Manchester United supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has brushed off pointers he's on borrowed time after his aspect slumped to a 2-zero defeat against Manchester City on Saturday.
While the result may additionally had been an development at the 5-zero mauling at the fingers of Liverpool in October, the overall performance changed into concerningly comparable, with United looking nowhere close to the required level and as an alternative having David de Gea to thank for maintaining the scoreline respectable early on.
Solskjaer got here into the sport below titanic stress and the scenario has intensified after this end result, but the boss insisted that he does no longer consider the sack is coming.
"No I don't [think he's on borrowed time]," he said (via BBC Sport). "I actually have excellent conversation with the club all the time which is up the front and sincere.
"I paintings for Man United, I want the excellent for Man United. As long as I am here I need to enhance this."
He endured: “They performed properly, they don't give you possibilities to win the ball off them so reward to them but our standards need to be raised.
“At the instant we're [far off the top teams]. The demands on me and the gamers are going to be high and we have to get returned to what we began to look like. We have the players to do that.”
The end result leaves United 3 factors adrift of the pinnacle 4, having performed one sport extra than fourth-placed West Ham United, who will face Liverpool on Sunday evening.
United's next game comes towards Watford after the international damage, giving the group two weeks to choose on Solskjaer's future.
