Carrick was 32 when Fergie left, of course he needed replacing, same as Matic does now (same age as Carrick was at that point) Anyway Im glad you agree with me that the core of the squad was on its last legs. As for Welbeck, Kagawa, Clevery, Nani....what the feck you smoking man? If you think those guys are going to make up the core of a title winning squad, good for you. Fergie was right about Rooney in fairness but as another example of Moyes's mess, he gave him a 5 year contract.You certainly don't know. Unless you've sat down with Magners and Mcmanus, you cannot tell me that a disagreement over a horse made them sell the club at that specific time. Their plan was very very clearly always to sell. It's conjecture, plain and simple.
Yeah I mentioned Moyes, we've done that. Like I said though, Moyes was gone after a year and it's been seven years since he left .................
Carrick needed replacing?He literally played for five more years after Sir Alex left. Van Persie literally came in the year before Fergie left and was 30 years old.
Just so I'm clear what you're advocating is that before a manager leaves a club he should sign loads of players to make sure that anyone over the age of 29 is covered long term? That sounds like an awesome plan. Or maybe what you meant was that Fergie should have made sure when he left that nobody at the club over 29? So basically when you're a manager at a club make sure when you're there none of your players are over 29. Sound reasoning.
And I'm guessing none of the following players count at the time - Nani, Welbeck, Kagawa, Rooney, Hernandez, Valencia, Evans, Cleverley, De Gea, Rafael, Smalling, Young. These guys were not important presumably?
The year is 2021, We've literally spent record amounts since Fergie left and we still haven't reached the pinnacle of domestic or European football. Yet somehow Fergie has significant responsibility for this because he
a) told United to hire Moyes in 2013,
b) argued over a horse in 2003
c) and was friendly with the Glazers between 2005 and 2013
Thanks for enlightening me. I apologise to Ed Woodward.
Christ the irony here. His departure would have 0% effect because he was fecking shite when he was here, making mistakes and goofs left right and centre. He was being paid millions to be shite. Hence him leaving would make no difference because he was so shite.
As I originally said, the mess we are currently in ain't just down to Woodward. Going by your logic, if Fergie had appointed Klopp or Pep (as he apparently attempted to do) we would still be a mess now because Woodward was in charge. Had we hired one of those guys we would have 3 or 4 more league titles by now, you know it, I know it and it wouldnt have mattered a feck if Woodward or Borris Johnson was in charge.