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Man Utd boss Solskjaer: Locker room was suffering 'okay' syndrome

Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says they had to change an "okay" player culture inside the dressing room.

Solskjaer admits United "lost their way" after Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement.

"I felt coming into the club there had been changes, a lot of changes since Sir Alex or I left, from what my last memories were of that successful winning team," Solskjaer told UCFB.

"Gradually but surely, I think I'm getting the feel we are getting back to the right values. I think we maybe lost our way a little, as a club, but that's easy for me to say.

"The players drove the culture. Sir Alex, at the top, made the decisions, was the leader, we followed him. But he made players feel important and feel that we had to drive it. We had some exceptional personalities in the group and you can see by how many work inside football as either a pundit, an expert, a manager, so we drove the culture.

"You have to have a strong dressing room to make sure that you don't just accept okay. Because okay [is] you might go home and there's another day tomorrow. But if you want to win you can't accept that for long."

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