While Manchester United’s management still backs current manager Amorin for now, the club has begun keeping an eye on potential replacements given the team’s worrying recent form.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, a minority shareholder of the club, is closely monitoring Manchester United’s day-to-day operations—his core concern is whether the team can get back on the winning track as soon as possible. This current situation is completely unacceptable to him. For this reason, despite the outward calm, the status of United’s managerial position remains a focal point of ongoing external attention.
Regarding former England manager Gareth Southgate, who has recently been linked to the Manchester United job: Southgate indeed maintains a "very good personal relationship" with Sir Ratcliffe, and after former manager Erik ten Hag was sacked, Southgate was also considered as one of the candidates to take over. However, Fabrizio Romano stated that this connection currently only exists at the personal level, and there have been no negotiations of any kind between Southgate and Manchester United.
Furthermore, on the topic of former Barcelona manager Xavi: Romano noted that Xavi is currently on the shortlist of managerial candidates for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad, but no substantive contact has been made between the two parties. At the same time, Xavi harbors a strong personal desire to manage a Premier League team—he is actively monitoring the Premier League, and Manchester United, in particular, is viewed by him as an ideal platform. He has been preparing for such an opportunity for a considerable amount of time, and if he were to receive an offer to manage Manchester United, Xavi would accept it without hesitation.
