Get the United transfer latest, team news, match updates and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Whatever one's definition of 'world-class' is, Sir Alex Ferguson's is inaccurate.
Ferguson used his last book - another score-settler - to suggest Ryan Giggs, Eric Cantona, Paul Scholes and Cristiano Ronaldo were the only world-class players he had at Manchester United.
The list of those who should have felt affronted was longer: Schmeichel, Keane, Beckham, Van Nistelrooy, Ferdinand, Van der Sar, Vidic, Evra, Van Persie et al.
Fabien Barthez and Juan Sebastian Veron did not succeed at United but were recognised as world-class upon arrival. Cantona, catalyst and revolutionary though he was, seldom shone outside the
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