Sir Alex Ferguson is mulling over a bid for Celtic star Scott
Brown.
The Manchester United manager was in Paris on Wednesday to watch
Brown and his Scotland team-mates record their sensational 1-0
victory over France.
And he will have seen nothing in the 22-year-old to dissuade him
from making a move.
Midfielder Brown only joined Celtic in the summer in a £4.4million
switch from Hibernian.
But he has already been the subject of a rejected £9m transfer
deadline-day bid, believed to be from Newcastle, and now Fergie is
ready to make his play.
Celtic manager Gordon Strachan would be reluctant to sell Brown,
but the Parkhead moneymen are unlikely to sniff at a bid which
could see £10m exchange hands and either Darren Fletcher or John
O'Shea move in the opposite direction.
Both United players were boyhood Celtic fans and would appease
Strachan if he was to lose one of his star men.
Fletcher would slot straight into the Parkhead midfield, while
O'Shea would fit nicely alongside Stephen McManus in the heart of
the defence.
Brown, close to a move to Rangers in the summer before joining
Celtic, was crowned Young Player of the Year as he starred for Hibs
last season and has made a solid start to life with the
Bhoys.
Long-term, he would provide a ready-made replacement for Paul
Scholes, who turns 33 in November.
