Julen Lopetegui is “licking his lips” at the prospect of becoming Man United manager – Man United News And Transfer News

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Julen Lopetegui is “licking his lips” on the prospect of being Manchester United’s subsequent supervisor.

The previous Actual Madrid and Rayo Vallecano head coach is at present unemployed, having left Wolverhampton Wanderers after 9 months as a result of variations with the board.

Nonetheless, based on Estadio Deportivo, the previous Actual Madrid and Barcelona keeper “is in no hurry” to seek out one other job.

“He doesn’t need to get on any ‘boat’ and within the meantime, he continues to reside in England awaiting occasions,” the outlet claims.

The Spanish paper experiences that “his cellphone has not stopped ringing with affords from totally different elements of the world”, however says that he’s holding out within the hope of being appointed to an “elite English membership”, particularly, to United.

Lopetegui, Estadio says, is “licking his lips at the potential of reaching the Outdated Trafford bench.”

Cash shouldn’t be a motivation, and this is the reason he declined a suggestion of €18 million to handle Saudi Arabian workforce, Al Ittihad.

The controversial report says that it’s only a matter of time earlier than Erik ten Hag will get his marching orders from Outdated Trafford by Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s INEOS, who’re taking management of soccer operations on the membership following their 25% funding.

Estadio insists that Ten Hag would be the “first hyperlink to fall” underneath INEOS administration as he “doesn’t have the help of the heavyweights within the squad.”

Lopetegui is claimed to be “valued” by the powers-that-be at Outdated Trafford and “forward of names like De Zerbi or Graham Potter.”

It’s a daring declare by the outlet, provided that the Basque countryman’s profession has been regular somewhat than spectacular.

Age can be not on his facet as he approaches his 58th birthday.

Alternatively, a gentle pair of fingers and rapid availability might see him put in on an interim foundation ought to United pull the plug on Ten Hag’s tenure, and as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer can attest to, a profitable interim appointment could be a enormous stepping stone to a everlasting one.