News about Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

A host of Man United legends took to the red carpet last week to premiere today's release of Amazon Prime's new documentary '99, which details one of the greatest achievements in the club's history. During the 1998-99 season, Sir Alex Ferguson's side pulled off a then-unprecedented Treble, winning the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League, and becoming the first English side to do so. Many of the members of that great United squad remain in the spotlight but some have retreated into a more modest life. Here, Mail Sport looks at the players who made history and where they are now.

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Manchester United are reportedly eyeing up a surprise move for Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna, following his success helping the Suffolk side seal back-to-back promotions to the Championship and to the Premier League. It comes as Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his leadership group are set to make a decision on the future of under-fire manager Erik ten Hag later this summer. Mail Sport understands that United will not part ways with the Dutchman ahead of their FA Cup final clash with rivals Manchester City on May 25.  Speculation is mounting that amid Ten Hag's recent woes at United, with the Red Devils disappointingly having won just one of their last eight Premier League matches, and could now miss out on European football next season. 

A Manchester United star has been banned from driving after racking up 30 points on his license. The 23-year-old has spent this season on loan at promotion-chasing Ipswitch but hasn't made an appearance for Kieran McKenna's side since November.

Ipswich Town have been promoted back to the Premier League for the first time in 22 years after a 2-0 win over Huddersfield Town. Kieran McKenna's side have enjoyed a fantastic season after emerging as the early favourites to go up under his leadership - despite only just moving up from League One last year - and they've battled all the way to seal their place in the top flight on the final day. The Tractor Boys only needed a point against the Terriers in their last Championship game and they got the job done with a routine victory, though Leeds United's 2-1 loss against Southampton meant they would have gone up anyway. 

Kieran McKenna began his coaching journey on crutches. He was aged just 22, and coming to terms with the premature end of his playing career after a second major hip operation when Tottenham academy bosses invited him to join them. Just for a taste of it. To see if he liked the idea. Turned out he liked it a lot. Turned out he was pretty good at it, too, just as those who extended the invitation knew he would be, and McKenna set about plotting a route to the top. The early steps involved a sports science degree at Loughborough University, coaching the students in non-League and Nottingham Forest 's Under 9s in the evenings and spending summers coaching in North America. Now, 15 years on, McKenna is one point from back-to-back promotions with Ipswich Town, on the brink of becoming a Premier League manager, taking his club back to the top flight after a 22-year exile. Over the past two seasons, no team in the top four divisions of English football has accumulated more points (191) or scored more goals (191) than Ipswich. Only Manchester City and Arsenal have a better points per game ratio.

The brutal message that Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly sent to Ralf Rangnick during the latter's time as interim boss of Manchester United has been revealed. Ronaldo returned to Old Trafford in 2021 when United were managed by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, but the Norwegian was dismissed in November that year, with Rangnick being placed in interim charge until the end of the season. United legend Ronaldo reportedly made a demand to Rangnick regarding his playing time. 

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Jesse Marsch are on the shortlist to lead Canada into the next World Cup after Jose Mourinho and Frank Lampard both turned down the role. Canada are looking for a new manager to replace John Herdman, who resigned a the end of August to take over at Toronto FC in the MLS. Herdman's former assistant Mauro Biello has served as interim manager for the past eight months, but the Canadian FA wants a permanent manager in place ahead of the 2026 World Cup - which the country is co-hosting.

Manchester United's penalty shootout FA Cup semi-final win over Coventry City brought more questions than answers - both in terms of Erik ten Hag and his players.  This has been a season riddled by mistakes on and off the pitch for United and with Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his Ineos team now assuming control of football operations, a summer shake-up feels inevitable.  United are looking to raise £100million through player sales and for some shown the door that will mean accepting a sizeable loss on their initial transfer outlay. Mail Sport runs through Manchester United's squad to work out who stays and who goes.

CHRIS WHEELER: Exactly two years ago, Ralf Rangnick said the Manchester United squad needed 'open heart surgery', and now more than ever it feels as though this soap opera of a club is stuck on a long hospital waiting list. Rangnick already knew he wouldn't be getting the job on a permanent basis when he said those words before a defeat at Arsenal in April 2022, so the wonderfully outspoken German - who regularly had United's communications department running for cover during his short stay in England - was free to take aim and fire. Rangnick could say the stuff that United managers can't usually disclose until they are long gone. Only recently, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, whose sacking led to Rangnick's arrival as interim boss, revealed that some of his players refused to captain the team, while others were asked to put their hands up at half-time of his last stand at Watford 'if they didn't want to play'. This is Manchester United, for goodness sake.

Manchester United fans have been offered a sneak preview of the new 'definitive' documentary series about their historic 1999 Treble win. '99', which is produced by the company behind the 'Beckham' Netflix series, will air on Amazon Prime Video on May 17 and have three parts. It features exclusive interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Beckham, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Peter Schmeichel, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and others as they chart that extraordinary season 25 years on.

Gary Neville has expressed that history is repeating itself at Manchester United amid Erik ten Hag's struggles this season. The Red Devils failed to win for the fourth straight Premier League match, in a disappointing 2-2 draw away at Bournemouth. It is a result that leaves them ten points off fifth-placed Tottenham - which could potentially be the final Champions League qualification spot - with six games left to play.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer reportedly turned down the chance to return to management in January despite holding talks over a vacant role. The former Manchester United boss hasn't taken charge of a side since being sacked by the Red Devils in 2021, though has said on a number of occasions that he is keen to re-enter the industry. He had led the likes of Cardiff and Molde prior to becoming a coach at United, and took over permanently when Jose Mourinho left, three years prior to his departure.

The former Manchester United boss hasn't taken charge of a side since being sacked by the Red Devils in 2021, though has said on a number of occasions that he is keen to re-enter the industry. He had led the likes of Cardiff and Molde prior to becoming a coach at United, and took over permanently when Jose Mourinho left three years prior to his departure. In his media appearances since, he has spoken regularly about his playing days at United, including linking up with Roy Keane and joining the former United captain on his Sky podcast 'Stick to Football'.

CHRIS WHEELER: Despite the inherent danger of serious injury or shame, several players love the flamboyant goal celebrations. The knee joint has deteriorated. Bruno Fernandes, the new Premier League star to play it at Old Trafford on Sunday, after scoring an impressive goal for Manchester United from the centre circle in a 2-2 draw with Liverpool. Fernandes stopped two tramlines in the pristine turf as he slid for several yards on his knees and then returned to his feet in a single smooth motion as he turned around to the corner flag. Out of ten, eight out of ten.

When Manchester United's pants fell at Brentford last season, Erik ten Hag ordered his players into training the next day and sent them on a suspension run to make up for their lack of effort. If only it was that simple this time. Ten Hag was new then. It was his second game as boss, and losing 4-0 felt like nothing less than a tense wake-up call. The Dutchman was the first step of a shambolic dressing-room left behind by his predecessor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and uncovered by interim boss Ralf Rangnick.

CHRIS WHEELER: Old Trafford has seen some classic games in recent times, and Manchester United's dramatic FA Cup quarter-final victory over Liverpool on Sunday was up there with the best of them. United's cameback to defeat their bitter rivals 4-3, with a 121st-minute goal from Amad Diallo, who was running late in normal time and again in extra-time. I was screaming and I couldn't hear my voice, so you get a sense of what the noise was like for us on the pitch,' said captain Bruno Fernandes afterwards.'

OLIVER HOLT CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: On Sunday afternoon, it was a privilege to be at Old Trafford. A drab March day when the rain came and went in sudden showers was made glorious by a football match sent from heaven, an FA Cup match between two titans that made us remember how much joy the game brings to those who love it. I suppose being there exaggerates the emotions, but it was perhaps because so many things were involved, and because the result was a shock, and because it was two kids competing for the Manchester United breakaway goal that won it in the dying seconds that it seemed to be one of the finest of all cup ties, but perhaps because it was so many things riding on the result, it seemed like one of the best of all cup ties. Old Trafford has played some memorable games in recent years, but I'd put it in the same bracket as United 3-0 Barcelona in a 1984 European Cup Winners' Cup quarter final, and United 4-3 Madrid in a 2003 Champions League quarterfinal.

It was pointed out that the Vicarage Road team had more managers since 2019 than there have been Dalai Lamas since 1589, after Watford dissatisfied with Valerien Ismael on Saturday. A player with such turnover doesn't appear to have pushed the Hornets any farther, but the new one will see another former Manchester United player step out. Watford's search for yet another new manager begins with Tom Cleverley, 34, who will serve on an interim basis. Between 2011 and 2014, Cleverley played 79 times in United's midfield before moving to Everton. He completed his playing career at Watford and was already helping with their under-18 team before being promoted. He is one of the many prominent players from Sir Alex Ferguson's time in management that has tried their hand at governing, with mixed results.

CHRIS WHEELER: Erik ten Hag has outlined how coordinating players who'have their own business units' into a team is one of the most difficult jobs required of him at Manchester United. Ten Hag was speaking in the aftermath of reports from former Old Trafford boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer that some players didn't want to captain the team but could only tell him so via go-betweens.

Roy Keane blasted Ole Gunnar Solskjaer over the former Manchester United boss's praise of Fred. Since joining Shakhtar Donetsk for £47 million, the Brazilian midfielder made 213 appearances for the Red Devils between 2018 and 2023. However, Fred was consistently chastised for his performances at Old Trafford, but the 31-year-old played 59 out of 78 league games during the Norwegian's two complete seasons as coach.

Although he didn't play for Manchester United during his playing career, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed that he was a member of a supporters club affiliated with a rival team. Sir Alex Ferguson's reign as the club's manager, who scored the winning goal against Bayern Munich to clinch the 1998-99 Champions League trophy and win a historic treble. Solskjaer came from Molde, Norway, in 1996, and he spent the remainder of his playing career at Old Trafford, where he made 366 appearances in red before his retirement in 2007.

He sees "captain qualities" in Fernandes, unlike some of the divisive midfielder's commentators, but sees Maguire as the "leader." Solskjaer signed Maguire for £80 million in the summer of 2019 and named him skipper within six months, but under Erik ten Hag's reign, the armband was whisked away and moved to Fernandes in 2023.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says his Manchester United team was too fit to simply defend top sides, and that's part of the club's DNA. The former Man United boss, 51, said their main strength was 'counter-attacking,' but that using a specific style of football when in charge was a "responsibility." Solskjaer was manager of United between December 2018 and November 2021, bringing them to second place in the Premier League but losing a trophy.