It’s safe to say that there has been almost constant turmoil in the Manchester United dugout ever since the legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson left in 2013.
The Scotsman would always be difficult to replace after 27 years in charge, during which he won 13 Premier League titles, two Champions League titles, and countless other trophies.
Since Ferguson’s retirement, eight different managers have taken over at Old Trafford, with differing degrees of success. These managers include Jose Mourinho, Erik ten Hag, and current manager Ruben Amorim.
Ronaldo, however, insisted that United should have hired a certain manager, who would have undoubtedly been among the club’s greatest hires ever.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, a former player who succeeded Mourinho as permanent United manager in March 2019, was finally let go by United after a 4-1 loss to Watford in November 2021.
For a large portion of his tenure at United, Solskjaer was under pressure, even though he led the team to second place in the Premier League in the 2020–21 campaign.
Before the second half of the 19/20 season, rumors started to circulate about who would succeed the Norwegian manager after it was finally confirmed that he had been fired.
Additionally, according to a Sky Sports report at the time, Ronaldo was pushing for Luis Enrique to succeed his former teammate and boss as United’s manager.
Hitherto, after leading Barcelona to victory in the 2015 Champions League final, Enrique was in charge of the Spanish national team.
Naturally, United chose not to listen to the club legend and instead appointed Ralf Rangnick as interim manager until Ten Hag took over as permanent manager at the end of the season.
Enrique, on the other hand, officially took over as manager of Paris Saint-Germain in July 2023. Since then, he has had nothing but success, winning a domestic treble in his first season and then a continental treble the previous season.
And when his PSG team plays Chelsea in the Club World Cup final on Sunday night, the Spaniard still has the opportunity to add to his remarkable haul of the Ligue 1 title, the Coupe de France, and the Champions League from the previous season.