The dos and don'ts of playing for Sir Alex Ferguson | Sir Alex | BBC Sport

Former players including Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Nemanja Vidic and Gordon Strachan recall what players could and couldn't do under the watchful eye of Sir Alex Ferguson.

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The dos and don'ts of playing for Sir Alex Ferguson | Sir Alex | BBC Sport

[CCChing-wlir]

Sir Alex never had the most sophisticated tactics and training. What he has is an incredible work ethic, culture and discipline which is reflected in his dressing room. No one player ever crossed the line. He has always kept the senior players despite them not playing regularly because they are the stalwarts and guardians of the dressing room culture. When Moyes joined, and later LvG, these seniors were let go, replaced by signings who never understood what playing for Man Utd means and that's the start of the dressing room decline.

[ANGELOFDARKification]

The last point about Fergie wanting players to challenge him and show personality is the reason United teams didn't feel robotic. It was based around great players with the ability to express rather than just relying on the tactics/system.

[riteshnair]

Do u have a Family??? that struck a nerve in me in the most Godly way...now u know why there was a culture in the Club!!❤

[melissasmith]

Sir Alex, there's nobody above him, or on the side. Just under him. There will be no other like Sir Alex. Easy as that. You don't mess with him. And he won 13 EPL, how he manage to get to everybody to sacrificed everything for him and the club year after year in 26 years is unbelievable. His the greatest and will always be.

[JC-sdvh]

Biggest takeaway for today's squad I would say is Irwins comment " Everbody wants your downfall dont they, just stick together"

[osellejoel]

Sir Alex built Man United... like if you agree

[spencermackay]

Ole always bounced onto the pitch full of life like.

[CKD]

As an Arsenal supporter for 26 years, Sir Alex won as many Premier Leagues (13) as Arsenal have won in our entire history. That alone makes him to me the greatest manager ever. Pep no doubt is the manager that has played the best football ever (Barcelona 2008-12), but Sir Alex has done it over such a long period of time. Also, Manchester United between 99-03 was one of the best football teams i've ever seen. They could do everything, passing football, crossing, tap in, screamers, one-twos...etc, everything. They were so entertaining to watch. Pep with Man City in 2017-18 was amazing to watch, but alot of seasons after that it just became too samey to watch. Pass, pass but with no flair or skills. Wenger on the other hand at his best was probably the best football ever, because he did in the premier league which is harder to play great football than la liga. There were times that Arsenal (2002-06, 07-08, the Wilshere goal 2013, the Rosicky goal 20??) were the harlem globetrotters of football. Anyhow to me the list is:
1. Sir Alex Ferguson
2. Pep Guardiola
3. Arsene Wenger
Thats just my opinion.

[jericho]

They need a sit down between Ferguson and his best ever player Roy Keane

[georgerutherford]

Gordon Strachan looks like the Rev. I.M.Jolly in that armchair.

[dondamon]

One of the problems we have with players now is that we don't look at there characters before signing when Ferguson put that first. Why got rid of Pogba and now look at the damage pogba caused the players around him and ruined the culture which still going on today, amad and onana doing dancing videos in dressing room when we are 13th in league, houjlund interview with goldbridge after a couple of goals, just for them things alone they would be gone and never played for us again

[MakumireMusic]

Why is it always the same guys? What happened to the rest of the squad?

[fugaziishime]

Pep may be the best but he isnt in the same realm of greatness as sir alex. Those two are mutually exclusive superlatives.

[georgemorley]

Former glories. Thirteenth at Christmas 2024.

[dajo]

The dos and don'ts of playing for Jaap Stam. Do pass the ball between the centre backs for eternity. Don't pass the ball forward more than 5 yards.

[johnadams]

Ferguson made a error getting rid of stam and also should have signed Van der sar after schmeichel

[Nahor]

How can a great club have such useless owners, who allowed this to happen.
The fall from grace is itself a tragedy

[BashirAhmed-zbzq]

So everything he didn't want is what our current players are doing everything has changed

[lokoman]

Rashford would of never survived under fergie

[andyhello]

Japp stam was alex fergusons best defender, and he got rid of him, lol