Paul Ince has admitted that he thought Steve Bruce and Mark Hughes would have been better served taking over at Man United than Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Solskjaer spent eleven years at Man United as a player between 1996 and 2007. Upon retiring, he joined United’s coaching staff before he became their reserve team manager in 2008.
After managing Molde and Cardiff City, he took over at United in December 2018. He initially took the job on an interim basis after Jose Mourinho was sacked.
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Solskjaer won 14 of his first 19 games in charge which led to him being given the job permanently in March 2019.
The Norwegian has been criticised at times but he has done a good job overall. They look set to finish second in the Premier League this season and they are in the semi-finals of the Europa League.
But Ince told Sky Sports, as cited by MEN, that he had doubts about Solskjaer’s credentials when he first took over:
“Listen, I think Ole is always calm and doesn’t get too emotional about situations. At the time, when they gave Ole the job, I thought he was really inexperienced for one of the biggest clubs in the world.
“I thought there were better managers out there with more experience, like Steve Bruce or Mark Hughes, who could have come in and done a better job.
“But saying that, he’s obviously changed the mindset of the players after Mourinho and the results have been very, very good. The performances have still been really inconsistent, even last week against Burnley, it wasn’t a great performance.
“We look at their away record, they keep going behind and then coming back. They’ve got great character and mental toughness to come back.
“As a manager, you don’t want to keep going behind in games and having to come back but it shows you’ve got the character and mental side to do that.
“Listen, next year, Chelsea will be strong, Arsenal will be, Spurs will be, there will be a lot of teams that are strong. At the moment, well done, but there’s still a long way to go.”
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