Get the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Mike Phelan has been involved with Manchester United for over 30 years.
He was a player legendary boss Sir Alex Ferguson signed in 1989 and was his assistant manager when he retired in 2013. Phelan, who is a Lancashire native, had a short spell as manager of Hull City in 2016 but failed to replicate the success he had as an assistant, where he presided over the lauded training sessions with Rene Meulensteen and Carlos Quieroz that set the foundations for United's dominant run in the mid to late 2000s.
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