Yet when the ageing patriarch of Manchester United retired from the game in 2013 it appeared then to be the most natural choice to replace him was ignored in favour of the indecisive David Moyes and the and the idiosyncratic Louis Van Gaal 10 months later. Ferguson is a board member in the eyes of the Manchester United hierarchy, although even after winning 22 trophies despite his strong success rates since 2003 was suddenly a divisive figure, a man who burns the players and becomes dominatingly bigger than the team itself.
After painful seasons and three years later where the club has been accused of losing its way, Manchester United have turned to Jose Mourinho to revive their fortunes and re-establish their identity, realizing that Manchester United and Alex Ferguson himself share many of his ideas and thus grudgingly admitted that no one else could be more better than Jose Mourinho and this could be the best man available to do his job and revive the teams potential its name and fame, to avoid being a mere footnote in the lucrative world of European football where winning is the last and the key word and winning means everything……
to be continued…