Solskjaer and Man United’s project is the biggest failure in Premier League history
Sancho 70m
Maguire 80m
Wan Bissaka 50m
Van De Beek 40m
Fernandes 60m
Varane 40m
Diallo 40m
Dan James 15m
Add to this that you have Ronaldo and Cavani, one of the greatest players of all time and one of the best strikers of the past decade, on massive, massive wages. Add players from previous managers like World cup winner and formerly most expensive Premier League player ever, Paul Pogba. Add 55m Fred. Add 35m Shaw. Add 30m Lindelof. Add 50m Martial. Add 30m Bailly. And then consider you have two players purchased for 40m each in Matic and Mata as well.
Now imagine a manager handed all of this, who then proceeds to win absolutely nought in 3 years, and eventually reaches rock bottom being slapped 5-0 at home by his biggest rivals in a defeat so humiliating that it was ended as a contest before half time. The team now sits in 7th place, behind ‘calamity’ Spurs and level on points with ‘shambolic’ Arsenal.
It sounds like what you would come up with if someone asked you hypothetically what is the biggest failure you could possibly imagine as a football manager. Ole Gunnar Solsjkaer has been in arguably THE most prestigious position in world football ever since he has been appointed. He has spent millions and millions of pounds on players to add to an already expensively assembled squad, and won nothing.
He has turned 40 and 50million pound players like Van De Beek, Fred, Diallo and Wan Bissaka into flops. He has shelled out on Maguire, who is arguably looking like one of the worst center backs in the Premier League, and Sancho who has 0 goals and 0 assists in 10 appearances and now can’t even get off the bench. Would any other manager in world football be allowed to manage a football club so poorly, negligently and inadequately? It is unforgivable disaster after unforgivable disaster. The pathetic defence that got torn apart by Liverpool’s forwards cost 80 million more in transfer fees than the Liverpool defence. Woeful management of the team from Solsjkaer, and woeful management by the people above him to allow him to spend such massive amounts of money and then keep his job despite producing exactly zilch in terms of success.
Let us be absolutely clear about this with no room for interpretation. Any other manager at any other football institution would have been fired ages ago with this level of performance relative to the spend. We often refer to Leicester winning the Premier League as the greatest achievement in Premier League history due to their modest resources and status in the game. In that vein, we must remain consistent and realize that Manchester United’s project with Solsjkaer is the biggest failure in Premier League history, given the astronomical sums spent on the team and their own status in world football. He is, without doubt, one of the 3 or worst managers in the Premier League, and possibly bottom. The Man United contributors who have been crying about the poor treatment of this website towards Solsjkaer over the years should all write in apologies to the mailbox, it is the right thing to do.
El Gaucho
Source:
https://www.football365.com/news/man-utd-project-biggest-failure-premier-league-history-liverpool-mailbox
