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Despite all the questions I'm getting on Enzo Maresca and Manchester United he's been linked in Italy with a potential role at Manchester United. At the moment guys, what I'm told is that Manchester City are interested in Enzo Maresca for the future. As I always told you, it's not something imminent. It's not something guaranteed. It's something for the future if Enzo Maresca will be available as a manager when Pep Guardiola decides to leave. But Pep has not decided anything at this stage.

Finding a long-term successor to Roy Keane before he left under a cloud back in 2005 was tricky, with the expensively-acquired Juan Sebastian Veron failing to make an impression. Michael Carrick earned plenty of respect in the deep-lying role, but was a very different kind of player. Owen Hargreaves was excellent for a brief time, but injuries curtailed his career at Old Trafford.

"What happens in these job interviews? I'm intrigued. Why do they keep giving certain people a job? What happens in the interview that they sit there and go, and 12, 14 months later, 'He's not the guy for us'. "Do you not suss that out when you speak to them? You look somebody in the eye and go... You see who's making the decisions at Manchester United. You still have Ferguson and David Gill hanging on like a bad smell."

They started slowly at Burnley, settling into a 4-2-3-1 formation that suits them and pretty much every other team far better than Ruben Amorim's 3-4-2-1 before, midway through the first half, they started to play. The deployment of Bruno Fernandes close to the opposition goal, along with a wide player, Patrick Dorgu, playing on his natural side, meant Benjamin Sesko was, for the first time, provided with decent service.

Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly interested in the Marseille manager Roberto De Zerbi. The 46-year-old has done an impressive job at the French club, and he is on the radar of Manchester United as well. According to a report from TEAMtalk, Tottenham could look to bring him in as a replacement for Thomas Frank if the results do not improve quickly. They have been quite disappointing in recent months, and they will be desperate to turn things around.

It has been a dramatic week even by United's standards: the rapid breakdown in relations between Ruben Amorim and club bosses, a fiery Friday meeting with director of football Jason Wilcox, two incendiary news conferences, and another sacking. It's a club that can sometimes feel more like a soap opera with only a sprinkling of actual football. The latest episode had a new leading man -- caretaker boss Darren Fletcher -- and more twists and turns.

I'm 100% here, working as hard as I can, head down, ignoring all the stuff you guys [media] write - good or bad - because it's irrelevant. It's about today's work and trying to prepare the team as best we can for Leeds. That will never change, from my perspective. With my commitment to my work and my job, as long as I'm happy and able to express myself in the best way I can to help the team, nothing will change.