holiday," said the nation’s favourite son (sic)
"The first thing they said was that they wanted to sell me
to Barcelona, but I didn't want to go to Barcelona. I would
have only left Manchester to have joined Real Madrid.
"You have to remember that I had been at Manchester for 15
years and I had a lot of friends there. I still have. To
leave Manchester United, it had to be to go to a team of a
similar level and quality of players and that only left Real
Madrid.
"I have only spoken to him (Ferguson) once. It was when we
were at the funeral of a young player. All we said was
'hello' - nothing more."