Ferguson's first priority was to overhaul the playing personnel.
"I'm running a football club, not a drinking club," he proclaimed, and with that Norman Whiteside and Paul McGrath were shown the door.
In came men who laid the foundations for future success. He went through the £1m barrier for the first of 49 times to lure Mark Hughes and signed Gary Pallister for a then British record £2.3m.
Ferguson has gone on to break that mark a further four times and has spent in the region of £300m, but it was the £1m he splashed out on Eric Cantona that helped United dominate the domestic scene in the 1990s.
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