Why is Pochettino the favourite to replace Carrick at Manchester United?
- Newsrooms
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 6 reports
- Momentum
- Surging
2 in the 3 before
Accelerating
Reports per hour, last 24 hours
How the coverage splits
Where it’s heading
Probably peaked. Likely 5 newsrooms by 7:50am AEDT. Calls like this were right 92% of the time. How we knowAgainst the past week
More newsrooms than 91% of the past week’s 3719 stories, and number 28 of 1072 in Sport.Related
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1File photo: Old Trafford, home of the Manchester United F.C.
Mauricio Pochettino is ready to accept an offer from Manchester United to become their next head coach.
Al Jazeera didn’t include a summary, so this is BBC Sport’s, from its report on the same story.3
Background: Manchester United F.C.
Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Manchester United are among the most successful football clubs in England, as well as one of the most successful football clubs in the world.4
The story so far
6 newsrooms- Reports
- 17
- Newsrooms and sources
- 6
- Last 3 hours
- 6
Accelerating: reports are coming in at least twice as fast as three hours before (6 in the last three hours, 2 in the three before).
First with it: BBC Sport, 6 hr 2 min before anyone else.
Reported by 6 newsrooms.
The numbers behind it
How it spread, where it’s heading and where the coverage is from
Reports a day, last 7 days
| Day | Stories |
|---|---|
| Thu | 0 |
| Fri | 0 |
| Sat | 0 |
| Sun | 0 |
| Mon | 0 |
| Tue | 4 |
| Today | 13 |
Where the coverage is from
How it spread
Newsrooms reporting it, each counted at its first report.
Sources and credits
- 1
Photo: Arne Müseler from Salzburg, AT, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (licence)
- 2
Al Jazeera: Why is Pochettino the favourite to replace Carrick at Manchester United?
- 3
BBC Sport: Pochettino ready to accept Man Utd offer to replace Carrick
- 4
Background: “Manchester United F.C.”, Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (licence)


