So Sir Alex Ferguson's autobiography comes out after tomorrow! October 24th. I personally can't wait to get it! Even if you're not a United fan, I think it'll be a great read on what the legendary, arguably the best manager in football history (admit it and stop lying to yourselves those who think otherwise) had to say about his career, the players around him and the managers, and overall what was it like! Here are some of the bits from his autobiography:

David Beckham - "He fell in love with Victoria and that changed everything"
“I hold no rancour towards David at all. I like him. He’s a wonderful boy. But you should never surrender what you’re good at," writes Ferguson, before laying in to the midfielder."He lost the chance to become an absolute top-dog player ... he never attained the level of an absolute top player… He started to make decisions that rendered it hard for him to develop into a really great footballer. That was the disappointment for me. There was no animosity between us, just disappointment, for me. Dejection. I would look at him and think ‘What are you doing, son?’…"David was the only player I managed who chose to be famous, who made it his mission to be known outside the game."
On the famous incident in which Ferguson kicked a boot across the changing room at half-time, hitting Beckham and leaving him with a gash on his face: "He rose to have a go at me and the players stopped him… [then he wore an Alice band that] highlighted the damage inflicted by the boot. It was in those days that I told the board David had to go. The minute a Manchester United player thought he was bigger than the manager he had to go…"David thought he was bigger than Alex Ferguson. There is no doubt about that in my mind."

Roy Keane - "The most savage tongue you can imagine"
Ferguson's former captain is one of the hardest-hit targets in the book, described as "intimidating and ferocious."The hardest part of Roy's body is his tongue. He has the most savage tongue you can imagine. He can debilitate the most confident person in the world in seconds with that tongue. What I noticed about him that day as I was arguing with him was that his eyes started to narrow, almost to wee black beads. It was frightening to watch. And I’m from Glasgow."Ferguson adds that Keane "crossed a line" by blasting team-mates in an MUTV interview, which was never broadcast."Roy came up to see me and I told him, 'What you did in that interview was a disgrace, a joke. Criticising your teammates. And wanting that to go out..."[Carlos Queiroz] called it the worst imaginable spectacle in the life of a professional football club. 'He needs to go, Carlos,' I said. 'One hundred per cent,' he said. 'Get rid of him.'"I belive - and Carlos Queiroz was at one with me on this - that Roy Keane's behaviour pattern changed when he realised he was no longer the Roy Keane of old. I think he could see the truth of what we were saying to him, but to surrender to it was too threatening to his pride. He thought he was Peter Pan."

Ruud Van Nistelrooy - "The whole episode was very sad"
The Dutch striker asked for a transfer repeatedly in 2005 and 2006, and reacted furiously when being left on the bench during the League Cup final - apparently shouting at Ferguson "You c***!""I'll always remember that. Could not believe it. It became fractious in the dugout. The other players were telling him: 'Behave yourself.'"That was the end of him. I knew he would never get him back. He had burned his boats. After that incident, his behaviour became worse and worse."The whole episode was very sad. Why Ruud changed, I don’t know.”

Rafa Benitez - "He wanted to defend and destroy a game, not win it"
"He displayed no interest in forming friendships with other managers: a danger policy, because there would have been plenty from lesser clubs who would have loved to share a drink and learn from him. Benitez had more regard for defending and destroying a game than winning it. You can’t be totally successful these days with that approach."I found Liverpool hard to watch when he was manager there. I found them dull. It was a surprise to me that Chelsea called him."

Arsene Wenger - "Sharp change in him when the whistle blew"
Wenger was "incredulous" at United refusing to pay £25m for Robin Van Persie: "I told him again: I wouldn't go to £25m. Arsene asked what my best offer would be. Answer: £22m. The reply was thatArsenal would take £22.5m and a further £1.5m if we won the Champions League or Premier Leaguer during the period of his contract. Deal done."The Arsenal boss is painted as Ferguson's nemesis for much of his career in less than flattering terms: "he is a diligent member of our trade". But says he has shown his "softer centre" later in life, and given his "sharp change in him when the whistle blew" they have built a reasonable off-pitch relationship in which they discuss a shared love of fine wine.

Managing England - "It wasn't a bed of nails I had any desire to lie on"
Ferguson claims he was offered the England job twice: once in 1999, and again two years later, just before Sven Goran Eriksson got the job."There was no way I could contemplate taking the England job. Can you imagine me doing that? A Scotsman? I always joked that I would take the position and relegate them: make them the 150th-rated country in the world, with Scotland 149. No, it wasn’t a bed of nails I was ever tempted to lie on.”

How many biographies/autobiographies does he have? Like 1,000? I am into footballer/manager autobiographies but he has too many...

I can't wait to read it.

@ramaboy10 Well you can't blame him for having such an illustrated and a very very looong career can you ? How can he fit it all in one book haha

Why are all these extracts from his autobiography so negative? These excerpts only have his negative comments on others. I'm sure he has plenty of positive ones, so why are only the negative ones posted here?

What a dickhead..

Sorry mate, did not see your post, i wasted 30 min on translating when the job was already done :) Nice post anyway.

@Dynastian because that is what he said in the press

He also states that Gerrard and Lampard aren't as good as they're made to be. Ferguson is really trying hard to seem like a douche in his new autobiography.

"Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea. But I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I'm one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player."

He also heavily criticizes Jordan Henderson to the point where even Brendan Rodgers had to step in and call Fergie out to tell him he should apologize to Henderson for what he said.

I never liked him, but he was undoubtedly a great manager, but now I've lost all my respect for him. Biggest hypocrite ever.

what a cunt

ive got a question for all the butthurt chelsea fans criticizing SAF for speaking his mind freely, if jose mourinho decides to write his autobiography, wont he go beyond where SAF went? wont he mention some of the greatest players ever more badly? i even think that this book would have +18 rating.

the point is every manager is free to give opinions about certain players and to choose the way to say it . deal with it.

^ Well put.
Why's everyone hating so much on SAF? Pathetic really.

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Except Mourinho didn't and SAF has. TWICE. This isn't the first autobiography where SAF acts like a douche, so don't bring up what if since that has no relevance to what SAF says in his autobiography. The man sure is free to criticize all he wants, but he is only going to make his reputation as a red nosed scum bigger. Honestly, Gerrard not a top, top player? What a foolish and hypocritical sentence.

I don't mind his comments on Benitez, Owen et al, but to criticize Henderson seems very petty to me and that too on his running style and how he'll have problems later in his career. That's quite a shit thing to say to a 23 year old player who works very hard. Will hit his confidence for sure.

May I also point out that it's funny how when in the moment when SAF announced retirement and people made posts about him, everyone was kissing his ass saying he was a great manager and people were just afraid to talk shit about him during that period. (Even though it was clear ever non-United fan didn't like him at that time.) But now, everyone are just talking crap about him.
Criticism is a part of football and if you can't stand it, don't watch it. Don't act as if SAF is the only manager that has done this. It's no different whether he's done it in paper or in the press. I don't care if you criticize him. I care that you guys should realize SAF isn't the only one like this.

I've expressed my distaste toward Mourinho before but I've grown to like the guy. He trolls football so well. Gotta love him. I would read his autobiography over SAF's any day.

He wrote an autobiography to sell it. One way to sell stuff is to create controversy. I doubt people would buy his book had he filled it with sweet melancholic memories. No people would read that on his wikipedia page. He needs to sell it therefore he filled it with content that's designed to make people want to read it. Hardly surprised really.

Wanted to take a quote from his book following our loss to Everton cheer us up.
"Sometimes defeats are the best outcomes. To react to adversity is a quality. Even in your lowest periods you are showing strength."