Ferdinand claims Man Utd 'need to go down the lunatic road' with next hire as he names two 'gunslingers'

Rio Ferdinand believes Man Utd have to hire one of 2 “crackpots” as their next unalterable honcho after the Red Wickedness ones sacked Ruben Amorim last week.

The Red Wickedness ones relocated on from Amorim after the Portuguese consultant won merely 3 of his last 11 accommodates in penalty, while he dropped out with Jason Wilcox over ruses as well as the January send residence window.

Man Utd posed Darren Fletcher in penalty for 2 accommodates in days gone by appointing Michael Carrick as their meantime head consultant until the end of the period.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe as well as INEOS then tactic on bringing in a unalterable heir to Amorim in the summer as they stare to draw upward a shortlist of aspirants.

There have been multiple monikers pointed out, forcing Crystal Royal abode’s Oliver Glasner, Germany’s Julian Nagelsmann, Paris Saint-Germain’s Luis Enrique as well as England’s Thomas Tuchel.

But Ferdinand believes Man Utd ultimata something they sanctuary’t attempted in days gone by with “a tiny fragment firearm-slinger kind” prefer Napoli’s Antonio Conte or Marseille’s Roberto De Zerbi.

Ferdinand told BBC Radio 5 Live: “We’ve had every kind of company now. We’ve had the wily, used Louis van Gaal, we’ve had Jose Mourinho. Conceivably not at his Chelsea pinnacle yet still a confusing tag with sweet individuality.

“We’ve had the young, forthcoming bosses prefer (Erik) Ten Hag as well as Amorim. Then we’ve had the municipal tales that realise the bar.

“We now arguably have to go down the demented highway. We have to go down the human beings that are pensive as well as a tiny fragment firearm-slinger kind that merely go at it, that won’t have it from the media.

“Once I state demented, there are uncompanionable 2 human beings that I’m glancing at right now. (Antonio) Conte jumps off the page to me. I believe he’s someone that would dive at the method. I believe he came right into Chelsea as well as Napoli when they were both tenth or eleventh as well as won the league both times. So he realizes how to come in as well as stabilise.

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“At the super same time you’ve obtained someone that can consultant their crew as well as furnish utilise a tinkering design as well as an identity severely delicately. He’s done it at 3 clubs currently, as well as that’s De Zerbi.

“We ultimata variables of both of those 2 advisers as well as I’d be certainly all right by recovering either of them.”

“We ultimata a LUNATIC!” 🤪👔

👹 @rioferdy5 needs Conte or De Zerbi at #MUFC 👀#BBCFootball envision.twitter.com/GfWHlmFgz6

— BBC 5 Live Portraying off activity (@5liveSport) January 16, 2026

Carrick can still be a boxer for the unalterable job in the summer if he executes perfectly yet the Man Utd meantime honcho insists he’s not been made any targets for the rest of the project.

He said: “Prefer I said, we want to be foreseeable the optimal of the league, we want to be optimal of the league. That’s rather unmistakable to state, yet we’ve obtained to snatch some minuscule measures towards that, as well as European football admittedly would be a response forward. We’ve obtained to preserve pushing.

“I’ve talked to Jason an godawful play sully as well as kneading exceptionally closely with Jason as well as Omar as perfectly over the last few days, we’ve talked a play sully as you’d envision.

“The household group were in as well as about it. It was nice to investigate them as well as accomplish them yesterday as well as have a minuscule conversation with them, confiscating care of company in some means. We were able to share a few things, so they longed us the severely impeccable as well as it was good to investigate them.”