Fergie believes that players can move too freely between clubs, something he experienced himself last month when young Ravel Morrison turned his back on United and moved to West Ham.
The United boss was keen to point out just how ‘enormously’ the game has changed in his time as a manager, now the players seem to get everything their own way and generally have an easier time of getting a move when the feeling takes them to do so.
And the United manager insists the involvement of agents bargaining to get the most lucrative deal possible is becoming detrimental to the game of football.
"When I first started out in management 37 years ago there were no agents," he said.
"Imagine that. There was no freedom of contract either, so players were totally tied to their clubs.
"A change in that sense was inevitable, though I think that now the scales have topped completely in the other direction and I'm not sure it's good for the game."