Hank Scorpio
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Solskjaer had run out of excuses, and run out of tolerance. The club put a private jet at their battered manager’s disposal, advising him to take the first week of the international break off. Conversations aimed at persuading Zinedine Zidane to replace him were stepped up.
Zidane was interested, but his wife opposed the move to England. Ultimately, the underqualified Solskjaer’s close-to-three-year stewardship of one of world football’s great powers was ended not by a “Oui” from a multiple Champions League winner, but by his own manifest failure to manage the opulent sporting resource at his disposal.
Two-one down to Claudio Ranieri’s relegation-threatened Watford, the Glazers rebooted the “cultural reboot”. That it took them so long, that Woodward’s “reboot” was ever allowed to happen in the first place, says much about the dysfunction at the heart of Manchester United.
Solskjaer had run out of excuses, and run out of tolerance. The club put a private jet at their battered manager’s disposal, advising him to take the first week of the international break off. Conversations aimed at persuading Zinedine Zidane to replace him were stepped up.
Zidane was interested, but his wife opposed the move to England. Ultimately, the underqualified Solskjaer’s close-to-three-year stewardship of one of world football’s great powers was ended not by a “Oui” from a multiple Champions League winner, but by his own manifest failure to manage the opulent sporting resource at his disposal.
Two-one down to Claudio Ranieri’s relegation-threatened Watford, the Glazers rebooted the “cultural reboot”. That it took them so long, that Woodward’s “reboot” was ever allowed to happen in the first place, says much about the dysfunction at the heart of Manchester United.
