#world-cup-timing

#world-cup-timing

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.

For both, European competition had offered some relief Liverpool looked very good in a 3-0 win away to Marseille while Spurs, at least in the first half, produced probably their best performance since August in beating Borussia Dortmund 2-0 but the sad truth is that the vast majority of European sides these days simply cannot live with the physicality of the Premier League.