Friday, 10 May 2013

Friend Alex will set his sights on these German thrillers today - Daily Mail

UPDATED: 17:35 EST, 27 April 2013 It was a strange experience to be looking on as Manchester United players recognized winning the title while I was seated in Sky's galleries in London. It was the very first time in my life that had happened and I'd no participation in and across the club. Those evenings will be the peak of as a player your job and the nights you do miss when you retire. Obviously a League final has more worldwide significance and is an incredible moment of glory. But winning a league title is just a long, hard grind of 10 months of baseball. It seems more of an achievement in certain ways. Ruthless: Robert Lewandowski (left) tore Real Madrid aside while at the start for Borussia Dortmund Visionary: Sir Alex Ferguson can hope to imitate these young German factors in the Champions League And the manner in which United did it - winning it so decisively with four games to play - and coming back so strongly after this kind of demoralising problem of losing the name on objective difference in the last second of the previous time has been outstanding. That is Sir Alex Ferguson's extraordinary skill, to help you to respond to the newest challenge and to repair from disappointments. He congratulated Manchester City by the end of last season then, in the next breath, he talked about the small staff he was building and how they'd gain a lot more awards. Even yet in that moment he was looking ahead. The issues I am asked nearly all are both about Sir Alex: just how long can he continue and what keeps him going? The only real answer I will give is that the teenagers with whom he works appear to invigorate him, and the process of what's next seems to re-energise him. On Monday night, he'd have celebrated with his group and enjoyed the evening. But my guess is that on Tuesday evening, he'd have been seeing Bayern Munich v Barcelona then, on Wednesday, Borussia Dortmund v Real Madrid and he'll have thought: 'Right, that's where we're going; that is where I am taking this team. My young people have good power, ability and power. That's the amount I want to make the journey to. We'll be with Dortmund and Bayern in per year saying, "Come on! We'll be having you at your personal game."' And that's why I can't see him completing. I do not think he's even thinking about it. He will be concentrating on the next goal and it's looking him in the face area. Having watched a lot of Champions League football this year and having been at Borussia Dortmund's 4-1 conquer Real Madrid on Wednesday, it is clear that modern football is ever-changing and improving. For me, the best teams on earth are now actually getting much more risks and playing with extraordinary power. They are the teams that attack in great numbers and then get back into their defensive design the quickest. It's about answering the quickest, both mentally and athletically. The essential principles of getting back as a team and moving forward as a team have not changed. But more players are getting forward than ever; and performing and recovering quicker to obtain back. Arjen Robben (left) and brutal: Thomas Muller (right) set Barcelona to the blade in a win Stumped: Alexis Sanchez (centre) and his team-mates were humbled by the German champions And no team reflect that change a lot more than Borussia Dortmund. They certainly were beautiful on Wednesday, and that word wasn't used by me lightly. It was not that they'd more capacity or that we saw a number of the best people of them all, as we do in Cristiano Ronaldo or Leo Messi. What was beautiful was that this band of teenage boys have the energy, intelligence and quality that only the outstanding groups have. Only at that level, the technical ability and skill certainly are a given. Nonetheless it is their business and energy that make the difference. Bayern's 4-0 make an impression on Barcelona, though similar, was quietly different: they overpowered Barcelona. But Dortmund were just too fast for Real. They made them look slow and old, yet they're neither. This really is no mug of an Actual Madrid team - and it is not impossible they could stage one of the greatest comebacks in Champions League record. Real Madrid were scintillating last year once they won the La Liga concept with Spanish football at its maximum. But Dortmund just ran them off the message. And while the headlines were grabbed by Robert Lewandowski along with his four goals, for me personally, seeing activities in the last couple of weeks, the important thing players will be the five behind him. When Ilkay Gundogan goes, everyone goes with him. He is only 22 and around him he has small players in Sven Bender (23), Marco Reus (23), Mario Gotze (20) and Jakob Blaszczykowski (27). The tone is set by pace maker: Ilkay Gundogan ( left ) for Dortmund as Sven Bender battles with Luka Modric (right) Feisty: Lewandowski's countryman Jakub Blaszczykowski (center) was important in Dortmund's achievement Prodigious: Marco Reus (right) and Mario Gotze combined to devastating effect against Real I'm sure if you talked to Robert Lewandowski he'd tell you he'd only be half the gamer without those five. Paris Saint-Germain, without as effective, had similar characteristics against Barcelona. They'd Marco Veratti, who is 20, driving them on, with Lucas Moura (20) and Javier Pastore (23) around him as well as the ability of Thiago Motta. For Bayern, Javier Martinez (24) set the whole tone of the performance. As an organization, I do believe the United group of 1999 had something similar to that when they had Paul Scholes, Roy Keane, David Beckham, Ryan Giggs, Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole. Match made in heaven: David Beckham helped United to Champions League success in 1999 Legendary: Sir Alex Ferguson is obviously looking to make his staff even better I am not one for comparing teams between eras but I'd love to watch a between that United team and the Dortmund team of today. With United there is really a problem to access that level. Sir Alex Ferguson and David Gill have discussed improvements being made to the group come july 1st and you obtain the sensation that the club will go for it. It is much less though United have to sign four or five new players. I am sure they'll be seeking to make important additions as teams usually evolve. However they is going to do so in a calculated fashion. Small guns: Javier Pastore (right) and Lucas Moura look a threat in the years ahead for Paris Saint-Germain Undoubtedly they will look at that greater midfield region. Jordan Carrick has had his best ever time however they have lost Darren Fletcher to illness and Paul Scholes has not played for 3 months. You sense he knows his team are growing again, when Sir Alex talked a year ago about these children returning and earning more brands. I have the sensation there's a Champions League staff changing yet again. You can always sense when a United team are coming to the finish of a pattern and when they are developing. This staff are in the latter class. There were eight people winning the Premier League for the very first time. And when I look at players like Jonny Evans, Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Rafael, Tom Cleverley, Danny Welbeck, Shinji Kagawa and Javier Hernandez, I will see them doing the same as these Dortmund and Bayern players. What all these people have as a common factor, and what's vital to the modern game, is that they'll all work - and quickly. Talent: Shinji Kagawa (right) left Dortmund last summer for Manchester United Hope: Phil Jones and Danny Welbeck are simply two of the stars at Manchester United Killer instinct: Javier Hernandez has been dangerous before target since joining the Old Trafford club But I'd imagine Sir Alex will have been invigorated from watching Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich and will have thought: 'Right, we missed out in 2013. But I'm going to get my players into that mentality so that we are going to be there in 2014 and 2015.' This United group are on an upward curve. Saturday was not the peak of the potential achievements. It absolutely was one of the smaller peaks along to the solution to the peak. The improvement remains in the future. Of course, as a club, United are in a massive advantage in being able to control the competitive instinct of Sir Alex Ferguson. Friend Alex's best success must certanly be that he has instilled a thinking into a whole soccer club that you've never used it and the work is never finished.

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