Sam Allardyce has highlighted that Premier League teams are lacking something that was majorly important to Sir Alex Ferguson when he was at Manchester United.
The 71-year-old former England manager is close pals with Sir Alex Ferguson and experienced first-hand the legendary Scotsman’s dominance over English football.
Ferguson, who arrived at the Red Devils in 1986, bowed out of Old Trafford in 2013 after leading Manchester United to their last Premier League title.
The 84-year-old former United manager captured all 13 of the Red Devils’ Premier League trophies and added two Champions League titles to his silverware haul.
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Sam Allardyce puts the spotlight on the importance of Man Utd’s centre-forward options under Sir Alex Ferguson
Sir Alex Ferguson was well-known to have a stacked roster of Manchester United strikers at his disposal during his legendary reign at the Premier League club.
From Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole to Ruud van Nistelrooy and Wayne Rooney, Ferguson was spoilt for choice with the attacking options at his disposal.
Speaking to Kevin Nolan on the No Tippy Tappy Football, Sam Allardyce talked up the importance of United having “four” centre-forward options under Ferguson.
“What I’m saying is the lack [of centre-forwards] in the world, the lack of attacking players that we are struggling with,” he said.
“Not just, I keep going on about the lack of centre-forwards, but there’s a lack of attacking players in the world at the moment.
“So that’s why, when I keep [harking] back to in them 2000s and they say, ‘Oh, listen to him, that old b——.’
“You know, going, it was better then, like me. But it was like, ‘How many players?’ Like I said, Man United used to keep four centre-forwards. Four?!”
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Ferguson could rely on the strike partnership of Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole, as well as call on Teddy Sheringham and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, in United’s treble-winning season in 1999.
Kevin Nolan told Allardyce that all four of the aforementioned legendary former United strikers would walk into any team in the Premier League right now.
“Yeah, four of them, yeah,” he said.
“They weren’t that bad either, were they? Yorke and Cole, they’ll take them off and then Sheringham and Solskjaer would come on.
“They’re getting in everyone’s team now. All four of them.”
Ferguson is widely regarded as one of the best managers of all time after the iconic Scot’s profound impact in England with Man Utd and in Scotland with Aberdeen.
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