They tried to get them to sort it out between them, but it has just escalated. Now the decision has to be made as to who is the actual issue and they will be replaced. I did expect it to be Wilcox, but Amorim's public comments have just put him in the spotlight and they do not like to be publicly rebuked like that, so I think that you might see Amorim also replaced now.}

05 Jan 2026 07:37:37
Sounds like he is done Ed001, you can't come out and say these things about the hierarchy. It was very Maresca like.

Ken, mentioned, the other week that the football hierarchy at United have backed Amorim and there's a greater plan here and that he wouldn't expect mere mortals like myself to understand.

So, hopefully he reads this and can let us know how the plan is going?

{Ed001's Note - he has basically handed in his notice. It was very strange considering he seemed to have the upper hand.}

05 Jan 2026 08:03:10
Cheers Ed, I really hope that Berrada throws Wilcox under the bus and goes for Mitchell.
I was looking at Freedman, but realised he has since chased the money and is managing in Saudi.

Not overly convinced by Berrada but if he can decipher who is 1. The bigger problem and 2. Who is going to bring longer term success out of Amorim/Wilcox, then I'm willing to get behind the decision.

On the surface, as per previous posts, I have seen progress in our play under Amorim, with some glaring holes that need filling. I guess he is frustrated the holes aren't being filled quickly enough to progress the plan.

{Ed001's Note - I do think Amorim has basically handed in his resignation letter though.}

05 Jan 2026 08:30:09
Sad if this comes to pass as you describe, Ed001, because we are improving under RA. So the merry-go-round continues. When will the lunacy end?!

{Ed001's Note - I believe he had won, but then went public over it. If he had just stayed quiet, I believe things would have changed in his favour. Now I can't see that they have a choice but to get rid, because you can't allow your employees to simply publicly revolt against their bosses.}

05 Jan 2026 08:52:39
Thanks for the reply ed001.

What do you mean when you say you think he had won?

Like, had the upperhand over Wilcox? And who is driving the thing against Wilcox, has Vivell got any say in all of this?

{Ed001's Note - Yes, I believe Wilcox was going to be the one removed and replaced as the pair could not work together. Airing dirty linen in public could have changed that though, now they might feel they have to back Wilcox.

Wilcox and Amorim do not mesh well together, there is friction there apparently.}

05 Jan 2026 09:56:31
ED001,

If Urd do sack RA, who so you think they should go for?

No doubt Xavi will be linked with the job, but I'm not sure he woukd be suited to it. Although he has worked under similar circunstances and Barcelona.

{Ed001's Note - Hoeness and Iraola are the 2 that stand out for me.}

05 Jan 2026 10:16:36
How utterly stupid. Too many short term thinkers out there. There was clear progress and this could set us back. Need to make a really good hire now. If it's Glasner then we'll have the same crap again with people complaining about the formation.

Iraola is probably the one to go for but he might already be lined up elsewhere. Extremely annoyed by all this. Amorim should have been backed and that press conference was recoverable from.

05 Jan 2026 10:31:04
He was manager of the month not long ago, and everything was looking pretty good. As soon as we've hit a bad patch, with a squad affected by AFCON, everyone has gone mad.

05 Jan 2026 10:31:57
Ed001, do you know anything more about the Ashworth sacking last year, it seems Wilcox has amassed a lot of power and apart from him and Berrada being work pals from City, i don't really understand why and what skills he possesses to have this much say over transfers and playing style.

Genuinely confused about the hierarchy at the club.

{Ed001's Note - it was a dispute over the direction of the club. Ashworth didn't want Amorim, oddly enough, Wilcox did.}

05 Jan 2026 10:50:42
Spot on Ed. Just confirmed that Amorim has been removed.

{Ed001's Note - he basically went out and asked for the sack. Very odd behaviour.}

05 Jan 2026 11:00:25
Cheers ED001,

Apparently Vivell has been tasked with recruiting a manager?

Im not sure if that is a good or a bad thing. Presumably they intend to appoint a manager who play a specific style of football?

{Ed001's Note - the alternative is Wilcox, so I think Vivell is the better choice! The plan is someone the whole club from youth level up, can align with.}

05 Jan 2026 11:27:58
Ed001,

Did Berrada and Wilocs perform well at City?

Obviously the club did, we're they appointed because of their success or the clubs successes?

{Ed001's Note - they were not really in a position to have a major effect on decisions, Pep and the guy from Barca that Rafa had previously taken to Liverpool (was it Vilanova? Damn my memory has gone absolutely blank on the name!) were in charge. Wilcox etc all worked under their direction, rather than being the ones tasked with making the decisions. So you would have to say they were appointed because of the club's successes.}

05 Jan 2026 11:38:23
Txiki Begeristain ed?

For some reason I think we will go for xavi.

{Ed001's Note - that's him. He rebuilt Liverpool's academy and produced the blueprint for the club's infrastructure upgrades. He then moved to Citeh and turned their whole infrastructure, including academy, into probably the best in the world.}

05 Jan 2026 11:35:47
ED001,

Was it Txiki Bergiristein?

Thanks.

{Ed001's Note - yes mate, thank you. I can't believe I forgot his name.}

05 Jan 2026 11:50:32
Im surprised the club haven't gone for him. i'm notnaure if he has since retired.

05 Jan 2026 13:27:56
He wasn't at Liverpool was he ed?

{Ed001's Note - no, I think you are right, he was the one Rafa wanted but turned the job down and then took the ones from Liverpool that Rafa did bring in to rebuild the academy. My god I am getting old! Things are getting mixed up in my mind to a frightening degree these days. Was it Borrell and Segura? It is Begiristain who works with Pep though, but very much a partnership as Pep pretty much has full control.}

05 Jan 2026 15:06:33
Rodolfo borrell was definitely a coach worked for city and Liverpool not sure on segura.

06 Jan 2026 09:19:06
Ferran Soriano.