Man Utd squad stronger than 1999 treble stars - Sir Alex Ferguson
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Sir Alex Ferguson reckons Manchester United now have more players capable of fighting for trophies than during their historic 1999 treble-winning campaign.
Once again Ferguson's team are chasing a trio of titles in the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup.
The Scot said of his team's chances: "We have a stronger squad now."
"It's not easy to rotate but it has to be done. The biggest responsibility lies with me to pick the right team. We have a lot of important games."
Ferguson's strategy of rotating players was key to United's success in 1999, when their domestic achievements were capped by an injury-time win over Bayern Munich in the European Cup.
Reflecting on that campaign, Ferguson believes he has more options at his disposal than he did 14 years ago.
"When we went to the [Champions League] final, [Roy] Keane and [Paul] Scholes were suspended but Henning Berg was the only injury," Ferguson added.
"I still had to pull in a player [Jonathan Greening] who had only played once or twice in the first-team.
"He got a medal for being on the bench. That gives you an idea of the strength of the squad.
"It is nice to look back on these things and think how it was done at that particular time.
"But the reality is that we should not get carried away, particularly in the FA Cup when anything can happen. You don't want to be a shock."
Ferguson used the depth of his current squad during last week's Champions League first-leg 1-1 draw with Real Madrid, opting to leave captain Nemanja Vidic out of his defensive line-up.
Vidic could return for Monday's fifth-round FA Cup tie at home to Reading, but Ferguson is split between focusing on that match and looking to what lies ahead.
"After Monday we have a league game against QPR, then Norwich, before Madrid again," Ferguson added. "Then we'll use the full squad.
"In many people's eyes Monday would be, 'Yes, it's Reading, we have just been to Madrid, it was a great night, Monday will take care of itself.'
"Monday can't take care of itself. We have to take care of that."
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The 1999 team could go away to places like Juventus and Barcelona and play wonderful, attacking football. The current lot play more of a counter-attacking game and struggle to dominate matches, even against the smaller teams.
He did, with Aberdeen
SAF is saying that the current SQUAD is better than '99, not the first team. Re. the first team, personally, I think that rooney,rvp,chico and wellbeck are better than yorke,cole,ole and teddy. Also the present defence are better if fully fit apart from the RB and goalie.
The '99 midfield is considerably better.
Well firstly jealousy is a cruel mistress, secondly people seem to have selective memories when it comes to Sir Alex's managerial record & finally some people will come up with any excuse as to why Manchester United are the most successful domestic club in England & whom ever they support are not.
Nothing new then!
Exploitation??? Thats hilarious!!!! No one follows a team unless they WANT to. No one has ever been exploited by a football team. Wonder how you feel about Arsenal charging 62 quid to watch a game. Surely if anything, THAT is exploiting fans. But thn again, they don't HAVE to go. You're just coming up with any poor excuse you can to justify your irrational hate.
Intelligent people ...That's you out then....
Lack of principals? How? He single handedly ruined English football? Oh dear, you have got it bad.
Sorry mate you are pure comedy...Now go back to wherever you came from. Your boards must really be missing you!
SAF didn't say this team is better than '99, he said this is a better 'squad' than '99. There's no way it's better a first team and I doubt Fergie thinks that either.
Valencia can't dribble, very one dimensional, just have pace.
He can never ever score from those free kicks or long range shot. Becks played for three of the biggest clubs. Valencia is in Man Utd, because SAF doesn't have the money to buy anyone like Angel Di Maria, Alexis Sanchez, Frank Ribery, Marco Reus, James Rodriguez.