Mauricio Pochettino has reportedly reached a verbal agreement to become Manchester United manager, as broken by The Athletic and relayed by NBC Sports on Wednesday, and U.S. Soccer already has a name for the vacancy that would open up: Pep Guardiola.

Pochettino’s switch to Old Trafford hinges on United parting ways with current manager Michael Carrick. The federation would receive around $10m as part of a release-clause settlement, with Pochettino’s coaching staff requiring separate compensation to follow him to England.

Carrick’s future to be settled in Monaco

Carrick is still holding sessions at United’s Carrington training ground, even as the club’s senior leadership was expected to decide his future at a meeting in Monaco on Wednesday. Pochettino was due to take USMNT training on the same day.

The USMNT plays Haiti in a CONCACAF Nations League quarter-final on Saturday in Miami and again on Tuesday in Cincinnati. United is targeting its 22 November fixture at Liverpool as the debut match for a new manager.

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Out of work since the summer, with ties to New York

Guardiola has been without a club since leaving Manchester City over the summer, ending a decade in which he lifted six Premier League titles and a Champions League. According to Yahoo Sports, citing The Athletic, the federation plans to pursue him as its first choice, in a move the reporting described as “not straightforward nor easy” but one in which Guardiola had remained a candidate even before Pochettino was appointed.

He has had prior contact with U.S. Soccer and lived in New York during an earlier sabbatical.

Alexi Lalas, the former USMNT defender turned Fox Sports analyst, has urged the federation to make the approach.

“You absolutely make that call, you might even get that call,” Lalas said on Fox Sports in May. “We know Pep famously took a sabbatical. Where did he go? He went to the United States.”

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If the Guardiola call fails

If Guardiola proves unreachable, Steve Cherundolo and B.J. Callaghan are the domestic alternatives, per World Soccer Talk. Cherundolo, the U.S. under-23 coach, is in Spain with his squad through 17 November; Callaghan has just won the MLS Supporters’ Shield with Nashville, who begin the MLS Cup playoffs on 22 November.

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