since i became a fan circa 2001 i can't say much about cantona and earlier player

but for me,the greatest player under SAF tenure would be Ruud Van Nistelrooy,with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer,Giggs,Beckham and Keane.i am the "english" type of fan so i kinda under-appreciated Scholes until much later

if i could choose the Man Utd best formation....

------------------VDS--------------------

G.Neville----Stam----Ferdinand-----Evra

Beckham-----Keane-----Scholes----Giggs/CR7

---------RVN10/22------Ole Gunnar/Roo------

our wings position will be overflow by the time Park and Valencia returns.. we already had Obertan and Giggs(in and out) together with Nani as regular RW (shift to LW once Valencia back to his best).

unless he's cheap, young and does not complain when get 0 playing time

since matt jarvis is an english, we all know too well english player don't come cheap.
Obertan look more promising than Tosic but who knows right? he might need more run in the first team to prove his worth.

i dont like owners like Roman. yes, he's big football fan. but interfering team affair too much. he should leave it to the experts. but seem his understanding of the game are better lately (patience with Chelsea's current dismal form).

Glazers are better. i dont know whether they really a fans or pure businessmen , but at least they let SAF and co running the show totally. doesnt me i love them, but they're still better. things may change if SAF replacement in the future which certainly not influential as SAF is. maybe Glazers today understand how big SAF stature in OT, so they just let SAF do his things. bigger transfer kitty from them will be nicer though, but im grateful on our current state (except the huge debts).

Sheikhs in City spending like a fools. but from few interviews i watched, i think they are smart people. they took massive risk by spending big to overturn City from mediocre club tu bigger one. they will reap their rewards in the next 5 years (hopefully not). but like old saying, Rome arent built in a day.

football ownership are totally different between Spain and England. in Spain, most clubs (like Real Madrid and Barca) had huge numbers of shareholders and had public equity. they select president by election within shareholders. i prefer this system though its so much politic involved. Florentino Pérez (Real Madrid President) is a politician. he made sweet promise during election and need to delivered it by any means (signing Galacticos and win things). if he failed, he'll boot out in the next election.

in England, numbers of club (like United, Pool, Chelsea) owned by single owner/few major owners (like Arsenal). so the owner/s had total control over the clubs like Pte Ltd company.