He is extremely controlling. Wants everything his way. What Beckham should wear, how he should cut his hair, how many days he should spend on his honeymoon, who should he marry and who should he not be with … Is this OK for you? And he would get away after physically assaulting him? For SAF, everything was always about himself.
Arsene Wenger on the other hand is so different. He only controlled what people ate (and that too, through education and not “enforcement”). I never hear any such stories about him. He too was a winner, wasn’t he? But completely different style of management.
Seems Ferguson controlled through fear while Arsene Wenger coached through love.
Well there’s his dad, a real piece of work…overbearing, psychologically and emotionally abusive, and obsessed on sacrificing his son’s personal future to remodel him into the person and plaster that he could never have been.
You don’t think Glenn Hoddle came off as a prick? I thought the docu implied SAF would have protected Beckham (and Man U did so) if he was coaching the nat’l team when the kick out happened. Hoddle tossed him to the wolves.
After dropping him with no apparent explanation given.
Yes the greatest coach of all time controlled his dressing room. Next topic?
The boot incident was an accident.
There are many differences between SAF and Wenger, but the biggest is the amount of titles they each won…
Not really the point of the conversation. Just take a look at Keane’s view on SAF
But the point is Ferguson’s methods were more effective. He got better results. Was he more ruthless? Probably. But it was for a reason, and the reason is titles and trophies.
Not wrong either
Look at the countless players who have nothing but praise for him.
Roy Keane is hardly the best example of a sensible view either. The guy gets mad at quite literally everything.
Kinda funny that people are finally waking up to this, that’s who he was full stop
He was a bellend alright. Just had to look how he tried to deal with McManus.
It’s called discipline. He was there to win and he obviously knew how. If you played team sports you get it.
What a load of shit, anything to try and shoehorn Wenger into the conversation, give it up you delusional muppets.
Ah yes. The misplaced confidence of stupidity. Fucking brilliant, OP.
We haven’t had that at united since he left and see how many self entitled cry baby wet panty snowflakes we’ve had to endure playing for us for the past decade…
I think you’ll find fergie was a father figure to most
Thought what you’re saying was common knowledge. I understand that some may not have watched the PL and its coverage when he was managing, but you look at any interview from ex-United players and they all say he was controlling and over bearing. Gary Neville brings it up almost everytime he opens his mouth
SAF was father who many as father don’t want, but definitely father they need. Everyone, if they have little brain, would thank him when they mature… otherwise they would end up like sancho, dele, balotelli … list goes on…
He was his manager. Where I work we have rules about how much time we can have off work, what we wear to work, etc. And the boot incident was an accident. He didn’t stop him from marrying Victoria, he wanted to know that he was still focused on being a footballer and not a celebrity, which as his manager at work he should be.
He too was a winner, wasn’t he?
Wenger was a great manager but he only won three PL titles. Sir Alex won thirteen.
Sounds like a father from a different generation.
In a football sense, whose record would you prefer SAF or Wengers?
It’s easy to look at the records at the end and compare, but when the respective club’s had somewhat similar resources Wenger’s first 1000 games were statistically better than Fergie’s, albeit only just. That gap was only created, and then widened after 2004 when Arsenal couldn’t give Wenger what he needed to compete with a free spending Utd and Chelsea.
Both were absolute geniuses in different ways. But I do wholeheartedly believe if Wenger had the resources of Utd, Chelsea or later City after 2004 he would definitely have won more than just the 3 titles he did.
I get what you are saying. Im just looking at it from the outside and the trophies have to be the gauge of the success of both.