Emmanuel Petit recently shared how Sir Alex Ferguson made an effort to sign him for Manchester United before he eventually joined Chelsea in 2001. Petit, who had already built an impressive career at Monaco, Arsenal, and Barcelona, revealed that Ferguson personally contacted him twice while he was unsettled at Barcelona, hoping to bring him to Old Trafford.

Petit first made his name at Monaco, where he amassed 291 appearances before joining Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal in 1997.