Ruuud Awakening
Ruud's future set to be decided in next 24 hours
No man has ever turned his back on Sir Alex Fergurson and lived to tell the tale at Manchester United. Since his early days, the fiery Scot has been known to rule Old Trafford with an iron fist and legendary Manchester United players such as Paul Ince, David Beckham and Roy Keane are only a few of those who have crossed swords with the Scot and found themselves dumped the very next minute.
Only a few months after getting rid of club captain Roy Keane, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, the club's top goal-scorer, has found himself in hot soup after being accused by Sir Alex of trying to disrupt team spirit. In Manchester United's long history, no man has ever been deemed irreplaceable and Van Nistelrooy certainly is not going to be the first to earn that title.
I believe that if anyone becomes larger than life and looms a larger figure than the team, that individual has to go. This is not a matter of politics, nor is it about wanting to be in the limelight all the time. It is all about ensuring the stability of a team. I believe many management gurus will tell you that this happens not only in sporting teams but out in the corporate world.
A winning team does not require stars, but team players who are willing to work hard to make stars out of each other. I believe Van Nistelrooy is past his best and it seems complacency, arrogance and ill-discipline has begun to creep into him and it is only a matter of time the Scot wields his axe.
No man has ever turned his back on Sir Alex Fergurson and lived to tell the tale at Manchester United. Since his early days, the fiery Scot has been known to rule Old Trafford with an iron fist and legendary Manchester United players such as Paul Ince, David Beckham and Roy Keane are only a few of those who have crossed swords with the Scot and found themselves dumped the very next minute.
Only a few months after getting rid of club captain Roy Keane, Ruud Van Nistelrooy, the club's top goal-scorer, has found himself in hot soup after being accused by Sir Alex of trying to disrupt team spirit. In Manchester United's long history, no man has ever been deemed irreplaceable and Van Nistelrooy certainly is not going to be the first to earn that title.
I believe that if anyone becomes larger than life and looms a larger figure than the team, that individual has to go. This is not a matter of politics, nor is it about wanting to be in the limelight all the time. It is all about ensuring the stability of a team. I believe many management gurus will tell you that this happens not only in sporting teams but out in the corporate world.
A winning team does not require stars, but team players who are willing to work hard to make stars out of each other. I believe Van Nistelrooy is past his best and it seems complacency, arrogance and ill-discipline has begun to creep into him and it is only a matter of time the Scot wields his axe.
posted by Clarence Tan @ 10:36 AM
2 Comments:
At 12:29 PM,
Dark Shadow said…
Why no sources and date for some articles?
Your grade is 'B+'.
GCM
At 2:02 PM,
Clarence Tan said…
Those are responses to articles that are on the Web.
I've linked the URL to the sub-title of the blog post.
Clarence
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