Norwegian Ole Gunnar Solskjær was on Wednesday hired as Manchester United manager until the summer, and the Danish national coach Åge Hareide has great confidence, that the fellow countryman will do well.
– It’s great that he gets this job. Both Ole and for Norwegian football. It shows, what position he has in the club. Now, do United a unifying figure, says Hareide to the VG.
In the course of 12 days waiting for the matches against Cardiff, Huddersfield, Bournemouth and Newcastle.
– It is no coincidence that it is happening now. Time for a change is good, says Hareide.
The Danish national coach is sure that the players will do everything they can for Solskjær.
– But Ole goes into a hard job, where you can fall deep. But the risk was perhaps even greater when he came to Manchester United as a player. But he is the type who can cope with such a challenge.
– But to lead Manchester United is sitting on top of a volcano, says Hareide, who points out that Solskjær will be meeting a completely different touch with the 75,000 spectators at Old Trafford than he was as a manager in Cardiff.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær has previously talked warmly about to make Paul Pogba to an important figure. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix/ Jason Cairnduff
For the choice of Solskjær spoke may also be that he has trained Paul Pogba on reserveholdet, and in august, he was asked if he would have built the team around Pogba, if he had been Mourinho.
– I would have done it. Without a doubt. Paul is a great guy. Hopefully the team can be built up on him, said Solskjær at the time.
the Relationship between Pogba and Mourinho was long cold as ice, but with a Norwegian trainer will probably come up for the problem.
Saturday is Solskjær for the first time in the lead for United when he guests just Cardiff, where he successfully was the manager in 2014.
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