Ladbrokes have today begun offering betting odds on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer becoming United manager. The latest prices include 12/1 Solskjaer to become Man Utd manager and 33/1 Solskjaer to become next permanent Man Utd manager. It’s an interesting football bet considering Strachan at Celtic, Keane at Sunderland, Bruce at Birmingham and Hughes at Blackburn as well as lower league bosses like Robson at Sheffield United all have been ex Manchester United players in recent years.

Solskjaer has been coaching at Old Trafford in recent years as his knees have continued to let him down, and anyone with the strength of mind to keep coming back from surgery to sit on the substitutes bench without complaint has much of the mental fortitude to make a manager. But can Solskjaer become a future United’s boss? Ladbrokes spokesman, Nick Weinberg, today said: “Solskjaer’s a United legend. If he decides to turn his hand to management he would make a popular Red Devils boss at some point in the future.”

United employ very few managers and whoever takes over next will probably have timed their successes very well - but United are highly unlikely to name a rookie as manager; so the 33/1 to be the next manager looks pointless. For a sentimental fiver for a bet that you might want to frame there might be something in the 12/1 that he may one day be manager; but nothing more.