Sir Alex Ferguson. The greatest ever football manager alive. He is one of the reasons why Manchester united became one of the best club in the world perhaps a household name in every football loving nations. He nurtured the 'class of 92' The academy graduates who went on to became legends like David beckham, Ryan giggs, Paul scholes & Gary Neville often called ' Fergie's Fledglings'. Under sir alex ferguson manchester united became one of the feared and most famous clubs in the world. 3 times world player Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Nemanja vidic, Patrice evra all developed into world class players under his guidance and coaching. he is considered as a master mind and genius manager. He had this knack of finding young talented footballers who had the potential to make it big
But somewhere around he was losing this knack as he often made big blunders in the transfer market especially during the end of his coaching career. He made a number of signings like bebe, zaha, obertan, tosic who couldn't even make the first team. It can be forgiven given the fact that not much was needed to buy them. Some youngsters don't develop fully according to their potential.
Sir Alex Ferguson has let go 3 huge players to leave manchester united which left a irrepairable damage on the squad.
1. Cristiano Ronaldo
Coming from sporting lisbon as raw 18 year old Cristiano ronaldo showed glimpses of his talent. |He was more of a dribbler than a good footballer. His first season was all about running past the defenders and show boating but lacked finishing infront of the goal. But under manutd coaching staff he developed into a world class footballer and even won the world footballer award in 2008. but he left manchester united for real madrid for a 80 million pounds which was a far lesser fee than he could have fetched he was worth atleast 120 million pounds at that time. Now see what he has done. He has become a goal machine at real madrid winning the world footballer award twice and scoring 364 goals in 348 games which is insane. It was one of the blunders of the century that too coming from a manager like sir alex ferguson.
2. Carlos Tevez
Carlos tevez first signed for manutd in 2007 on loan he quickly formed a formidable partnership with wayne rooney terrorising opposition defences. Just when he was becoming a fan favourite at old trafford during his second year sir alex ferguson got interested in signing dimitar berbatov from tottenham hotspurs. Sir alex was more inclined towards signing berbatov than signing carlos tevez permanantly. Tevez could have been signed permanantly for 25 mn pounds but sir alex opted to buy berbatov and tevez was ignored. Berbatov became a permanant team member sidelining tevez to the bench who was clearly more talented than berbatov in terms of scoring goals. In 2009 carlos tevez opted to join manchester city instead of manutd. He went on to score 73 goals in 148 games which is very good compared to what berbatov scored for united in his 4 years at united. Manutd sorely missed him just because of a mistake from fergie.
3. Paul Pogba
This is the ultimate. Paul pogba joined manutd as a kid in 2009 and was thriving at the under 21 level and had all the qualities to be future star. But in 2011 when the manutd midfield was depleted with injuries fergie decided to recall the retired paul scholes to the team rather than giving the emerging paul pogba a chance in the first team. He was begging for playing time and was often treated shabbily by the manutd manager. Resultantly pogba left manutd as a free agent to juventus. Since then he has won 4 serie a title with juventus under 21 world cup with france and has become one of the top 5 footballers in the world. Now on 2016 the new manager Jose mourinho has signed pogba for a world record fee 92 mn pounds. some one fergie sold for a meagre 1.5 mn pound in 2011. this is the ultimate mistake from fergie making manutd look like a joker's club. juventus made a profit of 61 mn pounds in this deal.
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