Manchester United is reportedly watching RB Leipzig’s highly-rated young boss Nagelsmann with a view of replacing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with the 32-year-old.
United have endured their worst start to a season in 30 years and a 1-0 defeat to Newcastle on Sunday extended their winless run away from home to 11 games in all competitions.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side has won just two of their opening eight Premier League games and is down in 12 in the table, just two points off the relegation zone.
United have reportedly already drawn up a list of targets to replace Solskjaer with former Juventus boss Massimiliano Allegri and Julian Nagelsmann the front runners.
Nagelsmann is only 32 but has long been turning heads at Europe’s elite clubs, who view him as the most interesting and progressive of today’s young coaches.
In the summer of 2018, German heavyweights Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund both considered making a move for a coach who’d just delivered unglamorous Hoffenheim into the Bundesliga top four for the second successive season.
Leipzig was so keen to recruit Nagelsmann they activated an exit clause in his Hoffenheim contract in the summer of 2018 with a view to him starting the role a year later.
Nagelsmann would seem like the ideal fit for United in the long term but remains untested at the highest level and would represent a huge risk for Manchester United.
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Allegri, in contrast, would represent the safer option but has a reputation for playing a defensive brand of football that wouldn’t sit well with the United fans who are used to the swashbuckling playing style of Sir Alex Ferguson.
