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Hi there, Pete Graves here. Welcome back to a special revisited episode of the Transfer Talk

podcast. In January 2019, Dahm sat down with one of my heroes, Les Ferdinand, for a reveal all

chat on his career.

Here's a bite-sized version of their discussion, including why a move to Manchester

United never happened, how he joined Newcastle and when Kevin Keegan asked him to give

up the number nine shirt for Alan Shearer.

Enjoy.

Now you joined Newcastle in 1995.

It could have happened three years earlier, couldn't it?

How close was that?

I played against Newcastle on a few occasions and

done pretty well and there was there was lots of rumors that they were interested.

To know that I didn't know that I could have gone to Newcastle three years

earlier. I just knew there was a lot of interest. I mean the amount of times I was in my

dad's house on the Sunday used to go and visit my dad and the family on a Sunday.

And the amount of times I picked up newspapers saying I was at Liverpool

I was having talks at Arsenal's I even talks here and my dad was going if I

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