Manchester United Finally Running Out Of Luck: Fergie's End Of Days ?

"The best thing about Luck is that ..it changes."

Are we beginning to see the the fall of the mighty Red Devils ? With a few matches still left to play Manchester United are again having their backs right against the wall and it will be apt to say that the battle is out of their grasp..and if there be any semblence of a comeback yet again it lies in the hands of other premier league teams.

Matters don't end there though, Manchester United still have to come back from behind and beat Bayern Munich in their own home match to proceed in their Champions League quest. Good or Bad, Chelsea their major League rival don't really have to bother about any such important fixtures..Although surprises have not been rare in the Premier League this season but for Manchester United to depend on the same yet again, isn't it asking too much even for Lady Luck.( who has already provided them with a plethora of own goals already this season to keep them in contention at the first place.)

Now lets look at the man behind this epic era at Manchester United..Sir Alex Ferguson..As a coach Ferguson's acumen has never been a subject of speculation.He not only has almost single handedly resurrected a club but has taken it to heights never dreamt of before at Old Trafford. His choices of players young and old, his style of play and charisma has reached a legendary status and it would be fair to say that he is the most successful Premier League coach alive!! However even great epics need an ending and though it may be too early but are we seeing the signs of deterioration from this truly legendary coach at Old Trafford.

Let me begin from after the end of the campaign in 2009-10. Manchester United emerged victorius but then started a sequence of events that indicate that Mr. Ferguson was losing out on his competency. A lot has been made about Rooney's absence and what it means to United now, when it really was a questionable conduct on Fergie's part who had so elaborately planned to over work him even before the season began..Lets have a look at some sceptical managerial decisions by the Old Trafford Gaffer :-

1. Michael Owen for Cristiano Ronaldo? :- The livewire of  Manchester United sure didn't want to further his stay at Old Trafford, having won all credentials a club player could win there. There was no problem in selling him as his mind lay elsewhere. However what about the re-inforcements?? Michael Owen ?? Ok some may say Luis Valencia was his replacement and not Owen, but thats by mere position of play and not by goal scoring prowess.

2. Selling off Tevez :- The most under-rated and under used player for the  Old Trafford outfit was Carlos Tevez. Thus humiliated, the player refused to sign any further contract and left the club. What he was capable of is now known to all those who follow English Club Football .

Manchester United lost two scorers and bought in really one potent replacement that of Michael Owen, who was pretty miserable at Newcastle and plagued by injuries no less than he is now.

3. Gabriel Obertan and Luis Valencia :-  Valencia was even spotted by Real Madrid before Manchester lured him in, and really he hasn't dissappionted much, but his goal scoring prowess is practically absent. Obertan was bought for what reason only Fregie knows best. He has been pretty anonymous.

Now the LUCK part, no premiership manager is expected to think that all his starting eleven would remain fit throughout the season and play their best throughout. With Berbatov basically being a reknowned flop already at the club even before the season started, the much maligned Rafa Benitez and Alex Ferguson were level with just one prime striker. Torres got injured mid-way and Liverpool lost their way because of this among other factors whereas Rooney went from strength to strength and Manchester United rose ..yet again, to challenge for the title.

However, overworking Rooney meant that his proneness to injury was at an all time high.He felt a niggle before Manchester United's Aston Villa match in the Carling Cup Finals. But then Ferguson was let go with just a scare. The worst was to follow sooner rather than later, Rooney injured himself again in the dying moments of the Bayern Munich away fixture in the Champions League. Now with the heat turning on to win any worthy silverware in the forms of the Domestic League title and Champions league progress, Manchester United just seems a much tamer force. Glimpses of their recent pivotal encounter at Old Trafford where they lost to Chelsea for the first time since 2005 says it all. Not that Manchester United were outplayed completely and thoroughly, far from it, but they missed their wonder striker who had translated all their even half-chances to goals ..(Well,almost all!)

Playing Macheda (the man who almost practically won them their League title last year with critical strikes against Villa and Sunderland) so late in the season after his wonder run last time round etc. also is a really disappointing decision.

And now with the debt heaping on at the club, and owners practically abhoring outside investment really BIG signings look unlikely and if the club failed to win any real award post the Carling Cup, I think going by the estimation of things to come it could well be End of Fergie's days or at least glorius days managing the Old Trafford  outfit.

I mean if he plans on retaining his assets (in the form of key players), he would have more or less the same squad to work with and choose from and it would be really absurd to think that lightning would at all strike twice..with heavy investments likely from Chelsea and even their local rivals,City. Own goals and over-reliance on Rooney surely don't seem to extend the Glorius Record at Manchester United season after season, and Luck may eventually start getting even out, being so highly poised in their own court for so long, this season at least. Being a sensible man, it would thus, not at all be surprising to see Fergie bid a farewell to his Legendary status at the Old trafford hot seat, come the end of the season whatever be the outcome..