- Aug 20, 2007
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To be honest there is very little in your post that I would disagree with.
In fact i remember some commentators saying United should have gone for Pleat like Spurs had! :razz:
I was just saying that in hindsight, even when deemed to be doing crap in the first 5 years, Fergie had still enough in his locker to win a couple of trophies.
The thing is he ( and consequently Manure) was lucky for 3 reasons - Cantona took his team to another level; Edwards failed in his financial shenaningans (trying to sell to Michael Knighton); the Premier league was created and gave them huge financial muscle (Spurs helped by donating them our financial advisor who took their marketing light-years ahead and Sugar aided the development of the premier league and then never took advantage of the potential for Spurs).
With Fergie's immense managerial skill and manure's new financial muscle they have really taken off. This has been aided by a lack of credible managerial adversaries until Wenger and Mourinho arrived.
Manure's problem will be two-fold :violin: - Fergie stepping down and the self-created financial mess they are in (although the Glazers have cleverly set it up so they can suck out funds and walk away when things go tit's up).
Our problem is that over the past 5 years we are finally starting to show the glimpses of potential a club of our size should be showing. However every body else is catching up (look at Everton today!). We also need to show things immediately.
HR has performed exactly as I thought he would. He has stabilised things and bought some decent players (although he was lucky in that Wigan finally allowed Palacios to leave and we persuaded him join us, in the position we tried to recruit Tiago, Diarra and Veloso to). I hope he has the skill and the luck to get us into Europe and hopefully win the FA cup (a mammoth task). However I think he is surrounded by too many cronies who really are dire assistants.
I don't really like HR (never have for over 20 years) but I don't see what available alternative we have now as every manager we could get will be a risk. We certainly won't get the big hitters like Mourinho and van Gaal and, er....
So we now have to wait and hope and see what develops. We haven't got any choice.
In fact i remember some commentators saying United should have gone for Pleat like Spurs had! :razz:
I was just saying that in hindsight, even when deemed to be doing crap in the first 5 years, Fergie had still enough in his locker to win a couple of trophies.
The thing is he ( and consequently Manure) was lucky for 3 reasons - Cantona took his team to another level; Edwards failed in his financial shenaningans (trying to sell to Michael Knighton); the Premier league was created and gave them huge financial muscle (Spurs helped by donating them our financial advisor who took their marketing light-years ahead and Sugar aided the development of the premier league and then never took advantage of the potential for Spurs).
With Fergie's immense managerial skill and manure's new financial muscle they have really taken off. This has been aided by a lack of credible managerial adversaries until Wenger and Mourinho arrived.
Manure's problem will be two-fold :violin: - Fergie stepping down and the self-created financial mess they are in (although the Glazers have cleverly set it up so they can suck out funds and walk away when things go tit's up).
Our problem is that over the past 5 years we are finally starting to show the glimpses of potential a club of our size should be showing. However every body else is catching up (look at Everton today!). We also need to show things immediately.
HR has performed exactly as I thought he would. He has stabilised things and bought some decent players (although he was lucky in that Wigan finally allowed Palacios to leave and we persuaded him join us, in the position we tried to recruit Tiago, Diarra and Veloso to). I hope he has the skill and the luck to get us into Europe and hopefully win the FA cup (a mammoth task). However I think he is surrounded by too many cronies who really are dire assistants.
I don't really like HR (never have for over 20 years) but I don't see what available alternative we have now as every manager we could get will be a risk. We certainly won't get the big hitters like Mourinho and van Gaal and, er....
So we now have to wait and hope and see what develops. We haven't got any choice.