I didn't really want to get into the Glazers debate, Cupcake, or off the point and onto Sir Matt for that matter. We all know the debt we owe him. However, to attempt to discredit Ferguson's achievements simply due to a matter of birth date is asinine. "Pots Of Money" ? Busby was the first to recognize the value in bringing youth players together as a group and if, in order to achieve startling and ground-breaking success with that policy you spend a couple of quid, tell me which successful enterprise hasn't ?
You want to talk about wilderness? United hadn't won anything for 26 years until Ferguson took over. He may have mimicked a policy previously used by arguably the most innovative and greatest manager British football has ever seen, however, that's not a bad blueprint to utilize is it cupcake? ( and I'm not using your name there, just an apt pronoun ) Furthermore, to have the guts to do it at a time when money was being poured into football demands respect. To achieve success with it, deserves admiration.
The "idiot yanks" already have been stripping the club bare of income and making money off the club's debts. It is reprehensible and selfish beyond belief but "idiotic" from their perspective ? Absolutely not at all. All your penultimate point does is strengthen the Ferguson argument further. The reason the club was worth all the money the Glazer family borrowed to lay out for it was because of Ferguson's success with predominantly youth products that cost nothing. On top of this, while the Glazers bleed the best club in the World for all it's worth, Abramovich and the Sheikhs are putting a large percentage of their net worth INTO their clubs. The difference is Ferguson keeps winning with squads that the whole world agrees aren't as good on paper as these multi-million pound mercenary filled teams..... and when United lose ? They lose on goal difference with a minute left of the season, having not played up to their level all year and suffering the most difficult of injury crises. Just give them Vidic back for 6 months and they'd have won it at a canter. Again.