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Sir Alex Ferguson admits he was warned off signing Henrik Larsson by a phone call from Parkhead powerbroker Dermot Desmond.
“I could have signed him earlier. I was ready to make the bid when he was at Celtic but Dermot Desmond, Celtic’s majority shareholder, rang me & said, ‘You’ve let me down, Alex, you’ve got tons of players, we need him.’ I finally managed to get him, years later. On arrival at United, he seemed a bit of a cult figure with our players. They would say his name in awed tones. In his last game in our colours at Middlesbrough we were winning 2-1 & Henrik went back to play in midfield & ran his balls off. On his return to the dressing room, all the players stood up & applauded him & the staff joined in. It takes some player to make that kind of impact in two months."




