At 10, I wanted to be a manager, claims Man United legend Solskjaer
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, manager of table-topping Molde in Norway, has completed his UEFA Pro Licence and the former Manchester United striker spoke to Sportsmail about his new career and his coaching qualifications.
This course I found to be more about managing than coaching. It's preparing, planning, dealing with the money and the board. I've always wanted to work in that side of football. I'm a coach but I know I've got better coaches around me.
I enjoy management. I've been a player at the highest level and you think you know it all. Then you're a coach and you have to put sessions on. Then you're a manager and you have to make decisions on the direction of the club, youth development.
I'm the manager at Molde and I wanted to transfer the role to a traditional English model. It's something I've wanted to do since I was about 10.
I was always playing Championship Manager, dreaming of being a manager. Then I played for United and thought: No, it's not for me. I have to get away from the headlines, the spotlight and leave football.
When I got injured and football was taken away from me, I thought: No, I want to stay in football for as long as I can. You can't beat playing football. That's the best. But this is much more challenging.
For me, at the moment, the players are bright-eyed. I think the respect I get from having a good career at United, playing for Sir Alex Ferguson - the best manager in the world - helps me. I loved it at United and I learned from the gaffer.
At Molde, I'm being myself but I often think: "What would the gaffer do?" We lost 5-0 against the bottom team and I was thinking: "How would he react? How would he build you up again?"
I've not spoken to him since the league started. I went into his office a couple of times before the season started and there have been a couple of texts. I don't want to waste his time.
Every ex-player he's ever had probably texts him and asks him things. When I really need advice, I might ask him but I like to be my own man. I listened to him for 15 years. Now it's time to do it my way
Dailymail.co.uk
Ça serait magnifique de le voir succéder à Sir Alex Ferguson. D'ailleurs, il est très bien parti pour décrocher son premier titre de champion dès sa première saison, avec une équipe qui la saison passée avait terminée 11ème sur 16.
Classement
FK Molde 25j 52 pts
Rosenborg 24j 42 pts
Tomso 25j 50 pts
Au total il y a 30 journées, le championnat norvégien ce termine fin novembre, les rumeurs parlent déjà d'un retour en Angleterre dès cet hiver.