He wanted to be his own man.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer | W15 D2 L4
- Thread starter Tom Van Persie
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He wanted to be his own man.
Yeah but he did all of that by bringing smiles back to faces.
MOTD showed a newspaper article saying that Sir Alex wants Ole to get the job.
As well as Cantona seemingly wanting him.
Shearer has always had a soft spot for knowing United are big too, and you can tell he likes Ole.
As well as Cantona seemingly wanting him.
Shearer has always had a soft spot for knowing United are big too, and you can tell he likes Ole.
No matter what happens today, I see progression.
Under Jose I didn’t see progression, but with ole I can feel us building something. a bit like city with Guardiola, you could see things were building even though the results didn’t immediately come.
We’ve had the honeymoon period and our performances have stayed at a high level. I have faith he will target the right players come the summer and continue to get the best of our lads.
The thing I love about ole the most is he isn’t a back stabbing liar. He speaks the truth and is honest. His positive demeanour makes a huge difference, similar to how klopp changed Liverpool’s attitude.
For me there is no better choice, I originally wanted Poch but why would we go back now?
Under Jose I didn’t see progression, but with ole I can feel us building something. a bit like city with Guardiola, you could see things were building even though the results didn’t immediately come.
We’ve had the honeymoon period and our performances have stayed at a high level. I have faith he will target the right players come the summer and continue to get the best of our lads.
The thing I love about ole the most is he isn’t a back stabbing liar. He speaks the truth and is honest. His positive demeanour makes a huge difference, similar to how klopp changed Liverpool’s attitude.
For me there is no better choice, I originally wanted Poch but why would we go back now?
Very naive to ask Lingard to play 70 minutes if he wasn’t fit enough to start and we had other options. The other injuries are perhaps unlucky, but that was an undue risk.
Can't emphasise the stupidity in bringing Lingard on after 15 minutes knowing full well we've rushed him from injury. I know Sanchez is shite but ffs at least he's generally fit.
Why wasn't Sanchez dubbed on before jese?
He has his favourites. Sanchez isn't part of the club.
Lingard never looked right coming onto the pitch. Not sure why he didn’t see that in training. Lingard was just casually walking as soon as he came on.
You do realise that it’s fitness staff at the club who assess player fitness. It’s also down to the player to be honest about their fitness.
Anyone criticising Solskjaer is a prize plum.
You do realise the manager is the one who picks the team.
Questions need to be asked of who declared Jesse fit.
Exactly. This place is like a cult at the moment.
Didn’t ole say before the game that Lingard couldn’t do 90 min? Hindsight is always 20/20 but I think he was naive in that selection
You do realize manager picks the team based on info gain from fitness staff and the player himself?
The Lingard substitution is probably the first strange thing he’s done since taking over. Made no sense to send him on at that point in the game.
I think he is over-anxious to reach the targets for this season to make a case for himself. Understandable, but still quite detrimental to risk injured players.
He isn’t the person responsible for declaring players fit to play. You must realise that blindingly obvious aspect of club football?
Look, if he wins this it will be one of footballs greatest achievements.
If Ole has info that Lingard is fin then he choose him, never Ole's fault in this.
Sanchez looked very sharp vs Chelsea. No idea why he wasn't starting today and then to bring on an unfit Lingard instead of him is just mental.
Come on. Even Neville was spot on, Lingard usually buzzing around and non stop running. He barely moved since coming on.
His lack of squad management could cost him getting the job full time. Bringing Lingard was a terrible decision, clearly not fit.
Nah, Solskjaer came into this game knowing Lingard was only able for limited minutes and said as much beforehand. That didn't suddenly change just because Mata and Herrera were injured too, unless you think the medical staff had a sudden and miraculous change of opinion.
Bringing on someone you've already deemed only capable of limited minutes so early in a game where you have already used up substitutions was a clear risk and it backfired.
That’s fine, but if he wasn’t fit to start, he almost certainly wasn’t fit to play 70 minutes. Him being on the bench for 20 minutes at the end if the situation warrants the risk is completely different to him being asked to play the majority of a match.
Not his fault if Lingard gets injured. He takes advise from the medical staff and Lingard himself.
Playing Herrera and Matic in every game for 90 minutes and then subbing on Lingard. Of course Ole shares a big part of the blame.
You can dress it however you fecking want, mate. Ole chooses the team. He's not blameless at all like you're trying to make out.
‘Limited’ minutes is vague expression. You’re either fit to play in a football match or you’re not. If Lingard was deemed fit to play (which he clearly was) then that’s a decision made by medical professionals, not football managers.
Big gambles bringing on an unfit Lingard and Pereira over a player with lots of Champion League experience in Fred. History will be written by the winner so this could be a master-stroke or a stick for his detractors to beat him with.
You have no idea whether he's deemed it worth the risk to overrule the medical staff. Managers have the final say.
To bring him on with the substitutes you had left was a huge risk and has predictably backfired. Taking away any accountability from the manager who made the decision is ridiculous.
It was especially risky with the substitutes you had left to bring on a player who was deemed not fit to start.
Sanchez looked very sharp vs Chelsea. No idea why he wasn't starting today and then to bring on an unfit Lingard instead of him is just mental.
Because Sanchez usually does feck all despite looking busy. But I hope for goodness sake he steps up atleast today.
The problem with Lingard was starting him without any warm-up. Maybe we should have muddled on with 10 players while he warmed up? You don’t often (ever?) see that though.
Agreed. Matic has been in need of a rest for ages. They've literally ran themselves into the ground. Was inevitable to happen sooner or later.
In the UCL Fred is enabled more room and protection than what he would get here.
An issue you could see coming when Ole was still managing Molde.
He brought on Lingard to replace Mata to replace Sanchez for Rashford.
I am shocked that this is being seen as anything other than a terrible decision. Ole mentioned in his pre-match interview that Lingard wasn't fit and ready to play the full game. It was nonsense subbing him in given the situation with 75 minutes still on the clock.