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If Alex Ferguson was to announce he was returning..

  • 22-05-2016 7:39pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    ...to football management, would Man U fans want him back?

    How about fans of other clubs? Would you want him in charge? He can manage Cork City FC any time.

    And if not, why not? Too old, they should never go back, Mourinho or others are a better option, the game has changed, he was fading anyway or any other reason?


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  • #2
    Polo_Mint
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,504 ✭✭✭Polo_Mint


    But he wont.


  • #3
    Washington Irving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,066 ✭✭✭Washington Irving


    If the ghost of Eric Cantona came back and karate kicked Alan Pardew would the FA ban him?


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    He'll be 75 this year. Too old id say for his own health


  • #5
    Lord TSC
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 42,606 Mod ✭✭✭✭Lord TSC


    Same chance of me nailing a date with Scarlet Johannson.


  • #6
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Washington Irving wrote: »
    If the ghost of Eric Cantona came back and karate kicked Alan Pardew would the FA ban him?

    After that dance Pardew did yesterday, they would give Cantona a medal.


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  • #7
    gandalf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,458 ✭✭✭✭gandalf


    Lord TSC wrote: »
    Same chance of me nailing a date with Scarlet Johannson.

    so-youre-telling-me-theres-a-chance-dumb-and-dumber-lloyd-christmas-meme-600x324.jpg


  • #8
    Korat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,406 ✭✭✭Korat


    I don't know, he left his last club in a terrible state and he's always stirring up controversy. You'd worry he'd tarnish the club's reputation and he may have won a few trophies way back but how much of that was his work and not just due to all the money he had to spend?

    Take a pass on him. :)


  • #9
    liam7831
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭liam7831


    Ya and if my Aunt had balls shed be my uncle


  • #10
    StringerBell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,216 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    He is looking great since he retired, it suits him, the commitment to United he had was taking a toll on him physically as well as mentally, no chance of it happening but if you gave me the man as a cyborg from now until the end of my days as manager of course I'd have him. You don't turn down the GOAT

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • #11
    keeponhurling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    I know van Gaal hasn't been great, but to think a goat would do better is stretching it a bit


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  • #12
    liam7831
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,819 ✭✭✭liam7831


    keeponhurling wrote: »
    I know van Gaal hasn't been great, but to think a goat would do better is stretching it a bit

    Maybe he means Bermudian former City hero Shuan Goater


  • #13
    Strumms
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,848 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Seeing him yesterday on TV before and after the game.. he actually looks much more healthy and younger then the day he retired from United. Seemed in great form too and seems to be enjoying his retirement and keeping active.


  • #14
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,402 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Strumms wrote: »
    Seeing him yesterday on TV before and after the game.. he actually looks much more healthy and younger then the day he retired from United. Seemed in great form too and seems to be enjoying his retirement and keeping active.

    Thought Steve Coppell actually looked older than him


  • #15
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,928 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    liam7831 wrote: »
    Ya and if my Aunt had balls shed be my uncle

    But which toilet would she use in America.


  • #16
    Rikand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,427 ✭✭✭✭Rikand


    As much as I despised him when he was managing United, I'd take him at Blackburn rovers right now ;)


  • #17
    TheDoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,137 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    I'd say no.

    He has been incredible for the club and his reputation has already got a little tarnished here and there since his retirement in certain quarters. I wouldn't want him back in case he would ruin his legacy, but also because in my view the club needs to break from him ENTIRELY, along with those still loosely associated with his regime(advocate on the Utd thread that Giggs should be turfed with LVG)

    For all the incredible work and success he brought, he completely distorted the club into his own vision. A juggernaut operating at his will, but him at the centre of it. Because of this and lack of long term planning, the clubs general structure is a mess and will take some time to modernise and improve, work that is only barely starting. Same will likely happen with Arsenal.

    United need to modernise, and move to modern structure and layers. Ferguson wouldn't be able to operate in that environment and the club can't continue to hold back the changes any longer.

    *Should note it's minor stuff in relation to his success at the club. It's stuff that was likely obvious upon his retirement(to me anyway)that was going to cause the club so much grief after he left. But it pales into comparison against his overall success.


  • #18
    JakeArmitage
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 541 ✭✭✭JakeArmitage


    Lord TSC wrote: »
    Same chance of me nailing a date with Scarlet Johannson.

    With the rate at which VR technology is developing you could be in luck


  • #19
    Aidric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,591 ✭✭✭✭Aidric


    Of all the retarded threads started in the football forum this one takes the biscuit....


  • #20
    Donnielighto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭Donnielighto


    Aidric wrote: »
    Of all the retarded threads started in the football forum this one takes the biscuit....

    Maybe but some of the replies are brilliant


  • #21
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Aidric wrote: »
    Of all the retarded threads started in the football forum this one takes the biscuit....

    And yet has more replies than 80% of the threads you started here.

    It's a funny old world...;)

    http://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?user=188112&threads=1&sort=newest&date_to=&date_from=&query=%2A%3A%2A&forum=151


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