Always found this thread interesting. Seems to be created every season but it hasn’t so far. Provided Pogba, Cavani etc are all fit of course. Essentially, his first choice XI. I’ll go:
Henderson
AWB Jones Bailly Shaw
Matic
Bruno Pogba
Greenwood Cavani Rashford
In goal, Dean would have displaced a declining DDG by this point, with Fergie labelling him the future best goalkeeper in the world and our number 1 for the next 15 years.
At the back, the first name people will talk about is Jones. Well, Fergie rated him very highly (we can tell simply from THAT interview) and if he was still here, you can guarantee that injuries aside, he’d have been possibly Varane level and our main CB for the past decade. With AWB, I’m sure Fergie would make him the next Gary Neville. Rest is fairly self-explanatory.
In the middle, Matic would play the role of Carrick as the sitting midfielder, who while not very mobile, can dictate the game from deep and break up opposition attacks. Bruno would plain and simply be his next Cristiano/RvP and with Pogba, he never disliked him, simply his agent. He’d play, and he’d back Bruno up majestically in the creative stakes, with Fergie seamlessly getting both to track back tirelessly (Pogba can do it, he was very hardworking at Juve under Allegri and France under Deschamps, 2 strict disciplinarians).
Finally, upfront. Rashford and Greenwood would play and become the next Giggs and Beckham, with their goal tallies in the 20s every season. They would absolutely explode under Fergie in the best possible manner, to the point where we’d be talking about them in the same sentences as Mbappe now. Cavani is fairly self-explanatory as well. Martial would never start over him under Fergie because unlike Pogba, he’s always had a laidback, lazy attitude, and not the quality of players like Berbatov.
So, where would we finish in the league? First, of course. It’s Fergie. Once we get to the top around January, the relentlessness and winning mentality would kick in, we’d match this City team all the way and pip them to the title. It’s the greatest manager of all time after all.
Henderson
AWB Jones Bailly Shaw
Matic
Bruno Pogba
Greenwood Cavani Rashford
In goal, Dean would have displaced a declining DDG by this point, with Fergie labelling him the future best goalkeeper in the world and our number 1 for the next 15 years.
At the back, the first name people will talk about is Jones. Well, Fergie rated him very highly (we can tell simply from THAT interview) and if he was still here, you can guarantee that injuries aside, he’d have been possibly Varane level and our main CB for the past decade. With AWB, I’m sure Fergie would make him the next Gary Neville. Rest is fairly self-explanatory.
In the middle, Matic would play the role of Carrick as the sitting midfielder, who while not very mobile, can dictate the game from deep and break up opposition attacks. Bruno would plain and simply be his next Cristiano/RvP and with Pogba, he never disliked him, simply his agent. He’d play, and he’d back Bruno up majestically in the creative stakes, with Fergie seamlessly getting both to track back tirelessly (Pogba can do it, he was very hardworking at Juve under Allegri and France under Deschamps, 2 strict disciplinarians).
Finally, upfront. Rashford and Greenwood would play and become the next Giggs and Beckham, with their goal tallies in the 20s every season. They would absolutely explode under Fergie in the best possible manner, to the point where we’d be talking about them in the same sentences as Mbappe now. Cavani is fairly self-explanatory as well. Martial would never start over him under Fergie because unlike Pogba, he’s always had a laidback, lazy attitude, and not the quality of players like Berbatov.
So, where would we finish in the league? First, of course. It’s Fergie. Once we get to the top around January, the relentlessness and winning mentality would kick in, we’d match this City team all the way and pip them to the title. It’s the greatest manager of all time after all.
