Alert: Sir Alex Ferguson, Greatest Manager EVER, to retire

Heres the Jon Snow interview.

 

Here is the mobi version of the autobiography.

http://www5.zippyshare.com/v/79411993/file.html

 

Got a copy of the book today. Very interesting read.

 

Of course.

 

He's got us celebrating a home win against Stoke. Either he's a genius or we're all retarded.

 

IMHO CQ did pretty well for Portugal; made them defensively compact and despite the absence of an inform Nani, got them through the group of death and kept Spain quiet as well.

Now doing well with Iran as well.

He is no managerial great but you know what you will get from him - a team which is well organized and compact and a team that can beat a superior one because of that.

 

Curious, what did Fergie have to say about Tevez and Berbatov in his bio?

 

He admitted to dicking Tevez around as well. Claiming that he had to see Tevez over the course of the season, while never really playing him enough, in favor of Berbatov. Also said Tevez was a poor trainer, and in general Argentine's are really difficult to work with, compared to Brazils especially.

He admitted he ********ed up buying Berbatov, then not selling him when it was painfully obvious that he didnt fit in. Every complaint we had about Berbatov he outlined in the book. But the main thing was he was too slow to track back, or even attack

 

On Tevez, he liked him early on but was a bad trainer and then later though of him as being more of an impact player to bring on. When it was time to get him, he thought the transfer fee was way too high.

Overall, I was disappointed in the book. I know he's trying to be a bit sensationalist to write stories about Beckham, Keane, & Rooney but I had hoped to get more perspective on tactics and more write ups on individual big games.

 

Agreed. As I go further and further into the book, it just seems like an old man trying to wash his hands clean of some of the past incidents. To be honest, the way it reads out as well is as if Im reading something from 1950. He starts talking about a topic, then randomly drifts off topic


Roy Keane's book, was better and made much more sense.

 

It's not really a good book. Oh well.

 

I though it was OK, but certainly not great. His previous book (Managing my life), on the other hand, was great. Much more insightful and coherent.

 

Any mention of Jose?

 

Just reading the excerpts from the press gave me this impression. I will likely never pick it up, but it is a sad thing that things come to this. Sensationalism sells.

Tevez is an impact player from the bench. Rooney is a talisman, leading the team by example. Seem apt? I know a lot of you hate Carlito's guts, but if nothing else, the guy is the type of player who can drag a team up when down, can by example lead on the pitch. We have paid more for lesser players. I doubt Fergie ever intended to make the sell permanent.

 

Which ones? He would've cost more around 30 mio on top of his loan fee.

 

Berbatov, for one.

Had Fergie given Tevez his faith, he would have easily been worth whatever we had to pay.

 

I don't know why you lot expected more than we got. He is senile after all.

 

Always loved Tevez, it hurt me a bit to see him do so well at City. However, I still respected him as a player.


Keane is one of my all-time favorite biographies, so that may be setting the bar a bit high.

 

Ibra's is awesome.

 

How many of the anecdotes does he end with the phrase "...of course I was very, very drunk"?

 

He has a full chapter for him. Other references too, and speaks glowingly of him mostly.

 

Something like that

"The drinks were flowing" or "so and so was pouring all our drinks".

But it basically read like that to me.