Was selling Jaap Stam Fergie's biggest mistake?

[Irwin99]

Silvestre was fine as a left back and only performed well in central defense when Rio or Stam were mopping up his deficiencies.

For me, he was a player that for everything he did well (which was a lot to be fair-he had a lot of good attributes) there was a number of horrendous errors that followed. I never felt the team was safe with him around. I wish that treble team had been reinforced sooner, and with elite players, not squad level types.

 

[Thelongsleevesofblomqvist]

Yeah. Well maybe promoting CR7’s comeback should be fourth.

Might have a bigger impact on the general development of the club, I thought.

 

[lex talionis]

Appointing Moyes was by galaxies Fergie’s most catastrophic decision, a decision which nowhere near recovering from almost a decade later, but dispatching Stam is a distant second.

 

[Pughnichi]

Generally brilliant to adapt as the game moved on. His reluctance however to start paying agent fees when he personally felt they were getting out of control felt like a personal crusade…and one he labelled as no value in the market. He stopped chasing quality focusing instead on either lesser players and/or players with potential. It was a marked shift from signing the likes of Hazard, Aguero, Silva and instead ending up with Young, Valencia, Owen, Jones, Smalling.