Olid had urged her players to be “brave” and have an “attacking mindset” this season.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard guided Hearts to their first Scottish Women’s Premier League title last campaign but arrived at United untested in the WSL and in Europe.<\/p>\n
And questions will be raised about her appointment if the club fail to recover from this lacklustre start. <\/p>\n
Replacing Skinner was never going to be a straightforward task.<\/p>\n
The former manager often divided opinion among supporters during his five-year reign, but still led the club to a first major trophy with the FA Cup triumph, three other cup finals, two top-three finishes and the Women’s Champions League quarter-finals last season. <\/p>\n
His departure came after hints of frustrations over the lack of investment in the squad – just like his predecessor Casey Stoney who stepped down in 2021<\/a>. <\/p>\n There is an argument Skinner overachieved, working with fewer resources than United’s rivals. <\/p>\n In recent years, the club has been criticised for its training facilities<\/a>, while owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s comments<\/a> about the women’s team also drew ire.<\/p>\n Olid, who arrived with a remit to develop young players and build an attacking football identity, insisted perspective was needed after a winless start.<\/p>\n “It’s what I said to the players – that it’s just the beginning,” she said. <\/p>\n “It’s just two matches. It’s not how you start but how you finish. Now we need them to learn from the mistakes and grow to go from down to high – that’s our idea.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olid had urged her players to be “brave” and have an “attacking mindset” this season. The Spaniard guided…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-623635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}