Paul Scholes is hoping Sir Alex Ferguson doesn’t retire any time soon as he believes having the stability of one manager can ensure silverware.
“His record speaks for itself,” said Scholes. “Twenty-three years is a long time and, hopefully, he can continue to be here and win trophies for a long time to come. Other teams don’t have the benefit of having a manager for so long. I think it goes to show what can be achieved if you have a manger for so long and the trophies they can win. I’ve known no different. When I played for England there was a change of manager from time to time and it probably didn’t seem to help most of the time. I’ve been lucky enough to play under one manager and it has been great.”
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Well said, scholesy…Its a different thing altogether, in terms of the way the affairs are handled, the management of the squad and most importantly, consistent development of youth. Something chelsea has been left severely lacking..
Off topic: Henry is a c**t..
Sry for saying it again..I think it got lost in the 324 comments of that post!
Scholesey is right, having Fergie in charge means the team has stability that our rivals don’t. Still, what will we do when he retires, don’t wanna think about it.
wazza = good point
on topic After everything Paul Scholes has seen in his football career He’d know Sir Alex (cant believe he’d call him fergie) better than most
off topic
Merry Christmas R.O.M.
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fergie’s going to be around for a while, i don’t think he’d be able to take being away from United, he’d be too bored if he retired hehe. even if he resigned from a managerial post, he’ll definitely stay on and pull the strings from behind. i can’t even imagine Utd without Sir Alex
he took over the year i was born! but to be honest, it’s hard imagining utd without scholesy, giggsy or nev. what a dark day for football that will be…
@GHTT, does emily’s monkey have a name? and did you manage to sort out anything with the tickets yet?
Jellybean the monkey is called Norman Whiteside
called off her own back due to a song about Norman Whiteside we we’re learning the day we got him
and Jellybean I dont go on any other teams blogs really
Someone will have to pry the job from SAF’s dying hands. He won’t go softly into that good night. Fergy is a fighter and he’d be lost without the challenge
off topic but great quote from phil neville:
“Joining City is not something that will ever happen. When you have got red blood you cannot see yourself with blue blood.
“You go there and they have blue ketchup… it’s just like ‘What are they doing?’.
“I am not being disrespectful to City. I grew up a Red, hating Manchester City. When I go back with Everton I get absolutely slaughtered.
“It makes me laugh in a way because I understand what they are feeling. I think it is fantastic as it makes football special.”
@ jellybean re posting on other teams forums.
I wouldn’t waste ny time on other sites cause I don’t really care what they think.
Why go out for hamburgers when u have steak @ home ?
At 67 I reckon Fergie has 5 years left in him as long as hes healthy. Hopefully Laurent Blanc has established himself as a top manager by then and could take over from Sir Alex
Only slightly off-topic – how many people who thought that Guuuuuus Hiddink was a saviour have twisted their ankles/broken their legs jumping off that bandwagon ?
We hope so too scholsey. I think the perfect and ideal time for Fergie to start thinking about retiring is when he wins No.19 and 2 more european cups to equal the dippers’.
Fergie leaving will leave a huge hole at manchester utd. Hopefully the right person will be there to fill that hole in.
Scholesy is having yet another pop at the rubbish Ingurland set-up, and rightly so. For Scholesy its always been United > Ingurland. And I fuckin love him to bits for that.
Also to add
I’m gonna hate to see scholes hang them black boots up someday aswell
Off-topic again – if you watched the two Bosnia/Portugal matches then would you want Edin Dzego ? or Nani ?
@ jansdad- that’s what i was thinking! i doubt any of us would be stuffed posting on other teams’ sites, regardless of what they say about our players or SAF. but every single time there’s a post here about our rivals, their idiotic fans come here by the droves like a swarm of hungry locusts. as if any of us would agree with their opinions!
@ denton davey- to be honest, neither of them impressed much. dzeko plays well for his club, but i really wasn’t impressed by him at all during the bosnia game, he did one or two good things, but i wouldn’t judge him based on that game alone. as for nani, he was his usual self, i saw him wasting chances, delivering poor crosses etc before finally doing something to redeem himself. nani’s really testing my patience, and especially after that whole rant of his to the press, i won’t be too sorry to see the back of him….
will be a big lost for us when SAF finally retires..but as long as we keep winning trophies iam sure his longevity will keep on going imo, who knows?
*Ghtt – Yeah its amusing how he’s called fergie. Guess thats the affection all the older players have for him..
@denton davey : There’s still admiration for hiddink mate. What he did at chelsea last season was enviable. He commands respect and I agree with one of ROM’s posts in which he says hiddink has the potential to be great at club football and replace SAF. Of course it might be a little early, but he’s certainly leagues better than mour’one’ho and co.
I’d just don’t want him to go to stinking real madrid now..
I can’t imagine united without him. Ever since i knew about football, i seen him there. Can’t imagine without him. I do hope he can carry on or be a adviser to the new coach. If neville, scholes, giggs retired. I felt the world is black too.
Wazza – I beg to differ; Hiddink has been played up to be a genius but today he looks like the man in the emperor’s new clothes. His Russian team had a massive edge in talent and talented depth yet they stumbled badly in a game they began with an edge. His time at Chel$ki was good but he didn’t win the CL (or get to the final) and he didn’t win the EPL. Results count – as in what have you done for me lately ?
Comparing HIddink with Mourinho is a real mistake – Jose might be a prick but he’s a winning prick. His team won the scudetto last year and will do so again this year. And if Abramovitch hadn’t meddled so much in affairs at Stamford Bridge then Mourinho might have won more than two EPL titles.
For what it’s worth, I would much prefer Mourinho to Hiddink to take over from SAF. And, rest assured, SAF would, too. The man who succeeds SAF is going to get a team that is young and talented and deep – the successor will have a splendid opportunity to continue Fergy’s incredible run of success.
Seeing how Jose re-jigged InterMilan this summer, it’s hard not to believe that this is a man who has a very, very keen eye for the main chance. Selling Zlatan and getting Eto’o, Thiago Motta, and Milito plus ca$h was a fantastic piece of business – addition by subtraction, plus additional addition !
SAF will leave huge shoes to fill. I’m not completely sold on Jose Mourinho as the answer but I’m damned sure that he’d be a better choice than Guus Hiddink.
Jellybean – you might not have been impressed with Nani’s contribution to the Portuguese victory but without him they wouldn’t have scored a goal and might still be playing ! I’m not saying Nani played perfect games but he was their danger-man and he delivered in the crunch when he was played on the right – you might want more but you’d only get more than that on a video game. I’m not saying he’s the finished article, either – Nani is inconsistent: frustrating but also extremely talented. Every player’s arc of development is unique: fortunately, this is something SAF understands. It’s a pity that so many of the UTD supporters don’t. The criticism of Nani’s play is just plain one-eyed: just like it was with Fletcherinho and John O’Shea – not every player develops to be a Cristiano Ronaldo; some of them just become “ordinary super-stars”.
I hope he stays for much longer as well but I can’t see beyond next season for the reign of Sir Alex Ferguson to end.
We’ve been spoilt with Fergie & this will be shown when he finally leaves. Those of us old enough to remember life in the 70s & 80s under the Doc, Sexton & Atko remember how painful it was watching the Scousers win the league every year. It is pointless trying to come up with names to replace Ferguson as he is irreplaceable. The problem is that he is the only thing holding the club together since the inbred yank cunts mortgaged the club. Once Fergie goes the whole thing collapses into a big black hole of debt. Lets savour every minute of the time we have with the great man.
That’s right. I want Fergie forever in MU.
But that is ilusion, so Jose is reallity
“Once Fergie goes the whole thing collapses into a big black hole of debt.”
You must be joking ! The value of the club and its history – recent and legendary, the stadium, and the “brand recognition” make UTD an incredibly valuable “commodity”. Naysayers, who want to continue blaming the Glazers for making Martin Edwards and the Irish horsemen rich, rich, rich, don’t seem to realize that it’s a “commodity” with maybe two peers in world sport – the New York Yankees and Real Madrid. When/IF the Glazers sell their ownership, there will be a very long queue of bidders who will pay them huge profits for this “commodity” – with or without SAF. But, obviously, the “commodity” would be worth more with continuity – and winning management – which is why Jose Mourinho remains in the frame (no matter what you, I, or my dead dog think about him !) Also, new forms of revenue will be generated in the future from broadband or some other form of computer-vision which might make the income derived from satellite-television seem puny. And, what would UTD’s income look like IF the long-mooted EuroSuperLeague became a reality ? The Glazers’ profit will dwarf that pocketed by the previous ownership-group.