Fergie hits out at Man Utd fans over Glazers

[Epic Swindle]

Sir Alex Ferguson says he is happy with Manchester United's younsters and does not need to make big-money signings. Sir Alex Ferguson has responded to mounting criticism of the Glazer family with a staunch defence of Manchester United's owners and a rebuke for supporters opposed to their debt-laden regime.

 

The United manager's spending amid a debt level of £716.5m for the year ending 30 June 2009 has attracted fierce protests from fans, evidenced by the popularity of the Green and Gold campaign last season. Ferguson has spent £19m on Chris Smalling and Javier Hernández so far this summer, a sum made to look modest by Manchester City's latest transfer spree, but the Scot insists he will not compete with the prices paid by his local rivals and that United's current crop of young talent safeguard the club's future.

 

Ferguson has consistently supported the Glazers since their controversial takeover in 2005 but these comments are pointed at a time of unrest among fans over the club's ownership and ability to attract top talent to Old Trafford. The United manager, who also reiterated that he has no immediate plans to retire, said: "The debt has come through the club being bought out by an owner. You know very well that no matter which business is bought nowadays, it's usually bought with debt. Because it's a football club it seems to attract a different type of negative reporting via the media or particularly some of our fans.

 

"When Manchester United Football Club went plc without doubt it was always going to be bought. Somebody was going to buy it. It was inevitable. It's unfair that because a particular family like the Glazers have bought it, they should come under criticism when anybody could have bought it.

 

"I have to say they've done their job well. They support myself, the manager, they've supported the players. I've never been refused when I've asked for money for a player, so what can I do other than carry on the way we're doing it, and the way I'm allowed to carry on? I've no complaints."

 

The Glazers have also borrowed $570m against shopping malls they own and $95m against their American football team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Forbes magazine, however, last week valued United at $1.84bn (£1.18bn), making it the most valuable sporting club in the world, although even those sums will not tempt Ferguson to match City's spending power, he insists. "The enormous amounts of money they [players] are paid, not just for the transfer fees but for their salaries, I don't think it rests easy with supporters," he added. "We're in such a competitive world now that you're hamstrung in relation to the borders people will stretch to get the best players.

 

"Over the years we've bought players for quite high amounts like Berbatov, Ferdinand, Verón and Rooney. We try to equate how we're going to get proper value before we do it. We take a quite good view of it now and say: 'Let's look at our own young players. Have they got the ability? How much can we trust them? Do we see a top player in that young player?'

 

"When I see some of the values now, and you're talking about players at £40m or £30m-odd, we have to assess our own players first. And we're not bad, you know. There are some good young players who have come through the system. They understand the club, they're loyal to the club, and we can build through that."

 

The 68-year-old again discounted any thoughts of retirement, presenting his health, "good natural energy" and the pressure of "every day of every year we have the challenge of being at the top" as reasons to continue. Ferguson is adamant that when the time does come to leave the squad he has at his disposal now will ensure his legacy is secure.

 

"What you have to do is maintain the success of the club and make sure that, no matter when I quit, the club is always in good hands," he said. "I come back to the point of having young players, that there's no need for a complete overhaul of the playing squad. The squad I've got at the moment, I've got probably 12 players all under 21 which is a fantastic average age and the future should be pretty secure with them.

 

"If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is. I tried that a few years ago and it was an absolute disaster. Agony. My wife made me change my mind and she was dead right. I think she was soon fed up with me in the house. Now when the times comes I think the club should be okayOK."

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/28/sir-alex-ferguson-glazers-manchester-united

 

 

 

[Bigal]

Fergie????

 

f*** off lad.

[Epic Swindle]

Apologies. Red nosed, hard shoulder s***ting, socialist sell out wouldn't fit on.

Edited July 29, 2010 by Hansen

[Des]

Apologies. Red nosed, hard shoulder s***ting, socialist sell out wouldn't fit on.

 

Ferguson would have fitted well though. Bit familiar aren't we?

[Barnesy_10]

haha even his wife hates him

[Epic Swindle]

haha even his wife hates him

 

I doubt he's popular with the MUST lads either. He's bascially just alieniated the hardcore element of their support to defend people who are bleeding them dry.

[budgie]

I doubt he's popular with the MUST lads either. He's bascially just alieniated the hardcore element of their support to defend people who are bleeding them dry.

 

 

Why do you give a s***?

[Bigal]

Why do you give a s***?

 

The MUST Lads???

 

what the f***?

[Maldini]

If our manager came out with s**** like that I'd be going spare.

[Hodgson for Chelsea]

I agree with the comments re the price of players these days - it's insane - summed up by James Milner -30m? 30m JPY at a stretch!

 

Surely 'Fergie' or Ginsoak as we should be calling him (NB. Hansen) realises that buying with debt is one thing, placing hundreds of millions of pounds of debt on a club and preventing it from competing financially is quite another.

 

I haven't seen any young players since Fletcher who really struck me as having real potential. If they don't invest they will continue to decline.

[Ramón Benítez Hernández]

Is Hansen mr. purslow?

[_00_deathscar]

I agree with the comments re the price of players these days - it's insane - summed up by James Milner -30m? 30m JPY at a stretch!

 

Surely 'Fergie' or Ginsoak as we should be calling him (NB. Hansen) realises that buying with debt is one thing, placing hundreds of millions of pounds of debt on a club and preventing it from competing financially is quite another.

 

I haven't seen any young players since Fletcher who really struck me as having real potential. If they don't invest they will continue to decline.

 

Gibson? Fabio?

[AE]

Is Hansen mr. purslow?

 

Mr Gill apparently

[Cam]

Anderson was pulled out of a car wreck this evening moments before it exploded.

[Sir Tokyo Sexwale]

The Manchester United midfielder Anderson was dragged unconscious from the burning wreckage of his car after a crash yesterday morning that is now the centre of a police investigation in Portugal.

 

Anderson, signed for £18m three years ago, spent several hours in hospital after the accident on a rural road in the Geres area of Braga, with witnesses reporting he owed his life to being pulled "lifeless" from the vehicle shortly before it exploded.

 

According to local reports, the 22-year-old Anderson, increasingly becoming renowned for his partying lifestyle, had spent the night at the Sardinha Biba nightclub before leaving in a £125,000 Audi R8. The crash occurred at 7am when the high-powered car came off the road and hit the wall of a farm before flying into a field.

 

Although the French-registered car was a two-seater, Anderson had two companions – a friend, whose name was given only as Victor, and a young Brazilian woman, whose details have not been released. It is unclear who was driving but there were unconfirmed allegations it could lead to a drink-driving charge and a possible offence of allegedly having excess passengers. Manchester United were unavailable for comment tonight.

 

All three were taken to St Mark's hospital but discharged by late morning after being treated for concussion, whiplash and shock. "They had only minor injuries," a hospital spokesman, Roman Fresco, said. The woman is understood to have needed the most treatment.

 

The Portuguese press quoted the Gestifute agency, which represents Anderson, as saying the former Porto player had suffered an "almighty scare" but would be returning to Manchester to continue his rehabilitation. Anderson ruptured the cruciate ligament in his left knee in February, an injury that ended hopes of him participating in the World Cup, and he is not expected to be fit until next month at the earliest.

 

Whether Sir Alex Ferguson knows about the Brazilian's accident is unclear, but the United manager will inevitably be concerned that, at the very least, one of his players had spent the entire night at a nightclub, particularly when Anderson is recovering from a serious knee injury.

 

Ferguson's relationship with the player, signed from Porto in 2007, became strained last season and Anderson was reputedly fined two weeks' wages in January for returning to Brazil without the club's permission after an argument with the manager. Anderson, who has scored only once during his time at Old Trafford, had been singled out for criticism and dropped from the next match, following United's 2-1 defeat in the first leg of the Carling Cup semi-final against Manchester City. He was subsequently omitted for a month and it was in his comeback match, against West Ham United, that he damaged his knee.

 

indeed

 

and I like this pic

 

[ManxRed]

and I like this pic

 

 

The trainer looks like he's about to stoop down and kiss it better.

 

Bless.

[smithdown]

The Red Knights are f*cked with this Keith Harris nutter

[aka Dus]

The Red Knights are f*cked with this Keith Harris nutter

 

Amen. Say what you like about Rogan but at least he never went that far....

 

And Carrick missing the start of the season. Crock. Of s****.

[Jiggy Hates Jazz]

The Red Knights are f*cked with this Keith Harris nutter

 

Not that I'm defending him or what he has said (because it obviously agenda driven and full of s****) but Harris is very well regarded, both in football and the city, in terms of pulling off football takeovers. He has been involved with Abramovich to Chelsea, Lerner to Villa, Shinawatra to Manchester City and takeover of West Ham by Magnusson.

[ManxRed]

Although his green duck is a fecking liability (and it can't fly).

[aka Dus]

He really is choice. Who was Scotland's manager in Mexico 86, remind me?

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/7930947/World-Cup-was-a-poor-tournament-says-Sir-Alex-Ferguson.html

 

Alex Ferguson

Sir Alex Ferguson has delivered a scathing assessment of the World Cup, suggesting it was a poor tournament which failed to live up to expectations because a number of players who were expected to set South Africa alight disappointed.

 

By Rory Smith

Published: 11:00PM BST 06 Aug 2010

 

Unimpressed: Sir Alex Ferguson feels there has not been a decent World Cup since Mexico 86 Photo: ACTION IMAGES

“A lot of teams were disappointing at the World Cup,” the Manchester United manager said. “There is only one team that took credit, and that was Spain.

"They kept a reasonable momentum and playing style throughout the tournament, but the rest were spasmodic in their form and so were some of their best players.

 

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“That just went towards what was a poor tournament. There could be a lot of reasons for that and expectation does come into it.

"Everyone was looking forward to the World Cup as though it was [going to be] the greatest thing ever. But you have to go back to Mexico in 1986 for the last good World Cup.”

Ferguson is certain, though, that the impact of the World Cup, regardless of its quality, will resonate into the start of the Premier League season.

United will face Chelsea in the Community Shield on Sunday missing a number of players, including Michael Carrick, who is absent for two weeks with an ankle injury, and Patrice Evra, who has been given an extra week off after averaging 55 games a season over the past five years.

Wayne Rooney and Nemanja Vidic have yet to reach full fitness after being granted an extended rest.

“There is no point pushing players out too early,” Ferguson said. “The World Cup is the pinnacle of a lot of players’ careers, and the intensity and profile of it means it does take a lot out of them. We have to give them a proper rest.

“They may not be 100 per cent ready to play in these games and you are playing with a risk if you want to play them. I do not think we will get the benefit of these players until maybe the third week of the season.

“It could be a league with a lot of danger. Last season the monopoly of what they called the ‘Big Four’ was squashed for the first time, with Tottenham coming into it.

“They will make progress again this season, while Manchester City have bought again and so you have to put them into the equation. I also think Everton, who had a lot of injury problems in the first half of last season, could come into it.

“But I do think that you have to look at the team that won it last time as the one you have to look at [as favourites]. Chelsea have the experience and you cannot dismiss them.”

[smithdown]

He's right though.

 

Hansen-less Scotland were at their comical best in that tournament, mind.

 

and their kit was silly

Edited August 7, 2010 by smithdown

[Cobs]

He's right though.

 

Hansen-less Scotland were at their comical best in that tournament, mind.

 

and their kit was silly

 

the dark blue hoop on their shorts? aye, terrible.

 

Man U's new kit is feckin awful too - do they get designed in some Blue Peter competition or something? Utter s****.

[Bailo]

How come Hernandez gets to pick whatever name he wants on his back as well? I thought he was a massive c*** in just signing for them, but he already seems to be excelling in their c*** stakes with his stupid name on his back.

[Hassony]

How come Hernandez gets to pick whatever name he wants on his back as well? I thought he was a massive c*** in just signing for them, but he already seems to be excelling in their c*** stakes with his stupid name on his back.

 

jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink wasn't allowed to have Jimmy on the back when he signed for Leeds I seem to remember