Former Manchester United ace Park Ji-sung believes that the club’s under-fire manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, should be given until the end of the season to prove that he is the right man for the top job at Old Trafford.
Solskjaer is under intense pressure ahead of Saturday’s trip to Watford, with United having won just one of their past six Premier League matches – an ignominious run of results which included embarrassing home defeats to great rivals Liverpool and Manchester City.
Consequently, the likes of Zinedine Zidane and Brendan Rodgers are now being touted as possible successors.Park feels that Solskjaer deserves praise for restoring a feel-good factor at Old Trafford after the toxic atmosphere left behind by predecessor Jose Mourinho.
However, the South Korean, who won four Premier League titles and a Champions League during his time at United, freely admits that the onus is now on the Norwegian to prove that he is an elite coach between now and the end of the 2021-22 campaign.”It’s been three years for Solskjaer as a manager and I believe that this will be the defining season for him, in terms of whether he continues at the club,” Park told GOAL.”I think that he deserves credit for what he’s done at United, and deserves to fight [for his job] until the end of the season, but he needs to show he can continue after that.”He did well to bring the old United spirit and culture back to us.
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