Manchester United ’s search for their long-term replacement for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer continues and Roy Keane has recently suggested that Diego Simeone would be perfect for the role.
Ralf Rangnick was appointed as their new interim manager until the end of the season, as the club continued to look for their permanent solution.
Keane believes the Atletico Madrid manager to be the ‘suitable candidate’, given that the Argentine has done a highly creditable job in the Spanish capital over the past 11 years.
Not only that, the 51-year-old has also received high praise for his different styles of play.
But Simeone is a born winner and former Man Utd defender Paul Parker believes that his demands would be too much for a club who aren’t competitive enough to win trophies.
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Speaking to bettingexpert, Parker said: "His demands would be too much for the club, because he wants to win things. He doesn't want to go to Manchester United and just go through a process of what everyone else is.
"His people and himself would ask: 'What are you going to do to help him trying to win this league? What are you going to do differently from the previous five or six managers with this one?’
"And Manchester United are either going to come up and stick to what they have been doing or they are going to lie and kid into what he's going to do.
“I can't see that happening. If that happens, that means there has been a big shift in what Manchester United are trying to do and what they want to do.”
Simeone has transformed Atletico into one of Europe's deadliest forces in recent years and has improved them to annually compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona for the La Liga title.
The Argentine’s side were crowned Spanish champions last season, as well as in 2013-14, while he has also won the Copa del Rey and the Spanish Super Cup.
Furthermore, he helped the Madrid club taste European success, with two Europa League titles and two UEFA Super Cup’s, along with two Champions League runner-up medals.
Simeone has been credited for the discipline he instils within his team and to his players, and Parker did concede that side of his managerial style would be beneficial at Old Trafford.
He said: "The one thing that the club needs now is discipline. Because the players aren't disciplined in what they are doing.
"You can just see it by the way they are playing. You see the way every time something is going wrong the way the players are waving their arms at each other. In other words, they are disrespecting each other in front of seventy-odd thousand people at Old Trafford.
"I always thought football was a team game. It used to be back in my day. And whatever you thought of anybody, you would never show it in front of people just to protect yourself.
“I get that (the Simeone rumour), and I think what Roy (Keane) is looking at, is looking at the discipline-side of it. He would take no rubbish and I get that. I agree on that point.”
