Fergie is planning next season before Moscow has even sunk in

Updated: 11:55 BST, 23 May 2008

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Moscow 2008 has already disappeared, locked somewhere in the endless and priceless memory bank of Sir Alex Ferguson.

As soon as Edwin 先頭 der Sar 設立する himself 包囲するd and （海，煙などが）飲み込むd by his team-mates in the Luzhniki Stadium に引き続いて his 支持する／優勝者s League-winning 刑罰，罰則 save, Manchester 部隊d’s tsar 攻撃する，衝突する the button 示すd exhilaration and< br />switched it off again straight away.

“The 幸福感 drains away almost すぐに,” pondered Ferguson.

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Cup and away: Sir Alex Ferguson arrives with the UEFA 支持する／優勝者s League トロフィー at Manchester Airport last night

“But the 広大な／多数の／重要な資産 I’ve got is that I won’t get carried away with it and the next morning
I will be thinking about next season.”

There in a couple of lines lay the 創立／基礎 of his greatness.

The last トロフィー is all 罰金 and dandy but it’s the next one he cares about.

So his second European Cup could, alarmingly for the 残り／休憩（する） of 部隊d’s 国内の pursuers, make the old master more of a menace than ever now.

The feeling that he’d underachieved in Europe with 部隊d had kept gnawing away at him for nine years since their 勝利 in Barcelona but now that he’s taken his rightful seat の中で the エリート group of two-time winning 経営者／支配人s, you could feel a new sense of 解決する and ambition 広範囲にわたる through him.

Because where there was a second 肩書を与える with what he considered this 潜在的に best-ever 部隊d 味方する, there is the strong scent of a third next year in Rome’s Olympic Stadium, the scene of the first of （頭が）ひょいと動く Paisley’s ３倍になる European Cup 勝利s with Liverpool in 1977.

Paisley remains the only 経営者／支配人 to have won it three times so, suddenly, a new personal 目印ぼんやり現れるs large for a man who shows abs olutely no 調印する of 疲れた／うんざりしたing.

It’s not the only challenge. First, there’s Liverpool’s 18 League 肩書を与えるs 始める，決める to be equalled and should 部隊d 勝利，勝つ in Rome, they would be the first team to 保持する the European Cup since Arrigo Sacchi’s AC Milan in 1990 and the first ever to 首尾よく defend it since the 支持する／優勝者s League 判型 was introduced.

“It is not 平易な but the young players who have tasted success here will want to do it again,” he said.

“I think we are good enough. We have made one step 今後に向かって getting a respectable 人物／姿／数字ーに関して／ーの点でs of 支持する／優勝者s League 勝利，勝つs and we want to 追加する more and get up there と一緒に the Liverpools, Bayern Munichs and Ajaxs.

“And then you never know what ambition can do to you. Real Madrid have nine 勝利，勝つs and it is a 的 you take for 認めるd ― perhaps not in my lifetime ― but it is 価値（がある） chasing.”

公式文書，認める the careful insertion of the word ‘perhaps’. Ferguson has never 始める，決める限界s on what he believes is possible; you wouldn’t put it past him to think he’d only be 72 when they won their ninth.

Like Steve Waugh’s old Australian cricket team, he goes by the motto ‘Never 満足させるd’ and though it may be more for the greater glory of club and not for himself that he keeps 追求するing success at the age of 66, the 可能性のある by-製品 is that over the next few years before his 退職 he could make redundant any serious argument over who’s the greatest football 経営者／支配人 of them all.

Wednesday’s 勝利, of course, only 強化するd any 事例／患者 to be made that he may already 持つ／拘留する that accolade.

まっただ中に all the emotion 飛行機で行くing about over the 1958 Munich and 1968 Wembley 周年記念日s, much いっそう少なく attention was paid to how it was also 25 years since he’d 解除するd his first European トロフィー, the Cup 勝利者s’ Cup, with Aberdeen.

Those days of 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の overachievement at Pittodrie where he won 10 トロフィーs and 粉砕するd through the Old 会社／堅い duopoly will always be the 最終的な answer to anyone who dares 示唆する that, at mighty 部隊d, he’s never had to build bricks from straw in the way that, say, the 広大な／多数の／重要な Brian Clough had to do at more homespun Derby and Nottingham Forest.

The simple fact is that, in club 管理／経営, Ferguson has done the lot.

He’s done a Clough, winning in Europe with an unfashionable club; he� �s done a Fabio Capello, 解除するing league 肩書を与えるs in two different countries; he’s done a Rafa Benitez and a Jose Mourinho, collecting European silverware with two clubs; he’s done a Giovanni Trapattoni, 別館ing トロフィーs in three 連続する１０年間s.

There is an argument to 示唆する that he has not yet やめる matched the 業績／成就s
of （頭が）ひょいと動く Paisley, who won three European Cups in his nine years in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of Liverpool.

But Ferguson has built 劇の teams and then rebuilt them even more compellingly
so that, as his assistant Carlos Queiroz 布告するd yesterday, we have to talk about “without 疑問 the best 経営者／支配人 of his 世代”.

Maybe any 世代? The sheer 負わせる of the 統計（学） would say so. Wednesday’s was the 32nd major 勝利者s’ メダル of his 管理／経営 career, 21 more than Capello and 11 more than even that venerable serial 勝利者, 罠（にかける） ― but no stats can 伝える the attractive bouquet of each 連続する

Ferguson vintage. Chateau Fergie 2008 will doubtless be 改善するd this summer with the 半端物劇の調印 in the goalscoring department.

Like the thrilling young Lyon striker Karim Benzema, perhaps?

Or a brilliant enigma who thinks he deserves a sparkling new home? Yes, Fergie could make Dimitar Berbatov the 支持する／優勝者 he せねばならない be.

And even while there may be a little 地元の difficulty to sort out with Cristiano Ronaldo still seemingly playing silly b’s about his 未来 ― I wouldn’t contest Ferguson’s bet that he’ll 支持を得ようと努める the Portuguese to still be at the club next season.

最終的に the only real 関心 at Old Trafford would be not if the best player in the world left tomorrow, but if the best 経営者／支配人 in the world suddenly decided it was time to retire tomorrow.

And that’s about as likely as Chelsea embracing the 概念 of 管理の安全 and 連続.

Fergie is planning next season before Moscow has even sunk in

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