If he is to survive until the third anniversary of his original caretaker appointment next month, he will have done it without having won a trophy, and with a challenge for this season's Premier League title seemingly already over.Īny suggestions that United could compete for the Champions League would also seem fanciful given their abject performances against Young Boys, Villarreal and Atalanta so far, even though they have managed to secure two late, come-from-behind wins in the process. Solskjaer has now seemingly entered the same realm as his predecessors Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal and David Moyes: a dead man walking with the complete backing of the club’s decision-makers until they are forced to bow to the inevitable and put him out of his misery.ĭespite things slowly moving in the right direction at United over the past couple of seasons, Solskjaer has never been taken seriously by the club's rivals. “As satisfying as it is to see them in so much distress, I really, really, really don’t want Conte showing up there,” wrote another. “The last thing we need is a new United manager if Spurs beat United, and the Glazers sack Ole the week before the derby,” one fan wrote on the Blue Moon website. There will, of course, have been enjoyable moments of schadenfreude as United's humiliation snowballed against Jurgen Klopp’s side on Sunday, particularly when the television coverage pulled away to a camera high above Old Trafford so as to show thousands of home fans leaving the stadium long before full-time.īut there will also be concern that the situation has become so bad, the embarrassment so raw, that the United board will be forced to act. United have always been City’s most despised opponents, but the challenge from across town has become almost so irrelevant - United's last serious title assault was back in 2013 - that these days that when they face teams like Liverpool or Chelsea, City supporters generally want the Old Trafford outfit to win.
Worried that a new man might be able to get the Red Devils within striking distance of their closest rivals for the first time since Sir Alex Ferguson left the club.
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