By John McDougall (Dec 2011)
The Govan knight’s best 10 transfers into Manchester United
from his 25 year tenure at the helm of England's biggest football club
I recently read, and no doubt many more of you have as well,
the two articles compiled by Gooner Verse on the 10 best and 10 worst signings
that Arsene Wenger has brought into Arsenal football club in his 15-year
tenure. This got me thinking about my own club, Manchester United, and Sir Alex
Ferguson’s ability within the transfer market over the past 25 years at the
helm of the Old Trafford giants. Here follows a list of the 10 best forays into
the transfer market that Ferguson
has made, in my humble opinion. I have ranked it on a balance of obviously how
good the player was, the transfer fee paid and, if applicable, any transfer
fee’s that were received. One thing to point out though, is that this list is confined
purely to players that Ferguson has gone into the transfer market and paid
money for, so there is no place on the list for players such as Giggs, Beckham,
Scholes, Butt, the Neville brothers et al...