The start of Norwegian occurs after a new heavy defeat in the championship, the fifth in just 12 games. Legendary club player between 1996 and 2007, Solskjaer had arrived at the end of 2018 to rebuild a divided team.
Le Monde with AFP
The English Football Club of Manchester United announced Sunday 21 November The departure of its coach, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, after a series of bad results, including a defeat (4-1) the day before in the evil ranked Watford. “OLE will forever stay a legend in Manchester United and it’s up to regret that we have made that difficult decision,” writes the club in a statement.
“Although the last weeks have been disappointing, they should not hide all the work done over the last three years to rebuild the foundations of long-term success,” still pursue the RED Devils.
A disappointing season
Arrived in December 2018 after José Mourinho, who had left a demotivated club and disunited, Norwegian had managed to improve the results, taking the team in the EUROPA league final and at 2 e Championship place last season.
But, despite heavy investments in recruitment this summer – Raphaël Varane, Jadon Sancho and Cristiano Ronaldo -, the club is currently 7 e of the championship, at 12 lengths of the leader, Chelsea, After 12 days. United did not earn four of his last 13 games, all competitions, and often delivered desolate services, missing with soul, envy and ideas.
Long protected by the fact that the club did not find him a credible replacement and immediately available, Solskjaer did not resist a new distressing meeting on Saturday. This is one of its assistants and a former Captain of the Red Devils, Michael Carrick, who will provide the interim for the next games.
Manchester has a Capital appointment in Champions League, Tuesday, Villarreal, and will move to Chelsea Sunday before receiving Arsenal (5 e ) the next Thursday, three games on which His season could be played largely.
The club specified looking for a coach for the moment to finish the season. According to the English press, Zinedine Zidane would be the priority of the Mancunians to lead their team, but it would not be very interested. The other names that come back regularly are those of Leicester coach, Brendan Rodgers, that of Ajax Amstedam Erik Ten Hag, or even that of PSG, Mauricio Pochettino, but their situation is more likely to evolve this summer. ‘during the season.