
The axe finally fell on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s time in the Manchester United dugout as manager following a 4-1 defeat in the hands of Watford.
Solskjaer was sacked on Sunday after a run of one win in seven league games left Manchester United languishing 12 points off the top of the table and facing a battle just to make it into the top four; the league title challenge almost an impossible dream.
Manchester United’s top management had kept faith with Solskjaer despite humiliating home defeats to Liverpool and Manchester City in the past month.
But the manner of another poor show at Vicarage Road broke even their resolve as Solskjaer became the fourth United boss to be sacked in the eight years since Alex Ferguson retired.
United remain well in the fight for a place in next season’s Champions League as other results left them still just six points adrift of the top four.
However, the club’s hierarchy are facing accusations of already giving up on the season after they announced the plan to hire an interim boss for the rest of the campaign, in the hope of having a better pool of candidates to choose from as Solskjaer’s successor in six months’ time.
The Nigeria Football Federation; NFF has bowed to pressure by asking Super Eagles Coach, Gernot Rohr to quit as manager of the Senior National Team.
The German gaffer was sacked despite Nigeria progressing to Africa’s 2022 World Cup play-offs.
The Super Eagles, three-time African champions, finished top of Group C despite being held 1-1 by Cape Verde in Lagos on Tuesday on the heels of un-impressive performances against Central African Republic and Liberia.
Rohr was appointed head coach of the Super Eagles in August 2016 and led the team to a third-place finish at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.
The German’s conservative approach and Super Eagles’ uninspiring performances have been heavily criticized by the media and supporters.
Liverpool legend, Steven Gerrard has been appointed as the new Aston Villa head Coach on a three-and-a-half-year deal to replace Dean Smith who got the boot last weekend.
Steven Gerrard left his role as Glasgow Rangers manager which would require compensation of between £3.25-4m to be paid to the Scottish giants for Gerrard and his assistant Gary McAllister.
“Stevie G” had been in charge of Glasgow Rangers since June 2018 and led the club to the Scottish Premiership title last season, ending Celtic’s nine-year reign as champions.
Villa sit 16th in the Premier League table, two points above the relegation zone after 11 games of their campaign.