Mauricio Pochettino is reportedly keen to become the new manager of Manchester United.
United confirmed the dismissal of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on Sunday following an extremely poor run of form that culminated in a 4-1 drubbing at the hands of Watford on Saturday.
Pressure had mounted on the Norwegian following a 5-0 hammering to Liverpool and an equally disappointing 2-0 defeat to Manchester City, both taking place at Old Trafford.
A 3-0 win against Tottenham in between those two losses softened the blow for a short while, but the convincing defeat to Claudio Ranieri's side was the final straw for the United board.
As per our friends at the Manchester Evening News, Pochettino is open to taking over from Solskjaer at United right now rather than in the summer.
According to the report, the current PSG coach has long-harbored ambitions to manage United and was the club's initial choice to succeed Jose Mourinho in 2018, but Solskjaer convinced the United board to make his caretaker appointment permanent with 14 wins from his first 19 games.
The 49-year-old is partly unsettled at PSG as it was not the job he envisaged accepting when he left Tottenham two years ago.
He was even prepared to replace Unai Emery at Arsenal, such was his desire to stay in England.
The club had previously suggested that they were going to appoint an interim manager until the end of this season before making a more permanent decision in May, but with Pochettino's availability now evident, they may choose to act sooner rather than later.
Sir Alex Ferguson will have no input in United's decision-making but endorsed Pochettino as a potential successor for Louis van Gaal in 2016 in a vain attempt to prevent Mourinho's appointment.
