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Jeg er lidt rystet, men samtidig har man jo godt vidst, at enden var nær, han er trods alt 71, og han har prøvet absolut alt man kan prøve som manager. Det kommer bare så pludseligt, men det er nok også det bedste, for jeg husker tydeligt hvor meget vi gik ned i niveau, da Ferguson i 2001 sagde, at han ville stoppe i sommeren 2002. Efteråret 2001 var meget svingende, bl.a. med hjemmebanenederlag til både Bolton og West Ham, samt en lussing på 3-0 til Chelsea, også på Old Trafford.

Nu har holdet kunnet fokusere på at vinde, og det har de gjort, og dermed slutter han passende nok på toppen, omend det havde været mere ultimativt, hvis han var sluttet med sin femte CL-finale, men sådan skulle det ikke gå.

Tak for alt Sir Alex, vi får aldrig en manager af samme kaliber igen.

Så bliver der endelig konkurence om det Engelske mesterskab. Med ham væk bliver United ikke så enerådende som de har været de sidste 20år.

Alex Ferguson må siges at være den mest succesfulde træner hidtil i historien.

Men om 10 min kommer der sikkert en pressemeddelse om en træner fra Zambia og siger at han har vundet 14 mesterskaber på 7 år med Bushe Bushe United fra Bushport.

Kæmpe respekt for Sir Alex Ferguson!

Selvom at jeg aldrig har holdt med United, så kan man ikke lade vær med at beundre hvad han har ført det til med den klub efter 27 år i klubben næsten!

Troede aldrig han ville takke af, men den tid kommer jo for alle på et tidspunkt. Flot at slutte af med et suverænt mesterskab, levende legende, der kommer aldrig nogen som ham i fodbold verdenen igen tror jeg!

Held og lykke med at finde en afløser for ham Manchester United! Måske "The Special One"? Ham må I gerne få hehe :D

Det var da også på tide! Er så træt af at høre på ham, efter en tabt kamp.

Større tudefjæs skal man da lede længe efter!

Trist. Men det må også være på tide at slappe lidt af!

Alle ABUs kommer til at savne ham ligesom os unitedfans. Hvem skal i så være efter. Gad vide hvem der overtager

Nogle af de bedste fra Mesteren:

On Ryan Giggs
"I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cocker spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind."

On Gary Neville
"If he was an inch taller he´d be the best centre-half in Britain. His father is 6ft 2in – I´d check the milkman."

On Paul Ince
"I used to have a saying that when a player is at his peak, he feels as though he can climb Everest in his slippers. That´s what he was like."

On Italians
"When an Italian tells me it´s pasta on the plate I check under the sauce to make sure. They are the inventors of the smokescreen."

On the 1999 Champions League triumph
"I can´t believe it. I can´t believe it. Football. Bloody hell."

On media criticism of Juan Sebastián Verón
"On you go. I´m no fucking talking to you. He´s a fucking great player. Yous are fucking idiots."

On Liverpool
"My greatest challenge is not what´s happening at the moment, my greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their fucking perch. And you can print that."

On the 2003 title race
"It´s getting tickly now – squeaky-bum time, I call it."

On kicking a boot into David Beckham´s face in 2003
"It was a freakish incident. If I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn´t happen again. If I could I would have carried on playing!"

On Filippo Inzaghi
"That lad must have been born offside."

On Arsène Wenger
"They say he´s an intelligent man, right? Speaks five languages. I´ve got a 15-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who speaks five languages!"

On his former charges as managers
"It can be difficult to pinpoint who would make it as a manager. For instance, nobody here thought Mark Hughes would become a manager, never in a million years, and we all thought Bryan Robson was a certainty to be a top manager."

On the referee Alan Wiley
"The pace of the game demanded a referee who was fit. It is an indictment of our game. You see referees abroad who are as fit as butcher´s dogs. We have some who are fit. He wasn´t fit. He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous."

On José Mourinho
"He was certainly full of it, calling me boss and big man when we had our post-match drink after the first leg. But it would help if his greetings were accompanied by a decent glass of wine. What he gave me was paint-stripper."

On Rafael Benítez, reacting to the Spaniard´s infamous ´facts´ press conference
"I think he was an angry man. He must have been disturbed for some reason. I think you have got to cut through the venom of it and hopefully he´ll reflect and understand what he said was absolutely ridiculous."

On whether Liverpool would win the title in 2007
"You must be joking. Do I look as if I´m a masochist ready to cut myself? How does relegation sound instead?"

On Old Trafford
"The crowd were dead. It was like a funeral out there."

On Manchester City´s Carlos Tévez poster
"It´s City isn´t it? They are a small club, with a small mentality. All they can talk about is Manchester United, that´s all they´ve done and they can´t get away from it."

On City again
"Sometimes you have a noisy neighbour. You cannot do anything about that. They will always be noisy. You just have to get on with your life, put your television on and turn it up a bit louder."

On Wayne Rooney´s transfer request
"Sometimes you look in a field and you see a cow and you think it´s a better cow than the one you´ve got in your own field. It´s a fact. Right? And it never really works out that way."

On Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid
"Do you think I would enter into a contract with that mob? Absolutely no chance. I would not sell them a virus. That is a ´No´ by the way. There is no agreement whatsoever between the clubs."

On Manchester United´s 19th league title "It´s not so much passing Liverpool. It´s more important that United are the best team in the country in terms of winning titles."

And on their 20th
"Look at me – it´s taken 10 years off me today. It´s these tablets, they´re great!"

Vil da lige påpege at United vel sagtens kan holde niveauet på trods af at Ferguson slutter i klubben, da de vel stadig har samme stamme af spillere, måske endda får tilført et par stykker og ellers får ryddet lidt op, eventuelt får solgt en Nani der nok ikke er specielt tilfreds med spilletiden, samt mens maan stadig bare kan få lidt for ham.

Uanset hvad skal der siges tak for alt til Sir Alex som har været en fremragende træner både på og uden for banen. Uanset hvad så vil der stadig være managers der fylder i medierne, Wenger er trods alt ikke stoppet endnu :)

Er dog slet ikke i tvivl om at de nok skal tænke fremtiden igennem i United, bare vi undgår en træner der skifter ligeså snart tingene går ned af bakke.

Mourinho......

@madin

Jeg mener dog Ferguson har været klubbens allerstørste styrke gennem de sidste 20 år. Vi har haft en hel del gode spillere gennem årene, men de er kommet og gået, uden at det har påvirket klubben resultatmæssigt, og det er naturligvis Fergusons fortjeneste. Jeg tror heller ikke vi går totalt i stå, men man skal ikke undervurderer hans betydning, og slet ikke måden hvorpå han får det bedste frem i spillerne.