Ole Gunnar Solskjaer want to become permanent Manchester United manager

Manchester United's care taker manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has reiterated his desire to become the permanent manager at the club after over seeing a mini revival in the last four games in charge.

Solskjaer matched a venerable feat only ever performed at the club by its most revered patriarch - the late, great Matt Busby after his side deffeated Newcastle 2 goals to nil on Wednesday.

Of course I won't, I don't want to, said the ever-smiling Norwegian on Wednesday, when asked after United's 2-0 win at Newcastle United whether he would want to leave Old Trafford in May at the end of his planned interim spell.

And after a startling opening to his reign following Jose Mourinho's sacking continued with a fourth successive win - something only Busby, in 1946, could boast among United managers - he is making a compelling application for the full-time role.

Sounding uncannily like his old insatiable United mentor Alex Ferguson, the former striker reckoned he had already consigned to history the idea of having emulated Busby, who went on to win a fifth consecutive game at the infancy of his epic reign.

That will be in the books, but it's nothing that I'm thinking of, said Solskjaer. I'm just thinking about the next game because if you win four, you can win another four at this club. That's the challenge and that's the standard that we're known for.

The gaffer (Ferguson) used to challenge us on them and of course when we've won four, you can go onto the next four and think about them.

There has been much media speculation that United want Mourinho's permanent replacement next season to be Juventus's Massimiliano Allegri, but if he carries on in his current vein then Solskjaer could make life very awkward for the club hierarchy.