The Boss: Future´s Bright
We´ve got to look abroad for players. In the 50´s Real Madrid were the best club side in the world and they were filled with players from all over. They had Di Stefano who was South American, Copa of France, Santamaria who was also South American, Didi from Brazil. They did it in the 50´s and when I see the great Brazilian players coming through and playing for Ajax or in Italy, I say why don´t we get them first.
Real Madrid´s Ronaldo went to PSV Eindhoven when he was only a teenager, and that´s the kind of area in which a club like Manchester United can´t be left behind. Arsene Wenger´s been doing it with French and Swiss players and we´ve got to be in front of them.
The 90-Minute Radius Rule
I think that is one of the worst rules I´ve ever heard of. Kids aren´t even being paid and they´re not even allowed to go to the club they want to. I think it´s a disgrace. It was done to spread the talent around. I was one of the Busby Babes, and you had to leave school back then to join, but kids now are being coached and trained in better environments. But back then Manchester United were the top team in the North, Wolves were in the Midlands and Chelsea down South. In our day we helped English football by getting them together.
Of all the players that came through together as the Busby Babes, so many of them would have played for England for many, many years. Duncan Edwards, Eddie Coleman, David Pegg and all these other young players were coming through and it was a tremendous squad of players all at one club. There was nothing wrong with that and I think it helped the country. What´s wrong, I think, is that it´s pushing players. What it´s doing is saying that if you´re in Manchester you can only play for Manchester.
But the 90-minute rule and all this jazz is a step over the top. It doesn´t help English football. Look at the squad of United. We´ve got a lot locally. There´s nothing wrong with good players all going to one club. That´s what the FA are trying to stop. I believe Howard Wilkinson came up with idea. It does annoy me and it´s totally wrong.
FA Self-Harm
I think it harms England. Look at the goalkeepers they don´t have! We used to have great keepers at one time. They should get to where the best clubs are. Since Matt Busby´s time, Manchester United have been known as a team that looks for good youngsters, wherever they´re from. Let them come from wherever. It´s not that that´s stopping them coming through, it´s not letting them play together.
Kids Will Learn The United Way
There are so many former players around on the staff, in hospitality rooms or on MUTV that the history of the club is there for these newcomers to see. Wherever they go, they see the people who´ve helped build something at Manchester United. They realise it´s a proud club with tradition and that they´ve got to play and behave in a certain way. All this has got to be for Manchester United and that´s how they´re being taught.
It´s happened all through time. In the old days they used to say that from the laundry women right the way through the club the people loved Manchester United. We always had great characters at the club - Jimmy Murphy, Eric Harrison who did a tremendous job. We´ve got great people at the club now and they´ll get them through. They know the traditions and what´s happened at the club. They know all about the Munich air crash, winning trophies and the never-say-die attitude at the club.
Not Many Foreigners In The Fifties!
The only foreigners here when I was in the youth team were from Ireland! We were very lucky in 1954 as we went on United´s first European tour. We celebrated it this year at the Blue Stars tournament in Zurich. We won it then and we won it this year as well which was great, I was lucky enought to go with them. I think we didn´t have many foreign players but there´s nothing wrong with that.
Now, we´ve still got great homegrown ones coming through - we´ve three terrific goalkeepers in Luke Steele, Tom Heaton and Tommy Lee. We have Lee Martin, David Jones, Richard Jones, Ryan Shawcross, Jonathon Evans and others who are good players with bright futures. Of course there´s Jonathon Spector from America and he´s showing a lot of promise. I´m sure he´ll find a place. I think the future´s great.
Ola And Ciao To Pique And Rossi
The two new lads Guiseppe Rossi and Gerard Pique are great scoops. I met Guiseppe Rossi the other day. He looks bright. He´s supposed to be very quick and I´ve heard good reports about him. Guiseppe Rossi, it should be Paolo Rossi I think! It seems a good signing and we are spreading our wings again which is good, it´s as it should be.
I´ve heard Pique´s a tremendous defender. I think it´s great we go for these players and get them here. Then you´ve got the chance of telling them about the history of Manchester United and that there´s something they can be proud to be associated with.
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