Cleverley fellaini fergie biography

Manchester United had gone 26 years without a league title when Sir Alex Ferguson won it in 1993. Three years later, the team was built around academy graduates that Fergie had made a point of introducing in to the squad and they were the cornerstone of the success in the years that followed.

Speaking to the club’s official site following his induction in to the Premier League Hall of Fame, Fergie has talked about how he wanted to follow in the footsteps of Sir Matt Busby in making young players the focus of the team.

I looked at the history of the club. How Sir Matt Busby built his team from young players and that’s what I believed in. I did it at St Mirren, I did it at Aberdeen and Manchester United were the perfect club for me to rebuild based mainly on young players. I understand why managers only concern themselves with the first team because in a results industry, you need to win to keep your job. I didn’t think that way. The youth team had not been flourishing and I realised there were just not enough scou

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Tom Cleverley: The Brand

Last summer, the one thing that provided any consolation to the fact Paul Scholes had retired was that we had young Tom Cleverley ready to make the step up to the first team. The lad has bags of talent and after loans at Leicester, Watford and Wigan, was prepared to make his mark in the Premier League with United.

Cleverley started the season really well, first coming off the bench in the Community Shield victory over City. 2-0 down at half-time, Cleverley started the second half and had a real impact. He provided the assist for what was probably our best goal of the whole season to draw United level.

Cleverley then started all the following league games, including the 8-2 victory over Arsenal and the 3-0 win against Spurs, before getting injured early on after a wreckless Kevin Davies challenge at the Reebok. We had started the season flying, finally having a player (along with the help of Anderson, it has to be said!) other than Paul Scholes who was bossing the midfield. We were gutted that he was injured and the manager clearly was too, which is why

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We would’ve signed the players that he had lined-up for the summer of Moyes - so Strootman, Thiago, Garay and of course Zaha that summer (though Thiago might not have happened if we gave Bayern the chance to get involved). Rooney would’ve left, but not sure who else would’ve gone out that summer.

Herrera and Shaw probably still come-in the same summer that they did under LVG as they were long-term club targets, despite all the “Moyes’ players” shite some came out with after they joined.

If Martial was a similar long-term target then maybe him as well, though I don’t see Sir Alex spending big money like we have under LVG and Jose, not on one player anyway - so no Di Maria and certainly no Pogba. Probably not Lukakau either as I don’t see him as a Fergie-type striker. Sanchez possibly, as the wage-restrains were off by the last couple of seasons with Rooney and RVP’s contracts.

RVP would’ve had a better season than he did under Moyes (who was after all still our top scorer that season IIRC) - primarily due to Sir Alex knowing how to train him to keep his injury problems down -