Jose Mourinho claimed that finishing second in the Premier League with Manchester United was ‘one of his best achievements.' But Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has dismissed that claim, saying ‘it’s not an achievement.’ "The competition now is a lot harder than when I was a player," said the Norwegian. "Three, four, maybe five teams that can challenge for the top two positions. For the last few years they have been taken by the same two teams and for us to go into them and divide them it’s good, it’s a good performance but we can’t say it’s an achievement, it’s not an achievement. "We’ve taken steps as a team but we’re not where we want to be, we know we have some deficiencies as a group there’s parts of the game that we need to improve on but I’ve felt we’ve made strides in most places and I’ve been very pleased with the players and I’ve got to say I’ve been impressed by them but we want to take the next step as well." Mourinho made the memorable claim in 2019 that his second place finish at Old Trafford was up there with the best things on his CV. "If I tell you, for example, that I consider one of the best jobs of my career was to finish second with Man United in the Premier League, you will say, ‘this guy is crazy,”‘ Mourinho said. ”He won 25 titles and he is saying that a second position was one of his best achievements?” "I keep saying this because people don’t know what is going on behind the scenes, and sometimes we, on this side of the cameras, analyse things with a different perspective."
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