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Knowing the caf this won't be a civilised thread but... :nervous:

https://www.vg.no/sport/fotball/i/7dzVzv/opplysninger-til-vg-solskjaer-avslo-jobbtilbud

Ole Gunnar Solskjær is said to have declined requests from various clubs in the last five months, but the former Manchester United manager may soon be back at work.

The interest has come from several different clubs, including the Premier League. Solskjær is said to have received offers that could have made him return to work already. VG does not know the names of the clubs in question, but sources state that the Norwegian made it clear that it was not relevant at the time.

As far as VG knows, Solskjær has stated that he is open to returning to the managerial profession this summer.

In recent weeks, Solskjær has been linked to the position as Burnley manager in the English media. The Premier League club is located around 50 minutes from the Norwegian's home in Manchester. Several betting companies have also had Solskjær on lists of the most relevant heirs to the recently fired Sean Dyche.

After having to leave his dream job as Manchester United manager on November 21 last year, Solskjær has spent time with his family. He has been observed several times in the matches of his daughter Karna, who made her debut for Manchester United's women's team on 30 January. In February, Solskjær was observed watching the League One showdown between Doncaster and Ipswich. The latter is led by the Norwegian's former assistant, Kieran McKenna (35). Solskjær watched the match with Michael Carrick (40), one of his other assistants at United.
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Not surprised the club isn't named that he rejected. However, credit to Ole, even though he was an awful manager, at least Ralf made him he look less of a con artist. It would be funny if Ole does better than ETH.. I might have to reevaluate things if he does :lol:

I will be surprised if he gets a job in the premier league outside a relegationcandidate team. He needs to follow mckenna and get one in the championship and build his cv there and learn some of the fundamentals in coaching a team.
 
So basically, no actual club is named among these offers he declined and he's linked to Burnley job by some journalism and whatnot, betting websites.

Totally believable.
 
I don't know if the source is reliable, but I don't see why he wouldn't get such offers. Surely his overall reputation as a manager is better than Lampard's?

Still a legend in my eyes. I hope he does well in his next job. I'd like to see him have a go in a different league, though.
 
Amadaeus said:
Not surprised the club isn't named that he rejected. However, credit to Ole, even though he was an awful manager, at least Ralf made him he look less of a con artist. It would be funny if Ole does better than ETH.. I might have to reevaluate things if he does :lol:

I will be surprised if he gets a job in the premier league outside a relegationcandidate team. He needs to follow mckenna and get one in the championship and build his cv there and learn some of the fundamentals in coaching a team.
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It must boil your piss that again Pochetino has been overlooked. It only took him taking over far and away the best team in a 2nd tier league to win a trophy...
 
According to GFFN, https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.c...-turns-down-interest-from-iran-national-side/

Solskjaer has been without a club since leaving Manchester United eight months ago. However, according to Aouna, Solskjaer has not taken the opportunity to return to management with the Iranian national team.

Iran “appreciated Solskjaer’s profile,” but the former Manchester United, Molde, and Cardiff City manager has other short-term priorities and will therefore not replace Dragan Skocić as manager.
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Let's see where he eventually lands!
 
Apparently turned down the Iran job. Would have made the WC game against England more interesting!
 
Probably doing a Moyes and is still waiting for Champions League club offer.
 
Looked at the squad list and instantly realised he'd struggle to come up with nicknames for them. Rejected it straightaway.
 
dove said:
Probably doing a Moyes and is still waiting for Champions League club offer.
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He's gonna have to wait a long time. Unlike Moyes, united wasn't his career blip. It defined Oles career. The more time goes on his united run will look a thing of a distant past and nothing more than a failure.
 
Anyway the news is probably bullshit as their federation has a systemic history of pulling out shiny names when trying to replace a manager (which never happens Anyway).

They're currently in a bit of an upheaval which also has some political undertones as they might be looking to appoint a native coach for less controversy and for having a native on the bench against us and England in the world cup.

The previous guy did pretty well for them considering the rather strained resources available to him but he just wasn't shiny enough for them plus the weird queiroz royalist faction that they have over there constantly harangued him for supposedly not having a pattern of play(ring a bell?) And not being good enough which looked to constantly undermine him, the players got divided over the issue as well which is kinda funny.
The poor fella also got stuck between the political shenanigans of the perspolis(one of the two major clubs)faction which has strong Croatian ties due to their former manager who managed iran before and the eseteghlal(the other major club which has a very toxic rivalry with the first one) and the aforementioned queiroz royalist group which didn't help matters either.

Anyway they have a ton of court intrigue going over there which is capable of filling entire pages but I leave it at that, in regards to ole he wouldn't have been the first United link over there if this had any truth to it consider who their previous manager was (Carlos queiroz), and again assuming the reports are true he made the only right decision possible considering that they're basically broke and outright refuses payment before fifa forces them too and adds a penalty on top of it as well.
 
I wonder if he had taken the job what the stipulations would of been like. Now Ole when training the team we highly stress that you never ever utter the word Shoooot!!!
 
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Won’t get a better job than that
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I can see him maybe getting a EL team somewhere in Europe during the season. There'll be plenty of sackings, and worse managers than him have found jobs around Europe.

I also predict he'll be totally shown up and everyone can finally agree that he is a very, very average manager at best.
 
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I don't think he will be managing any team outside Norway, he will manage for few years and retire, or might have retired already.
 
Samid said:


What a masochist.
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I didn't like him as a coach but I can actually respect this approach. If he still wants to come back to coaching, it's good for him to learn from all his past mistakes as well as things he did right. Traveling around the world studying other teams play, formation, coaching style etc to have a wider range of understanding to the game when he comes back is good.
 
Yeah, it's not a bad trait to have the willingness to learn from your mistakes. Many people just flat out refuse to do that.

That said, I doubt Ole will ever emerge as a tactically brilliant manager/coach.

(Not saying that's what he's trying to do.)
 
Sail away with me Ole, put the wheel in your hands, sail away with me.
 
Fair play to him for putting himself through that misery again. At least he's willing to learn from his mistakes.
 
Chesterlestreet said:
Yeah, it's not a bad trait to have the willingness to learn from your mistakes. Many people just flat out refuse to do that.

That said, I doubt Ole will ever emerge as a tactically brilliant manager/coach.

(Not saying that's what he's trying to do.)
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Willingness to learn is great, but I don’t think he displayed an actual ability to do so while he was at United. Despite finishing second and getting us to a final in his last full season, I felt that too many things that hadn’t gone right in earlier ones weren’t being changed, particularly in regard to game management.

I do wonder though whether he’d do better at a club where his vision was shared by the other decision makers, and he hadn’t got Woodward (and maybe also Phelan) foisting unsuitable players on him.
 
Revaulx said:
Willingness to learn is great, but I don’t think he displayed an actual ability to do so while he was at United.
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He didn't really progress as a United manager, that is clear.

Far too many of the problems that were there initially (or, let's say, after the honeymoon was well and truly over) were still there when he left.

One of my main concerns with Ole was his inability to make good on his promise that he'd make United work hard again. That was a pretty simple thing, you could say. And if we'd actually started running more than any other team in the PL, it would've been...nice, I guess. It wouldn't have been enough, but it would've been nice.

It didn't happen, though. It was evident very early on - he didn't make the players work harder at all in any tangible sense.

Based on what has emerged since he left, it seems that Ole was nowhere near his role model in terms of being a stern but good taskmaster.

ETA To be clear: You don't have to be tactically brilliant in order to make your players work hard, or more precisely: harder than anyone else (which was Ole's stated ambition).

My take (as a United fan, a random fecker with no inside information): Ole failed in the one department we could have realistically expected him to actually step up and really master: man management. He was too soft (probably).

And by "failed" I don't mean that he was a "fraud" or anything near it. But he ultimately failed (which was utterly predictable) to turn things around for United.
 
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Chesterlestreet said:
And by "failed" I don't mean that he was a "fraud" or anything near it. But he ultimately failed (which was utterly predictable) to turn things around for United.
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I don’t think he did fail in this regard. He got a 2nd and 3rd place league finish, he got to a EL final and was regularly qualifying for CL football.
I think where he failed was transitioning to the next step - Turning a counter attacking team into a more progressive front foot team, and translating from going deep in Competitions to trophy wins.
It’s academic now, but its odd that Oles 2nd place finish is derided as being a freak year in a weak league but when Mourinho says finishing 2nd with United was his finest achievement most say ‘Yeah, you’re probably right’.
I wish his luck and success in his future endeavours!
 
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