Manchester United players and staff are backing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to land the job fulltime.

The squad has been reinvigorated under Solskjaer, winning all six games since the 45-year-old arrived on loan from Molde last month to replace Jose Mourinho.

The Daily Mail says the coaching staff also want Solskjaer's position to be made permanent at the end of the season after seeing the mood around Old Trafford transformed.

Despite being appointed to the first-team coaching staff this season, Michael Carrick and Kieran McKenna are said to have felt marginalised towards the end of Mourinho's reign as he surrounded himself closely with his Portuguese backroom team.

Carrick and McKenna were even excluded from briefings Mourinho had with his coaches before key games as he headed for the sack.

Both coaches feel more comfortable under Solskjaer, who has been joined by Sir Alex Ferguson's former No 2 Mike Phelan and also brought in his own long-time assistant Mark Dempsey.