“I’m not sure on Jesse but I hope. He wasn’t training today so we’ll check him on Saturday probably.
“He’s really come good now. He’s been fit, he’s been training well so we hope so. Next week Eric will start training, Tim will start training. Paul will probably start training with us next week properly. Let’s see.”
“I’d been watching [the team under Mourinho]. 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."
“I know Everton, they’ve had a big upturn with Big Dunc last week,” he explained. “I watched the game. It’s a team that’s going to come here and make it hard for us, but we need to keep carrying on. We’re too far behind. We need to keep this momentum going. Last week was good but it’s history now. There’s a next one.
“I see where you’re going [with former players managing clubs they played for]! I don’t know. It’s about Duncan, he knows Everton. Frank knows Chelsea. Fredrik has been at Arsenal and knows Arsenal well. I know this club well.
“I don’t know how other clubs think but I know we have traditions we need to keep. We need to stick to them and the values of the club. The others might start thinking the same.”
When asked whether he had any
advice for Ferguson, Solskjaer joked: “Play his second team against us! Play his reserves!
“Just be himself. If you try to be someone else you’re going to get found out anyway in the end. That’s what I’ve always tried to be, myself. I’m sure Big Dunc is the same.
“He was 100 per cent action and passion as a player and I’m sure he’s the same as a manager.”
Academy graduates to make certain of United’s 4,000th consecutive first-team game with a youth teamer in the matchday squad against Everton on Sunday.
“I don’t have enough players to not play academy players,” Solskjaer laughed. “It’s something we’re proud of, it’s in our DNA. This club is built on having your own local lads or academy players coming through. We pride ourselves on that.
“You can see today, the academy players know what it means. They’re good people, that’s the first thing. They’re great people, everyone that goes through this academy, and they are good players as well. They know what it takes to be a Man United player.
“Mason, for example, I actually do remember when I met him for the first time because my son was training at The Cliff as an eight-year-old. Mason was seven. The first time I saw him he stood out and I took a picture with him. He’s now here. It’s just what we do.”
Erling Braut Haaland has told Ole Gunnar Solskjaer he wants to sign for Manchester United. Dortmund are pressing hard to sign Haaland but Solskjaer has tried to tempt him to United with the promise of a place in attack alongside Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial. [Mirror]
Haaland has plundered 24 goals in 20 games for Salzburg this term and reputedly has a knockdown £20million release clause that is
active only in January Solskjaer is understood to have flown to meet Haaland's camp in Salzburg early on Friday morning and an aircraft's activity log reveals it flew back to Manchester and then onto Stavanger Airport in Sola. Haaland's father, the former Leeds and Manchester City midfielder Alf Inge, was born in Stavanger. He said: ‘I was a player here for 11 years and I can’t tell you how many strikers we signed that were supposedly going to take my place in the team or in the squad. ‘That’s the challenge of being at Manchester United. You are never, ever guaranteed to play every game unless you perform to the absolute best of your ability. ‘That’s down to Marcus, in the end, but what I would say is that he wants this squad to be as strong as possible. ‘We all want to win games, we all want to win trophies and you don’t do that with 11 players.’
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