Manchester United's next manager - have your say on who it should be

Standing on the precipice of another major crossroads has seemingly become a hobby in this vintage of Manchester United, but the process of hiring Sir Alex Ferguson’s fifth successor could prove to be the most precarious of them all.

A break from football until 2 April offers United time to pick through the debris of a fifth trophyless year – the club’s longest silverware drought in 40 years – following another early exit from the Champions League. The managerial decision will no doubt be at the heart of all conversations.

Any United fan would relish the chance to dictate that major decision. Fans have not been coy in charging United’s next gaffer with hefty expectations, not least a general consensus that fights for fourth-place finishes should be well archived.

As the big decision becomes imminent, we want to know from Manchester United fans who they believe the club should hire once interim manager Ralf Rangnick takes up his consultancy role at the end of the season.

Ajax coach Erik Ten Hag is the club’s preferred option, though the club’s short-list also includes Paris Saint-Germain’s Mauricio Pochettino, Spanish coaches Luis Enrique and Julen Lopetegui, Chelsea’s Thomas Tuchel and Atletico Madrid’s Diego Simeone, the combative Argentine who found himself the moving target for some angry fans’ drinks after his streetwise side provided the death knell to United’s Champions League journey.

If you’re Gary Neville and Roy Keane, it is Simeone's services for whom United should be breaking the bank.

The chances of prising Tuchel away from Chelsea are remote given the German’s vocal affection towards the club dovetailed with a prohibitive length on his contact. Enrique’s services face a similar improbability given Spain’s