Why did he win more matches than other managers?

Intimidation

straight up bullying. always works especially when you use it on dumb as bricks people like athletes.

Scots > Engkeks ofc

Referees in his pocket, and small teams were so scared of United they'd lost before a ball was even kicked.

bribing officials and rivals were complete shit, once they started to improve his team went to shit and he bailed out like a coward

The FA pretty much fixed every United game so they would win. He was a no talent hasbeen who needed the entire english football infrastructure behind him to achieve anything

5 league titles in his last 7 seasons when City and Chelsea were massively outspending them.

He was on first name and texting terms with Mike Dean, head of the referees association. The Howard Webb thing also wasn't a meme; he's responsible for Leicester's meme season too, they only started doing well when he started picking fixtures and refs. One day it will all come out, which will lead to the Fergie corruption also being exposed, which will lead to them being stripped of their titles.

Sources for any of this?

he won the european cup with aberdeen beating real madrid 2 1

are you all dribblers?

Because he was a better manager.

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Only serious answers from this point :>)

Players believed in him and his systems, changed and controlled everything about the club. It became a feedback loop of success. If you were not 100% with him, go somewhere else. The Rooney bullshit probably decided him that the time was right to bail out.

Smart rotation of the squad
Massively increased pressure in the last minutes
Bought the best coaches / assistant managers and chucked them every 4-6 years to keep things fresh
Not afraid to sell his players to keep things fresh and keep him the top dog

What do you think idiot? It's Cred Forums

Bailed as soon as the league became competitive

>even Fergie couldn't handle the "pleh rooneh ok dats are only requirement" from the board

jesus.

lel

Ruthless but at the same time a phenomenal man manager. A great psychologist with brilliant relationships with players until he didn't need them anymore. He surrounded himself with great coaches and rotated them every few years.

He almost never found himself relying on players that were past their best.

He had such an undying confidence in himself, unmatched by anyone else, that it radiated to the players. Because of this he was able to elevate completely average players into title contenders.

Baiters will say refs and shit, but Ferguson was one of the best man managers of all time. Brought the best out of so many average players, it's amazing seeing the squads Utd have had and how easily they won the title.

If any player gave him any shit, he'd fuck them off as soon as possible. Except Rooney of course.

Why is Rooney so alpha?

He threw boots at people

>mfw this actually worked

Just read his history.

Played da footies.

Became manager. Took shit team to top of scotland.
Moved to another shit scottish team.
Won a fucking european event with them.
Went to Man Utd.
Brought the best out of the most average of english players giving man utd a strong core.

He had Rooney out the door and then Moyes' first act was to bring him back in.

>Massively increased pressure in the last minutes
Ferguson really took hold of the basic fact that goals go up dramatically in the last ten minutes. Opposition players said it was like an increasing vice, Man U would pace themselves and take it up steadily until brains popped.

because he is a crook

He's too thick to realise his own shortcomings

The league was softer, teams were weaker, pace was slower and the FA subtlety helped big teams.

>softer

This was an era where the likes of Keane, Viera, Big Dunc could kill people and not even get a yellow

>weaker
England's best performances in the CL during his reign

He owned and managed two pubs in 1970's central Glasgow. Let that sink in, it explains a lot.

This. His CV speaks for itself.

In the 2008-2009 season, the amount of help from the referees was INSANE. There is an article somewhere with clips of most of the situation.

>softer
Man U and fucking ARSENAL had an actual smack in the mouth feud. It was tougher then, a lot tougher.

he's a genius hidden in the body of a incomprehensible Scottish alcoholic

>incomprehensible Scottish alcoholic

You can just say Scottish, the other two adverbs are a given

this is what Klopp is doing exactly, in Liverpool.

Fergie 2.0?

The ability to make John o shea, wes brown, Michael silvestre , anderson, etc etc world class players by literally drilling into their heads psychologically that they were actually good

If they ever had a bad game he would come out and say some bullshit about the referee or anything like when van persie " could have been killed " to draw the media's attention away from his players and onto him regardless of the consequences for himself.

They loved him for it and for that they worked even harder. It's pretty straight forward, and any player that got too big for their boots was literally booted out without 2 shits being given.

because he was scottish

In a way SAF's younique talent at doing this is why Man U has been shit now. SAF got mediocre players to be great. All the other managers got was a bunch of mediocre players.
Wenger is the inverse in that he made a bunch of great players and got them to play mediocre when it mattered.

as I've pointed out on here before -- some managers will change tactics or play certain players out of position to negate/disrupt their opposition's gameplan.

SAF would do this against everyone. No one was safe. You had no idea if United were going to
>play to their own strengths
>play to counter/destroy your strengths
or
>both

Maddest lad on the planet if you ask me senpai.

oh and this
These combined = the boss of all bosses

Being from Glasgow helps.

He built the club on an aura of unquestionable respect to his methods.

People don't remember this, but his tactics weren't always sound. The year MU won the treble, they were easily being outplayed in CL by both Juventus and Bayern - but still won those ties in the end.

With Ferguson, players were willing to believe even in sub-par instructions and take the responsibility themselves if the game wasn't going the right way - to the extent MU would score so many late goals that people would invent 'Fergie time' and such.

I wonder what it's like to work for someone like that.

>he beat wolfsburg 3-1 with this
>in germany

He was good, basically

I'll always remember the line ups being announced for Real Madrid vs Man Utd in the CL 2013.

Everyone thought Fergie would go defensive away from home and then the teams were released and we found out Van Persie, Welbeck, Rooney and Kagawa were all starting.

Comfortably put Arsenal out of the FA cup with this team.

Literally this.