Has previously backed the Manchester United coach
With Manchester United’s performances showing little sign of improving, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer‘s position comes under ever more scrutiny and now, Rio Ferdinand, one of his biggest supporters, believes it might be time for a change.
The former Red Devils defender has backed Solskjaer as the right man for the job ever since the Norwegian took over on an interim basis, but it now appears as though the legendary centre-back no longer has faith in the coach’s capabilities.
“From where he came in to where he got us at the beginning of this season, I think it’s positive,” said Ferdinand Vibe with Five.
“I look at our team every week and wonder what we are going to do, tactically.
“I don’t see any philosophy or an identity in the United way of playing, whatever that should be from the management. I sit here confused looking at the team.”
“When you look at it like that with the summer transfer window we had, we were all sitting here excited, thinking ‘this is where we’re meant to be’.
“I go back to the point. Ole was brought in with the remit to get us back to a point, a moment where you think he’s brought some foundation back. At the beginning of this season we were thinking ‘yes, that’s it’.”
Ferdinand stated that he has long had a hunch that Solskjaer may not have been the right man to lead United back where they are said to belong.
“I was always deep down a bit sceptical. Could he take us on to be champions? I wasn’t sure, I wasn’t fully convinced, but hoped he would be able to do that,” he said.
“But the showing with the squad he accumulated to the beginning of this season and what I’ve seen this season, I just feel that maybe it might be the time now for the baton to be handed over to someone else who can take us on.”
