Ole’s management branded a ‘load of b*llocks’ by Man Utd legend

Robin Bairner

27 Oct 2021 09:34 BST
3 min read

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s has been accused of talking “b*llocks” by a club legend.

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Solskjaer’s spot in the Old Trafford dugout has come under renewed pressure in recent days following a harrowing 5-0 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday.

It is the latest in a series of disappointing results for the Red Devils, who are now winless in four Premier League matches after suffering defeats to Leicester and Aston Villa, as well as drawing 1-1 at home with Everton.

Solskjaer has been able to count on the support of a former team-mate in the form of Gary Neville, but Paul Ince, who left the club a year before the Norwegian arrived for an 11-year playing spell in 1996, has not been so tender with him.

Ince savages Solskjaer

In particular, Solskjaer’s choice of backroom staff has come under question.

“You can’t have a manager who takes Cardiff down, then goes to Molde, and expect to come into the biggest club in the world and produce a team that’s going to challenge the best teams in the world with the staff that he’s got,” Ince has told The United Stand.

“You’ve got an under-23 coach come up from the academy. He’s got Michael Carrick… no coaching experience. Micky Phelan…I don’t know what he does. That’s his team.

“This is his coaching staff. So you analyse that with the world-class players that you’ve got in the team and we keep mentioning tactics and not getting the best out of the players…

“Look at that staff. This is the staff that Ole says is ‘very good, brilliant…’ it's a load of b*llocks because they are conceding goals for fun.”

Man Utd’s defence hammered

Ince then took aim at a defence that has conceded 15 goals in nine Premier League matches.

“Are they doing defensive work? Do they know where the players need to be when the ball is in a certain position?

I’d actually like to go to Carrington and watch a week of what they do in training. I’d love to see it. I don’t know whether they are playing five-a-side, a bit of volleyball and all that rubbish

- Paul Ince

“I’d actually like to go to Carrington and watch a week of what they do in training. I’d love to see it. I don’t know whether they are playing five-a-side, a bit of volleyball and all that rubbish, head tennis. I don’t know what they are doing but I’d like to go.

“I’d like Ole to invite me in for a week and say: ‘Paul this is what we’re doing and this is how we do it,’ because I’m not seeing any stuff on the weekend that says to me that we work at this, work at that.”

Man Utd play Tottenham away next before big matches against Atalanta in the Champions League and Manchester City in the Premier League.

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