I don’t know about you, but over the past couple of months I’ve noticed a change in Sir Alex Ferguson. He appears more relaxed, less angry in general and he hasn’t been complaining about the whole world and everything in it quite as much lately. Nor has he been getting irritated by interviewers’ silly questions, even after massively important games which haven’t gone Utd’s way. He even berated Ashley Young for his diving! And quite right too. In short he has actually become……reasonable! So what on earth could be the driving force behind this? How is it that a character like Alex Ferguson can suddenly change the way they behave at 70?
It has puzzled me no end but I’m a firm believer that there’s a reason for everything. And the only rational explanation I can think of is that he is planning to call it a day. This being the case, he will have mentally taken his foot off the pedal and is more chilled out. Or so the theory goes.
Thinking about it, it would be a very logical time to retire. With City taking the title on Sunday the order is changing. This would be the perfect time to hand over to a young gun at the top of his game – say Jose Mourinho – to combat the threat of money bags City as Fergie heads into old age. It probably won’t be a popular thing to say, but I’m just thinking out loud here. And of course this has nothing to do with the 5/1 I got in December 2009 about Mourinho becoming the next Man Utd manager.
The two clubs have got a track record for keeping mega deals top secret (ie Ronaldo), despite Fergie’s quip that he “wouldn’t sell them a virus”. So it could happen sooner than you think.
Of course, now that they lost to City the way they did he probably won’t do anything of the sort and will turn up next season more fired up than ever. We’ll see soon enough.
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He needs to stay!!! @hamil_toe
He will leave after title no.20
2014 @ferdiaoconnell
He’ll have seen that his powers are waning this season, he’ll not want to go on the spur of the moment, but not out-stay his welcome either. Also, Jose has looked like heading for the exit at Madrid for a while, he’ll leave in ’13. Are those two thoughts related? Draw your own conclusions…….. :-p Username MadCowMM, online handle MadCowPaddy
Looking forward to his retirment
Twitter name davestarr2001
i really hope jose isn’t united next boss @mcnally1985
Where are the poker blogs?
When i heard him after the game last sunday saying in a patronising tone “man c got 5 mins extra which won them the game” i had to laugh out loud. he is king of the so called 5 mins added time” fergie time” this got me thinking that ,it means a lot to him to win the league an after that comment even if he had thoughts of retiring soon. they will be on hold till he wins back the title for the red half of manchester.
He’ll go next season, he’s seen that his powers are waning and he won’t want to damage the club or his reputation by carrying on too long. On a completely unrelated side-note (ahem), Jose has looked close to the exit door at Madrid for months, I think he’ll give it one more season there and then look for a Premier League team for him to come back to Britain.
fights gone out of him, won’t be too long more i’d say
@McConville01
My guess is another two seasons, but if they happen to win the league next year i think he’ll retire then.
As a united fan it will be a sad day to see him go.
funkyplunkers
I think he will def stay another season just out of pure stubburness. He will try to regain the title just so he can say he left Man Utd when they were still the best team in England, or more importantly for him, still the best team in Manchester.
Should leave before start of new season because there’s a new team in town now and hes going to be chasing shadows for a long time.
when he wins the trophy again, he will retire, as long as QPR dont fix it again for them not to win what is rightfully theirs.
@theblackrose84 on twitter
He will retire from football in summer and get back to playing poker on Paddy.
@ironnutzpoker