https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cgex9v57q0eo
'I had discussions with Sir Alex. I signed a long, long-term contract. What I did was I put my career in his hands really. I more or less said to myself: 'Just do your best.' I've seen so many strikers sulking when they're on the bench. I felt, 'OK they've played 70 or 80 minutes, defenders are tired, I can come on, I can make a difference, I'm fresh, as long as my head is fresh and my mentality is good'. If we were winning 1-0, I was never going to come on. At 0-0 I was like, 'don't score, don't score until he puts me on'. At 1-0 down, yeah, definitely I am coming on. At 2-0 up, he would always give me the 15-20 minutes just to make me feel part of it. He was very good at giving me enough minutes but I knew at 1-0 just to sit down as you're not going to come on. So 1-0 down against Bayern, I was like, 'come on then, it's like 20 minutes...'
'Suddenly now you're the manager, you're the face of everyone. You think about all these supporters, players, everything surrounding Manchester United. But that pressure is a privilege because I was allowed to do that and I was allowed to deal with it in my way. And that was having great staff around us,'
'You have Jurgen Klopp with his Liverpool team and you have Pep Guardiola with his Manchester City team. Best managers in the world at the time and probably the two best teams in the world at the time. But we got second and third. So with the staff, we had something going but we couldn't take the next steps'
'Kelly: You mean to be the next Norway manager?
Ole: Next Norway manager. My friend Stale [Solbakken] is there now. We're playing really well, we're going to the World Cup. I do really, really like managing. It is a great, great job being the manager of ambitious young men who want to achieve something together.'
So I wouldn't mind, if Kieran regains his mojo and then gets poached, Ole as a replacement. |  |
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