Manchester United Would Pay Newcastle About £3m for Eddie Howe

Manchester United would have to pay Newcastle about £3m to make Eddie Howe their next manager, The Guardian reports.

The club are looking for a new head coach, a job that means running the first team, picking the tactics and setting the training. Michael Carrick is in charge for now. He is expected to be removed only once a deal for his successor is finished. Carrick is not guaranteed to go, and the club's players are due back at their Carrington training ground on Tuesday.

The pressure is clear from the results. A 3-0 home defeat by Bournemouth extended United's run to eight matches without a win.

Howe is the club's first choice, according to the Guardian's reporting, and he wants the job. Jason Wilcox, who leads the search, sees him as the prime candidate. The problem is that Howe is still tied to Newcastle, where he was in charge for five years. He left in July after losing control of transfers, which is the power to decide which players a club buys and sells. He left under a deal on the rest of his contract, and that deal entitles Newcastle to compensation.

That is where the £3m comes in. United would also pay Newcastle a smaller sum for Howe's backroom staff, led by his assistant, Jason Tindall. United have paid this kind of fee before. They paid Newcastle £3m to hire Dan Ashworth, who was announced as a senior football hire and left after five months.

Howe is not the only name in the frame. Sky Sports reports that Howe and Julian Nagelsmann are the frontrunners if Carrick goes. Nagelsmann is a former head coach of Germany and Bayern Munich. The Guardian reports that Christopher Vivell, United's director of recruitment, who finds and assesses players and staff, has been pushing hard for the German.

Newcastle, meanwhile, have already moved on from Howe's era. In July, Matthias Jaissle, another German coach, was reported as their likely replacement.

For fans, the next few days matter most. Carrick's future is tied to a deal that has not yet been done, so United's supporters are waiting on two things at once: whether a new coach is agreed, and whether the Carrington training ground has a new man in charge when the squad returns.