Manchester, England-Liverpool supporters chanted "Oley must keep" on their brutal end 5-0 dismantling of Manchester United and his side at the hands of their biggest rivals an hour after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer tortured him for Liverpool and they insisted he was still the candidate for Old Trafford, which is exactly what they wanted. However, in United's biggest ever home defeat against Liverpool, no Manchester United fans chanted Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's name. Solskjaer may believe he can still succeed, but he's starting to sound like a man wreaking havoc in a storm that is about to sweep him. When Jose Mourinho's Manchester United lost 3-1 at Anfield in December 2018, the former Chelsea boss was sacked within 48 hours. It was a bad day at Anfield, but for Manchester United it was much worse. If Ole Gunnar Solskjaer can continue to coach another game, it will be because United can't find a suitable replacement, not because he is capable of the job. Since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement in 2013, the Grieszer family, United's bosses, have always taken the time to change their managers.
David Moyes, Luis van Gaal and Mourinho were all sacked months after the team clearly fell into a downward spiral. If they insist on being with Solskjaer, history will repeat itself. Jurgen Klopp, who turned down the opportunity to coach Manchester United in 2014 after Moyes was sacked, is a world-class coach with a world-class team. At Old Trafford, Liverpool destroyed Manchester United and Mohammed Salah scored a hat-trick to keep him in incredible shape. The result was crazy, Klopp said. I asked if there were any such people in history, and if not, it would take a while. The players wrote a very good article in the book. Liverpool are a player who knows exactly what they are doing, they consistently execute the coach's plans and the recent successes in the Champions League and Premier League are a testament to Klopp's ability to build a winning team. But Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said after the match that his team had encountered a "brick wall" in recent weeks and he was moving from one dismal result to another. And he has now become the object of ridicule by opposition supporters, who mercilessly chanted "Ole, wave to us" as Liverpool played in the final stages. For Solskjaer, this is the day when everything that could go wrong goes wrong. Less than 60 seconds after Bruno Fernandez missed a clear scoring opportunity in four minutes, Liverpool took the lead through Nabi Keita after his players showed off a disastrous defensive first. Through half-time, it was 4-0 and United's defence failed to improve, with Luke Shaw and Harry Maguire hitting each other in a comedy attempt to stop Liverpool before colliding with Diogo Jota to score the second. Even after Salah took a 5-0 lead earlier in the second half, Cristiano Ronaldo saw a comforting goal being left out of offside by VAR – hinting at Liverpool fans to further mock the celebration – while substitute Paul Pogba was sent off with a red card (again in VAR review) after a fortified challenge to Keita. All of the above can be attributed to the personal missteps of Manchester United players, but these mistakes are frequent in this team and these mistakes are not coincidental. Top teams don't make the same mistakes time and time again, but under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, United seem to be stuck in a tragic cycle of incompetence, conceding just one goal in the last 21 games.
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United have lost five of their last nine games in all competitions and have scored just one point in 12 premier league games. In that game, they won three games – a 2-1 win over West Ham after a penalty error in stoppage time, a 2-1 win over Villarreal, a goal by Cristiano Ronaldo five minutes after extra time and a 3-2 win over Atalanta on Wednesday, when United trailed 2-0 in the back half of the game. When United wins, they seem to be just doing it in chaos, and the same is true when they lose.
But according to Solskjaer, he has now been in charge for just three years and his team is about to reach its destination – whatever that may be. Asked if he had any questions about whether he was a good fit for the job, he said: "I've come too far, we've come too far as a team and we're too close to giving up now. "I do believe in myself, I'm close to getting what we want at this club." Time will tell. United's £135 million overstretches on Sancho, Rafael Varane and Ronaldo have had little effect on the team's improvement, and it is difficult to identify a player who has improved under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Under Klopp, you can point out several Liverpool players who have developed into world-class players. Salah is a clear example. But Glazer still believes Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is that guy, and so is he himself, but if he continues to be in charge of future games, it's hard to see where the victory will come from. Next up are the away games between Tottenham and Atalanta. Next home game? Just the little things about neighbours and champions Manchester City. So it could get worse before United start getting better.