SUCKING UP

Last updated : 18 April 2007 By Editor

"The Glazers have been fine since they took over.

"They haven't interfered with anything we do. I have had a couple of meetings with them, although [the United chief executive] David Gill obviously deals with them more regularly. Any time I have been with them, they have simply said to let them know if there is anything I need."

"Of course it was costly.

"But I told our people, 'Look, two or three years down the line, we could be playing Real Madrid and thinking to ourselves that we had the best player in the world and let him go'. Nobody would want that."

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