Sure, here is a more detailed paraphrasing of the text:Ole Gunnar Solskjaer remains the manager of Manchester United, but his position is under significant threat due to a series of poor results.

United has had a terrible start to the season, including a humiliating home loss to Liverpool and a dominant performance by Manchester City at Old Trafford.

The club is expected to keep Solskjaer in his position for now, but each game presents a potential risk to his tenure at United.

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SL: It is very much a matter of when.

I wouldn't be surprised if he's sacked next week, next month, or next year.

That's the strange dynamic now.

Watford is meaningful and also meaningless.

A win could ensure a manager stays in his job, but it would not change anything.

United would still need a new manager.

And that is the case going into every game, whether it is Watford, Villarreal, or Chelsea, for however long Solskjaer is in charge.

SL: Speculating when Solskjaer will go is pretty pointless with this board.

It is laughable they have not sacked him already, but it is in keeping with their running of the club.

What other football club has to repeatedly stress that football is the priority? It's shambolic.

SL: On Zidane, some United fans need to read the room: he is available, they have decided a change of manager is needed, yet they have not sacked Solskjaer and hired Zidane, a coach who is available.

Zidane has been found out a bit by going back to Madrid even though he won the league last year.

Clearly, there are reservations about him taking over at United, and that is fully understandable given how unique the situation was at Madrid.

He inherited a world-class squad at Madrid, was embedded at the club from his playing days, knew the players, and his man-management was welcomed after the antagonism of Benitez's reign.

It was still some going to win three European Cups on the trot, but any coach should be succeeding with a squad of serial winners.

And when the chips were down, Ronaldo or Bale would execute an overhead kick.

Parachute Zidane into a winter fixture schedule in a country he has not played or managed in, where he would be in charge of a dressing room of underachievers struggling to get into the top four, and I suspect he would not be as good a coach as the three Champions Leagues suggest.

Zidane is an attractive choice for a certain demographic of the fanbase.

He's managed Ronaldo and Varane, he was Pogba's boyhood idol, and he admires Martial.

United indulge Pogba repeatedly, so why not again? They have to kowtow to Ronaldo, too, and he got on famously with Zidane.

But ultimately, the noise around Zidane is not coming from any Manchester correspondents.

He has been out of work for six months, and there are no obvious vacancies.

He needs to be 'present' in case he gets forgotten about.

SL: It will probably get so bad he goes at some point before the end of the season.

There's just no coming back from this.

United were supposed to be title challengers this year, and the challenge is effectively over before it has even started.

For that alone, he has to go.

The December schedule looks quite kind: Arsenal, Palace, and Young Boys at home, Norwich away, Brentford away, Brighton at home, Newcastle away, and Burnley at home.

Remarkably, United have a nine-day gap between the Brighton and Newcastle games.

Another ideal time to change manager if results haven't picked up.

SL: They did not give any consideration to changing manager prior to the Liverpool game.

In the aftermath, consideration was given to sacking Solskjaer.

Around 48 hours after kick-off against Liverpool, there was a signal of support, or 'support'.

Even then, I was told there was an acceptance he had to go, but there was no succession plan.

So United have started the process of replacing Solskjaer, but they are moving at a glacial pace, incurring more bad results in the process.

A better-run club would have been more decisive.

As stated earlier, the 'Ole's at the wheel' chants from Liverpool, Leeds, and City fans, the regular boos at home games, the cheering off of Fred, and the specific boos for Solskjaer at full-time against City are consequences of mismanagement at the boardroom level.

It's become unfair on Solskjaer and the supporters.

But, as the Glazers, Woodward et al.

showed in April with the Super League, they have contempt for the match-goers.

SL: Essentially, things change so quickly in football a plan can be shredded after it is printed.

Leicester's form has been underwhelming and should not be held against Rodgers just yet, but if it continues for a few more months and Solskjaer is somehow still in charge of United, then the case for Rodgers would not be as compelling.

If Enrique, for some mad reason, told the Spanish Football Federation he didn't fancy coaching at the World Cup as he wanted to go to United, I suspect United would summon Solskjaer and appoint Enrique.

But that is almost certainly not going to happen.

SL: Rice is a player you could imagine another manager welcoming.

He's young, homegrown, an international, and Premier League proven.

Chelsea and City also like him and may be in the market for Rice next year.

As I've said before, Rice is not a defensive midfielder anymore, and that has to be a reservation.

But he's asked about United, and United like him.

SL: Well, the post-derby press conference was cut short even though there were hands raised on the Zoom call, so we'll have to wait and see if there are any more similar tactics.

He has been asked tough questions on United's decline, the reliance on McTominay and Fred, etc.

, but the 'hard-working' point is a good one.

I don't actually sense United players are tossing it off.

They're just so badly coached and have such an aimless approach they look permanently lethargic.

Solskjaer wanted a midfielder in the summer, and I wrote about it ad nauseam.

The priorities were elsewhere, but even before the Ronaldo return, a midfield addition wasn't happening.

United didn't think there was an attainable game-changer for that role out there, and, to be fair, they had a point.

Camavinga was looked at, but he is not a defensive midfielder.

Would Bissouma have stepped up? It's doubtful.

Rice is much more than a holding midfielder and was too expensive anyway.

City did a great job signing Rodri, but they are usually ahead of the curve when it comes to recruitment.

Unlike United.

SL: Phelan isn't as conjoined with Solskjaer as some might suggest, but there's no justification for his role at present, never mind when Solskjaer is sacked! I highly doubt the next coach would grant Carrick and McKenna as much authority.

McKenna has done a fine job with the youngsters and shouldn't be written off just yet.

Carrick probably needs to go and earn his stripes elsewhere.

SL: It has got to the point where he seems genuinely incapable of identifying a solution with a squad that is probably United's best since 2008-09.

There does seem to be an element of delusion, though it is not his fault he is still in the role or that he is surrounded by inadequate coaches.

Some stuff you just can't make up, like United recruiting a set-piece coach and then being the only club in the league not to score from a set-piece.

SL: I'd start Van de Beek and Matic at Watford.

Matic has been ridiculously underused, given he is the only defensive midfielder in the squad.

United have been so desperate of late Van de Beek has actually come on in games.

He is a potential solution to the midfield issue (albeit depending on who he plays with), but Solskjaer has ignored him as he was not totally sold on signing Van de Beek in the first instance.

That was covered chapter and verse five weeks ago in the pieces I did, if you fancy a refresher.

Post-Liverpool, many predicted a back three switch to get through the next few games but stressed it could not be the way forward, given the number of attackers United have.

And Solskjaer said just as much after City outclassed them.

He spoke of a wounded animal emerging at Watford.

Many players need to be dropped, but he only made two changes to the team after the Liverpool drubbing.

SL: This is an interesting point.

De Gea has probably been United's player of the season so far, and his form has improved immensely over the last two and a half years, yet he is still rooted to his line too often, and the players genuinely preferred Henderson's presence last season because he is more vocal and comes off his line.

Someone familiar with the goalkeeping situation said if Henderson had performed like De Ge