Paul Scholes has insisted that Manchester United should stick with under-fire boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer until at least the end of the season.
Solskjaer has just begun his third full season in the Old Trafford hot-seat, having initially been drafted in to replace Jose Mourinho back in December 2018.
The Norwegian has not yet delivered any major silverware, and questions are being asked over his tactical approach after United’s mediocre start to the 2021-22 campaign, but Scholes thinks he deserves more time after assembling an exciting squad.
The likes of Harry Maguire, Bruno Fernandes, Edinson Cavani, Raphael Varane and Jadon Sancho have all been brought in during Solskjaer’s reign, and he was even able to arrange the return of Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus on deadline day in September.
Scholes, who won 11 Premier League titles and two Champions Leagues at United between 1993 and 2003, feels his ex-team-mate has earned the right to try and gel those star names together, as he told Sky Sports’ live fan debate The Overlap: “I think he deserves a chance.
“If you think about the last three or four years about where United had been, it has been shocking, hasn’t it? It had not been great to watch before he came.
“It has took him two or three years to build a squad where we think the pieces are there to the puzzle, it’s just getting them in that right organisation.
“There was a lot of excitement at the start of the season after four or five games; they beat Newcastle (4-1) and beat Leeds (5-1) and the last two games [Villa and Everton] have been disappointing.
“But I think he deserves a chance. He has built a squad where he should be given a year, at least this season, to show that he can manage that and win trophies.”
