Inside Solskjaer’s dismissal at Man United
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Mark Chapman is joined by The Atheltic’s David Ornstein, Lauire Whitwell & Adam Crafton to discuss the dismissal of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as manager of Manchester United.
We’ll go inside the turbulent final weeks of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s reign with detail of how it went wrong and who Manchester United are planning to bring in next.
Later in the pod Mark & Adam are joined by to The Athletic’s Tim Spiers who has been speaking to Wolves striker Raul Jimenez about his excellent return to form and the documentary that charts his return from a life-threatening injury.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast coming up today. |
| 0:17.5 | We will obviously react to the news that Manchester United had part |
| 0:20.9 | a company with Olegdon of Solshar alongside us from the Athletic, David Ornstein, Laurie Whitwell |
| 0:26.1 | and Adam Crafton, and they'll take us inside the last few weeks of Solshar's reign, how it went |
| 0:31.9 | wrong and where United will go next. In more positive news later in the pod, we'll be joined |
| 0:37.3 | by the athletics Tim Spears, |
| 0:39.4 | who's been speaking to the wolf striker Raul Jimenez about his return to form and the documentary |
| 0:44.8 | that charts his return from a life-threatening injury. So a very busy 48 hours for everybody |
| 0:52.4 | on this pod by myself. |
| 0:55.7 | That's culminated in a great article that's up on the athletic charting, |
| 1:00.4 | the demise of Olli Gunner-Soulshar as Manchester United manager. |
| 1:06.0 | As horrific as Saturday was, Laurie, let me start with you from a Manchester United point of view. |
| 1:11.5 | It feels like it has been a very slow unraveling. Yeah, for sure. I mean, there's numerous |
| 1:18.5 | points in Solshar's reign even before this season when he could have been sacked, you know, |
| 1:23.2 | he was on the brink. It felt like a couple of times. United always insisted that it was never |
| 1:28.0 | close to being dismissed and that they had full faith in him. But then, yeah, this season, it is |
| 1:33.1 | exacerbated, hasn't it? The, I mean, the match for me was the Leicester game away where I was at the |
| 1:38.4 | King Power Stadium that day and it felt like the players weren't listening to instructions or |
| 1:43.2 | the instructions were just rubbish because |
| 1:45.7 | it was so chaotic and then to lose the game in the manner that they did was frankly humiliating. |
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