Manchester United. His image looms large over the aforementioned club. His name, Alexander Chapman Ferguson, a Scott, a Knight of England and had the title CBE. He managed Manchester United from 1986–2013, with 13 EPL titles in his time as the club's coach with one Champions league crown, he's the most successful coach in the club's history.
Now this happened this week:
Well, he has been in this role since after his retirement in 2013 as the Glazer family made ‘a multi-million pound annual commitment’ to the legendary manager.
The issue of being banned from the dressing room, has conflicting reports. United says there is no ban but a "collective understanding" of who goes in. Still seems pretty dodgy to me though. Especially as you are not directly telling us that the legendary coach still has as much access as before.
For me, I think sir Ferguson doesn't need all this.
I recall the Cristiano Ronaldo second coming saga is traceable to him. It was more or less a done deal that Ronaldo was going to Manchester City, suddenly from no where the situation changed– Sir Alex contacted Ronaldo and Ronaldo for whatever reason abandoned the City deal.
Ofcourse Solksjaer was not quite ready for this sudden acquisition. He had a closely knit competitive team that were, that were on the ascendancy and they were getting ready to fire in the new season— Sancho, Greenwood, Rashford, Pogba,Fernandes and co.
Suddenly, from no where Cristiano was brought in. Even the players knew that the coach didn't initiate this move. It ended up being a divided dressing room. We kept hearing stories about frictioin between players week in, week out. On the pitch you could see the Cristiano wasn't well respected by some of his teammates. As usual he scored lots of goals, it's like the more he scored, the more the dressing room became more toxic and results began to dwindle.
The whole debacle cost Solksjaer his job, then later on Cristiano Ronaldo was embroiled in a tussle with the coach(Erik Ten Hag) and club management that made him surprisingly expose hidden secrets of how the club was being mismanaged. After this act of his, the club asked him to leave. It was such a shameful episode for a player who made his name at United before going to Madrid to conquer Europe.
Today I do not find it amusing that Ronaldo plays outside Europe, when he still has the quality to play in the best leagues in the world. He too, must be shocked that, that is the only place that welcomed him after he publicly made an interview with Piers Morgan that he won't play in place like Saudi Arabia.
Infact I must congratulate Cristiano's mental toughness,if not this issue of Ferguson dragging him back to United(and all that happened) should have landed Cristiano into depression.
My point is, I think it's time for Ferguson to give the team some safe gap. He can always be consulted as the need arises. That should give him some more honour.
Cheers
