What was your initial contact?

Because everyone's got that first meeting with the new manager.

And obviously, more often not, the meeting with Sir Alex is,

he's driven down five hours to go and see someone in the living room.

But what was, can you remember yours when you first spoke to him?

Cidson's got a great Marino story.

Everyone's got one though, but I'm saying, like, Sir, I could just see it being something that just stand out. I met him at the airport hotel in Leeds. Was it a hotel around the corner from Leeds Airport, I think? Or is in Manchester? Leeds Bradford Airport. It might have been in Manchester. One of the airport anyway, hotel. And I went. Like a premiering? like yeah but he had the main room nowhere about that

it was there was the elite room he was in it right and it was like guy to see the godfather on the way

up my legs had gone yeah completely yeah and I was walking up and thinking raw

alex Ferguson like what you start thinking about what he means to football it's like mad it's like

a video starts playing in your head and it's like these these double doors open. There's a corridor in this room. And he's just sitting at the end of it. He must have staged this like to make me feel intimidated. Like, but I walked in and he's obviously like really lighthearted. And he's like, it's so different to what I imagined him to be. Welcome in, we want you. But it just made me feel like, listen, we need you at our club. I've been in for Sanso. I've spoken about this player, big players around at the time, but we want you. And I was like, that's me, man. And we're going to win, we're going to win again, like, because they didn't win the year before and like and i was like we're primed to win and i want you as part of it we're

gonna break the record to buy and i was like i can't go anywhere else the center half's there now

so like oh where i'm thinking i'm thinking like so who's my competition i didn't see competition

i've got to be honest because like Mikkel

Sylvester top player great pro you can see top player Lauren Blancs on his last

legs it's not the Lauren Blanc when he was 27 so I knew Lauren Blancs

Lauren Blanc's gonna be going you're gonna come maybe play a season with him then

he's gonna go so and you're breaking the record for me I'm coming playing I

know that so I was like I just wanted to put the shirt on, man.

Did you say yes in that meeting in that hotel? Yeah, because I wasn't someone to talk about money. I didn't like it. Same when I went Leeds, Mr. Risdale was chatting money. I said, listen, with all juries about the honor, you talk to him about that. I want to know that David O'Leary is going to improve me as a player.

That's it.

Same thing was with Sir Alex Ferguson.

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