00:00Did you talk to United at that point as well?
00:01I didn't, no, yeah, I did talk to United, yeah.
00:04David Moyes?
00:05Yeah, they actually bid more than that.
00:07Because that was the big signing win,
00:09Sir Alex Ferguson left.
00:11Yeah.
00:11Edward Wood famously goes back from the tour,
00:13I think it's in Australia, to say,
00:15we're signing Bale and Fabregas.
00:17Obviously, for me going,
00:18knowing they're not going to sign those,
00:20I'm like, well, who are you signing?
00:21And it's like, well, I'm not going to go.
00:23So you were never going to United?
00:24No.
00:24Who did you speak to at the club at the time?
00:26I spoke with David Moyes.
00:27And with Edward Wood, or not?
00:29No, I didn't speak to him.
00:30Maybe my agent or whatever did.
00:31But I spoke with David Moyes.
00:33But my heart was set on Madrid anyway.
00:35And I had something in place with Daniel Levy,
00:38more of a gentleman's agreement,
00:40just to be like,
00:41because he didn't want to sell me to a rival also.
00:43He didn't want to strengthen another team.
00:45So if a team did come in from Spain, Italy,
00:48wherever, Germany, wherever it may be,
00:49that I could potentially go.
00:52Because if we didn't qualify for the Champions League,
00:54which we didn't,
00:55I was then able to go there.
00:57So we had that gentleman's agreement,
00:58even though he made it very tough.
01:00Like he does.
01:01He always does.
01:02If you didn't get in the Champions League,
01:03you could leave.
01:04No, but it was a gentleman's agreement.
01:06So it was more just that, yeah.
01:09But he stayed true to his words.
01:11So financially,
01:13were Manchester United offering similar money to Madrid?
01:15He wanted to go to Madrid.
01:19It didn't actually dig a little bit deeper.
01:21Because this guy's turned down Man United twice, right?
01:23I mean, I need to get to the bottom of that.
01:25It's been all right though, actually.
01:26Well done.
01:27I think I chose the right one from the last,
01:30well, what was it, 12 years.
01:33I didn't go down the wages route with United.
01:36I didn't go that far.
01:36They offered more money to buy me.
01:41And a player.
01:42But I didn't really get any legs, to be honest, no.
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