Roy Keane names Eddie Howe as solution to Manchester United's problems

Roy Keane has named Eddie Howe as the replacement for Ruben Amorim at Manchester United.

According to the BBC, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Michael Carrick are the frontrunners for the caretaker manager role at Manchester United, while Darren Fletcher will be the interim coach until the arrival caretaker.

However, club legend Keane has called Newcastle United boss Howe to take the job permanently at Old Trafford.

"I'd go with Eddie Howe. I like him, I like what he's done. He has managed a lot of games," Keane told Sky Sports.

"His teams play good football. I know it's not for everyone, he has critics, but I like what he's done at Newcastle and Bournemouth.

"He has managed 700 or 800 games, he's still a young man. I like his calmness. Man United need a bit of that. I like people with emotion, I am an emotional person, but I like his calmness.

"He's been in the Champions League a couple of times, won the cup. I'd like to see him go in there."

Manchester United sacked Amorim on Monday after 14 months in charge at Old Trafford, which resulted in the poorest points-per-game average of any manager in the club's Premier League era.

Amorim, the tenth manager, since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013, faced criticism for his strict 3-4-3 system and controversial public comments about the squad last year, including describing them as “possibly the worst in the club’s history.”

But Keane insists that the next manager's solemnity is more important; United want someone who goes into that dressing room and gets a grip of the players.

"You want someone to walk into a dressing room and, as soon as he gets there, the players say 'here we go, we are going places,'" Keane said.

"Personality. You can talk about systems and tactics but you want somebody to go into that dressing room and get a grip of the players. I don't mean in an aggressive way. But get the belief into the players - 'this is the way we are going, we will run hard, be attacking, be hard to beat, we will do the hard yards.'

"Teams like Arsenal and Manchester City, the reason they have been successful is because of what they do out of possession. The standard of the game, United vs. Burnley was an absolute joke."