Mourinho can be a better manager than Ole, more proven and one that 99% of clubs would take before Ole and Ole can still be more suited to United currently. A manager isn't necessarily more suited to a specific club just because they are better, or far better than another manager. Not so straight forward.
I agree with what you are saying about suitedness and the picture being more complex, I don’t really care to guess what other PL-clubs would hire as that isn’t the question here. I do question those that currently put Mourinho as the third best coach in the PL with all the critique he has got, when his last two years has seen him put United into mediocrity and a bad state and have had Tottenham doing not quite as good in the League or in the cups as Solskjær has had United do. Yet Solskjær is according to the same people currently between 15th and 16th place. I repeat the word current, as Mourinho has shown nothing to indicate he is currently better than Solskjær. Even Mourinhos best acheivements with United from three and four years back, aren’t really more impressive than what Solskjær has done with United. He won the Europa League whereas Solskjær went out in the SF, and both reached the QF of the CL,yet when you look at what they did to what kind of opposition, Mou scraped past teams like Anderlecht and Ajax while Solskjæ trounced Brügge and AZ, Mou was humiliated at home by Sevilla, whereas Solskjær beat PSG (luckily, but with a depleted team) and battered a better Sevilla to go out against the count of chances. MOu won the league cup against Southampton and lost the FA cup final against Chelsea. Solskjær exited the league cup SF against City and the FA cup SF against Chelsea. I would argue had the better players, and more of his own choices, and in addition Solskjær has done this while handicapping himself in the short run to improve the team long term, while Mou did the opposite. Head to head they now have one win each. If you want to debate who seems to have done a better job the last five years, I’m open for that, but to say it puts one as the third best manager and the other as number 17 is just ludicrous and showing a bit of a perverse negativity towards your own. The proof is in the pudding, and if you want to make a case for Mourinho as a much superior coach, the pudding is about six years old.
Funnily, I’ve defended Mou many a time here against people writing him off as a complete has been, because I think his last five years still show he is still a good short term manager, looking at games and results. Not fantastic, and not as good as a good long term manager, but decidedly very good. Unlike some, I don’t think Spurs and United would do to well if Dych, Wilder, Howe or Potter were thrown in there tomorrow.
I wonder how this thread had looked if it was put up in July, or I don’t. I suspect quite a few has a negative bias against our own, whereas others idea of current is the game nine days ago. But they’re not up to speed, because the last fifteen minutes of League football, United won 3-0 away while Mourinho lost 3-0 at home.
I’m apologizing to you because I don’t mean to give you the heat of my irritation, maybe you have a particular argument that makes sense to howyou answered. My annoyance is about the non-coincidence that half the posts in this thread seems to me to support a groupthink mentality that will lift the manager we loathed yesterday while he was our own, high above our current man, seemingly just becuse he isn’t ours.