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What was there to indicate Fergie fitted the culture of the club after st mirren sacked him? The Fergie we hired after Aberdeen didn't fit our culture anyway, given some of his early comments in the job. I always thought when Robson retired, we should have got rid of Fergie and got a true United man in. Quote:
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It's bullshit to say Fergie did not fit the culture of United when he came to the club. I'm not talking about the culture under Atkinson. I'm talking about the culture under Sir Matt; the three pillars of the United way: attacking football, chances to youth and the highest standards. Quote:
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Think back when Fergie was here and these are the descriptors most often attributed to him. Combine those traits with the United way and you've got Fergie. There is one manager who matches every one of those characteristics and the three elements of the United way set out by Sir Matt and Fergie. He is the most successful captain in the club's history, "the driving force, the inspiration, the best reader of the game, the best talker of the game, the biggest winner" (as Fergie put it). Roy Keane. |
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With the attacking football I don't think it's about style. It's more about taking the game to the opponent, having a real go, taking a risk, etc. I only watched United since '88 but never once saw Fergie play negative/defensive. Quote:
Even in his Aberdeen days his players lived in constant fear of his anger. There's a story where Fergie raged so much at one of his players for coming off injured that the player ended up punching Fergie, knocking him on his arse. At United, Gary Neville told how Fergie gave him sleepless nights. Ronaldo told how Fergie made him cry and would swear and kick things around the dressing room in anger – the chairs, the water bottles. I guess that's how the boot found its way to Beckham's head, with Beckham describing Fergie as a "bully" for the way he was treated toward the end of his United career. And Fergie was a bully – to opposition managers, referees, the press, his own players. Other well documented fall outs occurred with Strachan, Ince, Kanchelskis, Stam, Keane, Nistelrooy, Hargreaves, Rooney. Fergie could hold a grudge and would give players the silent treatment for weeks. So these people skills you're talking about, I'm not sure about that. It's no coincidence that Keane named Clough as the best manager he's worked under due to his "warmth" compared to Fergie's "coldness". None of this is a criticism of Fergie – he just had a hardline way of dealing with his players and at the end of the day that served him well at United – it worked. But he wasn't ever on the level of Sir Matt, Clough or say, Ancelotti when it came to people skills and getting along with his players. Keano is the same as Fergie: a master motivator but also hardline and not one to back down on his views. It's another aspect where the two are the same. “I think they are very much the same (Fergie and Keano). When you are that powerful, that enthusiastic, have that kind of temperament and that desire to always be the best, you can clash.”But for all that, there have been a far greater number of times where Fergie and Keano have got it right. |
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I wouldn't bin Mourinho for him by any stretch, but to be fair Keano's win percentages in his previous management jobs are about the same as Luis Enrique's in the Roma and Celta jobs he had before he was handed the Barca job.
I appreciate this boards standards are has to have won the European Cup somewhere else but once Ancelotti retires we'll be clean out of names from our Great Managers of the Early 21st Century book to appoint. |
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