Antonio Conte eyed as successor As Man United stars losing faith in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer – sources

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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is fighting to save his job as Manchester United manager, with sources telling ESPN that the 48-year-old had already lost the faith of a sizable number of his squad even before Sunday’s 5-0 defeat against Liverpool.

ESPN has also been told that the United hierarchy are aware that former JuventusChelsea and Inter Milan coach Antonio Conte is prepared to return to management at Old Trafford.

Another prominent candidate, ex-Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane, is not interested should the United job become available, sources tell ESPN’s Julien Laurens.

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Solskjaer, initially appointed as interim manager following the sacking of Jose Mourinho in December 2018, has now lost five of his last nine games, and sources said that his support in the dressing room is largely limited to the core of United’s British players and a small number of the team’s overseas players.

Although ESPN has been told the atmosphere around the club is nowhere close to being “as toxic as it was under Mourinho,” the defeat to Liverpool has cast an air of resignation around Old Trafford about Solskjaer’s future as manager.

ESPN has been told that Solskjaer’s inability to solve the team’s defensive problems, his apparent “favouritism” of underperforming players and reluctance to hand opportunities to Jesse LingardDonny van de Beek and Nemanja Matic has led to some players openly criticising the manager to teammates while on international duty.

Sources also said that senior players have become exasperated by Solskjaer’s failure to impose his authority on United’s misfiring forwards.

One source cited the lack of understanding between Cristiano Ronaldo and Mason Greenwood as being down to Solskjaer and his inability to force the pair to link up more convincingly. Teammates have noticed that the pair rarely pass to each other in attacking positions and that Ronaldo is becoming visibly irritated by his young teammate’s decision to shoot rather than pass in goal-scoring positions.

 

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