Rangnick is said to be watching the situation at Old Trafford and will be interested in the job as an interim manager if the conditions are right.
Reports from England suggest the Manchester hierarchy have started looking at replacing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and
Ralf Rangnick is being considered on an interim basis.
The red half of Manchester, have lost four and drawn one of their last six Premier League games and are currently below Arsenal, who were bottom of the league after week three.
United management despite these poor results by the club legend have, however, stood by the under-fire manager, so far, despite growing discontentment among the fans.
Rangnick is a well-respected manager and has been credited with directly influencing Jürgen Klopp, Thomas Tuchel, and Julian Nagelsmann.
He is also considered one of the best minds in football and was the one who oversaw the rise of RB Leipzig on and off the pitch.
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Renowned for his development of young players and talent ID. He just might be the needed experience to take United out of the present quagmire.
But according to Italian journalist, Fabrizio, Man Utd have spoken to Rangnick in the past but decided against hiring him because “he wasn’t an easy person to work with.”
He believes United Owner, the Glazers, wants a “Yes” man, this is why they’d rather keep Solskjaer than hire Rangnick or Conte.
United are just left with negatives, all over the departments of the game, but the poor defensive approach to games by Solskjaer is even most worrisome.
The red devils badly need a new direction, as well as some electricity. The view from close sources says United’s executives are well aware of this.
Some figures at the club floated the idea of bringing in the former RB Leipzig manager Ralf Rangnick as an interim, and he does already have a relationship with the Old Trafford hierarchy.
According to The Independent, the German would be interested in such a role, but would also want some kind of football position afterward.
If United were to make a move, they would ideally have a top-class coach come straight in, as none are currently available.
Some in the game think they should go and do what they would do with a player and commit what it takes to extract Erik Ten Hag from Ajax, but numerous sources say he would not leave mid-season.
Even Tottenham Hotspur felt they only had a limited window to get him earlier this year, due to his respect for Ajax. He did not want to leave them in the lurch.
United might meanwhile, have had reservations about Antonio Conte that they see as entirely justifiable, but the wider problem is that he is just the latest elite manager to pass them by.
The lack of football expertise by Solskjaer
has left them in a situation where all their main rivals now have the finest coaches, while United have a figure who takes a step forward and several backward.
He’s a 48-year-old manager who has won nothing at the top level of the modern game, and recent results do not suggest that will be changing soon.
This is why the Rangnick situation is so tantalizing, but also instructive. United are a team so bereft of basic coaching and structure that anyone offering such management at all would have an immediate impact.
As the figure responsible for instigating Germany’s coaching revolution, Rangnick might be ideal for this. He is possibly the best available.
The problem is that promising a future director role to Rangnick, who is currently head of sports and development at Lokomotiv Moscow, may complicate the appointment of the next big manager.
Mauricio Pochettino, as an example, would not be that interested in working under the German.
Many around United now believe that the ideal situation, to use that phrase loosely, is Solskjaer or some workable interim steadying the situation, until the next big decision can be made for the summer.
It’s just there aren’t that many suitable interim choices currently available, either. It is admittedly a strange job: a short-term stabilization of a big club.
Zidane has no interest at the moment stabilization who is there? Laurent Blanc? Carlos Quieroz? Someone in the international game? There is no obvious solution, but Solskjaer remains an obvious problem.
Manchester United doesn’t seem to want a short-term, quick-fix manager. They want someone who can build a squad and work with them, mixing, in the club’s own words ‘world-class recruits’ with ‘academy graduates’
