Manchester United currently have a clear sense of direction with Erik ten Hag at the helm, but rewind four years and they were in a very different place, in limbo and unsure of the way forward.
Midway through the 2018/19 season, United had Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in temporary charge of the team following the sacking of Jose Mourinho in December. They appeared to be teetering on the brink of defeat in the last-16 of the Champions League, after losing the first leg 2-0 to Paris Saint-Germain and were adrift of their rivals in the Premier League.
Solskjaer had gone some way to restoring the team unity following a miserable end to Mourinho’s reign. And even though Solskjaer’s side did produce a memorable comeback to beat PSG, they did not make it past the quarter-finals in the Champions League.
