From The Guardian:
Sir Alex Ferguson delegated media duties to Carlos Queiroz on Friday, which made it a busy day for Manchester United's assistant manager. The Scot was nowhere to be seen at the practice ground as Queiroz took training, worked on tactics for today's game at Fulham, announced the team, checked on injured players and dealt with the fall-out of Roy Keane's announcement that he would leave the club next summer. Everything, in fact, that the manager is supposed to do.
"The final product is to defend well, avoid goals.
"If we need to defend with 10 players behind the ball we are going to do that. Those results when you score three, four, five goals, they don't come often."
Since his one chastening season at Real Madrid the sceptics have begun to scrutinise his CV and found few medals, from Sporting Lisbon, Nagoya Grampus Eight and the New York/New Jersey MetroStars to national jobs with the UAE, South Africa and Portugal. "My position about criticism will never change," he said. "Criticism, for me, is inspirational. The position of the coach is to accept and respect criticism, no matter how tough it is. All professionals, people who expose their lives in public, must accept it."
"This is a man derided by the fans, a man whose track record is one of failure." said Johnnie Flacks, formerly of IMUSA
The difference is that Ferguson has given Queiroz far more responsibility and Ryan Giggs says as much in his recent autobiography. "Some said he had too much influence, but I don't agree," says Giggs. "He impressed me from the start."
It is unclear whom Giggs means when he says "some" - players or fans? Supporters' groups have made their feelings known. If some of the players begin to doubt Queiroz's influence, United will have real problems.