Sir Alex Ferguson canceled the man UTD Sign after a meeting of 20 minutes “tense” locked in the room with the player

Sir Alex Ferguson has never made an answer, which makes him one of the greatest managers of all time.

But sometimes, the former legendary manager of Manchester United must have accepted the defeat, and such a period came when he made a last attempt to save a controversial transfer and sign a young person under the nose of his Chelsea rivals.

It was a saga of transfer which lasted more than a year, United and Chelsea carrying the case to FIFA to settle the case, but they would finally reject to make a decision.

This saw the transfer returning to the young player in question, Ferguson informed that he was leaning over to Stamford Bridge on Old Trafford and took matters into his own hands.

In 2005, Jon Obi Mikel had concluded a pre-contract agreement with United to sign for them when he was 18 years old, but Chelsea also concluded an agreement that prompted the question to FIFA to decide where the Nigerian would play.

Speaking on Talksport Earlier this year, Mikel recalled the saga and a strange meeting with Ferguson which ended with the United Supremo, finally accepting that he would lose the midfielder against Chelsea.

“FIFA was trying to set the adjustment. They couldn’t sort for about a year. I missed a year of football. So I stayed in an apartment in Fulham,” said Mikel.

“United didn’t want to let me go. Chelsea was not going to go back because they said:” He was our player, we took him to Norway, we took care of him. He goes to school in Norway by playing football “.

“So everything was just crazy. And then FIFA said,” Listen, we tried, we couldn’t settle it. It is up to the FA to settle it. “So the FA got involved.

“Then Fergie said,” Listen, give me 30 minutes with the kid alone in a conference office. I can convince him to come to Manchester United. “So he flew to London. I was in a room with him, alone.”

Mikel added: “My agent was sitting outside. And he said:” Whatever he tells you at this meeting, nodded and say, no, no, no ‘. So I spent 20 minutes with him, locked in a room. He just said, “What is the problem? Why don’t you want?

“I kept saying no. I said,” Sorry, I just want to play for Chelsea “.

Mikel then remembered how Ferguson had returned to Manchester, later informing Chelsed that United would move away from the agreement if Chelsea paid them from their agreement

“I think it was 12/13 million pounds sterling in Manchester United and 4 million pounds sterling at my club in Norway. And this is how everything was sorted,” recalls the midfielder.

Mikel would represent Chelsea 372 times over 11 years after winning the battle for a player who played a key role in his success during this period, winning two Premier League titles, four FA cups, two championship cups, as well as the Champions League and the Europa League.

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