Former Ligue 1 title-winning supervisor Rudi Garcia has revealed he spoke twice with Manchester United chiefs about changing into interim supervisor after the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
In the long run, Man Utd opted to rent Ralf Rangnick as a substitute, with the German tactician taking cost of the group for the second half of final season earlier than Erik ten Hag was introduced in as the brand new everlasting successor to Solskjaer.
Garcia, in the meantime, is presently accountable for Saudi Arabian membership Al Nassr and has been discussing his hyperlinks with United as a result of present hypothesis involving MUFC legend Cristiano Ronaldo.
As completely confirmed by Fabrizio Romano in his Day by day Briefing for CaughtOffside, Ronaldo has a suggestion from Al Nassr and is but to resolve his future, so will probably be fascinating to see if he hyperlinks up with Garcia.
It may have occurred earlier, just for United to as a substitute select Rangnick over Garcia, who has had spectacular stints in Europe with the likes of Lille, Lyon, Marseille and Roma.
“I believe that any coach can be delighted to coach an amazing star like Cristiano and already in November 2021 I used to be very near going to United,” Garcia advised AS.
“They selected Ralf Rangnick, however I met twice with John Murtough and Darren Fletcher [United’s director of football and technical director respectively]. I got here very near teaching this membership and was very motivated to go, who wouldn’t be motivated to educate United? Any coach.
“United’s easy curiosity has allowed me to make sure of my ambitions sooner or later.”
