Sir Alex was a superb manager and our best ever manager but his man management skills weren’t exactly incredible and you could compare them to Ole. SAF was well known for falling out with his best players and then selling them on. The only one from memory I can see getting a free ride was Ronaldo.
Becks - Sold
Stam - Sold
Keane - Sold
Ruud - Sold (though a little different, Ruud was the only loser in the Ronaldo/Ruud falling out, which was. Unquestionably he was going to lose that “battle” it created an environment and an untenable situation)
I believe there is predictably a lot of overreacting from Ole out crowd as usual. But making stuff up to prove a point is not going to help. The progress is there and Ole will be here next season at least and beyond that as well unless he has a Mourinho like last (half) season.
He is not going anywhere just because some folk on redcafe think they know better.
They also somehow believe - despite all the evidence since Fergie left - that we have Bayern’s or City’s board who know all about football, transfers, etc.
But that does not mean that Ole hasn’t made mistakes and even less that he is comparable to Fergie.
There have emerged a lot of strange myths since he retired. The biggest how he mostly won all with man management skills while his amazing assistants (who were so amazing that they won so many invisible trophies before and after they worked with Fergie) did everything else.
Another myth is what you just mentioned. If in his 26 years at United he sold everyone he fell out with we would have had hardly any players left to play for us.
His decision making on and off the pitch (making the right decision at the right time) is something Ole has to learn a lot from, especially on the pitch.
Then, do you really believe Fergie only had a problem with Becks in 2003? Becks and his wife got together in 1996, the birth of his first child (one day after we played Inter in the CL in the treble season) as well as his wedding in the same year got the same media attention a Hollywood superstar or the Royals get. In 98 after his red card in the World Cup media and moronic rival England fans were following him and United even on the training ground and him in his private life.
When he became England captain in 2000 the already intolerable and embarrassing hype around him increased even further.
But in all those years Fergie remained unaware of all that? And only in 2003 he decided enough was enough?
Nope! He only sold Becks because he was starting to decline. He tolerated the drama and media whoring all the time when Becks was a top top player. But he was not going to tolerate it when this was not the case anymore.
Same with Keane. His same interview in 2005/06 which allegedly led to his exit (when he was almost 34, picked up injuries, etc.) would have never led to his exit if he had still been in his prime.
Ruud you already explained yourself.
The only mistake - which Fergie admitted himself - was selling Stam.
Not sure I want Ole planning for next season on two hours sleep...!