Manchester United boss
Sir Alex Ferguson admits they
signed Cristiano Ronaldo only
after missing out on Ronaldinho.
He told the Telegraph: "I thought we'd clinched the
deal (for Ronaldinho), but when
I flew to Paris to speak with him, the goalposts seemed to have
moved somehow.
"His people complained that to me that it didn't seem as though
they were getting the same deal we'd previously agreed. The next
thing I know, he was at Barcelona the following day.
"It was a big disappointment at the time, but we signed
Cristiano Ronaldo that very same
summer and perhaps we wouldn't have ended up with
Ronaldo had we got
Ronaldinho.
"We probably would have kept tabs on Ronaldo, though, because we had a precontract
agreement with Sporting.
"However, maybe we wouldn't have accelerated the
Ronaldo deal in the way we
did."
