Club legend Gary Neville says OGS has '60 per cent chance’ of securing the job on a permanent basis but the club won't know until early April if they will give it to him.
The Red Devils are two points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, who boasted an 11-point lead on United prior to Solskjaer’s arrival.
The Norwegian arrived from Molde with the plan to steady the ship until the end of the season, but such has his success been that the 45-year-old is now the bookies’ favourite, ahead of Mauricio Pochettino, to become Jose Mourinho’s long-term successor.
And Neville, who played with The Baby-Faced Assassin for 11 years in Manchester, believes Solskjaer now has a terrific chance of securing the top job.
“I said before the Leicester game I thought, when he took over the job, he had 25 per cent chance of getting it [permanently],” the eight-time Premier League champion told the Gary Neville Podcast.
“I would say now he has 50, 60 per cent chance of getting it.
“I still conclude that I think by the end of March, early April is the right time to really start to make a judgement.
“Because we could be sat here in three or four weeks’ time and Manchester United have just played Liverpool in the league, Chelsea in the FA Cup and Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.
“If those results go against Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, will we all be sat here saying ‘ah, he’s not the right man for the job?’
“And yet he’s been beaten by four of the best teams you can play.
“Away from home at Stamford Bridge, which is a terribly difficult ground for United to play at, Paris Saint-Germain - one of the favourites for the Champions League - and Liverpool, who are obviously top of the Premier League in this moment in time, and the Manchester Derby soon after.
“You think of that period of six to eight weeks, I think it’s the right thing to do judge it at the end of that.
“And that’s not necessarily by the results, but by the performances.”
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