In a revealing interview with Sky Sports, Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer outlined how he is building a new culture at Manchester United, and why he believes it’s going in the right direction amid a dismal start to the season.
While that mood flaps back and forth, the plan inside is clear, and they feel progress has been made. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer felt the culture of United needed changing, and he is achieving that aim, with those inevitable "bumps in the road."
"It's not like the situation we had last year," Solskjaer tells Sky Sports. "There's no lack of desire there. For us it's about building a new culture, building a new team, bringing everybody together. Is it the job I expected? Yes. I never said this was going to be a quick-fix job. It's step after step after step."
United don't have to look far for a hopeful comparison, and from an unlikely source.
Indeed, it took time for Klopp to get it right. In his first 17 Premier League games with Liverpool, the German picked up just 23 points from a possible. The signs were there, and Klopp was given time. Solskjaer knows this is what he needs, and United should give it.
"Of course, we've hit a few bumps in the road, I never said this was going to be a quick-fix job. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
We need time, and the attitude of the boys has been great. "You trust yourself, back yourself, you do it your way. As a player, was I good enough? Someone else has to say.
"As a manager, will I be good enough? I trust myself to keep doing it the way I'm doing it."
