The veteran manager concedes that he would’ve liked to keep Shawcross at United as he saw him as a talented centre back with great potential to impress in the English Premier League...
Manchester United’s manager, Sir Alex Ferguson has come out and admitted that he regrets letting Ryan Shawcross go to Stoke City in January of 2009 despite his best attempts to keep him at the club. The Scotsman revealed that Manchester
United thought that they could compensate for Ryan’s loss to Stoke by bringing up Gerard Pique from the http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604.
Both the centre backs had tremendous potential as proven by their escapades at Stoke and Barcelona respectively. Pique has established himself as one of the best centre backs in the world at Barcelona under Pep Guardiola, whereas
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ryan-Shawcross-c31996 has shown his worth at Stoke City who have done remarkably well in the English Premier League over the last couple of seasons.
Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 said, "It always grieves me when I have to release a young player of great potential and Shawcross certainly fell into that category. He had the misfortune - though he perhaps doesn't see it that way considering the success
he has had with Stoke - of coming through along with a number of other young defenders.”
He added, "This was the era of Gerard Pique and we kept him at Ryan's expense, only I didn't know that http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011. He has prospered with Barcelona,
as we know, and, if I had known he wanted away then, we would have kept Ryan Shawcross."
Manchester United recently gained a vital two goal win over Ryan Shawcross’ Stoke City at Old Trafford and added three points to their tally which has brought them level on points with Manchester City at the top of the Premier
League table. Sir Alex will hope that his men can continue their form against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 on the weekend as well and keep pace with City in the Premier League title race.
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