Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox The very fabric of Manchester United is sewn together by winning silverware, which is why for all the talk of the progress Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is making at the club, Wednesday's Europa League final defeat against Villarreal generated that awful, dark, sinking feeling.
While Solskjaer 's shortcomings in the dugout were perhaps exposed in Gdansk, team-selection failures and an undeniably concerning lack of willingness to make any substitutions, for example, he's earned the right to take United forward next season.
One defeat through a penalty shootout does not make you a bad manager - nor should it define your tenure - and now the dust has settled on that
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