who is manchester football correspondent for the guardian, and the author of a book about ole gunnar solskjaer, explained that ole s successes were always caveated by the sense that he was learning in hisjob. if you are manager of manchester united really you should be like thomas tuchel at chelsea, pep guardiola at manchester city, juergen klopp for liverpool you know, gentlemen who are already proven. because you walk into manchester united and it s a completely different creature to, actually, any of those clubs ijust mentioned there, chelsea, city or liverpool. so, you know, i was at the europa league final last summer, which they lost on penalties david de gea, bless him, as the goalkeeper, missed the decisive penalty, wasn t his fault of course and i think he s just come up short. if you asked me to crystallise into one reason why he failed i would say not signing a defensive midfielder or a really good midfielder like, say, declan rice at west ham in the summer, instead go