Manchester United news: Jose Mourinho ‘won't be short of offers’ after Old Trafford sacking, insists Steve Clarke

The Portuguese's former assistant at Chelsea also defended his managerial record in three years at Old Trafford

Clubs will be lining up to speak to "serial winner" Jose Mourinho after his sacking at Manchester United, his former assistant Steve Clarke has said.

United sacked Mourinho on Tuesday after suffering their worst start to a season for 28 years and replaced him with former striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer until the end of the current Premier League campaign.

Mourinho has now left each of his last three clubs - Real Madrid, Chelsea and United - under a considerable cloud amid poor results and public tensions key players, but Clarke is convinced that the Portuguese will remain in demand at the highest level.

"I'm sure he won't be short of offers, that's for sure," Kilmarnock boss Clarke, who was Mourinho's assistant during Chelsea's league title wins in 2005 and 2006, told Sky Sports.

"He'll look at the market in the future and I'm pretty sure one of the top clubs in Europe will come calling soon and offer him another job. He's a serial winner."

Mourinho leaves United sixth in the Premier League, 19 points behind leaders Liverpool after 17 games and 11 points adrift of Chelsea in fourth place with the worst defensive record of any team in the top half, despite the club having the biggest wage bill in the division.

Clarke, however, insisted that it is hard to characterise the entirety of Mourinho's three-year spell at United as being a "failure".

"He won three trophies -- the Community Shield, the Europa League, the League Cup -- so it's three trophies more than Liverpool in the same period, more than Tottenham," Clarke added.

"So was he a failure or was he not a failure? I'm not sure. He finished second last year."