Will Fergie's declaration Phil Jones will be the best player in the club's history come true?

[kr1s74]

That is not true. He made it after we won the title vs Villa.

Correct. April 2013

Utd 3 Villa 0 wins us the title with 4 games to spare, RVP hat-trick

http://en.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/203772.html

 

[Decomposing In Paris]

Sir Alex believed in people, and made them believe in themselves. There's no quote out there that he thought someone was rubbish, but they went on to greatness... it's always the belief in potential.

 

[Stacks]

Remember him playing at RB and charging up the field. He was unstoppable. Then he'd the lob the ball over everyone's heads for a goalkick.

Yeah. You see this with young players sometimes esp defenders. Luke Shaw is another one and looked like he could be one of the best FB in Europe as a young player because they were fearless and energetic, bursting forward with reckless abandon

 

[NinjaZombie]

Remember when Fergie let Pique go because we had Jonny Evans.

Even the greats make mistakes...

I don't personally think that was a mistake though. Evans and Pique were of similar stature and promise when the latter was let go. Evans was probably a bit more developed even.

Evans was very good player for us under Fergie and it was understandable that of two similar prospects, the Northern Irish player who'd come through the United academy from the start would've been preferred to the Catalonian former Barcelona youth player who would have likely hankered for a move back to Spain by the time he'd reached his potential.

 

[::sonny::]

At Blackburn he was a better player

 

[Beans]

It could still happen, if a meteor his earth and Phil is one of the few survivors. You know, as long as none of the other survivors played football.

 

[Swivel Hips]

Over the years there have been numerous players that have been declared has having “great potential”. I remember in particular, as we are talking centre backs, John Curtis, who was being looked at as a future England captain.
Also it doesn’t seem that long ago that Jack Wilshere and Tom Cleverley were being championed by UK press as the future of England’s central midfield.