Up until this day, this is probably the one thing I struggle to ‘forgive’ the great Sir Alex for. I know there were a few highlights - goal against City, League Cup final, hat-trick in Wolfsburg etc - but on the whole, it wasn’t a spectacular contribution.
Everytime I see him he seems a proper prick, who has little time for United. He’s a scouser, and a somewhat iconic one at that. Yet Sir Alex saw it fit to give this rag the opportunity to win his one major club medal in his career by bagging a PL title with us. It would have been one thing if we had signed an Owen or Gerrard in their prime, who despite being Scousers, were world class players so we bit the bullet and won great things together. But Owen was finished, and should, like Gerrard, be ending his career without a PL title by rights. It’d be like us finally getting Aguero his missing CL title by bringing him in as cover at 35 and winning it, for him to then retire as a CL winning City legend. Or us doing an emergency short term deal for a 38 year old Gerrard to cover and him getting a PL medal out of it.
It doesn’t sit well with me, and I feel like he’s done a number on us that he should have never been given the opportunity to do.
Everytime I see him he seems a proper prick, who has little time for United. He’s a scouser, and a somewhat iconic one at that. Yet Sir Alex saw it fit to give this rag the opportunity to win his one major club medal in his career by bagging a PL title with us. It would have been one thing if we had signed an Owen or Gerrard in their prime, who despite being Scousers, were world class players so we bit the bullet and won great things together. But Owen was finished, and should, like Gerrard, be ending his career without a PL title by rights. It’d be like us finally getting Aguero his missing CL title by bringing him in as cover at 35 and winning it, for him to then retire as a CL winning City legend. Or us doing an emergency short term deal for a 38 year old Gerrard to cover and him getting a PL medal out of it.
It doesn’t sit well with me, and I feel like he’s done a number on us that he should have never been given the opportunity to do.