Question by bex98: why does Fergie never talk to the bbc?
i know theres some sort of rift between them but ive never heard anyone specify the details
Best answer:
Answer by Chelsea Shrimper
Maybe they had the nerve to say a derogatory comment about Man U. God forbid anyone in the media print /say something negative about the ‘mighty’ reds!!
What do you think? Answer below!
Does it really matter?
It is to do with the BEEB stating that SAF son Jason had some kind of “insider trading” going on with the club.
SAF saw this as a slur against him and his family – never mind the club, and as a result will not talk to the BEEB, until they issue an apology.
Well that’s the last of him speaking with “Lugs” Lineker
yeah, it does matter! i think a friend of mine told me that a certain reporter from the BBC criticized him or his team and that begin to pluck on his nerves! but, hey.. if u find the truth about SAF snubbing BBC, do let me know ok! cheers!!
I think it was something to do with when he left Beckham/Scholes out of the team (can’t remember which one) and he specifically asked them pre-interview not to bring up the subject. Then live aftet the game, they asked him. Fergie saw his arse, and the rest is history.
whatever it is, that’s the reason why i loved BBC!
BBC rules!
Thought it was something to do with a certain horse Fergie ( blessed be his name ) owned.
Fergie never talks to the BBC reason being that ;the BBC made a documentary about Fergie’s son having been involved in something dodgy and yet he [son] is a football agent ;so, that prompted Fergie never to talk to the BBC.
because no one would understand him
With the publication of Manchester United’s internal review of recent transfer deals imminent, a BBC THREE investigation raises serious new questions about the business relationship between the club and Sir Alex Ferguson’s football agent son, Jason.
Focusing on two of the transfer deals highlighted by the much documented ’99 questions’ produced by United’s largest shareholders earlier this year, the programme, Fergie And Son (BBC THREE, Thursday 27 May, 9.30pm) r
Asks serious new questions about Manchester United’s £50,000 payment to L’attitude, where Jason Ferguson worked, for its role in the transfer of goalkeeper Massimo Taibi to Reggina, Italy, in 2000.
President of Reggina and Taibi’s own agent tell the BBC they had no contact with L’attitude.
Reveals the startling payments made to agents in the Jaap Stam transfer to Lazio: uncovers for the first time that United paid Jason’s business associate Mike Morris hundreds of thousands of pounds to sell Stam, while Elite were paid at the other end by Lazio.
Exposes how Jason Ferguson broke Fifa rules in a major Manchester United transfer.
Discloses for the first time that six current members of the United first team squad are now on the books of Jason’s agency Elite.
Hears how Jason Ferguson has had privileged access to United players by being allowed into the United high security training ground.
In July 2000, goalkeeper Massimo Taibi was sold to Italian club, Reggina. L’Attitude, a football agency that Jason Ferguson was employed by, made £50,000 from their role in the sale.
Reggina’s president, Pasquale Foti, however, tells the BBC that he had no contact with L’Attitude.
Asked if Reggina had dealt with Manchester United directly, Pasquale Foti says: “Yes… I didn’t deal with anyone else apart from the player’s agent – Fabio Paresi.”
Asked by reporter Alex Millar whether he had met Jason Ferguson, Pasquale Foti replies: “No, the only Ferguson I know is Alex Ferguson… Any others I don’t know.”
The programme also hears from the player’s agent, Fabio Paresi, about the transfer, who says: “Jason was not involved in the deal. So the deal has been made straight between me and Reggina and Manchester United. That’s it.”
Paresi adds: “Probably in this way, United needed Jason Ferguson’s help in this deal for something else that was not discussing the contract or the player.”
The programme also reveals the payments made to agents in the Jaap Stam transfer from Manchester United to Lazio in 2001.
Reporter Alex Millar discloses that Manchester United paid Mike Morris, a close business associate of Jason Ferguson, hundreds of thousands of pounds to act for them in the Jaap Stam move.
Fergie And Son shows that for Manchester United to sell an established world-class Dutch international, it took a fee of hundreds of thousands of pounds, paid by Lazio, to the manager’s son’s agency, and a fee of hundreds of thousands of pounds to Morris, whose fee was paid by United.
In an on the record phone conversation, Elite director Francis Martin tells Alex Millar about the Elite role in the transfer:
“Yeah. That was the first… that was the first deal that we did… At the time was (sic) a new company – new start… we asked the question, the deal got done. Lazio asked us – that’s the thing. We didn’t ask… It wasn’t us selling the player. We were asked by Lazio to get the player.”
Former Manchester United Chief Executive Office, Peter Kenyon, however, is on the record as saying that the club had no contact with Elite regarding the Stam deal.
The programme also speaks to the player’s agent, Ton Van Dalen, who expressed surprise that Lazio paid Elite: “It sounds strange… It seems a lot of people made a lot of money for not a lot of work.”
Irregularities surrounding the paperwork involved in the Stam deal are also exposed.
Fifa regulations stipulate that only a licensed agent is permitted to provide services to clubs in transfer arrangements, but the programme shows how Jason Ferguson personally provided services for Lazio without possession of a licence.
“I didn’t do any of the negotiation… People can check my phone statements, because I wasn’t involved… As long as there’s a licensed agent’s name on it and that person is the person who got paid, or his company got paid. Then, that’s what the rules say,” says Elite director, Francis Martin, whose name was on the official paperwork.
Despite the fact that manager Sir Alex Ferguson has a history of discouraging young players from signing with agents, the programme also reveals that Elite has a large chunk of Manchester United’s first team squad on its books, including Roy Carroll, Quinton Fortune, Darren Fletcher, Danny Pugh, Mark Lynch and Eddie Johnson.
The programme also hears how Elite enjoy privileged access to the team’s much guarded training ground.
Former player, Ashley Dodd, says: “I think because he’s the manager’s son that’s a major factor. I think, so he’ll come in [to the training ground] and talk to his players. He can come in whenever he can. Other agents would have to make an appointment.”
Mike Morris spoke exclusively to reporter Alex Millar about his United deals. He revealed that he had been summoned to Old Trafford as part of the internal review.
He tells the BBC he was cleared: “They [United] interviewed me on the Tim Howard deal and everything was done above board. As I say there’s no reprimands whatsoever… I had an interview in Manchester, they were only doing their job, they did it and it was satisfactory and that was that.”
Morris also says he has had no contact from the FA or Premier league over the Howard deal: “I’ve not even had a phone call.”
In light of the impending review of transfers at the club, Manchester United felt that: “It would be inappropriate to take part in the programme.”
The programme also approached both Elite and Jason Ferguson, but they declined to comment.
Basically… the BBC have nothing else to offer than EastEnders and this programme was equally as poor.
Sir Alex doesn’t give them interviews and I know alot of other managers and players at the time said that if they were him they’d have done the same.
The team and Carlos Queiroz still give interviews, just not Sir Alex.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm Alan Smith ;o)
I have realized this, its always Quieroz who gets interviewed. Maybe Fergie is too good for BBC or maybe he doesnt like it because is it from the Gvnmt.
he gets ever so shy and goes all red…but then again hes always a bit red ahhhhhhhhh
They didn’t get along.
he does,nt speak to bbc. because they had the “audacity” to ask him questions about his sons role in transfer dealings within man utd the inference being that something illegal was going on. incidently that,s the same reason allardyce wont speak to the bbc.