“Positively. If you’d like me pitchside with you, I’m there! No, I’m very comfortable and proud with what I’ve executed with the nice associates I’ve made, and I want all one of the best to everybody. You recognize the employees right here, we’ve been by way of criticisms and blah, blah, blah, however the best way they conduct themselves and the best way they work, the information and the perspective, I love them. Usually, I drive in at seven, half seven at instances and I feel, ‘I’ve caught them at this time, I’m in earlier than them’ however no probability. There’s not been a day.”
Clearly once you got here in, it was a troublesome place within the league, however you constructed from sixth in that first season, to complete third after which second. Once you look again at that, is that one thing you see as an honest achievement?
“Nicely, I’m happy with what we did. The primary run to begin with, that was pleasurable. However then to complete third, I liked that final sport, Jesse [Lingard] scored. The best way we put the run collectively and obtained the third place, improbable. Nice effort by everybody, the workforce, the squad. Second place final season forward of arguably probably the greatest groups in Europe, I feel that’s an incredible achievement as effectively. And we had been so shut in Europe. Generally that’s the wonderful margin for you, one penalty. We had been shut and that’s one thing I’ll at all times bear in mind as effectively. Semi-finals. I do know the muse is there, I do know they’re able to kick on and I’m certain they may.”
Is that one factor that can maintain consuming away at you, [being] so near lifting that one trophy everybody stored speaking about at each press convention, the significance of a trophy? It was so, so shut…
“Yeah, you may say so and return and say if you happen to received the Europa League, that will have been successful. However you recognize, it’s not at all times the trophies on a regular basis that’s the be all and finish all. I do know that day, we would have liked to have fun [by winning] that trophy. However that’s wonderful margins, we all know the work we’ve put in is so vital, to get to that closing and to get so shut, we’ve needed to make so many good choices alongside the best way. Sadly, we couldn’t rating 11 penalties on the bounce. You may snigger about it, however I look again at each single second right here with pleasure.”
It will need to have been a tricky time of late, Ole, however what subsequent for you?
“I’ll spend a while with my household. That’s been most likely essentially the most troublesome half, by way of the pandemic, with Norway being open and right here being closed, my household moved again to Norway and the younger one, he loves it again there, so we’ve lived aside. So, I’ll spend a while with them. Then, I’ll watch the workforce after all and hopefully, the subsequent supervisor is available in and I need to assist him. I need him to achieve success, hopefully I’ve laid the foundations for that to occur as a result of I do know I’m good at what I’m doing. I’m 100 per cent certain to create a soccer setting, that’s the place I’m good at and sooner or later, I’ll most likely be again [working in football].”