Manchester United appoint Mauricio Pochettino as manager
Manchester United have appointed Mauricio Pochettino as manager after dismissing Michael Carrick during the club’s worst start to a Premier League season in 40 years. United have taken just eight points from their first 10 league matches, with one win leaving them 18th in the table, only one point above bottom side Crystal Palace. Their wider form is also poor: they have won three of 15 matches in all competitions.
Pochettino will first complete the United States men’s national team’s upcoming matches against Haiti before beginning work at Old Trafford. He has led the US team since 2024, including during their run to the last 16 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but is now returning to club football. United reportedly face substantial compensation costs to release him from a contract that was due to last until the 2030 World Cup.
The 54-year-old previously managed Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea. At Tottenham, he reached the 2019 Champions League final and finished second in the Premier League in 2017; at PSG, he won the Ligue 1 title. United are presenting him as an attack-minded coach with a strong record of developing players, qualities they hope can restore confidence and structure to an expensive squad that supporters recently booed after a defeat to Bournemouth. His first league assignment will be away to Liverpool at Anfield on November 22.
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