By Rob Draper for The Mail on Sunday
Published: 22:30 GMT, 2 March 2019 | Updated: 22:34 GMT, 2 March 2019
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's coronation as Manchester United manager is gathering pace with former team-mate Rio Ferdinand insisting the Norwegian has forced the hand of executive chairman Ed Woodward, who has to give him the job full-time.
Asked what Woodward would do in the summer, Ferdinand said: 'He takes him on. He can't do anything else. Ole has put himself in a position where he can't be told no. He has forced Ed Woodward's hand.
'At the time (of his appointment) Ed Woodward probably thought: "I'm going to get him as a stop-gap" and I was of the same thinking. When Ole signed I wasn't standing there jumping and saying: "This is the best signing we've got, brilliant, I'm delighted with this." But I wasn't saying "He's rubbish". I was saying: "This is someone who knows the place, who can re-stabilise the place."'
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has impressed since becoming Manchester United's interim boss
Former team-mate Rio Ferdinand believes Solskjaer has earned full-time role at Old Trafford
'But I didn't expect him — and Ed Woodward wouldn't have either — to do what he has done. He has exceeded
