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Sir Alex Ferguson snubbed chance to sign Brazilian Ronaldo for Man Utd in 1996

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World Cup and would have surely won plenty more accolades were it not for some crippling injuries.Ronaldo spent time with the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona and Inter Milan though never transferred to an English club.Manchester United were offered the chance to sign the striker back in 1996, though Sir Alex Ferguson turned down the opportunity for a financial reason.“Ronaldo’s agent asked me a little while ago if I would be interested in the player,” Ferguson wrote in A Will to Win, his diary of the 1996/97 season.“My first reaction was to wonder why Barcelona would sell such an important player after paying £13 million for him only last July.“The agent said that there was no problem; there was a clause in his contract which allowed him to.

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