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24th December 2018
09:56am GMT
In his second autobiography, Ferguson praised his Norwegian striker's analytical mind and revealed Solskjaer's best traits as a player, which just so happen to translate to great managerial skills.
"His thought processes underpinned his skills," Ferguson wrote. "He had that analytical mind. As soon as he arrived in a shooting position, he had it all sized up. He had mental pictures everywhere.
"Yet he didn’t play all the time because he wasn’t the most aggressive of strikers. He developed more of that later, but was a slender young man without the physique, in his early days, to clear a path. In games, sitting on the bench, and in training sessions, he would make notes, always.
"So, by the time he came on he had analysed who the opponents were, what positions they were assuming. He had those images all worked out. The game was laid out for him like a diagram and he knew where to go and when. Ole was a sweet-natured boy who was never looking to be confrontational with me. There was no risk to my office door from Ole wanting to smash it down to demand a place in the first XI."Explore more on these topics:
