According to the Manchester Evening News, Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazers want to have their new manager in place before the North American World Cup gets underway on June 11. That decision would seemingly rule out the likes of Carlo Ancelotti, Julian Nagelsmann and Mauricio Pochettino, who could all depart their posts after the tournament having taken charge of Brazil, Germany and the USA respectively.
He was allowed to stay. They even asked him to stay. All other coaches, all Scandinavian, left. And after three weeks, they told him: 'Please stay and see out your contract here.' That's quite an achievement for someone who worked there for three weeks.
