Brwned said:
I'd expect nothing less, the lads are lapping it up that Liverpool are falling apart so it's entirely predictable that you's would do the same.
I'd be wary about getting ahead of myself if I were you though, with Sir Alex we'll always be challengers and I'd expect Mourinho to come in and keep up the same sort of success...it won't last forever but I think it'll last a fair bit longer than you lot are intimating.
Ferguson is currently the only reason that ageing team is going to be anywhere near challenging.
He's the glue that holds the whole thing together-on and off the pitch.
He IS the club.
And like Schole,Giggs,VDS and Neville...he can't go on forever.Evans,Wellbeck,Gibson...nowhere near good enough.
Like others on here have noted,Ferguson is looking tired...like it's all starting to take a real toll on him.
Managing united's expectations with no real cash is the sort of management challenge you want in your 40's,not your 70's.
Being forced to fight a reargaurd action against a relentless,highly motivated hungry enemy that you've never had to take seriously before must be difficult for an alcoholic pensioner approaching the end of his career.It''s only natural.
When he goes,the harmony at the club will go with it...and the full effect of the Glazer debt will start to open up the cracks.
Without investment in the billions,and with City looking like the place to be for up and coming players- I really believe that if you carry on treading water as you are you are seriously looking at mid-table in two seasons.
Ignore it all you want,but it's at the gate.