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MANCHESTER UNITED: GARY NEVILLE REACTS TO OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER SACKING

Gary Neville: “Ole could not get a performance out of them in the end”;
Solskjaer sacked after 4-1 Watford defeat; Man Utd 12 points off pace in Premier
League; Norwegian led United to third and second-place finishes in league during
his two full seasons in charge but failed to win trophy

Gary Neville has admitted Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s sacking had become an
inevitability after Manchester United’s collapse in form reached a new low in
their 4-1 defeat at Watford.

Neville has refused to call for Solskjaer’s dismissal despite a series of
devastating results for United, but has acknowledged that the club ultimately
had no choice but to act.

“I always say that managers deserve two or three years in the job,” Neville told
Sky Sports. “Ole cannot complain. He has been given three years. He has been
backed in the transfer market. David Moyes was given eight months and kicked
out. I don’t think Ole can complain about the time that he has been given and
the money that he has been afforded. I don’t think he can complain about the
players delivered to him.

"I do think he will be massively disappointed about the fact that he has not
been able to deliver performances this season. He expected more. We all expected
more. Only he and the players can understand what has gone wrong in these last
few months - and we might never get to the bottom of it.”

Solskjaer was sacked on Sunday morning - hours after a humiliating 4-1 defeat to
Watford at Vicarage Road.

“He has always had that result in the past that has pulled him out of the mire
when you thought it might get a little bit too tricky for him. But this time the
results have just got worse and worse. The worst thing has been the
performances.”


Club chiefs stood firm through increasingly vociferous calls to relieve
Solskjaer of his duties in the wake of a humiliating 5-0 loss to rivals
Liverpool and a 2-0 derby defeat to Manchester City in early November.

But though the Norwegian signed a new three-year deal in July, the club called
time after a defeat that was their fifth in seven in the Premier League and one
that leaves them 12 points behind leaders Chelsea.

“When a manager cannot get a performance out of his players and the results are
getting as bad as they are, in this game, you are going to lose your job,”
acknowledged Neville.

“Nobody thought this was going to happen when Cristiano Ronaldo signed. Even
before yesterday’s game I thought that getting to the end of the season was the
right thing to do if they could. They obviously have not been able to do that.

"Why has it gone from a club that was progressing last season and the season
before, third to second, and all of a sudden it has fallen apart? They look like
they have never seen each other.

"They look like they do not know how to pass the ball to each other, they look
like they don’t know what shape they are playing, changing shape continuously.

"That is a back five and a midfield two yesterday that have played together a
lot so you are not talking about integrating lots of new players but their
confidence is shot and they are all over the place.

"That was a wimpish performance at Watford.”

‘Something not right in dressing room’


Referring to the manner of the defeat at Watford, Neville told the Gary Neville
Podcast the next few months would reveal whether his old side’s standards of
defending, which have seen them keep only two clean sheets in their last 25
games, was down to Solskjaer, the players at his disposal - or disquiet in the
Old Trafford dressing room.

He said: “You’re thinking to yourself, how the hell have they defended like
that? De Gea’s thrown a couple in, the back four on the first goal, have gone so
deep - and I was accusing them of that two years ago.

"There’ll be those who will say it’s coaching. And we’ll see in the next few
months, the next 12 months whether the players have lost confidence in the
manager, whether the ideas have run out, whether something’s happened.

"I’ve got a feeling something’s happened in the last couple of months in that
dressing room, it doesn’t look right to me. But we’ll see in the next few
weeks.”

What - and who - next for Manchester United?


United have confirmed Solskjaer’s assistant Michael Carrick will be placed in
temporary charge, with the club also revealing their intention to appoint an
interim manager until the end of the season.

It means United are likely to have two different temporary bosses over the next
six months and as many as four different managers over a 12-month period.

“They have not planned for this,” said Neville. “They have not prepared for it.
I don’t think anybody would have done. It has deteriorated so badly and so
quickly.

"Michael Carrick takes over now. I suspect the only option is to put someone in
until the end of the season. That has been obvious for the last few weeks. If
there was a world-class manager sat on the shelf ready to go, Ole would have
been gone before now. I think, one, the fact that they believed in him and, two,
tried to let it go, but thirdly, the fact that they have not had anyone to
appoint sat there in the wings waiting.

"There will be people who say 'Antonio Conte has just gone to Tottenham’. He was
never coming to Manchester United. Manchester United’s board were never going to
appoint Antonio Conte whether you agree with that or not. I don’t think Antonio
Conte would have been a fit for Manchester United and I don’t think there is an
absolutely perfect fit available at this time so they have to bring someone in
temporarily until someone is available who can take forward the work that Ole
Gunnar Solskjaer has done.”

Neville: Poch? Next manager has to be the right one


Neville has urged patience, calling for Manchester United to learn from previous
mistakes and not making another short-term, quick-fix appointment.

As for potential successors to Solskjaer, Neville believes the job and project
at Old Trafford would suit the likes of Paris Saint-Germain boss Mauricio
Pochettino, who is understood to be the No 1 target for next summer.

“Absolutely they should wait,” Neville said. “They have to make sure they get
the next one right, if that means being patient for six months to wait for
managers to become available at the end of the season.

"I think Mauricio Pochettino - although he’d never say it - he’d leave to come
to Man Utd on a five-year deal tomorrow. He’d look at that group of players,
he’d look at the club and he’d realise he’d probably be able to achieve more
that he wants at Man Utd in terms of a project.

"At PSG you are on season by season - 'you’ve got to win the Champions League or
you’re out’ type of model. I don’t think that suits Pochettino.

"I think he would absolutely come to Man Utd on a five-year deal, with backing
behind him. How he’d fit in with the current coaches who are still there and
left, I’m not sure.”

No plan for the future at United


That United find themselves in this situation - with Carrick taking over before
the appointment of an interim coach until the end of the season - does not
reflect well on the decision-makers at Old Trafford, in Neville’s view.

“They don’t have a plan for who the next manager should be, obviously. They
would not be announcing they are appointing an interim manager until the end of
the season if so.

"We have seen managers lose their jobs in recent weeks - Dean Smith and Nuno
Espirito Santo - where there were plans in place and ready-made replacements.

"Manchester United have not got that plan.

"This is the third time in eight years that a manager here has been given a
long-term extension and lost their job within a few months. So the planning has
not been great.

"I don’t want to stick the knife in on the club’s owners, the club’s hierarchy,
but you have to ask serious questions. You have to ask serious questions. I have
had enough of it, to be honest with you. I have spoken too much about it over
the last few years.

"I think the club is run OK from a business point of view, but culturally, and
in terms of football decision-making, it leaves a lot to be desired. A lot to be
desired. The reality is they have been caught out again. They did not know what
to do. They have been indecisive.”

How will Solskjaer reflect on this?

Ultimately, Neville believes Solskjaer should be proud of the job he has done
but the players will have more immediate concerns if they are to avoid further
humiliations.

“Ole will reflect on it with sadness in the end but he should be proud of the
work that he did in the first two or three years, I think. Rebuilding the club
might be going too far but he rebuilt the soul of the club.

"The club was in a dark place at the end of the Jose Mourinho era. There were
players who were there for the money, who were mercenaries. I think now at least
the players are good lads, good players who need to sort themselves out because
that yesterday was a shambles irrespective of the manager they have got.

"They have a game on Tuesday where they need to perform. They have Chelsea on
Sunday. And they will get battered on Sunday on live television in front of the
whole country if they don’t sort themselves out so they have some work to do
this week on the training pitch.”

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