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Why is Manchester United FC Sluggish? 2016 Rio Olympics for Swimming
Before Alex Ferguson retired in 2013, van Gaal came, but the result was the same.
Manchester United was one of the biggest They did not succeed in making the generational
football clubs. All people recognized shift and it also caused the slump. Despite
Manchester United as a formidable club to these failures, Manchester United tried to scout
confront. However, after Ferguson's retirement, superb players and wasted a lot of money in the
their reputation and firepower hit rock bottom. process. But in order to understand the slump,
What are the reasons Manchester United became people also have to focus on the incompetence
sluggish? The biggest reason is Ferguson's of the owner of Manchester United, Joel Glazer.
retirement. Glazer's family made Manchester United fall
First of all, Ferguson came to Manchester into a heap of debt so they were condemned
United in November, 1986, and he led his by Manchester United's fans. In one day, about
team to its heyday. During the prime time of half of billion won is spent and they say that
Manchester United, Ferguson achieved a lot someone who wants to buy the team would
during his 26 seasons. He won a lot of cups, have to pay more than 8 trillion won. Naturally,
including 13 championship cups of EPL (English financial difficulties came and Manchester
Premier League), a couple of UEFA Champions United worried so much that they became
League trophies and so on. People call this time sluggish.
the ‘Alex Ferguson Era.’ These days, Manchester United transfer Jose
But when he got older and had to retire, David Mourinho(Manager), Paul Pogba and so on to
Moyes became his successor and Manchester evade miring. Excessive expenses will cause
United's big slump came. In 2013/14 season even bigger fi nancial diffi culties. Therefore, it is
when Moyes was the manager, Manchester time for Manchester United to carefully weigh
United ended up in 7th place(17 wins 6 their decisions.
draws 11 loses) in the league. All of the fans
of Manchester United were shocked by their Jeong, Woojin (1-8)
collapse and were enraged. After Moyes, Louis ckm001204@naver.com
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