Fair point.
It’s a very interesting insight into modern day thinking.
Mark Robins scored a winner in an FA Cup tie against Nottingham Forest to earn him a stay of execution.
I remember at the time most United fans wanted him gone.
The rest as they say, is history
Ferguson was very lucky on that 1990 Cup run - beating Forest was a big surprise, then they got very lucky in subsequent ties againt Newcastle and particularly the two semi-finals with Oldham, as well as the drawn final
Even in the 1990/91 season he got consistently lucky with draws in Europe - Pesci Munkas, Wrexham, Montpellier and Legia Warsaw - all of whom were shit - then an ambush on Barcelona in the final - Manchester United were again poor in the league and only finished sixth and were humiliated 4-0 at Anfield
Was it after that Edwards got the cheque book out?
Pallister and Ince were big signings around August/September 1989 but did not settle well, they came good later on
Danny Wallace, Neil Webb and Mike Phelan were other big signings around that time and were all failures
Wallace did score a couple of crucial goals in that 1990 cup run however v Newcastle and Oldham
Jim Leighton of course had a meltdown and was replaced by Les Sealey without whom Ferguson might not have survived either
He owes his tenure to lesser heralded players such as Sealey, Robins and Lee Martin
They pieced it together year on year
McClair and Bruce in '87
Hughes returned in '88
Pallister and Ince in '89
Irwin in '90
Schmeichel and Kanchelskis in '91
Cantona at the end of '92
Pallister was a British record fee for a defender at the time. 2 and a half million. They broke the British record in '93 for Keano.
Ferguson was very hit and miss in the transfer market. For every Schmeichael there was a Mark Bosnic or Tony Coton
Pallister was £2.3m if I remember correctly
Keane was £3.75m
Leeds signed Brian Deane for I think the same fee in the summer of 1993
Ferguson made plenty of dud signings before '93 - Wallce, Phelan, Webb, Mal Donaghy, Ralph Milne
I’m pretty sure their first choice target for a centre-back in the summer of '89 was Glenn Hysen, he looked all set to go to Manchester United then Liverpool nipped and got him for £600k
If Manchester United had got Hysen they’d probably never have signed Pallister, he might well have gone to Liverpool instead
Liverpool’s transfer dealings from around that time onwards are a catalogue of disaster from which we’re really only recovering now
Football history can be a bit like real history - all modern European history stems from 1914 and all Liverpool’s troubles stem from 1991 in particular
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Who was the last Liverpool manager not to win a trophy in his first four seasons? Generally you get sacked if you don’t deliver a trophy within 4 seasons at Liverpool.
Obsession.
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Brewster getting a run tonight.
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If he hadn’t been injured , he would have been first choice back up to front 3 this season
Ferguson turned down the chance to sign John Barnes and stuck with Jesper Olsen.
He still went on to win a heap of trophies though!
Don Welsh
What a manager. He is getting the absolute most out of a limited enough squad there
Fucking legend!!
End of.
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That fraud can’t win finals
Incredible manager.
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Klopp out
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You are, by some distance, the stupidest cunt on here 
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Klopps teeth look magnificent tonight
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