1. Too scared to step out of Sir Alex’s shadow
It’s great to have a mentor, someone who can guide you when you’re lost and give advice when there is nothing but doubt all around. Only a mentor is supposed to put an arm around you and whisper in your ear, not watch over your shoulder and react to every disappointing incident for the nation’s press to pick up on.
By not having a respectful but firm word with Ferguson, he’s doing his reputation and career no good at all. The whole country knows that he’s being run like a puppet and by not standing up to that and changing it he’ll run himself out of a job and United into further turmoil.
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