On The Ball
Conte the best but Poch type a better fit for United
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Richard Jolly
The position had not even been vacated, let alone advertised, when the first of the applicants made his interest known.
The sight of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer on the brink of losing his job at Manchester United prompted some close to Antonio Conte to try and get the Italian a head start in the race to replace the beleaguered Norwegian.
