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Ed Woodward was coy about Manchester United's plans to install a head of football and refused to provide an update on the managerial situation.

Senior United sources told the MEN upon Jose Mourinho's sacking on December 18 United intended to hire a head of football ahead of next season, since Mourinho was opposed to working with one. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was installed as caretaker coach until the end of the season and has already presided over 10 wins from 12 to propel United back into the Premier League top four.

Executive vice-chairman Woodward and United co-chairman Avram Glazer spoke with Solskjaer's agent Jim Solbakken in the directors' box at Fulham last week, but Woodward refused to get into specifics about United's decision-making.

"With regards to the the director of football, lots has been written about this," Woodward said during the United investors' call. "I would say that looking at our structures and looking at how we should strengthen, all areas of the club is something we're doing on a continual basis.

"We've done a lot of changes within the football side in the last four or five years, in particular around the academy, where we've materially increased investment and we're seeing the quality of that now coming on.

"On the football side, we've invested around the recruitment side, the player care side, continued investment with facilities, medical and sports science, so the evolution is continuing.

"It's not necessarily that visible to the outside and, in some respects, you get a multi-year return later on [rather] than an immediate impact. But in regards to the overall structure, we are looking at that (the head of football role) and ways we can make it stronger and it is something we'll do on a continual basis."

"With regards to the process on the manager, I am not going to get into," Woodward added. "We communicated around December time about what we were doing, placing Ole in place as caretaker and the next communication with regards to this will be when we have something to announce regarding the manager.

"We're not going to give updates part way through."