Manchester United

Many pundits have called on United to approach Tuchel about the vacant manager's job at Old Trafford.

"It is not possible that players just take care of themselves - when you're a big player you must take care of the dressing room. He said: "They are also guys, once standing as a six-year-old with a ball at the beach or on the street. Manchester Evening News understands that Ajax's Erik ten Hag and PSG's Mauricio Pochettino are the frontrunners to become the next United manager.

Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba said his house was burglarized while he played in a Champions League match on Tuesday.

Pogba's wife was at Old Trafford for the match. In a post on Twitter, the France midfielder said his “babies were sleeping in their bedroom” when the burglary took place on Tuesday. He has offered a reward for anyone with information. MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba said Wednesday his house was burglarized while he played in the Champions League game against Atletico Madrid.

Manchester United's loss to Atlético Madrid is just the latest illustration of a club riddled with incoherence on and off the pitch.

There is even a hint of the obsession with the past, with that great lost Fergie-land in the skies. There is even a kind of beauty, a glory in that ruined structure; albeit one that will before long, without a little care, a little love, find itself vanishing into the soil. This is not tribalism or a comment on the fitness of football governance elsewhere. What United are currently producing is an entirely joined-up, perversely logical vision of incoherence, from the vacuum between head coach and owners that has been filled by endless floating blokes (so, so many blokes), to the obsession with branding and eyeballs that has infected every part of this organism. The reality is that the players are not corrupt, flawed human beings. Not to mention, once the ledgers of overspend and underachievement have been tallied, a kind of natural justice. As opposed to the just rewards of haunting and cinematic failure? And it seems that elite sport, or at least the part we see on the pitch, still has some kind of logic to it. Because this is also a kind of art. But there is an aesthetic concern too, because there is an irresistible beauty in the gargoyles, the bowed walls, the mouldering buttresses, the wreckage of two decades of parasitic ownership. Unsurprising, then, that medieval English poets should get a little tearful at the thought of wet rot and not being able to light the fire. The work of giants is decaying.

Man United have become a club that drains the talent out of their best players and, as Tuesday's loss proved, nothing changes until that changes.

When the heat is on, they wilt and it will take more than a new manager and another so-called "cultural reset" this summer to slam on the brakes and point the club in the right direction. United have won just two Champions League knockout ties since 2011, and there has been no home win in the knockout rounds since 2014. Atletico Madrid's 1-0 Champions League win at Old Trafford, which sent United out of the competition at the Round of 16 stage, was simply the same old story. This is a modal window. Manchester United play a big game, their star players fail to perform as they are out-fought and out-thought by their opponents and, as surely as night follows day, they lose. This is a modal window.

David De Gea has said Manchester United are "far away" from challenging for big trophies after losing to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.

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Raphael posted a motivational message the day after United's Champions League defeat to Atletico Madrid,