Right now, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is available on the market after being fired from a Turkish club that changes managers more often than underwear. (I have heard). Most people predict that he will soon be back at work, but not for Norway after national team manager Ståle Solbakken a few days ago extended his contract for two more years after the World Cup and doubled his salary.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer led Manchester United to a second-place finish in the Premier League in the 2020/21 season, the club’s best league finish in years, and followed that up with a third-place finish. – Both led to Champions League qualification, which seems difficult this year and unthinkable last season.
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Before Sunday’s away meeting at Villa Park and this weekend’s games, Manchester United are in 6th place, a full 10 points behind leaders Arsenal. One thing that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer did was to reach the career of defender Harry Maguire, who was once captain at Old Trafford.
Solskjaer’s former captain praises the Norwegian manager and claims his former boss was “underrated” at Manchester United.
Maguire said in an interview with the BBC: “Ole was brilliant, I think Ole was so underrated.”
“He never got the recognition for what he did. It felt like, again, because it was at Manchester United, if he did the same thing at any other club, he would have gotten the recognition.”
“It felt like everyone was waiting for the moment to trample him down, and he never let it happen. He was a really good manager, with a really good team around him with Kieran [McKenna] and [Michael] Carrick, a fantastic crew. He knew how to take care of his team and his players. It felt like he never really got the recognition, and that was really a shame.”
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer did well, not because of his bosses, but in spite of. – The following information says it all: 🚨 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer pushed for the signing of Erling Braut Haaland, Declan Rice and Jude Bellingham. Instead, Manchester United brought in Jadon Sancho, Donny van de Beek and 36-year-old Cristiano Ronaldo.
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It will be exciting to see what happens in the future, both with current Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
