If youâve been awake today then you will almost certainly have heard the odd(!) mention that Alex Fergusonâs autobiography has been launched. Naturally, most of the coverage has surrounded his relationships with Wayne Rooney, Roy Keane, Davdid Beckham and similar, however the sour faced retired Manc has also given us a bit of a laugh at our local friends down the road; âI had good relationships with most other clubs but none more so than with Sunderland. At least until the last five years of my career. Weâd give them good deals on our fringe players or ageing players, and in return theyâd take some of our youngsters on loan give them Premier League experience. Unfortunately they got greedy in asking for Scholesy when he still had a couple of years left in him. I was never going to agree to that, but they didnât take the hint and came back in every transfer window, mainly because their fans âwantedâ him. Theyâre an odd lot let me tell you; ideas above their station yet supporting a team who are nothing more than a hindrance even when at their best under Peter Reid. In the end I pacified them by offloading Brown and OâShea â both good servants but past their sell by date in my mind. Both injury prone and liable to make mistakes. Still, they were good enough to do a job in a poor team.â Inadvertently Fergie lays bare the shoddy nature of the loan market, different clubs doing favours for certain others, none more so than what Manchester United have done over the years for Preston and Peterborough when managed by Fergusonâs son Darren. It sums it up when Preston sacked Darren Ferguson and the Old Trafford club instantly recalled players that had gone to Preston on loan.
In the end I pacified them by offloading Brown and O’Shea – both good servants but past their sell by date in my mind. Both injury prone and liable to make mistakes. Still, they were good enough to do a job in a poor team.’ This bit was interesting mate seems some of us were dead on when assessing these two great signings, as for the poor team part no they weren't Fergie. Guessing he won't sell many copies in Sunderland then, probably not in Newcastle either but, for a different reason probably not many pictures in it.
i shall be reading it. I shan't be paying for it. The blokes an out and out twat, but it doesn't stop me admiring the ****. Puts the tin hat on Bruce's special relationship with him. Bruce was just another tool that he had used and thrown away when blunt.
Lets buy a copy and burn it...............you will be ableto get it on Amazon for £1.99 soon enough. Typical bitter and twisted scot with sign of dementia creeping in, his words do nothing but diminish his reputation in the game
Which f***ing idiot knighted him...they should both get suspended sentences,him and Fergie...hang 'em both!!
What a ****ing dickhead. And comment in bold is the biggest load of bullshite I've ever read. I've never ever seen any engenda from fans to get Scholes in. Think we all know he was out of our league when he retired? Frank Lampard in January please! The club has never consulted the fans on transfer targets and as for being greedy? We have the right to make an other for any player on the planet if so choose. Greed? I'm pleasantly surprised we've shown such ambition.
Doubtless he will also mention Welbeck and Evans who we developed nicely for him. I guess once we had done that we were of no more use than Keane, Stam, VanNisteelrooy etc. Confirms his narrow minded approach to football, would have been lost outside ManUs wealth zone.
Yeah, the bold bit is completely made-up bullshit. And as for "our relationship soured because they wanted to buy a player I, Lord of Football Alex Ferguson, deemed to be too good for them" (I've paraphrased but that's essentially what it says), just pure wtf.
He did. He took the favours and off loaded the dross. I hope our `sell by dates` read what he says about them. Might fire the buggers up a bit.
