Probably his feud with Magnier and McManus which led to them selling to the Glazers.
Process I kinda agree Re Neville, Scholes and Giggs but part of what Fergie was all about was loyalty, that and players he could trust and those three he defo could
That said I'm almost certain that none of us would find all that much to complain about his tenure?
Man was a motivational genius who MADE both players and teams rise above expectations
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 6 hours ago
comment by Eric_the_red (U1122)
posted 11 seconds ago
4-2 up against Everton But still bombing forward, Fellaini running the show, should have stopped him by hook or by crook, stuck Rooney on him, fouled him floored him, stamped on his head, closed the game out al la José bad game management, yes if evras header had gone the other side of the post, the game against the 10 men relegation threatened QPR would have irrelevant and the bitters would have had to crawl back into their blue bubble for another year
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That Evra header still haunts us.
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Fergie’s big mistake was not taking Scholes off when we went 4-2. He was out of puff by then. Everton ran through the midfield after that and the rest is history.
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 2 hours, 30 minutes ago
He stayed loyal to Neville, Scholes and Giggs too long also. Could have given them a proper send off but moved them on and replaced them one by one.
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I did a thread on this on the old 606 called the “old guard”.
I got savaged by the sentimental know it alls.
comment by Insufferable-Piffle, just in case, I'm sorry! (U4388)
posted 54 minutes ago
Process I kinda agree Re Neville, Scholes and Giggs but part of what Fergie was all about was loyalty, that and players he could trust and those three he defo could
That said I'm almost certain that none of us would find all that much to complain about his tenure?
Man was a motivational genius who MADE both players and teams rise above expectations
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Agreed.
comment by Robb, the fifth husband of Joe Exotic (U22311)
posted 3 hours, 51 minutes ago
I have Diafol filtered
Kidding. He’s literally the nicest guy on here and he’s even posted his YouTube videos and seems like a stand up guy 🤘
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Thanks Robb. I love SAF and all the good times he's given to me during my life but just thought it'd be an interesting discussion to have.
There's no videos for a while though I'm afraid. Not before I dye my white hair!
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
Probably his feud with Magnier and McManus which led to them selling to the Glazers.
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There is no evidence to back up that one. I would say the 140 million profit they made on their shares was what swung it.
Sellling to the Glazers seemed to have little affect on SAF.
Yeah it's great having the Glazers aint it.
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 31 minutes ago
Yeah it's great having the Glazers aint it.
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No, not really. Why would you say that?
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 8 hours, 35 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 minutes ago
Playing a midfield two against Barcelona in the second final.
I can forgive him the first one.
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Especially when one of those was 38 year old Giggs. In reality we had a favourable run to the final that year and probably would have lost regardless of selection.
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This was made worst by him not changing it for the second half with us still in the game.
Playing a midfield two against Barcelona in the second final.
I can forgive him the first one.
—
It really wouldn’t have mattered who we’d played.. that barca team were in both finals comfortably a level above.
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
Playing a midfield two against Barcelona in the second final.
I can forgive him the first one.
—
It really wouldn’t have mattered who we’d played.. that barca team were in both finals comfortably a level above.
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Yet it was still 1-1 at HT dispite us being outnumbered in midfield. We made the 2nd half too easy for them. Fergie knew it, and was really p!ssed off after the match.
They’re playing that Everton game on MOTD right now
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 5 hours, 59 minutes ago
Playing a midfield two against Barcelona in the second final.
I can forgive him the first one.
—
It really wouldn’t have mattered who we’d played.. that barca team were in both finals comfortably a level above.
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You can't known that for sure. Fergie made mistakes and you never know what could have been.
I would say selling Jaap Stam has to be his biggest mistake, He admitted that himself as well.
What about selling Ronaldo for what was peanuts really...although he wanted out
It was comfortably the most expensive transfer of all time. How was it peanuts?
comment by Joe The King Exotic (U10026)
posted 4 hours, 25 minutes ago
It was comfortably the most expensive transfer of all time. How was it peanuts?
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yes it was....& we all went "wow that's a lot"....but in reality it was peanuts
RM shirt sales alone would have covered that...
Yeah ok, Captain Hindsight. I bet you were not saying this in 2009. That just wasn’t the pervading view. Your ‘in reality’ wasn’t a reality.
Yeah I thought Real overpaid for Ronaldo at that time.
I remember saying 80m was too much.
comment by #LiquidGenius (U20571)
posted 10 minutes ago
Yeah I thought Real overpaid for Ronaldo at that time.
I remember saying 80m was too much.
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Spent more than that on Pogba. Years apart and inflation, but still..
How can anyone say the Ronaldo sale was a mistake?
Ferguson had a player that wanted to leave to fulfil his childhood dream.
He persuaded him to stay for another season and got a world record fee for him.
comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 1 minute ago
How can anyone say the Ronaldo sale was a mistake?
Ferguson had a player that wanted to leave to fulfil his childhood dream.
He persuaded him to stay for another season and got a world record fee for him.
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Yeah it’s not saf’s fault. Like it or not they are a bigger pull than us, and players will want to go to them. SAF got an extra season from Ronaldo, the fee wasn’t up to him.. not much he could do when the player wanted to go
Not replacing Ronaldo properly was a huge mistake
Valencia, Owen and Obertan showed that quality over quantity is a valid saying
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posted on 9/5/20
Probably his feud with Magnier and McManus which led to them selling to the Glazers.
posted on 9/5/20
Process I kinda agree Re Neville, Scholes and Giggs but part of what Fergie was all about was loyalty, that and players he could trust and those three he defo could
That said I'm almost certain that none of us would find all that much to complain about his tenure?
Man was a motivational genius who MADE both players and teams rise above expectations
posted on 9/5/20
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 6 hours ago
comment by Eric_the_red (U1122)
posted 11 seconds ago
4-2 up against Everton But still bombing forward, Fellaini running the show, should have stopped him by hook or by crook, stuck Rooney on him, fouled him floored him, stamped on his head, closed the game out al la José bad game management, yes if evras header had gone the other side of the post, the game against the 10 men relegation threatened QPR would have irrelevant and the bitters would have had to crawl back into their blue bubble for another year
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That Evra header still haunts us.
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Fergie’s big mistake was not taking Scholes off when we went 4-2. He was out of puff by then. Everton ran through the midfield after that and the rest is history.
posted on 9/5/20
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 2 hours, 30 minutes ago
He stayed loyal to Neville, Scholes and Giggs too long also. Could have given them a proper send off but moved them on and replaced them one by one.
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I did a thread on this on the old 606 called the “old guard”.
I got savaged by the sentimental know it alls.
posted on 9/5/20
comment by Insufferable-Piffle, just in case, I'm sorry! (U4388)
posted 54 minutes ago
Process I kinda agree Re Neville, Scholes and Giggs but part of what Fergie was all about was loyalty, that and players he could trust and those three he defo could
That said I'm almost certain that none of us would find all that much to complain about his tenure?
Man was a motivational genius who MADE both players and teams rise above expectations
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Agreed.
posted on 9/5/20
comment by Robb, the fifth husband of Joe Exotic (U22311)
posted 3 hours, 51 minutes ago
I have Diafol filtered
Kidding. He’s literally the nicest guy on here and he’s even posted his YouTube videos and seems like a stand up guy 🤘
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Thanks Robb. I love SAF and all the good times he's given to me during my life but just thought it'd be an interesting discussion to have.
There's no videos for a while though I'm afraid. Not before I dye my white hair!
posted on 9/5/20
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
Probably his feud with Magnier and McManus which led to them selling to the Glazers.
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There is no evidence to back up that one. I would say the 140 million profit they made on their shares was what swung it.
Sellling to the Glazers seemed to have little affect on SAF.
posted on 9/5/20
Yeah it's great having the Glazers aint it.
posted on 9/5/20
comment by manutd1982 (U6633)
posted 31 minutes ago
Yeah it's great having the Glazers aint it.
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No, not really. Why would you say that?
posted on 9/5/20
comment by The Process (U20671)
posted 8 hours, 35 minutes ago
comment by Vidicschin (U3584)
posted 2 minutes ago
Playing a midfield two against Barcelona in the second final.
I can forgive him the first one.
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Especially when one of those was 38 year old Giggs. In reality we had a favourable run to the final that year and probably would have lost regardless of selection.
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This was made worst by him not changing it for the second half with us still in the game.
posted on 9/5/20
Playing a midfield two against Barcelona in the second final.
I can forgive him the first one.
—
It really wouldn’t have mattered who we’d played.. that barca team were in both finals comfortably a level above.
posted on 9/5/20
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 2 minutes ago
Playing a midfield two against Barcelona in the second final.
I can forgive him the first one.
—
It really wouldn’t have mattered who we’d played.. that barca team were in both finals comfortably a level above.
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Yet it was still 1-1 at HT dispite us being outnumbered in midfield. We made the 2nd half too easy for them. Fergie knew it, and was really p!ssed off after the match.
posted on 9/5/20
They’re playing that Everton game on MOTD right now
posted on 10/5/20
comment by Ole-Dirty-Baztard (U19119)
posted 5 hours, 59 minutes ago
Playing a midfield two against Barcelona in the second final.
I can forgive him the first one.
—
It really wouldn’t have mattered who we’d played.. that barca team were in both finals comfortably a level above.
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You can't known that for sure. Fergie made mistakes and you never know what could have been.
posted on 10/5/20
I would say selling Jaap Stam has to be his biggest mistake, He admitted that himself as well.
posted on 10/5/20
What about selling Ronaldo for what was peanuts really...although he wanted out
posted on 10/5/20
It was comfortably the most expensive transfer of all time. How was it peanuts?
posted on 10/5/20
comment by Joe The King Exotic (U10026)
posted 4 hours, 25 minutes ago
It was comfortably the most expensive transfer of all time. How was it peanuts?
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yes it was....& we all went "wow that's a lot"....but in reality it was peanuts
posted on 10/5/20
RM shirt sales alone would have covered that...
posted on 10/5/20
Yeah ok, Captain Hindsight. I bet you were not saying this in 2009. That just wasn’t the pervading view. Your ‘in reality’ wasn’t a reality.
posted on 10/5/20
Yeah I thought Real overpaid for Ronaldo at that time.
I remember saying 80m was too much.
posted on 10/5/20
comment by #LiquidGenius (U20571)
posted 10 minutes ago
Yeah I thought Real overpaid for Ronaldo at that time.
I remember saying 80m was too much.
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Spent more than that on Pogba. Years apart and inflation, but still..
posted on 10/5/20
How can anyone say the Ronaldo sale was a mistake?
Ferguson had a player that wanted to leave to fulfil his childhood dream.
He persuaded him to stay for another season and got a world record fee for him.
posted on 10/5/20
comment by Winston (U16525)
posted 1 minute ago
How can anyone say the Ronaldo sale was a mistake?
Ferguson had a player that wanted to leave to fulfil his childhood dream.
He persuaded him to stay for another season and got a world record fee for him.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah it’s not saf’s fault. Like it or not they are a bigger pull than us, and players will want to go to them. SAF got an extra season from Ronaldo, the fee wasn’t up to him.. not much he could do when the player wanted to go
posted on 10/5/20
Not replacing Ronaldo properly was a huge mistake
Valencia, Owen and Obertan showed that quality over quantity is a valid saying
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