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I know there's been several, should I say hundreds of threds on here, wanting a change......mostly of manager. Mostly because we are now a football team who can, in fiscal terms, puch harder than any team in Europe, or the world.
With that said, we are still in very much way down the league in terms of competing, in football terms, with the teams in the same financial bracket. It will take some time, even in this day & age of the 'I want it now!'
Sorry to shove this down your throats, I've had enough of it as well (40 years a fan, 20 a s/t holder) & I know that people on here have rabbited on about this before & please I'm just as p***ed about this as all of you, but please read this link. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.contacttheplayers.com/profiles/sir-alex-ferguson/341.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.contacttheplayers.com/profil ... n/341.html</a>
Take a particular note of;
Sir Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United on 6th November 1986, aged 45. United were suffering in the league, and were in a crisis of confidence. It took Sir Alex some time to turn things around – three seasons of mediocrity followed whilst Ferguson tried to deal with the drinking culture at the club, and the lack of a youth-team structure.
With some big money spent on players such as Mark Hughes, Steve Bruce and Neil Webb, the fans were expecting great things, but United were still struggling to challenge for the title. After losing seven games in a row, United were down and out in the league, and all hopes were on the FA Cup away at Nottingham in November 1989. Ferguson was widely expected to lose his job if United failed to win, but thankfully the reds came through for him – winning 1-0, and then marching on a cup run to the final, where they beat Crystal Palace in the replay to bring silverware to Old Trafford.
With a new found confidence from both players and fans, Ferguson got to work with trying to ‘knock Liverpool from their perch’. Liverpool were definitely a fading force, and it was Leeds, led by a mercurial Eric Cantona, that pipped United to the first ever Premier League title. United stuttered at the start of the next season, but managed to buy Cantona from Leeds for £1.2m in December, and he became the catalyst to helping United top the league.
Sir Alex has won 10 Premier League titles, 2 champions league titles, 5 FA Cups and 2 league cups in his time at United, in the process building some great teams, such as the Robson-Hughes-Ince era, the ‘Class of 92’ with Beckham, Butt, Keane, Scholes and Neville, and the current crop of multinationals like Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez.
Sir Alex will retire from football once he has finished from football, but insists that’s a few years off yet!
Before you start shouting off at me & abusing me as a Rag, I can assure you I'm not, I'm a blue & proud, I reiterate, have been for forty years. I get just as exasperated as the rest of ya & I'm not saying Hughes is the one to lead us to the promised land, what I'm trying to say is, we are such a long way behind them & success.
Why's that then..........?
With that said, we are still in very much way down the league in terms of competing, in football terms, with the teams in the same financial bracket. It will take some time, even in this day & age of the 'I want it now!'
Sorry to shove this down your throats, I've had enough of it as well (40 years a fan, 20 a s/t holder) & I know that people on here have rabbited on about this before & please I'm just as p***ed about this as all of you, but please read this link. <a class="postlink" href="http://www.contacttheplayers.com/profiles/sir-alex-ferguson/341.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.contacttheplayers.com/profil ... n/341.html</a>
Take a particular note of;
Sir Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United on 6th November 1986, aged 45. United were suffering in the league, and were in a crisis of confidence. It took Sir Alex some time to turn things around – three seasons of mediocrity followed whilst Ferguson tried to deal with the drinking culture at the club, and the lack of a youth-team structure.
With some big money spent on players such as Mark Hughes, Steve Bruce and Neil Webb, the fans were expecting great things, but United were still struggling to challenge for the title. After losing seven games in a row, United were down and out in the league, and all hopes were on the FA Cup away at Nottingham in November 1989. Ferguson was widely expected to lose his job if United failed to win, but thankfully the reds came through for him – winning 1-0, and then marching on a cup run to the final, where they beat Crystal Palace in the replay to bring silverware to Old Trafford.
With a new found confidence from both players and fans, Ferguson got to work with trying to ‘knock Liverpool from their perch’. Liverpool were definitely a fading force, and it was Leeds, led by a mercurial Eric Cantona, that pipped United to the first ever Premier League title. United stuttered at the start of the next season, but managed to buy Cantona from Leeds for £1.2m in December, and he became the catalyst to helping United top the league.
Sir Alex has won 10 Premier League titles, 2 champions league titles, 5 FA Cups and 2 league cups in his time at United, in the process building some great teams, such as the Robson-Hughes-Ince era, the ‘Class of 92’ with Beckham, Butt, Keane, Scholes and Neville, and the current crop of multinationals like Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez.
Sir Alex will retire from football once he has finished from football, but insists that’s a few years off yet!
Before you start shouting off at me & abusing me as a Rag, I can assure you I'm not, I'm a blue & proud, I reiterate, have been for forty years. I get just as exasperated as the rest of ya & I'm not saying Hughes is the one to lead us to the promised land, what I'm trying to say is, we are such a long way behind them & success.
Why's that then..........?