Ferguson still reigns over England

It’s not easy to find the correct words to refer what Sir Alex Ferguson has done to make Man.Utd the biggest brand in modern football. This weekend we saw the club win – probably –one of the most emblematic titles Sir Alex’s ever won: Man.Utd 18th championship means they catch Liverpool on the top of most successful clubs. Most important, the scotch’s ability to renew the squad opens a good perspective to keep on winning on the next four/five years – this without needing to spend millions over millions to buy new stars.
While having probably the most impressive offensive line on European soccer, the main reason and future problem, of the devils success is the strong defense – Evra his without a doubt the best left back in the world, Ferdinand and Vidic make an almost perfect pair in the centre and the continuous problems on the right seem to disappear game after game (does anyone really know how many right backs Man.Utd uses over a season?) – and last but not least, the awesome goalkeeper Edwin Van der Saar is displaying some of his most perfect performances, while quickly going to the end of his career, the Dutch is a cornerstone on Ferguson’s recent wins and will be very difficult to find a fit replacement – they’ve probably still remember the hiatus between Schmeichel and Van der Saar.
Besides this, they got an excellent mixture of young and older players – Ronaldo, Rooney, Anderson, Rafael, Evans, Macheda – assure the future and present of a team that seems comfortable with winning in a consecutive way. And that seems to be Ferguson’s biggest magic trick – we all know tactics doesn’t have any secret to him, he’s simply a master in that way – but how can he keep on maintaining all this multi-title players still pretty focus on conquering more and more titles (we can observe how he seems truly happy every team his team scores, other coaches appear to don’t even see their goals, while the scotch still acts like a little child/or simply full of ambitious)? Whatever he do, that’s the big reason for him to be such a successful manager and a name that will last a many, many decades on football history.

Tip: The change between a 4x2x4 at home and more weak opponents and the 4x3x3 on less easygoing games gives Man.Utd two perfect solutions. You can look a lot of places – in the majority of European championships – and you won’t find any other team that feels so confident with two different forms of play.