Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free “Can I go on holiday, knowing that I've signed you Gazza?” Sir Alex Ferguson asked on the phone to Paul Gascoigne in the summer of 1988, desperate to sign the raw, exciting Geordie youngster. The legendary former United boss was immediately given assurances by Gascoigne that he would sign for Manchester United, but that sunny retreat didn’t go entirely as planned for Ferguson. Ferguson would soon read the news that Gascoigne had agreed on a move to Tottenham Hotspur for a record British fee of £2.2million, breaking the agreement the pair had verbally reached. Gascoigne would go on to achieve a glittering career, and while his
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