You Can't Please Everybody - Man Utd Boss Skinner

Marc Skinner accepts he is "not going to please everybody" successful nan Manchester United fanbase aft a mixed guidance to nan announcement of his caller contract.

Manager Skinner, 42, recently signed a two-year hold until June 2027, pinch nan action of an other 12 months.

United beryllium 3rd successful nan Women's Super League pinch nan champion protect grounds successful nan division.

They person besides reached nan Women's FA Cup semi-finals, wherever they play section rivals Manchester City connected Sunday.

Asked if he has silenced his critics this season, Skinner told BBC Sport: "I don't ever deliberation of it that way. I genuinely respect everybody and their opinion."

But knowing immoderate supporters would for illustration to spot him replaced is an uncomfortable truth.

"It's not bully to hear, of people not," Skinner said. "I americium human. My power is ever to my squad and for nan fans, it's not to effort and beryllium group wrong."

Skinner is nan longest-serving existent head successful nan WSL, having taken complaint successful 2021.

After guiding United to a fourth-place decorativeness successful his first campaign, they past vanished 2nd successful nan WSL to unafraid a spot successful nan Champions League for nan first time.

Skinner past led nan squad to their first awesome honour by winning nan FA Cup past year.

He feels his squad are connected an upward trajectory and wants to thrust them on, sloppy of whether his activity is rated by immoderate sections of nan fanbase.

"I respect them, I respect their points of view, but I americium still going to do my occupation to nan champion of my expertise and effort to make group amended each day," Skinner said.

"They want their squad to triumph and if I tin present that for them, it doesn't matter if they for illustration what I do aliases not.

"I've been really proud of what nan squad are doing this twelvemonth and I want to make judge for nan fans and for nan full nine that I americium nan figurehead that pushes america towards continued occurrence and builds a squad that tin beryllium coagulated for galore years to come."

United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe said past twelvemonth nan men's squad was nan "main issue" and referred to nan women's broadside arsenic "girls" and "an opportunity".

He has since spoken to BBC Sport astatine length connected a scope of topics, including his erstwhile comments connected nan women's team.

Ratcliffe said it was "unfair" to propose he did not attraction astir nan women, but added that his business inheritance meant "you thin to attraction connected nan bigger issues earlier you attraction connected nan smaller issues".

After signing up to stay, Skinner told BBC Sport he has a "burning ambition" to execute continued occurrence and feels he tin do truthful nether nan existent ownership.

As for whether he feels he has nan backing of Ineos to fulfil those ambitions, Skinner said: "I do. I consciousness that for different reasons different than conscionable financial support.

"We person been very clear that we are trying to build a sustainable exemplary alternatively than propulsion money astatine a problem. We are trying to do it successful a measurement that grows complete a play of years, which I deliberation is sensible successful nan existent climate.

"Everybody would for illustration nan speedy fix, but for america location is thing amended astir increasing complete a play of clip that is organic, that works, that feels arsenic it moves."

While United mislaid cardinal figures including Mary Earps, skipper Katie Zelem and Nikita Parris past summer, they person had an awesome run without uncovering big-money replacements.

"In nan meantime we person to find different solutions," Skinner said. "We person to adhd acquisition to nan group should we suffice for nan Champions League.

"Should we look to triumph leagues and should we look to proceed to person occurrence successful nan cups, we person to put of course. That is connected nan scheme and that is simply a strategy.

"Because I cognize what nan extremity prize is, I americium consenting to push arsenic difficult arsenic I perchance tin to activity pinch that continued growth."