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Sky Sports News is reporting that Manchester United have reached an agreement in principle with Maricio Pochettino to take over as head coach if Michael Carrick is sacked. Man United look set to replace Carrick with a club having made their worst start to a domestic campaign in 40 years. Micio Potentinoho is currently in charge of the USA national team who will play Haiti twice before the Old Trafford club return to action against Liverpool a week on Sunday. I'm joined now by our sports correspondent Rob Harris. Uh Rob, there's a big meeting taking place today. Tell us more. Yes, a meeting understood to be taking place in Monaco led by Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the part owner of United in control of day-to-day operations of the
club alongside Omar Barada, the chief executive and director of football, Jason Wilcox, discussing among many things the future of Michael Carrick. There you see the two of them, Barada and Will Cox, who've overseen yet more turbulence in recent times. The fact they'd be looking to sack a second manager this year. It was right at the start of January that Ruben Amarun was dismissed. They brought in Michael Carrick as interim. He managed to get them back in the Champions League, recovering things last season. He was then handed a permanent contract, but now looking at making a managerial change for the third consecutive season
in midseason. And there we see Carrick on Sunday the 4-4 draw with Aston Villa leaving United in the relegation zone heading into the international break. They were two goals down in four minutes. They did manage to come back twice from two goals down to draw for with Aston Villa but that is just not good enough for a club of United standing and that is why today they are looking at what is expected to be a potential decision to sack Michael Carrick. the fact they've already reached a verbal agreement in principle with that man richio Pochettino. He's been leading the United States recently signed a new contract with them through
to the 2030 World Cup. It would take 10 million around 7 million pounds to prize him out of that contract. He led them to the last 16 at the World Cup being played on home soil in the summer and had been um progressing with the US but United had been coveting Pochettino for many years going back to his time with Tottenham a decade ago even he's since managed Chelsea that only lasted the season who also managed the season at Paris Sanjaman as well but certainly the United leadership will believe he's someone who can bring the best perhaps out of the players in what is a squad that has been struggling many of those players being in place for many years uh particularly a defense that's not
changed in what four years and been blamed for leaking so many goals uh more than I think any other team really in the top divisions in Europe and that shows why United are struggling with one win in 10 Premier League matches so far this season a team that aspires to be winning titles nowhere near that at the moment and a reminder that just last week Sir Alex Ferguson's 40 years since taking charge at Manchester United was celebrated Carrick was there as one of his former players and just a reminder of how far they have sunk since Seth Ferguson delivered the last of their Premier League titles in 2013.
Eight managers including Carrick have been trying to replicate that success. They've not managed to. So it now looks being a ninth manager being appointed since 2013. And to put that into some perspective, Ferguson took charge in 1986. To go back to sort of eight managers before him is to the 1930s. That's how much instability there is at a club still majority owned by the American Glazers family who are blamed by the fans for saddling them with debt that's now over 1 billion pounds money that the fans would say is spent on servicing that debt rather than the players to get them back to the top again. But United's leadership believed to be meeting in Monaco today to take a
decision to sack Michael Carrick and they have if that decision is taken lined up richino to replace
