It is crazy how availability is almost impossible in 2024. Teams seem to be focusing on quickness over durability in youth ranks
Ally McCoist meets Sir Alex
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It wasn’t half as bad as how Sir Matt left it for Wilf though, Christ it was so bad poor Wilfs hair fell out almost overnight.
Expectation and aspiration, equally. He talked about going up against Real and Bayern as underdog without an ounce of fear and core belief that they can be beaten. No cowing, no hesitancy; it's that kind of belief that makes everyone around you believe, and particularly, not be afraid to fail, instead, using defeats to fuel victory and legacy. He spoke about us always avenging a 2nd place with a league title the next season. The standards set were just incredible. Funnily enough, he also talks about how he grew the club, in a roundabouts way, and I'd say that's not just about the football we played, but what we represented: a fire it was extremely easy to buy into and be absorbed by.
He made lemonade from manky lemons, for the most part, post-Glazers and their rinsing of the club. I am of the opinion he left the squad as it was so the new man could bring in his own players with the money saved, unfortunately, he made a terrible call with Moyes. That's an honest mistake, though - the bigger failing was Gill not handing the keys to a competent team who would oversee operations and pull the plug on managers in good time.
TBH it's a society thing, not just a United or even a football thing
Kids used to aspire to be a train driver, a doctor, a footballer and so on, , it started out as being the star in a reality tv show and now it's a Tik-ToK or YouTuber, being 'famous' is the only aspiration for a lot of them, nothing else matters
Which kind of proves that bald isn't best
If Rashford would just stop blowing all his money on avocado toast and takeaway coffees he'd be scoring 30 a season.
Naw, stopping trashing his cars would help though
He left a team that cantered to the title.
That squad he left us had just won the league
You don't win the league with 89 points and scoring 86 goals by relying on one player. He was obviously a massive part of our success but it's worth remembering that he also had a dry spell in that season when he went two months without a goal. We had more than two or three decent players in that team.
I didn't say we only had two or three decent players. I said only 2 or 3 had decent seasons. Seasons you expect of title winners. It was far from vintage. No way we are winning that league without the signing of RvP.
Moyes never got that version of RvP. Nobody did from that point on. Was his last top season.
Look what happened to all those players shortly after. Retired or dropped levels or never fulfilled what we'd hoped they'd become.
My first thought was about Mount when he said that. But then I also thought... well Sir Alex did go out and buy Owen Hargreaves who was a known crock
Absolutely