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Who is the best manager in the world at the moment?
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You sort of contradicted yourself there. You said he turned United from nobody into one of the 3 most known teams and then go on to say that he has never experienced success with a low budget team. When Fergie took over, United were a pretty low budget team.INFESTA;2291301 said:SAF
FOR: Has the best career in football today. Got ManU from a team nobody wanted to play in to one of the 3 most renown teams in the world. Everybody from Australia to Nigeria, from Russia to Colombia know what Manchester United stands for and who is Alex Ferguson. He can nurture a young talent in his team like no other manager. This year's team is unstoppable. They're going all the way in the Premiership.
AGAINST: Hasn't experienced massive success in a low budget team. And I love it when ManU fans accuse Chelsea or Real Madrid of being 'rich'.
VERDICT: Is my n.1 pick, with Mourinho being the 1,5.
United were almost sold for just 10 million pounds 2 years before Ferguson won his first ever Premiership title. And like Ben added, Ferguson had amazing success with scottish teams. Winning the Cup Winners Cup once.
Help?;2292385 said:
Concerning his success in the Scottish league and in the Cup winners Cup, there's 2 comments I want to add:
1) Scottish football at that time was better than what it is now and there was life beyond the old firm.
2) Winning the Cup Winners' Cup - the least important UEFA club football cup - with Aberdeen in the 80's, before there was the Bosman Law, is very different than winning the Uefa Cup and CL back to back with Porto.
3) Other Cup Winners' Cup champs of that era include: Dinamo Tbilisi, Everton, Dinamo Kiev or... drum-roll... Y.R. K.V. Mechelen/FC Malines (exactly).
Concerning your observation, I fail to see how 'Got ManU from a team nobody wanted to play in' and 'Hasn't experienced massive success in a low budget team' contradict each other. Many times, financial success doesn't mean you're winning games on the field or that you're a n.1 destination for the top players in the world. What he did was turn a team that didn't win anything big in 20 years to a dinasty.
ManU was far from being an european low-budget team, especially by the time SAF started winning titles for them. What was going on behind the scenes financially-wise was a bit more complex than that, and for those interested I leave this link:http://www.football-research.org/gof2h/Gof2H-chap4.htm
Fergie had a brilliant run in the 90's, but not before the arrivals of Cantona, Irwin, Ince, Giggs, Keane, etc. Not taking anything away from him, as I said before that being consistently successful is always difficult, whether you're in a rich club or not.