Non United fan point of view......
Ole was given the job after Mourinho to steady the ship, familiar name, 'safe' pair of hands, it did not matter what he did, he is and always will be a legend. Bring back the love and get to the end of season.
No one was expecting what has happened to happen.
So now, your in a position where you can't not give him the job. There is no one in their right mind who would take it. You'd have the majority of the crowd offside from the get go.
Which is fine as far as it goes, and you may have stumbled across a football genius.....but none of it smacks of a long term plan or vision. If Ole was the right choice from the get go, he'd have been given the permanent contract from the start.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out.
All reasonable thoughts, please don’t mind the crude colleaugues ... you’re right, it does smack of short term/bad planning - which to me actually is one of the biggest pro Ole factors: Our (read: economist Woodward’s) football planning since Ferguson has been close to disastrous, leading to three incompatible and ill-fitted managers coming and going, and a lot of players bought that made little sense in the long term view. Before we get a hopefully clued up sporting director (who might also be ill-fitted and will take time making his mark on the club), the chances are a new managerial choice now would again be haphazard and we’d buy yet more players maybe belonging here or not.
Instead, by a stroke of luck, we have stumbled across a chance to do a Paisley/Dalglish that makes sense. The best candidate has shown now he always was the best candidate, and with Phelan, Carrick, Dempsey, Fergie in the Boot room and the Butt boys knocking at the back door (sorry about that), we actually look all of a sudden as if we have had a brilliant, in-house sporting director for several years (when in fact we’ve had a bunch of accidental tourists). Solskjær was a very good candidate, if an unsure bet, and now it seems all bets are off with good reason.
I think this project has better chances than any of the last three, at least as good as a round of Poch with new staff and players bought by Woodie etc, and makes much more sense. Will it go? Who knows. Even Pep or Klopp weren’t regarded as sure things, and did take more than a full season to settle. But nothing is more worthy right now of a real shot. If we’re even more lucky, Solskjær will influence us towards getting a sporting director that ‘gets’ Man Utd, rather than someone Ed has been recommended at a Sports Pub.