Comparing Ole Gunnar Solskajer and his predecessor Jose Mourinho's performance as Manchester United Manager. It is Mourinho, who got best out of the squad.

As the 2020-21 season came to an end, Ole Gunnar Solskajer finished same number of full seasons at the helm of Manchester united as his predecessor, Jose Mourinho.

So time has come to compare Solskajer and Mourinho's performances at Manchester United and to know who has the last laugh.

If we give a ★ each time to a manager where they did better than other then we will have stats as in table below.

	1st Season				2nd Season
	Solskjaer 2019-20		Mourinho 2016-17		Solskjaer 2020-21		Mourinho 2017-18
Points	66		69	★	74		81	★
Win	18		18		21		25	★
Loss	8		5	★	6	★	7
Draw	12	★	15		11		6	★
Goal Scored	66	★	54		73	★	68
Goal Conceded	36		29	★	44		28	★
Goal Difference	30	★	25		29		40	★
League Position	3rd	★	6th		2nd		2nd
Champions League					Exited at Group Stage		Exited in Round of 16	★
Europa League			Winner	★★	Runners up	★
FA Cup							Runners up	★
League Cup			Winner	★★
FA Community Shield			Winner	★★
Budget Spent	£153.5m		£140m	★	£124.7m	★	£145.7m
Total Stars		4★		10★		4★		7★

	Solskajer	Mourinho
Trophies	0	3
Points	140	150
Win	39	43
Loss	14	12
Goal Difference	59	65

So Mourinho's United convincingly and comfortably beats Ole's United by 17 to 8.

Solskajer	★★★★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆	8 Stars
Mourinho	★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★	17 Stars

Let us not consider ifs and buts, otherwise things will get murkier. For an example, on budget spent, we can argue, if we consider reduced cost of players due to pandemic, Ole's budget spend is much higher than Mourino's. We can argue Ole's first season is not his first season, he had the advantage of playing and studying the players for half a season before he started his full first season. One can say if United would not have lost Maguire to injuries, Ole could have won Europa League. Another one can say had Liverpool not lost Van Dijk, United would not be second in the league. We can go on and on and on.

So no ifs and buts. Lets concentrate just on plain facts.

If we compare the vital parameters, which are always a deciding factor in any kind of team ranking, like in a League table, its the number of points, the goal differences, which puts you above in the ranking, Mourinho has better record.

Mourinho's United has more points, more wins, less losses, better goal differences and to top it up Mournho's United has 3 trophies to Ole's United remains trophyless.

In return Ole's United scored more goals, conceded more goals, got less goal differences and importantly less points.

As a fan if you are asked whether you prefer more points or more goals. Let us leave it for readers to figure out. If not sure, just show current premier league table to Licester supporters and ask whether they liked the fact that they scored 10 more goals than Chelsea and got 1 less point than Chelsea which kept them out of Champions League.

No one will ever know what Mourinho would have achieved had club chosen Mourinho over Pogba just like they chose Ole over 75 millon Lukaku. Had the club given him a center back he begged so hard in his third season just like they gave Ole world's most expensive defender even if Ole had same defenders at his disposal like Mourinho. Only option Mourinho had was to keep his head down and be happy finishing second and third like Ole has done last 3 years which is not in Mourinho's DNA. Even if Mourinho would have gone against his DNA and stick along, would the media and pundits have said that United is improving just like they are saying for last 3 years with Ole inspite of the stats we just discussed in this article. Answers to this probably we all know.

Solskajer may go on and win great things and be successful, since club is determined to back him irrespective of poor resutls from Ole just to prove their erlier mistakes as correct, and certainly a club of stature like Man United desparatedly needs the success and we wish Ole good luck, but as a project with almost same budget and within same timeframe we have to inarguably admit Mournho was a huge success and Ole has beeen a massive failure.