'My thinking over the past few weeks was to operate on those players suffering with injury and get it over with,’ said Ferguson.
'Take the poison now and hopefully stabilise the club, keep it in the frame and then - around December time - pick it up. There is no magic wand so we've had to maintain the confidence of the team and maintain consistency. In the main we've dominated games, knowing fully that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ruud van Nistelrooy will come again and score goals. If I was to panic, given my experience at this club, there would be something wrong.'
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