Bruno Fernandes needs one more assist in this match against Brighton to stand alone with 22 assists and officially break the all-time single-season assist record across Europe's top five
Before Ferguson. Manchester United were in crisis, battling relegation and even relegated 10 years before he took over.
Manchester United were like Current Nottingham Forest when Ferguson took over and I can say it was even worse that time than Forest now.
He came in, destroyed the toxic Bozzed culture, did a ruthless clear out squad and even sold his one favourite player.
The club didn’t have a lot of money that time so he revolutionised the youth academy that brought in the class of 92.
He built one of the most scariest team in the world that everyone were afraid of facing them.
He made the premier league the best league in the world. He’s the reason why premier league is like this now.
Prime Jose and Wenger came and he was still dominating.
And this is Pep who has never built a team from it struggling era,
When he took Barcelona, Barca had Valdez, Puyol, Abidal , Sylvino, Xavi, Iniesta,Toure, Messi, Etoo, Henry already. He added Pique and promoted Busquets.
At Bayern, he didn’t do anything special, at Manchester City, the club had 2 premier league titles and runner up twice, 2 EFLs, 1 fa cup and 1 runner up, and 1 community shield with 1 runner up in 5 seasons before his take over. Which is 4 major trophies in 5 seasons before his take over.
The team was top 2 best teams in the league already and they were UCL semi finalists a season before he took over.
Man City had Vincent Company, Yaya Toure, Fernandinho, Fernando, Kevin De Bruyne, David Silva, Navas, Aguero, Sterling, Nicolas Otamendi, Joe Hart and other top players when he came in.
So yes City was dominating already and needed someone that will lock everything up well and yes that’s Pep who can do that in that era.
When he came in, his competitor were Klopp, and later Arteta who’re nowhere near Prime Wenger Arsenal, Liverpool and Jose’s Chelsea.
I’m yet to mention what Ferguson did at Aberdeen as well, Never ever mention the two in the same sentence again!!!
🚨 José Mourinho on comparisons between Pep Guardiola and Sir Alex Ferguson after Manchester City’s FA Cup final win over Chelsea:
“No, no, no… that is not even close.”
“Yes, Pep Guardiola is a great coach. What he has done with Manchester City is fantastic, the football is beautiful and the trophies are there.”
“But Sir Alex Ferguson? Come on. You speak like people who did not watch football.”
“Sir Alex built different generations of winning teams over more than 20 years. Different players, different eras, different rivals and still he continued winning.”
“He did not always have the biggest spending power, but Manchester United remained at the top because of his mentality and leadership.”
“What Sir Alex did was not just coaching tactics, it was building a football empire.”
“Pep has coached incredible teams with incredible structures, but Sir Alex rebuilt Manchester United again and again while the whole league kept changing around him.”
“One dominated with perfection. The other dominated through generations.”
“For me, Sir Alex Ferguson is still untouchable.”
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@ZaidBalll Case was exceptional at https://t.co/SCAg8ZGjn4 but at Man Utd, he hasn’t just been good, he has been a gem, a leader and arguably a legend.
We’d miss him plenty.
Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:
“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”
The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.
Before you there was Duncan Mighty, there was Timaya, there was waconzy.
before the recent “felasexuals” retconning of the genre that erroneously attributed everything about Nigerian Pop musc to afrobeat, the genre was mostly dominated by the slums of Ajegunle, parts of festac & surulere and was mostly influenced by Disco, dance hall and hiphop many pioneering artists in those early days were from the south south from Daddy showkey to baba fryo to Mad melon to marvelous benjy to sean terro infact afrobeats has always had a distinct south south tinge in its sonics and lyrics it’s why pidgin was afrobeats first language before the rise of indigenous rappers like Lord of Ajasa & Dagrin.
Afrobeats as we’ve come to know it is not and was never a “Yoruba thing” in fact the first people to ever be credited with fusing rap/hiphop with nigerian folk sounds were Junior & Pretty on the song “bolanle” were Igbo boys born & raised in Lagos. Afrobeats has always represented the cosmopolitan nature of lagos, before the rise of afrobeats the biggest pop musicians who fused disco with local dialects also had cosmopolitan representation