{"id":9819,"date":"2026-01-06T11:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9819"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T11:29:05","slug":"manchester-united-jonny-evans-set-to-return-as-interim-boss-darren-fletchers-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=9819","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United: Jonny Evans set to return as interim boss Darren Fletcher&#8217;s assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Jonny Evans is set to return to Manchester United as interim head coach Darren Fletcher&#8217;s assistant. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Northern Ireland defender Evans last summer was appointed as the club&#8217;s head of loans and pathways after calling time on his playing career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While his departure from that role was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cg5medep3zqo#:~:text=Manchester%20United%3A%20Jonny%20Evans%20exits,loans%20and%20pathways%20%2D%20BBC%20Sport\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">announced last month<\/a>, the 38-year-old is poised to return to help Fletcher prepare the United team for Wednesday&#8217;s Premier League game at Burnley following Ruben Amorim&#8217;s departure on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fletcher is expected to remain in place until a caretaker is appointed, with the club planning to name Amorim&#8217;s permanent successor in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After facing Burnley at Turf Moor, United host Brighton in the FA Cup on Sunday and host derby rivals Manchester City on 17 January. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fletcher and Evans played together at Old Trafford for nine years before they both joined West Brom after leaving United in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Evans, who made 241 appearances for United, came through their academy and won three Premier League titles, the Champions League, the Club World Cup, the FA Cup and two League Cups with the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as two spells at Old Trafford, Evans played in the Premier League for West Bromwich Albion and Leicester City, and had two periods on loan at Sunderland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also won 107 caps for Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c8rmjrzez74o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonny Evans is set to return t&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}