What Ole Gunnar Solskjær said about Sir Jim Ratcliffe amid Man United return claim

Ole Gunnar Solskjær has recently claimed that he would be willing to return to Manchester United as manager to work under Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s new regime.

After initially returning to the club as an interim manager in 2018, Ole Gunnar Solskjær become the permanent manager of Manchester United ahead of the 2019/20 campaign.

The former striker, who scored the last-gasp winning goal in the 1999 Champions League final victory, had ups and downs throughout his managerial stint at the club.

After finished third and second in the Premier League in his first two full seasons in charge, there were high expectations on Solskjær and his team after bringing in Cristiano Ronaldo, Raphaël Varane and Jadon Sancho in 2021.

However, after failing to excel in his third full campaign as manager, Solskjær departed the club in November 2021 and was replaced by Ralf Ragnnick as interim manager and then later by Erik ten Hag on a full-term basis.

Interestingly, the former United boss and player has recently claimed that he would be willing to return to the club as manager if the opportunity arises.

“If your family asks you, you say yes every day of the week,” he admitted, as quoted by Sport Witness. “It feels wrong to talk about jobs that other people have, but I would say yes, of course.”

While we are only approaching three years since Solskjær left the club in the coming months, there have been many changes behind the scenes in that time.

The Glazer family are no longer running things, with Sir Jim Ratcliffe and his newly formed leadership team in charge of the majority of footballing operations.

Speaking on the Overlap earlier this year, Solskjær spoke about Ratcliffe’s investment in the club and admitted that there is still a lot of work to do regardless of an improving ownership situation.

He also expressed that he hoped Ten Hag would be successful under the new regime.

“I don’t think there’s a magic wand (at United) as in, ‘We’ve changed the owners’,” the former player and manager of the club said.

“Obviously, they’ve got their ways of working – the Glazers have still got their commercial – who knows how it’s going to be in football with that side of it.

“Obviously Erik, I hope he’s going to be successful. We hope he’s going to make it, but you never know what the new owners are thinking. It’s about results and consistency the rest of the season.”

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