SAD SAD Day, Man Utd Announce Fergie to retire

He's also conveniently ignoring that every season Everton have a wage bill that is less than half of any of the big five spenders (around a third of that for Chelsea and City), and around two thirds that of Spurs.

Arsenal spend £80 million per season more on wages than Everton to finish two or three places higher in the league and win as many trophies, but the Gooners would obviously rather focus more on transfer spending

 

Nail on head. Moyes is not a winner.

 

Gutted but sadly Fergie was going to retire sooner or later, so not that much of a suprise when i heard the news.

Will be hugely missed and a truly great manager.

 

The best manager of all time retires, had to happen one day.

Let us thank him for the memories and the tormenting his done to so many bitter fans.

 

This a joke?

 

When it comes to Sir Alex DL your opinion is a joke, no one cares about how good you think Benitez is either.

 

I don't rate Benitez at all.

 

We knew it had to happen sooner or latter, but that doesn't make the news easier to hear. Absolutely gutted.

The greatest. No question about it and he will be missed

 

Not even a UTD fan, or much of a Fergie one either, but I'm sad. He's been such a big character and great manager for so long- strange to think of the league without him.

 

He is the best manager of all time, the stats prove it.

What he's done will never be equalled & anyone who's not blinded by myopic club loyalty could see & acknowledge this.

 

Best manager of the modern era? Undoubtedly

Best manager of all time? No way. For starters the playing field is different so it's near impossible to measure. There's far more commercialisation, sponsorship endorsements and money in the game now.

Stats don't tell you everything. Is Di Matteo a better manager than Wenger?

 

No-one in the history of the English game comes close to his achievements & never will, it's not complicated.

The fact that he's achieved the level of consistent success he has done, through the era of the Billionaire sugar Daddy, makes it even more remarkable.

 

Its over, united are finished just shut Old Trafford down now

 

i have one QS though .. what did made Sir Alex change his mind in 2 days ? he insisted he is not leaving? was he forced to retire so the club don't miss out on Jose or Moyes (remember same thing happened to schumacher )? or was it bcz the owners didn't replied to some of his key demands and thus decided to step down? or simply he had a change of heart and wanted to finish at top .. he refused to say why he retired now .. which i feel is weird

 

yeahh .. indeed

 

who was better pls?

 

Not sure if you will ever get the answer Shwan, maybe a combination of age, the operation, the fact he made it 13 titles on the year ending 2013, 20 league titles, maybe he wants to take a back seat and help Moyes establish him self at the club, could be anything. But I think the denial was out of panic that the story may leak (which it did), got a feeling it was due at the end of the Swansea match Give it a week then Moyes would of finished his last game as Everton boss, that's my thinking.

 

That's probably the one positive thing to gain from this. We've been hearing a million different reasons from the bitters about why it's the end of our era, and "when Fergie leaves their ****ed" is pretty much the last ones have left. They'll be crushed when we don't collapse under Moyes.

 

I think it's more likely that he'd been thinking about it for a while, but wasn't ready to make the announcement. He probably intended to it vs Swansea for our final home game, but the leaks yesterday forced his hand.

 

Didn't he just he was going to be around to see this team into something special? Didn't actually he'd e managing them!