The appointment of Solskjaer, is imo, a perfect storm to finish after wave after wave of wonderful incompetence.
It was happening during Ferguson's tenure. Them winning the title, due to Mancini/City self harming, was on the back of signing an ageing sicknote, to score them the goals. It masked a serious decline in the quality of Utd's planning & spending, which had been going on for some years.
That was mainly down to them being such a bunch of big headed, loud mouthed, fucking ****s. Ferguson's "not in my lifetime" comment, is all the evidence needed. The media all chuckled at that & actually believed it. The way they allowed City to take Tevez, arrogantly believing they could just sign him up when they pleased, as they are ' Manchester Utd'.
When, out of the country, my rag mate told me one morning, they had given Moyes the job, I pissed my fucking sides laughing. He's going: "What ??!!" "I think he'll do a good job" Pissed my sides again.
Fellaini.
When they brought in LVG, much as I enjoyed the results & the pisstaking, I thought the penny had dropped & he was the first step towards Utd modernising their football, rebuild the youth setup from sprinting & lumping to pass & move, teach the first team to play in a passing style for a couple of years, hand over to a top, young, manager & throw the chequebook at it, whilst FFP shits on us.
Again poor signings & sacked.
Obvious that they had no plan, when that then turns into Mourinho. A 3 year shit or bust merchant who doesn't give a fuck about building anything.
Instead of building a team, ridiculous sums of money thrown at players, almost to show off.
So they realise this is no way to go about it, fire him & bring in a caretaker, to see out the season whilst they recruit a serious manager, to rebuild the club, doing what they do best, like they did in the past: pushing up wages & transfer fees whilst their rivals are limited in spending.
Instead, they give the caretaker, the fucking job.