When Ed Woodward visited Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s training-ground office just days after installing him in Jose Mourinho’s chair he was taken aback by what he saw.
As the pair chatted about the direction of a
Manchester United team that had been on the road to nowhere for too long, Solskjaer suddenly played his trump card.
He produced a flip chart with United in formation with names or question marks in every position – a vision of how HIS United would look in the future.
“We need some transfer windows before then, but I set that plan out for Ed within a couple of weeks when I came here.
“I’m old school. I am not the iPad or powerpoint-presentation type! For me it’s a flip chart – write it down and put in the names. Yep, yep, no, no, yes. Players, gaps, holes. With what’s happened since, one or two things have changed – but he has known from the start what I think this group needs.
“I’d been watching. I had a clear idea of what a United team should look like. I have been part of a United team and I wanted to go back to our traditions of attacking.
“Quick, attacking football with pace, power, and personalities out there. And that is what we are doing. I can see fruits of what we’re doing. The seeds we’re laying are starting to pop up.
“Obviously we are one or two players down in numbers but it doesn’t have to be all done in this (January) window, it might be the summer window. But we are going to strengthen. We are going to get starters into this team. We need to.”
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