Graham Potter to Man United as a substitute of Thomas Tuchel? (Picture by Catherine Ivill, Ryan Pierse/Getty Photographs)
Manchester United are reportedly now switching their consideration to Graham Potter as a possible possibility to interchange Erik ten Hag after immediately’s information that Thomas Tuchel has been confirmed as England’s new supervisor.
Potter is one other former Chelsea supervisor who has been with out a membership for a while, and it appears he’s now alongside Newcastle United’s Eddie Howe as a severe candidate for the Pink Devils in the event that they determine to axe Ten Hag, based on a report from Crew Discuss.
A report from the Instances additionally said that Man Utd had approached Tuchel over the job, expressing to the German tactician that he’d be their most popular candidate to interchange Ten Hag, although on the time of writing it appears the Dutchman isn’t any nearer to dropping his job at Outdated Trafford.
Tuchel maybe didn’t need to wait round for United to sack Ten Hag and make that change, and that now means MUFC have to take a look at different choices.
Might Graham Potter be an honest Thomas Tuchel various for Man United?
Potter did massively spectacular work as Brighton supervisor just a few years in the past, however he had a little bit of a nightmare spell accountable for Chelsea and he hasn’t been again in soccer administration since then.
In some ways, it seems to be like it could be a little bit of a danger for United to go together with Potter subsequent, however on the identical time it appears fairly clear that change is required after a reasonably dire spell beneath Ten Hag.
Tuchel in all probability would’ve been the higher selection for United, however Potter additionally certainly has what it takes to be a prime supervisor and maybe deserves one other shot at a giant job like this.
Potter was truly the supervisor who changed Tuchel at Chelsea – a choice most Blues followers in all probability nonetheless aren’t too comfortable about, whereas they’ve since had Mauricio Pochettino and Enzo Maresca in cost.