tomaldinho1
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Can I beg you not to turn this into another Ole thread.The United Way
..and no other club does this with the amount of success we have done it.
We have only ever had two periods of success in our 140-years as a football club.
It just happens that those two period lasted nigh on 40 years between them.
Sir Matt's success was from 1950 - 1968
Sir Alex's success was from 1993-2013
Both dominant periods were built the same way; from the ground up.
Both managers put in place a long-term strategy that would see us not only competing in teh transfer market for top players, but moreso breathing our own...
Matt brought 6 players into the first team from the academy after the Munich Air disaster and totally rebuilt the club from the ground up... those six players would go on to win league and European titles.
Alex brought 6 players into the first team from the academy through the early 90s (most fans couldn't wait for this to come to fruition and wanted him sacked) and totally rebuilt the club from the ground up after we turned into a joke in the 70s & 80s... those six players would go on to win league and European titles.
Now Ole is trying to do the exact same after we lost our way post 2013.
But lots of 'fans' on here don't wanna know about it.
They want Allegri in and they want Manchester United to be the red version of Chelsea. Which is a joke. They are clearly supporting the wrong football club.
The Manchester United way is all about breathing from within... creating League and European Cup contenders with a bulk of the team built from our underage academy.... There are clubs such as Ajax who like to build their team from within, which is great - I LOVE AJAX and their 'way' has to be applauded, in fact IS applauded - but United are on their own in terms of producing for themselves, in that Ajax sell once the player becomes of age... United don't have to sell.. We produce and the players stay with us for the best of their career.
We all know this. Or we should all know this, what with us being United fans.
Which is why it is baffling that while Ole is trying to do the exact same thing, building from within, some United 'fans' would rather have Allegri or somesuch hotshot European manager.
They want our club to adopt the Chelsea way. Not the Manchester United way.
United way is a v interesting discussion on its own.