Fergie surprised at Sparky success

Sir Alex Ferguson admits he has no idea which of his players will be next to take the plunge into football management.

The Manchester United manager has seen many of his players turn to management after hanging up their boots, including Steve Bruce, Mark Hughes and Laurent Blanc, but says it’s difficult to predict which ones will make the leap.

“It’s difficult to assess that because you don’t know what ambitions the players have.

“Currently we’ve got Giggs, Scholes and Neville taking their coaching badges. That’s great and I encourage them to do that because it gives them a platform if they want to stay in the game.”

Sir Alex also admitted that he never thought Mark Hughes would become a successful manager.

“It can be difficult to pinpoint who would make it as a manager.

“For instance, nobody here thought Mark Hughes would become a manager, never in a million years, and we all thought Bryan Robson was a certainty to be a top manager.”

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