Im_Spartacus wrote:Ted Hughes wrote:Im_Spartacus wrote:DoomMerchant wrote:
No trophies at all without him since the takeover.
Only a spasmoidal abortion would think we had a strategy to jettison one of the top 5 players on form in world football right now.
Bogglicious.
The one thing about Ferguson was that he generally knew the right time to move a player on, and to be fair he almost always got it right. If the club do opt to accept an offer, I trust these days that it would be for the right reasons
One thing about Ferguson was that even when he totally fucked up by moving a player on, or not moving a player on, another one dragged him out of it, or wankers like Arsene Wenger let him off the hook.
He got it wrong pretty much every time, even going back to the days of Strachan, who came back to haunt him with Leeds. Most recently by not tying up Tevez to a deal, just assuming he would put up with anything to sign for the mighty Maan U & then also failling to replace two ancient centre backs & ageing midfielders years earlier rather than being stuck with an ageing team.
Again he got away with it because we were shit & Wenger etc performed as usual. He's basically got most big decisions of that kind hopelessly wrong.
I'm more on about the big calls he made over the likes of Stam, moving Phil Neville after arguably his best ever season for them in centre midfield, same with Yorke, Cole, Nistelrooy, Butt, Beckham, all the way back to Sharpe when he was a very promising youngster. It could be said shipping McGrath out was a mistake, but that was for cultural reasons, perhaps that was also the case for Strachan.
And to be fair, your response gives zero credit for the fact that the 'one who pulled them out of the shit' may just have been ready to do so hence why the player was moved on when he was.
In the end 'unfortunately' for them when it matters (ie now) he clearly clung on to some of the 'class of 92' for too long but on the whole he did move people on at the right time. Tevez was slightly different as he was never a United player.
Stam & Beckham only went because Ferguson didn't like them anymore, not because they couldn't play for Utd.
Yorke & Cole went & Utd won 1 title in 5 years with RVN , Beckham's last season. Shortly afterwards, Wenger gave up winning titles for accountancy.
I just don't see how that lot equates to something the old cunt should be praised for.