Sky Sports News understands former Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is interested in returning to the club as they begin their search for Ruben Amorim’s replacement.
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prize for DNA plus the 2025 awards
I don’t blame him for that really. He did tell Utd he would join at the end of the season so they could work out a recruitment plan for his system, and they bullied him into joining there and then.
He is quite clearly a coach with a very defined and set system, and he has never really tried to hide that. This was a recruitment failure. Utd appointed a manager who everyone knew would need a squad overhaul to even stand a chance of working, and they did this from the position of having PSR/financial issues that prevented them making big moves in the market.
It was an appointment everyone except Jim Ratcliffe could see was going to be a clusterfuck.
I think he has managed to get out without too much of a stain on his CV, and he’ll go on to prove himself a good manager.
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I think he’s shown himself to be a guy who didn’t have the goods he thought he did, and who misidentified the roots of his past success (the formation and the right players to play the formation) and its transferability and universality. But he will likely will walk away from the situation relatively unscathed due to how poorly Utd are viewed as an operation with a lot of benefit of the doubt given to people who fail there.
I think it was always doomed to failure not because there was too big a gap between what the formation needed and the players Utd had (or were willing to bring in) but because a man who puts a formation so at the front of his thinking is too limited to succeed at this level and they should have identified that as the big red flag we did when we considered him. He treated his formation like a child views a pair of magic socks, identified as such because that was what he was wearing the day some good shit happened to him.
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Slightly off the mark I think. He oversaw a huge team overhaul at Sporting which turned the club round. Some huge player turnover in his first season there. The United board probably saw stars with that, so much so, they ignored the things you rightly mention above.
So yeah, I’ll concede it’s still a recruitment failure.
Actually, they could have ignored that too.
I dont know…
You mean you don’t have a pair of magic socks?
I quite like Mourinho’s quote on this
“We’re in a generation where we see coaches trying to do things that just don’t work and they die,” he said. “But they say, 'I died, but I died with my idea. ’ My friend, **if you died by your ideas, you are stupid."
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Also not like he invented that fricking formation in the first place. Not really that special.
Maresca to United, anyone? Premier League proven manager!
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If I did I would not be working this damn job
“proven”
Well known by bothe Wilcox and Berada
They want a caretaker….
He’d do a decent jb with the changed expectations, but he’s already back at Everton
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Is Groundskeeper Willie actually David Moyes?
Carrick, Ole and Fletch walk into a bar…
Oh yeah…this cannot fail, guaranteed success.
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So the bloke in charge today went to Old Bacon Face for his blessing like some weird Godfather sequel, and the bloke who will be in charge next week had a preferred midfield of McFred?
@Nikola…give it to me straight, like a pear cider made from 100% pears.
They are the luckiest club in the world - they’ll qualify for CL at our expense, the difference will be their win at Anfield, and Amorim will get retrospective praise from their fans! Can’t get any more straight than that!
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