Ex-Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has come out to say that Kieran McKenna had advised him not to sign Cristiano Ronaldo in 2021. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, McKenna questioned Ronaldo‘s incorporation with the squad after analyzing his matches while at Juventus, and the move ended up being a wrong choice for the team.
Ole added that he was still proud of his managerial stint at Old Trafford, and signing CR7 felt like the right decision at the time.
His words, “How are we going to defend ourselves? That’s the first thing he [McKenna] says.
It was probably a wrong choice for all of us. But we felt it was the right decision then and there.”
On his stint as MUFC manager, “I am proud of what I did. I have to say, I think it was a lot of good, and we were on our way to something very good. We came third and second, got a number of semi-finals, and unfortunately, we lost that final [against Villarreal]. That’s how I think about it, if we had won it, it could have been a completely different outcome.”
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Manchester United Football Club, commonly referred to as Man United or simply United, is a professional football club based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top division in the English football league system.
Nicknamed the Red Devils, they were founded as Newton Heath LYR Football Club in 1878, but changed their name to Manchester United in 1902. After a spell playing in Clayton, Manchester, the club moved to their current stadium, Old Trafford, in 1910.
Alex Ferguson and his assistant Archie Knox arrived from Aberdeen on the day of Atkinson’s dismissal, and guided the club to an 11th-place finish in the league. Despite a second-place finish in 1987–88, the club was back in 11th place the following season. Reportedly on the verge of being dismissed, Ferguson’s job was saved by victory over Crystal Palace in the 1990 FA Cup final.
The following season, Manchester United claimed their first UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup title. That triumph allowed the club to compete in the European Super Cup for the first time, where United beat European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1–0 at Old Trafford. The club appeared in two consecutive League Cup finals in 1991 and 1992, beating Nottingham Forest 1–0 in the second to win that competition for the first time as well.
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