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Number 45: Sir Alf Ramsey: T he Man Behind the 'Wingless Wonders' & England's Sole World Cup Triumph Number 46: Sven-Goran Eriksson: The Scudetto Winning Shagger Who Never Solved the Lampard-Gerrard Conundrum His personal touch in such matters, whether it be signing the most expensive player in British football history or recruiting a 15-year-old on a YTS contract, was always key. The United boss got wind of this and signed Keane on the Saturday. Where Keane was concerned, Ferguson stole the £3.75m signing from under the nose of Blackburn in 1993 after opposite number Kenny Dalglish opted to leave the final paperwork until Monday after agreeing the deal on a Friday. He wasn’t afraid to spend big when it was warranted either, paying British record fees for Gary Pallister, Roy Keane, Andrew Cole, Ruud van Nistelrooy and Rio Ferdinand over the years. Denis Irwin and Peter Schmeichel joined for a total of £1.1m in 19 respectively, playing 927 games for the club. He also played the transfer market masterfully.
In later years the system yielded first teamers Wes Brown, John O’Shea and Darren Fletcher, a trio of invaluable servants who made a combined 1,097 appearances for the club.
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But it was Harrison who schooled them in the United way daily and ultimately moulded them into professional players who would win it all. Where youth was concerned, he gave Eric Harrison the reins.įerguson took an active role in recruiting talents like Ryan Giggs, David Beckham, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Gary Neville, the ‘Class of ‘92’. He relied on trusted world class coaches to lead training – Archie Knox, Brian Kidd, Steve McClaren, Mike Phelan and Rene Meulensteen – and experienced scouts to find him players – his own brother Martin included. He remarked in his 2013 autobiography that had the board been preparing to sack him in 1990, then Bobby Charlton would have opposed it, for the United legend was well aware of the work going on behind the scenes to restore the youth setup to its former glory, and the ‘graft’ Ferguson was putting in ‘reforming the football operation’.įerguson was not revered as a great coach, but he was a manager in the truest sense of the word. That meant delegating tasks to those who could perform them and overseeing everything. That had been somewhat lost and neglected in the years after Busby, but Ferguson resurrected the culture of youth at United in a big way. It had given Busby the basis of his first great United team between 19 and was the system that later produced the ‘Busby Babes’ and the club’s 1968 European Cup winners. United had turned to youth football at the club’s lowest ebb in the 1930s, scouting and developing young talents.