[Brian of Nazareth]

It will be a very, very sad day when the "old Man" steps down, really will, and i hope that someone who knows united through and through takes over, CQ would be my first choice to be honest, he has been a massive part of our success lately!

Damn you father time....Damn you!!

[yangch0000]

lets name the thread
'Fergie will be here for another 3 yrs!!!!'

just trying to be positive....

[sunchaser]

i would be so sad , i think we have a great team, but in 2-3 years fergie will be gone , ronaldo the same , giggs, scholes , neville will be retired too , also van der sar , and God knows how many others.
and 3 years sounds a short period of time, it will be a new united though. i am already nostalgic

[cjl_safcfan]

all my life he has been in charge of you guys... what will you do withuot him

[carlyluvsunited]

A few here might be relieved
when he does go ...

After all he makes too many
mistakes these days ...

Against Barca and Chelsea he
"got it all wrong" ...

He made basic errors in team
selection ...

And we finished with just the
EPL and Champions League ...

Hmmmmm ... whatever.

He has given us 22 years of
his life so far ...

He has also given us 22 major trophies !!

Whenever he decides it's time to quit ...

Then that's fine by me ...

His wife Cathy deserves respect from
ALL United fans too ...

Without her support and commitment to
Fergie he would not have been able to
achieve all he has done !!!!

Sir Alex and Cathy Ferguson owe us
nothing ... we owe them everything !

In these days of the 'sack the manager
merry-go-round' ...

It's incredible to think that Sir Matt and
Sir Alex will have managed United for 50
of the 63 years since the end of WW II
between them !!!!

Who will follow Fergie into this job ... ?

I really have no idea ... and don't wish to
even think about it to be honest ...

Sure, Hughes and Keano will be at the
forefront of possibilities along with Carlos
Queiroz ... but none of these strike me as
having that 'something special' ... that
'je ne sais quoi'.

Only one person has a 'sparkle', a certain
charisma about them ... a passion for
United and a great football brain for both
knowledge and from a playing point of view ....
it's guys with these 'special' attributes that
become 'great'. This guy has it all in abundance ...

So I would vote for him without question !!!

Eric Cantona !

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=QmUuaKga94k

[NateR]

I think I'm gonna cry Sir Alex is all I've ever known as Man Utd manager. It'll be the end of an era. Great players come and go, but Managers like Sir Alex are even rarer. I'm not looking forward to that day at all. But its true, his family do deserve his time as well, and we must be grateful to his wife for preventing him from retiring all those years ago. Otherwise we'd have no Rooney, Ronaldo, Anderson PL & CL double amongst other things.

[versa]

Originally Posted by carlyluvsunited

A few here might be relieved
when he does go ...

After all he makes too many
mistakes these days ...

Against Barca and Chelsea he
"got it all wrong" ...

He made basic errors in team
selection ...

And we finished with just the
EPL and Champions League ...

It does not matter now only because we won the Double. However, winning the Double does not automatically justify that he was right in every single match, but only that he was mostly right throughout the season. Apple and orange; two separate issues.

And still can't say he was right in his approach at Stamford Bridge, especially after we won back the initiative in the second half, equalised and then substituted the attacking-oriented and stronger Anderson for a defensive-oriented and weaker O Shea, lost back the initiative, eventually lost the game and only found out later that Anderson did not even kick a ball against Barca (or since)!? And surely losing to Chelski itself did not contribute to winning the league title.

Although it remains debatable whether he should have employed an ultra-negative approach in Barcelona, given the fatal away-goal rule and that we shamefully conceded possession incessantly throughout the game.

Don't need to be sarcastic when members were just giving their honest opinions back then with plausible reasons. I am pretty sure that the detractors for some of the games like the two aforementioned will still stand by what they said for those games, despite winning the Double, for they are two separate issues.

And members pointing out that Fergie may not have been right in certain matches also does not automatically mean that they are better than Fergie. Just in case....

[CaptainRoyKeane]

I hope his wife to convince him to not retire again and again and again! It's just not right not having him as a manager, if he does retire in 3 years times, we should treasure everything he does!

[Drew9]

Cantona !! would be absolutely amazing

[-zuco-]

Originally Posted by Drew9

Cantona !! would be absolutely amazing

I hope you're joking