On This Day -13th May
Current Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made his last Premier League appearance for the club as a player on this day back in 2007.
Solskjaer joined United for only £1.5 million, from Molde in his native Norway. In all, he made 366 appearances for the club and scored 126 times. The most famous of those 126 goals came in the dying seconds of the 1999 Champions League Final as United came from a goal down against Bayern Munich to win 2-1.
Solskjaer was forced into retirement in 2007 because of a recurring knee injury. He started coaching the Manchester United Reserves a year later before returning to his former club Molde to take charge of their first team.
In January 2014, he became Cardiff City manager but he couldn’t prevent the club getting relegated from the Premier League in his first season in charge and was fired a month into the following season.
A year later, Solskjaer returned to Molde for a second spell as manager. He then left to become Manchester United’s caretaker manager in December 2018 after Jose Mourinho’s departure, before taking the job on a permanent basis in March 2019.
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