Playing greats Solskjaer, Koeman struggle as managers with United, Barcelona
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was utterly devastated, at his lowest ebb at Manchester United. Humiliated by a 5-0 loss to Liverpool, the manager still had to reach his car to leave Old Trafford.
“Bring your boots on Saturday,” Solskjaer was urged by a nostalgia-tinged fan, remembering the days when the Norwegian was scoring goals that won trophies for Alex Ferguson’s United rather than presiding over embarrassments in this era of grimness and mediocrity.Are his days in the United job short-lived too? It’s looking precarious for him although he is still remembered so fondly here for the stoppage-time goal that clinched the 1999 Champions League trophy.
Koeman couldn’t even leave the Camp Nou after Sunday’s 2-1 “clasico” loss to Real Madrid without his car being confronted and insults hurled by angry Barcelona fans. Barcelona has been all-too-regularly outplayed, in disarray on the field in the season or so under Koeman but never utterly humiliated in the way Tottenham also scored six at United last October.
The financial plight has been so perilous that Lionel Messi even had to be off-loaded in the summer, just as United was able to indulge fans by investing to secure the return of Cristiano Ronaldo. At 36, this is a forward unable to have the same dynamic impact as 12 years earlier when he left United – despite the theatrics of the late salvaged winner in the Champions League against Atalanta in the Champions League on Wednesday.
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