Former Liverpool star Jamie Carragher has advised Manchester United to take full advantage of Chelsea’s plight by hiring Thomas Tuchel as their new manager.

The Blues are in crisis at the moment after their owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the government today, with the club now no longer able to make signings, sell merchandise, or even have fans buy tickets for games.

The club is also unable to tie any of their players down to new contracts, as per MailOnline, though it is understood that they will be paid in full, alongside all staff members.

This could put Thomas Tuchel’s future in the air. The German coach won’t be happy if Chelsea are blocked from making transfers in the summer. I mean, how can he plan for the future or continue his efforts to catch Pep Guardiola’s Man City in the Premier League?

Well, Manchester United need a manager and Jamie Carragher has put the two together for his latest column.

“Manchester United have been presented with the ideal opportunity to recruit the manager who should be their number one target: Thomas Tuchel,” Carragher wrote in his column in the Telegraph.

“Tuchel, like everyone else at Stamford Bridge, will have no idea what the future holds at his current club. No-one can offer him any assurances about how the squad will look at the start of next season given the club’s sale is on hold.

“No manager wants to be working amid such a background of uncertainty. If he gets the chance to leave for a club of United’s stature, he must take it.

“United can offer him the security and backing every top coach craves. Yes, it will seem a predatory move – taking advantage of Chelsea’s crisis – but from United and Tuchel’s perspective the more you consider it, the more of a no-brainer it is.”

“Every chief executive in the world looking for a new coach will be or at least should be monitoring Tuchel’s mood and public comments between now and the end of the season.

“Only clubs of a certain calibre could attract him. It would be negligent of United to fail to sound him out. As a coach, he is exactly what they need.”

Carragher also highlighted the relationship between Tuchel and United’s interim coach Ralf Rangnick.

Tuchel and Jurgen Klopp of Liverpool have all named Rangnick as a vital influence in their coaching careers.

“He helped me a lot because he was my coach. And then he was one of the main figures who convinced me to try coaching. And he had a huge influence on all of us at this time,” said Tuchel in November.

“He showed us that it is not necessary to follow everyone to the toilet in football games because that was the belief at the time. Defenders follow their strikers wherever they go, and he showed us that it is possible to defend in a zone.”

And Carragher believes Rangnick could be ready to call Tuchel to take over at Old Trafford.

Carragher added: “Let’s not forget that his mentor – Ralf Rangnick – is in temporary charge. If United are as keen to retain Rangnick’s services in an advisory capacity as they claimed when recruiting him – and they ask him who should take over – who will he tell them to call?”