Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand has urged the club’s manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to leave with his “head held high” in order to avoid being sacked by the board.

Man United’s current situation is worrying as the Red Devils are not having the results fans expect from them.

The Old Trafford outfit is just sixth on Premier League table and didn’t show a sign of a team which will be a serious contender for the league title this season.

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Following last weekend’s 0-2 loss in the Manchester derby against arch-rivals Manchester City, Ferdinand thinks it’s right time for the Norwegian gaffer to leave as he did a lot for the club.

“I sit here now and I don’t think we can challenge for this league”, Ferdinand said on his podcast Vibe with Five.

“I look at our team every week wondering what are we going to do tactically? I don’t see any philosophy or identity in the Man United way of playing whatever that should be from the management. I sit here looking confused at the team.

“I was always deep down a bit sceptical, could he take us on to be champions? I wasn’t fully convinced — I wasn’t sure he could do that.

“But the showing with the squad that he accumulated, to the beginning of this season — and what I’ve seen this season — I just feel it might be about the time now for the baton to be handed over to somebody else who can take us on now.

“And I think Ole would leave now with his head held high because from when he came in to where he got us at the beginning of the season I think it’s been positive.”