Leicester City

Manchester City forward Riyad Mahrez could feature against Leicester for the first time since he left the club where he won the Premier League title for £60m.

"He played and scored a lot for Leicester City," Leicester manager Claude Puel said.

"It will be good to see Riyad again, he gave his best for the club. I hope he is on the bench, though!"

Thanks Michael!

The Jose Mourinho news train rumbles on, but I'll just break us off track for a second to bring you the team news from Leicester...

To see you through the rest of a busy night of football, here's Tom Rostance.

Paul Ince
Former England midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

When you manage a football club you have to take responsibility for everything that happens. It is down to you whatever happens on the pitch.

Manchester United has been built on traditions. They play attacking football. By getting Mourinho they knew that wasn’t going to be the case.

He has always bought players who are ready made, aged 27 or 28. And to give him credit that is why he has always been successful. But this is Manchester United, they are different to most clubs and want to play a certain way.

They are not performing well. They are not creating chances. They conceded 36 chances against Liverpool on Sunday. That would never have happened in my time.

Darren Fletcher
Former Man Utd midfielder on BBC Radio 5 live

Are you surprised when you appoint Jose Mourinho that the style of football is not going to be good? That he is not going to bring through youth players?

He has a track record of winning but not in the Manchester United style of attractive football.

It's not all the manager's fault to manage the club he had to bring in the right players and recognise the brand of the club - you can't play negative football at United. The players were disillusioned by it.

Mourinho should've recognised that and have tried to adapt his style before he came to the club. But the club knew what Mourinho was like before he joined.

BBC Radio 5 live

Listen to BBC Radio 5 live now for a Jose Mourinho special which will discuss how we got to this stage and where next for Manchester United.

Paul Ince, Robbie Savage and Darren Fletcher are among the guests.

Press the play button at the top to listen along - and you can watch it as well.

BBC Sport looks at six factors which contributed to Jose Mourinho’s downfall at Man Utd, from the departure of his “brother” Rui Faria to his fall-out with Paul Pogba.

Let's not forget it is a busy night of football tonight with two Carabao Cup quarter-final ties. There will be 5 live commentary from Leicester v Manchester City with Alan Green and Stephen Warnock, with updates from Conor McNamara and Danny Mills at Middlesbrough v Burton Albion.

And there's more. John Acres will be at the FA Cup second round replay between Blackpool and Solihull Moors with commentary on 5 live sports extra.

Jose Mourinho's sacking is the focus of 5 live sport's programme at 18:30 BST, with former Manchester United midfielder Paul Ince and BBC Sport's Simon Stone joining Kelly Cates. Don't miss it.

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"Tactically outmoded, socially outmoded and charismatically outmoded, it may be that this is the end for Mourinho at the highest level."

Football writer Jonathan Wilson has, with a little help from 19th century sociologist Max Weber, had his say on the future of Jose Mourinho., external

Paul Pogba may have been benched for the last few games, but he has not done badly overall during Mourinho's time in charge at Old Trafford.

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John McCombe: Tata Martino???? Has won, managed big clubs and is available having just won @MLS, external with @ATLUTD, external who'd only been in existence for two season.

Nathan CJ Hood:What about offering Cristiano Ronaldo a player/manager role? He basically coached and played Portugal to winning the Euros, and a perfect prodigy for Ferguson!

Noel Ashmore: Paul Scholes step up, you are always saying how rubbish Jose was... got what you wanted....can you do better?!

Alan Shearer has given his verdict on Manchester United's managerial vacancy...

Daily Record

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Duncan Castles - a journalist known to be close to Jose Mourinho - has given his take on how the decision to remove the Portuguese came about.

"Manchester United brought forward plans to replaceJose Mourinho as manager in the wake of the debilitating defeat at Liverpool," he wrote in the Daily Record., external

"Concerned at a sequence of unsatisfactory domestic results and the fractured relationship between United's most expensive on-field acquisition and the first-team manager, United's board elected to terminate Mourinho's contract less than halfway through the season instead of waiting until its end.

"Record Sport understands that a decision to dismiss the most successful Old Trafford manager of the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era was taken during a conference call on Monday."

A busy day for Simon Stone - BBC Sport's man in the Old Trafford know.

He took time out to field your questions on the BBC Sport Instagram account.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport

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Laurent Blanc

The Frenchman is also top of many bookies' lists. He spent two years at United at the end of his career and has built a positive reputation as a coach.

Blanc has managed at the top level with Paris St-Germain but is he really synonymous with the club and does he understand the traditions? Also, he has never managed in English football. He looks an outsider.

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Who will take the reins in the short term though?

He won't go down as one of the club's best centre-backs or their most charismatic Frenchman, but could this World Cup winner do a job?

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Well, well, well.

The Times are reporting that Mauricio Pochettino would be interested in taking the Manchester United job if it were offered to him., external

"Mauricio Pochettino wants to be considered for the Manchester United manager’s job next season despite having four and a half years left on his contract at Tottenham Hotspur," writes deputy football correspondent Matt Hughes.

"The Argentinian is understood to regard the opportunity of moving to Old Trafford as too good to turn down, although it would cost United £34 million in compensation to prise him from Tottenham, which would take the club’s total bill for sacking José Mourinho earlier today past £50 million."

Luke Nixon: Yes Jose got things wrong, but he’s a proven winner who was held back by the board. One day Woodward has to stop pointing fingers and look in the mirror. We need a director of football who understands the game, not a businessman who doesn’t.

Kyle: United fans want to see attacking football and winning football. For that I would firstly go for Zidane if you cannot get him either Lucien Favre the Dortmund manager or Julian Nagalsmann. Eddie Howe would be a good contender for the job too.

Alan Shearer
Former England captain

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Mauricio Pochettino will be mentioned. It is a fantastic job but I would be amazed if he left the Spurs project now with a new stadium, young players, new contracts, and things going so well.

Zinedine Zidane is free after having had incredible time at Real Madrid so I'm sure his name will be mentioned also. Eddie Howe also.

Is it time to have a Director of Football installed at Manchester United? Perhaps, but it works best if they are appointed together.

Look at the success City and Liverpool are having with that structure.