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Sir Alex Ferguson doesn’t really have any plans for big transfers this summer. The United manager has even said that he thinks maybe one new player will be enough to strengthen the squad. To which I hope Fergie will go after a striker like Berbatov, because they need more strikers as Saha hasn’t really been worthwhile in long while.

But it’s nice on some level to see a manager in the top flight of England’s Premier competition, confident in his current squad. Opposed to their usual obscene amount of signings coming in to each squad. Like when Chelsea get tired of their players and bring in as many new ones as they want, because Abramovich can afford pretty much anything. Or when Liverpool spends £100million they don’t have on players they don’t need, that don’t win them a championship anyways. Excluding Torres, because that was a brilliant buy.

I like that Ferguson is saying, I’m confident in the young players we’ve acquired last season, so we’re sticking with the same squad. And that he recognizes even the older players still have huge parts to play, like Van Der Sar, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. The manager seems confident that despite their ages, they still have a few years of quality to offer up to Manchester United’s campaigns.

Although Fergie also seems confident that Gary Neville will make a successful return to football, but I highly doubt it. Neville was a brilliant defender, and United desperately need someone more capable at right back. But a 33 year old that’s been away from football for a year and a half with a calf injury, just isn’t the one to do it. Neville needs to make the same realization as Solskjaer had to the beginning of last season. Sometimes you just get too old to come back from an injury and be competitive. Sad yes, but the hard to swallow truth of playing in the fast paced world of the Premiership.

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