Ex-Man Utd prodigy ‘disappointed’ Sir Alex Ferguson after he ‘begged’ for Serie A move

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Manchester United striker Federico Macheda admitted he “begged” Sir Alex Ferguson to send him on loan to Serie A, in a move he describes as the “biggest mistake of my career”.Macheda burst onto the scene at United as a fresh faces 17-year-old, firing one of the club’s most iconic goals of the modern Premier League era.

In a must win game for the Red Devils’ Premier League title hopes during a race with Rafael Benitez's Liverpool in 2009, Macheda whipped a wonderful effort into the top corner to complete a stunning comeback against Aston Villa.Unfortunately, that was as good as it got for the Italian, as he found himself trapped in the endless loan cycle all promising young players fear.

And the forward admits he made a terrible error when he asked Ferguson to go on loan to Sampdoria in 2011.Read More: Sir Alex Ferguson's specific demands for Man Utd groundsman which every manager copied“”I don’t know to be honest,” Macheda said to the Vibe with Five podcast when asked about why he wanted to go back to Italy. “I had [offers from] Sunderland and Everton to go on loan for six months.“But, as an Italian guy I also had a dream to play in Serie A.

I took things easy, you know, I said, ‘okay, I will go there six months, I’ll do whatever I do and then I will come back to Manchester’.“I thought ‘I want to try this new league, that I have been growing up [watching]’.