Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free The headline on the Real Madrid website reads 'Exchange of gifts between Florentino Perez and Ed Woodward'.
It was July 2017 and Madrid and Manchester United were involved in a pre-season friendly at the Levi's Stadium in San Jose, the perfect setting for a surreptitious rendezvous.
Away from prying eyes in Manchester, Madrid or London, it is inconceivable to think Woodward and Perez did not discuss a possible breakaway league.
The gallery on the Madrid website features five photos and, in two of them, Perez is joined by Charlie Stillitano. During the Manchester Evening News's virtual morning conference on Monday, the news editor
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