Man Utd manager job not in Fletcher’s ‘wildest dreams’

Darren Fletcher volition instrumentality complaint of his archetypal crippled arsenic Manchester United interim manager against Burnley connected Wednesday.

Manchester United interim brag Darren Fletcher has said that starring the nine was beyond his “wildest dreams” but insisted helium has not considered replacing the sacked Ruben Amorim.

The Portuguese manager was axed connected Monday aft a turbulent 14 months astatine Old Trafford, with erstwhile United midfielder Fletcher enactment successful impermanent charge.

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The under-18s manager faced the property for the archetypal clip connected the eve of his team’s lucifer astatine Burnley.

“It’s surreal,” said Fletcher, who made 342 appearances for the Red Devils and has worked successful a assortment of antithetic roles for them since 2020, including arsenic method director.

“It’s an astonishing honour to beryllium capable to pb a Manchester United team,” helium said. “I don’t adjacent deliberation it was successful my wildest dreams that that was thing that could perchance happen, adjacent reasoning astir playing for the nine and worldly similar that.

“But to pb retired the squad is an astonishing honour and thing I americium truly arrogant to do.

“It’s not [happened] successful the circumstances that I expected it to happen, truthful that evidently is thing that doesn’t beryllium rather casual with me, but I conscionable person to deliberation I’ve got a occupation to bash and I’ve got to pb the squad time and deliberation of the large honour and pridefulness successful doing that.”

The erstwhile Scotland planetary is expected to stay successful spot until the nine appoints a caretaker boss, with United readying to sanction Amorim’s imperishable successor astatine the extremity of the season.

The BBC reported that the nine had held preliminary talks with Fletcher, Michael Carrick and erstwhile brag Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, each ex-United players, astir the presumption of caretaker.

But Fletcher, 41, said astatine his pre-match quality league that conversations with United’s hierarchy had focused connected Wednesday’s crippled and they would speech again aft the match.

Fletcher focused connected Burnley alternatively than full-time Man Utd job

Fletcher was asked whether helium wanted to effort to gain the manager’s occupation connected a full-time basis.

“Honestly, it’s not thing I’ve thought about,” helium said. “I’m focusing connected Burnley. I deliberation that treatment is for aft the game.

“There has been that overmuch going connected and it has each happened truthful rapidly that each my concentration, efforts and thoughts person gone into Burnley.”

Fletcher won 5 Premier League titles nether the absorption of Alex Ferguson, but the nine person not been English champions since 2013.

“Everyone expects Manchester United to beryllium connected the apical and winning, that’s the standard, that’s what we each person to effort and achieve,” said a bullish Fletcher.

He was asked what his United squad would look like.

“Hopefully, it looks similar a Manchester United squad that represents a spot of me, I deliberation successful presumption of what I cognize is Manchester United,” helium said.

“So I anticipation it resembles a Manchester United squad that fans tin beryllium arrogant of, that I tin beryllium arrogant of, and I’m definite they volition due to the fact that I judge successful the players.

“I deliberation we’ve got bully players and I deliberation we’ve got players who attraction and I deliberation we’ve got a batch of prime successful that squad and I anticipation to springiness them a level to spell retired determination to explicit themselves.”

Fletcher said helium hoped to invited backmost skipper Bruno Fernandes and Mason Mount into a squad severely depleted by injuries and planetary commitments.

He joked that helium refused to disclose delicate accusation erstwhile asked whether his duplicate sons, Jack and Tyler, would beryllium fixed afloat debuts against Burnley.

United are sixth successful the Premier League table, 3 points down fourth-placed Liverpool.