Manchester United criticised for Ralf Rangnick appointment amid Solskjaer 'stay' claim

Manchester United are no better off after replacing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with Ralf Rangnick, according to their former player Luke Chadwick.

Since Ranginck succeeded the Norwegian, United have crashed out of the Champions League and FA Cup. And their hopes of finishing in the top four now appear remote after back-to-back defeats to Liverpool and Arsenal leaves United six points behind the fourth placed Gunners, having played a game more.

Chadwick admitted that United weren’t heading in the right direction under Solskjaer, and conceded that their lacklustre form during his tenure left Rangnick with an arduous task to get them back on track. However, the former United winger has been left underwhelmed with the lack of progress since the German took the helm.

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“It was always going to be hard for Rangnick. The results took a bit of an up-turn when he first came in, even if the performances didn’t. Chadwick told CaughtOffside . “He got some wins together that were needed at the time, but the recent run – two wins in the last 10 games in all competitions – has been really poor.”

“It’s not easy being an interim manager, you don’t see a lot of massive clubs like Man United going down that route too often. Of course it worked out quite well when Ole Gunnar Solskjaer took on that role and ended up getting the job full-time, but you wonder about the reasoning of this appointment, it feels like Ole might as well have stayed for the rest of the season.

“A new manager will change things a lot and this doesn’t really look like it’s been the positive change that the club will have been expecting. It was a bit of a strange decision, with