I'm sorry, but at this point it's a ridiculous opinion to have. What some of our fans have shown us is that they actually don't know just how good Fergie was. It's insulting to act like any manager, even one conceding 20 shots a game without creating chances, can simply become great if given time. Like anyone can just be Fergie. Same reason Ole and Moyes got the job. Like the media, I don't think people understand just how great Fergie was tactically. This notion that his squad management and people skills were the factors that made him so great has come at the detriment of the club.
Fergie used a system that worked for the league and was so tactically smart that he could create and modify systems based on the personnel available to him. Getting the team to spray passes all over the pitch, maintaining a high intensity, getting numbers into the box, assuring outstanding wing play, having terrific counter attacks and links on the flanks, and ensuring that crosses had little impact on our goal. Fergie was regularly able to communicate these ideas to our squads, and his teams were effective in employing that on the pitch due to how he communicated to them and trained them. However, because he is Scottish and did not go into conferences discussing tactics, many people believe he was simply ordinary tactically. That's why people can think Ole could have grown into the role of manager or that Ten Haag can turn it around. Liverpool had the same exact thinking with their boot room philosophy, and eventually that led to their fall. So its no surprise we're here. The English media had a lot to do with that line of thinking with their overpraise for managers like Wenger and Mourinho bringing in differing tactics. We all watched our teams under Fergie, but many of us still don't seem to understand what excellent football looks like, and the managers we've hired have never come close to making our team truly competitive.