It’s fair to say that things aren’t going well for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
“I have come too far to give up. I am not built that way,” he told BBC Radio 5 live.
“The feeling we have had is we were getting where we wanted to be but in the last few weeks results haven’t come and we have hit a brick wall. We have conceded too many easy goals and that is a concern.
“I am still thinking about tomorrow’s work, we are all low. This is the lowest I have been but I accept the responsibility, that is mine and mine going forward.”
Manchester United were top-heavy even before adding Jadon Sancho and Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer and Solskjaer is struggling to balance out the side. This was most clear in their 5-0 thrashing at the hands of Liverpool, where there was little organisation in their attempts to recover the ball from their rivals, enabling the away side to cut through them easily.
Micah Richards summed it up nicely: “It’s a team of individuals, not a collective.
“Ronaldo is available so you think ‘get him’, but you try to fit in [Bruno] Fernandes, [Paul] Pogba, Sancho, [Marcus] Rashford and [Mason] Greenwood in as well, so where’s the balance?
“It has to be down to the coaching and some of the things were ridiculous, basic mistakes. They don’t know when to press or when to drop deep and it looks like Ole does not know what to do.”
In this video we look at how exactly United failed to get anywhere near Liverpool.
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