🚨🗣️Carlo Ancelotti: Sir Alex Ferguson is the greatest coach I call him a myth he won everything
🗣️My relationship with sir Alex spans more than 15 years and can be read as one long, consistent tribute. The relationship began as rivalry and quickly became friendship. We chat and discuss like old friends after matches.
🗣️As time goes on, the more I fall in love with Ferguson. As a coach he is unusual. It’s not as if he guides the training sessions because he delegates a lot and has an excellent staff. But he understands football like few do. With him, all the players improve. He has no fear of introducing youngsters. United play a European style of football, a modern style. But above all, Ferguson is a great person and he is humble.
🗣️My admiration for Sir Alex Ferguson comes from knowing him: he has won everything, he is a symbol, a myth, a hero for Manchester United, and yet he doesn’t show off. He is humble, modest, and he still has the passion of a child in doing his job. It isn’t easy to remain yourself when you become a successful man: he managed it, and that is perhaps the most beautiful success of all.”
🗣️Sir Alex had that time. And look what he was able to do and what he became: a myth. No a Myth, with a capital M.”
The respect never faded. I take advice from everyone, but the only person who would be better suited to give me advice would be Alex Ferguson.
🚨 Dortmund sporting director on the record about the 2022 Haaland sale:
“Manchester City never wanted the real number out. That was the first condition they put on the table. Not the release clause everyone printed. The full package.
Officially it was reported as £51 million because that was the figure written into the clause and that was the figure they asked us to stand by.
Internally it was a completely different conversation. When you add the guaranteed payments, the structured extras and what was agreed around the player’s camp, we were looking at something close to €250 million all-in.
That is more than PSG paid for Neymar in 2017. City knew that. We knew that. They did not want Europe talking about it.
They were very clear: if Dortmund confirmed anything above the clause, the deal would become politically messy for them. So there was a private understanding.
We stay silent on the real total. They stay silent. A few people in the media were steered toward the £51m line and that became the official story
I am not going to sit here four years later and pretend we sold the best young striker in Europe for pocket money. We did not. City paid what they had to pay to get him. They just did not want the world to see the receipt.”
Footage from 1968 showing Bobby Charlton, George Best, and the Manchester United squad casually knocking the ball around in training at The Cliff. 📽️
An unbelievable glimpse into football history—truly special to watch.