Ole Gunnar Solskjaer drops hint on next managerial job as Man Utd icon lays out condition

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed what it would take for him to return to management having been without a job ever since he was sacked by Manchester United.

Solskjaer, who scored the dramatic winning goal for United in the 1999 Champions League final, was let go by the club in 2021 after three years in charge.

Despite the toxicity surrounding his latter years in the dugout at Old Trafford, having managed at Cardiff City and Molde prior to taking the United job, there was an expectation that Solskjaer would at some point return to football.

However, almost three years on and Solskjaer is still without a job and has suggested he's unlikely to return to club football.

Instead, he told Norwegian radio NRK podcast Bakrommet he's moving to a remote island in his motherland and has effectively retired from management.

Although, the 51-year-old did admit he could be tempted back into the game as a national team manager, but only on one condition.

On the prospect of managing a national team, the ex-United icon said: "I have reached a position where I can pick and choose, and I am lucky there. Financially, I don't need anything.

"It must be something exciting enough, together with the right people. But I feel so well now that there must be something that triggers me enough for me to choose to travel from Nordmore [in Norway].

"I think that a national team could suit me, but then it can't be on the other side of the globe."

Solskjaer did admit he's rejected at least two job offers since leaving United, mainly because the conditions didn't suit him.

He added: "I had two options, but it would have taken half a day to travel, and there is a time difference in the picture, so I opted out. Even if I could then take part in the championship."

Solskjaer has hinted in the past he'd be open to taking charge of his native Norway when the incumbent boss Stale Solbakken's tenure comes to an end.

Commenting earlier this year, he said: "I am a proud Norwegian. If the question comes up, when Stale finds out that he doesn't want it anymore, I'm happy to enter into a conversation.

"I would say yes any day of the week. It feels wrong to sit and talk about jobs that other people have. But of course, I would say yes."

Norway's last major tournament appearance came at Euro 2020, with the Nordic nation having last qualified for the World Cup in 1998.