Following the sacking of Jose Mourinho, the statement from the club read: “A caretaker manager will be appointed until the end of the season while the club conducts a thorough recruitment process for a new, full-time manager.
But here we are, less than 30 days from his 2 year anniversary. But of course the job was given to him permanently after the club turned around a 2-goal lead at Paris Saint-Germain to book their place in the quarter finals of the Champions League.
Although they lost their next game 2:0 at the Emirates, following the international break, Solskjaer was confirmed Permanent manager. No thorough recruitment process was conducted.
“The last few months have been a fantastic experience and I want to thank all of the coaches, players and staff for the work we’ve done so far,” Solskjaer told Man Utd’s official website just after the announcement of his permanent role.
“This is the job that I always dreamed of doing and I’m beyond excited to have the chance to lead the club long-term and hopefully deliver the continued success that our amazing fans deserve.”
The Old Trafford job is not only Solskjaer’s dream, it’s everyone’s dream, everyone wants to lead one of the biggest clubs and the most popular club in the world.
Inconsistency has been the order of the day as Solskjaer won only two of his last seven league games of that 2018/19 season. He hasn’t been given deep pockets of course, but he has been adequately backed in all fairness.
Also, the board trust him, and after a 4:0 loss to Everton in 2019, he reiterated that long term project.
“There will be new players coming in over summer but I don’t think you can expect six. I don’t think any manager you ask would be in favour of that amount of change anyway. We want to rebuild but it is going to have to be gradual, over a few windows.”
Maguire, Wan-Bissaka, Daniel James, Bruno Fernandes, Edinson Cavani, Alex Telles and Donny Van de Beek are the permanent buys Solskjaer has made. Ighalo was a January panic loan signing from China.
Every defeat for United these days means Solskjaer will be sacked after the next game while every win makes him the best choice. It’s the kind of inconsistency that’s ridden the club from the owners to the players and down to the fans. No one is truly confident in Solskjaer, and no one is truly sure he’s not the right man.
He wins big games, and struggles against bottom clubs. From the sublime in one week, to the ridiculous the next. That’s just textbook roller-coaster.
Form and consistency was found for a few games after the Covid-19 break and then things went back to normal (inconsistency), and Solskjaer can’t stop talking about the project as long term.
Victory at Goodison Park last time means there’s no pressure going into the West Brom game but it’s time for Man United to show consistency.
It’s time to end that home hodoo and bully some little clubs (with all due respect) at home, starting from West Brom. Being a long term project doesn’t mean United have to keep dropping points to bottom sides.
This is a young side with so much potential and quality but needs proper coaching, it’s a side for the future, but the future might as well be now or Solskjaer could be drifting towards his last season at Old Trafford.
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