Picture the scene, the year is 2000 and you are sat in youre favourite stadium watching your favourite team play against Manchester United, hot off the back of winning the treble and on their way to another Premier League title.However, your team are doing pretty well, the game is approaching the 70th minute and the score is level (or maybe you are lucky enough to have a one goal lead) and United look to be running out of ideas.You feel confident, full of hope and slightly nervous anticipation that you might be about to see your team pull of a result that will be talked about for a good few years to come.That is until the ball goes out of play and the a sistant referee holds his flag above his head on the halfway line to indicate to the referee that Sir Alex Ferguson is not happy with his forward line up and would like to make a change. Anxiously, you peer towards the United bench to see who is coming on for them, when you realise who is coming on your heart sinks into the pit of your stomach and you know that the remaining twenty something minutes plus added time are going to be even more nervy, containing the very real threat of heartbreak, as Bayern Munich found out in the Nou Camp le s that a year previously.The diminutive baby faced substitute I amreferring to is none other than Ole Gunnar Solskjaer,
Willson Contreras Jersey a man who had a fearsome reputation as a goal scoringsubstitute, after coming off the bench and scoring 6 minutes into his debut, hitting four goals in a twelve minute cameo at Nottingham Forest and the aforementioned winner against Munich in the Champions League final, as well as numerous other occasions when Solskjaer came on to score goals at crucial moments for United, earning himself cult hero status with the Stretford End faithful. Twelve years on, theNorwegianis still making a real impact from the subs bench, this time calling the shots at Molde, a club in his homelands top flight, and this week it has emerged that Aston Villa have held talks with him about their vacant managerial position.I that Aston Villa owner, American Randy Lerner, needed to make a bold step and recruit a manager that would give Villa a fresh look and re-energise the club following a couple ofdisastrous appointments, and I believe that should this deal come to fruition, Lerner may have pulled off a master stroke way out of left field, just as Sir Alex did when he first brought the Norwegian striker to the Premier League in 1996 from the team he now manages, Molde FK.Solskjaers coaching career began where his playing days, cut short by injury, ended. It
Jason Heyward Jersey was at Manchester United, under the guidance of arguably the greatest manager ever, that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer first began cutting his teeth in his new job by first of all coaching Uniteds strikers for a season before moving on to before stepping up to become reserve team manager in 2008, a position he held with great succe s for two years. Rave reviews from Sir Alex and good results on the pitch gained Solskjaer admiration as a coach acro s the game and it was during this time that Solskjaerdeclinedthe chance to become manager of the Norwegian national team.In 2011, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer finally said goodbye to Old Trafford after 15 years at the club, returning to Molde FK as manager of the first team. Prior to Solskjaers second coming at Molde, the club had narrowly avoided relegation and were hoping for a better season to celebrate their centenary as a club.Even the most confident of Molde FK supporters could not imagine what the season ahead was to bring, especially after they lost their first game of the season 2-0 at the hands of newly promoted Sarpsborg 08. What followed that result was an unbelievable run that saw Molde FK win the Norwegian
Chicago Cubs Hoodie league title for the first time in their history, there was no last minute Manchester City style fairy tale here though, Molde won the title with two games to spare after their closest rivals,Rosenborg, failed to keep up.Sir Alex Ferguson always maintained that Solskjaer was so lethal when coming off the bench because, unlike todays iGadget brandishing replacements, the baby faceda sa sin as he was then known, used to pay real attention to the game that was unfolding before his eyes, meticulously watching the opposition defenders and plotting their downfall from afar. When Fergie gave Ole the nod to come on, the striker would already know what he was going to try and achieve and managed to score 28 times after coming off the bench, a United record.This level of tactical awarene s and the ability to read what is developing on the pitch will have surely been a key factor in Solskjaers early succe ses as a manager in his home country, and I believe that in Solskjaer, Villa could find themselves with the next up and coming young manager and the latest in a long line of managers who have played for Fergie
Kris Bryant Jersey .Of course, tactical nous on its own is not good enough to manage a club at the highest level, you need to be able to handle the media and manage the players as people, two things I believe Solskjaer will excel in, having seen his ice cool personal come through in interviews over the years. Solskjaer has always come acro s as a reasonably relaxed, approachable person, but neverthele s a dedicated and hard working profe sional who will no doubt expect the same from his players.Ultimately, managers are judged by their activities in the transfer market and results on the pitch and it will be interesting to see how Solskjaer handles a Premier League transfer budget and the players that he brings in. Given the number of young players at Aston Villa at the moment, I can easily see a young up and coming manager getting one heck of a lot more out of the players than Alex McLeish ever did, although it could be argued that it would be difficult for a manager to get any le s out of Aston Villas cla s of 2012.So far in this article I have done nothing but praise the former Manchester United forward and his tutor, whom he will no doubt learned a lot from. Ive spelled out all the reasons I would want Solskjaer to manage my team if I were Randy Lerner, but I have a feeling that Villa will have to really pull out the stops to obtain the Norwegians signature.But why would
Anthony Rizzo Jersey Solskjaer want to manage Villa?Sure, stepping up from the Norwegian league to the Premier League sounds like something only a fool would turn down, at least on the surface of thing anyway, but if you scratch beneath the surface I think there are plenty of reasons for Solskjaer to be cautious about risking his reputation in the Midlands.As I previously stated, whilst manager of Manchester United Reserves, Solskjaer was approached by his country about taking up the reigns at the Norwegian National Team, Solskjaer declined the opportunity, saying that he was not ready to make the step so early in his career. If big clubs like Aston Villa are coming in for him off of the back of a succe s
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