Alex Ferguson Managerial Career Discussion thread

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On the Internet buddy.

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The ABUs will swarm and win this for Nembo

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Despite being with the wealthiest club in the country his penny pinching really annoyed me and I was delighted to see him miss out on the likes of Essien, Robben and Ronaldinho due to it.

His record in Europe doesn’t stack up all that well to his contemporaries of last 25 years or so. United were often knocke out by some bang average teams let alone comparing him to the likes of Clough or Paisley

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The way he treated Mark Robins after he saved his career was a joke

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He’ll have to. He’s spending all of United’s cash to buy back a player that Ferguson let go for free :grinning:

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You couldn’t make it up

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He’ll leave united in a worse state than David O’Leary did when he left Leeds

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Thats english soccer. No appreiation for skill

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IIRC Pogba’s agent got lippy with Ferguson and said a few bits in the press. No one sasses alec. Be great if United paid the 100M for him though.

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There are many players that can have mistakes made on them, but English football is full of dumb ex players in coaching and is actually one of the major reasons they are as under achieving as they are.

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Also it wasn’t like Ferguson just allowed him to walk out the door because he didn’t rate him.

Pogba, on his agent’s advice, let the contract run out so he could sign for higher wages (and a bonus) with Juventus.

Ferguson wouldn’t deal with the agent after that.

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Saying that, Ferguson would have blown the agent if he’d felt Pogba was good enough. So all in all, still a misjudgement.

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Or offered him the wages Juventus were

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Still, 100M fixes that small oversight.

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Everyone’s a winner. It’s only TV money anyway.

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As long as the Glazers can put food on the table, thats all that matters.

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The bottom line is that Ferguson had one of the best young midfielders in the World available to him and instead he brought back a 40 year old Paul Scholes from retirement, and that’s why Pogba left and rightly so

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Ha!

Fergie with the moral high ground.

I wonder how the cunt got Pogba in the first place?

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He left because Ferguson had one of the best young midfielders in the world and chose to pick a bunch of limited diddies ahead of him.

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True. It was an odd one but the agent really seemed to rub him up the wrong way by all accounts