Originally Posted by
City123
The others were all preparing bids, he'd even been to meet Wenger, United themselves had been interested for over a year. The whole "no one knew who he was until that friendly" thing is bullshit and you know it. Did it convince Manchester United even more? Maybe, but to imply they weren't at all interested until a friendly is completely wrong
The others dithered, Ferguson was more decisive and went in with a huge bid (at the time) for a teenager to make sure he got him. To say there was no interest from the others is nonsense.
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