Man Utd planning to hijack Man City's Pep Guardiola succession plan after crisis meeting

Manchester United and Manchester City could some find themselves successful the hunt for a caller manager successful 2025 and there's 1 antheral who is precise overmuch connected the radar of some clubs

Manchester United are eyeing up Manchester City-linked Ruben Amorim arsenic a imaginable successor to Erik 10 Hag, it has been claimed.

Sporting CP brag Amorim has been mentioned successful transportation with City aft Hugo Viana's determination from the Lisbon nine was announced earlier successful October. Viana volition instrumentality implicit from Pep Guardiola's adjacent state Txiki Begiristain arsenic the Manchester club's sporting director, prompting speculation implicit Guardiola's ain future.

The City brag insisted he is successful nary unreserved to marque a decision connected whether he'll widen his enactment astatine the Etihad Stadium. Similarly, Amorim has insisted helium is lone focused connected his existent club.

The reigning Premier League champions aren't the lone ones who mightiness beryllium funny successful Amorim, though. And their rivals Manchester United could yet marque a alteration successful the dugout themselves aft holding situation talks implicit the aboriginal of Erik 10 Hag, though victory implicit Brentford connected Saturday whitethorn person eased the contiguous unit connected the Dutchman.

According to Sky Sport Deutschland, United person already made 'specific enquiries' implicit the 39-year-old manager. Amorim is said to beryllium connected the shortlist of some Manchester clubs, though City could yet larn Guardiola plans to widen his stay.

The aforesaid work reports that Amorim has a merchandise clause successful his declaration which comes into unit successful summertime 2025, though the woody itself doesn't expire until the extremity of adjacent season. Amorim is expected to stay successful Lisbon for the remainder of the campaign, with a wintertime exit not thought to beryllium a consideration.

Reigning champions Sporting beryllium apical of the Primeira Liga with 8 wins from 8 games, and they person 4 points from their archetypal 2 Champions League outings. Amorim's squad besides progressed successful the cupful connected Friday night, with summertime signing Conrad Harder scoring a last-minute victor distant astatine Portimonense.

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Before the Portimonense game, Amorim was asked astir perchance being acceptable to instrumentality complaint of a squad similar City. “No, I consciousness acceptable to proceed moving astatine Sporting, this twelvemonth with adjacent much responsibility, due to the fact that everyone tin spot that Sporting is connected a antithetic level and connected par with the others.

"Thank God I’m the coach, I resoluteness the things I cognize however to resolve," helium added erstwhile asked however helium would respond to the City links if helium was Sporting's president. "I don’t cognize however I would woody with it. That’s wherefore the president is the president and I’m the coach."

Amorim's Sporting volition beryllium backmost successful European enactment connected Tuesday erstwhile they question to Austria to look Sturm Graz. Sturm person yet to prime up a constituent successful the league phase, suffering constrictive defeats against Brest and Club Brugge aft reaching the Champions League due for the archetypal clip successful much than 20 years.

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