Gary Lineker calls for Lee Carsley to be considered for Man Utd manager vacancy

Match of the Day presenter says England interim manager is ‘a brilliant coach’ who can learn how to deal with the media

Despite not being quoted among the bookmakers’ leading candidates to take over as the next Manchester United manager, Gary Lineker has suggested that the left-field appointment of Lee Carsley would be “very interesting”.
While Ruben Amorim is being sounded out for the job at Old Trafford after the sacking of Erik ten Hag, Lineker has thrown the interim England manager’s name in the ring. 
Carsley, 50, has served as a caretaker manager in the club game four times – at Coventry City twice and with Brentford and Birmingham City – and has coached England age-grade sides full-time, but never at club level.
Speaking on an emergency episode of the Rest Is Football podcast, Lineker said: “Manchester United have gone generally down the big -name route and managers that have won things and stuff like that.
“It’s quite unusual for English clubs, isn’t it, to take a punt on someone, the big clubs, to take a punt on someone. In Germany, if you’ve got a young coach there, they’ll suddenly put them in, they’ll get a decent job. Whereas that doesn’t tend to happen here.
“I’m going to throw in a name here, and I think it will be very interesting. I think he’s clearly a brilliant coach. A certain Lee Carsley, who they probably won’t think about. 
“But he’s an imaginative coach, he plays really attacking football. The players, from what I heard at England, thought he was really good, really interesting and thoughtful on the game. 
“The one thing he struggled with a little bit, I suppose, was the media side of things. But I think you can learn. That’s quite easy to learn quite quickly.
“I don’t suppose they’ll go for him, because they’ll probably go down that either stick with [Ruud] Van Nistelrooy if he does well at the start, which is often the case. But there are not many big names out there available at the moment in terms of your elite, proven, year-in year-out managers.”
Carsley will be in charge of England’s next two matches, against Greece on November 14 and Ireland on November 17, before Thomas Tuchel takes over as head coach.