Freddy Shepherd has today revealed that when Kevin Keegan left Newcastle in 1997, they approached Sir Alex Ferguson to replace him.
Speaking with talkSPORT, the former Newcastle chairman revealed that they had been in touch with Ferguson’s people to convince him to leave, just two years before the manager won the Treble with United.
“We went for Sir Alex Ferguson, at the time he was negotiating a new contract at Man United and we spoke to Fergie’s advisors but it didn’t come off,” he said. “His advisors encouraged us to wait a bit longer and further down the line it just died a death. It would have been a great signing after Keegan, he’s always said that the only other club he’d come to is Newcastle. It was recorded at the time, if he ever had to move to. That was years ago.”
Not only did they miss out on Ferguson, but some relatively unknown young manager too.
“Bobby wanted to bring Jose Mourinho to be his assistant manager but I hadn’t even heard of the guy when Bobby wanted to bring him in 2001. Who knows what would have happened if. I didn’t know the guy at the time and Bobby already had an assistant plus he didn’t speak Geordie!”
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Hilarious.
he’s also been mouthin off about owen saying he wished he never signed him, bet he wasn’t thinkin that when he scored both for newcastle in a 2 -1 win against sunderland
Bugger off fat Freddy. fucking attention seeker. They advised us to wait a bit longer? Pulling your leg, you mug!
He ain’t dumb – why would SAF (or even just plain old ACF) go there ? NUFC has been living on fumes since the days of Jackie Milburn and the present regime isn’t going to change that.
That helmet also claims that if Sir Bobby Robson was still Manager they would have signed Rooney in the summer of 2004. Fuck off you deluded cunt.
“He didn’t speak Geordie…”
Too true, how difficult it is these days to find someone capable of uncoding the native tongue of “cavemen.”
what a fat, geordie muppet. That could be any of them though
Too true, how difficult it is these days to find someone capable of uncoding the native tongue of “cavemen.”
Hilarious, I think you’ll find geordie was voted the most popular regional accent above some of the various ones used at lego land salford by random glory hunting twats like you goodself…
Yeah because SAF was gonna leave United for Newcastle. How deluded was he?!
AS IF.
“and we also had two young fellas in our youth team, some chris ronaldo and a boy named messi, we didn’t think they were up to the Geordie standard though so we let em go! brought in albert luque and hugo viana so it worked out champion!”
If someone told me that giving up this season’s title and losing to Schalke would bring Fergie back to how he looks in the pic, I’d snatch it.
I prefer to look at this from the perspective of Sir Alex. The manager was building something here which had just started to gel, with exciting youngsters and Cantona for chr*st sake. Sure people were waving loads of cash under his nose. But money wasn’t what the boss was only about. He wanted a structure that could build success. Difficult to compare team infrastructure. OT has it in droves. History of success and class at the top, OT has that as well. I am sure we will hear about others who courted the manager. But in the end, they came, they talked, and they all failed. In the end, they couldn’t convince him to walk away from what was clearly his most successful project ever. Walking away from OT would have have been really tough knowing what we now know. Sir Alex was much smarter than the likes of Freddy Sheppard could even comprehend. Come on United!
Sir Bobby Robson was a class act and it’s a real shame that he was subjected to working with this numbskull. I know we complain about David Gill contradicting himself, but imagine if we had this geezer
Ha as if SAF would have even considered it, Freddy Shepherd – joke!
What a numpty.
Open up a chip shop.
They may have tried and of course they failed. Funny thing is, Newcastle still think of themselves as a ‘big’ club…..
What are you trying to say you retard. Whats the hidden message here. Alex Ferguson just went to StJames with an infinately better squad and managed a draw. Are you trying to say that I couldnt get Sir Alex but selling up to Mike Ashley and him managing to get hold of wonder talent Pardew is some sort of kharma. If Sir Alex misses out on the league this year he will rue the missed points at Newcastle something he wouldnt have to have endured had he have become our manager all those years ago.
Sheppard you are a fucking dick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSHHbfY6MVc&feature=player_embedded