Solskjaer reveals why United can’t compete with Liverpool or City next season

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer doesn’t believe his side can compete with Liverpool and Manchester City for the title next season, according to Goal.

United are currently 24 points off the top going into tonight’s crucial Manchester derby, with a win or draw for the Red Devils providing a major title boost to Liverpool.

But the United boss is already predicting a difficult 2019-20 campaign for his side.

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When asked if United can challenge for the title next season, Solskjaer admitted: “I don’t think we’ve got the consistency to do that.

“Over the last 18 games, we’re not far away from them but it’s doing it over the course of a season. We’ve done it for half a season now. Let’s see. You can never say never.

“You cannot expect things to happen overnight and we know that. It will happen gradually and we have to be realistic enough as a club that we have to take it step by step.

“That’s not changing 10 players now and bringing 10 players in. It’s slowly, slowly but surely. It has to be the right quality, right personality, the right standards to get us back to where we want to be.”

On tonight’s derby, he added: “It’s not about taking something away from others. We have to want to overtake them, and not just because it’s City and Liverpool.

“For a supporter, as I am, and as a manager now as well, we know [them well] because they are so close in the vicinity.

“We want to be the best, we have been the best and it’s not nice seeing those two at the top.”

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