{"id":417109,"date":"2021-11-23T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=417109"},"modified":"2021-11-23T11:52:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:52:21","slug":"hes-a-risk-danny-murphy-urges-united-to-drop-interest-in-pochettino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=417109","title":{"rendered":"‘He’s a risk’ – Danny Murphy urges United to drop interest in Pochettino"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Liverpool midfielder, Danny Murphy has handed Manchester United the best manager option to take over at Old Trafford following the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.<\/p>\n

Murphy believes Leicester City boss, Brendan Rodgers would be a better option than Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s Mauricio Pochettino due to the Northern Irishman\u2019s experience of managing Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Solskjaer was dismissed by the former Premier League champions on Sunday after he led the Red Devils to a 4-1 defeat away at Watford.<\/p>\n

Michael Carrick has taken over now as a caretaker manager and will be in charge of Tuesday\u2019s Champions League clash against Villarreal in Spain.<\/p>\n

Both Pochettino and Rodgers are said to be willing to leave their current appointments immediately if United come calling.<\/p>\n

Rodgers was in charge of Liverpool for three years before a stint at Celtic, and most recently led the Foxes to FA Cup glory last season.<\/p>\n

And Murphy thinks Rodgers would be a better choice than Pochettino.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t surprise me there\u2019s a link with Brendan and United at all,\u201d he told talkSPORT.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I think he\u2019d take it? Yes, I do. I think I\u2019d go with Brendan ahead of Pochettino. I think the experience of Liverpool.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been at a massive club and understands the expectations. I know Poch is at PSG and I know he was at Tottenham \u2013 it\u2019s a big club but it\u2019s not the same expectation being at Tottenham as it is at Liverpool and Manchester United.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo he\u2019s got that little bit of extra experience by managing Liverpool rather than Tottenham. They\u2019re both tactically good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy also feels that former Tottenham boss, Pochettino is a \u2018risk\u2019 due to the lack of silverware he has won as a manager.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy aren\u2019t you [United] aiming high? Why aren\u2019t you aiming for the best? If Pochettino is the one, fine, but why is he the one? Because the fans wanted him 18 months ago before he struggled at Tottenham?<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, he\u2019s a manager who is yet to be proven at a top-level club winning things consistently. He made Tottenham into a competitive side by coaching players well, making them better collectively and individually. He did a great job at Spurs with players who wanted to be coached and get better.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to be walking in as he is at PSG \u2013 where he\u2019s struggled a bit, to be honest, he can\u2019t seem to integrate the front three together.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like him but no [I wouldn\u2019t go all out for Poch] because it\u2019s a risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s yet to show that he can deal with top-class international players over a period of time and win things.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Liverpool midfielder, Danny Murphy has handed Manchester United the best manager option to take over at Old Trafford following the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Murphy believes Leicester City boss, Brendan Rodgers would be a better option than Paris Saint-Germain\u2019s Mauricio Pochettino due to the Northern Irishman\u2019s experience of managing Liverpool. Solskjaer was dismissed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":406338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,9512,1406],"class_list":["post-417109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-epl","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=417109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=417109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=417109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=417109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}