Ole Gunnar Solskjær | Beşiktaş J.K.

[Top_Bins]

When you cant argue...

Some just want to be on the forum to be the correct person, lording it over us fallible mortals.

I think what you said had merit. Of course, trophies are important but I enjoyed watching united more under Ole than I ever did LVG or ETH.
He really messed up by going with nostalgia and not being ruthlessly forward thinking.
There was no place for sentimentality under Fergie.
Maybe Ole needed to learn that. We'll see.

Ronaldo to Besiktas in 3...2...1...

 

[Grande]

Hm....everything?

Come on, Andy, you’re not still pished over Cantona saying he preferred to play with Ole over you?

 

[LInkash]

Trophies other than Prem/CL aren't that important on judging football, otherwise Van Gaal wouldn't have been sacked immediately after winning the FA Cup and Ten Hag not long after.

 

[roonster09]

Also, Solskjaer's football is overrated a lot here. Except first 10 games, we were pure counter attacking team.

Ironic this is used against Ole when he shits on most ManUtd managers in attacking metrics.

 

[Dr Foo]

I agree completely.

We always had loads of possession in our best days, because teams were scared of us. And when we had to carve teams open we had the players to do it.

But we were not and have never been a tiki-taka team.

There seems to be this thought that to beat Man City you have to become Man City.

That's what did for Ole (and signing Ronaldo). This idea that we had to play on the front foot. IMO you earn the right to play on the front foot by the opposition being so scared of leaving space in behind that they retreat. Then you just lay siege to their goal with wave after wave of attacks like we used to.

Sadly, the only team that's played like that in recent years is Liverpool. And that fact probably hurts me as much as how hard we've fallen.

Yes, I have always felt Liverpool since Klopp plays the way closest to our DNA (minus moments where they play the trent ball too much). Attacking with directness, pace, waves and pressing, merged with counter attack should be what we are, and I find it more exciting than tiki Taka ‘control’.