Man Utd next? 5 Champions League winners that switched managers – PF
A football season is a marathon, not a sprint, so Manchester United fans can take some heart in the fact that plenty of sides have started a campaign poorly only to end up winning the Champions League.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s United certainly didn’t look like future European champions in their defeats to Watford, Liverpool and Manchester City, but there are plenty of sides that no one could have predicted would end up lifting Ol’ Big Ears in the early months of the season.
Liverpool in 2005 are probably the best against-the-odds example of a team that started slow and ended up defying their critics. There are also a number of sides that went through such a poor spell of form that they sacked their managers, only for their successor to turn the ship around spectacularly.
Here are five examples of clubs that sacked and replaced their managers before ending the season with the most prestigious trophy of all. Take note, Ralf Rangnick.
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