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From today´s press conference

Fri Sep 19, 2014 4:50 pm

Quoted from Norwegian media (my translation)

- We are both bosses

- We are both bosses. I got a phone call this morning and got to know that I was needed. Yesterday I met Gabbidon and we agreed on how things should be done.

- Our first training with the team is today. We will lead the team Saturday against Derby. Before that, we will decide what to do. This is a fantastic opportunity for us both.

- This has been a roller coaster. I returned to the club, wrote a contract and starting training. Now I´m going to lead the team before I even played a match. It´s strange.

- Surprising

Gabbidon: - I´m surprised that Solskjaer is gone. But that´s football. You don´t get much time in this business. It´s surprising this early in the season. Those things happens. As a player you just have to keep up the work and take responsibility for the results not coming. Now we just have to carry on.

Question: - Could Ole have turned it around?

Gabbidon: - We were just a few matches into the season, but he didn´t have a good start. This was a football decision. Ole and the chairman get along very well, but we didn´t have the start that we wanted. There´s nothing we can do about it now. Now we need to take control and try to get some positivity into the team.

Knows little about the future

Gabbidon: - There has been some names thrown in about possible managers. We cannot think much about that. We need to focus on the match tomorrow.

Young: - It´s a high profiled job. Leading a team is leading a team anyway. We´ll have to make the boys ready for tomorrow in the short time we´ve got. That´s the tiny think we´ll get to do.

The team not selected

Question about if Gabbidon will be playing tomorrow.

- I´m not sure that would be so smart. We have not decided yet who is going to play.

- The boys respected the manager

Gabbidon: - We didn´t play as well as we should the last matches. The results, therefore, didn´t come. That´s football. That´s why Ole had to go.

Question about players not being happy.

- I didn´t notice anything like that. The team moral has been very good. All the boys respected the manager and what he was trying to do. We bought into his philosophy and tried to play the way he wanted. None of the boys went against him on that. As I said earlier: This was a sport based decision. It´s a different thing playing in the Championship than the Premier league. At the moment we´re not quite handling it. Now we need to preform better. I don´t think anyone focus on anything else.

- Believe in Solskjaer

Gabbidon: - I am sure that Ole will succeed somewhere else. In football, every club doesn´t work for every manager. Look at Berndan Rodgers who didn´t always have an easy ride, but who is succeeding in Liverpool now. Solskaer is a good manager and I got impressed by a lot of what I have seen. He´ll be learning a lot by the bad things that happened here. I´m sure he will come back as a better manager.

Scott: - My philosophy is to play the right way. We need to make the right decisions that´ll make sure we´re winning. We need to play simpler football. As simple as possible. We have a strong squad that needs to enjoy playing football again. The confidence is lower than it should be at the moment.

Scott: - Solskjaer has been very positive the times I have spoken to him. He has made changes in the academy and been very positive.

Re: From today´s press conference

Fri Sep 19, 2014 4:59 pm

Or you could just watch it :thumbup: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lGljbBZvZs4