Henrik Larsson special: Why I stayed loyal to Celtic and my Man Utd regret

Transfer Talk

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🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Former striker Henrik Larsson sits down with Sky Sports News reporter Dharmesh Sheth to reveal all on his career. Larsson discusses how his move to Celtic materialised and what Martin O’Neill did to transform the team into treble winners. He explains why he stayed loyal to Celtic despite interest from Manchester United and the reasons behind his departure to Barcelona in 2004. Larsson discusses his role in the Champions League final victory over Arsenal before revealing how his surprise loan move to United in 2007 came about. He also shares how Sir Alex Ferguson and Gary Neville attempted to keep him at Old Trafford before sharing his own opinion on the Cristiano Ronaldo vs Lionel Messi debate.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Transfer Talk, brought to you by Bet 365, where every nail biting Neil-Neil, every bizarre
0:06.8	VAR, every foregone conclusion, bad pass, slam dunk, tap in, false start, dead heat,
0:13.2	and absolutely expected defeat is amazing.
0:16.7	From football to tennis and ice hockey to motorsports.
0:20.0	Whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet 365. Hello and we have gone international.
0:33.0	Hello and welcome to another special edition of the Transfer Talk Podcast and we have gone international.
0:40.0	We are in Helsingborg in Sweden and I'm delighted to be joined by the legend that is Henric Larkin
0:46.8	Henric welcome to the transfer talk podcast. Thank you very much. Right just to give you a few of the ground rules, what we're going to do, we're going to go through your career,
0:56.2	talk about the moves that happened, the reasons behind those moves, and this is where you tell
1:00.8	us some of the moves that didn't quite happen. We got a deal, yeah?
1:05.0	I'll try my best if I can remember them there's so long ago now so.
1:09.0	You're not that old.
1:11.0	Henric, let's get back to where it started right here
1:14.6	Helsingborg a team called Holgerborg in 1988. How were you spotted and
1:21.2	what were your early memories of that time?
1:23.2	Oh, yeah, I mean I started playing at Tagaborg when I was six years old so I went straight through the ranks.
1:30.0	There's an amateur club here in Halsimburg.
1:32.2	The biggest team we have in the city is
1:34.8	Helzingborg. And yeah I remember that the current coach at the time Busy Nils at the Holligan that's the ground where we play or ground it's like a hill it's no ground.
1:48.8	He was watching me because he thought that I could bring something to
1:54.4	Heilzenborg and I went to Heelsenburg in 1992 I think it was and yeah
2:07.0	played two years there and then I went on I mean the first year when I came to
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