Pochettino? No … Solskjaer ‘needs’ to stay at Man United

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer won a stage of a lost League Cup semi-final and “knows” Manchester United. It is clear: he must stay as a coach.

*Ahem*

Soft play
Mediawatch enjoys the idea of ​​Neil Custis using his platform as a journalist for the country’s best-selling newspaper, basically, just to tell Gabriel Agbonlahor that he is wrong. Some folks might have been quick to launch a rebuttal on social media, but Custis reserves that just for complaining about airports and not being nominated for the awards.

After all, why write a quick tweet when you can get a full 647 words out of how Ole Gunnar Solskjaer isn’t “too smooth” at all?

“It only took one match, but there are already requests for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s head.”

Well no, it took about two years and a record similar to that of the fired Louis van Gaal – P91 W49 D20 L22 to the Dutchman’s P103 W54 D25 L24 – for many to suggest that Man United could perhaps do better than hiring a manager. largely based on his playing career.

“Take, for example, yesterday morning on TalkSport and former Aston Villa forward Gabriel Agbonlahor, who said he was 100% confident that Mauricio Pochettino could do a better job.”

Pochettino led Tottenham from sixth to third place in two years with a net expense (sorry) of -13.1 million pounds. Solskjaer has led Man United to and from the same position in roughly the same amount of time at a net expense of around £ 150 million.

Is it really that far-fetched to suggest that someone with much more extensive experience in the Premier League and in Europe, who has proven more capable of getting teams to play with a defined style, would ‘do a better job’? Pochettino reached a Champions League final without new signings in 18 months; Solskjaer is being cleared of guilt for losing at home to Crystal Palace because his expensive team has only been adorned with a 35 million pound midfielder so far this summer.

“Pochettino, by the way, won seven of his last 25 games in charge of Tottenham.”

And 54.27% of his 293 games in six years in total. Which is better than what Solskjaer (53.85%) has achieved in an elite club with more stable bases and in a shorter period. What is your point?

‘Agbonlahor described Solskjaer as “too soft”.

‘Now, because the baby-faced killer puts on a positive smiling front, make no mistake that this guy is soft.’

OK. But can we continue with the perception that it is not good enough?

Apparently not, because Solskjaer ‘knows when to turn on the hair dryer’. However, do you know how to beat Roy Hodgson at home?

“I couldn’t tolerate David De Gea throwing them at Wembley in the FA Cup semi-final.”

A reminder that Man United lost that game 3-1 with their consolation penalty goal in the 85th minute. ‘Couldn’t tolerate’ a goalkeeper error, but blaming the loss alone would be a bit silly.

“We know that Manchester City are way ahead, but they still beat them in one of the two stages of the League Cup.”

When the Man United manager is being painted as a success for winning a stage of a cup semi-final only to lose on aggregate after being thrashed in the first, you know there is a problem.

“Solskjaer knows the club, he knows the fans, he is part of the DNA and, again, he is heading in the right direction.”

No I won’t fall in love with that one again. Next.

“He was right to criticize Saturday’s performance, but he was also right to point out mitigating factors.

‘Only 34 days had passed since that loss to Sevilla in Cologone and the meeting with Crystal Palace.

“At that time his squad had trained together for a week and played a friendly.

Palace meanwhile had played four pre-season friendlies, winning the opening match against Southampton and a scoreless EFL game with Bournemouth.

That’s fine but It was Crystal Palace at Old Trafford. And you just used them drawing 0-0 with Bournemouth in a League Cup match as a defense for Man United to lose to them. What are you really doing

“The club is also fed up with having their mick taken away when they go after a player and all of a sudden his value skyrockets far beyond what he’s worth, whereas there are no offers from any other club.”

There is no small enough violin in the world. And what is that apostrophe doing there?

“Still, Ole is behind the wheel and he needs to stay there.”

Yes, to meet the club and win a leg of a losing League Cup semi-final and the lonely training week they had to prepare to host Crystal Palace (which was playing its third competitive match in seven days and thus had even shorter to focus on that match). He absolutely ‘needs’ to stay.

It may not be an easy path, but it is going in the right direction. A game, a defeat, doesn’t change that. ‘

Agreed. After all, it’s only forever two defeats that could cause Solskjaer to lose his job, right?

Oh no no you can’t disguise
It’s no wonder Custis doesn’t consider Solskjaer to be “too soft” considering quite public punishment the Norwegian was reserved for his “made up and shameless lies” last December.

Once burned, and all that …

Jadon’t
Custis also throws this gem:

“Jadon Sancho, at age 20, is probably worth £ 70 million, not £ 110 million, and the club is right not to pay this silly money.”

Jadon Sancho at 20 ‘is probably worth’ what Borussia Dortmund, to whom he is signed for three more years as an important first team player, say he is. It is Man United’s prerogative to “pay this silly money” or choose alternatives. They have done neither.

But that won’t stop Sun pretending that there was hope that this movement would actually die out.

‘MANCHESTER UNITED has received a new blow in its search for signings of Jadon Sancho’

A Borussia Dortmund employee pointing out that Sancho “is our player, and he will stay” is not ‘a new blow’. It is precisely what they have been saying since August 10, when the deadline you pretended it didn’t matter Timed out. Give. That. Up.

Incorrect use of an exclamation point of the day
Graeme Bryce writes in Sun:

Remember how we laughed when Villa goalkeeper Orjan Nyland made an Oliver Norwood free kick and clearly crossed the line for a goal.

Until Michael Oliver put his trust in technology and was forced to look like a mug when his watch didn’t chime and the system failed him.

‘Not so much Hawk-Eye…. Blind as a bat!

!

… and the runner-up
Writes Graeme Bryce on his next line at Sun:

“This time the technology worked, although Blades boss Egan might agree!”

!!

In third place
Graeme Bryce writes a few paragraphs later to Sun:

“The international Scotsman is rumored to be so fast that he can turn on the light switch in his bedroom and be in bed before dark.”

!!!

… and fourthly
Write Graeme Bryce even further down to Sun:

“Lundstram stepped up to test Villa’s new kid, Martinez, and found him to be an improvement on Nyland!”

This is a Premier League match report, not a jovial company-wide email from the boss on a Friday afternoon, buddy.

The sky is the limit
You could have seen Steve Parish screams Sky sports on Twitter Monday. You may not have seen one of the updates removed since then on the latter’s live transfer blog:

Hodgson left Liverpool in 2011. Not only was Brewster 11 years old, but he was also at the Chelsea academy. Nice job.

Recommended reading of the day
David Squires in Gareth Bale.



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