The 51-year-old was Alex Ferguson's right hand man since replacing Carlos Queiroz in 2008, having been the club's first team coach for the preceding seven years, but insists his responsibilities were more than that of an obedient understudy.
'With the way things have gone, my first thoughts are to be the boss, yeah. It's the progression for me now.
'That's what I've been doing for the last five years, albeit with the title of assistant boss,' Phelan said.
'He [Ferguson] was the head of the establishment, there's no doubt about it and rightly so. He didn't get to where he's got through not being a big decision maker but he'll be the first to admit that a lot of people played their part in that.
'We all were undercover in that respect. We weren't the face of what was going on but that was our job. There's no problem with that from my point of view. The blinkers are off now because I'm outside of all that.
'But you were decision making so I'm more than capable of handling that.
It's a case now that if the opportunity comes up to be a boss then I'll have a look at it.
'In my case I've been in a job so long at one place. I'm not saying I've become institutionalised at Manchester United but my qualities have been at Manchester United,' he added.
'They've been shown there. Now I'm going out into the big bad world of football and people who are looking for managers, coaches, whatever, probably don't know me as me. They know me as Mick Phelan the assistant manager at Man United.
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