Manchester United’s Sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer explained. Ole is under tremendous pressure just imagine if it was you people saying you should lose your job just like that?
“From where he came in to where he got us at the beginning of this season, I think it’s positive,” said Ferdinand
“I look at our team every week and wonder what we are going to do, tactically,” added the 43-year-old, who won six league titles in 12 years at United.
“I don’t see any philosophy or an identity in the United way of playing, whatever that should be from the management. I sit here confused looking at the team.
“When you look at it like that with the summer transfer window we had, we were all sitting here excited, thinking ‘this is where we’re meant to be’.
“I go back to the point. Ole was brought in with the remit to get us back to a point, a moment where you think he’s brought some foundation back. At the beginning of this season we were thinking ‘yes, that’s it’.”
Manchester United’s Sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer explained
“I was always deep down a bit sceptical. Could he take us on to be champions? I wasn’t sure, I wasn’t fully convinced, but hoped he would be able to do that.
“But the showing with the squad he accumulated to the beginning of this season and what I’ve seen this season, I just feel that maybe it might be the time now for the baton to be handed over to someone else who can take us on.”
Chris Sutton said Solskjaer is being “outcoached and out-thought” by the “top guys” and the former Celtic striker believes there is nowhere for the Norwegian to hide this season after the club’s summer outlay on Jadon Sancho, Raphael Varane and Cristiano Ronaldo.
“Manchester United are still living off the history of when they were a good team and that’s the issue and there are no excuses, there is nowhere to hide this season,” said Sutton.
“I like Ole, he’s a nice bloke but he’s being outcoached and out-thought by the top guys.
“Norwich are more ambitious than Manchester United because at least they’ve been decisive,” he added.
“Their expectation is to stay in the Premier League but they have made a change, rightly or wrongly, but Manchester United – what is the expectation, are they going to win something with the current manager and this squad? No, everyone can see that.”
Solskjaer, meanwhile, insisted to Sky Sports after the game that he is not on borrowed time, stating: “No, I don’t start to feel like that. I have good communication all the time with the club that’s very upfront and honest about the situation.
“I’m sure when we come back the players will be fresh in their minds from internationals, and of course the demands on the players, on me, are going to be high.
“We’ve just got to get back to what we started to look like and what we were for a while. We’ve got the players to do that.
“We’ve been through this a few times. Since the last game we played here [Liverpool defeat], it’s been a very difficult period and we’ve gone away from what we used to be. We need to be on the front foot more, I can’t look at myself and say this is the way I want Manchester United to play.”
Neville on the Gary Neville Podcast:
“I think these players care. I want to make that point; there were times a few years ago where I left Old Trafford thinking: ‘Are these players really with us?’ But with these players, I don’t think it’s a lack of effort or willingness or want. I think those players want to do well, and want to be at Manchester United, every single one of them. But they look like they are suffering badly at this moment in time.
“I think the club will put Saturday down to Pep Guardiola, Manchester City, and believe that this could happen to any team in any season.
“They’ve got Watford away, Villarreal away and then Chelsea away. That’s a horrid, horrid week. This is not going to get any easier in the short term.
“The social media noise is different to the noise in the stadium. They were shouting against Nuno in the Spurs stadium last week; that won’t happen here with Ole at Old Trafford. We didn’t hear that with Jose, with Van Gaal, with Moyes, or even with Ron Atkinson 35 years ago. The fans here don’t do that, they are respectful of the situation, but this is a train off the track at the moment.”
Obviously everyone is frustrated about the result, about the performance too,” Bruno Fernandes said.
“We know we can do much better and we know this is not enough for a player who is representing this big club. We have to look at the mirror. I’m saying again the same things probably from the last interview, but that’s it.
“We have to look at ourselves, everyone at his home, understand what they can do better to help the team. We just have to apologise to the fans and that’s it, because it was not good enough from us.
“Great atmosphere they create. They pushed us until the end, they tried to give that energy to us but from us, it was not enough.”
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