"You're not the first person to complain about me and complain that I'm using the Manchester United position to hang the appetite of other managers, there have been many people who have complained to me before you, I'm too old, it's time to leave the United dugout, this team will one day be managed by young people, the longer I stay here, the more detrimental it will be to their future management of the team......" Ferguson shook his glass, recalling the words of his friends, and halfway through the sentence, he laughed himself, "You are like them, I'm looking forward to my resignation and looking forward to getting this position for myself, right? ”

It's definitely a lie to say that you don't expect it.

In this world, Manchester United is the only team that can compete with Real Madrid and Barcelona. Because of the commercialization of the 90s, Manchester United's rise coincided with the era when football programs began to spread widely throughout the world, so Manchester United's influence is far beyond imagination. This team has always had the highest income in the Premier League, and they are the only team in the Premier League with a higher total income than the FA. The huge market in Asia and the Americas makes Manchester United have huge wealth resources that no one else can match, because of the good relationship with the FA, they have a relationship that other teams can't match, plus this team has developed a habit of high tolerance for the manager's dictatorship under Ferguson for 20 years, it can be said that the coaching dugout position of this team is unique. Real Madrid has a bad habit of firing coaches, Barcelona requires coaches to play beautiful football, but Manchester United does not have so many ways, Ferguson has been here for 20 years to lay the foundation, no matter who gets it, it is an incomparably rich capital, such a position, how can it not be coveted?

Li Bin has always been a very practical person, and he is also very covetous of Ferguson's wealth, and it would be great if he could grab it in his own hands. Although Li Bin hates Black Whistle, he definitely does not object to Weber's transfer to his subordinates, although he hates the giants to rely on momentum to suppress people, but if he can have the level of bullying he will do it. He has no interest in clamoring why he will not enter a wealthy family for the rest of his life, this kind of talk is nonsense, and he has better resources for what not to use? Since it is possible to get these Ferguson riches, why don't you try it yourself?

Of course, Li Bin didn't think that Ferguson's choice of successor had to be himself. What exactly would be Ferguson's reasons for choosing his successor? This is also what Li Bin wants to know. He always thinks that an old coach like Alex Ferguson, when thinking about this issue, should refer to the objective environment of the Premier League, and his thinking is that he already has some in-depth grasp of the Premier League environment, if he can understand him, even if he does not come to Manchester United in the future, it will be extremely beneficial to himself.

"But what will disappoint you is that I will not quit in the short term, and what they say, I will be considered a fart. Because they simply don't understand what the manager of Manchester United needs. There are a lot of people who think about my position, Queiroz, Moyes, and others, they all think, and I have made promises and invitations to many people, some of them are true and some of them are false, but they have never understood what I really think. ”

Ferguson, who had drunk the wine, was a little excited, and when he spoke, he also had some pride, "What do I want?" A champion? Two champions? A dynasty? Champions? League matches? Ballon d'Or player? Neither. Those are processes, not ends. Speaking of which, everything I do has the same purpose: what I want is to maintain the current position of Manchester United and maintain this supremacy status. You also know that although people often say that Real Madrid in La Liga, Juventus in Serie A, and Bayern in the Bundesliga are a dominant level, but when it comes to the number of titles, they are all below Manchester United. I took over Manchester United for 20 years before I got Manchester United. After I'm gone, the only thing I'm concerned about is how to keep Manchester United dominant. Whoever understands this will be Manchester United's future successor. ”

"This seems to be understandable."

"No, you're wrong, to be able to maintain this supremacy, you need something that many people don't have. Because of this supremacy, two things are needed to maintain it. The two things don't seem like much, but they are opposites. These two things, one is stability and the other is aggressiveness. There are too few people who can have both at the same time. ”

Stability and aggressiveness? Li Bin somewhat understood Ferguson's words: Most coaches who seek stability are not aggressive enough, and it is difficult for enterprising coaches to seek stability. These two qualities are contradictory, and it is indeed difficult to combine the two.

"The head coach of Manchester United must be a world-class coach - our Manchester United is a world-class team, and my request is not very excessive, right? It's a pity that there are few world-level marshals who are willing to stay in one place for a long time, and it is a great thing to be able to take root in one place. That's one of the most important qualities of being a league leader: if you don't even have the qualitative idea of staying for a few more years, then what else are you talking about? Ferguson said softly.

"It's not hard to be rooted in one place, is it?"

"That's because you've been in Parma for more than a decade and you don't find it difficult, but for a lot of people, it's difficult. Don't think it's a simple thing to put down roots in a team. You are young and may not have had this experience. In my experience, a team, no matter how top-notch it is, can't last long. Three years, at the peak of his life he will last for a maximum of three years, and then, the team will be past its prime. To paraphrase Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities,—— after three years, a team is no longer itself, but a shadow of itself. You know, it can take three years for a team to get on the right track, and only three years at the peak of the team need to be dismantled and rebuilt, not everyone has the courage and ability to do so. ”

Li Bin was silent.

In his memory, it seems that Ferguson also said such things to someone else, and that person is none other than Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola. After Guardiola found out that Xavi was old, Messi was walking, and Pique became Young Master Pi, he thought that Barcelona was finished, and went to seek advice from Ferguson, Ferguson told him: No matter how peak the team is, it is three years, and Barcelona is already at the end of the fourth year, so it can be considered to dismantle and rebuild, but Guardiola can't make up his mind, so he resigned directly. And the following year, Barcelona lost to Bayern with a two-legged 0-7, which objectively proved Ferguson's statement.

Rooting for a team is easier said than done. It is very difficult for a team to renovate, like Juventus to sell two and buy three, too few to complete the replacement in a year, many teams are because of the replacement of the slump, the peak is no longer the peak, Ferguson led Manchester United, a total of five generations, he has a lot of determination, when the need for change, the team was demolished and rebuilt. Among them, including selling Beckham under the pressure of the whole world, including trying to use Veron, including the sudden departure of Cantona, and also including Ronaldo, who can be sold in the future that Li Bin can predict - if you want to maintain a team, on the one hand, you have to create new blood for the team, and on the other hand, you have to keep cutting off the rotten parts, both of which are indispensable, but how many people can bear it and cut the team they built with their own hands?

"Is that why you like Moyes?" Li Bin asked.

"That's why I admire him, but that doesn't mean I'm going to use him. Because although he has the stability of rooting, he lacks some aggressiveness. Ambition is a very important thing, especially when you want to be rooted in a team and still be ambitious, it's hard. When you grow up in one place, you become a little more tolerant of the players. You have a relationship with a player like father and son, so even if he doesn't work very hard when he plays football and is a little messy, you can forgive him. Moyes has perseverance, but he doesn't have fighting spirit, which is a big problem, maybe it's because he brings too many small teams? He was too unpursuing. He didn't have the ambition I wanted. This ambition is not the ambition of winning a game, winning a championship, and building a dynasty. But he did not hesitate to spend ten or twenty years to truly achieve the ambition of a career. ”

It turns out that you also know the way, Li Bin sighed. Over the years at Everton, Moyes has smoothed out all his edges and corners. He has no courage and no more ambition in his heart, and for him, leading the team to play football is a job rather than a pursuit, which is very undesirable.

"What a big pursuit and ambition." Li Bin sighed, "You are simply asking Moyes and Mourinho to be combined." ”

Li Bin has finally figured out now, and Ferguson is reluctant to choose his successor for a long time.

What he wants is not a keeper, but a new overlord. This person must have the long-term rooting ability of Moyes, who has been working hard in his post for decades, developing players for the team, making money for the team, winning for the team, and doing some work for the team. At the same time, he must also be able to lead the team to constantly pursue victory, on the one hand, to innovate the squad, and on the other hand, to compete for his own supremacy in the world. David Moyes may be able to do the former, Jose Mourinho may be able to do the latter, but the combination of the two is too difficult.

"There are not many people with such ambitions."

"I'm one of them." Ferguson replied immediately, a little proud, but apt, "and you're the other one." ”

"Me? You think highly of me, don't you? ”

"Lee, you don't have to hide it from me. You, like me, want to be the sole ruler of the league's unique hegemony, and you have both of those I said. I think if I don't hand Manchester United into your hands, you'll take Tottenham Hotspur to replace Manchester United. There is no denying it, I know what you think. Ferguson smiled and said, "I can see that although you have a good temper and don't like to promote yourself, you have never been a weak person." I know what you've done in Serie A, I originally invited you to come, and I also wanted to try to live in peace with you. But your wine gave me another idea. Don't you just want to tell me that you respect my rules, but you want to challenge my position? I thought, after me, you're going to be the hegemon of this league no matter what, and if I don't give it to you, you're going to take it yourself, right? You didn't come here today to ask me for advice or anything, you came here to talk to me about the future of Manchester United's manager, in fact, what you want to say is to ask me: in front of you, do you choose to surrender or die? ”