By NEIL CUSTIS
Keeper David de Gea, centre-back Phil Jones and now England
winger Ashley Young have joined Manchester United as Ferguson
(below) once more reinvigorates his team.
And his £55million spending spree may not be over yet.
Another team is forming just as the title winners of 1993
evolved into the Treble winners of 1999, who were overhauled to
create the Champions League kings of 2008.
Time never stands still for Ferguson and sentiment does not get
in the way - just ask David Beckham and Roy Keane.
As ever when rebuilding, Ferguson looks a lot deeper than the
names that find themselves on to all the top clubs'
radars.
For him, other pieces in the new jigsaw have been on the shelves
at Carrington for some time just waiting to be placed into the big
picture.
The Fergie line-up of the future as shown on this page may not
rattle any cages right now. But the master builder knows it will,
as it emerges over the next few years.
After all he was famously told he would 'never win anything with
kids' when he produced his most renowned overhauling at Old
Trafford in 1995.
The FA Youth Cup winners of 1992 became the foundations for
success from the mid-90s and beyond.
Look at the three great Ferguson teams on this page from the
past and any manager would have been proud to have any one of them
on his CV. Fergie never allows a side to grow old and stale as
Chelsea have.
Nor will he baulk at the big buy when the money is there, unlike
Arsene Wenger.
But it does not always need the big bucks he spent on the likes
of Wayne Rooney, Rio Ferdinand and Dimitar Berbatov
either.
Remember Eric Cantona cost £1.2m and a 'Little Pea' turned into
a little gem when Javier Hernandez became the bargain of the season
at £6m.
Ferguson's teams are a product not only of his eye for the right
man at the right time but in getting the raw talent and moulding it
into a star.
He took a one-trick pony in Cristiano Ronaldo and turned him
into a thoroughbred.
This team for the future has been a combination of scouting and
nurture.
There is no genius in landing Young, Wayne Rooney or maybe even
Antonio Valencia.
And the latest big-money buy who could be on his way to Old
Trafford is Arsenal playmaker Samir Nasri.
But look through the rest of the team and each has been
carefully brought through the ranks or had their development
tracked elsewhere.
At 20, Atletico Madrid's De Gea may seem expensive at £18.3m
when most goalkeepers do not peak until they are 26.
However, Ferguson trusts his instincts - and those of the men
around him.
The incredible Da Silva twins Fabio and Rafael have already
relieved the headache of right-back Gary Neville's retirement and
who will replace left-back Patrice Evra when the brilliant
Frenchman moves on.
Jones may have come to everyone's attention this past season at
Blackburn yet fellow centre-back Chris Smalling, 21, seemed an
expensive gamble at £8m with such relatively little experience at
Fulham.
Last season, though, he took to the Old Trafford stage and the
spotlight of the Champions League without problems.
The midfield in this team has the established Valencia and Young
on either flank with Nani's future not entirely certain after a
poor second half to the season.
The centre looks far from familiar but Tom Cleverley has been
with United since he was 15.
After successful loan spells at Watford, where he was their
2009-10 player of the season, and Wigan, Ferguson has called him
back and believes he is ready.
Those who have witnessed 18-year-old attacking midfielder Ravel
Morrison at close quarters know United have a genius.
He has had problems off the pitch though on it, he has
everything needed to be a great.
Have a look on YouTube at his two goals in the second leg of
United's FA Youth Cup triumph this season.
He is an out-and-out striker and a previous recipient of the
Jimmy Murphy Young Player of the Year trophy.
His twin brother Michael is a very handy right-back in the same
United youth team.
New names, new stars in the making, a new United, as the
conveyor belt of talent continues to bring in the
trophies.
Ferguson will be 70 this New Year's Eve but shows no signs of
stopping and no signs of losing his touch in his constant
rebuilding at United.
Even if he does call it a day he will make sure his successor
has the tools at his disposal with which to continue the good
work.
As Ferguson insisted: "We've got a good nucleus of young players
in the club which gives you the foundation to be able to protect
the future and know it's going to be all right."