{"id":1111675,"date":"2019-10-20T19:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1111675"},"modified":"2022-09-20T23:08:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T22:08:05","slug":"mourinho-man-utd-job-solskjaer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/mourinho-man-utd-job-solskjaer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourinho aims &#8216;future talk&#8217; swipe at Solskjaer&#8217;s Man Utd stance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jose Mourinho has questioned Ole Gunnar Solskjaer&#8217;s decision to continually speak &#8220;about the future&#8221; rather than focus on the present since taking charge at Manchester United.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 56-year-old Portuguese coach is presently unemployed having been dismissed by Manchester United last December following a poor start.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A trophy-laden career: Five key things to know\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mourinho is currently unemployed after being sacked by Manchester United last December.<\/li>\n<li>He remains the only manager to lift the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A titles.<\/li>\n<li>Mourinho guided FC Porto and Inter Milan to their latest European Cup triumphs.<\/li>\n<li>He is Chelsea&#8217;s most successful manager having won three league titles at Stamford Bridge.<\/li>\n<li>Mourinho joked that he will behave like Solskjaer in his new job and look to the future rather than current problems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7399272<\/p>\n<p>He was subsequently replaced by Solskjaer who, after a bright start, has stuttered and been regularly questioned by many as to whether he&#8217;s the right man for the Old Trafford job.<\/p>\n<p>A club legend, Solskjaer enjoyed an illustrious playing career under Sir Alex Ferguson, winning numerous league titles as well as the 1999 Champions League trophy.<\/p>\n<p>The once dubbed &#8220;baby-faced assassin&#8221; has in recent interviews with the press spoken extensively about the club&#8217;s future potential, with his mind clearly focused on a long-term project.<\/p>\n<p>Mourinho, now working as a pundit for Sky television, made a passing reference to this when asked how his job-hunting was developing and suggested that being able to focus on the future was a luxury he would like to have himself.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Manchester United &amp; Liverpool Ranked From Worst to Best\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LDn2xp26mjE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/sqwk.at\/Squawka-Sub\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Squawka\u2019s Youtube channel here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m going to try and get a job like Ole has, and speak all the time about the future,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it\u2019s a great situation, three-year contract \u2013 the future, the young players. I think it\u2019s a great job to do in such a giant club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>&#8216;More than heart&#8217;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Mourinho&#8217;s tenure at Manchester United wasn&#8217;t always marred by miserable results, he after all guided them to a second-place finish, which he claims is among his greatest achievements.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RATINGS: Every player marked out of 10 from Man Utd 1-1 Liverpool &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3DChb9tUt2\">https:\/\/t.co\/3DChb9tUt2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best = 8\/10<br \/>Worst = 4\/10<\/p>\n<p>The streak is over.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Squawka (@Squawka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Squawka\/status\/1185974459812855808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The two-time Champions League winning manager also happens to be the last Manchester United coach to defeat Liverpool in the league and he was pleasantly delighted by their application in their 1-1 draw against Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the start of the game I was asking United for heart. 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